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ART: beating heart of Mystery

CREATIVITYSometimes an image speaks directly. It pulls, attracts or repels. Art is a mystic tongue.
This painting by Mia Bosna reminds me of my InterPlay journey. Of it she says, “You were born with creativity at the center of your being and are surrounded by lots of support. Let baby peregrine falcon show you how to build this nest of creativity.”
I am curious about falcon, a hunter and about my hunting nature. I am curious about a baby bird as a guide.
©MiaBosna2000  Visit Mia’s work at www.MiaBosna.com. Thank you Mia for letting me share your beautiful image.

Has an image, piece of music, film or play hunted you down lately?

When did art lead you to see or hear in new ways?

As I grew up the arts gave “form and shape” to the mysterious passions inside.

In a high school choreography I gasped when I had an idea.

Sometimes poetry was the only way to honor my complex feelings and thoughts.

When I sang in choir I felt strangely in love.

In drawing, collage, and play with found objects I conversed with Spirit.

What are these arts, these secret languages of the soul?I wrote Chasing the Dance of Life because of my awe. It it is not about being a great artist, art is about being able to communicate with Mystery.

When did art lead you to see or hear in new ways?

Check behind the author tab to find my peephole gallery.

Together in the Mystery!

Thursday’s Free Teleconference with Cynthia

HOW TO INTEGRATE EASY FOCUS AND CLEAR FOCUS: CLAIRVOYANCE (clear-seeing) SKILL #1

Thursday March 8th 5pm Pacific Time

“Close both eyes to see with the other eye.” Rumi

In this teleconference I lead a guided meditation with silence, movement and sound. Then, I teach you how to integrate easy focus and direct focus and support you to notice what happens.

1.  Mar 8, 2012 at 5:00 PM PST click on https://www3.gotomeeting.com/join/718289254

2.  Use your microphone and speakers (VoIP) – a headset is recommended. Or, call in using your telephone.

Dial +1 (213) 493-0600
Access Code: 718-289-254
Audio PIN: Shown after joining the meeting

Meeting ID: 718-289-254

Email me at cynthia@interplay.org if you would like an email reminder.

One day in a meditation course I learned to simultaneously apply focus and easy focus. It changed my life. I felt different in my head. I flooded with grace. It was so easy. Why couldn’t I do this before? It was like riding a bike. When I went to my InterPlay class my alignment changed!

Unfortunately, the sudden shift threw my back out.  Bodies need to go slow even with good stuff. I eased up and returned (with mercy) to my hyper focused ways. But I didn’t give up. I snuck up on simultaneously using incisive focus while opening to the wider field (easy focus).

I am convinced that this is a basic skill for clear-seeing or clairvoyance. Before rational and analytical thinking became a major skill using easy focus was….a lot easier. Meanwhile, blending the two is still rare except among artists, visionaries, and seers.

Join me to learn a thing they don’t teach in Sunday School, Temple, or PE.

Consider Joining the Mystic Tech Journey at any time!

There are many things that I couldnt’ put in the InterPlay manuals. So, each month I send a slew of ideas and practices to Mystic Tech members who subscribe through paypal. Unsubscribe at any time. This month receive

  • A pdf. Artist as Community Mystic
  • A recording of the free teleconference on clairvoyant skill #1
  • A Body Prayer Youtube
  • An excerpt from Chasing the Dance of Life on seeing in the dark.
  • Bi-weekly provocations and inspirations for your own journey.
  • Underlying Affirmations for a Body Prayer Practice pdf.
  • A chant for the journey.

Small online Art and Wisdom groups offer interactive ways to share creativity inspired by your journey. Together we’ll strengthen the role of mysticism at a time when spiritual solutions may be needed more than anything.
Body and Soul members also receive individual sessions at a discount.

If you are visiting the blog for the first time you can enter your email into the Blog subscribers at the top right to learn about free events. I’ll send you a free audio gift “Define Mystic,” just for joining this part of the journey.

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The physical shift that helped me to “see.”

 

Free Teleconference with Cynthia

Thursday March 8th 5pm Pacific Time (full moon)

 

I remember the day I learned to simultaneously apply focus and easy focus. It changed my life. I felt different in my head. I flooded with grace. It was so easy. Why couldn’t I do this before? It was like riding a bike. My alignment changed.

Unfortunately, it threw my back out.  I eased up and returned (with mercy) to my hyper focused ways.

But I didn’t give up. I snuck up on the simultaneous access of my incisive focus while opening to the wider field (easy focus).

If you are you intrigued by answers that come out of the blue you may access easy focus. If you need things to make sense you may be looking hard at the world and over focus.

It’s hard for the Universal to reach us when we shine our bright light on it and blind ourselves.  A definition of shaman is “one who sees in the dark.”

On March 8th I am offering a free teleconference on one skill for seeing in the dark. I’ll lead a guided meditation with silence, movement and sound. Then earn how to play with focus and notice what happens.

1.  Mar 8, 2012 at 5:00 PM PST click on https://www3.gotomeeting.com/join/718289254

2.  Use your microphone and speakers (VoIP) – a headset is recommended. Or, call in using your telephone.

Dial +1 (213) 493-0600
Access Code: 718-289-254
Audio PIN: Shown after joining the meeting

Meeting ID: 718-289-254

Email me at cynthia@interplay.org if you would like me to email you a reminder.

The Mystic Tech Journey

This month I am sending ideas and practices to all levels of Mystic Tech subscribers including

  • A pdf on Artist as Community Mystic.
  • An excerpt from Chasing the Dance of Life.
  • Bi-weekly emails to provoke the Mystic Journey.
  • A Body Prayer Youtube and pdf. on Underlying Affirmations for a Body Prayer Practice.
  • A chant for the journey.

For personal connection small online Art and Wisdom groups offer real, visual interaction and places to share creativity inspired by mystical connection. Affirming mystic wisdom strengthens the role of mystics in the world at a time when spiritual solutions may be what we need more than anything.
Body and Soul members receive all this plus individual sessions at an incredible discount.

Join me. There is so much to share and learn about this under developed area.

If you are visiting the blog for the first time consider getting regular updates and gifts in your inbox by entering your email into the Blog subscribers at the top right. I’d be delighted to send you a free audio gift “Define Mystic.”

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Mysticism births Art

 

Mystics need art to explain the unexplainable.

Imagery. Movement. Texture. Sound. Poetry.

There is nothing that reaches me like the art of a mystic. Hello Rumi!

This is one of the reasons that Mystic Tech’s Body and Soul and Art and Wisdom Groups are coming into being. I want a venue to play online, on the phone, and in community and to explore and share unanswerable questions and insights.

Small Groups are forming now. The groups offer a small community for witnessing, sharing, and interacting on an advanced spiritual level.

Are you curious about how to transform sensitivity into joy instead of a burden?

  • How movement, voice, breath, and stillness open unique channels?attunement.
  • Why divining our purpose and intention is potent and requires care?
  • What art forms enable “seeing.”
  • The “Am I psychic?” question.
  • How to strengthen and understand divine guidance?
  • What is the best route for spiritual healing?
  • When is avoiding mystery dangerous to health?
  • How to remove blocks in relationships?
  • The energetic effect of ancestry and legacy?

Do you wonder

  • What to do when being a mystic creates institutional tension?
  • How to engage and balance both reason and vision?
  • How to keep love flowing while suffering?
  • Which art to employ to discern specific wisdom?
  • When is a dream not about me and what should I do?
  • What to do when muses and guides overwhelm or abandon us?
  • How to play with unfriendly forces?
  • How is practicality a blessed part of mystery?
  • How to relate to and tap the Tree of Life for insight?

 

To participate you might subscribe to receive emails from Mystic Tech in the subscriber box to the right. I’ll send you the gift of an audio file, “Define Mystic,” an initiation into mystic life. Through emails I’ll keep you posted about single webinars and how to register for a December 4-8, 2012 Mystic Tech retreat in New Mexico.

To Become a Mystic Tech Group Member There are
Three Levels of Membership To Choose From

Mystic Tech Members: $15/ month

• Monthly live webinar and recording
• Curriculums, noticing practices, youtubes, a song to open the heart
These focus on

  •    How We Know Things
  •    How to play with energy: Gifted and Sensitive Bodies
  •    Stories from The Healing Way: Four Paths Through Deep Play
  •    How to Divine Purpose: Clarity about day-to-day purpose,
  •    What Ritual Is Needed? High Play: Creating Rituals to Transform
  •    Taking Courage: Writing Your Book of Initiations
  •    On Being Nature: Your Body and the Tree of Life
  •    Sharing Sacred Stories
  •   Muses, Hags, Saints, and Wizards: Wisdom Figures

Body and Soul Members: $49/month    Full participation and 1 on 1 coaching

  • Personal Coaching via email, Skype, or in person (Normally $85 per session).
  • Access to your primary movement pattern in a FEBI session.
  • Reserved room @ Dec. 4-8,2012 New Mexico retreat: rest, pray, play in ritual together!
 Art and Wisdom Members: $29/month
  • Small group coaching through monthly phone calls and online sharing
  • Monthly live webinar and recording
  • Curriculums, noticing practices, youtubes, a song to open the heart
  • A writing & art community to share mysteries of the heart through free writing, poetry, photography, image, and prose.

Special Offer for the early December 4-8 retreat. Save money by paying over time. Add any amount to a monthly membership level and get the December retreat tuition at a reduced rate: $240/normally $300. (Does not include room and board.) Plus, your tuition will be paid when December rolls around.

 Register to the right on the Mystic Tech blog home page or email me at Cynthia@interplay.org to arrange a check payment.

Change your level at anytime. Contact me at Cynthia@interplay.org with any questions.

There is nothing like setting off on a journey with friends!

 

“What will make my grieving holy?”

I am grateful for this question. It came to me while trying to discern how to acknowledge the grief I inherited from my mother’s body.

She bore grief from trauma throughout her life. I knew her grief in utero and always knew it was more than one person should bear.

Now, I want to honor her and honor myself. That is why I am grateful for the question that came out of the blue. “What will make my grieving holy?”

I do not want to grieve her grief. I want to remember HER. Her losses were like a disability. Should I remember a person for their challenges? No. She is ever so much more.

She is light and warm, lively and smart. She is gracious and deeply connected to the dance of life. She laughs and gives you the “raspberries” to convey dislikes. She lets you know what she thinks when you ask. She takes fabric in her hands and fashions it with patience and love. She is cheerful. She cooks, cleans and cares for those around her. She listens and shares wisdom. She travels with eyes wide open.

Now, each day I wonder, what will make my grieving holy?

Teaching in Minnesota yesterday I led a ritual connected to the tree of life. I brought her name written on a slip of paper. I brought a piece of unfinished pansy embroidery. I moved into the center of the spiral of branches to the call of drum and fiddle. The night, the candle light, the beauty of branches gave me a form. Grief moved me in the beauty of loss.

It was holy.