Gor
Geous
Gor-geous
I can say it.
I know what it means.
Gorgeous
When I say it I am beautiful.
the doorbell rings
a gorgeous sound
I run to open the door
Gladys, you look gorgeous!
She turns cold, dry, ugly.
Little girls don’t use words like that, she tells me
No, little girls will never again use words like that…
words that sparkle and shine and are filled with love.
**********
oh, I need to tinkle
reallly bad
I just have to get home.
it hurts so bad.
I am going to wet my pants.
Oh, I can ask Gladys if I can use her toilet.
I ring the doorbell.
hurry please, i am bursting.
Gladys, I need to use your toilet.
she is standing in my way, telling me I am bad.
You should go to the bathroom before you get on the bus, she says
Oh no, I am tinkling down my legs.
There is a puddle on the porch.
A puddle on the porch.
It’s tinkle, my tinkle.
my wet everlasting shame.
The Veils
The First Veil
a doorbell rings
Gladys stands in the doorway
I stand in front of her
I have something to give
She shames me for giving
My heart is crushed
and a veil falls
The Second Veil
a doorbell rings
Gladys stands in the doorway
I stand in front of her
I need help
She shames me for needing help
My heart bursts
and a veil falls.
Lifting the Gladys Veils
Doorbells announce
Doorways either open
or close
Gladys closed my doorways
to parts of my soul
I open them now
sixty years later
I teach others
mysterious words
and their meanings
I give others a sacred place to release
the pain they can’t hold back for
one more minute
I ring bells at the doorways of souls.
Thank you, Gladys...you’re gorgeous
and so am I.
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Lifting the Veils - The Veils From Birth to Seven
Answering Life’s Questions...
Life’s questions begin as feelings: Why do I have this feeling now? Why do I always feel this way? What happened then, that keeps me from feeling the way I want to feel now? How do I let go of old feelings? and so on.
The answers to most, if not all, of life’s questions live in self-knowledge. And self knowledge develops through an understanding of human biographical development in general and one’s own biography in particular. All Inner Life Biography Programs guide you to the questions and answers that heal, liberate and empower all aspects of your life.
Inner Life Biography Programs guide and inspire you to see the details of your life story in the warm light of compassionate objectivity. In the details of your life stories, you find what you seek in your life’s mysterious unfolding.
LIFTING THE VEILS
The First Veils from Birth to Age 7
“ Lynn Jericho's seminars are so very worthwhile. They are engaging, revealing, insightful, and deeply satisfying. Lynn brings great wisdom, humor and kindness as well as a gift for being present with the group and to the needs of individuals.
Working with Lynn has brought clarity of thinking, awareness of feeling and certainty in action to my life. I am grateful to Lynn for offering these seminars and look forward to her future offerings. ”
Lisa Boisvert MacKensie. Editor of The Wonder of Childhood
Do you want to make sense of your life? Lifting the Veils provides a safe, yet challenging, creative way to discover the life and soul shaping energy of your memories. You will meet the stories that have shaped your feeling patterns, your relationship choices, your sense of worth, and your success in living your life.
You may feel you don’t remember much from your first seven years of life, but what you learned in those years is the source of your sense of yourself, your sense of others, your sense of the world and your sense of the future. Not lifting the veils to your early experiences leaves you unconscious and unfree. You remain on automatic, operating on judgements you made before you were capable of discerning any choice.
In order to move beyond instinct and unconsciousness, you must take up the work of re-membering your first seven years. You need solve the mysteries of your patterns and habits of thought, feeling and behavior. You lift each of the veils and begin to see clearly.
Lifting the Veils - The First Veils from Birth to 7. presents a wisdom of the archetypal relationships formed in the first seven years of life and offers a process for each participant to consider how their first seven years unfolded. The course is much more than recollecting the memories and retelling the stories, it is about becoming aware of the learning, the adaptations, the perspectives and the ways of relating formed before you lost a single baby tooth that shaped the rest of your life.
Lifting the Veils is filled with “ahha!” and “oh, my goodness!” and “Now I understand!” Most wonderful is the way this process frees you to experience a new, more loving relationship to your experience of self.
Is Lifting the Veils for You?
Yes, it is for you!
Whether you had a perfect childhood or one filled with unspeakable abuse, this course will give you freedom to be self-aware, self-nurturing, to find your place in the world, to have the confidence to change how you relate to life, to ideas, to choices, to intimacy, to your body, to your work, to growing older, to God, to having fun and all the other myriad aspects of living.
Is Lifting the Veils emotionally safe?
Lifting the Veils, like all the Imagine Self programs, is designed to be practically, emotionally and spiritually supportive of taking the risks necessary to heal, liberate and empower your soul, your inner sense of self.
Each one of us has fears and doubts about this work of finding, knowing and becoming ourselves. Imagine Self programs carry the mood of the Threshold. It is at the Threshold that we become conscious of ourselves. At the Threshold all our protections and defenses start to fade, even disintegrate. Very scary to the part of our souls that clings to the threats and comforts of the past, familiar, even though unfulfilling, but very exhilirating to the part of our souls that wants to live in the mysterious, surprising and fulfilling world of freedom and love, the future free of old scripts and adaptations.
Lifting the Veils provides a dual approach to heart and head. It presents materials that are intellectually sound and emotionally resonant. Both ways of questioning, learning, and maturing are satisfied.
Disclaimer: Lifting the Veils is not a magic wand, silver bullet or a quick fix. It is not designed to rescue, fix or transform. It is a process that requires commitment, patience, perseverance, and work. It is inspiring in its wisdom, guidance and possibilities. It is simply a soul journey on which a single step opens up a new vista on who you are. With each inner step you have arrived at a new inner destination of self to visit, explore, discover.
How does Lifting the Veils Work?
Each session focuses on an archetypal learning experience of early childhood. The clear, creative and compassionate presentations trigger insight, revealation, and understanding. Selfwork exercises to do in between the webinars deepen and empower the process. Then there are the partner conversations which bring a nurturing warmth to your process as you share questions based on the archetypes of the first seven years.
Each session is recorded and materials and suggestions for selfwork are provided. You can relisten to each session as often as you wish. The selfwork exercises can be practiced over and over. Many participants build lasting relationships with their partners — relationships that are based on supporting each others inner development.
Each group has between 4 and 12 particpants. It is intimate.
The course uses phone or skype and your computer (to see the slides). You experience is auditory and visual.
Here is a list of some of the benefits of the program
You will...
The Course Design
Partial descriptions of what is focused on in each session.
Session One - Conception, Gestation & Birth
How these primary experiences shape your life is astounding. We have felt memories and powerfully embedded “instincts” beginning with our conception such as the feeling that we are wanted or not wanted. We learn in those few months how life provides for our needs. We have a lasting impression of how easily we cross thresholds.
Session Two - Space
How do we experience the many relationships to space? Movement, boundaries and limitations, comfort, texture, hidden spaces, natural spaces, forbidden spaces, doorways, chairs, cribs & beds, shelves are all filled with experiences, emotions, demands, and energies.
Session Three - Time
Are you always in a hurry or are you always waiting? How does it feel? How do you feel about the sun, the seasons, birthdays, weekends and darkness. What is your relationship to time?
Session Four - Things & Activities
We fill space with things and we fill time with activities. How do you manage your possessions and your energies? How did your parents? Are you challenged by emptiness or stillness? Do you seek more or less?
Session Five - Your Body
What were you taught about your body and its functions? What were you taught about other people’s bodies? What don’t you know about bodies? What were the body taboos?
Session Six - Emotions & Becoming Social
The role of emotions and our parents reactions to them play a major role in our developing sense of self. How did your parents ability to fulfill their roles shape your relationships with others. How do you feel about being alone? Do you trust others? Do you trust yourself?
Session Seven and Eight - Beyond Your Parents
Many of the most important players in shaping our sense of self were not our parents. They may have been the pediatrician, your mother’s best friend, a neighbor, a friend. Who were the karmic relationships in your first seven years? Looking at the beliefs and traumas that came through your interactions with people who were not a big presence in your life, but a big impact?
8 Weekly Sessions
Tuesday Evenings 7:30 - 9PM Eastern.
October 25 through December 13, 2011
(This program will work for people living in Australia & New Zealand)
Wednesday Afternoons 12 Noon - 1:30PM Eastern
October 26 through December 14, 2011
(This program will work for people living in Europe and the Middle East)
Course fee: $200 (This is the last time this course will be offered at this price. I have been told by too many that this price is not reflective of the quality and value of the content and process. So I am raising the fee in 2012)
Process
We meet via the internet or phone for 90 minutes.
There is a slide presentation on your desktop and you hear Lynn and each other on the computer via Skype or on your phone. Directions for connecting are sent in an email - it is simple. These sessions are recorded and can be downloaded for relistening.
We have personal conversations with partners from the course…
Everyone has a partner for a 30-60+ minute conversation on the weekly topics. These are remarkable and deeply sacred conversations. When each partner is working with the same set of archetypal questions, rich dialogue emerges to nurture and clarify the biographical insights of each. This is awesome, thrilling and by far the most engaging, supportive aspect of the program.
We create personal binders...
Participants are encouraged to create their own binder to fill with the handouts and the selfwork exercises for each session. The handouts include descriptions of the key elements found in our biographies and sets of questions for each topic. Your binder contains all your biography work and your personal biographical reflections - in this case, the story of your first seven years. The binder gives you a place to continue your reflections beyond the frame of the program.
There is a personal conversation with Lynn...
During the course, you will schedule a 20 minute private conversation with Lynn on any personal question you have. More personal time with Lynn is available.
Life’s questions begin as feelings: Why do I have this feeling now? Why do I always feel this way? What happened then, that keeps me from feeling the way I want to feel now? How do I let go of old feelings? and so on.
The answers to most, if not all, of life’s questions live in self-knowledge. And self knowledge develops through an understanding of human biographical development in general and one’s own biography in particular. All Inner Life Biography Programs guide you to the questions and answers that heal, liberate and empower all aspects of your life.
Inner Life Biography Programs guide and inspire you to see the details of your life story in the warm light of compassionate objectivity. In the details of your life stories, you find what you seek in your life’s mysterious unfolding.
LIFTING THE VEILS
The First Veils from Birth to Age 7
“ Lynn Jericho's seminars are so very worthwhile. They are engaging, revealing, insightful, and deeply satisfying. Lynn brings great wisdom, humor and kindness as well as a gift for being present with the group and to the needs of individuals.
Working with Lynn has brought clarity of thinking, awareness of feeling and certainty in action to my life. I am grateful to Lynn for offering these seminars and look forward to her future offerings. ”
Lisa Boisvert MacKensie. Editor of The Wonder of Childhood
Do you want to make sense of your life? Lifting the Veils provides a safe, yet challenging, creative way to discover the life and soul shaping energy of your memories. You will meet the stories that have shaped your feeling patterns, your relationship choices, your sense of worth, and your success in living your life.
You may feel you don’t remember much from your first seven years of life, but what you learned in those years is the source of your sense of yourself, your sense of others, your sense of the world and your sense of the future. Not lifting the veils to your early experiences leaves you unconscious and unfree. You remain on automatic, operating on judgements you made before you were capable of discerning any choice.
In order to move beyond instinct and unconsciousness, you must take up the work of re-membering your first seven years. You need solve the mysteries of your patterns and habits of thought, feeling and behavior. You lift each of the veils and begin to see clearly.
Lifting the Veils - The First Veils from Birth to 7. presents a wisdom of the archetypal relationships formed in the first seven years of life and offers a process for each participant to consider how their first seven years unfolded. The course is much more than recollecting the memories and retelling the stories, it is about becoming aware of the learning, the adaptations, the perspectives and the ways of relating formed before you lost a single baby tooth that shaped the rest of your life.
Lifting the Veils is filled with “ahha!” and “oh, my goodness!” and “Now I understand!” Most wonderful is the way this process frees you to experience a new, more loving relationship to your experience of self.
Is Lifting the Veils for You?
Yes, it is for you!
Whether you had a perfect childhood or one filled with unspeakable abuse, this course will give you freedom to be self-aware, self-nurturing, to find your place in the world, to have the confidence to change how you relate to life, to ideas, to choices, to intimacy, to your body, to your work, to growing older, to God, to having fun and all the other myriad aspects of living.
Is Lifting the Veils emotionally safe?
Lifting the Veils, like all the Imagine Self programs, is designed to be practically, emotionally and spiritually supportive of taking the risks necessary to heal, liberate and empower your soul, your inner sense of self.
Each one of us has fears and doubts about this work of finding, knowing and becoming ourselves. Imagine Self programs carry the mood of the Threshold. It is at the Threshold that we become conscious of ourselves. At the Threshold all our protections and defenses start to fade, even disintegrate. Very scary to the part of our souls that clings to the threats and comforts of the past, familiar, even though unfulfilling, but very exhilirating to the part of our souls that wants to live in the mysterious, surprising and fulfilling world of freedom and love, the future free of old scripts and adaptations.
Lifting the Veils provides a dual approach to heart and head. It presents materials that are intellectually sound and emotionally resonant. Both ways of questioning, learning, and maturing are satisfied.
Disclaimer: Lifting the Veils is not a magic wand, silver bullet or a quick fix. It is not designed to rescue, fix or transform. It is a process that requires commitment, patience, perseverance, and work. It is inspiring in its wisdom, guidance and possibilities. It is simply a soul journey on which a single step opens up a new vista on who you are. With each inner step you have arrived at a new inner destination of self to visit, explore, discover.
How does Lifting the Veils Work?
Each session focuses on an archetypal learning experience of early childhood. The clear, creative and compassionate presentations trigger insight, revealation, and understanding. Selfwork exercises to do in between the webinars deepen and empower the process. Then there are the partner conversations which bring a nurturing warmth to your process as you share questions based on the archetypes of the first seven years.
Each session is recorded and materials and suggestions for selfwork are provided. You can relisten to each session as often as you wish. The selfwork exercises can be practiced over and over. Many participants build lasting relationships with their partners — relationships that are based on supporting each others inner development.
Each group has between 4 and 12 particpants. It is intimate.
The course uses phone or skype and your computer (to see the slides). You experience is auditory and visual.
Here is a list of some of the benefits of the program
You will...
- Know yourself with greater self-compassion
- Discover the fundamental karma of your life
- Find the gift of making the decisions that are right for who you are now and who you are becoming.
- Release family patterns.
- Break your future free from your past.
- Finally understand the root of your feelings.
- Experience finally being the designer of your life.
The Course Design
Partial descriptions of what is focused on in each session.
Session One - Conception, Gestation & Birth
How these primary experiences shape your life is astounding. We have felt memories and powerfully embedded “instincts” beginning with our conception such as the feeling that we are wanted or not wanted. We learn in those few months how life provides for our needs. We have a lasting impression of how easily we cross thresholds.
Session Two - Space
How do we experience the many relationships to space? Movement, boundaries and limitations, comfort, texture, hidden spaces, natural spaces, forbidden spaces, doorways, chairs, cribs & beds, shelves are all filled with experiences, emotions, demands, and energies.
Session Three - Time
Are you always in a hurry or are you always waiting? How does it feel? How do you feel about the sun, the seasons, birthdays, weekends and darkness. What is your relationship to time?
Session Four - Things & Activities
We fill space with things and we fill time with activities. How do you manage your possessions and your energies? How did your parents? Are you challenged by emptiness or stillness? Do you seek more or less?
Session Five - Your Body
What were you taught about your body and its functions? What were you taught about other people’s bodies? What don’t you know about bodies? What were the body taboos?
Session Six - Emotions & Becoming Social
The role of emotions and our parents reactions to them play a major role in our developing sense of self. How did your parents ability to fulfill their roles shape your relationships with others. How do you feel about being alone? Do you trust others? Do you trust yourself?
Session Seven and Eight - Beyond Your Parents
Many of the most important players in shaping our sense of self were not our parents. They may have been the pediatrician, your mother’s best friend, a neighbor, a friend. Who were the karmic relationships in your first seven years? Looking at the beliefs and traumas that came through your interactions with people who were not a big presence in your life, but a big impact?
8 Weekly Sessions
Tuesday Evenings 7:30 - 9PM Eastern.
October 25 through December 13, 2011
(This program will work for people living in Australia & New Zealand)
Wednesday Afternoons 12 Noon - 1:30PM Eastern
October 26 through December 14, 2011
(This program will work for people living in Europe and the Middle East)
Course fee: $200 (This is the last time this course will be offered at this price. I have been told by too many that this price is not reflective of the quality and value of the content and process. So I am raising the fee in 2012)
Process
We meet via the internet or phone for 90 minutes.
There is a slide presentation on your desktop and you hear Lynn and each other on the computer via Skype or on your phone. Directions for connecting are sent in an email - it is simple. These sessions are recorded and can be downloaded for relistening.
We have personal conversations with partners from the course…
Everyone has a partner for a 30-60+ minute conversation on the weekly topics. These are remarkable and deeply sacred conversations. When each partner is working with the same set of archetypal questions, rich dialogue emerges to nurture and clarify the biographical insights of each. This is awesome, thrilling and by far the most engaging, supportive aspect of the program.
We create personal binders...
Participants are encouraged to create their own binder to fill with the handouts and the selfwork exercises for each session. The handouts include descriptions of the key elements found in our biographies and sets of questions for each topic. Your binder contains all your biography work and your personal biographical reflections - in this case, the story of your first seven years. The binder gives you a place to continue your reflections beyond the frame of the program.
There is a personal conversation with Lynn...
During the course, you will schedule a 20 minute private conversation with Lynn on any personal question you have. More personal time with Lynn is available.
Sunday, October 9, 2011
Encounters - Engaging Your Spiritual Companions
Encounters: Engaging Your Spiritual Companions
A Webinar with Lynn Jericho
Thursdays at 8PM Eastern beginning October 27
Sundays at 4PM Eastern beginning October 30
This is the time of the Inner Year when we bring our attention to the rich reality and enriching relationships we have with Spiritual Beings.
With the ghosts and spooks of Halloween and the Holy Day of All Saints, our souls turn to beings who are beyond ordinary perception. Most of us have a feeling of connection to spiritual beings and often engage them through prayer, contemplation, sacred reading, and supplication. Rarely do we name them or understand their powers and their relationship to human beings.
I offer this course to share with others the comforting and challenging reality of spiritual beings from elementals, to the great Hierarchies, to those across the threshold of death. The imaginations I offer, inspired by Rudolf Steiner, will bring new confidence and depth to your inner life and to your daily life of work and relationships. Spiritual Beings surround human beings offering guidance, comfort and love. They are eager for our conscious engagement.
With the ghosts and spooks of Halloween and the Holy Day of All Saints, our souls turn to beings who are beyond ordinary perception. Most of us have a feeling of connection to spiritual beings and often engage them through prayer, contemplation, sacred reading, and supplication. Rarely do we name them or understand their powers and their relationship to human beings.
I offer this course to share with others the comforting and challenging reality of spiritual beings from elementals, to the great Hierarchies, to those across the threshold of death. The imaginations I offer, inspired by Rudolf Steiner, will bring new confidence and depth to your inner life and to your daily life of work and relationships. Spiritual Beings surround human beings offering guidance, comfort and love. They are eager for our conscious engagement.
I also bring insights to the processes of engagement. What is prayer? Are there specific times when communication with non-corporeal being will be more successful? Are there threats to our relationship with spiritual beings?
Sunday school shaped our pictures of our relationships with our spiritual companions for young minds and a sense to strengthen the power of the institutional dogma. You are an adult now ready for mature and liberating imaginations about connecting with angels, the dead, nature spirits and others. Explore the possibilities and engage!
In four 60 minute sessions, you will learn how to
- distinguish your spiritual companions and the roles they play in your life.
- create a more active engagement with these companions
- feel more deeply the support of the spiritual world
- overcome the challenges to your relationship to your companions
- connect with your loved ones that have crossed the threshold of death
Session One: Your Guardian Angel
The three stages of relationship with your guardian angel.
The meaning and sacred moods of conversation
Reverie - a sacred way of knowing
Prayer, Meditation, Conversation
Session Two: The Spiritual Hierarchies
The Three Challenges to Conversations with Spiritual Beings: Doubt, Fantasy, Distortion
Knowing and Conntecting with Angels, Archangels, Archai
Knowing and Connecting with Exusai, Dynamis, Kryiotetes (and how to pronounce these strange names)
Knowing and Connecting with Thrones, Cherubim, Seraphim.
Beings Beyond the Hierarchies
Session Three: Nature Spirits
The Four Directions of Conversations
The Four Times for Conversations with Spiritual Beings
What Spiritual Beings Don’t Hear
Distinguishing the Types of Nature Spirits and their Deeds
The Development of the Human Soul
Session Four: The Human Spirit
The Spirit of the Individual
Mysteries of Incarnation, Excarnation and Reincarnation
Needs of the Embodied Spirit
The Dead and the Unborn
Future Karma
Review of the Course
The three stages of relationship with your guardian angel.
The meaning and sacred moods of conversation
Reverie - a sacred way of knowing
Prayer, Meditation, Conversation
Session Two: The Spiritual Hierarchies
The Three Challenges to Conversations with Spiritual Beings: Doubt, Fantasy, Distortion
Knowing and Conntecting with Angels, Archangels, Archai
Knowing and Connecting with Exusai, Dynamis, Kryiotetes (and how to pronounce these strange names)
Knowing and Connecting with Thrones, Cherubim, Seraphim.
Beings Beyond the Hierarchies
Session Three: Nature Spirits
The Four Directions of Conversations
The Four Times for Conversations with Spiritual Beings
What Spiritual Beings Don’t Hear
Distinguishing the Types of Nature Spirits and their Deeds
The Development of the Human Soul
Session Four: The Human Spirit
The Spirit of the Individual
Mysteries of Incarnation, Excarnation and Reincarnation
Needs of the Embodied Spirit
The Dead and the Unborn
Future Karma
Review of the Course
Cost: $47
You do not have to be present live on the webinar to receive the benefits of this course.
Sessions are recorded and available for download. Materials including the slide presentations are sent via email.
Thursday Sessions:
October 27, November 3, 10. 17
Time: 8 - 9 PM Eastern
Time: 8 - 9 PM Eastern
Sunday Sessions:
Individually scheduled, will provide deep intimate attention to your personal questions and needs regarding your relationship to spiritual beings. These sessions cost $40 for 30 minutes. You can email Lynn. lynnjericho@gmail.com
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
The Inner Rembrandt
One of the surprising welcoming notes around my move to the North Carolina Triangle area is the "Rembrandt in America" show at the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh.http://ncartmuseum.org/exhibitions/rembrandt/ opening in the most Rembrandt time of year - the end of October when light and dark embrace each other in nature and in the human soul celebrating the vital contrasts of life.
Rembrandt's art crystalizes in the compelling engagement, the romance, of light and dark in his portraits. He knew that his subject's humanity could only be revealed in the deep shadows of greys, browns, and almost blacks, and that their individuality shone through the luminous pearls and creams and the mysterious beams of light he found in their countenances. I can sense who these men and women were in the thresholds of personality found where these lights and darks meet in the brightening dawns and dimming dusks of these visual biographies. Rembrandt's portraits in light and dark powerfully awaken compassion in the viewer, the same compassion that made this artist so extraordinarily great.
As Rembrandt's romance with light and dark in the soul of his subjects matured into a true friendship, he moved beyond being a successful portraitist to being a portraitist of historical, moral and spiritual significance. His most important subject was himself. The more he worked on capturing the contrasts of his own soul, the more he could see what lived in others.
Whether or not you have ever held a paintbrush in your hand, Rembrandt can teach you a great lesson in compassionate self-portraiture - inwardly painting multiple pictures of your soul's biography. You must build a lasting friendship between the dark powerful defining shadows of your humanity with the bright light of your personal divinity.
In my conversations with my clients, I listen to their harsh judgments and anxious fears about their shadows. They feel threatened by a sense of inner evil and the experience of being either the victim or the perpetrator. They hope I will say words that will rescue and redeem them.
Instead I teach them the compassion of the Inner Rembrandt and the transcendent healing, liberation and empowerment of the self-portrait. Like Rembrandt, you must have a mirror and a canvas, the brush and the palette of colors. Look into the mirror and paint what you see on the canvas. When you finish one self-portrait, begin the next.
The Imagine Self programs are the studio of the Inner Rembrandt.
Painting Your Self-Portrait
The Inner Autumn Being Human Courses: Confronting Your Challengers and Engaging Your Companions teach the key elements for encountering the soul contrasts of dark and light. To paint your self-portrait you must find the darkest and the lightest points of your image.
The first course teaches the about the mysteries of the dark, the gestures of evil and the art of transformations. You even learn how without the contrast of the shadows, light becomes formless and meaningless, and find the challenger that hides in that blinding of light.
(The second guides you into more conscious and active engagement with the spiritual beings that support your inner development. I will share more about this program over the next few weeks. )
(The second guides you into more conscious and active engagement with the spiritual beings that support your inner development. I will share more about this program over the next few weeks. )
Confronting Your Challengers
In this rich course, you learn the significance of confronting or facing courageously the counter-forces and inclinations toward evil that live within your own soul. This confrontation requires that you make friends with your shadows. We cannot dismiss or ignore evil. We cannot make light of the dark until we know it well. We must confront and confront and confront as spiritual practice and as a path of moral development.
Imagine the personal freedom that comes with understanding the opponents to that freedom.
Imagine the strength of your personal choices that comes with the ability to resist the forces that want to undermine or dominate those choices by twisting your truth, distorting your beauty, and crippling your will.
Imagine the confidence and the feeling of personal integrity that comes with having a strengthened moral immune system - a system that protects who you are from attack, sabotage, and invasion.
None of these imaginations can develop without taking the time to understand the relationships between the human soul, your human soul, and evil.
Devote one hour a week over the next four weeks (Thursday evening, Sunday afternoon or the download anytime) to confronting the forces that stand between you and your path of development. Go here to learn more about the course and register for Confronting Your Challengers http://www.store.lynnjericho.com/CONFRONTING-YOUR-CHALLENGERS-IY-CC11.htm
The Inner Year Being Human Course are invaluable for knowing yourself and the rest of humanity.
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Inner Changes at the Inner Equinox
How does your path of self-development change with the Equinox?
The Solstices and the Equinoxes are turning points for the work of self-knowledge. The Inner Year is a cosmic organizing and nurturing principle for your inner life just as Nature's Year organizes and nurtures life on Earth.
If you think of your Higher Self as your Inner Sun organizing the process and nurturing the progress of your inner development, you will want to follow its seasonal directions in your attention to finding yourself, knowing yourself, becoming yourself.
For your inner development, spiritual and moral, Autumn is the time of the cosmic inner year when your Inner Sun directs your focus to your relationship with what lives in the darkness of earthly existence.
In the shadows of your self-awareness, you find the challengers that distort your development. These challengers grow their strength in darkness. This is why, counter to the diminishing light of Autumn in Nature, your Inner Sun glows with more light following the Equinox, illuminating the darkness and your hidden challengers, allowing you to call their names, contain and limit their power, and develop your inner courage.
Your Inner Sun sits at the horizon of your consciousness. Only your inner work can move it above the horizon so it can enlighten and empower your sense of self and form the right relationship to spirit and matter.
As you contemplate on your Inner Equinox, take heart, and look into the shadows and encounter the challengers. You might want to post your thoughts to share with others by leaving a comment.
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Encounters - Confronting Your Challengers
CONFRONTING YOUR CHALLENGERS
Recognize and overcome the challenges to your spiritual and moral development.
This is the time of the Inner Year when we seek the wisdom to recognize and overcome the counter forces who seek to challenge us and undermine the truth, beauty and goodness of our human spirit.
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
Henry David Thoreau.
In this course we will seek the root understanding of evil.
The maturity of the soul is not its ability to avoid evil, but its ability to confront evil.
Archangel Michael's slaying of the dark beast of evil is recognized and attended to each year on September 29th. Michael carries the sword that points to, penetrates, and slays evil.
Encountering the Challengers intends to awaken in our souls the powerful force of Michael, the inner ability to recognize and overcome personal encounters with evil.
As the dark of night overtakes the light of day, it is time to look at the darker questons and realities of consciousness and self-development. We need to look at our personal encounters with evil. The dark topic of evil needs to come out of the swamps and shadows of our souls and into the light!
What are your questions about evil?
How do we live with our own sins of commission and omission? How do we heal and resolve our experiences of victimhood? What is the karma of evil? What does it mean to “forgive us our debts and we forgive our debtors.” How are we protected from the temptations of evil? How do we atone for our sins? Just what is atonement?
Esoterically, what are the beings of evil? How do they engage us? What do they want from us? Can we redeem them?
In our difficult times of greed, war, global warming, terror and trauma, we need to find meaningful and practical definitions, perspectives and practices that develop courage, integrity, forthrightness and understanding. Without a conscious and articulate sense of evil, the demons and dragons hold sway, while we hide in anxiety, depression, doubt and confusion.
Encountering the Challengers
How do we live with our own sins of commission and omission? How do we heal and resolve our experiences of victimhood? What is the karma of evil? What does it mean to “forgive us our debts and we forgive our debtors.” How are we protected from the temptations of evil? How do we atone for our sins? Just what is atonement?
Esoterically, what are the beings of evil? How do they engage us? What do they want from us? Can we redeem them?
In our difficult times of greed, war, global warming, terror and trauma, we need to find meaningful and practical definitions, perspectives and practices that develop courage, integrity, forthrightness and understanding. Without a conscious and articulate sense of evil, the demons and dragons hold sway, while we hide in anxiety, depression, doubt and confusion.
Encountering the Challengers
offers you the following content:
Session One:
Definitions of evil, harm, violence.
How evil appears in thoughts, feelings, actions.
How we do evil to ourselves.
Session Two:
Inner immunity to evil
The victim/perpetrator relationship
The role of evil in personal biography
Session Three:
The three forms of evil in our souls.
The four basic relationships to evil.
The four inner declarations that redeem evil.
Session Four:
Evil and the four bodies of the Human Being.
The mysteries of justice
The karma of consequence
The lessons of reconcilliation
Session One:
Definitions of evil, harm, violence.
How evil appears in thoughts, feelings, actions.
How we do evil to ourselves.
Session Two:
Inner immunity to evil
The victim/perpetrator relationship
The role of evil in personal biography
Session Three:
The three forms of evil in our souls.
The four basic relationships to evil.
The four inner declarations that redeem evil.
Session Four:
Evil and the four bodies of the Human Being.
The mysteries of justice
The karma of consequence
The lessons of reconcilliation
Your Benefits
(How will you profit from this course? What advantages will you receive?)
- You will be able to make choices and decisions with a more mature confidence.
- You will be able to reflect on your life, your relationships, and your work with a compassionate objectivity.
- You will have a deeper understanding and a greater capacity for forgiveness - forgiving yourself, others, circumstances, and conditions.
- Evil will no longer be a vague but powerful threat to your goodness.
- You will be able to recognize, name, locate, and assess evil in its myriad forms.
- You will be able to meet the challenges of evil and vanquish its temptations.
- You will release yourself from the demoralizing roles of victim and perpetrator.
- You will be able to understand your life dramas and patterns from new and liberating perspectives.
Thursday Sessions: September 29, October 6, 13, 20
Time: 8 - 9 PM Eastern
Sunday Sessions: October 2, 9, 16, 23
Time: 4 - 5 PM Eastern
Time: 4 - 5 PM Eastern
Cost: $47
Webinar format using your desktop and your phone (or Skype). All sessions are recorded and available as an MP3 download in case you can not attend the live presentation or want to relisten.
REGISTER HERE
http://www.store.lynnjericho.com/CONFRONTING-YOUR-CHALLENGERS-IY-CC11.htm
REGISTER HERE
http://www.store.lynnjericho.com/CONFRONTING-YOUR-CHALLENGERS-IY-CC11.htm
Supplemental Private Sessions:
Individually scheduled, will provide deep intimate attention to your personal questions and needs regarding your relationship to the challengers to your spiritual and moral development. These 30 minute sessions cost $40. Contact lynnjericho@gmail.com
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Out of the Shadow Into the Light - Ten Years Later
OUT OF THE SHADOW
INTO THE LIGHT
ONLY YOU CAN DO IT!
Thoughts on 9/11 - Ten Years Later
I had been working on a manuscript about the Twelve Senses. I put it aside and wrote an essay on trauma. I walked down to the waterfront often, especially at night when the lights at Ground Zero lit up the sky and illumined great changing shadows in the smoke.
The mood of Ground Zero lit up the souls of most with a deep caring for community and a sense of possibility. But it also cast dark shadows of fear, anger, powerlessness on the same souls.
A month later at a women writers conference in midtown, a woman introduced herself to me and asked to know about my experience of Ground Zero. We had been in a random gathering of woman at the lunch break who had been sharing their thoughts on the event that filled everyone's thoughts and feelings. Inspired by years of working with Rudolf Steiner's descriptions of the evolution of consciousness, my perspectives were not reactionary, alarmist, nor retaliatory. I was certain there was the potential for a new world view, a new moral and creative responsibility, a new relationship to a shared future if only each individual became a world citizen, if each human soul reflected on the questions living in the light of 9/11, not the shadows.
This woman, Bethene LeMahieu, initiated a year long conversation that became a six-hour audiobook we called Ground Zero and the Human Soul: The Search for the New Ordinary Life. Well-reviewed, it spent a few months on the shelves of Barnes and Noble and Borders amongst all the other 9/11 literature and we were interviewed on a number of radio shows, but very few individuals ever heard the thoughts, the challenges, and the creative perspectives distilled from our hundreds of hours of conversations.
As we all know the "leaders of nations" had another perspective -- war, homeland security, destruction -- they prolonged the terror of 9/11 promising a return to the life of 9/10. The conversations between Bethene and me imagine a different life for 9/12 and a dawning of a different consciousness in the individual.
Will you search for the new soul life that will shape the new ordinary life?
Below you can listen to and download the six conversations. Each is about one hour long.
Listen to them. Share them. Write comments.
And please, have conversations about the future that is shaped by you and all the other world citizens, not governments, not corporations, not ideologies.
If you would like to purchase the transcripts, please contact me by email.
Conversation #1
The Creative Challenge of Ground Zero and A New Picture of the Human Being
Conversation #2
Feeling and the Search for Personal Harmony
Conversation #3
Thinking and the Search for Personal Truth
Conversation #4
Willing and the Search for Personal Goodness
Conversation #5
Meeting Evil
Conversation #6
The Search for the New Ordinary Life
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