A spring Meme

Here’s a Meme which came from Silly Buddha. I thought it looked like a fun thing to do.

Astrological Sign?
Cusp between Gemini and Cancer

Chinese Astrological Sign?
Dragon I believe

What are you currently setting your intention on or praying for?
A summer ceremony, A writing project, relationships, healing list

Who do you pray to?
Great Mystery

Do you believe God created humans or humans evolved from primordial goo?
I don’t know and I don’t think it really matters.

What is your mantra?
It is not a mantra, it is a wazaif: Ya Alim, Ya Wali, Ya Khabir It means “Clarity and mastery reveals to and through me.

Do you believe in Sin?
Sin is a Christian concept. I am not a Christian. Sin implies that every beautiful child born is inherently imperfect and carries the seed of evil and becomes responsible for that evil at some arbitrary age of awareness. I believe that each child is a part of the Great Mystery of all life, that we all carry the seed of the Divine and that this Mystery of Life is full of a balance of life and death as this is what is required for life to be sustained. Therefore, there is not such thing as sin…as we are all sparks of the Divine.

Do you believe in Evil?
I think that some can take their exploration of the dark a bit to far…and that they can get a taste and pleasure from it…yes.

What do you do when you see 11:11?
I don’t understand the question.

Do you believe in Angels?
Seen ‘em myself…so yup.

Do you believe in God? If so, what does God look like to you?
Yup. It is an amorphous energy that takes on a face only if you are too spiritually immature to relate to without one. I fully admit to enjoying a face, but I’m just as happy without one. What it does for me is identify the sort of energy and wisdom that is being shared with me more easily. I find that helpful frequently, so I’m happy when things are easily explained to me that way.

Is there an aspect of your religion/belief that you haven’t made up your mind about?
I am pretty content with the Lakota/Buddhist path that I have chosen for myself. I still have much to learn, but what I know so far is a gentle lovely way to live.

Is there a religion that you don’t follow, but deeply respect or admire?
Hinduism, and I am very curious about any indigenous shamanic culture’s traditions and rituals.

Who has inspired you the most on your spiritual path?
Wow…I couldn’t possibly name them all. How about just in the last month? M, my husband, my pipe’s spirit, my friend’s wife, Gillette, Paul…these folks spring to mind most readily.

In your opinion, what is the worst mistake we make, as a species?
Making the land, air and water unhealthy. We would never pick the food we take from our refrigerators and put poison in it, yet we do that to the soil it grows in and takes nourishment from. We would not put poison in our glass of water, yet we allow our waters to be poisoned by industry. We would not let our lungs be filled with poisonous gas if we could choose, yet we let industry and lifestyle choices poison all the air for every one.

Our other worst mistake is over population. We are making too many children for this planet to feed comfortably and at the rate that we are going with poisoning the places we can grow food from, that’s going to get very scary in the next few generations.

What is something you would like to believe, but don’t?
If I find something worthy to believe, then I just go ahead and believe. I don’t really understand that question…*smiles*

Do you believe in soul mates?
Yup.

Reincarnation or heaven?
Reincarnation

Best “ah ha!” moment/epiphany?
I love me.

Required spiritual reading?
There’s too many to name really. But if I had to pick just two right this minute. I would say Divine Light Invocation and Creative Visualization.

If you could pick, in your final moments, what would your last words be?
“See you soon. Love you.”

Advice for a lost soul?
Follow your peace.

A song that encapsulates your beliefs?
“I see the Beloved” Karen Druker

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Rest in Peace

In loving Memory of my dear adopted Grandmother….

Gleaming

I wish you loving light that gleams into your life with color and glory…Blessings this day of sharing…

“Beloved”

Happy Thanksgiving!

A song by Karen Drucker

 

This is a repost from Defining Spiritual Presence which I had forgotten about until a stray reader cued in on it the other day. I guess maybe I should take a second look at that blog. There may be some other stuff there I want over here after all. *smiles*:

When I regularly attended Sufi events, I often made time to join in on Dances of Universal Peace

I was remembering the dances recently when I was reading a blog post about Tantra and spiritual eye gazing. There is a particular dance that is done for soulfully greeting fellow dancers. The music and the song that go with this dance is a willowy, gracefully swaying rhythm which has a tendency to make a person dive into the belly and view the world from that rooted, quiet perspective…yet it also is one that increases the blood flow and so it simultaneously draws out a lighter, more rapid breath pattern and you find yourself shifting to a dual perspective in which your face infuses with light and you begin to radiate love from the face.

During this dance half the group is going clockwise and half counter clockwise and at various points of the dance, the dancers pause and bow to one another. In the first phase of the dance, the leader allows the dancers to let the music work it’s magic to arouse the soul…next the leader will have the dancers view their bowing partner with a deep eye gaze. It without fail will cause most of the dancers to begin to weep at the beauty and vulnerability this causes in each other…

To be seen deeply when each person is suffused with such love of the soul is a thing which cannot be truly understood until you experience it first hand. It is a viewpoint that allows no hiding…yet it is unconditionally loving. That is incredibly beautiful.

Make no mistake, many people resist this experience. They cannot hold the gaze. Those who can still hold the power of this gaze on their partner and allow the love to wash over them….usually by the time the dance is completed, each person has over come their resistance.

By the time the dance is completed the room is pulsing with the power of this Divine series of touches upon each other…and the dancing has only just begun.