The present-day hero is sustained by the realization that from no earthly quarter can he expect cooperation. When he says, ‘I will not abandon the field of battle,’ he already finds new strength. We are ready to provide the strengthening current in accordance with the firmness of his decision not to abandon the battle.1

Our history is filled with warriors and heroes across all cultures and over all time – human and supernatural, fighting the darkness to rescue into our world the Light and Consciousness of Life. The heroes’ journey is our story. It’s a journey back to our source and along the way we discover the truth and do our duty as best we can know it.

From the centre which we call the race of men
Let the Plan of Love and Light work out
And may it seal the door where evil dwells.2

It can be enlightening to read stories of those warriors past and present, who have and are, helping to clear the path. “Some believe that precise knowledge is the crown of thought; but it would be more correct to say that legend is the crown of thought.” 3

What is Evil?

Mythologist Joseph Campbell says that, “It would not be too much to say that myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human cultural manifestation.”4 Perhaps the crown of thought and the secret opening are both names for that place where we each act to seal the door of evil. And what is evil?

One definition for evil is, “that good which we should have left behind, passing on to greater and more inclusive good”5 or, “The domination of spirit (and its reflection, soul) by matter is what constitutes evil.”6 Even that which was good and desirable in previous times may now be an outmoded good turned evil. The deeds of the hero frequently include slaying the boon-givers of the past. “A god outgrown becomes immediately a life-destroying demon. The form has to be broken and the energies released.” 7

The ancient wisdom teachings tell us that matter is a shadow, the garment of God/ the Source which veils the causal life or reality behind. “Here lies the mystery of maya, and here is to be found the secret of illusion.” 8 Is matter evil? Perhaps only when it tries to, or is allowed to, control spirit, then it is evil. So evil’s a tricky, chameleon-like force that changes over time. At one time it was a good, but after its use-by-date, it becomes evil or no longer relevant.

Electric Stories

Cutting edge thinkers are utilising the abstract mind to bring together mythology and astrophysics to reveal the hero ideal of old, clothed now in the electric universe of plasma, lightning and thunderbolts. In his book, “Thunderbolt of the Gods”, David Talbot suggests that, ‘only a few thousand years ago the terrestrial sky was ablaze with electrical activity.” In his book he shows the link between primitive cave paintings, “devoted to the utterly fantastic: cosmic serpents and dragons, winged bulls in the sky, mountains, towers, and stairways reaching to the center of heaven, “sun” disks with heaven-spanning wings, cosmic “ships” sailing about the sky,”9 and plasma science.

He explains that in the early days of human evolution, it was recorded that, “a great serpent or dragon attacked the world, bringing darkness and universal detestation. A legendary warrior then set out to engage the monster in direct combat.” He had a magical weapon, fashioned by gods or divine assistants who turned the tide of battle, vanquishing the monster. The warrior, “defeated chaos and saved the world from catastrophe.”10

This is the ancestral warrior, and it’s comforting to know that the same battle between the forces of darkness and light are still occurring in the sky above and in the earth all around us, right now. Talbot says that, ‘the essence of the divine thunderbolt was etheric…plasma discharge formations appearing above the ancient witnesses (which) readily inspired such fabulous interpretations.”11

Cosmic Dragons

In the Secret Doctrine, Helena Blavatsky suggests that the dragons are, “the turbulent confused principles in Chaos, brought to order by the Sun-gods or creative powers,” and that this is the “War in Heavens”.12

Our battle, like the ancient warrior, is to ward off evil in the form of confused, imperfect matter, rescuing from it the good, the beautiful and the true. We are raising the quality of matter to a more truly beautiful expression of itself. By thinking of the sacred and aspiring to the good; by rejecting that which was once good but is now no longer appropriate to us, we master the art of the battle. We are learning how to raise the vibration of the substance of matter – the atoms of our bodies, and the atoms that constantly dance around us. By using our mind power, our thoughts, we are gradually liberating the spirit, the soul within. We are re-enacting the heavenly battle, using the thunderbolt of the higher mind13 to defeat the chaotic, random lower vibrations of matter, healing/saving ourselves and by extension, helping to heal the world.

“The nation that ascends, dreams of heroes. But for the worn-out nation the idea of a hero seems wearisome and pointless. Though this nation may be showered with gold, though its conceit still may be impassioned, it will be unfit for podvig (Russian term for a selfless heroic act). The dreams and ardour of real daring have passed out of the walls of the nation that knows only reason.”14

Cutting edge science is tapping into the archetypal vein in humanity that dreams of magnificence, transcendence, courage, and beauty. In black and white science is demonstrating what occultists have long known: that stories, like anything in life, are electric. A continuous process of electromagnetic interactions between spirit and matter: between electrons (negative charge or matter) and protons or spirit (that something that gives energy to matter – its positive charge) to create neutrons or the son/soul (the neutral charge). This electricity is called Fohat by Occultists.15

Plasma Universe

That’s why the scientists, pushing aside the garment of god to reveal plasma as the linking, connecting stuff in an electric universe, are also spiritual warriors. They are battling the forces of inertia in matter to find what lies behind; what animates the electrons carrying them through the cosmos as suns, stars, comets and planets relate, create, destroy and live out their own awesome story.

They are showing us the consciousness within all life – plasma – “a collection of positively charged ions and negatively charged electrons, together with the remaining non-ionized or neutral atoms or molecules”. Plasma is the fourth and most abundant state of matter (the other states are solid, liquid and gas). It forms at high temperatures, allowing the bonds between atoms to loosen and move freely. Space is filled with plasma and the freely moving electrons in plasma are excellent carriers of electric currents.16

This plasma or ether as it’s also called, is like the soul of all forms. Without it life could not exist because there would be no relationship and communication across space and time.

Building a bridge from the concrete to the higher mind motivated by the love of their work, these scientists are drawing forth the intuition. As they forge ahead into the dragon’s lair, the unknown realm of deepest, darkest matter, their urge to serve protects them like the archetypal magical helmet and shield of all good warrior legends.

Liberating Ourselves

For some, the battle is very obvious and very physical. It’s with the forces of drought, disease, famine and war. For others who live in zones of greater abundance and peace, the battle is more internalised. It’s here, in the middle-class affluence that the dragon lurks, veiled by the illusion of comfort and security.

The constant challenge facing the spiritual warrior is the struggle with the forces of inertia, “the dragon to be slain …is precisely the monster of the status quo.” 17 Paradoxically, this is the hardest battle, calling on the best warriors the human race has yet produced. It’s the call to fight the veils of illusion, glamour and materialism. Where to start? With our selves.

Our task, is to each create our own personal story akin to the cosmic drama. In so doing we are participating in the majesty and magnificence of all heroic legends – the liberation of light from darkness; of the real from the unreal; and of the perfection that lies within the substance of matter.

Alice Bailey argues that matter is imperfect. “This imperfection is the evil latent in matter…this evil being non-existent in the perfect whole. It’s the cycle of distress resulting from the conflict between the perfect and imperfect, that causes the evolutionary urge and manifestation. The drive to liberate the perfect from the bonds of matter is the effect of evolution.18

To do battle with the dragons of chaos we need to intensify the vibration within the matter of our own bodies, raising the temperature of the atoms, so that the electrons vibrate faster enabling them to move freely. Then they are better conductors of electricity throughout our body bringing better flow of energy and health, and intensifying our positive radiation out into the environment and to others.

If our bodies are composed of imperfect matter, then the story we weave is one of conflict, crisis and surrender as chapter by chapter, we fight the battle between the coarse vibration of our lower self and the faster more refined vibration of our higher self. Eventually we liberate the illumined serpent of wisdom, the higher mind or love-wisdom, from within the primordial dragon of darkness and chaos.

This is our journey around the wheel, liberating the imperfect substance of our bodies as we go. Daily we enact the heroic quest of liberating by learning to think, live and serve in ways that serve something greater than ourselves. With every thought we are acting the role of Sun-god or creative power, setting up vibrations that affect the matter around us, for all is interconnected.

We are resonating more with our own soul’s purpose, our holy grail. As our consciousness attains to broader concepts of what love, wisdom and knowledge means, we build a bridge between spirit and matter. We realise the magnificent responsibility we each have to use our every thought and intention to choose what and how we will think because we know that every thought creates a domino effect in the vibrations of matter.

Ride The Tiger

We’re part of an electrical interplay on Earth which is reflected in the lightning, thunderstorms, and auroras, in our sky; and the cosmic drama of planets, suns and stars in near and far off galaxies. All are part of the hero’s journey; part of the warp and weft of the attraction and repulsion that goes on continuously between atoms, as spirit and matter combine to create the consciousness of soul.

“…the Occultists…regard physical nature as a bundle of most varied illusions on the plane of deceptive perceptions (and) recognise in every pain and suffering but the necessary pangs of incessant procreation: a series of stages toward an ever-growing perfectibility, which is visible in the silent influence of never-erring Karma or abstract nature… Stagnation and death is the future of all that vegetates without a change. And how can there be any change for the better without proportionate suffering during the preceding stage? ”19

It seems that storytelling has and is intrinsic to our ability to make sense of our world and our lives. We do it everyday in our little, mundane lives, and what is the media if not a giant storytelling machine? All life is the result of an electro-magnetic interchange within the substance of matter. Humanity loves, or perhaps has a fatal attraction to, conflict and crisis, facilitating the pain and suffering necessary if we are to birth harmony, order and beauty in our lives. Viewed from an atomic through to a cosmic level, conflict, crisis and its resolution into harmony seems to be the way of all life in our dual universe. As the saying goes, “ride the tiger”20.

The human story of conflict leading to birth and redemption change over time as we function with increasing mental sophistication. Campbell reminds us that, “Mythology is defeated when the mind rests solemnly with its favourite or traditional images, defending them as though they themselves were the message that they communicate. These images are to be regarded as no more than shadows…”.21 The form of the myth reflects the consciousness of the storyteller, the characters in the story and the audience. From different perspectives, we are each all these things.

Who is the Ring Bearer?

We may ask, ‘who will lead us in our quest; who is the ring bearer?’ And in times past we would have looked to one who rose from the crowd to serve and save. Who is leading the heavenly quest? What causes our sky to constantly enact the tremendous stories of crisis and conflict lying behind the gorgeous shows of colour and light of auroras, or the dizzyingly exciting lighting and thunder displays? We only know that we are part of a much bigger play than the microcosmic one played out on Earth. We are the ring bearer. As we move into the Aquarian age, this is a collective quest, a cosmic task and Creative Change Makers – those on the cutting edge of their disciplines; those walking the road less travelled – lead the charge.

Myths dismantle edifices, tear down veils and call us all to face the dweller dragon on the threshold so that we, the personality-soul, can release spirit from the thraldom of matter. Here is the plasma-filled electric universe alive with dragons of un-redeemed creative power, chaotic until tamed by the love-wisdom of the higher creativity. With our lower, concrete minds we can easily analyse, dissect and quantify vibrating, atomic matter. Only by applying the higher mind fuelled by love and wisdom to the task, are we able to cooperate with those who guide us.

As we align ourselves with this Universal Mind, we unfold our relationship with these guides of humanity. They are referred to as the ‘Spiritual Hierarchy’ or as ‘Masters’. They have walked the same path but before us, fought the dragons as we do now, and they remain on Earth, in some form, to help us continue the fight. They are the hidden guides, our supernatural patrons, always there at critical moments to offer the magical weapon, the secret word of power or the sudden insight.

When we, today’s warriors, have proved ourselves ready and willing to learn the ways of the battle and to stay with the fight, then will the ancient secrets be placed in our hands.22

“When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.”23 Like every warrior of old, we must undergo many tests to ensure we are ready to handle such power. Service is the primary training tool used by all who seek to serve humanity and the Plan.

We see this repeated throughout the warriors’ tale: sharing the load, giving loving service, shunning reward. We see the same fact repeated in the depths of space. Electric currents circulate through plasma which is like the divine circulatory flow in space. This is mirrored in the ether which surrounds us and our planetary life, and is again reflected in the blood flow through our human body. Space plasma is charged with Life, the electric spark that’s carried, in service, by the plasma throughout the known universe. It’s like the cosmic Soul distributing cosmic Life to all forms and atoms in space.

As above, so below. We are a microcosm of the cosmic Soul, and whether macro or micro we’re all cosmic in our heroic task of staying with the battle; of staying with the sometimes Atlas-like task, of liberating spirit from matter. We discover that we are the hero, symbol of, “that divine, creative and redemptive image which is hidden in us all, only waiting to be known and rendered into life.”24

Doing our duty, we know we are fulfilling our destined task, in helping to defeat the dragon of chaos as we journey back to sit at the sacred feet of the one who sent us forth.

References:

1. Agni Yoga, Agni Yoga Society, New York, 1929, sutra 290
2. The Great Invocation, stanza four.
3. Agni Yoga, sutra 19
4. Campbell, A. The Hero With A Thousand Faces, Paladin, Great Britain, 1993, p. 3
5. Bailey, A. The Rays and the Initiations, Lucis Trust, New York, p. 132
6. Bailey, p.147
7. Campbell, p. 338
8. Bailey, A. A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, Lucis Trust, New York, 1962, p. 624
9. Talbot, D. Thunderbolt of the Gods, Mikamar Publishing, Oregon, 2005, p. 31
10. Talbot, p. 32
11. Talbot, p.41
12. Blavatsky, H. The Secret Doctrine, Vol II. The Theosophy Company, Los Angeles, 2004, p. 386
13. Campbell p. 87
14. Agni Yoga, 46
15. Blavatsky, H. The Secret Doctrine, Vol I. 2004, p. 111 also see http://education.jlab.org/qa/atom.html
16. Thornhill, W, and Talbot, D. The Electric Universe, p. 4,29
17. Campbell, p. 337
18. Bailey, A. Esoteric Healing p. 295
19. Blavatsky, H. The Secret Doctrine, Vol II .p. 475
20. Evola, J. Ride the Tiger: A Survival Manual for the Aristocrats of the Soul,
Inner Traditions, U.S. 2003
21. Campbell, p. 270
22. Bailey, A. A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, p. 615
23. Campbell
24. Ibid, p. 39

Nicholas Roerich’s painting, Madonna Oriflamma, or Great Mother of the World holding the Banner of Peace Through Culture. The Mother of the World represents the biosphere, our planet, solar system and beyond – all we rely on for life and sustenance.

PAX CULTURA

“In Beauty we are united,
through Beauty we pray,
with Beauty we conquer.”

- Nicholas Roerich

This banner of three circles is an ancient diagram symbolising the trinity – in this case the triune reality of Love, Beauty and Action, and of Art, Science and Spirituality.

“The Banner of Peace is the official flag used around the world and displayed at all events, gatherings, and centers which
promote natural time and planetary peace.

The Roerich Pact and Banner of Peace was designed by Russian artist and humanitarian, Nicholas Roerich (1874 – 1947) as a response to the destruction of the first world war and the Russian Revolution.

It is an international treaty signed by India, the Baltic states, and 22 nations of the Americas including the United States. The Roerich Peace Pact established an international agreement allowing any nation to protect its cultural or artistic heritage with a symbolic banner, the Banner of Peace. Signed in 1935, this treaty is international law today.

Just as the Red Cross protects hospitals, the Banner of Peace was implemented to protect culture.”

“Let us be united – you will ask in what way?
You will agree with me: in the easiest way,
to create a common and sincere language.
Perhaps in Beauty and in Knowledge.”
Nicholas Roerich

Source: Reviving the Roerich Banner of Peace http://www.13moon.com/banner%20of%20peace.htm

This symbol indicates some of the significant forces and deeper factors now increasingly operating as the new age advances.

The symbol is set in a limitless field of blue, which signifies the sphere of life expression of our solar Logos, who is said to be a deep blue, second-ray Logos. The potency and quality of his pervading life maintains and conditions all within the solar system including the life and destiny of our planetary Logos, Sanat Kumara. It is the most powerful factor which we are able to touch mentally.

The golden disc, against which the triangle and the star appear, symbolises the all inclusive background of our life on this planet. Sanat Kumara may look through it. We look at it, being aware of its reality. It is spoken of in that most ancient of all mantrams, the Gayatri: “Unveil to us the face of the true spiritual Sun, hidden by a disc of golden light, that we may know the truth”.

Behind the entire symbol, extending beyond the disc of golden light, emerges the cosmic cross, which is found in the consciousness of the great ones on that distant sun, Sirius. This cosmic cross is the origin of all the cross symbology as perceived and used by humanity down through the ages.

As evolution proceeds, spiritual potencies ebb and flow. In the coming age certain forces are available to Sanat Kumara not formerly at his disposal. This is largely so because he has achieved an expansion of solar consciousness, or, as we might put it, “taken an initiation”.

Some of these forces are partially available in the council chamber of Shamballa, and from thence in the Hierarchy led by the Christ. Our symbol touches only a few of these new potencies and includes a blend of both the old age and the new. It is the perfecting of this blend which is a supreme task of the Christ at this time. A blend must be achieved which is suitable to the condition of humanity as it is now.

The triangle superimposed upon the disc is yellow, because that is the colour of buddhi. The Hierarchy functions on the buddhic plane, so-called, and the potencies of this triangle make their entry into our planetary life there. This triangle is formed by the three great extra-planetary entities now aiding the Plan for the planet, and especially standing behind the Christ to aid his work for humanity. The values they bring, therefore, reach us primarily through him. Their influence on human consciousness is of transcendent power. How that power is used is up to us, and will be constructive if we respond to the Christ.

One of these great beings is known to us as the Lord Buddha. This, however, limits our understanding far too much. His work as the founder of what has become the Buddhist religion, is completely transcended. He, like the Lord of the World himself, has achieved an expansion of consciousness, making him now of extra-planetary potency. He brings a balancing wisdom especially adapted to human need. He is the closest of the three to the Christ. He stands at the right hand of the Christ, depicted, therefore, at the lower right hand point of the triangle.

At the lower left hand point stands the great Entity who carries the potency of solar equilibrium, now newly available to Sanat Kumara. He Is referred to by the Master Djwhal Khul as the “spirit of equilibrium”, and also as the “spirit of peace, the peace that passeth all understanding”. The active agent of peace is goodwill, which will find ultimate expression in the human family as established right relations. Right human relations are the practical goal of the coming Christ in the new age.

At the top of this new and unique triangle stands the Avatar of Synthesis, whose direct influence is now identifiable in the human consciousness in emerging trends. He is the most potent of the three in relation to mass consciousness at this time. His permeating influence hastens the realisation by humanity that, in fact, we live in one world as one humanity with a common destiny.

Such, in brief, indicates a small part of the significance of the new triangle now standing behind the Christ to aid his work.

Superimposed upon the triangle of new age forces is the five pointed star of the Christ. This star has been his vehicle in the human family during the entire Piscean era. It has been, and is today, of marvellous potency. The Star is blue because it represents as much of the solar quality to which humanity can respond.

Humanity today, in mass consciousness, is largely the product of Piscean pressures. Although we are already entering the Aquarian age, the established rhythms of the old era are still dominating humanity as a whole and will do so for what may seem to us a long time. Were the Christ to abandon the old and go all out for the new, the automatic inevitable revolt of the sons of men would crucify us all. The old and the new must merge. The problem is not a fight to kill out the old, but a wise and rightly timed infiltration of the new into the boiling cauldron of our times.

Our symbol, therefore, blends the two eras and rightly pictures the work of the Christ today and the forces he must wield. The point in the centre is the place where the Christ stands. It is the centre of the star, the centre of the triangle, and the centre of the disc of golden light.

From that centre he works, and as he works the cross of the new era emerges. This is the equal-armed cross, reflecting its cosmic archetype, which will in its own right become the cross of humanity in the days to come. It symbolises the balanced life of right relation to God through aspiration and right relation to man through service and sharing. Eventually we shall know and live by the fact that nothing actually belongs to any individual man.

By focusing attention on this centre of power in our symbol, illumination comes. Concentration on this point, where the Christ stands, reveals the entire field; this, according to our individual spiritual status.

by Foster Bailey
copyright Lucis Trust

http://www.lucistrust.org

What is The Great Invocation?
It’s a mantra or invocation. It can also be described as the intelligent organisation of spiritual energy to evoke the forces of love into the planet.

TheLucis Trust website describes The Great Invocation as a tool to help bring about a better world. It can be used by anyone and due to its simplicity, can be used by busy people for just a few minutes each day.

The Great Invocation may seem like a prayer or a chant, but it’s more than that. The way the Invocation is worded means it carries powerful energy for positive change. It inspires the energy of goodwill within humanity to establish Right Human Relations everywhere – and as we know, this is the essential ingredient for Peace.

If you want to be part of the solution to help create a better world, just speak the Great Invocation, aloud or silently, once a day. .

for more info go to:
http://www.lucistrust.org/en/service_activities/the_great_invocation__1

For a PowerPoint slide show of the Great Invocation copy and paste this link:

http://www.lucistrust.org/en/content/download/21220/268923/file/The%20Great%20Invocation.ppsx

Nicholas Roerich’s painting titled Himalayas Setting Moon.

After our daily labors, let us gather to discourse about the heart. It will lead us beyond the domains of Earth toward the Subtle World, in order to bring us closer to the sphere of Fire.

Thought is the manifestation of vital happiness; thought that is rent from the heart will not penetrate the surface of Being, but thought that comes from the heart is like an impetuous arrow!
One need not be confused by the inception of thought amidst the intensification of energy; those thoughts are like a battering ram, which will penetrate into the depth of Be-ness. Therefore, after outer action, let us value the reality of the creativeness of thought.

No. 48. Heart (1932) Agni Yoga.

*The Agni Yoga Society was founded in 1920 by Nicholas Roerich and his wife Helena.

The aims of the Society are embodied in the philosophy of Agni Yoga, and these are contained in the books of the Agni Yoga Series. They detail a synthesis of ancient Eastern beliefs and modern Western thought, providing a bridge between the spiritual and the scientific. Unlike previous yogas, Agni Yoga is a path not of physical disciplines, meditation, or asceticism—but of practice in daily life.

It is the yoga of fiery energy, of consciousness, of responsible, directed thought. It teaches that the evolution of the planetary consciousness is a pressing necessity and that, through individual striving, it is an attainable aspiration for mankind. It affirms the existence of a Hierarchy of Beings of Light who are the inner guides of humanity. Agni Yoga has been called a “living ethic.”

Beauty does not wither and die, for it is eternal
Increasing its radiance as we approach nearer
It radiates love to our hungry hearts, and feeds our minds with thoughts of powerful joy
Beauty never claims us, we only approach closer to its embrace

For beauty is in all and everything, yet sometimes so deeply veiled that its face cannot be found
As each of us is alive, so each of us is a teardrop of infinite beauty.

Resonance sounds as we hear its note, harmonising with our own
Stumbling, falling, recovering, we journey on our life’s path
Sometimes straining to hear the sound reverberating, subliminally, within us
Beauty beckons with the promise of peace, harmony and meaning
Each day another chance to lift one more veil from beauty’s shroud, as we strive and struggle, live and laugh
For beauty is in all things, and not a moment is empty of its wonder.

The Easter Festival (30 March 2010), was the first of three spiritual festivals, celebrated around the world. The next is during the full moon in May (Wesak Festival), and then the June full moon (World Invocation Day).

What Are They?

These festivals are the embryo of a new spiritual approach to life that is gaining increasing interest globally – from people of all cultures and backgrounds.

This spirituality is based on the now scientifically proven fact of our one human family,and also on the belief that there is a plan and a purpose for our life on earth.

What Are They?

The next three months, from April to June, offer an opportunity to tap into higher planetary energies. Through meditation, concentrated thought and focussed intent, we have the chance to find solutions to some of the questions burning in the back of our minds. What can I do to make the world a better place: help others to live a healthier life, end world poverty, prevent animal abuse – the list is endless.

What Can I Do?

There are unlimited ways that we can use our unique presence here on earth to create positive change. Now is a great opportunity to tap the pool of collective thought, gain inspiration and start planning and doing. Large or small, what matters is that we’re trying; using our creative energy in ways that help build new and better ways for us all to find meaning, peace and joy in our lives.

Three Spiritual Festivals 2010:

Easter Festival – March 29

Wesak Festival – April 27

World Invocation Day/Goodwill Festival – May 27

It’s raining. Thunder and lightning assert their ascendancy as monarchs of earth, air and sea.
Rain falls, heavily, splatting the patio tiles with large drops.
Each drop recoils as it touches the cold, hard surface of compressed earth.
It summons its energy and leaps away in a sparkling pirouette; silvery beauty belies the recoiling horror – the hard, cold reality of dense earth.

The drop gathers its stored energy, leaping upwards, away, seeking again the safety of the known.
Arms outstretched towards the mother – the ineffable cloud of unknowable unity – each drop stretches flickering, beseeching, quick silvery arms.
The unrelenting force of planetary gravity sucks, draws, caresses, enveloping the tiny life into its dry, hungry arms.
From the cloud of oneness came the rain.
For one brief moment, each drop knows itself, by knowing its not-self. Thrust into the timeless weaving of light and dark, the raindrop knows duality.
Animated by the light of the sun, each drop dances in exquisite frenzy as other drops fall.
A pounding, relentless procession of lives birthed from unity into light, finding individuality, dying again to oneness.

It’s the heart, that’s what we’re craving.

The freedom to be.

The passion to search, to try, to sense, to think, to imagine.

To touch the unconditional love of the soul; of the source of being; of life itself.

The sense that we belong, that we have a purpose in having visited this short stay on Earth.

That there is justice, meaning, and a larger vision than our own limited perspective.

We want to know that our individual life counts for something; that we’re important, valuable and unique in the part we play.

That while our footprint is set deep in the earth, our echo soars with the stars.

So we listen intently, and in those quiet moments, we understand.

Our freedom lives in the heart of all things; in our connection.

With all other hearts singing together, yet each with their own distinct sound.

We feel it in the pulsing aliveness of each cell.

As minute by minute, we breathe with the symphony of souls.

We hear the steady beat; we know why we are here – fully alive, creatively inspired, divinely loved.