December 7, 2005
Table of Contents:
- The Gift of Rapture
- Moonlight Trip to India
- When We Point to Those Outside...
- Wintry Quotation from Albert Camus
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THE GIFT OF RAPTURE
Feeling the passionate touch of Spirit's presence on the flesh of your life offers gifts of awakening and new consideration to those so loved. Do you know somone seeking such intimate and mystical union? Is there a lover of poetry in your circle of friends or family? Do songs of the soul thrill someone you know?
This holiday season, give the gift of Rapture, my collection of impassioned poetry to special friends. Order your autographed copy by December 15th at the discounted price of $10.00 each (cover price $12.95) and receive the benefit of free 1st Class U.S. shipping within the continental U.S.
Mail checks, made out to Claire Krulikowski, to P.O. Box 865, Talent, OR 97540. Please make certain to let me know your address where it will be shipping. Also your email address. (Because I'm all thumbs, however, I can't guarantee the wrapping will be elegant). Any questions, just email: ashootingstar@charter.net
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MOONLIGHT TRIP TO INDIA
The overseas publication of my first book, Moonlight on the Ganga, in India and other countries, is in the publisher's pipeline. I'll be visiting India on a book promotional tour at the end of September/early October 2006. This will be my first time back since the trip that originally inspired the writing of Moonlight on the Ganga, and I'm quite looking forward to the adventures.
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WHEN WE POINT TO THOSE OUTSIDE, IT'S OUR INTERNAL ISSUES WE'RE SEEING (THOUGH MAYBE NOT RECOGNIZING)
Pause each and everytime you are tempted to point an emotional finger to others/something/another as "wrong", "at fault". That's your geiger counter going off letting you know the issue's within.
Allow your internal dialogue to quiet. Then consider:
What problem is presenting itself? What are all the ins and outs of it? How does it make you feel in all ways? Now, consider why. How much of what you are blaming as "out there" has become an emotional issue/target because of some need or fear within yourself.
All our emotions, beliefs,and acts emanate from love or fear. Are you in the thick of anger, blame, judgments, distrust? Why? Is there a source of "something" in you that needs to heal so the emotion of this outward blame, which only traps people in victimhood (not responsible for what occurs), will no longer be an impediment to your own peace and clarity?
This singular acts out on the larger stage as well. As just two examples:
- The U.S. government feared another 9-11 type "unprovoked" attack on its people...and so launched an "unprovoked first strike" that played/is playing out on the citizens of two other countries (afghanistan and iraq).
- Even as the toppled "dictator" Saddam Hussein stands on trial and is charged with torture and heinous crimes against people, the secret torture chambers of the official U.S. agency, CIA, begins coming to light; and this after the Abu Ghraib prison torture scandals.
What is it that allows us, as individuals or organizations or governments, to do as we wish while chastizing others for the same or similar? My answer? Lack of inner awareness. "Know thyself."
And, while I don't believe it is necessary to spend forever psychoanalyzing ourselves, I do believe that being open realizing our own complicity in creating events that continue to then feed and influence the life we are living is the "now" starting point of shifting our awareness.
If we don't like that "something", it's impossible to try and attack it or push it away because that only increases our focus on it and our unease. Instead, I'll pass along something that I just began incorporating thanks to the suggestion of my friend, author DavidPaul Doyle: Love your thoughts. Focus love and warmth onto those disquieting emotional disruptions. You'll find the disruption of your psyche quieting and a sense of calm coming over you with a bit of practice. THAT is what begins the healing, and it doesn't require massive amounts of introspection. It frees you to know what to ignore and how better to proceed. You'll find the situation changing.
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WINTRY QUOTATION
"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer." (Albert Camus)
I wish you all a very joyous season and prosperous 2006 New Year!
- Claire Krulikowski
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