Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to Psychic Teachers. I'm your host, Am
Speaker 1: Bowie with a new installment of My Wisdom from Dead episodes. So,
Speaker 1: if it's safe and comfortable for you to do so,
Speaker 1: sit back, drop your shoulders, take a deep breath and
Speaker 1: close your eyes. And if you can't close your eyes,
Speaker 1: at least drop your shoulders and take a deep breath.
Speaker 1: So ponder some questions with me. What does it mean
Speaker 1: really to seek wisdom? What's the difference between wisdom and knowledge?
Speaker 1: How in today's world do we even begin to just
Speaker 1: discerned the difference and then trust what we're learning. How
Speaker 1: do we know when we are becoming wise not just smart?
Speaker 1: And are there different kinds of wisdom? One of the
Speaker 1: brilliant thinkers of the world died at the end of June.
Speaker 1: American journalist and commentator Bill Moyer's wore many hats over
Speaker 1: the years, including working to create the Peace Corps and
Speaker 1: the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. However, I imagine most of us
Speaker 1: know him from his amazing documentary series with author and
Speaker 1: professor Joseph Campbell. Campbell's work is legendary, but this documentary series,
Speaker 1: entitled The Power of Myth, was created in such a
Speaker 1: way that ancient wisdom is shared so that we, meaning me,
Speaker 1: can deeply understand its lessons. The Campbell and Moawyer's documentary series,
Speaker 1: along with my eternal search for wisdom through the symbolism
Speaker 1: found in to Row, continues to fuel my fascination with
Speaker 1: archetypes and mythology and how deeply we are impacted by history, culture,
Speaker 1: and world beliefs. I learned something new every time I
Speaker 1: read Campbell's work, or watch that documentary series, or pull
Speaker 1: a Tarrow Keith, And then I wonder what, just how
Speaker 1: wise am I really? Y'all? I'm old, and some days
Speaker 1: I think I know lots of stuff, and other days
Speaker 1: I don't know anything. As Neil de grass Tyson says,
Speaker 1: we don't know what we don't know. Just think about
Speaker 1: what we don't know about the cosmos. Check out what
Speaker 1: we're just learning about octopuses or orcahs or Azilian other
Speaker 1: beings on this planet and beyond. When I think about
Speaker 1: how much we don't know yet but a learning about emotions,
Speaker 1: I think about Octopus's experiences. I think about my need
Speaker 1: to search for better ways in which I can approach
Speaker 1: the kaleidoscope of emotions I feel during the course of
Speaker 1: the day. Where do these emotions come from? Why do
Speaker 1: I sometimes feel I or the world around me is
Speaker 1: spinning out of control and there is nothing you can
Speaker 1: do about it. Fortunately, I also believe I am wrong.
Speaker 1: There are some things I can do, and here's what
Speaker 1: I mean. Recently, there was a big legislative issue in
Speaker 1: my state that dramatically affects the livelihood of thousands of
Speaker 1: people and the coastal environment in which I live. I
Speaker 1: stated my opinion in letters, e mails, phone calls, and
Speaker 1: text messages repeatedly, as did many other folks. Many people
Speaker 1: took valuable time away from their jobs to be very
Speaker 1: visible to legislatures at the state capitol on the day
Speaker 1: of the vote. Did I do all I could have done?
Speaker 1: Probably not, but I tried and the perspective I support one,
Speaker 1: at least for a while. But how much difference did
Speaker 1: my one voice make I'll never really know, but I
Speaker 1: believe it did. Recently, a group of friends and I
Speaker 1: talked about things we do or could do to help
Speaker 1: us get along through different through difficult times in our lives.
Speaker 1: To believe that we do have some wisdom, to feel
Speaker 1: a bit of control within ourselves. We talked about personal
Speaker 1: struggles as well as our concern for the world around us.
Speaker 1: We talked about how we navigate our daily, mundane worlds
Speaker 1: and how we explore and find solace from our spiritual worlds.
Speaker 1: Each one of us in the conversation touched on something
Speaker 1: that troubles us, keeps us awake at night, makes us
Speaker 1: doubt our place in the cosmos, causes us to question
Speaker 1: our beliefs and practices. We ask ourselves if whatever we
Speaker 1: do or don't do matters, both in our immediate situation
Speaker 1: and in the larger scheme of things in the universe.
Speaker 1: One person said, when I feel chaotic or frightened, I
Speaker 1: must first simply acknowledge the feeling. That's a great idea
Speaker 1: to just sit with the feeling in order to gain clarity,
Speaker 1: to be able to name it. Sometimes the emotion we
Speaker 1: feel really is hidden underneath a different emotion, and we
Speaker 1: have to dig to find out what that true feeling is.
Speaker 1: For example, anger off in mass, sadness or fear, particularly
Speaker 1: what it is sights safe or comfortable to show those
Speaker 1: emotions and show our vulnerability. But then once we have
Speaker 1: named the emotion we feel, we need to acknowledge it
Speaker 1: without judgment or comment, to simply see it for what
Speaker 1: it truly is, and then we can work on what
Speaker 1: we need to do with it. And then next, the
Speaker 1: person said, I got to find the source of that emotion.
Speaker 1: When we can do that, determine where a feeling really originates,
Speaker 1: then we can really address it. For exam, there have
Speaker 1: been times in my life when I have lashed out
Speaker 1: at a friend in anger about something she said, when in reality,
Speaker 1: the source of my anger was an unresolved wound within me.
Speaker 1: Another person in the group talked about how much laughter
Speaker 1: and being silly helps her reframe her reactions to her
Speaker 1: own behavior and to the world around. This is a
Speaker 1: valuable lesson to me because I usually take the world
Speaker 1: far too serious. My sweet friend, Jean the Palm Reader,
Speaker 1: laughed all the time, and once when I suggested to
Speaker 1: her that laughter in a particular situation might not be appropriate,
Speaker 1: she responded, someone has to carry the light, So laugh,
Speaker 1: I tell myself, and I tell you, but laughing and
Speaker 1: being silly is not quite the same as finding joy,
Speaker 1: at least for me. So abass myself this week. What
Speaker 1: brings me joy, what brings you joy? Joy? For me?
Speaker 1: Is a deep sense of peace, of contentment, of balance,
Speaker 1: of that feeling of just for a moment, all is
Speaker 1: right in the world. So in my daily gratitude journal,
Speaker 1: I'm adding a new section to write down things that
Speaker 1: bring me joy every day. I invite you to try
Speaker 1: that too. Another member of the group said music. We
Speaker 1: had a lively discussion about songs that sustain us from
Speaker 1: the old days of recording music on cassette Tapesbay remember those,
Speaker 1: to creating playlists on internet music sites today. I've always
Speaker 1: had playlist in which I compiled particular songs for particular
Speaker 1: purposes and emotions and things I was learning. For example,
Speaker 1: I have a playlist entitled Hurricane Preparation, one entitled Comfort Songs,
Speaker 1: and one entitled Deb's Memorial Party. Yep, that's right. I
Speaker 1: want people to listen to my music when I'm gone. Okay,
Speaker 1: Music and walking help me, said somebody else. I would
Speaker 1: walk all day if I could. Someone else agreed, but
Speaker 1: said that she needed quiet solitude in her walking routine.
Speaker 1: Another person who was knitting during our meetings said, art,
Speaker 1: making art, any kind of art. Creating with my hands
Speaker 1: lets my brain, my thoughts, my feelings sort themselves out.
Speaker 1: And I agree wholeheartedly with her statement. I can't tell
Speaker 1: you how much wisdom and emotional balance I gained while
Speaker 1: working on my new book with craft writer Claire Gelder.
Speaker 1: I wrote the historical, cultural, and spiritual parts of the book.
Speaker 1: The book is entitled Crafting the Wheel of the Year.
Speaker 1: That was such a gift to me to be able
Speaker 1: to work with her on its project. Just a little
Speaker 1: reminder that you can get it and free gifts from
Speaker 1: my website Debouen dot com and from Claire's website in
Speaker 1: England wolcotur coompany dot com. Somebody else in the group
Speaker 1: said nature. I have to be in nature, grounding, touching
Speaker 1: the earth, resting my forehead against a tree trunk, diving
Speaker 1: into the ocean or a river, having a conversation with
Speaker 1: the birds and squirrels in my yard. These are all
Speaker 1: ways in which we get in touch with who we
Speaker 1: really are deep within us, because in truth, of course,
Speaker 1: we are not separate from the natural world, and we,
Speaker 1: like all nature, live in this moment in time. Sometime
Speaker 1: soon I'll be having an episode about earth wisdom and
Speaker 1: how that might resonate with us all. And in the
Speaker 1: end of our discussion with this group, somebody said I
Speaker 1: often need to remind myself to give myself grace. I
Speaker 1: asked her to say more about that. She thought for
Speaker 1: a moment and then very quietly said, I am enough.
Speaker 1: We all took a collective son, we are enough. You
Speaker 1: are enough. We do the best we can with what
Speaker 1: we have and what we know and what we believe,
Speaker 1: and we live by grace. Just breathe that in for
Speaker 1: a moment. We are enough. You are enough. We do
Speaker 1: the best we can with what we have and what
Speaker 1: we know and what we believe, and we live by grace.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for listening to this many episode
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Speaker 1: So until next week, please remember to be the light
Speaker 1: for yourself and for others. Take care everyone. Thank you
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