Author: Raphael Awen

Ascension/Divine Union Teacher. Parts/Soul Aspects Facilitator. Soul Scribe.

Following Your Heart’s Path

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By Wayne

When most of us want to make a life change, we often hear use the phrase, ‘following our heart.’

But, what is that took us off of our heart path in the first place?

A lot of things may have conspired to take you and I off of our heart path. First and probably foremost, is the need (and pressure) to belong. Perhaps you only had so much courage to be different, back in the day when you did. The people you cautiously shared your budding dream with, your dreams of meaning and connection, your dreams of more, immediately and in subtle, and sometimes not so subtle ways, let you know and let you feel what you would lose in your connection with them if you were to persist in changing what was comfortable and important to them.

Maybe you revised your plans in hopes of changing them first, so as to not lose them and then be able to go on your way with them in support of you. They, in turn, did not really want to lose you, especially with your bright and positive energy adding to their lives. So, an unspoken compromise was reached, that looked like it was based in mutual respect, but really was based in an agreement that you get to hang around as long as you suppress this wild and crazy desire to live in your deepest sense of purpose and meaning.

For people who wish to remain asleep to their deeper calling, it’s really hard being around people that remind them of what they gave up, or never had the courage or support to explore.

Embracing ourselves in this deeper way always involves letting go of things or relationships we currently hold dear.

Sadly, when we step out and begin to repossess our dream, our connections are tested to reveal what they are made of. Often times, a friend isn’t ready to change the nature of the relationship in the ways that you are proposing.

It’s at this juncture that many reevaluate their push to embrace their dreams feeling how it negatively effects their relationships, or threatens their financial picture. Conversations with friends and family end up being about valuing how not to judge others and respecting each other for who they are and how love holds everything together and takes us to a better world.

Really….?

Giving up on your dreams and deeper journey and sense of purpose and meaning is accepting and loving others?

Isn’t the truth something more like this? Your deepest respect for you and them is refusing to be any longer in a connection with them that’s losing its integrity.

I say go back to your dream, dust it off, embrace it, feel it. Like a good parent, make efforts to care for it, and begin taking steps towards it. Share it only with those who will honor it. Look for those who will support you living your way into it.

And, feel and grieve the loss of what you are letting go of.

And, move on.

We all desperately need the dream in your heart to come alive.

We All Made It This Way

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There is something so universal about our insecurity when it comes to money and power that given the opportunity to hoard it, we jump on board. It’s common practice to call politicians or bankers all kinds of names, making them the ultimate scapegoats, but I feel this only serves to hide our complicity and our insecurity.

We, with them, have shaped and created this stunning and crazy phenomenon called economics, and it is all of us together that are in the process of un-creating it and starting over. And it only changes when when it changes in you and I, rather than changes and reforms that happen out there somewhere.

And that only happens as you and I feel ready and secure enough to let go of a lesser security based in status quo, comfort, and predictablity.

Here’s a video that will show (alarmingly) how money works, how it funnels to those at the top.

Watch it and ask yourself, ‘What would give me enough security if I was at the top to be any different?’

By Wayne

Occupy Wall Street: No Demand Is Big Enough

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Another resource that is way too awesome to be kept under wraps comes in the form of a person, a real person….Charles Eisenstein.

His recent blog on the Occupy Wall Street Movement stirs me to the core and I just quickly read it for the first time. Read it here.

Charles’ heart first and brilliance second perspective stirs something deep inside of me and so many others as it offers a picture of a more beautiful world that we know is possible, but struggle to see emerge in and around us.

Charles first book is called the ‘Ascent of Humanity’ where he shows how the concept of a separate self, and the split between spirit and matter became the reality shaping paradigm in our human infancy as a species, and how now we are emerging into an age of reunion of those two.

It may sound like theory, but the heart of it is so alive and inspiring….I believe because our own hearts and souls resonate with a ‘yes.’

Do yourself a favor and check it out.

By Wayne

The Crash Course

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By Wayne

We are like the proverbial frog in a pot of water heating up on the stove, about to reach a boiling point and our inevitable ‘death.’ But what is death, certainly not (in my view) a cessation of existence, as many prefer to believe it is, but profound change. This change is our existence, expressing in one form, then through death morphs into expressing in another form, dimension, and place.

I’m talking about the death or profound change of our industrialized society, or our predominate 21st century reality. The society that we have together – over thousands of years- created and what we are now in the process of ‘un-creating’ in dramatic fashion.

Is it all doom and gloom? Is it all ‘hopefully, cautiously, optimistic’ – the way our-worried-about their-jobs-politicians tell us it is?

There is so much reason for you and I to stick around, to be more alive than we have been up until now. Whether you are aware or interested in the changes that are already occurring everywhere, economically, environmentally, doesn’t exclude you from being part of it. It’s happening in the time you were here and are here.

A great beginning place  to get some solid grounded teaching in these changes is Chris Martenson’s web site and his perfectly titled video series called ‘the crash course,’ and all available for free here.

 

I encourage you to check it out. It’s eye opening.

My deeper curiosity, even more than what is coming at us, is how to breathe through it all; how to embrace the changes rather than run from them. That’s the conversation I’d like to have about the changes already happening in our world.