In our day, with Guidance so available to us, we can streamline our prayers and practices by intending rather than efforting. We can allow and not labor. What often complicates matters is the chattering mind and the fearful inner child. We delay the manifestation of daily expansion by making too big a fuss over the hows and whys of personal co-creation and by succumbing to doubt. We will discuss how we can let go at a very deep level. This is an era of exciting and relatively easy creation with the assistance of Divine Presence, now with us in a way that can be felt by the whole of us in the moment of making choices, focusing on them, and allowing them to come forth in joy and ease. The more relaxed we are, the easier it is for the desires of our hearts to come into actualization. We can relax more these days because we know more deeply than ever before that the evolution we are going through has been in progress for millennia and that we are inevitably moving from a world-experience based in fear to one based in love. (We will speak about the inevitability of positive forward movement.)
Please join us for a celebration of the Splendor of the Simple.

Mother Earth, Mother Mary, Mother Love, Male Mother, Quantum Mother: We will look at these and perhaps other manifestations of the Divine Feminine in the context of the radical evolution we are experiencing. And we will ask if there is emerging in 2012 a new role for the Mother--and we do think there is!

The Halloween-time of the year has for many centuries been considered a time when the veil between heaven and earth is very thin indeed. We can, it is said, most easily at this time access other dimensions of consciousness. This is an exciting time for mystics all over the world because we know that spiritual growth often involves moving into exalted states of awareness (other dimensions of consciousness) for transformational information and bringing it back to be used in everyday life. In 2012 we focus particularly on the mystical dimension of Positive Expectancy, especially for the collective Birthing of the Winter Solstice but also for our personal healing, learning and transformation amid the turbulence and peace of this profoundly changing time.

We are emptying ourselves that we may receive the bounty promised in the coming shift of consciousness. What do we do with this abundance in terms of blessing the world especially in the face of such recent devastation and tragedy in our country? What is called for now is evoking radical grace through inner silence and meditation and at the right time, right action. Join us in exploring mystic practices for the giving of the gifts we receive. How do we up-level our practice of Spiritual Generosity? Please allow us to share a quantum way of praying for others, an elegant technique involving mystic giving, and balancing spiritual receiving and spiritual giving. This and more comprises our preparation for Winter Solstice 2012.

We are, in every moment, the sum of the resonances of body, soul, mind, and heart. We are also the resonances of our masculine and feminine sides. As we grow, all these components of being are shifting and coming into harmony. The cycle of harmony and disharmony is the way we move forward on the spiritual path. In times of harmony there is a coherence among all our parts. This is when we feel strong and compassionate, peaceful, joyful, and optimistic. When coherence is lost, we are singing the "transformational blues". We all know these cycles well. In our time, these cycles occur very rapidly. It can be disconcerting, but it brings with it the promise of New Consciousness: the Consciousness of the perfectly coherent harmonizing of the yin/yang, the individual and the collective, the new Light and the new Dark. This is Unity in Diversity: the goal of the "ascension". We speak in this Musing of ways we can encourage coherence and make the best of the times of incoherence and disharmony in our quest to bring about the New Era.

The great mystic secret of the Easter event is that Jesus returned not as a vision but in a body. What was he trying to teach us about ourselves in making a physical return? We discuss this in a new light because of recent revelations, and we extend our thoughts to questions about how each of us as well as the earth herself is experiencing resurrection. All is being made new in the New Era, and the Easter event contains more transformational information than we have known before. The information is extremely exciting and leads us to very practical ways of using the new knowledge in our everyday lives. And it gives us a new way of understanding how all the kingdoms of the earth--the devic, the animal, the plant, and the mineral kingdoms--are experiencing resurrection.

The radical transformation afoot today is a global initiation of tremendous significance for human civilization. Initiation is a nodal point in collective consciousness, a moment out of history, a leap out of time into Deep Presence, leaving behind belief systems, emotional trauma, mental frameworks and even spiritual limitations. Initiation is a trust-based leap into the Great Unknown. Many of us in our community are experiencing Initiation with all its promises and demands. We will Muse about Initiation, along with its gifts and challenges and offer a brief community Initiation ritual.

At this time of the year we celebrate the wonders and joys of love, for others, for ourselves and for the Creator. We celebrate romance and we celebrate love beyond romance. The love that we honor honors all of us in all the ways that we love, from our unique ways of being ourselves to our unique way of loving what God is for us. We will suggest some ways of holding our own hearts , and our own inner family, that enable us to hold in love the hearts of others. When we appreciate ourselves as a miracle of the Benevolent Creator we can truly appreciate and hold in love those around us. Please join us as we discuss the deep intimacy we can have with ourselves, and others and with Divine Presence.

The SHIFT has begun, as so many of you know! very exciting indeed! We are right now in the backsplash of the 2012 Solstice, feeling very transformative, sometimes a roller coaster, sometimes the peace beyond understanding. To understand it better, and to have some words for it, we will look at some metaphors of radical change such as the serpent shedding his skin. We will also offer a 2012 version of the search for the Holy Grail. And we will bid a grateful farewell to the cycle we are leaving, opening our collective arms to the New Beginning given us at this momentous time in human history. As One, we will send blessings to our beautiful world, in the midst of our extraordinary collective and personal birthing of a new order of Human Awareness.

As mystics we are committed to leading a conscious, intentional life. We learn to balance a dependency on Grace with creating what we want in our lives. In this Musing we will speak of a new formula, appropriate to our New Era, for manifesting what we want on all levels of our being, utilizing the energy of the fullness of Love and a Sacred Resiliency.