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Day 150: Into the Mystic

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It’s been a couple weeks since I’ve completed a blog entry. The project is working beyond a shadow of a doubt although to the naked eye, my world looks a touch on the chaotic side. The practice itself was suspended on September 15 when I was illegally kicked out of the sober living where I was residing, and  the last 6 1/2 weeks have been an exercise instead of listening to my intuition, following all divine guidance, practicing gratitude for everything, and yielding to the Will of the Divine.  Several years ago in 2010, I went to see a psychic who told me that she was getting an image that communicated that I was sitting inside the eye of the storm similar to a tornado.  She said, although it appeared that everything was swirling and crumbling around me, I was completely safe within the eye of the storm.  She said that I had done so much work in the spiritual realm that the physical world was having a hard time keeping up but I was right on course.  She also told me that she had a vis
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Day 103: The Beauty of Being Realistic

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Today is Day 102.   There are only 48 days left in the most extraordinary project that I have ever experienced.  This is not the first project that I have designed for myself.  There have been many.  My intention with all of them has been to raise my level of consciousness and to restore peace and harmony to my life.  This one has by far been the most miraculous.  In 2010, my mother was diagnosed with cancer; it was an incredibly challenging time in my life as well as a profound crucible put before me by God.  I was suffering intensely although to the casual observer, it probably didn't appear that way.  Above all, I wanted to stay conscious and present for her so I designed a project.  Upon it's completion, I named it the Joy Quest and began a blog similar to this one, although, in the wake of her death, it never reached completion.    The project consisted of a 90 day challenge in Bikram Yoga which I completed in 110 days, 30 minutes of breathwork, 30 minutes of meditation an
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Day 95: Something Astounding

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In 2003, I was completely immersed in the work of Tony Robbins, the motivational speaker.  I completed his Mastery University that year and went through his Leadership Academy.  I lived and breathed his work.  I began to listen to his "Get the Edge" program and, more specifically, to his Daily Magic exercise which was the last CD in the series.  In his Daily Magic program, he teaches something he calls incantations which is 15 to 60 minutes of gratitude, affirmations and visualization.  It is magnificent!!  I will always be grateful to him for changing my life in the many different ways that he has including through his incantations practice. I began using his Daily Magic back then to visualize everything that I wanted for my life as well as to practice gratitude for everything that I already had.  Although I've changed the soundtrack a bit here and there over the years, I've basically been practicing it ever since.   That practice has walked me through all kinds of b
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Day 87: "The Fragrance the Violet Sheds"

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A couple weeks ago, I woke up with the most excruciating pain in my upper back between my shoulder blade and my spine.  It literally felt like someone was driving a knife through my back.  And the worst part of it is that the pain radiates down my arm into my elbow making it impossible to move without pain.  I now have one sleeping position, (flat on my back), and it's not the way that I normally sleep--not comfortably anyway.  It's the only thing that relieves the pain, though.   I did see a chiropractor who said he felt like it was a pinched nerve which makes sense, but I know too much to accept that simple explanation.   About 10 years ago, I woke up with hip pain that was so bad that I ended up dragging myself and my leg out of my Bikram Yoga class.  I have only left the room twice in my yoga practice, but the pain was so bad I had to leave.  The gift of that experience was that it introduced me to the work of Dr. John Sarno and his numerous books about the true source of b
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Day 81: "Cause Where There is a Man Who Has No Voice...."

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Last week, I was finishing up my morning visualization walk when I saw a man that had helped me tremendously during the time when I was homeless.  I was so surprised to see him just a couple doors down from where I live.  He was toting two grocery baskets filled to the brim with blankets and what looked like odds and ends, and he was walking down the middle of a very busy street with cars passing on both sides of him.   I wanted to stop and say hello and "thank you--your kindness is remembered by me always," but he looked like he was delusional and maybe dangerous.  It looked from a distance that he might possibly be in some sort of psychosis so I decided that I would just pray for him and his well-being and go on with my day as much as I had wanted to stop and connect with him.  I shared the story with a couple of friends and asked if they would pray for him.  He has a very special place in my heart.   When I met Chad, the man that helped me, it was 2020, and it was the year
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Day 74: Beat it Back with a Broom

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  Yesterday, while I was making my bed in the morning, I saw a crystal clear vision of a push broom.  It looked almost exactly like the one pictured above, and just like with the mystical experiences that I have had with many of the words or phrases that I hear, I decided to trust that more would be revealed.   Around 9 o'clock last night, I decided to pick up where I left off with the movie I was watching a couple nights ago: the Legend of Bagger Vance.  Even though I've seen it close to 20 times, it's one of the titles on the book list, and I am still finding it to be as profound as ever.  While I was watching, there was a scene that came forward with a man pushing a broom that looked exactly like the one from my vision.  It then suddenly made perfect sense.  The vision was actually a reference to one of my favorite quotes from the movie, which is set in the age of the Great Depression.  The little boy in the movie, who is actually the narrator, sees his dad pushing a bro
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Day 68: A Deal with God

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It was Day 10 of the project, June 14, 2023, and I was getting ready to work out in the gym.  While I was sitting on one of the benches lacing my shoe and getting ready to hop on the treadmill, out of nowhere came a song from the 80's by Kate Bush.  The experience of "hearing" this song was not like you hear other things externally.  It was as if the music and the words started playing inside my consciousness like thoughts would, and it so clearly came out of nowhere that I knew it had to be a message.  I didn't even know it was by Kate Bush; I only found that out by searching the words of the lyrics that I could make out while I was trying to listen to it.  A Course In Miracles refers to this kind of experience as the work of the Holy Spirit and defines a miracle as a "shift in perception".   By that definition, it certainly was a miracle as the experience yielded a complete shift in perception for me.     After I had listened to the entire song while readi
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