A New Beginning: Catalyst


Sixteen months ago, I wrote what I thought would be the beginning of a whole new phase for this blog.  After I wrote it, though, a funny thing happened—everything that could go wrong went wrong.   Of course, I’ve been walking a conscious, intentional spiritual path long enough to know that these types of things happen for all kinds of reasons— most of which have to do with a call to inner growth .  The woman sitting here today writing this blog entry is not the same woman that wrote the entry in November 2023.  The adversity that I’ve experienced since the last blog entry has changed me;  it’s made me a better person— more resilient, more open to the possibilities encompassed by the spiritual pursuit of excellence.  

For years now, I’ve been studying metaphysics, spiritual psychology, and many other genres of spirituality.  I have left no stone unturned in my quest for spiritual understanding.   As I wrote in the very first entry of this blog back in May 2023, there is a deep desire inside of me to prove to myself that the spiritual principles that I have been taught and hold so dear to my heart are in reality TRUTH that can be tested and proven.

I picked this project up again today with some of the same intentions I held when I created it over a year and a half ago now.  I need to know that the spiritual principles I’ve been studying for over 20 years are legitimate and reliable.  And then there is the invitation.  With each passing day, it becomes more and more clear to me that the universe is beckoning me to up level, to transform. 

While sitting in meditation a couple weeks ago,  I heard the word catalyst.   It drew me inward, and it reminded me of the bigger picture—that adversity is very often the stimulus for some needed understanding or forward movement.  In his book Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill languaged it as “every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal greater benefit.”

From where I sit now, it’s so very clear that the universe is requiring me to become the highest version of myself.  It continues to call to me and begs the question:  what is the highest purpose of life here on earth?  What’s really important?  What matters in the final equation?

While standing on the sidewalk four months ago waiting for the signal to change, I was hit by a car out of the blue.  It’s basically miraculous that I’m even alive.  There just happened to be a pole that blocked the car from running over me completely which is the reason I’m still here to write this.   The recovery time gave me the opportunity for some much needed reflection.  I’m choosing to believe that all of these circumstances are pushing me towards the realization of the highest version of myself.  

And so today, we begin again.  I am moving forward with an updated version of my project as I described it in the very first blog entry.  I will be employing some additional spiritual technologies that I will describe in later entries, and I will be eliminating some as well.  All adjustments have been made as a byproduct of additional spiritual guidance that I have received during the months I was recovering from my accident.   Thank you,  dear reader, for your participation as I walk forward along the path.  May heaven keep you and yours until my next blog entry.




“Don’t You Worry Child”, Swedish House Mafia

Until Now, September 14, 2012, 

Virgin, Astralwerks, Polydor



Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Day 150: Into the Mystic

Image
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 to...
Read more

Day 68: A Deal with God

Image
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 en...
Read more

Day 103: The Beauty of Being Realistic

Image
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...
Read more