May 17, 2024

Dear Wonderful Soul,

Are you ready to celebrate summer, wear white, dance with flowers, and imagine the fire of the Holy Spirit in your soul? It's Whitsun and it's Pentecost. 

Whitsun only happens with the cycle of the Sun and the joy of Nature. It's an outer celebration.

Pentecost celebrates an inner soul flame. Though it is a festival in the Christian calendar and shares the day with the summer celebration of Whitsun, Pentecost is a reminder to imagine and embrace the mystical union of self and other and the flaming presence of the universal language of compassion.

Wow! Imagine living everyday with every interaction with another soul in the mood of Pentecost. 

The Christian Festivals are not about nature or onetime events. They are about transformations in the Evolution of Consciousness. They remind us of our unfolding noble, moral, and spiritual selves and what it means to be both human and divine. 

On Sunday, or even right now as you read these words, feel the flame of universal understanding igniting in your soul. 

Would it be corny or inspired to set a daily reminder on your digital calendar to "FEEL THE FLAME"? 

PS: I want to get a mug and maybe a t-shirt printed with the FEEL THE FLAME banner. Would you want one? Let me know. Just click reply.

More thoughts on 

The Blessing of Otherness

(The thoughts below were first published in 2022.)

Sunday is the 7^th Sunday after Easter, is the Christian Festival of Pentecost or Whitsun.

There are many elements to this festival, perhaps more than any other Holy Day in Christianity. What does each element mean? Not just for the telling of the story, but the meaning to your soul? 

My thoughts today will center on the meaning of otherness for your soul. Otherness is the true blessing, the most significant element of the Pentecostal experience.

If you have been reading my posts or taking any courses in the Imagine Self Academy, you already know that I am always looking at the intimately personal, to the experience of I.

Collective, tribal traditions are beautiful. Sharing beliefs and participating in communal celebration of those beliefs can be heart-warming and soul-nurturing, but for most, these are about the experience of we, not the experience of I

For decades, I have been devoted to Selfhood, to move the experience of I into a greater clarity, a fulfilling potential of amazing complexity. The greatest aspect of Creation is the mystery of Selfhood and Otherness.

I love individuality, more than I love identification with and belonging to a group. Have you thought about this?

This is why I love Pentecost. It is the festival of the awakened I, the flame of Self…this comes first. Then the awakened self, awakens to the the self of the other as an individual, not as a fellow member of the tribe. Differences become more wonder-full than similarities.

Pentecost celebrates caring, not sharing.

Pentecost celebrates listening, not speaking.

Pentecost encourages understanding of the other, not declaring of the self or the group.

Pentecost reveres the uniqueness of the other, not the sameness.

The Pentecostal Flame of the Holy Spirit is the flame of the self fully possessed that can then split into two dancing flames…the flame of self and the flame of other, the twin flames of sacred conversation.

I also find great joy in seeing the twin flames as Freedom and Love, both transcending the comforts of familiar stories, pleasures, attachments and alignments.

Pentecost is not about a celebration of an event. Pentecost asks us to attend to our sacred conversations with others.

Sacred conversations celebrate and honor the kingdom, the power, and the glory of otherness.  Remember, in awakening selfhood we find our own otherness.

Reread my thoughts and spend some sacred time contemplating the Pentecostal blessings of otherness.

A Pentecostal Gift for Yourself

Recently I shared thoughts on our need for a sounding board or a spiritual friendship. 

Today I realize this resonance and befriending is a living experience of Pentecost.  

I’ve been a sounding board for so many individuals over 40 years of sacred conversations. Most of my clients refer to me as their therapist. I’m not a therapist. I think they call me therapist because they pay me for the time I devote to them. And maybe it feels strange to say,,,”I have an appointment with my spiritual friend.” I earn my living being a spiritual friend, a sounding board. 

Together the two of us form and participate in a sacred friendship.

Often people contact me when they are facing a life crisis but they continue working with me for the richness of our spiritual friendship. Each friendship is a rare blessing. 

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