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Rhythm Ritual and Resonance

July 8, 2024

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Rhythm and ritual go hand in hand, ritual is always rhythmic and measured. Any rhythmic activity can be characterized as ritual as long as the ritual is being performed with a clear sense of the sacred. When the goal is to raise one’s vibratory rate, the ritual becomes a magical high tuning to the divine. Deliberate ritual is a group activity and provides protection. Ancient writings speak about rituals involving rhythmic movements of the body that create various geometrical shapes, of the rhythmic swaying of bodies and arms designed to harness cosmic currents. The ritual spinning of Whirling Dervishes is one beautiful example of modern day rituals involving a devotional activity and a sense of the sacred. On a more mundane level, the rituals of weddings, funerals, graduations, births, deaths and so on, are familiar to all as group activities which hold deeper meanings.

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The Everyday Road to the Soul

June 10, 2024

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Another everyday concept is love. But not love as we have likely been taught. Sentiment has its place, but if we are talking about the kind of love utilized by our soul, we must take the concept out of its human sheath and approach the needy world in a new way. Alice Bailey, in one of her lectures on the myth of Hercules, put it like this, starting with the well-known words of the Christ: A new commandment I give you, that you must love one another. “This is no sentiment… let us be loving and kind. That is just decent behavior! The love that the Christ enunciated is an intelligent understanding and appreciation of the need of the individual, just as you find him.” The words just as you find him need to take hold of us as we pursue the path of our soul. It’s not our need to save or love that should be our focus, but the need of the individuals we engage with.

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