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June 24, 2008

That old saw about expecting the unexpected has been one of the
most consistent aspects of the past year's growth and learning curves
here in Sparkling Lotus-land.   In early winter, just when I thought I
understood what it meant to authentically "expect" that which was
previously unimagined, a series of personal health issues falling
beyond my established fields of expertise gave me a whole new
appreciation and respect for the flower essences' healing capabilities.  
Throughout the past six months these powerful vibrational agents have
rallied around me just as I myself have rallied in order to embrace the
lessons and backhanded gifts that often find us when we're looking for
something else entirely.

It's not as if I went into the experience with a spotty awareness or
cavalier attitude towards flower remedies.  I've held them in very high
esteem for the better part of three decades.  Reaching the point of
active co-creation more than a dozen years ago increased that esteem
to the point of authentic awe and amazement.  And yet ... there's
always more to learn.  There's always more to
feel and, within that
feeling process, more to gain by way of healing insight and experience.

I'm certainly not the only person who has spent the past year facing  
profound shifts in terms of what both "insight" and "experience" have
come to mean to the overall process of personal refinement.  In my
case I have moved from a primary focus on how essences respond to
the needs of others to the same point(s) of focus in relation to myself.  
For quite awhile it's been my very firm belief that this type of shift is
utterly necessary if we're to remain on top of our innate gifts and
acquired acumen as healers.  Holding a belief is a good sight easier
than putting it to the test of practice and process!

One of the most important things I have learned in the past several
months is that our instincts need to be as sharp and multi-dimensional
as we can possibly make them.  To accomplish this we need humility
in equal measure to confidence.  We need to understand that we are
not nearly as special and "apart" as we may feel.  And, most certainly,
we are not exempt from universal reality checks and wake-up calls.  
Any creative person knows that complacency is, on many levels,
certain death to the alchemical process of Doing & Making.  Any

co-creative
person needs to absorb a corollary awareness
that lack of curiosity can be just as deadly to the
alchemical process of alchemy itself.

During the past year I did not actively work on this website but I did
meditate about it a lot and also did my share of visiting various parts of
the site.   As the year progressed circumstances gave me several
opportunities to evaluate how the space might be best revitalized and
serve a useful purpose for those who visit here.  This required an
organic gestation period.  Making the commitment to honor that
necessity and leave the site undisturbed for a lengthy interim was very
difficult for me. But now I'm very glad I saw it through because the
lessons and gifts it provided has been nothing short of astonishing.

At this time I find that I've come full circle to re-embrace my
original intention for Sparkling Lotus-land online.  This website
is meant to be a space of sanctuary and inspiration for those
who want to deepen their connection to flower medicine spirits
and the elementals/earth angels who tend
plant-based healing spaces.

I'm also re-dedicating myself to the mission of encouraging folks to
develop confidence and interest in preparing their own flower
essences.  As times in the larger world shift in ways that make our
disposable income a more precious commodity - it makes sense to
become self-reliant in this particular way whenever it's possible.   Any
well-loved and mindfully tended garden space is ripe and ready for
co-creative expansion.  That's a fact that many commercial essence
sources make a point of ignoring.  So, straight along as I worked-out
my sacred task and specific place in the larger field of vibrational
medicine, I've received consistent meditational guidance that I was not
to perceive the making of flower essence as a business.

For a long time that guidance confused me.  If it wasn't a business
what
was it?  I now see that I was asking the wrong question.  Instead
of
what I needed to focus on why.  If absolute power corrupts
absolutely then it stands to reason that the
business of commerce
corrupts conditionally.  Throughout this year I've grown painfully aware
of the ongoing compromises involved with achieving and holding a
successful spot in the marketplace.  Strange bedfellows abound and
self-betrayal is a very real ongoing threat to a foundation of
impeccability.

Please do not misunderstand: Corruption at the root is not inherently
problematic for every small business person who is learning how to
operate within the expanded framework of a truly sustainable
paradigm.  Nonetheless it's been my consistent experience that my
personal place in life's great marketplace has very little to do with the
business of essence production.  Instead it has to do with teaching and
honestly sharing my experiences in ways that encourage others to do
the same.

In the same spirit of generosity, and a sincere desire to be of healing
service, it's also necessary for me to remain open to offering essences
to those who are simply not in a position to create their own.  But it's
not necessary for me to promote that secondary purpose of this
website's continued presence and ongoing development.  Those who
will be authentically served by these particular essences for their own
highest good will be quite naturally drawn to them.  It's my job to
continue building faith for that energetic truth.  Meanwhile I'll be writing
and teaching same as always but with a newly re-connected
awareness of my primary purpose and its most organic scope.

please stay tuned for more information here on the
website,
at my blog, and through the subscription service.

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