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Candle in the Dark by ~rhea
The Way of the Actor
by ~ThePook
Spiritual Retail by ~rabbithowl
The Dream by ~Blondchakra
The House by ~Star
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A few nights ago I
was working into the night at my computer and we had a power failure and
suddenly I was enveloped in pitch black, inky space. After a few seconds
I oriented myself to the silence and dark and instinctively made my way
upstairs to find candles. I didn’t bump into anything, no broken bones
…..in fact it was all very uneventful – except for one thing. As I was
making my way through the dark, and moving confidently through the house
I was struck by how easily I trusted myself – placing trust in my
instincts – without giving it a thought.
My instincts and intuition are evident every day and are extremely
valuable assets in my business life. I spent more than three decades in
corporate life and generated some golden rules about business dealings
and acquiring new clients – among them were these three...
Candle in the
Dark by ~rhea
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On approaching the
art of acting as a spiritual path.
It has been interesting for me to observe how, in spite of the external
realities of an industry and a culture that have made it increasingly
difficult for me to secure employment in the profession that I still
feel called to, my explorations and contemplations of what 'the way of
the actor' might mean spiritually, have deepened and widened. More and
more, I become aware of the correlations between what we as spiritual
realists mean by being on a path to enlightenment and what actors, (of
course, I refer to those actors who work from deep levels of awareness)
are also attempting to effect by the means that they must use in order
to achieve transformations in themselves, and by extension through
communication to their audience.
The Way of the Actor
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Spiritual Realism is
an energetic way of being in which we engage 24-7, no matter where we
are or who we are with. It is not limited to a couple of hours on a
Sunday in a “special” place. It is not something you can just study or
read about. It also extends beyond the meditation chair. Spiritual
Realism is not just a mental state, though a positive attitude is
crucial: a sound, open mind is the soil in which Spiritual Realism is
sown. But Spiritual Realism actually lives and flourishes, energetically
manifests, in our actions and reactions, our behaviours, our
interactions and relationships with others, in the real world.
Spiritual Retail by ~rabbithowl |
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Last night I dreamed
I was walking down a dark street, there was an eerie quality about it,
as though I knew that I had a definite place to go, but couldn't quite
bring an image of the destination to mind... I cannot remember all the
twists and turns, but as it seemed at last I was getting used to the
panicky feeling of being lost, the scene changed to one of great beauty
- sunlit green hillsides with sparkling waterfalls and tropical
vegetation.
Isn't the spiritual path one of lost turnings? The sense of a Quest, but
the forgotten goal, and the pitfalls of the Astral plane? "In it thy
Soul will find the blossoms of life," says The Voice of the Silence
about the Astral, "but under every flower a serpent coiled." It has to
be crossed, the Astral, we cannot escape it...
The Dream by
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This morning, I
invited my higher self to enter my house.
The thing that has been giving me a gnawing feeling in my heart, is the
fact that I have invited my higher-self to completely show up in my
temple, my house, my body, but it doesn't stay. I am here now, in this
place of the ever-unfolding moment in time, but it disturbs me that I
feel and see a duality. The lower separate self-serving self and the
higher self, the watcher, watching and weighing the soul with every
action , thought and movement. Why would the part of me which
experiences life here and now see itself as separate from that which
gives it life? Why is there no integration?
The House by ~Star |
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