Report From Down Deep: The Unfolding
December 28, 2009
The insights of the spiritual masters may seem quite surprising when you realize that they saw only with the naked mind. We have long held a view of spiritual knowing as something that happens randomly. However, study has shown that like science, the other way of knowing involves a clearly proscribed and rigorous discipline. Although it may sound contradictory, we are realizing that mystical seeing can be learned.
I am coming up for air for a few days. Just a little though because I am eager to go back down under into the deep. It has been very calm and peaceful here and I may never want to come back out. But I know that it’s not enough to just float off to other spiritual worlds. It’s about what you bring back to the world that counts.
So while I am enjoying my time deep down in, I am also keenly focused on producing something. That sounds like a paradox doesn’t it? Totally letting go and yet vigorously producing something at the same time? It is a paradox usually, one which our everyday world doesn’t embrace.
It’s usually either all or nothing – I either totally relax or I’m totally going for it. We desperately need vacations because we never really let go in our daily life. But sometimes even on vacation we can’t truly relax!
I am really letting go and something deeper and softer is emerging. I’m taking naps on the couch with my little dog, staying in my pajamas most of the day, drinking lots of hot lemonade and eating Tofurkey (which was really good by the way!)
It’s lovely.
And the inspiration is steady in coming. Every morning I get up and jot down all my ideas from the previous day. So far I have 10 days of notes and ideas compiled.
I’m still in the messy phase of not really knowing what this is going to be, but it’s all part of the creative process. That’s exactly why we need to go into the desert – to let life unravel a bit and not have everything so logically figured out. Creative inspiration comes from that place where life unravels.
It is a slow, soft unfolding of something that wants to come through me, sent by the Universe.
I’m sure that you have something in you that wants to unfold, unfurl and unravel as well. That is why I’m doing this. I hope to create a path that others can follow as well – how to go down deep and come up with the gold to share with the world.
We all have something inside that we want to give to the world, but we never really take the time or have the way to get it up and out from down in deep out into the places where it really matters.
I am unfolding and it’s a beautiful nourishing process. I’ll be back again in a few days to give you another report.
THANK YOU to all of you who sent me comments, ideas and encouragement. Keep ‘em coming! The Inner Critic hasn’t gotten the best of me yet. We’re going head to head but she ain’t winning and I’m learning a lot in the process.
Yours in the beauty of life unfolding,
Annie
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Dear Annie- What you desire is on it’s way…. Best, Brian
Hi Annie,
Just found a quote I jotted down some time ago:
“It always comes back to the same necessity: go deep enough and there is a bedrock of truth, however hard.” ~ May Sarton (American poet, novelist, and memoirist)
Love,
Eva