Usually it is what is right before you that you fail to notice.  It escapes you.

"Nothing escaped his notice: attention, observation, awareness, consciousness, perception; regard, consideration, scrutiny; watchfulness, vigilance, attentiveness" from a Thesaurus.

Notice finds its root in the Latin. Notus means knowledge. You take notice in order to know.

You become what you give your attention to. This is the blessing and the challenge for the human soul recognized by all mystics. What do you give your attention to? What do you take notice of?

If red has my full attention I become red. It is a wonderful (full of wonder) experience, enriching, ennobling, enthusing to become red for at least a brief moment in your life.

I once saw a retrospective of Paul Gauguin’s paintings and I will never forget the feeling I had in one gallery of the exhibit.  The small square room contained eight paintings.  I was overcome with pure color.  I  became all the colors I saw on the canvases and I also became Gauguin and his Tahiti just for a moment. I loved this “being” and knowing what was not me. But the moment was fraught with being a stranger in a strange land.  A disturbing combination of  the presence of other and absence of self.

When I had that experience I was not prepared. I had not heard or understood “You become what you give your attention to.” It was disorienting and exalting…very, very strange.

Noticing things will give you this experience. Noticing things will change your destiny, expand your reality, alter your truth, tumble you into being in love, being a cloud, being a patch of moss, being a Beethoven Symphony.  Noticing with your full attention opens your soul, offers you miracles of knowing, and slips you into the strangeness of the "not self."

INNER PENTECOST 

a HOLY Imagination

Sunday was the festival of Pentecost. How does what happened 2000 years ago, live in our souls today?

Inner Pentecost, is the act of giving your full attention to another human being and becoming what you notice.  Then you can speak their language, feel their feelings, understand their karma and see their destiny…because you have let them into yourself without barrier just for a miraculous moment.

How do we then integrate that moment of being the other when self suddenly comes rushing back in? How do we transform a miraculous moment into an evolving wisdom within our own awareness?

If you practice attending to the archetypal human being (What is the human being?) and the nuances of individuality in your own humanity (Who am I?), you will have no difficulty integrating the moment of becoming the other into your experience of being yourself.  You will have found your way to becoming one with all others in extraordinary moments.

Shortly after my Gauguin moment, I began the spiritual research into the mysteries of selfhood that I share through Imagine Self. I have seen and felt over and over the sacred paradox living in letting nothing about yourself escape notice. The more you know yourself, the more you can free yourself to love all others and the more you know the other, the more you know yourself...the sacred experience of Inner Pentecost.

Don’t let your Self escape your notice.

Please share your miracle moments of becoming what you gave your attention to in the comments here.  Encourage others with your own experience.

Imagine Self, all the courses, the blogposts, and working with me personally, are paths to Inner Pentecost, to noticing your Self and becoming the miracle of I.

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Until June 1^st, Inner Mother Inner Father is offered at a 20% discount.  This extensive and transformative Imagine Self course normally costs $247.  Until June 1^st the cost is $197.60. You can also pay in three monthly installments of $69.60.  Learn about the content of the course and register here.

Inner work is tough work and hitting the mysterious and labyrinthine trenches of your soul requires guides, tools, support, creativity, humor and perseverance. 

Books, prayers, coaching, counseling, meditation, workshops, good friends...every kind of help is needed and available.  But ultimately, only you can do the work of becoming you. 

Below are the ways I can help you with your 2015 inner work of finding, knowing and becoming yourself… and making sense of it all. 

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Conversations with Me

Is this the year to answer a question, solve a mystery, survive a crisis, take a leap, imagine a future, find self-compassion, balance inner extremes, connect with a spiritual mentor and friend???  Can I support you, coach you, mentor you, celebrate you as you take on this threshold experience consciously and creatively.  I will bring a cosmic and spiritual context for understanding the challenges and realities of your life and make the cosmic and spiritual intimate and practical. 

Why don’t you schedule a complimentary 20 minute conversation here...let’s talk about what you are seeking and how I can help.  

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The Imagine Self Academy

All Imagine Self Academy courses are offered online through recorded presentations and loads of valuable materials. Some include live group conversations and Q & A with me. Everything is downloadable. 

I just want to give you a brief rundown of the major courses available in 2015. I’ve included dates and costs so you can plan and budget.  I will be sending out detailed descriptions for the courses closer to when each one will be opening registration.

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Core Imaginations

the Imagine Self Curriculum for Imagining the

Whole Core Reality of Yourself

Registration opens September 22.

...the most powerful, healing, liberating curriculum in the Imagine Self Academy.  You will want to come back to these courses many times throughout your life.

Core Imaginations is a year long, life long, curriculum that teaches you how to do self-compassionate observation and guides you to a fully alive imagination of yourself in ten core expressions: 

Your Image of Self in each of the Four Realms of Existence:

1. As a Physical Self in Dimensions of Space,

2. As a Living Self in the Flow of Time,

3. As a Conscious Self in the Possibilities of Relativity,

4. As a Divine Self in the Absolute

Your Image of Self in the Three Activities of Consciousness:

5. As a Thinking Self with a desire to know the heights of Truth

6. As a Feeling Self with a desire to seek the expanse of Beauty

7. As a Willing Self with a desire to act in the depths of Goodness

8. Your Image of Self as a Personality shaped by the Four Temperaments

9. Your Image of Self as a Perceiving Being experiencing yourself, the world, and others through the Twelve Senses

10. Your Image of Self as a Processing Being engaging with life  through the Seven Life Processes

 Cost is $477 for lifelong access to the entire curriculum (monthly payments available).

Click here for the description.

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Holy Imaginations & The New Festivals

I have found that the Christian Festivals (including the Marion festivals) offer extraordinary insights for individual inner work. I offer blogposts and courses inspired by the festivals. I approach these with an esoteric, non-religious, universal, 21^st Century understanding, not for belief or tradition, but for a brilliant yearly path for self-development.  The blogposts including the Inner Christmas Messages are a gift (but again, donations are so very welcome.)

The New Festivals courses are for self-study with one or 2 live Conversations with Lynn. Cost is $47 each.

Inner Lent 

5 lessons on facing the mysteries of temptation and overcoming all that challenges the well-being of your soul. The work of Inner Lent can serve your soul at any time of the year. 

Learn more about Inner Lent here.

Inner Advent

begins November 25^th 

4 lessons for recollecting, reviewing and releasing your year...preparing for Christmas and the Holy Nights 

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Wisdom Imaginations

the Imagine Self Curriculum for inner love and inner freedom

Imagining Your Inner Misfit

available now

guides you into a new relationship with the difficult parts of yourself. $27

 click here to register

Imagining Your Inner Mother

beginning late May

We will look at the four great maternal gestures and recognize their presence or absence in our childhood.  We will learn how we can awaken each of these maternal gestures in our own soul for self-mothering. Cost: $47

Imagining An Inner Father

beginning late June

This course brings to our souls the great paternal gestures for self-fathering. Cost: $47

These two courses are excerpts from the Inner Mother Inner Father course.  We need an inner mother and an inner father to meet the needs of our inner child.  ​Both courses together $77

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The Swan's Journey

A Yearlong Program for Women Seeking Outrageous Wholeness as the Turning Point in Their Lives

Registration opens June 1

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Here’s to your inner work and becoming new in 2015!

Blessings & Imaginations,

Lynn