Inner Epiphany - Your Initiative

YOUR INITIATIVE

Initiative is the power of the individual (or community) to begin to manifest a new reality.  In other words, it is the courage and power to show up as yourself, contribute what only you can contribute and make the difference only you can make.

Initiative lives in initiates.  In ancient times there was a process of initiation lead by hierophants or gurus. In the evolution of consciousness, we now initiate ourselves with guidance from wise friends. Through the challenges and struggles of self-initiation, we imagine and develop our capacities to contribute to humanity. At some point we experience an inner shift, a graduation. Then we actually do it - we make our difference!

In the Gospel of John, we read the brief description of the first “difference” made by Jesus Christ, the changing of water to wine at the wedding at Cana.

In this description we can find a number of archetypal elements of initiative.  Paying attention to these elements and to the personal insights they inspire can bring to your soul a self-awareness that will support your self-initiation. I explore these in the audio.

Just let me say here that our individual path to our unique initiatives in not for sissies or slugs.  It takes courage and perseverance.  Most of us need to change our thinking, our values and our habits - step way out of the familiar box.  But remember we have been given the three gifts and immersed ourselves in the living waters of personal baptism, so we have been moving toward taking initiative our whole life.

In the audio below, I share my thoughts on the first sign or miracle of Jesus Christ and how we might find a model for fulfilling our destiny deeds.  Please leave your comments.

Note: I made the audio yesterday. When I listened to it, I was disappointed in my hesitancy at the beginning, a lot of ah's and um's, as if my thoughts were stammering into speech.  When we take initiative we often trip over time as in "my time has not come" translated into "my thoughts or my words have not come."

Working with this inner mystery of the Wedding at Cana triggered a lot of resistance in me.The challenge to share my insights felt right, but not comfortable. Yet as I persevered, putting aside my hesitancy, the thoughts moved beyond my self-consciousness and I found the warmth of enthusiasm flowing into me as the thoughts became speech more gracefully. And the content and feeling of the thoughts became surprising to me, the speaker.  Do listen and forgive the stammering thoughts at the beginning and find the juicy flowing thoughts that come once I get out of the way.

Then last night, I saw "The King's Speech."

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IMAGINING YOUR CONTRIBUTION

 Following the process of relating to the three inner epiphany experiences of the manger, the river and the wedding, the soul’s cycle of the inner year takes us into an intensive exploration of how we imagine our personal contribution. Do you know what your contribution is? Do you want to learn a number of important insights and essential questions that will guide you on your path of self-initiation? Imagining Your Contribution begins in in two weeks. 

I will be sending out info on this program in a few days including the opportunity to register for a complementary teleseminar on Imagining Your Contribution next Sunday at 5PM GMT (that's Noon Eastern and 9AM Pacific).

Inner Epiphany - Your Baptism

Inner Baptism

The second Inner Epiphany is the baptism in the living waters and the entry and embodiment of the divine intention into human consciousness, your individual consciousness.

When the three gifts of the first epiphany are doing their work. Your thought life is now living and flowing with truth through the gesture of frankincense. Your feeling life is calm and form an evolvng, growing beauty through the gesture of myrrh. Your will life is glowing with the warmth of the sun ready “to go for the gold,” the incorruptible deed or deeds of unselfish goodness.

You wait for your inner time.  You wait for your inner recognition.  You wait for the inner heavens to open up and this core spark of love and freedom to come down and enter into your own sacred heart. And then it happens. You feel your significance.

Inner Baptism can occur many times in a lifetime.  In the course of our own inner development we can dive into the living waters of our souls and find new recognition, a new sense of deed and timing, a new warmth of courage and direction many times. Our inner heavens open up and new love enters our souls many times.

In the audio which is about 30 minutes long, I offer some soul pictures of the experience of inner baptism.  I give some new perspectives on the Baptism of Jesus Christ, but mostly I explore this inner baptism of self. I talk about the muddy banks of the river that we must walk through to get into the water.  I talk about how to celebrate your inner baptism.  And much more.

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Download the audio. Go for a walk and listen to it. If you want to go deeply into this imagination, use my words as inspiration to find your own relationship to inner baptism, I have a few suggestions.  After the first walking listening, sit down with your journal or a blank word document on your computer, and listen to segments of the audio - the segments that appeal to you.  Then write your thoughts and responses.  Let your thoughts be as living waters. Let them flow. 

Next Sunday, I will send thoughts on the Wedding and the Wine.

Inner Epiphany - Your Three Gifts

Inner Epiphany in the time in the cycle of the Inner Year when we notice the new light living in our souls from our Inner Christmas. We see the gifts of waking up, warming up, and wising up to ourselves and we realize our future begins now.

To understand the purpose of Inner Epiphany, we need to recall the Christian festival of Epiphany.  Three events in the life of Jesus Christ are celebrated on Epiphany: The arrival of the Three Wisemen offering their three gifts of Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh; the Baptism in the River Jordan; and, the first miracle of turning water to wine at the Wedding at Cana. All three events have to do with fulfilling destiny.

Each of these events understood from an esoteric and intimate perspective, guides us to our own personal epiphanies and the awareness of our own destinies. We discover our own inner epiphanies and begin our futures now through asking our souls certain questions.

The Three Gifts - Frankincense, Myrrh & Gold

Two plant resins and a mineral, what could they possibly mean to your destiny? If destiny is the incarnation (sudden or incremental) of your spirit, your inner divinity, into your physical body so that your thoughts, your feelings and your deeds are sound, meaningful and purposeful, why would you need the gesture and support of these three gifts?

Listen to this recording and find insight and inspiration.  You might learn what you are missing in your soul and discover what you need to request, develop, embrace.  We all need these gifts to spiritually flourish and fulfill.  

You can download the recording to your mp3 player and listen to it as you go for a walk or take a drive. It's 23 minutes long.  

I made this audio last Epiphany with the intention to have it edited by my good friend Tony, but I never sent it to him - so I apologize for the first couple of minutes. 

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Some thoughts you won't find on the audio:  These gifts are given to a newborn. Clearly, you are not a babe from a material perspective.  But - the mystery of the human soul is that it can be "newborn" at anytime.  The soul also has wise imaginations and inner gifts that nurture the inner newborn.  As we begin a new year and wake up to our resolve to live into our destines, we need to receive our self-given gifts. 

Remember the inspiration for the Inner Year are the Christian Festivals.  You can listen to the audio and find an esoteric understanding of events in the life of Jesus Christ, but,  please, discover how these events live in your own inner life.  

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