Asking/Crying Out for Help to End Personal and Global Conflicts

I want to thank you for your recent blog post which I only read this morning and which has come in wonderfully handy.  "Article 29. Asking/Crying Out for Help to End Personal and Global Conflicts."

The personal / global conflicts parts here are certainly applicable and I will be delving more into that side.  

The part of the post that has resonated personally with me are where you discuss the process of the 3 uninvited guests needed to help certain "imprisoned" helpers, and involving health or illness issues.  You offered a list of examples of mistaken beliefs, and I will offer one more, only because it certainly has been an ongoing issue for me (my personal psyche, and problems/blocks I have had with mistaken beliefs or ideas that feel mostly like "presumptions" by the ego, that I fall for...).

For me, the idea or presumption or "command" to deprogram is "The Sage and the Helpers are not capable or qualified enough to help with the healing of medical, health, or illness issues".  That's one of those that just rolls off my tongue without any hesitation, beyond obvious.  But I needed the blog post to bring it out.  

md

Being shown the inner truth of the word “risk”

After I had read Hanna’s recent blog, I did the meditation on the word “risk”:  I saw myself clinging to a vertical rock face with rocks falling all around me.  

When I meditated on the inner truth of that word, I let go of the rock face, and Helpers below caught me in a net.  Then I saw Helpers everywhere walking among us with parachutes AND nets in packs on their backs!  It seemed a very friendly world!

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Showing me How -the friendliness of meeting my Sage

It's taken me years to trust my relationship with my Sage. And yet when I look back I can see how this cosmic help has shown me things through a series of 'micro vision-quests'. My friend had made the distinction that she found the Sage liked to be considered more in the form of a HOW than a WHAT - a way - not a thing per se. I could really relate to this. So, to my surprise, when I consider how it felt or when the "how" began showing up in my dreams and showing me "how" to translate its messages, I could feel something very real and personable. It shows me how learning can be fun! And how I can trust myself enough to keep making room for this very real consciousness. My friend had also shared that this is something of an I Ching lifestyle, and one that becomes natural and without effort when I can give it flexibility and wonder! This energy requires my sensitivity and sincerity, like being a good friend to it and vice versa. This is how I met my Sage.

Jaime
Payson, AZ

A lesson from "sheltering at home"

I  am now in Week Three of the complete lockdown here where I live in Europe caused by the outbreak of the virus COVID-19. Cut off as I am now from every one of my usual bustle of activities – people, shopping, concerts, museum visits, group singing, everything -- has put me alone in my apartment with “Her”—myself – whom I am just coming to know/accept/love. A few days ago I came across an essay on the topic of loneliness written by an Indian friend. Mistakenly trying to find myself through others has been a theme in my life that the I Ching has made me aware of. Now from the perspective of my imposed isolation, the topic has taken on an even greater urgency. 

Prasad wrote: “...We feel lonely because we don’t know ourselves yet. Until we recognize this fact, life will continue to be an attempt to desperately find ourselves through others....  This will continue until you recognize that the ‘you’ within you requires your love, attention, validation. When you realize your own companionship, value it and enjoy it, you will never again feel lonely even when you are alone.”

HFW

Linus and Pino in their Cosmic Embrace

I want to share this photo of Linus and Pino. A dear friend of my recently deceased mother sent it to me because it reminded her of the Yin/Yang symbol to which I had introduced her. I had chosen it to be depicted, together with the eight trigrams, on a plaque on my mother's grave. Obviously, the two tomcats love each other dearly. 

Gesine, Tübingen, Germany