Soul Navigations

The absurd notion of one.....

The world hangs on a thin thread...

"The world hangs on a thin thread, and that is the psyche of man...and we know something about it and we know nothing about it..."  C.G. Jung

Every day it behooves us to engage with the deepest part of ourself, be it psyche, soul, spirit, core self, or higher self.  Take time.  Make time.  Know thyself.

Thank you C.G.Jung, for sharing your light, understanding and passion.

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This world of spirit weavers....

                          

You cannot take

Without giving

You cannot give

Without letting go

You cannot let go

Without changing

You cannot change

Without desire

You cannot desire

Without fire

You cannot have fire

Without spirit

You cannot have spirit

You cannot have spirit

You cannot HAVE spirit

 

 

You are spirit

You  are  spirit

You    ARE    spirit

 

You are spirit

Unfurling and unfolding

Letting go and giving off itself

as you spin

Weaving your own being

Into this world.

 

This world of spirit weavers.

 

 

© 2009 leslie helen bambic ciechanowski

 

 

 

May we awaken to the web of our own creation.

 

Language of the Soul

Have you ever tried to communicate with someone when neither of you understands the other’s language?  You may remember yourself gesticulating wildly, with arms pointing to things, parts of your body, perhaps making strange sounds and talking VERY loudly, repeating the same word over and over again in hopes that somehow your volume and repetition would spark a eureka experience.  Perhaps you searched madly for pen and paper to draw pictures or symbols of what you wanted. 

 

Hearing the language of the soul can sometimes feel this way.  The soul speaks to us in metaphor, symbols, feelings and synchronicities.  Of course when something either speaks to our soul, or comes from our soul, it is imbued with tremendous feeling and its expression somehow impacts us, and those around us with distinct profundity.  It is as if a pebble were dropped into the pool of our own being, sending ripples of recognition, remembrance and knowing.

 

Cultivating your soul requires that you learn to hear and understand the language of your soul.  There are many ways to achieve this and each person will have his or her own particular style.  It is good to have many different channels if you will, to perceive the soul with.  Here are some suggestions.

 

1.    Listen.  Turn your focus inward and just listen.  Find the best way for you to turn your mind down very low, and then pay attention to what arises without expecting that anything ever will.  This is the basic method and paradox to listening to your soul.  Some use meditation, contemplative prayer, or movement.  The aim is to turn down or off the minds chatter.

 

2.    Pause.  If your life is always overbooked, for whatever reason, find time within your day to take pauses, to breathe and listen to what is going on for you internally.  What are you feeling? What are you noticing in your body when you have this feeling? Five minutes is perhaps all you need for a “soul-snack”.

 

3.    Honor night dreams.  Take time in the morning, perhaps even before you open your eyes, to check in and see if you had any dreams.  Reflect on the feelings, sensations, visions and sounds that impacted you.  Leave a pad of paper at your bedside to take some notes.  The more you write the better; however, sometimes a simple sentence is all that is needed to retrieve the whole dream. 

 

4.    Learn the language of metaphor.  I don’t normally recommend “dream books”, as they can be too rigid in their rules of interpretation.  However, if you don’t take them as “truth” they can help you learn to play with metaphor.  Books that explore the metaphoric meaning of symbols can be more helpful.  Bear in mind that what you are exploring is the archetypal level of meaning – that is a collective experience of the symbol.  You will have your own personal experience around this symbol.

 

5.    Notice your daydreams.  Though daydreams may be seen as distraction, they are an important indicator of what type of release or experience you are seeking, perhaps in the service of feeling more empowered or free.  They may indicate metaphorically, what you need to move towards, or what you need to change.

 

6.    Notice meaningful coincidences.  Use all of your senses to pay attention to when the outer world produces ripples of resonance within you.  What is the feeling that arises?  Is there a sense of certainty, a confirmation of something you have been feeling, thinking or experiencing?  When you learn to maintain a dual focus on the inner and outer experience, more coincidences may come your way.

  

 

Learn to love your soul. It holds your divine spark and light that is your true nature. 

 

 

Leslie Helen Bambic Ciechanowski

Copywright 2009

Synchronicity

   Synchronicity, a term popularized by C.G. Jung, is often defined to as the co-occurrence of events that are meaningfully related.  These co-occurrences are causally unrelated in nature, but are perceived as meaningful “coincidences”.  I use quotations because I believe that there are no coincidences, simply a lack of awareness of the web and rhythm of life of which we are an intricate part.  Experientially, synchronicities are perceived as the felt sense that somehow the inner and the outer world have come together in some manner, and moved into alignment. 

    The experiences of synchronicities are abundantly peppered throughout my life.  Sometimes they resonate loudly, like a gong in my ears alerting my attention.   Other times they are like highlighted words on a page, beckoning me to pay attention, confirming or acknowledging an experience.

    Here are a few recent experiences I would like to share.

 

White Feather

    While in meditation one morning, I felt a noble native presence behind me.   It is not unusual for me to sense these types of energies.  Call it guidance, or an active imagination, this was what I sensed and simply noted. Then came an impulse, a feeling or thought that flashed, as if being conveyed to me by this presence, that I needed a feather.  My “thinking mind”, always looking to input chimed in, “I have lots of feathers”.  Whenever I walk, I pick up feathers as my nature treasures.  I moved back into meditation and the space of openness and emptiness.  I had the impression again, this time stronger and more forceful– you need a feather.  Okay!  I thought, “I will bring one into my meditation area when I am done!”. 

    I had forgotten about this little exchange that took place during meditation and not less than ½ hour later I opened the front door, there on the front porch was a white feather!  My heart leapt and eyes teared as I gave gratitude for life’s miracles and mysteries.  In all of the 10 years living in this home, I have never found a feather on our porch – it has a large overhanging roof.  Furthermore, I have never found a white feather in our yard or neighborhood in any of my walks. 

 

Pennies

    This event occurred more recently.  I was walking in a busy parking lot thinking about a recent retreat I had attended and the wonderful soulful connections I experienced with people I had met.  I came out of my reverie when my foot came down directly behind a handful of pennies that had been strewn upon the ground.  Wow!  How lucky, I thought, not one penny but a whole bunch!  When I got into the store I cleaned them off and counted them.  They equaled 13 – the same number of wonderful people I had met!

    Little synchronicities happen to us daily. How easy it is to pass them by, to walk on and not notice connections, validations, and confirmations that speak directly to our soul.  Take time daily to listen to your heart.  Take time to open to your spirit, and slow down to see the spirit in the world around you.  It is always there, everywhere.  It is our distracted rushing and busy-ness that prevents us from tasting the sweetness of life. 

    If you are so inclined, feel free to share your own synchronous events!

 

 

Our Mother - The Forgotten Sacred Feminine

On this auspicious and wonderful day of 9.9.9, I offer an old, little known prayer to our mother earth and the sacred feminine nature of the Divine.  This prayer was found in the bowls of the Vatican and translated from Aramaic by Edmond Bordeaux Szekel in 1928, along with what is known to us as the Essene Gospel of Peace.  It is postulated to have been said by Yeshua/Jesus with his reading of the ”Our Father”.      Peace.

 

Our Mother

And after this manner (praying to your heavenly Father in the manner we know as the "Our Father") pray to your Earthly Mother: 

 

 Our Mother which art upon earth,

 hallowed be thy name.

  Thy kingdom come,

 and thy will be done in us,

 as it is in thee.

  As thou sendest every day thy angels,

 send them to us also.

  Forgive us our sins, as we atone all our sins against thee.

 And lead us not into sickness,

 but deliver us from all evil,

 for thine is the earth,

 the body,

 and the health.

 Amen.

When Spirit is my guide...

    I offer this prayer to whomever finds light and healing from its words.  The prayer itself was inspired by the Lord’s Prayer. 

    It is not my intention to suggest that the original is not good enough, or to detract from it’s meaning, but to share one aspect of the meaning I receive from it.   May all beings know the light of their true nature

When Spirit is
 my guide,
I shall not want.

Spirit guides me to healing waters where
Love restores my soul.
Spirit leads me on the path of devotion to love
for Love’s sake.

Though I walk through the valley of strong emotions,
I will fear none,
for Spirit is with me and
Love’s strength and power protects me.

Spirit presents before me
the history of my soul
 and its challenges
that I may forgive myself
and others
with love.

Love fills all the cells
of my body.
My being overflows
with love.

Peace and loving kindness
shall be with me all the days of my life
And I will dwell with
LOVE forever. 


©Fuzion Healing Arts, 2008
Leslie Helen Bambic Ciechanowski

Welcome to the Light - Dancing to Another Solstice 12/2008

The dialogue in my head started while in the bath, far away from any writing implements or recording paraphernalia.  It started as it often does with rapid assimilation of ideas, slowing to a merging of these ideas with my personal reality.  The beginning thought was this. “What would Jesus write?”

             Yes, in this world where teachers whose public beginnings start with many words and stories of their great works, attempting to capture their path to awareness through the delineations of the analytical mind… everyone writes a book. It speaks to a body of knowledge, and consistency of thought, a plan, a system and specific orientation. Again, what would Jesus write?   As quickly as I thought the question, the answer came to me.  He would write “The Book of Love.”  The more I thought of this, the more right it felt, and then it occurred to me that this book would come in two parts – his and hers.    I will address the hubris of His and Hers later…should you choose to continue your inquiry.

I was taken back in memory to a time many years ago when in a profound spiritual experience I was show the nature of our oneness and connection to all others was through the heart.   I saw white lines interconnecting all hearts and felt a knowing from a depth of my being that karma was the hearts ways of realigning with the original love vibration when that love had been harmed.  I felt my spirit vibrating at such a rapid rate I became frightened.  In my mind I asked what was happening, and was told that I was a molecule of love.  

We are all but molecules of love on an alchemical journey to discover through awareness the true essence or who we are, and have always been.  All things come into being through the cohesive power of love, all things pass through love, and in turn are healed by their return to this original state. All demons, real and imagined are transformed through love.  Love is the souls purpose.  Love is all there is to master no other precepts are needed, and yet it can at times be the most difficult to master.  So difficult that our bookshelves are filled with how to’s.  How to: love others in relationship, how to know if they love you, how to love ourselves, love God, how to not love too much, how to love what you do, what you have, what love is, what love is not...

The list is enormous, spanning across millenniums humankind has sought with the intellect to understand the heart.  There are always limits, for the mind can never truly know the heart, nor love.   Many a seeker and saint has undertaken the heroes journey only to come back speaking in parables and riddles that leave our mind in a constant loop wondering over and over its meaning, and if our focus is strong enough perhaps our mind will freeze into moments of bliss and beingness. We have forgotten that the mind is the servant of the heart, we have forgotten the wise mind of the heart.