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(Part I) was a gift Salon from Caroline Myss, we hope you
enjoyed!
Here are the first 3 pages of (Part II)
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THE GIFT OF SEVEN EXTRAORDINARY DAYS OF GRACE (PART II)
The response to the May Salon introducing the subject of,
The Gift of Seven Extraordinary Days of Grace, has been wonderful. It’s obvious
that the subject of grace remains as intriguing now as it was two thousand
years ago when the graces were first named and identified. It’s so fascinating
that as a result of a leap in humankind’s spiritual evolution brought about by
the advent of the great Divine beings of Jesus and Buddha (a bit earlier), and
others not quite of their caliber, emphasis was turned to the exploration of
the power of the individual in relationship to the Divine. As the
Judeo-Christian tradition began to take shape, the spiritual powers of the
merger of these two traditions likewise formed.
Not that you need a sort of “religion” class, but I think
this information is essential and I present it not – repeat not – from the
“religion” perspective but rather from the historic. In order to delve into the
subject of grace, we must look to the history of grace. The teacher and great
cosmic being, Jesus, modeled the fully-evolved human soul. He could heal and
perform miracles, he had mastery over physical matter including death and
disease, he could speak to anyone, he had the gift of prophecy, he felt energy
flow through him that was meant to heal people – he was, in other words, fully
present in his physical form while having a fully cosmic soul.
Realize that Jesus’ message was, “These and other things can
you do.” He did not position himself as a Divine being, much less as the
initiator of all the trappings that have come after him. His role, I believe,
was to model the highest potential of the human soul. I will never believe he
came here to found countless churches, but to inspire people to understand the
spiritual purpose – and therefore spiritual power – present within the human
experience. (Note: the only way people through the centuries could explain his
“power” was to deify it.)
Jesus left a legacy of phenomena behind him. He baffled people,
astounded them, and inspired them. He also left those early Christians in a
state of awe as they continued to witness healings and miracles in a way that
we will rarely if ever see. It’s not that such healings are impossible. It’s
just that we do not relate to either the “spirit” or to the power of grace in
the same divinely organic way that characterized people so long ago. Let’s say,
before we became so “enlightened or rational,” miracles, healing, and the
mystical nature of life were far more accessible. People did not demand that
proof be provided before faith; rather, faith came before proof.
Stories of early Christians seem to reveal that people
eagerly embraced the gifts of healing, prophecy, knowledge (or revelation),
piety (profound faith), counsel (extraordinary intuitive abilities), wisdom
(decision-making abilities/leadership), discernment (clear judgment), mercy,
and the more mysterious “speaking in tongues.” But as the church developed into
a more political and controlling organization (which did not take long),
managing these precious gifts became an issue. I mean, how could everyone just
qualify for “gifts” – just like that? Impossible.
Arrogance took precedence over humbleness and the rest, as
they say, is indeed history. It’s no wonder then that today we live in a
society that needs grace defined again and again – and yet, again. What is it?
How does it work? But how do I know when grace has come into my life? What do I
do to make grace come into my life? Do I need special prayers?
Let me make this easy on you. You are already accustomed to
thinking in the language of “energy.” You are comfortable saying, “I’m
exhausted. I have absolutely no energy.” Or, “That person drains all the energy
from me.” Or, “When I walk in the mornings, I have energy all day long.” I
don’t have to define “energy” for you at all, and yet, what if someone had no
idea what you were talking about. What would you tell them? You can’t see,
touch, taste, smell, or hear the “energy” to which you are referring. Yet, you
know when you are energized and when you are not. You know when something,
someone, something you’re thinking, something you’ve said or done either
energizes you or drains all the energy from your system.
Just this morning, for example, I had to send the last
section of my book to my editor. I completed it last week before I went off to
a workshop and thought I had sent it to my editor before I left, only to
receive this email from her while I was at the airport waiting for my flight:
“C – did you send that file? I didn’t get it. M”
Panic set in within a nanosecond. Where did that file go?
Did I send it to someone else? Did I delete it? I had absolutely no way of
finding out until I returned from this workshop, which would not be for two
days. Energy rushed out of me faster than a tsunami. My stomach turned over, my
hands started to shake, and of course, my constant companion – the stress
headache – showed up right on time. Ugh.
Now, undoubtedly all of you can relate to this in your own
way. Let me introduce another perspective. Instead of calling energy “energy,”
let’s imagine that you’ve had a mystical experience – just like that – out of
the blue. Let’s imagine that in the midst of your panic attack, a deep quietude
came over you that you did not generate. It came out of nowhere. Suddenly your
panic ceased. Gone. Your thoughts turn inward, tumbling effortlessly into what
can only be described as “effortless bliss.” This effortless bliss is not a
“state of consciousness” that exists in some new portal in your mind that your
stress led you to in response to an inner 911 call. Effortless bliss is a
sensation of floating, of feeling transcendent of not only your body but of
your immediate problems which seem to disintegrate, if not disappear entirely.
You feel as if you are breathing cosmic oxygen not of this earth that is
recharging you all the way down to the atoms in your cell tissue.
In this rarefied soul air, you glimpse the refined truth
that “energy” is the word we use for “grace,” prior to realizing the constant
presence of the Sacred in our lives. Were we to grasp the true nature of life
and the constant Divine impulse of creation that is God, we would recognize
that what we refer to as “energy” is actually the manifestation of “working
grace” expressing itself through ordinary life. But that realization changes
everything for you because you then have to acknowledge that you are in
constant contact with grace through every breath you take, in every activity of
your life, and in every one of your daily encounters with people. You are never
outside the field of “working grace.” It’s impossible, just as it’s impossible
to exist outside the field of energy.
It can be overwhelming to reside in a state of consciousness
in which you try to relate to the world as a theater of grace. You would have
to adjust your sites to include within your view all the contradictions,
injustices, and evil that exists in the world as these, too, are part of this
field of grace. Grace does not make evil evaporate or injustice go away. It
does not make your physical body impervious to illness. Grace does not and will
never have the power to make life what life can never be, which is perfect.
Rather, the role of grace is to expand your awareness of why life is as it is.
Instead of suffering because you want life to be other than the way it is, you
may experience a moment one day – perhaps one of your seven days – in which you
are given great capacity to accept something you never thought you could accept
in order that you can move on with your life.
The role of grace is to continually ignite our restlessness
so that we never cease asking, “Why? What? and How?”
THE ELEVATED GRACES AND YOUR CHAKRAS
Continued ..........
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MYSS - ONLINE CLASSES
Welcome To Sacred Contracts Online
http://www.sacredcontractsonline.com/promo.htm
Watch or listen to Caroline speak live at her workshops,
plus many other audio titles. Available as downloads to your PC or as CDs/DVDs.
Hours of video and audio highlights from CMED workshops and
events. All content is high quality production.
Personal Nutrition Provider and Checklist of Health Issues
and Illness are online interactive tests that allow you to quickly build a
personal profile and get on the road to better health.
An on-going resource for personal growth, the purpose in
creating this on-line program is to share with you thoughts, ideas, feedback
from you to others, inspiration, and direction to help enrich your life.
Calendar
of Archetypal Influences
The Calendar of Archetypal Influences, written by popular
CMED Teacher/ faculty: Richard Tarnas, author of the acclaimed Cosmos and
Psyche, offers a beautifully designed personal calendar to facilitate even
greater insight into your archetypal cycles.
Cosmic
Window Personal Astrological Appointment Calendar
The Cosmic Window, written and designed by Philip Levine,
and the Calendar of Archetypal Influences, co-created by Richard Tarnas and
Philip Levine, are each made for you personally, based on your own time and
place of birth.
The Lunar Life Cycle is prepared just for you, based upon
your own time and place of birth, and offers you perspective, a way of seeing,
as if you were able to ascend to a mountain top and to view your surroundings
and see where everything is. Using the lunar cycle from New Moon to Full Moon
and then back to New Moon, can help you to understand the ebbs and flows in the
unfolding of your life (and many other cycles as well). It allows you to know
when it is the time to push, to act, or decide; or when it is time to let
yourself empty, to be still.
Our relationships in many ways determine who we are and who
we will be. Whether with people we choose to be with, or those we are 'given,'
like family, these connections offer us challenges and rewards. We are revealed
by how we relate to each other. What can our relationships show us about
ourselves? The Relationship Handbook offers a unique opportunity to look below
the surface of any relationship, whether with partner, child, parent, friend or
co-workers.
CMED WORSHOPS
MASTER
CLASS: ON THE PATH TO BECOMING A CONGRUENT HUMAN BEING
Hockley Valley Resort
Orangeville, Ontario
Aug 9-12, 2012
In scripting this Master Class, I asked myself this question,
“If I had to summarize all of my spiritual work into one elegant theme – one
portal through which the best of each of my core teachings could line up in
absolute precision – what would that one rich teaching be?”
WHAT YOU
WERE NEVER TOLD ABOUT THE JOURNEY OF TRANSFORMATION
Oak Brook Doubletree Hotel - Oak Brook, Illinois
Oct 25-28, 2012
For the past fifty years, we have been using the word
“transformation” to describe a process of profound inner awakening, shifting
you from one state of consciousness to another. That word has become a part of
our common parlance, so much so that its deeper meaning has rarely been
examined.
Mysticism
& Health Workshop with Caroline Myss & Norm Shealy
Oak Brook Doubletree Hotel - Oak Brook, Illinois
Nov 8 - 11, 2012
It is inevitable that each of us will experience three or
more of the great mysteries of life: What is the meaning and purpose of my
life? Why am I ill? Why is my body breaking down? Is there something else I can
do to assist my body and my mind and spirit to recover vitality? Where is my
path to healing? What is my way to inner peace? Why am I in the Dark Night?
What are my unique gifts? What is the nature of grace and how shall I use my
graces in the world?