Standing in Your Light: Grail Space (Extended)

Introduction

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.

So many of our human environments are energetically dormant or layered over with a lot of energetic residue. When we do Grail Space, we might have to push a bit to get through some of that, the Grail Space carries the capacity of enlivening the life within that area so that it becomes more capable on its own of waking up and overcoming some of that dormancy.

I see it as a great service. It’s one of the ways that we, as energetic beings, can reach into our own inner Temple and draw on our own light and sacredness and bring it in service out into our world to create the vessel in our environment in which the Sacred can become more accessible to the world as a whole.

The life in the things around us appreciates our attentiveness and loving and appreciative acknowledgement. There is a rejoicing, eagerness, and sense of excitement when the subtle life in the world around us is recognized and affirmed by the human beings who inhabit that world. It’s a simple thing that we can do but it can have very powerful effects.

Attunement

I would ask you to close your eyes and to enter into your inner theater of the heart and mind.

I would like you to picture yourself and to recognize four different aspects of yourself, like four corners of a room: there is your transpersonal self, your soul; there is your body – your physical self; there is your psyche – your mind, and feelings; and then there’s your subtle body – your subtle field.

Connecting all of them is your Sovereignty, the coordinating, synthesizing, integrating connective tissue emanating from the soul and drawing all the parts of you together into an integrated whole. If this were a room and each of these – soul, body, psyche, and subtle – were the four walls of the room, then within the room is the presence of the Sacred and of our own Presence.

I would like you to take a moment of honoring and recognizing and affirming in you the presence of your soul, whatever the felt sense of that is for you.

And then I would like you to affirm and acknowledge the presence of your body, your physical structure.

And then affirm and acknowledge your psyche – your mind, your emotions, your psychological self.

And finally, acknowledge and affirm your subtle body, your subtle energetic self.

You have spirit and body, mind and heart, and energy – all these things flowing together, combining together, acting as partners, holding within you a Grail Space that allows the presence of your sacredness to incarnate and to manifest and to be accessible to the world.

Take a moment to appreciate yourself as an incarnational Grail, a living, breathing, walking, talking Grail Space. As such, you can make the Sacred available and accessible as love, as joy, as Light – as any number of qualities and activities, offering the blessings of your Grail Space out into the world.

There is never a time when you are not this Grail Space. You can forget it, you can ignore it, but you cannot not be it.

When you acknowledge the Grail Space that you are, then it rejoices and it becomes filled with your Presence and the Light of Sacredness within you – your Self-Light made accessible to the world.

Please hold this felt sense of being a Grail Space, of the Grail Space within you, and open your eyes and look around at the room that you’re in and just be aware of the things, the many things that are in that room. Recognize that each of them in its own way is a Grail Space as well. Each of them in its own way holds Light and Life.

Now go back into inner theater of the heart and mind, back into the sense of your inner Grail Space, and from that place reach out to your room. You can do this with your eyes open or closed, but pick out two or three items in your room to be your initial partners. From the Self-Light and Presence of your inner Grail, extend your love to those items, whatever they may be, and invite them to be your partner in creating Grail Space in your room.

In silence, pay attention to what response you get, what you feel. If you feel nothing, if there is no response, that is okay. Just hold the Grail Space within you and hold it on behalf of the life within your room.

If you get a response, then please respond back with appreciation and acknowledgement so that a flow of energy is established, a flow of partnership and alliance between you and these two or three items. You are inviting them to join with you in partnership, to hold Light together. Feel the reciprocal flow of energy and acknowledgement of life between you and these items you have selected, just as if you were in a room with two or three people, feeling the energy flows between you.

As you do, invite your partners to extend their partnership outward to other things in the room, to begin to gather all who are willing to partner with this growing Grail Space, this growing activity of creating Grail Space in the room. You don’t have to try to partner with every item in your room. They will partner with each other and all who are able and willing will join in. Just be aware of what is happening to the field of energy in the room as you do this.

As a ring of partnership is established, as the energy of partnering spreads throughout the room, it opens a space, it opens a possibility, it opens potential for the emergence of a presence greater than any one of you can hold by yourself. That represents the sacred Presence that is at the heart of each of you, but is now emerging with greater power and presence because of your partnership together. You are creating the Grail Space into which Sacredness may flow and be made greatly accessible, widely accessible, unreservedly accessible to the world around you.

You cannot help but be blessed by being a participant in Grail Space. You cannot help but to bless by being a co-creator of Grail Space.

And now I would like you to give thanks to your partners. Imagine everyone who has participated stepping back, back into their own unique Light, their own unique expression of sacredness, back into their own lives, allowing the Grail Space to radiate outward and to dissolve.

What does not dissolve is your own internal Grail, you as an incarnational Grail – you carry that within you always.

Take a moment to experience whatever residual energy, whatever blessing remains from the partnership of the Grail Space itself.

Then align yourself with your own Sovereignty, your own Self-Light, and bring your attention wholly back into your everyday life.

When I do Grail Space, I don’t look for, nor do I expect bells and whistles or great phenomena; what I do experience is a heightening of joy and a sense of the spaciousness of the world around me that is translucent to an inner light. It makes me more appreciative of the fact that I am a life in the midst of other lives, part of a living universe. It makes me appreciative of the fact that, in a way, the world itself is a Grail Space; that the blessings of the Sacred are there around us, as accessible as we allow them to be.

As I understand, in the Grail legends of the Arthurian tradition, the challenge for the knights on the quest for the Grail was not always that the Grail was hidden, but that they didn’t always know how to ask the right questions to allow it to emerge.

What are the questions that we ask of our life and of the life around us that allow that sacredness to emerge? What is the attitude, what is the acknowledgement and the expectation that we bring, the attentiveness, the attention we bring to the world around us that allows its Grail-ness to manifest? Incarnational Spirituality is a way of prompting us to ask those kinds of questions and to be aware of our own Grail quest and our own Grail discoveries.