Supporting Non-Duality and Awakening in Asheville and Beyond

October 2009 Blog Posts (72)

WHAT IS NOT ENLIGHTENMENT?

I am passing through this URL and the text below, as it is so well written and us brothers and sisters will appreciate the honesty of Michael Brown's writing. Please refer to the link to the referenced web site below.

WHAT IS NOT ENLIGHTENMENT?

By Michael Brown

ALL SEEKING TO EVOLVE INTO THEIR FULLEST POTENTIAL COME FACE TO FACE WITH THE… Continue

Added by Howard McQueen on October 11, 2009 at 10:13am — 1 Comment

"IT'S NOT ABOUT FEELING BETTER - IT'S ABOUT GETTING BETTER AT FEELING"

This below quote from the Presence Process author, Michael Brown and is available through his web site, THE PRESENCE PORTAL.

"It’s not about feeling better – it’s about getting better at feeling."

I forwarded my intent to manifest an Asheville Presence Circle to Michael Brown, and he strongly advises against any kind of support group. Below is a copy of his email to… Continue

Added by Howard McQueen on October 11, 2009 at 10:02am — No Comments

INNER AUTHENTICITY

© 2009 Howard McQueen

We've got our intimacy with the inner inauthentic -

gently surrounded.

We are shoring up our circle of Love energies

energizing our heart centers

learning by practicing surrendering, unconditionally.

We sense an indescribably, palpable potentiality

for breaking free of these handicapping, habitual-ities

that stymie and atrophy our imagination,

imprison us in our adolescent, emotional conditioning.

We are… Continue

Added by Howard McQueen on October 10, 2009 at 6:30am — No Comments

AUTHENTICITY HAS NO EXPIRY

(C) 2009 Howard McQueen

Your inner essence is quietly whispering

"I can only be of service to thee

if you surrender your control

and let life be our Mystery.

I will show you a lifeline

out of the maelstrom of your misery

into an every deepening acceptance

of our Mystery.

You will be empowered by your authenticity,

by letting us tend to the artistry

reshaped from your surrendered energies.

Step into yourself in this… Continue

Added by Howard McQueen on October 9, 2009 at 8:30pm — No Comments

JOURNEY, NOT DESTINATION

(c) 2009 Howard McQueen

Our life experience is this

journey into the unknowing.

Feeling incapable of sustaining this experience,

we fabricate destinations,

reward-oriented goals and milestones:

- make a lot of money

- have a great orgasm

- appear ultra competent

- ...

and we keep controlling to keep having ...

and we freak when there appears to be

a cessation, or not enough.

All are… Continue

Added by Howard McQueen on October 9, 2009 at 5:00pm — No Comments

THROUGH US, NOT TO US

(c) 2009 Howard McQueen

The belief that the physical world

is happening to us,

rather than through us,

creates a mountain of mischief.

The perception and interpretation

of what is happening outside

is all a matter for our interior

to shape and decide.

Our emotional discomfort is the lens,

the pain body, the active agent

that hi-jacks our awareness

and our thinking mind make-believes

the physical world

is out… Continue

Added by Howard McQueen on October 9, 2009 at 4:53pm — No Comments

THE PRESENCE PROCESS, BY MICHAEL BROWN

A transformational book, The Presence Process is both an introductory as well as an experiential lesson book in becoming present. This just may be the book to begin implementing "The Power of Now" into our being - HM.

The integrative Approach

by Michael Brown

(excerpted from the book, The Presence… Continue

Added by Howard McQueen on October 8, 2009 at 9:00am — No Comments

SPIRIT KIDNAPPER-SABOTEUR

(c) 2009 Howard McQueen

The sacred body-mind relationship

short-circuited and kidnapped

and the crime

immaculately covered over.

The ego-mind now installed as confidant

exposed as secret-agent-man,

gestapo, dark SS Nazi oppressive synergy.

"I am the creator and sustainer

of all your indispensable,

external worldly creature comforts and securities"

proclaims the bravado of ego.

More covertly, its modus… Continue

Added by Howard McQueen on October 7, 2009 at 10:00pm — No Comments

DIETING (NOT BINGING) ON NOURISHING SEX

c) 2009 Howard McQueen

A special diet-conscious potluck lunch was enjoyed by four of us the other day.

- home made chicken and vegetable soup

- Caesar salad (dressing optional, romaine with a drizzling of balsamic reduction for those observing a cheese-free diet)

- gluten-free baked crackers

Two of the four at lunch had returned from their their ten day shamanic cleansing rituals. A new member to the luncheon group opened up conversation around the… Continue

Added by Howard McQueen on October 7, 2009 at 8:00am — No Comments

AWAKENING IN MAN

An old Sufi proverb states: “God sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and awakens in man.”

Added by Howard McQueen on October 6, 2009 at 7:01am — 1 Comment

UNCONDITIONAL LOVE AS CONTAINER FOR FORGIVENESS

Added by Howard McQueen on October 6, 2009 at 6:51am — No Comments

COLLEAGUES IN LOVE

© 2009 Howard McQueen

May the rarest gems of beauty leap from your heart’s mind

onto paper, into landscape, through your voice, and into the world.

May the essence of what you really are

marinate and resonate in the Oneness

deeply within your heart and inner space.

You are the pure, radiant Joy of Creation

We are all colleagues in Love

emerging from the darkness of the dream.

Welcome back, my brothers and my sisters.

Here… Continue

Added by Howard McQueen on October 6, 2009 at 6:30am — No Comments

HANDICAPPED UNREST

© 2009 Howard McQueen

No clue what to do with this taboo of anger

I am looking sick, so leave me alone.

I sense disconnection, this sickness

reaching deep into my bones.

So many questions, so much advice

I vacillate from ambivalence to a nightmarish fright

Pretty pissed off

shouldering these feelings of helplessness and despair.

The shame, collapsed anger, the big taboo.

I project victims: Pick one you like, something that… Continue

Added by Howard McQueen on October 6, 2009 at 6:30am — No Comments

WE RIDE ON OUR BLESSINGS, OR CURSES

We ride on our own blessings,

along with all the other noble steeds -

aroused by the provocations of our teachers and predecessors

A friend in Arizona recently cited the bolded line above and provided the following response.

Of particular significance to me this day is the line: "We ride on our own blessings." Daily blessing was the major theme of the letter I just wrote Marketa an hour ago. The writing of that letter made me determined to do much more… Continue

Added by Howard McQueen on October 5, 2009 at 10:12pm — No Comments

JUST SHOW UP

© 2009 Howard McQueen

Be humbly present
Check the cleverness
And the entertainer
Along with all the false personas and prophets
At the door, on your way in.

Ground zero
Contact with direct experience
No mind stuff
Where is your energy stuck?
Can you lend it your voice,
Your patience, your attention,
Your full being – NOW?

Lets hear what the provoked voices have to say …

Added by Howard McQueen on October 5, 2009 at 8:43pm — No Comments

NATURAL BORN BIRTHING PORTALS

© 2009 Howard McQueen

We are born creator-builders, imaginers ...

We are realizing we are also quantum-equipped birthing portals,

with an adolescent grip on consciousness,

constantly birthing our thoughts, ideas and concepts into the world.

We carry an emergent awareness

returning inward, ready to unfold,

stories to be rewritten and re-told

a chorus, a crescendo of “do-overs” [1] in our queue.

Picking up momentum,

aligning in… Continue

Added by Howard McQueen on October 5, 2009 at 8:30pm — No Comments

POETRY OF LONGING KEPT ALIVE

© 2009 Howard McQueen

Letting go and falling into Surrender

starts with shining your light of awareness

into the places where you are hiding out.

The sooner you surrender your helplessness

room will be opened for the arrival of Grace.

Allow everything to be liberated

to be whatever it is

and there will be an immediate

lessening of confusion through projection.

Seeing clearly what is, we can live in peace.

You… Continue

Added by Howard McQueen on October 5, 2009 at 8:30pm — No Comments

ITS OUR WORLD TO RECLAIM AND RE-IMAGINE

© 2009 Howard McQueen

Yes indeed, it truly is our external world.

A bit messy, yes

Well, what else would you expect, with all the shenanigans and all the sufferin’ succotash going on.

Well, well, what to do about it?

Mmmmmmm. Lets start with my own inner world, where everything is created that shapes my outer world.

A bit messy, yes

Well, what else would you expect, with all the shenanigans and all the sufferin’ succotash going… Continue

Added by Howard McQueen on October 5, 2009 at 8:30pm — 2 Comments

IN THIS MOMENT OF CATASTROPHIC LOSS

© 2009 Howard McQueen

Grieve deeply in this moment of attachments lost.

Of Suffering, give it all to CREATOR.

It was never yours to carry.

You were, are and will always be the child of creation –

Bear your fruit and live in the grace of the gifts of this Kingdom of Creation.

With this Grief is summoned the Angel of Death –

Providing the sacred service to carry away burdens of guilt and remorse

And even the seemingly often cursed human… Continue

Added by Howard McQueen on October 5, 2009 at 8:28pm — No Comments

HOME IN THE VAST ONENESS OF UNKNOWING

© 2009 Howard McQueen

Fundamentally, there is only consciousness,
deeply identified with its forms.

Humans thinking themselves to be like a tortoise,
their only home, the self-constructed shell,
or any make-do container to safe harbor identity.

Added by Howard McQueen on October 5, 2009 at 8:10pm — No Comments