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Lorian Stillpoint: Gratitude and Q&A
The response from you all has been beyond what I ever could have hoped. It’s one thing for us to feel the rightness of what we’re doing, but it’s another thing to have it reflected back to us the way you all have done. It has been humbling. Lorian is truly blessed to have such incredible friends and allies walking this path with us. I can’t say this strongly enough. We are so blessed.
Along with all of the encouragement we’ve received, there have also been a couple of recurring questions. And while we’ve answered them in conversation as they’ve come up, I thought I’d take the opportunity here to answer them publicly — just in case there are others who have been wondering something similar.
Standing in Your Light: Self-Light
Self-Light is something we can tap and use to bless our world; it is our unique, individual gift of Light, generated by the loving act of taking incarnation.
But more deeply, Self-Light is an indicator of the generative presence that is sacredness active within us. In this regard, it becomes a subject for contemplation and mediation. If I think of Self-Light as my portion of the inheritance of sacredness, then I can contemplate it as a means of attuning to the “big source,” the universal “Self-Light” of creation, the Light emerging from the Generative Mystery.
Another Take on the Lorian Stillpoint
What I want to share is that this pause in activity isn’t coming out of the blue for us. We have felt a change in our work coming for a few years now, and while it was not readily articulated and translated into words or vision, it was a strong intuitive sense of an emergent presence that would add depth and breadth to the body of work we have already grounded. It became clear, this spring, that the time had come to let this change take the forefront of our attention, to sense its shape rather than trying to make it fit into the shape our organization already had.
Standing in Your Light: Grail Space (Extended)
Creating Grail Space, for me, is one of the most powerful of the Incarnational Spirituality exercises, precisely because of the way it embodies the core sense of the incarnation of the Sacred in all things around us. It brings honor and respect and appreciation to the world and the life that is around us, and it’s very powerful for its capacity to create a field of blessing that can be of service to the world around us.
The Lorian Stillpoint
We feel there is a powerful new wave of spiritual energy and Light coming into the earth, one that is initiating significant changes in consciousness. By creating an inner still point organizationally, as well as personally, we are undertaking a seven-month period of active attunement and listening to the future and to the spirit that seeks emergence in service to our time.
Standing in Your Light: Loving When It’s Hard
When we practice the Spectrum of Love exercise, it cracks open a door within us that allows us to feel a flow of the essence of love into places where love is not easy for us. Included in the process is often some version of discovering a love that forgives ourselves for not being able to love someone. This week, let’s focus on that love – the love that forgives ourselves for our perceived shortcomings.
Standing in Your Light: A Touch of Love
Love is both an instinct and a choice. There are people, places and things that we love and that bring us joy. And there are also people, places and things that we may be repulsed by. Love doesn't always flow for us toward things we find repellant, though we may feel bad that it doesn't. Is it hard to love the slug eating your lettuces? Or the scary looking homeless person sitting on the corner? How about the politician you don't trust? Love is a choice at such times. I can choose to withhold love and go about my business, or I can take such times as a reminder that to love is divine, as they say. Can I bring more love into the world by choosing to love the difficult?
Standing in Your Light: Cradling Your Body As It Weaves Into the Land
This is a version of a practice that David Spangler calls Creating Grail Space. In this exercise, you are weaving energetic threads or lines of attunement with your immediate environment using various objects in the environment to do so. It helps to ground and anchor you in the specific place where your body is, and it creates a collaborative field of energy that supports the subtle work. You are creating wholeness through Grail Space.
Standing in Your Light: A Wholeness Practice
Like any challenge, this time calls forth to the sacredness within you. It calls forth to that part of you that has courage, that can rise to the occasion. It calls out to your compassion and your love, in the ways that you can look out for each other. When habits are thwarted, growth and new vision can emerge.This is a powerful time, one that many of you have trained for as first responders of the spirit and generators of Light. When the fabric of your civilization seems to come apart, this is when you can weave new threads into the fabric. Wholeness is there to be created. Let fear, if it comes, be an ally to open you to new possibilities. See yourselves in new ways. This is a time of opportunity. You are more than equal to the task!
– Marcus (David Spangler’s Subtle Colleague)
Standing in Your Light: Being Generative
When you stand in your sovereignty and self-light, you can stand in the moment – free from the past, free from habit. In that moment, you can choose what you will generate and give to the world, and what you receive from the world in return. You are a generative source and therein lies your capacity to bless our world and to make a difference within it.