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Creating Bridges: Spirituality & Philosophy:
Wisdom Walks In Circles:
Memory Stretching
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I had a dream a few months ago that remains with me, lingering on the misty fields of memory. This dream continues to instruct and inspire me.
In the dream, I find myself in a cave. This is the same cave I wrote about in a meditative exercise I provided in an online course. Revisiting the cave in my dream coaxed me to wake up while dreaming and to pay attention. What I mean by waking up in the dream is to lucidly become aware that I am dreaming. This awareness occurs when I notice or sense something very familiar or important to me. It moves me from being a passive onlooker to becoming an active participant in the dream.
As in the meditation journey, an old woman’s face appeared to be carved out of the inner rock wall of the cave. She said, “This time you live in is like having your head sucked into a vacuum.” Following her statement, a vacuum appeared nearby and the hair on my head stood stiffly on end, being drawn toward the sucking motor. At first it felt pleasing, like a scalp massage. But then the suction grew more intense and disconcerting because my head elongated as my skull stretched in response. I awoke with a start. It was nearly dawn, and I lay in bed still experiencing this dreamy state of heightened awareness.
Life Reviews
The feeling of expanded awareness lingered on long after the dream receded. I discovered that my memories began to feel enlarged, as if examined under a microscope. This expanded view took on intense symbolic meaning. I pondered my memories and sensed there was space for reflection between them. I marveled at the many interconnections and how my thoughts were aligned to draw me into a series of deeply personal revelations. I allowed for the archetypal, the undercurrent of meaning, to come forth and inform me.
This odd sensation of having stretched my memories led me to a inspired desire. I wanted to speak to everyone I ever knew and talk about their meaning in my life. I wanted to review the intricacies of every relationship and marvel at the profound guidance that each provided. I felt compelled to express my appreciation for these precious jewels of memory. And guess what? The phone started ringing and my email began to pile up with messages from people I haven’t spoken to in many long years. There was only love at the other end of those conversations.
No Deathbed Conversations
I have made a promise to myself. It came on the wings of this wonderful dream. I will not have deathbed conversations except to say goodbye and I love you. I will have all my other lengthy, sometimes painful, but always revealing, pre-death bed conversations whenever the opportunity arises. I will not hold back. I will speak up and speak lovingly in the moment for this is a risk worth taking. In the end there is only love.
People talk about death being an ally, a constant companion in life. Intellectually we know this to be true. But what if we lived it with a sense of urgency in every moment? How rich our lives would be without repression and resignation. I am not opposed to mental filtering of thought and feelings, and the discipline of examining issues from within. However, what I’ve learned from memory stretching is to truly value the outer reflection of the inner life via the mirroring of relationships. Something organic happens when we take the inner perception and plunge it into the exterior chaos of life. We lose control over the outcome. We enter a field of the unknown when we say what we are truly thinking and feeling in the moment. Those are flashes of light intensive revelations.
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Margaret Lewis,
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Margaret Hart Lewis is a spiritual healer who works with individuals and groups who want to release their past wounds, revive their spiritual energy and vision, and feel inspired to realize their highest potential.
Margaret is a spiritual pathfinder, consulting with those who seek spiritual direction. A session with Margaret consists of instruction for accessing personal pathways of spiritual guidance, inner journeys for self-healing and soul retrieval, intuitive coaching, trauma and abuse recovery, and self-development tools for personal empowerment.
To learn about Margaret's Services, please visit, www.margarethartlewis.
com/services.html
To read about Margaret's Books, please visit, www.margarethartlewis.
com/books_by_margaret
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To find out the details of Margaret's online courses, please visit, www.wisdomwalks.com/
Services/courses.html
To contact Margaret, email her at margaret@
margarethartlewis.com
In my upcoming online course, we will explore each of the gateways offered by the Traveler, Hermit, Avatar and Sage. Together, we will discover the wisdom that lies within you. Please join me for this course at www.wisdomwalks.com from March 4-31, 2007.
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