What is the meaning of Lent for your soul?
In the cycle of the Inner Year, the first quarter of the year is spent working with your relationship to yourself:
Inner Epiphany celebrates and deepens your sense of the purpose living in your existence.
Imagining Your Contribution addresses the evolving needs and expressions of that purpose.
Then comes Inner Lent, the time of facing the possibility that you may be tempted to forego your purpose for more immediate and seductive powers and pleasures.
365 days a year, I succumb to little temptations. Don’t you?
There is always some voice urging me to turn a stone to bread, leap off some high perch trusting the angels to rescue me before I crash on the ground, and the great temptation to be right, to know it all. And I succumb...dumb!
A stone is not bread and never satisfies my appetite.
Angels come to my side when I walk firmly on the ground, but laugh at my ridiculous attempts to magically fly through the day or the deed. The sound of angels laughing at my foolishness is an absolutely cringing sensation.
And being right, has nothing to do with being alive and in the moment. The sense of being right relates to a past and very dead moment. Being right has no lasting power. If I arrogantly attach my life to a story of the past, time, the world and real joy pass me by.
Inner Lent is the time when my inner learning, my self-knowledge, focuses on my relationship to temptation.
Won’t you join me?
Inner Lent, like all of the Inner Year programs, offers archetypal imaginations and questions that guide and support you in your very unique and ,just right for you and only you” awakening and understanding of your soul’s unfolding.
I’ve made a recording of some thoughts on the first questions of Inner Lent. I look at the landscape of inner isolation and the experience of inner fasting. I describe why Inner Lent is connected, not to Inner Easter, but to the experience of Inner Baptism.
As I write this, I keep struggling with the third temptation. I keep wanting to rerecord and make my thoughts perfect, so right that I would stand in glory above the world. Yuk, yuk, yuk!!
Listen to my imperfect thoughts. In spite of their imperfection you may find encouragement and inspiration for you own Inner Lent.
Click here to listen...
Then consider engaging in a deeper look at your relationship to each of the three temptations and their appearance in the modern soul (that’s our souls) as addiction, fantasy and prejudice. This is the Inner Lent program of three webinars and a bunch of great materials.
You can click here to go to my “store” to register for the Inner Lent program. (I’ll be sending out at least one more email next week sharing more about the content of the webinar and how you might find real value in it.)
One reason to signup - to keep you focused on your Inner Lent, as our daily lives are so filled with temptations that distract us from the work of self-knowledge and our inner development. It is so sad to let these rich inner seasonal possibilities slip by. Yes, we can work on our addictions, fantasies and prejudices at any time of the year, but we do so without the support of the cosmos. Now is the time when the cosmic design where the human soul finds alignment with divine intention and the course of the sun and the greatest amount of light shines down on these inner questions.
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Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Sunday, January 23, 2011
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.
Click here to download the audio on Inner Baptism…
Or listen now by clicking the button:
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.
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.
Click here to download the audio on Inner Baptism…
Or listen now by clicking the button:
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.
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