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Drinking In Emerson

The last two years have been full of taking Emerson breaks.  Not coffee or tea breaks, well maybe those to, but taking time by myself to sit quietly and ingest Ralph Waldo Emerson. My favorite is of his essays is Self Reliance.  Many years ago, maybe ten, I took a trip to Concord Massachusetts and toured Emerson’s home where I touched his black robe when no one was looking.  I am not sure what I expected to happen, it wasn’t like Jesus touching the hem of the woman’s garment, but I touched it none-the-less and for a moment breathed deeply.  In my imagination I was indulging in an energy transfusion. I went on to take a “Transcendentalist Tour” and was the only one who showed up, which meant I had a history professor turned tour guide all to myself.  Did you know the Transcendentalists believe God is an inner experience and connected with through intuition?  This, now, commonly held belief was revolutionary at the time. Concord was a hotbed of...

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Raw Art Journaling: Interview with Quinn McDonald

BB  How does your book support individual inquiry into one’s deepest Self? QMc Raw art journaling is the deep-rooted, authentic heart work you bring to your journal. Raw art is what heals and restores, and requires only an open mind and heart, not a pile of equipment or years of talent. Raw art is the GPS system for your journey, and like the GPS you use in your car, it is intensely personal to your journey. How you create art is up to you–from drawing to painting, singing, dancing, writing or performing music or parenting, comforting people or leading a team–and putting your talent to practice is always deeply, richly, personal. BB Tell me more about making through making art. QMc My life changed entirely when I realized that we don’t find meaning in life, we make meaning from life. We don’t pursue meaning, we develop it over time, each of us in our own journey. Creativity is what makes meaning in our complex lives. The act of discovery...

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Dimensions of Consciousness

Yesterday I read God Theory, The: Universes, Zero-Point Fields, and What’s Behind It Allby astrophysicist Bernard Haisch not one or two but THREE times.  My body consumed it like manna taking in the message through my mind and absorbing the essence of it as a transmission through my body.  There were three points in the book he made which when I read them produced a smile and a YES exclamation throughout the quiet walls of my home.  I will share the other two insights in future blogs, but today I wanted to share what I learned about Dimensions of Consciousness.  It is important to preface I was raised in the belief structure of Newtonian Physics and although Quantum Physics has been on the scene for a long while, it hasn’t become a mainstream conversation  until late.  It, however, changes the entire way we see the Universe; which, is in alignment with what the Mystics have spoken of for thousands of years.  Direct revelation proceeds scientific inquiry.  LOVE IT!! Consciousness I will...

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