Activity: A Guided Meditation
Having a Shower

“It’s strange, the consciousness has become more and more intense and widespread, and the body is like something floating within this consciousness,….It’s like an ocean of light that keeps doing its’ work, and then, in it, there floats something…It’s deep ultramarine blue. Do you know that color? ...That’s it.”
THE AGENDA The MotherQuoted from THE MIND OF THE CELLS Satprem

Let’s not TAKE a shower. Let’s HAVE a shower. What a blessing! What joy!
Let the inner Source of your inner life-water greet the flowing shower- water as it runs over your skin. Bathe every cell in your face – eyes, ears, nose, lips, chin, neck, in the ears, behind your ears, over your relaxed back, your shoulders, collar bones, soap it up, your arms, elbows, wrists and the billions of skin cells between. Keep the One connection with the water within. What fun! What play! Feel the energy flow into every body-cell down to your waiting feet, all the spaces between the toes, the bottom of your marvelous feet, the hardy heels. Let the consciousness of the water flow into and from each cell. YOU are the water in the Sea of Consciousness. Fine tune the feeling. Share the vibrations with all the puddles, streams, lakes, oceans over the world flowing into the One Ocean of Love where all are One Body. What a blessing! As you turn off the water, bless it. Water! Come out. Refreshed. Have a drink! And have a quiet moment with Rumi.
The Water You Want
Someone may be clairvoyant, able to see
the future, and yet have very little wisdom.

Like the man who sees water in his dream
and began leading everyone toward his mirage.

I am the one with heart vision.
I have torn open the veil.

So they set out with him inside the dream,
while he is actually sleeping
beside a river of pure water.

Any search moves away from the spot
where the object of the quest is.

Sleep deeply wherever you are on the way.
Maybe some traveler will wake you.

Give up subtle thinking, the twofold, threefold
multiplication of mistakes.

Listen to the sound of waves within you.
You are dreaming your thirst,
when the water you want
is inside the big vein on your neck. A YEAR WITH RUMI Coleman Barks

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Three Cups of Tea.
Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relim.
A Viking Penguin Book, 2006.

Every so often a new biography expands the heart. This book is one. Greg Mortenson, a professional mountain climber, lost and near death in the remote regions of Pakistan, is rescued by the people of an impoverished village. His great-hearted gratitude and determination take over his entire life. The sub-title of the book describes the impact of his efforts: "One man's mission to fight terrorism and build nations .... one school at a time."

Arctic Refuge Sutra. "Teachings from an Endangered Landscape." Paricia Reis. Muskox Productions. (www.patriciareis.org)

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CONSCIOUSNESS IN ACTION:
The Power of Beauty, Love and Courage in a Violent Time
by Andrew Beath. Lantern Books, 2005.

Andrew Beath was successfully at work as a real estate developer until one day he overheard a group of trespassing hippies condemn the greed that would despoil the exquisite beauty of the nearby mountains. Consciousness in Action traces the author's journey into his new consciousness and his responding actions. He shares the accounts of other significant social and consciousness change agents. The book is basic reading for anyone concerned with the need for social change and a desire to be involved in social activism.

ACTIVITY:A Guided Meditation

Listening to Music

“For this - if one can be completely silent, you see, silent and attentive, simply as though one were an instrument which has to record it – one does not move, and is only something that is listening – if one can be absolutely silent, absolutely still and like that, then the thing enters. And it is only later, some time later, that you can become aware of the effect, either of what it meant or the impression it had on you.
But the best way of listening is this. It is to be like a still mirror and very concentrated, very silent. In fact, we see people who truly love music… I have seen musicians listening to music, musicians, composers or players who truly love music, I have seen them listening to music… they sit completely still, you know, they are like that, they do not move at all. Everything, everything is like that. And if one can stop thinking, then it is very good, then one profits fully….It is one of the methods of inner opening and one of the most powerful.” THE SUNLIT PATH The Mother

“In listening to music, here again you pay attention to the outer sound instead of letting Me into the experience. Try following My advice: put Me first and then let the sound have its way with you.” WISDOMS Dorothy Maclean


Choose one of your favorites CD’s. Turn it on softly. Sit in a comfortable position. Let your eyes fall out of focus. Relax your entire body. Inhale the vibrations from the universe through your feet. Feel the vibrations move up through your legs, your thighs, your pelvis, your navel center, your gut. Remain there. Listen to the music.

Now, breathe in the Light from the crown of your head, down into your third eye, down into your throat, down, down into your heart. Remain there. Each and every cell of your body is vibrating. And NOW - listen to the music.

Let your mind-body send the vibrations out from your room to the city, your country, over the oceans to the ONE Ocean, up through the ONE Sky to the ONE Sun, the ONE Moon, the ONE planetary Being, the ONE Universe.

As it feels right, slowly open your eyes. Dance the cosmic dance into the Divine Consciousness. All day.