First of all, that sense of “feeling” the love of the
Universe has stayed with me since the other day, and how appreciative I am. It’s
interesting to take a quick scan of sixty years: my first twenty-five years
were immersed in the glorious words and music (but distant God) of The Book of
Common Prayer. I cleared the decks, and
for at least another twenty-five, I wandered in the proverbial desert and
tried, willy-nilly, to connect with any existential meaning I could find. Around ten years ago, I discovered the law of
attraction, and resonated increasingly with this articulation of a magnetic, loving Source
but it was all kind of intellectual.
Now, finally, I’m a mere three days into feeling that love, and, hey, if that’s the path I needed to take, it was all
worth it. It makes me laugh that
it took coming almost full circle and channeling the energy of a gaggle
of heroic, medieval Julian of Norwich-style mystics and queens, who seem to be communicating the energetic equivalent of “You go, girl!” I suppose all of us have a unique cheering
section somewhere up there in the stars, but it’s like a radio station, until
you tune into the right one for you, it’s all static. Anyway, glad to have these wonderful women on board!
Another focus this week was my reaction to a media
reference to Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs.
You know the concept, that humans are motivated first to fill basic
needs of housing, food, etc., and once those are met, we can move up the ladder to
love, increasingly fulfilling work, recognition, then (all the other steps
having been successfully achieved) finally self-actualization and connectedness
with the Divine. I’ll spare you the
lengthy deconstruction (there’s nothing I do better than picking apart old
paradigms!) Let’s just say that this
model has never worked for me. Whenever
I have tried to focus on securing basic needs in a traditional way, all I’ve
managed to create was, yup, basic neediness. Law of attraction works so well! I question whether this model,
created in the aftermath of the Great Depression, is still valid at all in
these fast-paced times, but particularly for us right brain/creative/mystical
types. The Liz model wouldn’t be hierarchical at all; it would be a circle
with the individual aligned with their power source in the center, from which
they would attract their best “work/expressive”
opportunities, respect, love, and basic necessities. Just putting it out there…
Lastly, thanks to the Tut “Infinite Possibilities 30-Day
Project,” which brought some focus to a process that I had already started on
my own. I have been writing intensively,
“creating” a scenario where I am living in the optimum place for my interests,
busy, abundant, healthy, learning, singing, thinking, writing, working, growing, loving and totally
alive. I can describe this life with such
amazing clarity that it almost feels like it has been in place all along. According to the New Physics, perhaps it has
been. Actually, I could have described
it to a tee 40 years ago, but I just didn’t believe I had the power, the access
to the power, or the worthiness to permanently live the life that was right for
me. That is shifting. Wow.
February 2016? Can’t wait!
Seriously. Let’s all keep going,
friends!