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The following is excerpted from The Sparkling Lotus Flower
Essence Handbook
Copyright 2004 Sparkling Lotus Ink
In the name of expediency for those who are in need of
immediate healing, I chose to begin this page’s life by
quoting myself. Please check back frequently for additional
information and insight. As you read pay very careful
attention to your emotional barometer. The following
thoughts may seem like something you’ve longed to hear as
a form of personal validation. They may also seem like a
personalized attack. In the latter case it’s especially
important to understand your own projection mechanisms. I
am attacking no person or group of people but only an
unstable and increasingly sterile Growing Medium.
“Throughout the research project I encountered people and
situations that made it heart-achingly clear there is an
appreciable amount of healing work to be done as a result
of the more superficial fear-induced and repressive aspects
of the passing grassroots level application of new age
mentality. Please note that, as a result, I’ve made a
differentiation between now and then throughout this
book. This addresses the tangible change from the new
age of our collective past and the new millennium of our
present circumstance.
My own fully crystallized awareness of the differentiation
began during my original draft of the Chrysanthemum
profile. The flower spirits that had codified themselves in
the yellow version of this essence offered to help me find a
new degree of inner compassion for certain things that
continued to disturb me about lingering new age inter-
personal dynamics. They suggested I approach my intent
of articulating a viable prognosis by first encapsulating the
new age as-it-was in the style of a fable or fairy tale from
Long Ago if not particularly Far Away.
Only one sentence from my resulting fable has been
retained within the current Chrysanthemum profile. This
proved to be just one instance when the flower spirits
provided very tangible help in the writing of the text while
also keeping my personal evolutionary process in an
equally sharp focus. In fact, any time I felt myself believing
this was too big and controversial a topic for me to broach
in an authentically helpful fashion, the flower spirits of many
species cheered me onward in very constructive and
illuminating ways.
Going back to the subject of an emergent new millennium
form of collective spirituality, I don't mind saying this is a
form of human potentiality in which I fervently believe. I
also don't mind saying I was at first perplexed by this
unanticipated element of the research project and the
impact upon my thoughts/life in general. I wondered why I
kept meeting so many Recovering New Agers (hereafter
referred to as RNAs) when I didn't know how to help them
except a long and difficult way that made me very irritated
at the ramshackle system which had produced them. My
advice tended to create impatience for certain types of
RNAs, especially if part of their dissolution-ment related to
the aftermath of addiction to spiritual-equivalent bong hits
and/or quick fixes. In that condition folks were no more
overjoyed to hear about long and difficult healing efforts
than I was delighted to find myself wading in a very murky
pool of disavowed results. And, y'know. There's always an
Other side to everything. Sometimes people genuinely do
find themselves pulling a karmic/healing wild card that
equates to a bona fide quick and seemingly miraculous
cure. I just don't like to encourage another lingering new
age problem - that of attachment to the expectation that
every Next Big! New! Ancient! Thing will produce an
astonishing miracle cure.
Several times a week I prayed and meditated on this
matter. What could I possibly do about the situation that
would truly make a dent? And why should I, specifically,
consider myself a logical candidate to be making that dent?
Like a lot of other folks with indigenous roots I felt I'd
already done my best to make contact with hearts and
minds that were supposedly wide-open even though
ongoing behavior and life choices suggested the very
opposite. This opposition is mainly visible to its
perpetrators only when their energy centers have been
more organically opened. That's the part of the energetic
equation where I found myself bound with-in a pattern of
helping relative strangers, time after time. Their vision was
beginning to clear but now what?!? I kept meeting folks
right at the stage when they were just panicked and
confused enough to consider a bolt and run back into the
burning barn they’d so recently escaped. Many of my more
philosophically compatible peers wondered why I kept
crashing myself into the same brick wall. Maybe…because
it was there in the first place?
Every time I wondered why me/why this task, I’d get the
same answer one way or another. Because you’re
capable of it. Eventually I developed a sense of that
capability in its seedlike form. In this process I came to
realize that within my authentic acceptance of both the task
and the RNAs that continued to find me, I was confronting
evidence of symptoms of a very familiar demon in the form
of post traumatic stress syndrome. This, at least,
explained the nature of my useful previous healing
awareness and innate constitutional abilities. The thing I
understood most clearly also represented the most
confusing aspect of my cumulative life choices. I had to
continue to talk and write about this matter. Doing as
much was rapidly making itself clear as a pivotal part of my
dharma. I can honestly say I have never felt as small,
humbled, and utterly unequal to a task.
Quite frankly my more traditional/indigenous friends and
associates thought it was a kind of all-too-typical coyote
madness to attempt the type of bridge building efforts I was
consistently driven to create. Many declared outright that it
couldn't be done not where "pure" new age mindset was
concerned. I wasn't so sure. This is, after all, a cultural
and spiritual counter-revolution that has truly liberated
untold numbers of people on a worldwide level. How could
something that profound possibly be reduced solely to its
lowest common denominators? Surely culturally-specific
spiritual communities are not automatically bereft of such
denominators and few would be foolish/imperceptive
enough to relegate the governing body’s spiritual definition
to the source/purpose/manifestation of its human underbelly.
One otherwise generous hearted person asked me
pointblank (and more than once) why I was so hell-bent to
teach those who did not wish to learn. I understood how
this hands-off mentality was achieved without wishing to
embrace it. And I think my reasoning remains sound if not
simple.
I am indeed a literal and psychic half-breed. In my current
lifetime of straddling two dramatically different canoes I
spent my formative years more or less incarcerated in the
white suburban working-middle class world of the 60's &
early 70's. My mother recognized that a solid
uncomprehending half of me could not remain as
unresolved as my absent father would infer it to be. I didn't
look like my cousins any more than I thought or moved like
them. Oftentimes my innate sense of humor was left at the
kind of odds that cause elongated puzzled silences around
a family's holiday dinner table. My mother understood I
couldn't live just this life. She also understood I would have
to make do with indigenous ties to our local area in place of
those that still wait to be forged with the lands from my
paternal bloodline. The people she found for me, starting
at a very young and tender age, became her own fast
friends. They blessed both of us with ongoing family status
that was very deeply treasured. It was also a source of
incalculable influence from the plant reading perspective.
I've come to see that serving my needs as best she could
gave my mother a lot more freedom of experience than she
would have otherwise allowed herself.
I've also come to be very grateful for that. I'm even more
grateful for the inherent levels of perspective my dual status
provides. And I've learned that I'm like countless other
people who do their best to walk a good road and live by
sound healing/spiritual/evolutionary principles. That is to
say, I'm living within the [inter] national economy grid so I
surely can't claim organic knowledge of a traditional
indigenous perspective no matter what I may have studied
and experienced along that vein. Nor would I want to claim
such an inviolate connection since I don't carry just one
curve of cultural and genetic influence.
This truth holds an implicit absence of a single sphere of
accountability and/or healing affinity. I felt (and remain)
unable to turn my back on RNAs and a problem that grows
at an exponential rate for each day it's left so largely
unaddressed. This is an undeniable karmic and energetic
truth and yet it's still commonly considered unloving and/or
downright mean spirited to draw attention to the situation at
the small community grassroots level. With this type of
repression perpetrated-by-perpetrators well in place it's
really no wonder that new age backlash is becoming, on
the energetic plane, as real a consciously cultural dis-ease
as illiteracy and homelessness.
The matter of energetic clean-up & recovery work remains
a difficult subject to discuss primarily because many of
those who need the most immediate illumination and
healing are still determined to see it otherwise. I have
tremendous compassion for the vast array of souls and
spirits who fight the tide of human defense mechanisms,
especially when those mechanisms have focused on a very
tight circle of what gets in and what stays outside. Please
pay attention to any resistance you may feel to this subject.
Your personal relationship to the problem and its solution is
probably closely tied to the level and intensity of your
emotional response. “
PLEASE NOTE: THOSE WHO ARE RESPONSIVE TO
FLOWER ESSENCES MAY WANT TO LOOK AT THE
LINKED GROUPING FOR HEALING INSPIRATION.
CONSIDER PROMPT APPLICATIONRKING WITH ANY
OR ALL OF THE ESSENCES IN THIS GROUP THAT ARE
CURRENTLY IN YOUR POSSESSION.
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