awakening a certainty of Self in an uncertain world

January 15, 2023

Hi Dear Friend,

I hope your 2023 is filled with Thunderbolts of I...bright, bold, heavenly strikes of Imagination, Inspiration, and Intuition. These will be your thunderbolts, ones that could only strike your heart and give surprising meaning to your life.

I share these thoughts with you to honor Martin Luther King Jr who sent thunderbolts through world consciousness. Please find time today or tomorrow to listen to or read the "I Have a Dream" speech. Pay attention to what fills your heart as you experience MLK's words. They are everlasting thunderbolts of love. 

If you have any questions for me...about your thunderbolts or anything else, just hit reply. 

Much love for 2023,

Lynn

Thunderbolts of I

Imagination, Inspiration, Intuition

Rudolf Steiner describes three forms of higher cognition or consciousness:

Imagination which appears in our thinking. 

Inspiration which appears in our feeling.

Intuition which appears in our willing.

Essentially, these forms of consciousness are unencumbered by the limitations and imbalances of space and time and, yet, remarkably appropriate to the immediate needs of human experience in a given moment and context, therefore free of the limitlessness of relativity. (Do you see the irony in this: no limits and no limitlessness!)

An Imagination is an unsought thought or series of thoughts that is/are true from all perspectives and for all perceivers.

An Inspiration is an unplanned, unthought feeling or series of feelings that is/are beautiful from all perspectives and for all perceivers.

An Intuition is an unplanned, unthought action or behavior that is good from all perspectives and for all perceivers.

Only an Imagination is fully incarnated into language and can be communicated. Imaginations are crystal clear, polished, and grasped in the moment.

An Inspiration must be elevated into an Imagination before it can be named and communicated. With Inspirations our souls are filled with awed feelings that overwhelm thinking and willing.  They silence thinking and still willing temporarily. 

Intuitions occur without thought or feeling as pure limitless will in focussed action. They are “done deeds” before thought or desire can notice or engage.

With Imagination, all identities, defenses, homeostasis and aesthetics are forgotten, or rather lose all power and influence. Pure thinking permeates the soul and the body.  There is unplanned total alignment with the moment in time and the context in space, Truth appears radiantly serving and served by everything and everyone present. When you think in this way, you are incarnated spirit.  When you witness Imagination in another, it is like feeling a new star is being born in your soul. You are enlightened in a new way.  

Inspiration appears in feeling, floods the soul as a movement unable to form an image that can be communicated or a deed that can be done.  It needs to be captured and stilled to be given language or action. Inspiration cannot be witnessed...it is a solitary reality, although those who are clairvoyant can see the star movement in the soul of one who is being inspired.  

As I write this, I am thinking of Martin Luther King’s immortal “I have a dream.”speech.  He had been moving toward this moment in his thinking, but when the image crystalized in his being it was freed from his personal biology and biography and could pour into to the heart and soul of all those who heard it as inspiration. (He, himself, was inspired in the moment by Mahalia Jackson saying “Tell them about the Dream, Martin.”  Mahalia Jacksons act of will in speaking was an Intuition! King’s Imagination is considered the greatest speech of the 20^th Century.  

An Intuition is a sudden and fleeting activity that fulfills an essential need that is beyond the developed capacities of the actor and the limits and permissions of the moment or the context.  We tell the stories of witnessed intuitions as heroic and extraordinary...like some miracle or “by the grace of God”  by those who do not understand the fourfold human being and the evolution of consciousness.

It is always the “I Am” that appears in and overcomes or makes use of the personality of the Imaginer, the Inspired, the Intuiter.

The Imagine Self Academy curricula supports you becoming aware of yourself as you appear in this lifetime.  This brings a greater awareness, mastery, sovereignty and  possession of self.  When Steiner writes “You can only sacrifice what you have fully possessed” he is speaking of the ability to let go of the hindrances and inhibitions of this lifetime so that you can let go of, willingly sacrifice your self, so that the I can penetrate personality and bring Imaginations of pure thinking to the Astral Self, Inspirations of pure feeling to the Etheric Self, and Intuitions of pure willing to the Physical Self. 

Does it matter spiritually, morally or practically to make these distinctions? If you wonder in order to be wise, to be safe, calm, awake, and nourished by mysteries that go beyond the survival of the Human Animal, yes! If you want to develop to the truth, beauty and goodness that lives beyond stories, yes! If you want to build your presence , your integrity and your coherence, yes! If the experience of I Am is the ground and goal of your incarnation, birth and death, yes!

As you attend to MLK's words, you can see the grace of Imagination, Inspiration, and Intuition all appear in the same moment. With these distinctions of the higher acts of consciousness, we can find even greater awe for what happened that August day in 1963 at the Lincoln Memorial. 

You and I are not MLK and our thunderbolts may not be witnessed by many people, but even the smallest of thunderbolts changes the weather of the world.