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Friends,
The way the world seems to come in again and again in our time is like a wave to beat us down. For some of us the wave is unbearable. In fact it is a killing wave – But for many of us, most of us actually, the wave is knocking us about. We see the swells and currents from different vantage points, and the tides at different times. Perhaps the flood started for you back in 2001, witnessing the shattering of a sense of global security; or you’re seeing water in your dreams again and again in ways that impacts your psyche; or you feel you’re drowning in responsibilities or washed out by the exhaustion of debts.
What so many share is a recognition of the unceasingness of world intensities, coming ashore and pulling away again.
The resul? We can feel pulled in our lives away from who we really are. Like when you leave your spot on the beach and walk into the ocean, only to look back a bit later and see you’ve been carried so far from the spot at which you entered.
I’ve definitely been going through this for a long time. Of course there are things in my life that I am happy about, but so much of who I am is being transformed by the waters of my life, and the life we all share. Maybe you’ve sensed it in my voice on the show?
So that leave me – like it leaves anyone else, trying to figure out what to do.
Questions arise:
- How does my self-development match my spiritual development?
- How do I develop with the other in mind?
- How do I meet another person in a way that actually assists my self development?
- And finally, how does all that lead to my spiritual development helping the world?
I talk about all of this with spiritual teacher and writer, LISA ROMERO.
Lisa starts with a question* with her own: How can I give my will to your thinking?
This is a personal, spiritual, and worldly episode. It uses events in my own life to discover how how turning point in our lives, and our relationships, can offer opportunities to help the world’s development… if we work through them properly.
MORE ON LISA:
Lisa has a YouTube channel that features her in conversation with younger people on the spiritual path. It’s called the ASTRAL ARC, and she is just about to discuss the virtues Lisa is offers courses on the festivals throughout the year. If you’d like to check into some of Lisa’s other books, they’re all on here site, where she also has a short audio clip detailing the books and her work. Lisa has also been on the Duncan Trussell Family Hour, my pal Duncan Trussell’s podcast.
*Lisa opens the episode with a question, and concludes the episode with a poem, which I’ve also included here:
DIG HERE THE ANGEL SAID
by St. John of the Cross
She caught me off guard when my
soul said to me,
“Have we met?”
So surprised I was
to hear her speak like that
I chuckled.
She began to sing a tale: “There was once a hardworking man
who used to worry so much because he could
not feed and clothe his children and
wife the way he wanted.
There was a beautiful little chapel in the village
where the man lived and one day while
he was praying, an angel
appeared.
The angel said, ‘Follow me.’ And he did out into an ancient forest.
‘Now dig here,’ the angel said. And the man felt strength in
his limbs he had not known since youth and with just
his bare hands he dug deep and found a
lost treasure, and his relationship
with the world changed.’
Finding our soul’s beauty does that–give us
tremendous freedom
from worry.
“Dig here,” the angel said–
“in your soul,
in your
soul.”
Conner Habib 