by rachel
I’m Not Telling You Anything You Don’t Already Know Still learning the audio thing. Not sure where those little noise blips come from.
Categories: audio, inspiration, personal growth, poetry, spirituality, transformation • Tags: higher consciousness
by rachel
I first wrote and posted this in February 2010. i will live a life without limitation ~ or i will not live at all i will love without restraint and eschew anyone else’s small cobbled version of love ~ or i will not love at all i will choose to be awake in every moment aware of every possibility conspicuously driven by an impeccable conviction of the heart ~ or I will lay myself down in a meadow of columbine […]
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by rachel
for everything now fallen away i bear responsibility for every delicious return to the table of earthly delights every soul-numbing morsel of dispossession inhaled, imbibed, every dark and slithery corner into which i stumbled and every moonlit mesa i traveled in the company of the all-knowing sky, i tell you now that i held the key, i turned the lock, and this I lay at the feet of no one save myself if I was led astray by so-called inner […]
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by rachel
I freely admit it. For all of our talk about non-attachment, I would love to receive notes from “Finders” who have been touched by our poetic offerings. One of our poetry emissaries sent me a most evocative rumination on this topic. I share it with permission and with great respect for the honesty and consciousness portrayed therein. You will understand why this person has no wish in being identified in any way. “I had the idea to leave the poem […]
Categories: inspiration, personal growth, poetry, spirituality, transformation, Words Divinely Wrought • Tags: higher consciousness
by rachel
Yes, I’m talking about the Words Divinely Wrought Global Poetry-Share… …and Yes, I’m talking about each of us who has chosen the oft-arduous, frequently frustrating path of awakening/ascension during this pivotal time in the evolution of humanity. First, poetry. I offered up the invitation for Words Divinely Wrought participants in this post on August 5. Since then, 20 people have joined our adventure and poems have been placed in Colorado, Pennsylvania, New York, California, Oregon, and Virginia in the US; […]
Categories: body mind & spirit, inspiration, personal growth, planetary shifts, poetry, spirituality, transformation, Words Divinely Wrought, writing & creativity • Tags: awakening, higher consciousness, unity consciousness
by rachel
While I finish up the latest update on the Words Divinely Wrought Global Poetry-Share, here’s a comforting dose of balance, calm, and wisdom from Lee Harris. I love his no-nonsense, quiet, intelligent way of speaking about the larger energies that are now affecting everyone, albeit in different ways. Definitely worth investing 15+ minutes of your day or night; then we’ll return to the poetry plantings now transpiring around the globe. (Archived posts may be found toward the bottom of the […]
Categories: body mind & spirit, inspiration, love, personal growth, planetary shifts, spirituality, transformation, video • Tags: higher consciousness
by rachel
i confess that i do not feel native to this blue-green orb and i confess that nonetheless i have come to appreciate my earthly existence the gentle dance of rain upon my skin trembling fingers entwined in my own the splendor of ripened fruit fresh from the tree i confess that much of my life has been marked by alienation that i have been judged and misunderstood and seemingly set aside as i sought to bring my very essence to […]
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by rachel
Astrophysicist Dr. Neil DeGrasse Tyson was asked by a reader of TIME magazine, “What is the most astounding fact you can share with us about the Universe?” This is his answer. Thank you to MaxSchlick for uploading this video, and thank you to http://www.the2012scenario.com for pointing me to this gem. Note: The “scenario” site presents what to some will be mind-boggling truths regarding the upheavals now taking place on our planet as humanity accelerates its evolution. If this is not […]
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by rachel
Today, March 9, this blog becomes four years old. This post first appeared here in August 2010, titled, “this is for those of us who weep.” This is for those of us who weep, Whose tears hasten the blush of new blooms For the young ones, the elders, for all our relations For the pain that punctuates this planet we call Home For the slings and arrows that have pierced us time and again and again Yet will never breach […]
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by rachel
In my multiverse, today feels like a bust-out day. (At last…) I could share with you the fact that I have been “in session” for days – supported by the energetic healings of Aleya Dao, whose daily “Cups of Consciousness” have become a staple of my evolutionary diet. Her most recent, one-hour “Tall Cups” healing/meditation for clearing Ancestral Issues and Lack has supported me in peeling away layer after layer after layer of inherited hoo-hah. (It’s fast becoming the most […]
Categories: body mind & spirit, health/healing, inspiration, personal growth, planetary shifts, spirituality, transformation, video • Tags: ascension, awakening, higher consciousness
by rachel
Clearly, this is no time for poetry. In fact, as I transition into 2012, I can practically see my poetry drifting out to sea, carried off by gentle waves. I’m not sure where it’s headed or when it might return to shore, and I’m okay with that. Much of it now feels prehistoric and somewhat irrelevant, in an age-appropriate sort of way. (As in, “The Ages,” not as in that chronological number braceleted to my wrist at birth.) I have […]
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by rachel
I can scarce remember when I wrote this. It seems as though it has been circulating here and there forever, and there is always a new wave of people ready to hear and embrace it. This past year, the piece was translated into Russian (and perhaps other languages as well?). I envision a crowd-sourced video version in which many different voices and languages (including ASL, eurhythmy, and other nonverbal expressions) are stitched together, woven into a global tapestry of personal […]
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by rachel
I first wrote and posted this poem in June 2010 and have edited it a bit here. (Some learning lasts a lifetime.) i’m learning that i’m not learning anything new – only choosing to remember a vast universe that I heretofore chose to forget (whether it was some intergalactic, ancient conspiracy or the fact that my slightly agoraphobic father kept us home if there was any possible chance of a thunderstorm within a 200-mile radius, doesn’t really matter) i’m learning […]
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by rachel
I wrote this poem in 2002, and first posted it on this site in 2008. Seems as true as it ever was. May all of us be the truth of who we are. No more, no less. Once again, the Hubble Telescope provides a tailor-made image: “Brilliant white core encircled by thick dust lanes…” Sound like anyone you know? In this time of miracles I recommit to faith To the power of All There Is To seeing beyond the physical […]
Categories: body mind & spirit, inspiration, personal growth, poetry, spirituality, transformation • Tags: higher consciousness, prayer, wisdom
by rachel
I know we’re not quite there yet. But in my part of the world, the snow is falling, the temperature plummeting, and, for me, the pull to go within no longer cuts me any slack. I just discovered this soul-stirring video from merhlin, which features music from composer John Boswell (who it appears is the “Hearts of Space” John Boswell and not the Symphony of Science John Boswell), along with poetry from the Wingmakers site (Poetry Chamber 24). I have […]
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by rachel
My tiny rural town of about 65 people has been beset with death, illness, and injury lately. One after another, a generation of elders is passing or rapidly declining. Several receive in-home support from a hospice/palliative care group; two family members with MS are in need of additional home support. A dear friend of mine in her 40s – who assists others with cleaning and cooking — remains comatose at a hospital 140 miles away, receiving dialysis and plasma replacements […]
Categories: body mind & spirit, inspiration, personal growth, poetry, spirituality, transformation • Tags: death, higher consciousness, life
by rachel
It was only six months ago that I first posted this poem, albeit with a different Matisse painting (“Open Window, Collioure” 1905). Today, the words carry a slightly different resonance, and so a new image invited itself onto the page. now the barren gives way to the blossom if you but untie the limp strings of your torn and tender heart and let it go the mountainous terrain of the past heaves and crumbles and in its stead soft valleys […]
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by rachel
TheSilverDubber integrates this evocative composition by “maverick cellist” David Darling with some unexpected yet pitch-perfect imagery. The result leaves me feeling sublimely unruffled on numerous levels. Might this be the galactic love child of the classic films “Contact” and “Close Encounters of the Third Kind?“
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by rachel
For every moment I have waited, Let me wait ten thousand moments more! Let me delight in the glory of the waiting And the exquisite expectancy it tenders. For every instance I knew the now was near Yet for reasons untold it was not mine to receive, Let me know that divinity still presides over a vast and loving universe And that patience rides a chariot whose name is endless joy. May trust and courage override the niggling fears that […]
Categories: body mind & spirit, inspiration, love, personal growth, poetry, spirituality, transformation • Tags: empowerment, higher consciousness, patience, prayer
by rachel
I suppose I am here for you, to hold your hand in mine and in the other, an outstretched lantern penetrates a narrow causeway And so gingerly together we take each step toes probing the darkness anticipating a slipslide of all we have believed is solid all that we believe will lift us out of the muck and into the miraculous all that we believe. I suppose you are here for me, to fill the bellows of my heart to […]
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by rachel
i no longer need to knock at locked doors they hold nothing for me now and the scars on my once-bandaged and bloodied hands have healed nicely (thanks for asking) i walk with honor through arched openings into the waiting arms of gracious invitations i stride smiles greet me, borne aloft by the weightlessness of opening hearts what took you so long? (the universal echo seeks no answer) i’m done working, striving, hoping, wishing waiting to be shown the unmistakable […]
Categories: body mind & spirit, inspiration, personal growth, planetary shifts, poetry, spirituality, transformation • Tags: awakening, higher consciousness
by rachel
As some of you know, I am never sure when rhyming poetry will show up, though it often brings with it a consolidating, smoothing energy after periods of static, confusion, or upheaval. Since I consider my poetic work to be divinely inspired, I simply let the words lead the way — and today, they want to rhyme! If this speaks to you, you may also enjoy the video featuring my poem, “What If An Angel Took Hold Of Your Hand?” […]
Categories: body mind & spirit, inspiration, love, personal growth, poetry, spirituality, transformation • Tags: angels, awakening, faith, higher consciousness
by rachel
New season, new moon, (Jewish) new year, whew! I’m observing some people get smeared all over the carpet – and others gently moving toward greater clarity and understanding of their next steps, new steps, you-can-do-it-too-steps. Even though this poem first appeared in August 2010, it’s bright and shiny and new for today. And you? This is no time for timid hearts For holding back your most precious gifts in the face of fear of retribution For wedging yourself into a […]
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by rachel
if you are seeking to be told which way to go, you are not truly seeking if your hanging on the hook is punctuated by a grasping need for ironclad elucidation, you have not yet surrendered your ego in service of the greater cause when you insist that your path resemble that of another, that your very evolution keep pace with your plans and appointments, that each and every pebble rapidly align itself in geometric symmetry, you will find yourself […]
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by rachel
I promise to walk the path that I always knew, deep inside, was mine – even when I was blinded by interference, fogged by hypnotic illusion, and momentarily forgot my way. I will remember that the map is etched upon my heart and readily accessible if I choose it so. I promise to trust the inklings of my heart and the urgings of my spirit without hesitation. I will invite my mind to the party as well, recognizing that wholeness […]
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by rachel
let yourself be led, not as sheep to the slaughter nor guided by a feeble hand gnarled by lifetimes grabbed and grasping the blank canvas possesses a multitude of expressions, and when you unloose seduction’s illusion of control, divest yourself of the implacable quest for understanding, revelation will shower you with a gentle, knowing mist. reason’s antediluvian yoke shoulders you unfailingly along a highway marked by fevered rutting, memory’s danse macabre holds you hamstrung in its spell, your impassioned struggle […]
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by rachel
Robert Wilkinson is so much more than a world-class astrologist – and this post, A Letter To A Spiritual Warrior Dealing With Widespread Uncertainty In Many Lands, reflects his wise and insightful approach to life. There’s not a single word of astrology here, though he does bring in some of his Eastern/Buddhist thinking while maintaining a universal tone. After being awakened in the night by a small yet unsettling earthquake in my tiny Colorado hamlet, these words of Robert’s brought […]
Categories: body mind & spirit, inspiration, personal growth, planetary shifts, spirituality, transformation • Tags: change, consciousness, higher consciousness, new paradigm
by rachel
This post appeared last year around this time, with a different image. Perhaps it will say something new to you – or echo something familiar in a surprising new way. please take a number and commit to remaining in line until service is rendered allow yourself simply to wait maintain a measured distance from the impatience that roils beside and beneath you, and know that your moment hangs imminent with arrival please relax every reflex that whiffs desperation unclench your […]
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by rachel
This is not the last time you will hear this: Life hands you choice after choice, Opting in for the wonderful does not command bliss without consequence Even relegating yourself to the march of chaos is an invitation for daylight to enter Unadorned, radiance aches to tickle skin beneath your sleeve This does not mean that the sheets will fold upon themselves, Your liberation brings the power and freedom to tend to life’s every nuance The mundane is a cradle […]
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by rachel
This post has been taking shape for six months — and now, its time has come. No more holding back for fear that these words will somehow disrespect or appear to discredit the fine, fine work of so many gifted individuals — or the concomitant fear that my more mainstream readers will instantly label, judge, and distance themselves from me. For many years, I have followed, admired, honored, and put great stock in the wisdom, comfort, and joy brought forth […]
Categories: body mind & spirit, inspiration, personal growth, planetary shifts, spirituality, transformation • Tags: channelling, empowerment, higher consciousness, new paradigm, wisdom
by rachel
Thanks to souldipper for pointing me back toward this poem, which I wrote and posted in October 2010, graced by John Singer Sargent’s loose-limbed “Spanish Dancer.” Seems I invariably end up back at Bouguereau when I go trolling for images: note the woman has now shed her clothes! I live in a drought-stricken, dusty place, and, as a double Piscean, I tend to bring my own water (and fluidity) with me wherever I go. Dare I say I relate to […]
Categories: body mind & spirit, inspiration, personal growth, planetary shifts, poetry, spirituality, transformation • Tags: change, higher consciousness, spirituality, wisdom
by rachel
Just for fun, I perused what I was posting last May (2010), and stumbled upon this piece. Hmmm, seems to be quite apropos for “this current Now” as well. I added one word, along with this image from a recent hike with a friend. Also, OT: My book Words of Wisdom for Women is in stock and on sale at bn.com. Feeling a certain sense of urgency, a quickening coupled with a tremulous entry into a new dimensional framework? Or […]
Categories: body mind & spirit, inspiration, personal growth, planetary shifts, spirituality, transformation • Tags: ascension, awakening, higher consciousness, new paradigm, wisdom
