Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to Psychic Teachers. I'm your host, step Bowen.
Speaker 1: Samantha is away this week, so please join me as
Speaker 1: I offer you some suggestions as to how you can
Speaker 1: gain some clarity about the universe and your place in
Speaker 1: the cosmos. So let me tell you a story, y'all.
Speaker 1: I'm old about fifty years ago. I was a kid
Speaker 1: in a candy store, just learning all about the world
Speaker 1: of metaphysics in my heart. I went to India with
Speaker 1: the Beatles. I had friends who were just beginning to
Speaker 1: follow Mayor Baba, whose teachings are still beautifully relevant today.
Speaker 1: I learned about from Tolkien and Mary Stuart, and I
Speaker 1: knew there were many more pieces to this cosmic soup,
Speaker 1: but I wasn't sure how to find them. Whatever they
Speaker 1: were granted, Jane the palm reader, Joel the Crystallologist, and
Speaker 1: I began to explore this cosmic soup together. Our resources
Speaker 1: were limited in the town in which we lived, but
Speaker 1: we were able to read Edgar Casey, Ruth Montgomery, Jene Dixon,
Speaker 1: Madam Blovotsky, and we learned about Saint Germain. We had
Speaker 1: a nodding acquaintance with astrology, numerology, and terrow, we only
Speaker 1: had three books, one of which was entitled The Encyclopedia
Speaker 1: of Ancient and Forbidden Knowledge. Yikes. But we had music
Speaker 1: what was then called New Age music. I think now
Speaker 1: today it's called spa music. So one day at work
Speaker 1: I was spouting off all this stuff I was learning,
Speaker 1: and a coworker said to me, just what do you believe?
Speaker 1: I didn't have an answer. I had a zillion questions,
Speaker 1: but no true, deep answers. The question she asked was
Speaker 1: beyond powerful, What among all the concepts that I was
Speaker 1: learning about rang true for me? How could I know?
Speaker 1: I realized I needed to learn to discern what my
Speaker 1: truths were, my beliefs, my creed. Up until this point,
Speaker 1: I just tossed all this stuff around into a big
Speaker 1: pot and stirred it, and without any idea of how
Speaker 1: each of these ideas stood alone or worked or not
Speaker 1: with each other. So when in doubt, write it out
Speaker 1: has always been my creed. So I started writing, trying
Speaker 1: to make sense of all of this, writing not only
Speaker 1: about what of these concepts seemed to resonate with me,
Speaker 1: but which of them spoke to me in a deeper,
Speaker 1: more penetrating way. I wish I still had the original
Speaker 1: documents I wrote fifty years ago. Back then I typed
Speaker 1: on a portable typewriter, and those sheets of paper are
Speaker 1: long gone. Then there were floppy disk and those little
Speaker 1: disc things I forget what they're called, and then versions
Speaker 1: that got updated and stored on hard drives. I wish
Speaker 1: I'd had the foresight to save those early versions so
Speaker 1: I could have a written record of the evolution of
Speaker 1: my thoughts and beliefs. But I didn't. I typed over
Speaker 1: them instead. I do have, fortunately, the last few versions
Speaker 1: of this what I believe document, and it's as my
Speaker 1: spiritual growth continues and I continue to write. I tell
Speaker 1: you this story in hopes that you will discover a
Speaker 1: way to document your spiritual journey, your spiritual education, your
Speaker 1: spiritual evolution. I hope you will find the time and
Speaker 1: the energy to ask the same question of yourself. Who
Speaker 1: was ask of me? What do you believe? Over the years,
Speaker 1: as I've studied more and learned more, my answer to
Speaker 1: that question has changed. Of course, maybe even more than changed.
Speaker 1: It's grown. For example, you probably heard me talk about
Speaker 1: reading Eve Hamilton's Mythology book in the fourth grade. I
Speaker 1: also read the Narnia Chronicles and the Witch of Blackbird Pond.
Speaker 1: That year I started early, folks. I immersed myself in
Speaker 1: tales of Greek and Roman gods and goddesses, and have
Speaker 1: expanded that fascination with stories from other cultures and other lands, Egyptian,
Speaker 1: nor s, Celtic and more. Little did I know in
Speaker 1: fourth grade that these gods and goddesses would be my
Speaker 1: guides many years later to the layers and symbols that
Speaker 1: are given to us by Tureau. Little did Joel know
Speaker 1: that his collecting rocks from creek beds would lead to
Speaker 1: his extensive knowledge and work as a crystallologist. Little did
Speaker 1: Jeane know that her ability to sense a person's energy
Speaker 1: and emotions by just touching their hands would lead to
Speaker 1: her work in palmistry. But those childhood lessons did lay
Speaker 1: the foundation for the work the three of us came
Speaker 1: to do later. So I ask you, can you pinpoint
Speaker 1: a moment in time when your life propelled you down
Speaker 1: the metaphysical path? Can you look back and see a
Speaker 1: sequence of events or thoughts or ideas that informed you
Speaker 1: until you came to where you are at this moment
Speaker 1: in time? Perhaps writing the patterns the building blocks of
Speaker 1: your beliefs would be as helpful to you as they
Speaker 1: have been to me. Or have you, like many of us,
Speaker 1: me included, cycled around to a point where you don't
Speaker 1: know where to start again or what to do first.
Speaker 1: Are you at that point in your journey where it's
Speaker 1: too much, too scattered, to overwhelming. Are you at a
Speaker 1: point where it's difficult to see the connections? I bet
Speaker 1: you think you know what I'm going to say, and
Speaker 1: you'd almost be right. I am going to suggest that
Speaker 1: you'd be quiet, listen, and meditate. But before even that,
Speaker 1: I want to offer another suggestion to you that perhaps
Speaker 1: should come before that, if it's safe for you to
Speaker 1: do so, Take a deep breath and look around you
Speaker 1: really look. Spirit is everywhere. For example, as I'm preparing
Speaker 1: this episode, I'm looking out at the amazing live oaks
Speaker 1: that grow from my deck. These trees have some green
Speaker 1: leaves on them, even in this winter weather. And can
Speaker 1: I explain now how these trees grow, how the gray
Speaker 1: and brown model colors of the bark on their trunks
Speaker 1: come to be? I mean the science of them I cannot,
Speaker 1: at least not clearly and succinctly. But I also mean
Speaker 1: the metaphysical properties of these trees, the sacred geometry of
Speaker 1: their construction, of the growth patterns of their trunks, of
Speaker 1: the symbols that various kinds of oaks have given us
Speaker 1: throughout the millennia. What do you see where you are?
Speaker 1: There is a sacredness all around you. If you're at home,
Speaker 1: what do you see that speaks to you of spirit?
Speaker 1: The people in your house, including full legged and winged
Speaker 1: and plant people, crystals, furniture or objects that connect you
Speaker 1: to loved ones, candles. If you're outside or exercising, what
Speaker 1: do you see There is a sacredness in the objects
Speaker 1: and the people in the world around you, in your
Speaker 1: own body. Take a deep breath and listen, really listen.
Speaker 1: What do you hear the refrigerator running, the television, people talking,
Speaker 1: dogs barking. If you're not outside, go listen to the wind.
Speaker 1: Listen to the stillness, to the silence, to the birds.
Speaker 1: Can you tell a blue jays call from that of
Speaker 1: a mocking bird? Take a deep breath and just feel,
Speaker 1: really feel, just sense the world around you. Can you
Speaker 1: feel the air on your skin, in your hair? Can
Speaker 1: you sense energy and emotion in your body? Where do
Speaker 1: you store stress, drop your shoulders, and just be for
Speaker 1: a moment. What I'm suggesting here is at the basic
Speaker 1: building block of what I've come to believe is the
Speaker 1: foundation of metaphysical concepts the following. Everything is energy, and
Speaker 1: energy can change, but it can never be created or destroyed.
Speaker 1: Energy always has been and always will be. Energy vibrates,
Speaker 1: and all that is vibrates at varying rates. Once I
Speaker 1: realized the connection between quantum physics and spirituality, the world
Speaker 1: became a very different place for me. Once I began
Speaker 1: to work with this concept of the basic building block
Speaker 1: of the cosmos, other pieces of the puzzle began to
Speaker 1: sort them out into some kind of cohesive pattern. Now
Speaker 1: this may not work for you, or you may disagree,
Speaker 1: or you may think it's weird or too much trouble
Speaker 1: or work, but I promise you it's not. Here's all
Speaker 1: you need to do, Yep, here it comes. Be still.
Speaker 1: Just be still and be open. Now. I mean be
Speaker 1: still in terms of quieting your mind, quieting that voice
Speaker 1: that's always jabbering in your head, or at least it
Speaker 1: is in mine. I don't mean you need to be
Speaker 1: still physically. Some of the most enlightening lessons I've ever
Speaker 1: learned have been when I was walking and meditating on Elabyrinth.
Speaker 1: What's important here is to be still in your mind
Speaker 1: and to be open. A trick I use when I'm
Speaker 1: breathing and trying to be still is to talk back
Speaker 1: to those intruding thoughts. For example, when I sit or
Speaker 1: walk and breathe and feel open to whatever lessons are coming.
Speaker 1: That's absolutely always going to be. When thoughts like you
Speaker 1: need to clean the bathroom right now, or remember to
Speaker 1: add lettuce to the grocery list, they come rushing in.
Speaker 1: When that happens, I respond, right now, I am breathing,
Speaker 1: right now, I am breathing. If you are consistent in
Speaker 1: saying this, those intruding thoughts will eventually say to themselves, oh,
Speaker 1: she's breathing now. We'll have to come back later, and
Speaker 1: eventually those thoughts will leave you alone. So after you
Speaker 1: sit and after you're quiet and you just listen to
Speaker 1: and feel what's coming to you, then what That's great?
Speaker 1: But then what, Well, here's what I do. I'm a
Speaker 1: huge list maker. I have list of my list. I
Speaker 1: have what I've named my master list of the concepts, thoughts, beliefs, practices, cultures, modalities, etc.
Speaker 1: That inform my work. That master list grows and changes,
Speaker 1: of course all the time as I learn more. In
Speaker 1: addition to that list, I have a list or a
Speaker 1: chart really, that I call my connecting the Dots list.
Speaker 1: This helps me remember and better understand how one aspect
Speaker 1: of my beliefs work in tandem with another. For example,
Speaker 1: on my energy chart, I have connections to concepts of
Speaker 1: the chakra system, the auric field, vibrations, hurts, and then
Speaker 1: a spin off into quantum physics and quarks and dark
Speaker 1: matter and black holes. Wait, what what does any of
Speaker 1: this matter? Alan Watts, the wonderful philosopher, asked this very
Speaker 1: question does this matter in the early nineteen six maybe
Speaker 1: mid nineteen sixties, when he brought Eastern thought to Western culture.
Speaker 1: And I can tell you that for me, all of
Speaker 1: this does matter, and I bet it does to you.
Speaker 1: There is this deep longing inside most of us to
Speaker 1: know ourselves, to know each other, and to know the
Speaker 1: cosmos around us in some esoteric way that we can't
Speaker 1: always describe or explain. We could approach the questions from
Speaker 1: many directions, from the right unknown, beyond all knowing, drilling
Speaker 1: down into the essence of ourselves, or conversely, from the
Speaker 1: essence of ourselves to the great unknown. Either way, the
Speaker 1: answer is about connection, at least for me. So let
Speaker 1: me share with you this lovely thought by rene A Rilk.
Speaker 1: Be patient towards all that is unsolved in your heart,
Speaker 1: and try to live the questions themselves. Do not seek
Speaker 1: the answers that cannot be given you, because you would
Speaker 1: not be able to live them. And the point is
Speaker 1: to live everything, live the questions. Now. Perhaps you will then, gradually,
Speaker 1: without noticing, live along some distance days into the answers.
Speaker 1: I love that the idea that if you live and
Speaker 1: trust and be aware, the answers come, and they come
Speaker 1: by asking the questions, and it's some deep level in
Speaker 1: our soul we know the answers. The trick is to
Speaker 1: learn to live with the questions and the answers every moment,
Speaker 1: to live in that place of contemplation and kindness and
Speaker 1: joy and gratitude and love. We don't always succeed, of course,
Speaker 1: but we keep trying. I keep trying to live in
Speaker 1: the sacred and I imagine that you do too. Thank
Speaker 1: you so much for joining me this week on Psychic Teachers.
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