JANUARY 2025
As we start 2025 - which I am sure will be a “wild” year of various powerful humans “acting out” - I want to give us experiences where we can remember that there are visible and invisible energies greater than mankind’s. I want to expand our consciousness to the point where we are connecting to and drawing on some of that great natural power.
So I give you The Field, Meadow and Superconscious.
Enjoy!
Dream BIG, you ARE magic…
Jess
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THE FIELD - 25 minutes
MEADOW - 25 minutes
SUPERCONSCIOUS - 13 minutes
"Hard times are coming, when we’ll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope. We’ll need writers who can remember freedom — poets, visionaries — realists of a larger reality."
-Ursula K. Le Guin
"Fortunately, some are born with spiritual immune systems that sooner or later give rejection to the illusory worldview grafted upon them from birth through social conditioning. They begin sensing that something is amiss, and start looking for answers. Inner knowledge and anomalous outer experiences show them a side of reality others are oblivious to, and so begins their journey of awakening.
Each step of the journey is made by following the heart instead of following the crowd and by choosing knowledge over the veils of ignorance."
- Henri Bergson
“Picture yourself in a giant labyrinth. Billions of other people are also in the labyrinth, but it is so large and wild that you only see a minuscule fraction of them. At the end of the labyrinth is a nebulous It, a prize with no concrete existence, that means something slightly different to each of the maze’s travelers. You sometimes worry as you wander through the maze if you’ll ever reach It, or if there even is an It. You see some people running through the maze, knocking others over in the process, thirsty to finally discover It. Some people aren’t even moving at all, just hanging out, sitting against one of the tall hedges within the maze.
You can choose to judge the people who are unlike you in how they approach the maze’s challenge. Or, you can talk to them, show them respect and try to learn something from them as you work your way through the maze. You may find yourself in a standstill at times, or in a sprint.
What must be remembered over all else is that you’re in a maze. You’re part of the game, and it’s not just your game– it’s everyone’s. And you know you are intelligent enough to realize that most people could not possibly play it like you do. So enjoy it.”
- Charlie Ambler
The great miraculous bell of translucent ice is suspended in mid-air.
It rings to announce endings and beginnings. And it rings because there is fresh promise and wonder in the skies.
Its clear tones resound in the placid silence of the winter day, and echo long into the silver-blue serenity of night.
The bell can only be seen at the turning of the year, when the days wind down into nothing, and get ready to march out again.
When you hear the bell, you feel a tug at your heart.
It is your immortal inspiration.
- Vera Nazarian
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xoxo Jess