Even HIGHER levels of responsibility (and consiousness!)

Hi Everyone!

Sorry for the HUGE delay in posting - my summer was "interesting" to say the least! I wrote about it in a piece for Inner Vision Magazine titled, "Don't Go There Alone" in August. I will also post the article on my website when the site is re-done this week.

To today - I just got back from seeing Carolyn Myss at the Philly Convention Center! And...oh my!! If you follow Caroline at all you know she does not mince words nor is she gentle when it comes to personal responsibility and transformation!! I got my proverbial butt kicked just sitting in my seat and listening! Proof -here I am in action...

Caroline takes our concept of energy to a heightened level of Grace, and consciousness up to the realm of Mystic Consciousness. It is a whole new ball game played in a field far above the ball park we've been tossing the ball around on. Grace, defined by Carolyn, is where we reside - it is all around us. From our Ego Consciousness we refer to this as the energy we are surrounded by. Ego Consciousness is the path many of us have been on for self serving Enlightenment. Ego Consciousness is not about or related to the nature of our soul. Mystic Consciousness, on the other hand, is not narcissistic. It begs for us to slip through the very narrow gate inside of ourselves, which Mystics bear witness to the existence of, the other side of which is so magnificent it shatters our smaller self. It is a place of living in "Awe." It is a place in which we are present to the power of being humbled and are no longer stopped by the fear of humiliation. It is a place we all long for but often have no access to. Caroline reveals the access and let's us know that it requires a whole new level of personal responsibility and consciousness to get there. It takes holding ourselves to account by Mystic Laws and the 7 Graces she outlines in her new book, Defying Gravity. It takes being conscious of our 7 shadow passions and making the conscious effort to chose one of the Graces instead.

One of my least favorite was the shadow passion for Chakra 7 - Sloth. It is being passive and not acting on your life. (Like not sharing yourself in your blog when you know it is what you are meant to do!) Choosing the Grace of Wisdom instead would require you to ask for the Grace to see how to act on behalf of yourself and others in your life. Oh yes, one very important aspect of Mystical Consciousness - you can not go there alone. You must ask (pray) for assistance. Not prayer like church, but rather prayer like acknowledging a power beyond yourself, which transcends physical law, and is the source of all that is.

My other least favorite shadow passion - Chakra #3: Entitlement. As Caroline pointed out, more then once and very pointedly, we are entitled to NOTHING yet we act like we are entitled to everything, and this is where suffering lives. It is our entitlement that creates our desire to make others suffer for what they have done to us. Better said - we make others suffer for what we think we are entitled to from them and they are not giving to us. In opposition to this is the Grace of Understanding: "Provide me with the Grace to Understand the truth of another so I can be of service to them." Just think what our lives, the entire world would look like if we came from Understanding instead of Entitlement!!! Of course, giving up making others suffer by withholding ourselves from them, and instead loving them with a full heart takes a great deal of courage and, well...Grace!!