Gaia Community: Sharon's Blog

We are Unity of Oneness & Individually Fabulous!

http://aSimpleGnosis.gaia.com — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 07:18:28 GMT

I am replicating an entry I made in response to Jim and Judith on their blog because I feel that many Gaians would find it useful:

As
I am reading your blog, and my eyes pass over,

"But if you knew someone
who was going about their life without fame, wealth, and public adulation,
would you say that that person is living a fabulous life?"

I
stop to answer the question before proceeding because that is how I read, with
full intention. Or, why bother, eh?!

And,
my Inward answer starts like this

Of course not, fame and the like is hardly the "stuff" of fabulousness! The most fabulous life to me is one that is funded consciously aware from WithIn, Spirit SELF at the helm, and I do not mean in a helter-skelter kind of way that is "on" today and "off" tomorrow and randomly switching "on & off" in some mysterious way out of the conscious control of the individual.

TRULY, Fabulous is free from the gnawing pain, and often kept secret from others, of seeking to obliquely deal with a sense of worthlessness that's rooted in separation from WHO WE ARE, in non-effective efforts to fill the "hole in the Soul" with the "stuff" of paragraph one, thereby creating a facade of being "fabulous" or even fabled.

Actually, fabulous in living the ordinary day-to-day life in come-union with one's Higher SELF as their daily self in thought, word, deed, and feelings. Now, that is one fabulous be-in life!

Then,
I continue reading. You & I think, NOT -- ah, we concur.

However,
I consider the list in your blog, while addressing the types of behaviors of persons not tethered to the ways of the "maddening crowd" of normalcy seeking external authority, approval, or adulation, to be items highlighting the effects not the cause of fabulousness.

From
my perspective, is not so much achieving the standards of living that fulfills us, as it is communing with our Indwelling SOURCE Who is ever informing us, that generates a permanency of living, that is really beyond fabulous in that it is infinitely available no matter what happens to the standards, and it is eminently a life that is Peaceful or Contented.

Now,
fabulous is a word for this Peaceful contented state, yet it is a descriptor or label of our sense
of living from our hearts connected to our emanating Presence and, thus, living consciously from Who We ARE - InSpirited Beings of Light~Love~Harmony~Peace - and all the fruits thereof that are fabulous, indeed!

Sorry,
if this seems like I am splitting hairs, but, from my point of view, these splits make all the difference in the world, TRULY.

I'd
love it if you would drop by and visit with me and possibly deepen our relationship. My home is presently a construction zone, and is currently known as my webpage: www.selfgnosis.org.

Excuse me a moment,

I must wax poetic, I cannot help myself!

WHO IS THAT WEAVING US ?

In the Cosmic Pattern,

Our woof and weave

May be crossing,

Creating

A piece within

The Cosmic Cloth

That has no Weaver

Which...

Is made grander

IF...when...

Those beings,

Who are

The woof and weave,

Simply notice

how
they are touching.

Its potential

Is idle

And

Pregnant with
Potency

Until

Seen

And

Embraced

By those comprising
Its weave.

And then,

Birthing its potency into reality

It is alive

The hearts of

The woof and weave

Come into
Collaboration to create it outward.

And

It is made holy

When

The collaborators

Enter communion

With

The unseen Weaver and

Allow it to

Unfold its grandness

Expanding the expressions of

Greater Good...

All
to Love,

Sharon

PS.
Those obstacles/limitations are all you say they are and more; they are, the vibrational gap we have independently created for ourselves and have maintained an attachment to having.

When teaching this to children (and the child within adults) I simplify the concept by saying these obstacles are TRULY our "trash on our path." This "trash" cannot ever be at-one with our SOURCE of Being because all of it is anti-vibrational to SOURCE, and as such, our "trash" repels us from our Divine inheritance by occluding our recognition, and invariably, our re-union.

This means it robs us from our Come-into-union
or Communion which is our natural state, and this state has a permanency unless we UNdo it (which we have the Free Will to do, or not to do, as the case may be). Well, you know how that goes,
eh?!

I have directly experienced how these obstacles MUST be transmuted and their energy returned to harmonic resonance with SOURCE for us to be done with them forevermore. (YEAH!)

Otherwise,
they keep resurfacing to be dealt with, albeit in different forms, again and again until we deal with them once and for all. We have the power to do so, but, clearly, we must know how-to. Free Will requires that we must accept this fact and apprise ourselves of what this means and the how-to's. Nothing we have created of this negating nature "just disappears."

From all that I read in your lovely posts, (Keep up the input, people often have a need to jump on the ship and ports you can show to them for advancing their lives forward before they are ready to be about the business of serious transformation as I am pointing towards.)

I am guessing that you two are hovering around this lodestone of understanding and ready to hone in to the mother-load. It is one of gnosis:
SELFgnosis. Ummm, wonder if I am sensing this correctly or not? I wouldn't want to cross that pompous line and assume I know your heart or any other person's heart, albeit, the signs seem to beckon my attention thusly.

Tags: fabulous, self help, poem, potential, collaborate, holy, children, Spirit, worth

What's the last thing that made no sense to you?

http://aSimpleGnosis.gaia.com — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 08:11:30 GMT

People will rally and support animals with more gusto and news headlines than I see for children's rights, needs, etc. This I don't understand.

Hating people, esp so when you've never even met them??! This I don't understand.

Why people keep voting in politicians who lie, deceive, and bail out the rich? How ANY politician can vote on a bill TO MAKE IT LAW, and NOT EVEN READ it??!! This is gross incompetence and dangerous.

I don't understand the American silence.

People's obsession with sports
over caring for children's needs, esp. the abused and neglected ones,
over political issues that are enslaving them,
over spending quality time with their families, esp. their kids,
over banking policies that are making them poor,
over their Spiritual life, releasing their pains,

So much I do not understand.

The list, IF I had the time to prepare it would amount to a very long litany of insane behaviors that people accept and even support that harm them and the world they "live" in.

Confusion is a real problem to face in returning to sanity of MAKING SENSE.

All to Love, Sharon

Tags: QaR, sense, understanding, perspective

What is one thing that there are no words for?

http://aSimpleGnosis.gaia.com — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 07:48:21 GMT

Ah, are you asking this question about the English language, or beyond any and all languages? Your question clarified words, so I know symbolic language is not part of this questions scope. Ummm...so I wonder.

There is a word in Japanese, kokoro, that has no English equivalent! It is such a vast and heart felt understanding that a whole book was written by Lafcadio Hearn to attempt to convey the multidimensional and multivalent meanings that this word encompassed in Japanese cultural understanding of this word.

Ever so loosley we sound bite this word to, "living from the heart," and in so doing we bridge a footpath to its depth, but it falls short delivering a true meaning.

A long study of the nuances of living from the heart and experiencing this way of relating and influencing life is required to give justice to a simple word the English language does not even attempt to encode into a concept, let alone into a word. Says a lot about us, does it not?

Everything transcendent fails to be contained in the container of any word or words!

All to Love, Sharon

Tags: QaR, words, new, experience, kokoro, heart, language, communication, Hern

How do you like to be woken up?

http://aSimpleGnosis.gaia.com — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 06:43:24 GMT

Direct and to the point, no beating around the bush delivered with kindness, if possible.

Q&A dialog is always welcome.

AND, Oh, IF you are talking about waking me up in the morning, well that's quite different. I like this to be GENTLY, ever so GENTLY!

All to Love,
Sharon

Tags: QaR, awakening, awareness, possibilities, new, dialog

What is your relationship to waiting?

http://aSimpleGnosis.gaia.com — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 05:20:16 GMT

My relationship with waiting is intimate; it's one of respect and trust. Here's why:

Waiting lies at the heart of GOD/Source, waiting with infinite patience for each and every lost soul's return HOME. Since it is a heart quality of our Beloved Creator, waiting seems to me to be a quality to look for in our experiences as well as our responses to waiting itself.

We can look at instant gratification as the counterpoint of waiting. We can consider how waiting develops the skills of patience and tolerance. Of course, waiting is an integral element of pregnancy and healing processes.

Heck, waiting is inimical to life itself. Seeds, pregnant and potent wait till opportunity provides the right catalysts to wake up the dormancy of waiting. Then, the emergence process starts and waiting provides the time and space for the miracle of life and growth.

Then there's the chamber of waiting, a seemingly lifeless shell to external observers as a cocoon sits motionless upon a branch later to rejoice in the transformation and emergence of a butterfly from a once inching along caterpillar. Life is a mystery of waiting from composting, to tides rolling in & out, to becoming an adult, to an endless list...

Then, there's the beauty of how SELFGnosis teaches us to behold our transitions by paying attention to how our perspective and well being shifts as well as noticing other changes we may not have anticipated.

Such vigils are very personal and instructive. We have the honor and responsibility of holding open Sacred Time and Space for change to occur while we forge a relationship of Trust with our guiding SELF ever fostering a deepening awe of how close we are to wisdom all the time.

I have an intimate relationship with waiting, one that started out with "ants in my pants" anxiousness always in a hurry for results, to one of peace abiding in me as I rest more and more comfortably in unfolding, vigiling, and revealing processes.

All of these have a waiting requirement that pays in great dividends . It is powerful to be witnessing myself changing and experiencing a peace inherently within as a trusting relationship with my Inward Spirit as My Beloved SELF and best friend is made the way of my life.

In summary:

My relationship with waiting is one of respect and trust. I often refer to it as an act of Beholding, that is to Hold into Being something better for tomorrow than today may be holding (in time and space).

At the heart of accepting and changing is the ability to wait with open expectation.

Again, a deep one there, Siona.

Thanks for asking because I didn’t think this one through till you asked it here, and I'm glad to see how important waiting/vigiling is for a fulfilling life.

All to Love,

Sharon

Tags: QaR, waiting, wait, patience, vigil, trust, life, change, growth

What bridge would you like to build in your life?

http://aSimpleGnosis.gaia.com — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:09:02 GMT

I love bridges (and trees)!

I Am gearing up to build the bridge I here speak of, and it will have the power of the verb potency inherent within all bridges, namely, that of bridging connections while closing gaps.

It will bridge outward, connecting to all who are ready to KNOW that wonder+filled Who residing within themselves beating their hearts, breathing their breaths, and urging them to know their soul's purpose -- giving conscious awareness and meaning to WHO I AM at the personal level of consciousness. This is SELFGnosis.

I am NOT talking about concepts. I am talking (well, writing) about personal experience here.

I am excited about this potential actualizing, and the shift this will be creating in the collective unconsciousness of HUmanity, as one-by-one more and more God in us personally, is more God in HUmanity. How could it be any other way??

Re-memberance of Who we are is one and same as reconnections with Source which, by its very nature, will be creating cascades energy and consciousness away from violence and insanity of separation and into a Unity of Oneness.

Now, that will be something to celebrate, and all because of the simplicity of bridging or Hooking-people up with their empowerment to be all they can be…Who they Truly Are.

Are YOU ready? Speak up.

That is how WEi open the doors of opportunity and change them from an idle potential we think about, hope for, wish will come to pass, and actually make it happen…this is the way of SPIRIT or The TAO.

I'm just asked to do my part. The rest will be our history when others choose to DO THEIR PARTS.

Ask, and the FLOW is turned on.

LOVE works in wondrously marvelously mysteriously elegant and simple ways, yet, the style and outcome is always GRAND and GOD GOOD!

All to Love,

Sharon

PS. This is not a philosophical post, me waxing glorious from some airy place in my head, or anything like that. These are my comments from knowing the impact SELFGnosis is having upon people, by just witnessing how the Beta classes on The Basics is going. Want to participate at the beta level?

Let me know so the bridge building can start!

Tags: QaR, connection, bridge, bridging, gnosis, ask, hope, choice, experience

What most helps your personal growth?

http://aSimpleGnosis.gaia.com — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 22:33:24 GMT

A Dialogue that takes a deep dive with fellow Gaians...

I could give sound bite answers, while likely hugely popular, I will not for that makes folly of the serious dialogue I think such questions are intended to open us up to having. With that said, I shall dive in. I hope you will take a swim with me and share your thoughts, too. Dialogue deepens our communication and growth itself.

First off there is a question that must be asked to clarify that what is assumed is what the questioner is asking, even though the implication seems evident, it may not be the point of view (POV) of all those who answer - development of what aspect of personal exactly? Psychological, mental, emotional, Spiritual, ego, cultural, or what?

I shall answer via an all inclusive POV since my POV recognizes that all development is inter-related albeit some are inimically tied together as a unit, such as ego~Spirit for as one waxes, the other wanes. I choose to hone my growth toward a continual return to MAI Spirit SELF. I feel the need to make this distinction since I am noticing many people are saying they are "working on their Spiritual development" while actualizing more and more of their ego structures with a "holy demeanor," yet their hearts are more and more judgmental of the holiness or not of others. Nothing could be more self-deceptive than that.

I choose to be most accurately guided by God-TRUTH as juxtaposed to personal truth(s) which are belief dependent. God-TRUTH is infinitely What IS and universally applicable in a consistent, constant, and congruent way, and has no dependency on how we may feel about its veracity or not.

This all-inclusive nature, in and of itself, attests to the superior quality of God-TRUTH which never changes and has the innate quality of stability funded from its eternal consistency and all-inclusiveness/Universality.

Also, from my POV, Spiritual overarches and is the all-inclusive growth, expect for the enhancements of separation which is ego aggrandizement development. I love Wayne Dyer's breakdown making the word ego an acronym: EGO = Edging God Out.

Personal or religious truth(s) are tainted and deviated from Original TRUTH by human understanding, motivations, or interpretations which inevitably cull out something unique from the Universal, making it "uniquely special," and this consequently amplifies separation over Oneness (loss of Universality) making its assertion suspect at best, eh?

Now, that I've cleared the air of what could be a point of confusion, I shall address these questions:

What most helps your development?

SELFGnosis has done more for healing all the causes of what was ailing my life. My patterns of self-destruction, my unawares of how I was attracting energies and experiences that were perpetuating pain behaviors, avoidances, misunderstandings, ad naseum, have been exposed and made clear to my outer conscious awareness so that I am no longer victim to my blindness.

I am now forging skills, by the ever wise hand of my Higher SELF, to Pay Attention, discern with primal TAO clarity the choices I am making from moment-to-moment, making me a conscious co-creator of my life.

More & more, I am living empowered by knowing I am choosing and, thus, creating - therefore, recognizing & owning that I am response+able for all my experiences.

Being a victim to the "vagrancies of life, fate, luck, "just way I am," "just happens," "punishment for past sins," ad naseum is not my delusional POV anymore.

What interferes with it?

The most trying interferences are those past inclinations responding to the accepted momentums plaguing humanity's sanity that I had a sickly endeared harmonic resonance with from my negative patterning and belief systems.

I call these my Achilles Heel and they are anything that is a tender point of easy slippage into false ideations and fears that I know are false, yet, "hauntingly call to me" as having validity due to past momentums of affinity with them.

These would include things like my mother's anguishing when dad was late coming home because it was triggering her fear of losing family security for 6 kids because dad was driving home drunk from the bar again.

If my loved ones are late, I find a creeping sensation of this anguish trying to surface for me to fantasize with, thus entertaining this fear and loathing into a possible reality to contend with - the past trying to haunt my present IF I would only give it some of my time and attention.

So, I am saying I must be a vigilant sentinel to whatever beckons me to create it into a reality of pain and suffering which is the antithesis of God-TRUTH informing my creating realities.

A conscious-willful-mindful-choice is the key of our ability in how we create our life realities, and this requires attention to all my thoughts, words, and deeds.

It is not as tiresome or hard as it sounds because the process of SELFGnosis gifts you with ascending momentums of Being more God in you doing your thinking, doing, and actions. Cool stuff.

What helps you truly be yourself?

To be myself can be interpreted two different ways-

One is to be more of my personality and my identifications which have promulgated what makes me different from others and all the drives connected with that perspective of myself.

The other is to be more of MAI-SELF which is to be Who I AM as Sharon. This is allowing by free-will-choice the Divine Intention to manifest unique expressions as only our Beloved Creator can live, move, and have BE+in me/Being as me.

This is the elegant & simple understanding that WEi are a Unity of Oneness, and as such are like facets of a Cosmic Diamond. TO be TRULY Who We Are is to shine as only our facet can shine adding unto the overall brilliancy of the Cosmic Diamond we are all integrally a part of as a wholism.

The more I heal into Who I Am and out of who I've been trying to be, the less I have need to express the patterns and pain behaviors that underlined the Sharon I grew up to be.

Unwittingly, this was an adult who was seeking relief from her unrecognized pains, working hard responding to urges to be a productive "doing machine" for love and affection disguised as desires (sincere they truly were) to give & do my best in whatever endeavors I undertook, as well as driving my efforts to leave this world "a better place than the one I was born into."

What supports your unfoldment?

SO, Consequently, SELFGnosis, which heals out our errors of POV, not with allegiances to theories, dogmas, rituals or practices, rather with transmutative forces tapped within from the Source of Indwelling Healing/HS, peels away our false identifications like an onion is peeled.

This is the epitome of Love in action for it is not overwhelming because its step-by-step, or peeling one layer at a time away, allows for an inner awakening or regrouping of your shifted abilities and perceptions in a measured way, one that is paced by yourself.

Since this is an Unfolding process of the highest order, it is experienced as an ease of dealing with and adjusting to Who We are without shock or a debilitating flooding of our sensibilities. Step-by-step or peeling layer by layer is doable and amazing, at least from my experience and from those I've had the opportunity to share it with.

Unfolding is a revealing process. We've heard the axiom, "TRUTH reveals." We know that what is underneath a fold is revealed as it is unfolded, so the two are really an at-one process! Simple and elegant at once is so Divine, would you not agree?

Healing out my miscreations, misunderstanding, and negative patterning while simultaneously replacing these with their diametric counterpoint energies of Universal understandings and harmonic resonant patterning is the essential action that defines transmute, transform, and transcend, and it is a pleasant process, indeed.

What do you find most regularly blocks your life path?

Anything deceptive, confusing, or "in my blind spot" is a block or detour I am alerting myself to pay attention to noticing and, more importantly, NOT ignoring, downplaying its importance to be dealt with, or "letting it slide."

I've learned that such red flags are side stepped at my own peril of repeating or being "dragged into" whatever detour they are designed to distract or busy me with.

Thanks Siona for asking this thoughtful set of questions for our sharing, pondering, and caring.

All to Love,

Sharon

Tags: QaR, personal development, growth, unfolding, life, Spiritual, SELFGnosis, healing, truth

What are you working on?

http://aSimpleGnosis.gaia.com — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 07:42:33 GMT

I'm working on several books, a beta class for SELFGnosis, preparing a demo disc for feedback from about 20 volunteers who have agreed to view the SELFGnosis Basics class for whatever gems they will be sharing, a parenting class, and a revision of the Great Me-Little Me concept worked into a non-violent method of disciplining without harm that fosters thinking skills, accountability, and logical consequences. So far this has been a real success with the kids and parents!

Volunteering with CASA with a storytelling time for the children who are removed from their homes and going through the gruesome process of temporary placements.

Studying marketing, learning how to use some of my computer programs for writing and publishing, and acquainting myself with internet basics of creating a web page, and the like. I would LOVE to off this part of the project to those more inclined to enjoy the computer end of things. It is not my "cup of tea" and I discipline myself to its rigors because I must at this juncture.

I'm having the evolving experience of a blossoming relationship with a fine woman who is rising to the challenges of filling "Della Street" type shoes in advancing the idea of AKRNA non-profit into a viable entity. I love this gal! I'm beginning to see some wings sprouting for her and me, and that is great. She's opened me to the idea of sweat equity and the joys thereof. Ha ha, we both laugh...

I've been having the unexpected pleasure of meeting with another very creative early childhood teacher who is pondering the possibilities of joining our learning adventure of creating a replicatable educational system. She brings a yin quality to our vision that is exciting. Time will tell how this garden will grow or not, so much to consider and work out so that everyone wins and is fulfilled by their involvement.

I've been working with some souls weary of their ego's machinations and the painful scenarios of unconscious pattern repetition creating life yuk. This has been going exceedingly well, in spite of a glob of whirlwind upsets coming at them…transitions, transitions, transitions can sure be consuming of time and energy with so many things pulling at the attention center.

In all, as I read through this, I am amazed at how much WEi are getting done, how much we are knocking the snot out of some very trying challenges. We are inspired and that is a saving grace as Wei keep choosing back to be "More God in us" taking care of business! Any other way of going at this is surely folly, eh?

Oh, yeah, I forgot about the Sales Tax Reformation issue I have been giving time to by writing articles, letters to editors, visiting representatives at the Capital & at city governing levels, and calling people of interest to encourage their participation so we can get a serious TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION issue resolved at law with a long-term solution that is functional and not just some band-aide or appeasement measure that only gives the impression of "stopping an economic hemorrhage".

I guess one more project is before in the ever present NOW beckoning for me to take an action: Go to bed and get some sleep -- all my atom, cells, and electrons are begging for a rejuvenate R&R!

Good Night, my friends.

All to Love,

Sharon

PS> I guess it is clearer why my blogging has been spotty, so sorry about that, my heart is never far away even though the pen may be a bit consumed with other tasks. Thank you for YOUR TIME & ATTENTION.

PPS> I could post some of the letters and such, I just figured, who would be interested in such things?

Tags: QaR, work, projects, creations, creativity

Do you believe in God? (Revisited)

http://aSimpleGnosis.gaia.com — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 06:41:41 GMT

God, now that's one heavily charged word of a 1001 meanings! There's the implied understanding of an overarching Source that is our Beloved Creator, yet, this basic unifying thread of understanding the commonality of our creation into being is diversified into divergent sets of differences and details that are both dizzying and perplexing, is it not?

The deviation range is as wide as a canyon with hatred for those "not like us" (whatever that really means??) to as narrow as a hairline crack between us with an undifferentiated love for everyone regardless of belief(s).

From the point of view of a Universal Creator and Source of all existence, expression, and experience, yes, I do very intimately understand a God to be our emanation and sole source of all that we dream of as a perfected type of life.

We dream of idyllic possibilities because at our essential core of remembrance, such a state is what we KNOW to be our TRUE state, and of course, we long to return to that contended state of Be+in+thing (Being).

Alas, we've largely forgotten that it is our response+ability to recreate that state here below as it is above since that harmonically resonates with our natural state. Most of us are so drunk with separation-as-real that we think such a way of Being is a dream, while nothing could be farther from the TRUTH.

We are so deeply dreaming the separation state into existence, and we are suffering the consequences thereof, including wondering IF God/our Source/our Father is real enough to have a belief about, not a KNOWING even, rather a belief.

Does this not strike a chord of affinity within you that this somehow "makes a lot of sense"?

I no longer believe in God, I know God is the life that breathes you and me, and beats the rhythm of our hearts in a unison of living, asking us to dance a Cosmic dance with our Spirit/Creator as our lead.

Is it not time to be coherent friends co-creating rather than people divided by dogma that is YET creating beliefs of "better than and less than" keeping us arguing, fighting, and declaring our superior beliefs to be the way with some self-righteous indignation for those not so inclined to believe as we do?

Is not the absurdity of our deviations that are preventing us from coming into union seeming to be of questionable content and possible error??

I see GOD in your eyes...You bet I know GOD is real! Pinch yourself and start questioning yourself back into knowingness, too. Essentially, we're beyond the belief stage; time to catch-up with Who You Are.

All to Love,

Sharon

My original post to this question on the date it was posted to Zaadz in my archive at:

http://asimplegnosis.gaia.com/blog/2007/7/do_you_believe_in_god#comments

Tags: QaR, God, beliefs, separation, oneness

What little things make you happy?

http://aSimpleGnosis.gaia.com — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 05:30:09 GMT

The simplest of things, the Cosmic convergences or synchronicities that I notice throughout any given day, crack an Inward Smile that is most delightful, indeed!

At such moments I marvel at the Spiritual essence of awareness underpinning this game we are playing that we call life, and I think to myself, What A Wonderful World...we need to get out of the way and allow the Oneness to emerge...

I am grateful to be healing the separation that was binding me to pain, sorrows, and death, and find the peace, contentment, and satisfaction of fulfilling activities a most happy exchange!

All to Love,
Sharon

Tags: QaR, happiness, simplicity, appreciation, gratitude, contentment, awareness

What do you think is the hardest thing to change?

http://aSimpleGnosis.gaia.com — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 05:04:17 GMT

Is it not the things you deny, and the very act of denying itself?

How can you change what you will not, or can not
see,
acknowledge, or
accept as yours in accountability or cause?

Nothing interferes with our empowerment to change like the blinders of denial. Think about it...

Denial
is an act of will to choose to not know something, and thus, is a castrating act separating us from our essential core power to take action that will effectuate change itself.

All to Love,
Sharon

Tags: QaR, hope, action, care, denial, change, will

Do YOU Know Your Power? Do You Ever Deviate from Your Best?

http://aSimpleGnosis.gaia.com — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 07:30:07 GMT

The Divine Resident within is at+one with Original Source...many have coined this precious aspect of our self as one's Higher SELF, Inner Light, Awareness in consciousness, Innocence, Purity, The Christ Mind, the Holy Spirit, the Great Me, God, Indwelling Spirit, Essential SELF, Inner Guru, heart, et al. This part of Who we are is essentially all we are.

How many think this is so, how many believe this is so, how many understand this is so, how many experience this as so, how many live moment to moment in conscious dialogue with this Inward Informer of Divine reality?

Where to do you count yourself to be?

An utterly simple, yet profound, awareness rests in the Peace of knowing This Wonderful aspect of Who we are never ever deviates from What IS, not even entrenched in this wildly deceptive virtual reality game we call life.

So, to deviate from original What Is (God, Light-Love, Source...), is to deviate and create deviously, making our behavior and creations, simply deviant. And we wonder where the "evil deviousness" that underlies present day reality comes from.

All deviations from God are of our making.

Maybe we have matured enough to sincerely say, "Enough!" and stop playing our part in creating the "maddening crowd" deviant mentality that votes into presidential and other important political positions candidates not worthy of such offices of response-ability.

We keep mindlessly "playing along" because, "Why is it that we sell our sanity and souls into such misery of living????? I forget" Oh yea, we forget Who we are and pretend to be what we are not!

The key is our very forgetfulness, our minds, fogged and disoriented, have never lost their capacity and power to create even if the creator (person "controlling" the mind, is not aware of that power. The power is THERE and it is always ON, not much good is gained by ignoring or denying that fact of our nature/reality/being.

And in our haze, our amnesia, our drunken stupor, all caught up in the glitz, razzmatazz, competition, entertainment of pretending and getting and having, we deviate from our Essential natures and create What IsNot God, or, to say it from another angle of awareness, degrees of evil.

We need to not be so agitated to "call a spade a spade," children do it all the time. We usually consider it cute or embarrassing.

It is the simplicity of clarity that would empower us to change our ways and to be brave enough to not keep accepting the status quo as something desirable and that keeps "kicking us around" in living conditions that are not very satisfying, not really, not really.

This bit of food for thought - I hope you find it nourishing for it is the taste of the soul I served up today - a nibble, I shall not quibble about that, for I have grown to this place of my Being, as all of us are destined to do, by the ease of digesting TRUTH in sips and nibbles. It is a pace anyone can meet since it is in our DNA to start walking with baby steps that open into gradual strides.

So, I make a toast,

To the demise of deviation and our collective return to harmonic resonance with our Beloved Creator/Source/God...

All to Love,

Sharon

Tags: deviation, deviant, baby steps, TRUTH, God, Higher Self, creating, simple, honesty, mind

Do NOT be 'Put-off" by this...It IS NOT what you may THINK it is!

http://aSimpleGnosis.gaia.com — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 00:37:26 GMT

Review of 7 of Pentacles from a new deck emerging on "The Scene"

Presently I am teaching an introductory class to understanding TAROT for what it TRULY is and not what it has become - an infinite symbol system of Divine Informing of WHO I AM and how to come HOME/return to be at+one once again with our BeLoved SOURCE/GOD (not the God religions speak of for they generally belie the TRUTH by the time all the dogma "comes in"). Thus, it is a sacred unbound text of the essentials of our SELFGnosis.

So, as I was researching for some deck connections for the students, I stumbled upon a deck which has phenomenal potential in that is it adds to the 360ºs of full point of view dimension when peering into the wholism of a given tarot angle of perception.

It is encoded with the potentially dark side of our beings. Unfortunately, this is what we need to see with CLARITY most of all our seeing!

Wow! At first, I thought, nope, don't want to go there. Then, I stopped and thought, IF this is well done, it won't be gore and guts and repulsive, it will be duly informing and enlightening, casting a Light onto that which is usually avoided, projected onto others, or flatly denied.

Well, I am so glad I honored being TRUE to the Voice Calling Within, and gave a look at this wonderful deck.

It is focusing on What-IsNot or the shadow or the dark-side of each tarot card's information, and it does so elegantly without gore and dipping into the well of darkness that it is laying bare for us to see.

This is a feat of grand accomplishment and I give a GRAND KUDOS to the author/artist of this deck, Patrick Valenza.

It is appropriately highly stylized in a mannequin way that is so befitting the representation of ego living. It emphases the stilted and acting out of roles rather than the aliveness that being oriented to Inward Spirit creates into being rather than the actors on a stage we become when locked into the matrix of being a mortal human dominates our way of relating and being.

It epitome that is the way and understandings of the ego mind/lower mind fobbing itself off as who we THINK we are...blah, blah, blah.

So, I thought I would share a spontaneous review that MAI Inward SELF flowed into when I saw the 7 of Pentacles card. I suspect this deck may have many brilliant aspects. for now, I would like to share these insights as I found them most informative when I gave a read over what I had "burst into writing," so goes the words:

The Seven of Pentacles in The Deviant Tarot:

I see a soul who has not been using their Spiritual energies/Wand appropriately, it has been drawing and draining this soul's lifeblood -as blood that has been "let out" and is now dripping from a rusty rod or nail ... a rusty nail is amusingly the name of a kick-your-ass drink of pure alcohol that creeps up on the drinker making them quite suddenly drunk and stupid!

The tree is black and barren creating the shadows of life that are not imbued with the lush greenness of life abundantly lived and healing, rather the shiny patent leather "glean" of the reflections of creating into form That which IsNot (of GodGoodness).

Yes, the spells are just that... a stupor in which the shiny looks like a jewel, yet it is only a reflective shine of the kind only ego is capable of rising to in its emulations of Spiritual creating.

Unlike the creations of Spirit which are truly Light-and-Life, fully giving, as blood would be inside a life-form circulating freely its nutrients and flow, this scenario is not. It is of the coagulating and stagnating blood, almost frozen in the air like a drop that is so thickened with stagnation as to not have enough capacity/energy to flow and break away from the rusted rod...even gravity cannot give it movement!

The dank and lifeless face of this "sorcerer" reveals how the sight of this soul is "crazed" with a certain insanity of a mesmerized locked-on "stuck on stupid" stupor that is resourcing what is futile and draining...reminds me of the kind of stress this is off the charts and well depicted in cartoon presentation of Roger Rabbit boinging out at the cinema screen with both eyes bulging, and his mind screaming from freaking-out.

And, of course, there is the contented peace within from the dark side, content in this lost effort of manipulating energy, agendas, ad naseum in an effort to be a creator of "good" that is clearly misplaced and misunderstood or the person would be alive with insight, and not a confused whirling insanity of ego machinations and confusions as the "eyes of the Soul" indicate so clearly in this picture.

Here, the beloved soul is thinking they are listening within to a Higher Mind and feeling peaceful - and, from a certain perspective they are feeling calm, albeit it is not the Peace that surpasses all understanding as when one is listening to the Indwelling Spirit/Higher SELF. They think that it feels "right" so it is the Voice of Divine reasoning, but they it is not. Duped completely.

Rather, this poor soul, lost in his own machinations, is confusing their inner voices because they are not yet discerning the difference of Higher SELF and lower self.

Alas, this is the trap the ego loves to have us creating our lives by since it ensures additional lives in the physical plane as represented by the pentacles amassing a bland "fruitfulness" in the guise of quantity over quality. This misunderstanding is giving the ego continued survival and experience/expression of our being doing the ego's bidding while THINKING one is doing the bidding of their Soul's Purpose.

Note, too, the blood red lips frowning in discontent and unhappiness, this peaceful sense does not engender outer or inner happiness and joy. No, it pales the sense of true fulfillment as their face is stark in its mask and porcelain looking countenance.

Note, too, that the left hand is becoming more animalistic in its Structure and Function (S/F) with 2 claws and the hand wielding the rusty rod/nail is still a hand as a fist clenched onto the wand grasping to maintain its sense of magic, rooted in Spiritual heart of self being confused with externalized authority.

We have a cogent representation of a conscious ego directing, controlling and demanding of "things" bending to one's will rather than the submission into the unity of oneness that frees the soul to be all it is naturally meaning to be, thus, releasing the creative wand energy into a trusted communion with the Higher Mind at+one with our TRUE natures and capabilities.

Note, too, the sense of leather-like encasement of the clothing...the feet of the person that would give the residing divine within ability to walk their true path of intended life is mired in a boat-like rocker signaling a rutted movement that is going nowhere in particular, simply rocking extremes, and consequently, digging an ever deepening rut as this soul keeps putting diligent efforts into "wrong actions, choices, behaviors."

Why wrong? Simply because they are actions and changes guided by the ego which is solely focused on maintaining "a Separation as Real living" which is going to widen the gap from one's TRUE SOURCE of identity as being a Spirit in a body, and not a body seeking spiritual connections. It's a maddening twist which has had HUmanity by the tail for aeons.

This card is brilliantly encoded with the dark side of our confusion and entrapment in the MEST (mass, energy, space & time) world.

Being as this is a 7 card, it has a relationship to the Chariot of the Trumps/Soul component aspect of a tarot deck.

The chariot is about the soul's movement and relationships (Hathor Square) as the soul plays out its choices and, thus, its creating. These two cards make a great juxtaposition to help the soul recognize how it is creating whether aware or not of its Divine nature and capacities.

We are children of The One Source, and consequently, Divine children with all the capacities of our TRUE lineage: WEi are Gods creating, albeit most of HUmanity is drunk and creating shadows, darkness, and sorrows, pain, loss, suffering, ad naseum.

Ah, upon closer inspection and magnification, I realize, the boat-like impression is really the person having lost their HUman legs and now degrading to a reptilian form of serpent lower extremities.

The garment is pointed with silver hints of Divine lineage as source of shifting from this dark side creating back into the light of manifesting freedom. The doubt here is more akin to confusing elements because this soul is not zeroing in on what IS TRUE so as to redeem the "bat wings of the night" for angelic wings of the light!

As I look at the face, both the pale drained white face showing itself to the world and the lulled complacent and groggy non-attentive to life inner shadow or dark side,

I want to shout, "Wake up!" "Stop dreaming this apathetic complacent dryness of despondency, Be Who You TRULY Are!" "Sober up, and make amends. Redeem YOURSLEF, so you can be free again!"

The resident within is Divine and infinite, not deviant and mortal.

All to Love, Sharon

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How do you respond to suffering?

http://aSimpleGnosis.gaia.com — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 04:23:41 GMT

Suffering lies at the heart of creating life not absolutely attuned to our Source/Creator/Higher Power/God, etal., for our Source knows of no such thing as pain.

Essentially, it is an anti-God creation, if you will. So, IF God is not the creator or initiator of pain, how does it get to be a HUman experience, eh?!!

I've learned in healing my pain creations that I have been the creator- always have been and always will be! YUK!

I resisted this realization, yet, it is required of us if the pain is to, first, stop, and then, vanish from our experience. I know this NOW.

Imagine what I write is TRUE for a moment...it changes every thing, does it not?

So, who does not experience this thing called pain? More importantly, how does one reconcile their ownership in creating the very thing they despise?

Inwardly, our Essential SELF has full and absolute ownership, it is a matter of humbling ourselves [and accessing our courage to be creators of our lives and destinies, if you will] so that our personal daily selves will choose to remember that which in Inwardly known. Many call this healing, and it is a process.

Some processes are more on-point, and to-the-point in dealing with this consciously and effectively.

Each day I encounter my pain, fear really, I recognize a gap from Love and MAI true nature has been encountered again, and I have (finally) disciplined myself to prioritize healing [transforming the energy core of the emanation expressing pain in my living].

Thus, I turn to SELFGnosis, apprise myself of the task, and I am done with it, freeing myself from this gap forever more. YEA! It takes my attention, and time but it is eminently worth it!

So, very little pain is at my door, esp. when I consider what I was encountering before. I actually thought it was comforting to say, "Pain holds my hand," as I felt pain sitting at my side and holding my hand! I guess there is wisdom in the saying, "Misery loves company." Can you imagine that!!???

It is good to not be in that space (and misunderstanding anymore), very nice, indeed.

All to Love, Sharon

The Tarot cards are indicative of the eventual injunction from Inward knowing/Spirit to just "give it up - the resistance- and accept guidance from the wisdom that Indwells you.

The card on the left is Hanged Man - Alchemical Tarot by Robert Pace and the center card is from the Rider-Waite Deck. Notice how they tell the same story, yet, differently. Both are pregnant with informing by the symbology encoded in their designs. I love symbology; it is so rich!

Tags: QaR, suffering, sorrow, life, others, pain, healing, creating, God, free

Is your mind a safe place to be?

http://aSimpleGnosis.gaia.com — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 03:36:58 GMT

MIND, is that Who WEi are, or not?!

To mine your Mind, is to find the gem of all finding; "of all thy getting, get understanding."

Though this gem is at the heart of all our minds, and is our essential essence, I must admit, the mining process may initially seem more like a purging process!

As for my MIND today, it is safe to enter; actually it is quite alive with "things" not of this world casting more and more a light as to what needs to go next! I can't say that was always true!

All to Love, Sharon

Tags: QaR, mind, safe, cricitism, love, world, esse, WEi, purge, understanding

What's your guiding question?

http://aSimpleGnosis.gaia.com — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:39:14 GMT

I live in a QUESTIONING MODE, always, switched to "ON" In this mode, I am receiving, with an ear tuned-in to being INformed by a Source I am reflecting is TRUE or not, eh?!

"Beloved,

How can "that" be?

Am I seeing/understanding what is there to see, to grok?

Am I paying attention and noticing, OR not?!

Have I struck a BALANCE point with this, OR not? (rather than, 'Is this right or wrong' which seldom renders useful guidance).

Am I tuned-in to The ONE Voice of my Source, or has my "station" wandered?

Are WEi on target, or not? Bulls-eye, or NOt?

Am I creating 'what IS', or am I confused, and creating 'what isNot,' again?

Which WILL and Intention is being fulfilled here?"

Questions are central and natural to my living. They make it ALIVE, and I like it like that!

I guess we could say my question(s) are reflections keeping my Inward dialogue alive, communing and considering with the Indwelling and Wise part of myself engaged and guiding my life choices and behaviors.

After all, what do i know without this connection??!! No-thing useful or good, that is likely!

All to Love,
Sharon

Tags: QaR, questions, life, question

How do you celebrate life?

http://aSimpleGnosis.gaia.com — Mon, 26 May 2008 08:28:07 GMT

By Dancing!

Get me some good ole Mowtown music or some other fine music with a melodious beat,
and I'll be dancing in my car groov'in to the beat,
in the parking lot,
walking in the mall, wherever...
...and My enjoyment will be contagious!

Tags: QaR, life, living, celebration, aliveness, dancing

FYI: Silent Maybe, but Idle, Absolutely Not!

http://aSimpleGnosis.gaia.com — Sat, 17 May 2008 07:39:32 GMT

Unexpectedly,

I've been consumed with a gardening, or rather landscaping project, that has had my complete attention.

In Oklahoma the weather can be unpredictable and extreme from hot and draught to intense thunderstorms with flash flooding, tornados or even the odd anomaly, ice storms.

Last week, it down poured and Will or I had to babysit the yard with a sump pump to alleviate flooding into our house at our back garage door.

Dealing with this was not on either of our agendas. Yet, I realized this was not a problem we could afford to ignore, and, thus, my life was re-ordered to resolve this issue post haste!

I've been meeting with landscapers, and gardening counselors at local greenhouses to find a solution that could be immediately implemented. WOW what a lot of work...I had to plant tons of "plugs" of various ground covers to stop our erosion and to encourage appropriate water drainage.

I am presently exhausted, I pushed myself to some physical limits in an effort to get this turf underway before the next storm(s).

Finally, I've got it planted, I'm recuperating, and hope to be back on track real soon. I was amazed at the time that passed since I last posted. If I had seen this project coming I would have posted to let you know I'd be out of touch for a bit. Today is the first day I've even turned the computer on!

It was not necessarily wisdom to push my physical limits, but the consequences of not getting it done ASAP were not something I wished to entertain either!

Sometimes, you just got to rise to the occasion and deal with what life puts before you.

Maybe if I get in the mood, I'll take some photos and share what I've accomplished. For me, this was a big deal. I am grateful, the standard heat of OK was not my companion during this work - that would have really done me in!

(I am not a big fan of intensely hot weather, mosquitoes, ants, spiders, grubs, termites, moles/voles/gophers or vampish creatures; all of which have been keeping me some company during this project!) I broke out in some kind of rash or hives which was not helpful either.

On the more pleasant side, I was being entertained by squirrels, birds galore, neighbor's dogs and cats, cool breezes, beautiful iris blooms, 3 trees, great people educating me, and Will, and, oh yeah, a few faeries and devas. Thank Universe for the other side of the coin, eh?!

I think this will look very nice when it's grown into place giving our yard an English garden look. I am hoping in time the ground covers will become our grass, and we can put the lawnmower to rest.

All to Love,

Sharon

Tags: unexpected, flooding, nature, gardening, landscaping, gratitude

What are you drawn to in others?

http://aSimpleGnosis.gaia.com — Sat, 17 May 2008 01:06:45 GMT

I am drawn to the Essential Spirit that Indwells another, beating our collective heart in a Universal beat that sings to our Universe the song of HUmanity, and currently, how we are singing of our plight of confusion and consequent descent into living pain and loss as our supposed destiny.

I am drawn to essential pain, and I am drawn help people wake-up from the "spell" of separation and realize how we are the creators of this pain and we can STOP it anytime now, AND NOW would be a terrific time to STOP!

I am drawn to simplifying the TRUTH, and I apprise myself daily of the skills to communicate with utmost simplicity the foolishness of our seeming reality and the elegance our true REALity of being a race of creative beings of Light&Love.

It is a choice we must collectively embrace CONSCIOUSLY as a choice we are making from moment to precious moment, only then can and will be choose more wisely to what is TRUE and joyous.

All to Love,

Sharon

Tags: QaR, others, qualities, traits

What are you still searching for?

http://aSimpleGnosis.gaia.com — Fri, 09 May 2008 08:02:28 GMT

The "right " words that meet people where they are at

in such a way as to touch their hearts with TRUTH that sets them free,

delivers the "ah-ha" that gets them on the right track,

more REconnected with their Higher SELF,

motivated to COME HOME because they see that they CAN DO IT,

it is THEIR heritage,

and NOW IS the perfect time.

What greater 'thing' could I ask for?

All to Love,
Sharon

Tags: QaR, searching, seeking, discovery, life, words