December 7,  2022

Dearest, Sweet Friend, 

To recollect is to bring back to conscious awareness an event of the past. To recollect deeply is to observe the event from a number of perspectives and to question the memory until the deepest meaning and highest purpose of the event becomes evident. It is about perceiving, penetrating and permeating the event to get to the role it plays in your inner development.

A spiritual scientist recollects the same event from a thousand different points of view each offering a different perception. Or the spiritual scientist might form a question and ask the same question about a thousand different events. Both are activities of deep recollection. Both develop a living, mobile awareness and the spiritual capacity to build flowing imaginations of truth, beauty and goodness beyond the obvious fixed narrative elements. 

Like the proverbial journey of a thousand miles, each deep recollection begins with a single event or a single question. 

Write down an event with a simple description. Then write down three or four deep questions, mysterious questions eg. If this event was a color, what color? If there is one word that describes my feelings about this event, what is the word? What would my angel ask me about this experience? If this was a newspaper article what would the headline be? What counterforce showed up to skew and sabotage the process? What would Buddha say?

Or you can write simple descriptions of 3-5 events and then find a single question to bring to all of them: What is the most beautiful aspect of this event? Where is the shadow? What if this experience did not happen, how would I be different?

This exercise in spiritual scientific recollection is so vital to waking you up to the meaning and purpose of every moment. When you go to bed at night and recollect your day, your soul will be peaceful, not judgmental. When you recollect your year before entering the Holy Nights, you will be able to let go, and release your year with self-compassion because you will be “fully and spiritually in possession of your year.” 

Choose an event that had an impact on your life. Something in your soul, your sense of self is altered by the event. An event can be something that other people could witness or something only you could observe, feel or recognize.

Initially, you will find this deep recollecting a challenge. It asks you to approach and relate to your life and your soul in new ways, from more perspectives. You will be uncomfortable the first couple of times. Your habits will fight your new ways. You will feel there is no way you can succeed in deep recollection. 

This is true…there is no way you can succeed, but there is no way you can fail! Deep recollection has nothing to do with success or failure.

You just keep asking questions, following one question until you come to the next question. Like the view changes with every step on the journey, your experience and awareness of self will alter with every observation.

In choosing the event…the story, the circumstance, the thought, the feeling, the reaction, the action, the pattern. You may find the details clear or vague. You may struggle for the narrative and the language. 

You want to go deeper than the story of the event to the meaning and purpose living in it.  

Questions and Perspectives Galore

• How did you change? 
• What was born in your life and your consciousness? What died? 
• What got stronger and more significant? What weakened, faded, or released?
• Did you feel threatened or in danger? 
• How did you cope? You may want to look at the coping strategies you used such as:
• Did you attempt to control through your will?
• Did you attempt to escape through your thoughts?
• Did you numb your feelings?
• Did you go into submission and feel powerless but dutiful?
• Did you get seductive and seek rescue?
• How is the event, this thought, this feeling, this coping behavior a repetition.of an earlier experience?
• How is it new or different?
• While recollecting what is your somatic experience? Where are you tight or heavy? How is your breath? 
• Make a note of the emotions that each experience brings up: anger, fear, sadness, happiness. You may have complex responses.
• What was the impact of the event on your soul, your thinking life, your feeling life and your willing life? Did it strengthen or weaken your thinking feeling or willing?
• How did it impact those around you? How did it change relationships? 
• How will this event alter your future? Did it nourish your dreams and ambitions? 
• Did this event have a hero? a bad guy? (You can be both…this is recognizing that we all have fragmented selves and complex patterns of behavior.)
• Look at this event as a purely spiritual event! Describe it.
• Look at this event as a purely material event! Describe it.

What wonderful, deeper insights into your own soul have you found? You and your year are so meaningful.

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 It is the transformation path of the Christmas Season.

Dear Lynn,

Your posts awaken senses and memories long lost, and it is such a comfort to find them again, especially at this time of year.
I have been working with your Holy Nights posts for the past 5 or 6 years (?) and I so love them!
This year especially they provided some much needed healing to myself.

Your work is so wonderful and I look forward to it every year. I also did your Inner Mother and Inner Father workshop a couple years ago and for the first time worked with your Inner Advent material. I can not describe the healing it has brought me.
Thank you for all the gifts you give us! Maggie

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Please join me this year for the Inner Christmas Journey. Let me guide you through Inner Advent, inspire your Holy Nights with the 12 Messages from the Threshold, and then, support you in understanding the Inner Epiphanies that will manifest through 2023.

With lots of sweet inner warmth,

Lynn

The Journey begins with Inner Advent and our recollection, review, reflection, and release of 2022  creating the open vessel to receive the gifts of the Holy Nights. There are two Inner Advent programs: My Year of Light and My Year of Darkness. Both reveal the meaning of your Inner Year through four inspiring modules. 

The heart of the Inner Christmas Journey are the Twelve Messages. This year blesses us with the 12 Sweet Gifts shared in the daily messages from the Threshold. 

Following the Holy Nights, we enter Inner Epiphany. We awaken in our souls the four epiphanies, each offering an awareness of how we nurture and manifest our destinies in 2023. 

Although we undertake the Inner Christmas Journey in the sacredness of our own solitude, we have the option to gather together over Zoom. What I love the most is the sweetness of the community that comes together over our zoom calls which happen every few days. We share our experiences, ask questions, and inspire each other.

To learn more and enroll in the Inner Christmas Journey click the button below. 

This Christmas offers the 19^th set of Inner Christmas Messages. Twelve pas de deux for you and your angel to dance. I love this image of dancing with my angel through the sweetness of the Holy Nights. Do you?