I have been in Bali for the last two months… it’s wonderful to be in such a nurturing environment….

It soothes the soul and reconnects the human spirit to the natural world.

I feel so blessed to be here and to feel the healing power of the earth… here in this spot, by the river, looking down to the sea.

When you arrive in Bali as a stranger you will be surprised how warm, happy and welcoming the people are…

They are genuinely loving and inclusive… how can this be so…. after centuries of slavery and mistreatment, by their own Maharajah’s, the Dutch plantation owners, the Japanese invaders and now the abusive Multi National Corporations?

I believe it’s because the Balinese have a secret.

As a culture (not Indonesia) the Balinese are truly the last Magicians on earth working in the old ways….

This is why we understand each other…. this is why it is such a healing environment for me…

Do you remember the Bali Bomb Attack?

One year, one month and one day after 9/11…. Manufactured by the same force as 9/11 for the same purpose…. to get the troops to Iraq… to protect the oil owned by some very greedy irresponsible individuals called corporations who have the power through control of the media to command governments…

After that bomb which killed 220 people and engaged 88 countries in a huge international interconnected healing process….

The Balinese Priests found in their ancient records a prophesy, about  just such a catastrophic event and a clear list of instructions for the priests on how to ‘space clear’ and ‘restart and heal the heart’ of the island!

It was transcribed six hundred years earlier, from a vision by a priestess while praying in the Temple high up on Batu Karo, the nearest volcanic mountain to the retreat center.

Yes that’s right! Bali is truly a land of organic magic.

The priests of the old land based religion found the instructions for the ceremonies to be performed to restart the heart of the island…

Everyone joined in….. for months large groups of men clad in black shirts and a black and white checked sarongs (the black and white checked sarongs representing the integration of the dark and the light,)  walked the back streets of villages with big wooden bells on their chests, holding them with both hands, in unison they would shake the bell and make the sound of an enormous heart beat that traveled out over the land through the villages, the rice fields, the coconut plantations and down through the rivers onto the beaches….

The sound seemed to reactivate all parts of the island….

It was a truly thrilling experience, to be in the midst of such single minded devotion to the energetic health of mother earth, ‘Dewi Sri’ in Balinese.

As an active alchemist and ritual magician I was fascinated by the highly organized ceremonies prepared and carried out in a rolling fashion across the island… by a cultural system dedicated to the energetic health of their land and the inner health and harmony of their people.  Such love and devotion with no promotion or advertising or resistance was amazing to watch…..

How do the people of Bali stay so calm and so clearly happy despite being enslaved and abused in all manner of ways for centuries?

There are perhaps a variety of answers to this question….

One of their secrets,  is they have developed annual space clearing rituals as a context for whole communities to express their creativity coupled with rage and fear appropriately… rather than in petty ways, against each other and more importantly they wisely created ‘time’ to integrate the outcome…. A change in frequency… How amazing is that!?

The time of year they chose to perform this profound social ritual for peace by expressing creative rage aligns with Easter in the Christian experience, the Passover for the Jewish community, it includes the ideas of the Wicker Man and in more recent times the modern American Mystics of ‘Burning Man’…. in US underground culture.

The rule is … if you don’t let loose once a year, your negative energy will overcome you and disturb the harmony of the village…
Now we all know that’s true!

I have been thinking about this for a while and now I am going to do something about it!

I’m going to stop trying so hard and relax, play, dance, sing and swim in the sacred dance of ceremonial life in Bali for ten days….

We get to build two giant size bamboo puppets from all local materials. They are known as ‘The Ogoh Ogoh’ (literal translation ‘more than one Ogre’). The night of the burning…. On the river beach…. We get to scream and rage with the village and set them on fire…..

By the end of the “Night of Fires”, ‘The Ogoh Ogoh’ have finished their important work… they are a cosmic sponge for all forms of evil, all forms of disharmony in the body, mind and spirit of communities and the individuals.

Join me… let’s find out what we can do together…
Nyepi 2010… read all about the workshop, what we will be doing and how to join in here…

I’m ready to have fun, play and create with my soul family, I’m ready to express my feelings and find a new level of inner peace on the day of silence… are you interested?

Blazing tales of wonder,
Remembering all we have ever been and are about to become…… S xxx

The topic of health within our modern society seems to me to be upside down.
There was a time in ancient China when everyone within a community would contribute to the wealth and well being of the local doctor for as long as people were well.

As soon as someone became ill the income for the doctor ceased until everyone was healthy again!
Of course in our society it works in reverse.

The sicker the community becomes, the more wealth is accumulated by the drug companies and people who work in the medical profession.

I believe in a healthy diet with very limited animal proteins because I know that it is overloading our bodies with proteins we cannot use and do not need, creating the fertile ground for cancer cells to flourish, especially if I am indolent and have large areas of my body that never become oxygenated!
I know to watch for signs of dehydration…
When I sneeze I know it’s time to put on a jacket.
I know that if I begin to get a stuffy nose all I need to do is raise my body temperature until I sweat and it will disappear completely.
I know how to look after myself, I do not expect anyone else to do that for me.

No disease or pain can exist within the physical body without first existing in the emotional body.
So guard your emotional body well.
Have many tools at your disposal to engage your whole self in pursuits that bring you joy!
You will end up where you aim your attention.
Your health must be in your hands.
Stay conscious.

The current system is like a snake eating it’s tail.
Step outside the whole dance.
Become your own best remedy and your own informed healer.

Louise Hay wrote a book many years ago called “You Can Heal Your Life” …
It had a rainbow on the front cover.
Within this small paperback book was a list of illnesses and the emotional field that they carried.

The Liver is the organ that carries our anger… do you see that we live in an angry world, where everyday even the food we eat to bring us comfort and sustenance is sabotaged and we are left feeling just slightly angry and most likely suffering from indigestion!

Like the ads for peptobismol…

Eat as much food that actually makes you sick, then drink this chemical and it will push it all through very quickly while artificially neutralizing the acid caused by the horrendous combination of things you have forced into your stomach.

The stomach is the first brain!
That’s right! As in a gut feeling?

What you eat is what gives you your brain power and your emotional balance.
If you eat a well balanced meal you will have a well balanced day, or evening…
If you eat a whole lot of indigestible almost plastic food and blast it through with a chemical like a human “Drain-o”, what do you expect your brain and emotional body to feed on?

You have just had a big meal but you have not actually fed yourself!

Now… This is when you create arguments and get into all sorts of trouble, because your ‘victim’ reality comes up…  sure you are being mistreated or misunderstood in some way that matches a pattern from your childhood and your focus becomes stuck.
Not on the road ahead and all your future dreams and possibilities, but rather on lack and limitation and how unfair everything is….
At this point… EAT SOMETHING NUTRITIOUS… and GET OVER IT!… FAST!

There is not a minute to waste on negative thinking of any sort! Our journey is up to us…

Our health along the journey is up to us!
No matter what your condition it is never too late to try something new!
Change the way you think!
Think up not down!
Think big, not small… think INCLUSIVE… rather than exclusive!

Just agreeing to fake a smile can change your brain frequency into a higher more spacious vibration…

There is magic everywhere and in everyone.
You have the power to keep yourself well.
It is a choice!
Read the labels,
Know what your body needs.
Listen carefully to what your body tells you and act consciously to create balance.
Balance is a matter of conscious choice.
Keep your spine flexible and your mind agile.
Take care of your spirit, through art or music or some form of creative expression… of course you do not have to limit your pursuits to one…

I play the flute, the Moroccan drum called a Darabuka, I love to sing, chant in Sanskrit, In Hebrew, and I am learning how to chant in Hawaiian now.
I also create mosaics, draw, write and garden… all these things keep me healthy in my body, mind and spirit, so I can enjoy my work and be creative with my vision of the future…

Health is first a state of mind and second a lifestyle choice…
Make a choice to step outside the circle of the snake eating it’s tail…
You have great power to learn understand and heal yourself…
It’s up to you to do this… the alternative is that you live your life as a cash cow for the drug companies who get richer and richer with each new disease… You will be amazed how wise you really are at a soul level!

Pray…
Meditate…
Love with an open heart, give service to others freely.
Remember you are abundant and beloved of the Goddess of All Creation…
Bring forward your higher self and ask your body for the truth… then be still and listen.

Blazing tales of wonder remembering all we have ever been and are about to become…
Your sister through chaos and comfort…
Shankari the Alchemist…

Wow…
Doesn’t time just fly by?!
It seems it was only yesterday we were celebrating the Spring Equinox.

This is a very potent time of year because it’s when the energy of nature has reached a pivot point of equilibrium… Night and day are the same length and after that moment the energy begins to recede once again.

It’s a solar event…

The moment when day’s journey reaches the moment of equality with the night…
It’s a marriage of equal yet opposite energy….
A time of change and integration…

Lately I find that I have become a burden unto myself as my fear of the future has made me blind.

Now I understand!

To be blind is to be forced to begin to use your other senses.
To awaken to the whole of yourself and not to focus on the small part that lives in fear of lack.

I am ready…

As I sit here in my garden in Hawaii… it is such a beautiful evening.
I can feel the energy of the Goddess lifting me up…
The stars are so bright I feel inclined to sing to them!
With my imagination I stretch out my hand, take a few and pop then into my mouth.

As I swallow, I actually feel a sparkling effervescence inside traveling down my body and through every cell.
I am filled with stellar energy and ready for the next step…
The equinox when used properly can support your life into great change…

The autumn equinox leads into winter so it is a time where you are naturally contracting and taking stock of your stores for the winter ahead.
A time of preparation for hibernation…
But not forever…
In only six months time everything will change to the reverse position and the energy is awakening and preparing for the joyous nature of summer.
I will be in Bali!

My students and I will have made monsters — Ogoh-Ogohs from bamboo, leaves and jeweled paper…
We will dance in the streets with them… attracting the negative energy that surrounds us, carrying it in a theatrical procession followed by the members of the whole village and what seems to be a hundred screaming children… to the river’s beach… their faces alive with anticipation and adrenaline…

When we reach the bank of the river the monsters will be burned down in preparation for the day of complete silence that follows…
Nyepi, a sacred event in Bali.
An experience of a lifetime…
The whole island of Bali goes into silence so that they can clear the energy in preparation for the year ahead in gratitude for all the blessings already received.

Come and join me in Bali for the next equinox…
Pray with me and be cleansed by the sacred waters of the crocodile temple…
Meet the wonderful old women that are the priests of this amazing jungle temple and ancient sacred space.
In the coming weeks I will be sharing more information about how you can participate and prepare yourself for the coming journey.

The equinox…
Such a great inspiration!
With mother nature, nothing ever stays the same because to be alive we will always experience the OPPORTUNITY FOR CHANGE…
Use it wisely!
How are YOU going? Are you feeling inspired?
Have you found some solutions? How can I help?

Blazing tales of wonder remembering all we have ever been and are about to become.
Riding the lightning bolt of change in the new millennium
Your sister through chaos and comfort
Shankari the Alchemist xxx

Our greatest challenge on earth today is not global warming or the price of gas… it’s despair! Despair is worse than a physical disease and more debilitating than the weather or politics!
It can be deadly!

Why do we feel despair?

We go into ‘despair’ when we believe in lack… lack of love, lack of food, lack of money, lack of control…

We feel more and more powerless in our daily experience of life… too much debt, not enough love, no freedom…

There is a feeling of spiraling despair that we as Light Workers must be aware of and approach with caution… I sometimes have these feelings myself!
How do we do that?

Recipe for changing despair into hope….

1. Feed your spirit positive information and stimulus…
Music, fragrances, fresh flowers… reminders of Mother Nature and the beauty of the earth… if you look hard there are more happy, positive stories in every area of life, than sad ones…

2. Remember to feed your body good food…
Give your brain a chance to work well and be in service. Not with just sugar and comfort food… it’s time to break out the onions and vinegar!

3. Develop relationships with positive friends…
Let go of the people that express feelings and ideas that bring you down.

4. Be disciplined with your energy and pay attention to the things that inspire you!

Pharmaceutical drugs can NEVER be the answer.

I speak from experience when I say:
‘We must be responsible for our own healing and our own energy’…

The metaphor I like to remember is simple;
Life is just like driving a car.
When you are driving, you must focus your attention on where you want to go and call in all the energies to support your intent… your eyes, ears, hands, feet… your whole body.

Like life… it doesn’t function well if you close your eyes or take your hands of the wheel!
You also can’t spend all your time looking in the rear view mirror… or you will crash!
You cannot spend your time, fussing around, feeling powerless while not looking at the road or steering your vehicle!

You, yourself must take control of your vehicle and your journey.

In order to be successful, you must look at the road, take charge of the steering wheel, then focus your vision and intent on the road up ahead… not directly under the wheels!

Do we continue to agree to a consciousness of lack?
Or… Are we going to hold strong to a consciousness of ‘more than enough for my needs!?

I don’t believe in monopolies…
Or aspire to abundance that makes one person rich and another poor…
I do believe the consciousness of the world is turning…
We must not claim huge abundance!
Why do we need so much more than anyone else?

Surely as Enlightened Beings we understand the process of empowering each other within the flow of available resources so that we can live in peace, wisdom and understanding…

Now, I challenge myself and all of you to describe the road ahead in positive terms.
It’s up to us!

Creating abundance…
Living a stress free, joyful life…
Engaged in what brings us the greatest pleasure.

In this way we really can experience ‘heaven on earth’… and we won’t be alone when we get there, since others will be equally as blessed!

From Shankari the Alchemist,
Blazing tales of wonder…
Remembering all we have ever been and are about to become.
Your sister through chaos and comfort…
Blessings S xx

I’m sharing this story with you because feel it has a great teaching for me… and perhaps for you. We will always find our way home if we think like a cat!

Recently in the district of Ka’u… at the Southern end of The Big Island,  “Teddie’s Safe Haven” has been performing a spaying operation to limit the number of feral cats in the district.

They lend residents traps to catch feral cats on their properties and bring them in for free neutering.

I have become a big fan and am working on ways to support their activities in Hawaii.

Why?

My personal experience…
When I left Hawaii for Bali in March, I had four cats… A lot, but still reasonable for a three acre property. When I returned a few months later I had twelve cats!
I was dumbfounded! How did this happen?
Quite simply!
A Calico colored feral mother had parked herself under my house and happily given birth to six kittens!

She’d brought along the big red feral dad and a black and white friend to keep her company; probably a sister or brother … perhaps they came because they could smell the food my staff diligently left out for my own cats while I was absent. Suddenly, I had a mass population of cats!

What to do?

By now all the kittens had grown to adolescence and were getting ready to repeat the population explosion again and again between themselves. This was an emergency!

I heard about the a local feral cat rescue and spaying program: Yes! Yes! Yes!

Essentially, ‘Feral’ means the cats don’t trust humans, nor look to them for nurturing or to give nurturing… which is indeed a domesticated cat’s true desire and chosen purpose. This spaying program was a big blessing.

I collected eight traps and set to work… in fact it took about nine hours… from 10pm until 7am to catch all but one (the smartest of the lot… I will get him next time!). They were completely feral and not at all happy at being caught; they bashed their cages with their noses until they all had a headache I’m sure… They all still wear the scars!

Once they were “done” I had to decide what to do with so many cats… The majority were showing signs of slowly being more interested in becoming friends and in fact today I can report that most allow me to pat them and come to the sound of my voice. I love cats and am willing to be the mother of a crowd as long as they are not continually reproducing but I certainly didn’t want to release the feral mum and dad — this wild couple,  back onto my home property so the bullying of my own could continue…

They were not friendly… they were scary!
I drove around and around with them… with their cages in the back of my truck, trying to decide where to leave them; decide what would be best for everyone.

It was not until very late in the afternoon, that I decided to release them into my Orchid property. I gave them food and told them I would be back the following day.
I guess they must have started their journey back home soon after…

On the fourth day, they both appeared back at my place five miles down the side of the volcano, having crossed over the highway! At first, I simply didn’t believe it, I thought the dad was just another big red tom cat looking to push his nose in here now the other one was gone…
But when I saw the Calico mother with my own eyes I was convinced and astounded!

These two cats, as a couple, had walked back the five miles from my other place, across the highway… How extraordinary is mother nature?
What made those cats so sure of where their home was?
Did they navigate by smell?… by the stars? … by magnetic resonance?
How… why?!

Why had they chosen my ‘house’ as their ‘home’, uninvited, unwanted, determined felines.
No wonder cats scare people!

A cat never sees difficulties… a brick wall does not stop a cat but rather provides a vantage point… They are so brilliantly aligned with their place in the order of things…
How can a human ever imagine a cat could get lost?

Activate the cat within you and I will activate the cat within me…

We will trust in our own power to navigate the mysteries of the journey back home and never give up!
Never allowing ourselves to take anything too personally;
Staying disciplined within our mind and not letting ourselves to drown in the water of our emotions…
We will be adamant about what we want and where we belong…
Never taking no for an answer…
Never give up on your quest…
And I will never give up on mine…!

I have come to accept these two wild beings into the family. I believe over time, the big red tom will calm down and become a more loving parent to his offspring. When he had his balls, he was aggressive and competitive; for food and sex! In the future he has the capacity to become more interested in other things. The Calico mother is still the most fearful and makes me think she reflects some part of myself that I have not yet allowed others to come in close contact with.

Life really is a mystery.

These cats have certainly sent me on a new learning curve… Forever grateful for the lessons, the adventures and the many wonderful friends I ‘ve made along the way.

Cats are one of my blessings, I have been drawing pictures of my kittens all my life. I created a wonderful set of cards called “The Angel Cats of Self Healing”;  all the images are from my drawings,  if you would like to see them online please click here: Angel Cats

The profit from the sale of these cards will go to “Teddie’s Safe Haven” for spaying feral cats in Hawaii.

I’m glad to be of service to such a worthy cause, protecting the native wild life of Hawaii and improving the lives of those cats already born and living in the lava fields of Ka’u County…
Have a great day and remember to purr every now and again. It is so good for the soul!

Blazing tales of wonder,
Your sister through chaos and comfort,
Remembering all we have ever been and are about to become…
Blessings from Shankari the Alchemist   xxxx

Life is an amazing dance…
And like all good dance, there is structure; but what makes it so special and different and your own, is the level and quality of personal  improvisation within the form.

Twenty years ago I arrived in Bali to start living my vision… to make jewelry to empower the ‘light workers’ of the world.

I have struggled from the beginning…
I have had no training in this life, how to run a business… I have never been to school to find out how you are supposed to do this ‘properly’!  In the long run I feel this was of benefit to me.

Under these circumstances… because I had no ‘box’, I was expecting everyone else to fit into, I was open to new thought and new ways of doing things.
Since my arrival in 1988, I have been creative in all my endeavors.

The company of over 100 souls, runs itself because I have built it on the model of Social Business.

This means, my aim is to empower people; educate and encourage creativity and responsibility within the group and always remember it’s about the quality of our life, not the state of our profit margin.

I have never laid people off in times of crisis… and there have been many!
I have lived through the ousting of Suharto (A dictator for 42 years), the financial crisis that devalued the currency overnight and had us all in a spin, the election and consequent riots of the first new leader since Suharto…

I have married, given birth and divorced since I have been here… and more recently there was the bomb the year after 9-11-01 and the recent bomb in Jakarta… all acts of powerless men craving attention for their cause…

What have I learned in thinking about the last twenty years?

I love my family.
My children and my family of Talismans of Power.
I feel honored and blessed to have been a part of their life for so long.

I know they love me as unconditionally as I do them; we are blessed to be in the dance together.
I believe this is the energy that shines through all our work together and why the value of what we produce will continue to grow in the future.

This knowledge keeps me healthy and emotionally balanced where ever I am in the world… to know I am loved… and will be protected against the dark night should that moment arrive.

To go to sleep at night, knowing we are still a family of light despite the dark times surrounding us… keeps a smile on my face.

Despite the current challenges, all the gang are smiling. As we were preparing for the party, we were completing the prayers for Saraswati, the Goddess of Beauty, music, wisdom and jewels…. it was her sacred day and all my staff and I spent the morning praying in the garden by the temple… it was a sublime experience and reminds me of why I came here and why I will never give up and run away…

This is an important part of my personal commitment to my extended family in the third world. Their safety, joy and evolution is just as important to me as my own or those of others in more salubrious locations.

Life is a brilliant adventure… and for those whose hearts hear the music, the tickets are free for the dance…

Blazing tales of wonder…. S xxx

In Hawaii, over the last few months, late at night, I have had the privilege of watching satellite TV. I often wonder at the advertising… pharmaceuticals in all their forms, to help with every bodily function we have apparently lost control over… it’s scary!

Along with this type of advertising lately, there has been a lot of focus on the poor in America. They show photos of hungry unkempt children and say 1 in every 8 Americans go to bed hungry every day.

Who is this in your community?

What can you do to help? I heard the call… There really are a lot of hungry people in the district… that part is true!

Even though I am not an American, I feel for all humanity… what can I do to help?
I decided to build a soup kitchen in Hawaii to try to help the hungry with homegrown food from my garden for soup and salad.

I have purchased the land and this project is underway right now. I expect to be serving soup by June 11 next year.

This is the birthday of the King of Hawaii and a great date to aim at for our local humanitarian purposes.

When I recently returned to Bali; in the silence of my studio, catching up on world events; I felt like a pawn in a much bigger and ugly game after reading in the issue of Newsweek Magazine dated, Feb 23, 2009, page 39 (online version of original article):

During the Depression years of hunger, the New Deal ordered the slaughter of 6 million pigs. The theory (see President Roosevelt’s May 14, 1935, speech on the Agricultural Adjustment Act) was, believe it or not, that one cause of the Depression—in 1935, were people selling apples on the streets; 20.1 percent were unemployed— it was a “problem of overproduction.” Government, FDR said, could keep production and consumption “in reasonable balance” so that farmers could charge “reasonable prices,” as the Government intuited them. Last week Congress was importuned to have the government pay for the slaughter of dairy cattle in order to raise milk prices. Cows should die in Wisconsin so that mothers in Watts will pay a higher price—one that government deems “reasonable”—for milk for their children? The dairy lobby sees opportunity in a New Deal 2.0.

These people have no compassion, no imagination and no sense of flow for the greater good of all people. They are only interested in profit! No wonder 1 in 8 people go to bed hungry each night… There is no one out there who has enough power to think outside the box and make a big enough difference!

I am a firm believer in The Sermon on the Mount.
Jesus affirmed that we were important to God and we would always have enough.
Everything is available to support us and our purpose on earth.
We simply have to have the eyes to see, and the hearts that listen.

Those pigs could have fed a lot of people… and the milk cows???

Perhaps the way milk is handled these days, it’s not the best of foods for anyone, let alone small children, however… who can deprive a hungry child of food? Apparently the government of Wisconsin with the approval of the Feds. When will we wake up as a global culture and realize we have been farmed?!

The more I observe, the more certain I am of this sad fact.
The drug companies make money out of a sickly community.
The food companies (who are subsidiaries of the drug companies) make sure the food is corrupted and will not truly feed and heal the sickly community… who must be kept alive until their last breath, by the medical profession, so every last cent can be drained from their existence.

This is the true enemy!

Not Communism or Fascism…
Not the ‘towel heads’ or the ‘gooks’ or the ’spics’, or even cancer or AIDS..

The true enemy is within and has the rules of the game on their side 100%…

It is time to step outside the provided box.
It is time to demand a different lifestyle.

One that will support us in health and true wealth which is ‘time for self’ and opportunities for creativity, good food and genuine nurturing by your own community.
All else is simply grist for the mill!
Where DID all the flowers go?

Blazing tales of wonder,
Remembering all we have ever been and are about to become… S xx

This is a serious word and a heavy energy.
I often sit and ponder words, I let the sound roll around in my mouth and my mind…
I let go of all preconceptions and listen.

Because I have spent so much time in foreign countries, learning and speaking foreign languages on the street… not in formal institutions, I often feel the rules academia apply to words and their origins are unnecessarily formal — they express the patriarchal perception that we have been living with for the past few thousand years.

Words on the street are phonetic and emotive….

I remember when I first arrived in Bali, we drove past a hand written sign hanging outside a shop… it stated in bold hand painted print ABIS.

I read that sign, flying past in my jeep and knew what they were saying.
They were out of whatever their customers were looking for.
Abyss in our language means ‘the end’… ‘the dark unknown place, where there is nothing left!”…

In this culture the word had been spelled phonetically and described the absence of a type of food the locals love to eat!

Through common usage, words take on new meanings and their connotation changes with every day that passes.

A perfect example to explain this phenomenon is ‘gay’…

Not so long ago it described people having fun together… I have heard it used by news reporters in Australia from the 1950’s. Through slang usage, ‘gay’ has metamorphosed into the word that describes the entire subculture and political movement for one-sex partnerships!

That’s quite a journey of evolution; perhaps just as strange as a word used in the west to describe the nothingness just before purgatory… ‘the abyss’ … transferred by the Dutch to Indonesia and a few hundred years later it is used to describe the absence of soup!

There are a few words that make a strange family in our language of today… sympathy, empathy, pity, pathetic… they all have an element where you are asked to ‘feel sorry for’ …

In Latin ‘path’ (Pathetic…sympathetic… ) means “feeling”; from ‘pax’ which means peace…

I can see straight away these words are from a patriarchal culture because they are using the prefix ‘pa’ from ‘pater’… father,  (Pa triarchal) the church fathers (not the mother) made the rules and we agreed to make them ‘right’.

We are living in strange times.  The media has a huge hold on the conscious reality we all ‘enjoy’ or ‘endure’ on a daily basis… the media is owned and operated by the big five, so if you want an original thought you have to look outside the box. You and I are a child of our times… an enlightened time, when we can gather all this information together and make some sense of what’s going on…

So let’s look at the word ‘pity’

We can tell it’s Anglo in origin.
Lots or pits in the UK… mostly coal and tar…

I feel in my bones that ‘pity’ describes something or someone ‘in the pits’ (which is still a term we use today to describe depression… or a low emotional condition).

Do we want to encourage ‘pitiful’ self-definition?

Should we have ‘pity’ on others?

‘Pity’ like it’s origins, describes a low energy, dark, deep and dirty like a coal pit.

It does not describe the object as much as it describes the mentality of the speaker…

I suggest you activate compassion (‘com’… together) for the world around you and give up all forms of ‘pity’ because by definition to feel ‘pity’ is to put yourself ABOVE the other…

Once you are ‘up there’ and the object of your attention is in their rightful place DOWN THERE then you are in control and your ego is in charge… probably planning an exhaustive emotional drama for the evening ahead, so it can feel alive and in control…

“Pity” is an arrogant, domineering, perspective, which it is best to leave at home, as it will get you into trouble.

Everyone is finally growing up and realizing we are indeed all worthy of equal opportunities and equal protection…
I mean… how did they get ‘in the pit’ to need ‘pity’ in the first place?

Blazing tales of wonder,
Remembering all we have ever been and are about to become
Your sister through chaos and comfort
Shankari the Alchemist

I am living in joy, genuinely happy….

This should not be so, I should be panicking,
I should be in fear of failure, but rather, I am in a kind of ecstasy…

When I examine my situation more closely I realize the difference in my emotional body is the ‘co’…. (that means) ‘together’.

Like most people,
I’ve been lonely in a crowd all my life…
Worried about what others think of me …
Have I worked hard enough?
Have I given enough?

Have I said the right thing to get approval… to feel like I belong?

Now everything is different, I have evolved through experience and disaster.
I have no doubt as to my purpose and my source of joy.

I feel loved and supported by my friends and neighbors as a human being.
I feel loved by the Divine on every level, and I know now, there is absolutely nothing I have to prove to anyone about anything ever again!

THAT my friend…is real freedom!

I am doing my best.
I believe in myself and my mission…
I am ready and willing to experience more joy, more freedom and more abundance.
I share all that I am with no hesitation, in service to the earth and her children… my children…
My family.
Of humanity…
Your family… Our family…
I am ready to allow others to be as competitive as they wish without engaging in the dance…
Let them be…

I am ready to live in joy and let the good times roll!

The ‘good times’ don’t have much to do with money, nor anything physical, ‘the good times’ are inside you, just open the door…

Because it’s now or never!

Let’s give up competition and take up cooperation… on a global scale.
Let’s give up criticism and take up unconditional love of ourselves and each other.

Why not?
Do you have something better to do?

Blazing tales of wonder…
Remembering all we have ever been and are about to become.
Your sister through chaos and comfort …
Shankari the Alchemist… ever learning, always growing…
Hokulani, Hawaii

There is only one person worth competing against and that’s yourself!
As the ‘Desiderata’ says,

“there will always be those higher and those lower, those more successful and those less successful than yourself… so don’t fret… relax!”

Ultimately it is about context…
You can reign in hell or serve in heaven, it’s up to you and your choice of activities and venue.

I have recognized in myself recently a new frequency of ‘Being’.
I am a very competitive soul…
I have always been proactive and enthusiastic for success at every level.

The shift has occurred at a profoundly deep level.
I have come to realize I am genuinely happy!

In terms of competitiveness, I am so happy,
I feel as if I have won the biggest prize available!
Not because of a person, business or relationship, but because I have found this place inside myself that is absolutely content.

I feel as if I have already won, so now there is nothing left to do but help everyone else!

All my past competitiveness is somehow transformed into a new vehicle of experience.
All my creativity is enthusiastically focused on how to help other people and survive the coming world challenges with Grace.

This is not because I suddenly have more money; on the contrary, like everyone else today, my cash flow has dried up to a large extent…

I have to recreate myself and my business in order to survive.
Like the world around me,
I am in a state of upheaval and challenged at every level, however I can also say…
despite all this,
I am ecstatically happy and even content!

This is not because I feel loved and accepted by a human beloved… on the contrary, I haven’t been so alone in my whole life; since the disgraceful way my last marriage dissolved, I feel no need to go there again in the near future…

So what’s happening?

I feel filled up with ‘The Holy Spirit’…
I feel as if I am dancing with Krishna…

I have found that ‘frequency of being’ inside myself…
the place that is:

Joyful in the face of chaos…
Trusting in the face of universal deception…
Inspired in a context of fear and…
Enthusiastic in the face of hopelessness…

I must be crazy!

Or… coming into alignment with the ascension process… surrendering my need for applause from the gallery and giving up all sense of competitiveness…
Now is the time for co operation, co-creation and co-mmunity…

The ‘co’… means ‘together’… we will not survive into the future if we act alone… we must work together for the benefit of all… not for our nuclear family or our little local clubs, not for the survival of our country, our religion or our race… but for the survival of our PLANET!

to be continued…

Blazing tales of wonder
Remembering all we have ever been and are about to become
Your sister through chaos and comfort …
Shankari the Alchemist… ever learning, always growing…
Hokulani
Hawaii