“Do not remain in sorrow and doubt, for his Grace will guide and comfort you. He is calling upon us to become fully human,” Mary Magdalene, The Gospel of Mary Magdalene ~The Gnostic Gospels.
In walking the path of fully embodying our divinity and humanity — bringing God and Love into the center of our hearts, minds, bodies and lives — we will come face to face with the chaos and wildness that we most fear and suppress. We will be asked to have an authentic relationship with our spiritual, sexual and sensual selves. We will be brought into connection with our own natural wildness and unpredictability. We will experience an intimate relationship with life and with others and will experience the beauty, the chaos and the vulnerability that is inherent in nature. This is where we will discover the Presence of Love…of God. This is where we will enact a powerful and palpable and embodied faith. This is where we will fulfill Yeshua’s commandment, “Love one another, as I am loving you.”
James Nelson writes in his book Between Two Gardens: Reflections on Sexuality and Religious Experience: “The mystery of sexuality is the mystery of the human need to reach out for the physical and spiritual embrace of others. Sexuality thus expresses God’s intention that people find authentic humanness not in isolation but in relationship.” Whether we are single or married, gay or straight, it is in that messy, demanding, confounding, delightful chaos of human relationships that we find our way to God.
It was one year ago this March that I set out to awaken in love, to awaken my own Sacred Heart and to discover the path, the process, the principles of living an embodied Love. My journey over the last year has brought me face to face with areas of my life and aspects of my self that I had previously judged or held as separate from God. Now, more than ever, I believe it is critical that we bring an embodied faith that includes sexuality, intimacy, eroticism, authenticity, community, relationship and love into the heart of our religious and spiritual practices and discussions. We are not meant to hide these aspects of ourselves and our lives “under a bushel” for they hold the aliveness and the ripeness of God and need to be recovered, remembered and reclaimed in the light of our individual and collective wholeness. As I make peace with these aspects of myself, I bring peace to the world. It is from this place of embodiment that we can do as Yeshua said, “I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father.” (John 14:12)
I am grateful for this assignment of learning the path of embodiment, walking the path and undergoing the transformations to fully embody my own divinity and humanity. This is the path of the undivided. I invite you to join me in this journey into Sacred Love.
Amen.
{This video blog is the first in a series of three.)
There is so much magnificence near the ocean. Waves are coming in, Waves are coming in, Hallelujah, hallelujah. ~ Miten ~
There is so much magnificence near the ocean…in the ocean. I sat for hours staring into the ocean this afternoon and into the evening. I sat on a long, smooth log on the shore, sun shining on my face, looking out and into the waves…crashing, tumbling, rolling, colliding, advancing, retreating, lapping, licking, swirling, swaying. I felt the Power, I felt the Presence moving through her…moving through me…and with each moment I felt myself grow stronger, I felt myself rejuvenate, reconnect, remember, resurrect. There is so much magnificence near the ocean and today I was there to see it, to feel it and to bring it into my own body, through my breath, through my eyes, through my skin, through my desire.
At one point my eyes were drawn downward to some small, white, bead-like pebbles that were laying in the sand. I knelt down and picked one up to hold in my hand. It was tiny…like a “grain” of sea salt. As I rolled it between my fingers and into my palm I heard: “This is the amount of faith required to move the mountain. Do you have this much faith?” I smiled and felt the pebble in my hand. “Yes, I have this much faith.” “Then the mountain will be moved…then the mountain is moved. It is done, accomplished.” I smiled again and exhaled…I have been needing to exhale…working so hard to hold it together, figure it out…and today, today I relaxed into the deep knowing that all is well…that in all matters of my life, this Life…all is well.
The Power that moves and animates the ocean…is the same Power that moves and animates you and I. We can trust that Power…we can tap that Power…I am that…I AM. I gathered at least 100 of those tiny pebbles for others…knowing that we all need to remember that if we have faith the size of a mustard seed and take one step in faith…God will take 100 towards us. Move mountain…and it moves. Nothing will be impossible when we remember that the Ocean, the Presence, the Power lies within us.
I invite you to take a trip to the ocean, sit with a tree, gaze on a flower, smell the scent of Spring…let love find you, let faith move you, let God’s sweet Universe remind, restore, resurrect you.
Thank you Grandmother Ocean for re-membering me today. There is so much magnificence near the ocean…in the ocean…in me. Amen.
Matthew 17:20
If you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.
We are being called to make a full surrender into Love, into Faith, into Grace…to leave all of our misconceptions of separation, illusions of scarcity and lack on the cross. A full surrender will be required to initiate a resurrection into our wholeness, our collective oneness. Tonight on this eve of the holy resurrection, I make my own full surrender into the arms of Love. I hold nothing back, I give it all to God. I lay it down, I surrender to Love. My separated self cannot survive the turmoil of the divided life one second more. My Soul is calling me into the life of oneness, of peace, of joy and of deep and sustained love. I am ready to hang it on the cross…whatever the it or the its are that keep me from rising into full, embodied Presence. I give it up, I release, I let go. I accept my own salvation, my own wholeness, my own risen, Christic Self.
I do this on behalf of myself and for all sentient beings, knowing what is claimed in the name of Love, is claimed in the name of all. Let us rise up together in our collective wholeness, let us experience the bliss of resurrected Love. Dear God, bring us into the radical love, the radical forgiveness, the radical compassion that Yeshuademonstrated so beautifully, so boldly during his life…and especially at his death. Let us do as he did, let us teach only Love. And so it is. Amen.
This was the message on a bumper sticker that caught my attention tonight as I was driving home from the store. “The Future is Organic.” I followed the little red car for a couple of blocks before it turned and kept repeating to myself…the future is organic. As I allowed the words to sink in…a calm sensation swept over me. I think most often we think of the future as being either uncertain or somehow fixed. I like the idea of the future being organic…in the flow, undetermined…in tune and attuned…on time, in time…the right time and open for a miraculous change in direction and perception at any moment.
The future is organic…the seeds planted in our heart and mind today will bear fruit at some point in the future. What we tend to and attend to…what we nurture with our focus and intention will organically unfold in time. I am comforted by this knowing…that keeping my heart and mind on God…on Love…will organically create my life…effortlessly, gracefully without struggle, force or masterminding. I remember Mary ManinMorrissey often saying…”it is your job to claim the what, it is the Universe’s job to determine the how and the when.”
I have planted many seeds in the past 9 months…my deepest and most essential heart’s desires have taken root in my core. My work as an author, teacher and healer are unfolding. I am here to teach the path of embodiment…to bring Love and God into the body…embodying the Presence with our presence, moment to moment. I am here to reclaim sexuality, sensuality and eroticism as Holy aspects of God’s Kingdom. I am here to learn to love…myself, God and others. I am here to become Love.
And, we can rest in the deep knowing that the future is organic. Growing, unfolding, blossoming, dying, resurrecting, rising. Let us seek first the indwelling Kingdom of Love and leave the future to the One who is the master gardener of our dreams.
Be still and know I Am. Be still and know the future is organic. Amen.
I believe this is the essential shift that we find ourselves within today — this is the essential shift I find myself within today…how to embody the Presence of God…how to allow the Presence of Love to grow stronger than the presence of fear, the ego? Now is the time for an embodied spiritual and sexual awakening that will usher in the energies of love, creativity, unity and peace that we are so hungry for. I hear Yeshua urging us on…”be not afraid, for I am with you.” Ameyn. “Breathing God” is a short video blog from this week. Enjoy! Love, Anakha
How can we free ourselves from the prisons of the mind and fully embody the Divine Presence in each moment? How can we activate the creative Life Force within our own Presence to powerfully create a life of Soul fulfillment? With the premiere of James Twyman’s new movie, The Moses Code (www.themosescode.com), it is clear that we are ready to make an essential shift, liberating ourselves from the Pharaoh of Fear and fully inhabiting the Divine Presence, the Promised Land, within our own lives. Watch “Manifesting the I AM THAT, I AM” in this video blog.
I found this writing in my journal from July 11 & 12 2007 — the second day of my 40 day retreat. I was sitting on a cement bench at the Shell gas station in Talent, OR. It was 105 degrees and I was drinking a big bottle of Earth2o. I had come into town to see Delayne and Lee as they passed through in their Tab trailer…they had sold Blue Moon and were en route to their new home in Mexico.
I wanted to share these writings as they were the first teachings I received from Yeshua during my time in retreat. Enjoy!
*************** 7/11/07 (I am transcribing these notes just as they were scribbled in my sacred heart journal).
Naked Heart….Naked Soul…Everyday Mystic awareness so far pace…natural rhythms, heartbeat, the breath…this is the pace of the sacred heart, of love, a “care-full-ness” from isness is born fullness of heart…enabling us to care …truly love and extend love to self, other, planet, etc. Moving at an unnatural or forced pace desensitizes the heart, overrides the bodies natural functioning and well being…our organs naturally move into self-protection, self-preservation mode that the stress creates. This is also where craving or addictions or distortion begin, the body’s way of trying to preserve balance in a stressed way. The body…impacted by the emotions created by stress, begins to crave artificial means to keep the pace…caffeine, sugar, pills, drugs or to relax and ground, alcohol, nicotine or even to try to connect.
Pace changes frequency, slow the pace to native state and frequency increases. Stress the pace well beyond native state and frequency will decrease.
Ahimsa…nonviolence…true nature of the sacred heart. Neither for or against…rooted in love…mountain pose, upright, empowered stance of love…clear focus, certain of purpose…no need to attack or defend…true power of gentle strength…humility, humus of the earth…in this place thinking, planning, striving, anticipating subside, subservient to the heart…ahimsa…to be rooted in Alaha..sacred unity, the web…requires the pace of love, breath, heartbeat, alahahuba, alahasheba…authentic needs are met because we are moving at the pace of universal good.
I am grateful for my reconciled nature, ahimsa, nonviolence rooted in sacred unity. Thank you Yeshua for the restoration of ahimsa in my soul, in my core. Ameyn.
This truly is the most important, most blessed gift which I have needed. Yeshua: I know my daughter-sister-bride, Ahimsa.
