Intuitive Whispers is Growing!

I'm looking forward to expanding Intuitive Whispers and creating an overflowing reservoir of inspiration...From time to time I will be including guest Authors and Artists, Intuitive Energy Artwork pieces and reflections on the everyday wildly creative human journey...Intuitive Whispers is not about being more spiritual it's about finding the courage to be fully human...It's about consciously making the decision to open our hearts to receive love. So many people I have met up with in my lifetime give love so freely but they often stop themselves from receiving love and in a way they are grossly neglecting themselves in love's energy exchange...

Centripetal Force

I love the explosion of colour and movement in the above image. I just can't stand the hands...

When I was a kid my dad use to take me to the park after dinner and for awhile my favourite piece of equipment was the merry-go-round. You know those death traps with the full metal bottom that sat six inches off the ground. They could spin up to like a hundred miles an hour and if you drank a blue slush puppy just before your ride you ran the risk of tossing Smurf cookies through your nose! Well my dad was a man of brains not brawn and in response to my squeals of delight and yelling Daddy push me faster, one day he said “I’m tired kiddo.” “Pleeeeeease” I begged I wanted to feel the wind in my hair, close my eyes and hang my head upside down just for the simple childhood fact that it felt so good to play! As the ride slowed down I remember catching glimpses of my dad as it slowly turned and thinking he’s not lying, he is tired today, and I hopped off and said “that’s okay let’s go home, maybe we can come back tomorrow and you can push me really really fast!” I said as I started walking away. He said “Wait you know there is a way you can make this ride go fast!” “Really, How?” I inquired. “By using a special kind of force it’s called centripetal force. You see I’ll get you going and push a little bit as you stay here on the edge of the ride I will tell you when to move into the centre. As you move into the centre the centripetal force will speed you up!” I looked into his eyes that were twinkling so bright from his scientific enthusiasm that I knew he wasn’t lying...I hopped back on and yelled “okay start her up! Wait, wait I said jumping off I’m scared! Is this the same force Yoda uses because I don’t want to fly into outer space!” “No” my dad assured me. So I jumped on and held on really tight and listened carefully to my dad’s instructions. I was surprised and tickled with sheer joy that it actually worked, I wasn’t going really fast but it was working! I felt myself speeding up when I walked into the middle and slowing down when I walked backwards out to the edge. I remember feeling like I was in control of that ride and I loved playing with centripetal force.

As an avid spiritual seeker I've found myself to be back on that ride quite a few times in my adulthood...and sitting right in the middle of this cosmic merry-go-round is God/Source. I see we are all on this ride; we are all on a journey into the centre. Some people are ahead and close to the middle and some behind each one of us though is exactly where we are meant to be. On the way home from the park that day I asked my dad how does that work? He explained it, and I tried my hardest to grasp what he was saying but his language and the theory not to mention the whole bloody formula was well beyond my understanding. I said "that’s okay, I know what centripetal force feels like so I guess it doesn't matter that I don't understand how it works right?" I got a funny look, I use to get "that look" a lot, followed by silence that use to lead me to feeling a little bit uncomfortable. I now realize that was his discomfort in that moment that quite possibly I had inspired him to think about things in a different way. Just as it was intellectually impossible for me to understand centripetal force at the age of eight, I know it is just as impossible for me to fully comprehend God/Source while I am in my human form. I’m sticking to my eight year old conclusion though that I know what God/Source feels like and therefore my direct experience’s become my Truth and matter more to me than all those theories...by the way Centripetal force comes from Latin centrum "center" and petere "to seek" I chuckled as I read that definition and realized even though I grew up in a home that valued science over religion and spirituality God/Source was very much present. Always supporting me, in every step of the way in seeking the centre of my Being.

Spring Cleaning...

I spent the entire day yesterday spring cleaning, shredding papers, and purging literally thousands of snippets of inspiration that did not make it into full fruition...I am an artist and writer and to make it even more complicated I am a student and teacher of the process of creativity, not just on the paper but how that translates into our everyday lives. What I realized is that being a creative being is a messy process...life is messy and that's okay. I'm celebrating this weekend that I can actually now get just as much enjoyment out of cleaning up as I do in making the mess. I have another Intuitive Whispers blog that I am laying to rest...I wish I could shred that too, and transform it into handmade paper for my artwork as that is the plan for the all the shredding I did yesterday. Instead I'm closing that account and moving here to this space, and my intentions are to discipline myself to undertake the daily ritual of honoring “time” in order to extract the nugget of gold or kernel of deep spiritual Truth in each of my creations and experiences.

I feel that I have been working at overcoming a whole lot of fear around expressing myself in this format for a while now...It's one thing to admit my craziness and inner chaos to myself, why the heck do I want to be sharing it with the rest of the world? I feel there is some truth in that the world wants to know whats going on deep inside of me just like I have a sincere desire to know what is going on inside other people.

I'm tired of the ego-level power plays and games. IMHO the world is being given an opportunity to grow up and humanity is still holding onto it's temper tantrumming toddler hood as we have not learned yet to Trust...We haven't learned to trust ourselves and the process of life itself. I'm not all doom and gloom though. I also see that a lot of people have progressed through this stage and have found a deep sense of peace and joy in their lives. If you made your way to this blog, I trust you are ready to experience life from a deeper perspective...and celebrate the fact that we can grow so deeply by being firmly grounded to the earth while touching eternity. I love this video Oriah Mountain Dreamer and John Mayer...and encourage you to read Oriah's words with your whole Being...Invite yourself to start trusting the wisdom of your own Soul to Say what you need to say! I welcome feedback...all kinds of feedback! I am a real person that likes to hear if I have touched you and I am longing to know your perspective on this whole human experience too...