Hi there

This month's newsletter has worked a bit back to front and had me stumped for weeks as I searched for some way to relate my writing to "Greg's view on the world". We usually make a joint decision to embark on a topic that the Universe has presented to us both in Divine Orchestration and then watch them merge together in mastery.

Around mid April, I sent Greg the quote you are about to read in his monthly section and couldn't wait for his response.  One I knew would highlight the strength of our friendship, business partnership and soul journey that's been laced with spiritual growth from the day we met. 

Only now, as I've finally surrendered to the realisation that the piece had nothing to do with me, do I understand its symbolism in my life separate from Greg.

His response was so profound that we decided to leave it be, giving me the opportunity to find the common link I was to share with the world for the month of June. 

There wasn't one.

I had originally asked Greg for his opinion on something I was unable to find a conclusive decision for and even after his enlightening response, I still found my feelings towards the article amiss.

Yet without my task of searching for the commonality between my teachings and his, I would not have had one of my most spiritually profound awakenings ever.

Topics and ideas floated through my head as I noted them as suggested lessons for July through to at least November, yet still no idea or powerful teaching related back to his thoughts. 

I finally surrendered and left for our joint holiday by the coast where I hoped my focus would be clearer. 

It was ... much clearer ... only the lingering words that begged to be put into print and the countless lessons I had to share through my writing still had no link back to my dear friend's analogy. 

I immersed myself in meditation and reading in the hope that something would spark, all the while missing the very sparks that turned to raging fires within.

I had been journaling my meditations that emerged as flights of healing fantasy for a couple of months now and battled the urge to put it down to wild imagination as I clung to my very words that "the imagination truly is the reality of the soul". 

Then they gave it to me.  A gift so powerful it grasped my heart and my attention for hours on end. 

The first thing I ever wrote for my writing course was the reason for being there in the first place.  I filled lines with how my book was going to be the answer to all the countless others people had read and still not found their salvation. 

I wrote about how I searched for my name within self help, diet, metaphysical and psychology books as a desperate measure to heal all my wounds and answer all my questions.

I searched for it in all the books except the novels that I used as a distraction to stop my yearning for perfection for a while.  An impossible task of late as the Universe seems to have drawn me to tales that answered more question in the flight of fantasy than all reality. 

None more real that Paulo Coelho's latest book, Brida. 

She might as well have had my name as I knew I had her yearning.  The lessons she searched for and the answers I found were a thread so common I felt her take my breath for me as I read.

The majesty was not aimed at the fictional character, but rather I was in awe of the writer who had the power to awaken my soul and teach me things about myself and life through a make believe world.

Any more or less make believe than my meditations or the mere cuttings from magazines that made up my vision board or characters I too had dreamed up in my head as beacons of light for others to heal by?

Any more make believe than the newsletters I would one day write as my introduction to the world as a life achievement facilitator and teacher that shouted lessons to the world that anything is possible?

That particular meditation filled with talking owl, Goddesses that emerged from the sea and my "book of life" that had letters dancing across the pages and settling into my reality as I carefully placed them there, gave me only one task to focus on. 

My instruction was to keep my eyes open, while watching the waves crash against the shore, and use all my senses in order to be washed away by the moment allowing my true life purpose to speak to me.  That was not the profundity.  Rather, the same instruction given to Brida in the pages I read just hours after completing my visualisation was though.  I felt every nerve in my body come alive as I read the instructions I had been given nearly word for word and immediately turned my attention to the reason why I had been set the task in the first place.

Imagine and write, write and teach, teach and fulfil, fulfil and feel, feel and... live. 

This newsletter began by me walking down a beaten path in the hope of finding my purpose through someone else's profound realisation and there I learned a lesson I will teach forever.  Be it in my philosophical workbooks, fantasy filled novels or monthly newsletters...

I learned...

That even if you go in search of something you aren't meant to find and no matter the hours spent searching, you will always discover that which will lead you to whatever you most need.  No journey pointless, no question unanswered, no novel meaningless... no purpose unlived.     

Contemplate this...

Somewhere, hidden amongst the seemingly pointless choices you make, is the perfect step closer to your truth.

Law of Attraction: Assistance with "Thanks to the Universe I'm all "F'ed" up"

On Vision Boards

I'm sure you have one by now and that it's filled with pictures and words that reflect a purpose-filled life.  If not, get cracking and give your soul the direction so it can aim the compass and send you along your way.

Whether conscious or undiscovered by you yet, each thing you have chosen to manifest within your life is truly a purpose you wish to fulfil.  You don't ask for a lavish home without knowing how it will complete you or have pictures of continents you wish to discover without knowing something will be awakened on distant soil.  You don't have words such as "powerful" if you don't know that once discovered it will give you the tools to change the world... even if it's only the world you surround yourself in.

Go on a mission of purpose with each picture and word that you found within the magazines or newspapers published just for you, just at the moment you needed them...

Try this exercise for a few weeks...

Look at one picture or one word per day and ask yourself the life purpose behind the material, physical, emotional or spiritual desire to manifest these things.  Ask you soul why the Universe and all the forces that be, colluded in Divine Orchestration and wound up on your vision board. 

Ask your soul... then enjoy the ride.

Open your eyes to where you are and what the world presents to you; through conversations with friends, words within songs, adverts between your not so pointless soapies and flashing billboards that say... "Just do it"

Share your story

The seemingly pointless words of encouragement that you don't express to people for a job well done, a presentation clearly understood, a family meal lovingly prepared, might hold the key that unlocks their whole point to being alive.

I, for one, cannot begin to express my gratitude for the response I have to these newsletters and wish you knew the timing with which each one has arrived at me.  So many of you have been "winged messengers" in the one liners and little explanations to the gift you have received from Greg and I.

You should honestly think of writing a book - you write so beautifully that your talent is wasted!!!!  My cousin in Canada wrote this to me just as I stared aimlessly at the character I had developed and thought to myself... "Who's gonna read this shit?"...

Greg's View on the World

The Email...

Peace is Not the Ultimate Answer, Andrew Cohen

It continually amazes me that the majority of spiritual seekers from the most affluent countries on our small planet seem to be looking for one thing above anything else: Peace. Peace? Why on earth would the luckiest people to have ever been born express their spiritual aspirations through questing for relief and release - for peace? Why are we looking for a way out of the challenge of human existence? I mean, has our lot in life really been that bad?

So why, then, are we still looking for a way out when we look to spirit? I understand that just because many of us have been graced with a high standard of living, it doesn't mean we don't suffer at an existential level. But I wonder if we haven't fallen into the habit of giving undue significance to our existential angst.

It just doesn't make sense that the experience of relief and release from the very process that produced us should be the goal of the luckiest people who have ever been born. Why not? Because the very energy and intelligence that gave us life, that produced us, needs us lucky ones to take responsibility, to wholeheartedly participate in the life process in a deeper and more authentic way than most of us ever imagined possible.

As long as the focus of our spiritual aspirations is relief and release rather than a much more profound relationship with life at the deepest level, we will never be of much use to the energy and intelligence that created us. To put it in theological terms, we will be letting God down, because we will always be seeking for a way out rather than wholeheartedly engaging with the life process, with other human beings, with our own highest potentials. As long as we are seeking peace above all else, we will never know what it means to live at the very edge of the possible. In order to be truly available to the energy and intelligence that created the universe, we do have to transcend our angst-ridden separate selves. But the motive for doing so is not so we can abide in a state of peace and freedom beyond the process. Our motive is to become passionate and egoless vehicles for its own ongoing evolution.

--Andrew Cohen, from WIE Magazine

The Profound Response...

Wow! This is a mind-blowing stand point! I have to agree: aren't people constantly trying to make things easier in order not to be responsible for hardship? Actually, not to be responsible for anything. What is the "peace" that people wish for? Let's look at the paradigm view of peace - a state of ease, no need for "difficult" communication, no disagreement, no conflict, everyone having what they need and want. Everyone having what they need and want? It brings us back to the point that the collective unconscious views Soul as a mushy, lackadaisical entity that chose life to 'chill". Why? Why would Soul choose to come to Earth and not experience everything that is unique in this existence? This includes experiencing duality that is so a part of this paradigm; duality that includes hate, fear and angst. We must accept that this is the world we have chosen to be in and, in order to make a difference, we need to convince people to live in their highest esteem and enjoy the spiritual fruits of the experience. Stop worrying about the world and how we can fix it while we have not even fixed ourselves.

Now go find your purpose...

Jodene & Greg