Unencumbered Being

Becoming

I believe we are at a juncture in our human evolution where we have an opportunity to make significant shifts in how we live, move, breathe, relate.  Our cosmology is shifting.  That is to say, we are beginning to view the relationship of the human being to the universe in a new way.  We are redefining our purpose, becoming more conscious of our power, our impact, and our infinite possibility. (read THE LARGER STORY)

There is inherent pressure in change and a medicinal power in our coming together in ways that soothe and uplift this transformation of human consciousness. 

So many people are questioning why they do what they do, how they live, who they really are.  The human spirit is becoming less and less tolerant of an obedience to superimposed  and outgrown roles.  We sense there is something more to us, some untapped potential, a possibility for a life more embodied.

While things out there in the world appear to be intensifying, I think we are inwardly sparked with wonder, renewal and a growing capacity for compassion and love.   We have the chance to forge a new path, a path of great well being and promise and I think potentially, a golden age where we witness the healing of many of humanity's wounds.

We are joining together for the Summer Solstice Community Harmonic Choir again in Rosendale, NY... An interactive sacred sound concert and vocal meditation to uplift  personal and planetary well being.  Hope you can make it...or join us in spirit.

Meeting in the heart at peak light in the solar year, we summon the healing capacity of the human voice and the power of collective intent to affirm our individual and shared purpose…of living the fullest expression of joy and compassion available to us at this time of ‘Great Awakening’ in human evolution.

Through toning, singing and being bathed in the universal song of the gong, the transcendent tones of crystal singing bowls and the power of the human voice, we will align with a consciousness that empowers us to step with conviction onto the path of personal and global wellness.

 

 

Where the Two Worlds Touch

  I was called on this weekend to support a very dear soul sister, who was making her passage from this world to the next.  In her last days of life, she asked that I facilitate a circle of love, light and sacred sound. 

What a privilege to stand witness to that precious place where the two worlds touch, that fluid opening where spirit and matter distill and converge. 

We gathered around her to create space to release our attachments, celebrate her life, and exchange final words of love and encouragement.

As we did this, our non-physical counterparts could be felt standing alongside us; her beloved guides, friends and family in the spirit realm, waiting to receive her.  A seamless path was being generated in that loving collaboration; a bridge of light for her crossing.

In witnessing the dying process, that aspect of each of us that is never born and never dies is called to presence, to compassionately and humbly hold our humanity.  And just as the baby needs the mother's water to break to facilitate a smooth passage, so our tears serve to lubricate her journey.  We allow them to flow, knowing they honor all that she has meant to us and celebrate her generous contribution of beauty to this realm.

To stand near the threshold with her, to witness her progression of becoming more light than matter, to have watched her dissolve into the sunlight of the heart, has an awesome power to turn each one of us toward what is essential. 

We breathe our acceptance and allow the wind to blow away our own tracks in the sand, releasing our attachments to the hurtful impressions of this world, to all that is not truly us.

I offer this song in gratitude and love to Dylana, who in grace and beauty made her passage yesterday.  Good work, my dear sister.  As you are loved back into the great Oneness, you reside now within our very breath, perhaps closer even than ever before...

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This is an original devotional chant, celebrating sacred partnership with the beloved other, as well as sacred unity within our own being.  Nara means ‘human’ and ayana means ‘eternal’.  A Narayana is one whose earthly walk is a marriage between the human dimension of self, and the eternal self.  This is a love song, sung between these two aspects, that form the human spirit.

Om Namo Naraya Naya
Hari Om Namo  Naraya Naya
Hari Om, Hari Om

(A Hindu mantra)
 
This is how I die
Into the love I have for you
As pieces of cloud dissolving
In sunlight

( 13th c mystic poet, Rumi)

Original melody and music by Amy McTear and Joseph Jastrab.  Amy on vocals and drums.  Joseph on guitar.  With musical contributions from Dahlia Bartz-Cabe, Dona Ho Lightsey, Molly Tweedy and Steve Gorn.  Recorded and Produced by Brian McTear and Amy Morrissey at Minor Street Records in Philadelphia, PA.

Our Awakening

“A power that will be circling perpetually throughout this year to help you achieve your dreams, your successes and your enlightenment, is the power of visioning, so if we were to give you one bit of advice that will hold true for the entire year of 2010 it would be to become a powerful visionary…Energy follows thought.”

Sarrinn with the Ancients - Daniele DeVoe

The Marriage Within The Human Spirit

We are born to fully experience this dimension of duality in all its pleasure and pain, to suffer and to grow beyond the need for suffering.

Even though it is our task is to liberate ourselves from our over identification with form, it is Love that has called us to this temporary name and identity, to this limited reality, to this earthly struggle and beauty.

Emmanuel says, "There is always the call of Love and the human response, and that is what brings you back when you are sleeping, and that is what brings you back when you are born." 

Our purpose is to re-member ourselves by bringing our eternal nature to the ephemeral world, ultimately awakening to the realization that we are more than what we see, as well as less than what we have imagined.

It is our birthright, as well as our overall purpose, to experience an ecstatic reunion within by allowing the sacred partnership of infinite creator and temporal human; the full and conscious marriage of spirit and matter.

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Nothing and Everything

Nothing material lasts, nor provides lasting fulfillment.  When we stake our sense of self in the temporal forms of this world, we are tossed about in the sea of constant change - the interminable cycles of birth, growth, fulfillment, dissolution and death.

Human existence is hollow, if not seeded in some ineffable awareness.  The vastness of our being cannot be contained within the confines of the human mind.  

Eckhart Tolle says, "Your primary task is not to seek salvation by creating a better world, but to awaken out of identification with form."