Hello fellow pilgrims
How lovely to connect with you again as we walk side by side along the trail. I do hope you are well and enjoying the adventure so far.
I’m very happy and grateful that so many of you have joined me here and am sending an extra warm welcome to those who have just subscribed. As most of you know I am new to Substack and am testing the waters in terms of what I offer. I intend to share on subjects that I am curious about, so that we can explore together what it really means to live an awakened and spiritually connected life.
There will also be offerings of simple rituals and practices to weave into your daily routine, that will support you to deepen into life (but these are of course optional extras).
If you haven’t yet joined us in the Substack chat, it’s a great way to connect with other like hearted Souls on the trail. I will be lighting the fire there regularly for us to take a rest and gather around, to share what’s in our hearts, minds and pulling at our Soul. This is a safe space where we can show both our light and shadow sides, plus share our wisdom and confusion with each other. A place to say, ‘I really don’t know, I’m clueless’, and that be ok. It’s an opportunity to share some of your own wisdom if you wish, or simply to listen, learn and be still together, as we bask in the warm glow of the fire’s light, and remember all that we are and are not.
What has really touched me so far on this pilgrim’s trail, is the kindness and open-hearted vulnerability of everyone’s shares. No mean reactive comments or a need to be right or to win. Simply a group of Spirits having a human experience and trying to navigate it as Grace-Fully as they can. How precious and beautiful is that!?
My hope is that we continue to be tender with each other along the trail and beyond. That the Love we share here expands inside all of us, and then ripples out far and wide to those who need it. Especially the ‘arseholes’, as they probably need more Love than most. I hope that we dare to Love each other with a capital L, and to share this Love brazenly, without limits.
This is my hope, my wish, and my prayer.
And so it is…..
Phase 2 - When Life starts to get really interesting….
During the course of a lifetime (if we are lucky to be here long enough), we will go through various developmental stages as we progress from newborn baby to toddler, young child, pre-teen into adolescence and eventually adulthood, (although let’s face it not everyone makes it to become an adult!). There are also phases that follow adulthood, which include Eldership and becoming an Ancestor, but not everyone understands these pivotal roles (more on that soon).
When viewing our life from a more transpersonal/spiritual perspective, we can see that there are also many phases we must move through to become the person we were always meant to be. For ease here I am focusing on dividing our adult human story into two key phases to help us understand how this progression from phase 1 to phase 2 of our lives, is as essential as us growing from a baby to a toddler.
Phase 1
Phase 1 of life is an ‘outside in’ approach to living. It’s the ego led years whereby we are often looking outside of ourselves for fulfilment and a sense of identity. The partner, the family, career and money, the house, car, the shoes etc. Shiny things. They all seem so important somehow and in phase 1 I guess they are. It is during this stage that we are big on goals, achievement, comparison, and expectations. It is here that we often get distracted by details. The ‘she said, he said, I should’ kind of details. Our life situation is like a juicy TV drama that we get completely absorbed in, (bingeworthy), whereby we are both actor and audience. We can get so completely lost in it that we believe it is real, and therefore very important. Reality TV.
And then…..