Solstice Solar Juice

The solstice is the day that the sun sits in his highest palace in the heavens.  It's a day to celebrate the summer and the blessings of the solar energy with dance, food, energy work and meditation, song and music, art, and sun gazing.

Here is a Solar Solstice Elixir featuring vibrant red, orange, and gold tones to ignite, cleanse, and empower the blood, life force, first three Chakras (Root, Sacral, and Solar Plexus) and the consciousness and power of the physical body as well.

Ingredients:

(Rough guide.  Be creative and work with the foods and colors you already have on hand.)

Life Blood red BEETS
Juicy Sun GRAPEFRUIT
Spicy fire GINGER ROOT
Sweet Sun CARROTS
Powder gold TURMERIC

I added POMEGRANATE JUICE and fresh ROSE WATER and CHAMOMILE for sweetness and a balancing feminine touch.

Now go find a spot under the Solstice Sun and drink up your elixir and the Suns rays.

Happy Solstice everyone.

The Co-Creative Process

A day in the page of my sketchbook:

I can feel it happening. "And when you feel it happening,  let it happen.  Become that process and enjoy that process.  Give in."

Original artwork and quote by Laura Weber

Chocolate Butterballs

Chocolate Butterballs

I'm trying to adhere to an elimination diet with no gluten, no dairy(except organic butter), no red meat and no eggs for at least a month and that means if I get the munchies I can eat basically nothing from the store.  At 3am-ish I got everything I had out that was in the sweet and delicious category, mixed it up, rolled it into balls, tossed it in a coating and stuck it in the oven with some pieces of a chocolate to melt on top.  And it turned out really good!  

I mixed together:

Crushed walnuts (or any nuts)
Peanut butter
Cream of coconut
Crushed rice cereal
Honey (*could use blue agave or maple syrup to make vegan)
Melted butter (*could use coconut oil or other oil to make vegan)
Cinnamon
Vanilla extract

Coconut flakes

A little almond milk if it gets too thick

Then basically just mix it until it's thick enough to form balls that can hold up relatively on their own.

Then I tossed it in a mixture of cinnamon,  raw sugar, and amaranth flour and cocoa powder and put it in the oven for awhile, then sprinkle the coconut flakes onto the chocolate when it's halfway. Yeahhhhhhhhhhhh :)

There are so many good ideas I have for this recipe. I think next week I'm going to adapt it and make a pie crust for some berry tarts.  Or do something similar to the idea above but with pecans, walnuts, maple syrup, and delicious stuff like that.  I realized greedy decadent foods aren't exclusive to the no-no food groups.  You can still be greedy as a vegan, vegetarian, or anything in between. :D

Used the leftover chocolate in the pot and made almond milk hot chocolate.  Because it's the middle of June and still cold in NYC. -___-

And all God's people said amen.

Love Letter from the Universe

Love Letter from the Universe:

The issue is not getting what you ask for, the issue is getting in touch enough with yourself that you actually know what you're excited about so that you know what to specifically ask for.  Most of us feel frustrated that we perceive ourselves to not have what we want and desire when in truth we have not identified or requested it.  

If you know what you specifically want, you can ask for it and feel confident that you will get it and not be afraid to receive it, but the truth also is that many of us are angry about not receiving or having things we haven't even asked for.  We are in fact identifying a feeling that we are aware we are not experiencing a full version of our whole self in following our excitement and that's where the production of the frustration emotion comes from but the lack of the awareness comes where we know we are frustrated but we don't know ourselves fully enough to know that we are afraid to ask specifically for what we want because at a core level we know we will get it. This is why on this planet we say, "watch what you ask for, because you might receive" and this is true.  Although there really is no "might" involved.  And the only reason we would ask for something and not experience ourself in the culminated reality of HAVING it is because as it is being delivered to us via the tunnel of our excitement we leave that tunnel and cease to take the excitement cues because we become afraid and we may do this for any number of reasons. Perhaps because we don't feel adequate to act out the reality we asked for, we don't feel deserving, or maybe it could seem to trap us.

In fact, maybe we are asking for the wrong things.  Wrong in the sense that we are asking for a symbolic reality which is simply an avatar for a frequency state we wish to be in.  For instance, if you ask to be a shaman your higher self understands that you are asking for this because of what vibratory signature, emotional pattern, or vision this word, image, and idea, creates for you.   You associate this symbol or the title with a specific vibratory state that you would prefer.  However that label itself is limiting because all titles and labels by definition are limiting and compartmentalizing.

But simply understand that when you ask for something from a true desire to be that state or have that experience, your higher self understands far better than you do what it is you're actually asking for and that the compartmentalizing words, restrictive images, or sample emotions you offer as the request are merely SYMBOLS of a vibratory state or dimensional reality that is INFINITELY more expansive, dynamic, full, exciting, and satisfying than the mere symbols of that reality could actually be and all there is to do is ask in earnest and trust, with NO fear or hesitation or doubt that the small token you have asked for as a representation of your excitement is merely a small key into the true total reality that your total self understands you want.

All there is to do is relax.  You can have absolutely everything.  Stop blocking things you desire from flowing to you simply because you are afraid.  You do not need to be afraid to receive the reality you dream of having.  You can and will have every tiny expression of that which you have dreamed in flawless sequence or non-sequence in an infinite perfect pattern suited distinctly to you as a soul expression; to you as a being at this point of creation.

Allow all of your joy and dignity and power to come to you understanding that your higher or total self will not simply package it, drop it on you, and leave "you" the individual physicalized person to express and handle it by yourself.  In exactly the same way that it is and will be flawlessly and beautifully delivered to you is the same way it will be miraculously and magnificently unfolded within you in a completely perfect way.

Trust this.  This is the design of creation, nothing more and nothing less and as a facet of creation this is something you are fully entitled to as a sort of "birth rite" of existence.

There is absolutely NOTHING you must "do" or "be" in order to deserve or receive this.  This is what you are.  You are creation.  You are perfection.  Allow yourself to unfold into all of yourself that you've been wishing to be, for this is your right.

I can't take full credit for the content of this post.  I was meditating, then I was reflecting, then I was writing and quickly after starting to write, the words got away from me and were just pouring through so quick that my hand was hurting and I couldn't keep up.  This is almost always the case with my writing to some degree or another- especially this blog in particular.  That's why I called it Co-Creations because these are my writings where I am feeling highly inspired and creative and in the flow and during the creation process my content and my mind at some point seem to fade away behind a veil and I feel that I'm watching myself write something from somewhere else- some more expansive part of me, rather than just from the mechanism of my brain.  Out of all my writings recently, this is the passage I feel least like was "Me", if that makes any sense.

Anyhow, I was meditating about manifestation because I have recently really began to understand how it works and to put it lightly, it has been working for me (through me).  Things are manifesting so quickly for me that I started to get a little overwhelmed or stressed, even though I was seeing the things I was excited about manifesting in "real time", I guess I wasn't trusting that they would unfold as they should once they came (complicating things)...So this information and energy really relaxed me, healed this part of me, refreshed me, and put me at ease.  Well really, it allowed me to liberate myself to just simply be. I know that at least one person at some moment will find and read this and it will serve them in some way.

Sphere of Love

"Selfishness" is a beautiful and compassionate decision.

Unlock the key to loving yourself;

When you love yourself so much; completely, the gift you've really finally allowed yourself is perfect freedom.  You've told yourself it's OK to be exactly as you are.  You've stopped judging your process or where you are in it.  You've allowed yourself to be vulnerable.  You've allowed yourself to see you as beautiful and deserving.  You've opened yourself up like a child, and have begun to trust yourself.  You begin to feel that you can and will allow all good things come to you.  All experiences of disappointment or neediness dissipate.  Now that you are this complete sphere of yourself, so full of perfect love, you are so free.

You are free to love others.  And not just certain ones, but all ones.  You free yourself to love every being, every reflection of yourself, you no longer need another to be or do anything.  You now no longer need any other being to be anything other than everything and just exactly what they are;  because you are allowing this freedom for yourself and now it is your joy to allow it in others.  And as this sphere of love, you experience the ongoing moment of constantly unfolding into your own love and all of love.  And as you emanate the unavoidable runoff of this supreme and colossal love, those beings in your presence, and across all reaches of the universe, have no choice but to feel free to love themselves more perfectly and to expand into even more love within themselves.

You see, selfishness- the negative connotation we've placed on the word-has been such a misonstruance.  To be selfish is to be compassionate.  To finally begin fulfilling and listening to oneself, to give into the compelling desire to embody oneself, to embody love, is to finally allow oneself to be complete and without need. Only once we are without need can our light and beauty propel the healing, joy, expansion, and love in others.

Only once we have allowed ourselves to be love, can we share it.  Only then can we allow it to permeate all consciousness indefinitely, infinitely in every direction and through all dimensions of space-time and beyond.  In this supreme unfolding, we feel the momentous pleasure of creation expressing itself as a 

profoundly perfect love story, 

from self to self

from self to other

other to other

from every other to all 

all in creation

in every state of beingness

exultant in gorgeous love.

So, be selfish.

Love yourself so selfishly, so lavishly.  And then all there is left

is to marvel in awe at it's infinite non-subtractable wholeness,

and to then set it free,

give it away, as a bird

gives itself to the unimaginable expanse

of the sky

the Dope-ness of the Universe

Never once have I directly asked the universe for anything that it/i/god didn't fully deliver and at precisely the right moment. The perfect moment. The most creative, synchronistic, un-arbitrary moment.

The WAY the universe delivers that which I have requested is every bit as beautiful a work of art as the THING ITSELF being delivered.

Imagine how dope the universe must be that the actual method of delivery itself is a medium through which the beauty and rhythm of creation is being expressed.

The One spares no expense contacting you. Ignores no method, excludes not a single medium through which it can and is permeating your consciousness.

Tune in. It's not a matter of whether or not the communication is happening, only whether you are defining these impressions, excitements, and synchronicities as communications or not. They are. All of them. Throw out your previously held paradigms of the restrictive ways things must happen.

Love is inclusive.

Ask for it and relax and watch what the universe does. Still stuns me every time.

Girl God

The Story of the Girl God

And How All Religions Come to Be

In the year 2012 there was a girl who had an old soul, liked astrology and was in the new Age movement.  Many people were.  As much as this girl respected and valued her guardian angels, past life identities, spirit guides, animal spirit guides and the like, she still never quite took any of their word for it.  Whatever they told her about creation, beingness, duality, paradox, space-time, oneness, etc., she still always paid mind to her strongest instinct and resonated most with those guides or forms of guidance which resonated with her instincts most strongly.  Those guides which resonated most strongly were always the ones telling her never to trust them, but always to trust her own experience.

As she trusted her own experiences more and more and more, she found that her guides were beginning to appear very quietly when telling her to trust herself.  More and more frequently this happened.  More and more quiet did they become until most of them merged and couldn't be deciphered separately, and one of them was finally called, "my self", by her.  "Myself!"  the voice announced itself, "both by name and by function," it said.  And so slowly and by the gradual leading of her own inner-self voice she realized that all she needed, wanted, had been, and would become, was very much contained within the walls of her own self and thus began to realize everything was herself.  She thus did something more accurately described than by saying she BECAME God but more so by saying that she understood and remembered that she WAS God.

Now you know the rest of the story.  What do people do when they are around a person who believes themself to be God, behaves and creates like God, and lives comfortably and without anxiety within creation...like God?  What do People do? They call this person "God".  And they worship this person, and they follow this person.

Well, this is very much so what happened with this girl.  As soon as she realized that every layer of guides through her life, from religious symbols and systems, to "spiritual" guides and concepts, to emotional and intuitive understandings, then finally down to her very "self", was simply a channel through which she awoke into the next most expansive layer of herself, she had no further choice but to realize she, actually, was God herself.  Himself...itself.

And shortly thereafter, she was discovered, and thus became God.

She was OK with it at first because she knew of course, from her experiences, that she was God, and in that knowingness, she also understood that all beings were equally God, only in different stages of remembering it and different expressions of it.  So this is how it happened that, at first, she was innocently excited about being called God.  She went to work right away showing and telling everyone around her that they were God too.   "Uh-huh, uh-huh."  They nodded in agreement when she told them the good news.  But still they followed her.  She showed them so many things.  She showed them how to use pendulums, she showed them how to use meditation, she showed them about sacred art, math, and technology, she showed them about chanting and energy healing, because these were the permission slips which had helped her allow her self to remember who she was, and they said  "uh-huh, uh-huh" and followed her.

Now, a very important distinction is that this was only a small segment of society following this random God girl.  Plenty of other people had or were God already and laughed in amusement, some scorned or judged, and some ignored.  Some even called her evil.  Many did.  Still the followers followed on.  She tried and tried telling them that they were God too, that if only they would ask, they would receive, that all of them had been made out of the same formula of pure consciousness as she, that none of them could even see God in her, had they not first known it in themselves.  "Uh-huh, uh-huh" they nodded, and wrote down in their notes that these were metaphors.

On and on they followed until one day she fell ill from all the pressure and died.  So many questions, so many feelings surrounded her death.  Some were devastated, some mocked, those who had believed her to be evil were relieved.  After the initial shock began wearing off, things started falling into routine.  But now the followers began asking, "what routine?"  They had no independent routines because they had insisted on following her, which she never intended or encouraged.  So now the followers had only one option, to continue following of course!

So, Instead of doing what they did for one another when one of them died and saying, "oh go on!  Let yourself be happy, she loved you, she would've wanted it that way.  Let yourself be free," the followers instead said, "we must do exactly as she did.  She was beautiful, she was amazing, she was God.  This is the perfect way.  This is the only way.  No matter that she called us God and told us to find our own path.  She probably didn't mean it, don't even write that down.  But write the rest down."  They created a book and a mandatory system of obligations.  And so they carried on this New Age religion with the random girl-God as their avatar.  And as she had done, so they did.  They used pendulums, they used meditation, they chanted and practiced energy healing, they studied and memorized sacred art, math, and technology.

At times one follower or another would become curious about outside methods, other versions of God, or other formulas, but this person was always punished and was considered quite bad by the other followers.  All in her name.  And of course, as they would be expected to do, they defended their name.  Her name, that is.  Sometimes to the death.

This is how the random girl God religion was founded.  And how all religions are founded.

The End.