I thoroughly enjoyed this interview. Wide ranging, interesting, thoughtful and informative. And a lively smart interchange between Edji and Paul. Great job!! I will definitely check out the 'Raw and Cooked Vegan' site.
When in doubt, just always return to the I Am sensation however you feel it, whether a soft energy and openness around the heart, or as a solid sense of presence permeating and extending beyond the body into the world, just relax and be the I Am.
Almost everyone has some sticking points. With you it is your abdomen. With me it has been my upper back and lungs as well as a too ready naivete at believing some or another spiritual figure rather than my own experience.
Just keep talking to Shakti, love her, and feel her love.
I thoroughly enjoyed this interview. Wide ranging, interesting, thoughtful and informative. And a lively smart interchange between Edji and Paul. Great job!!
ReplyDeleteI will definitely check out the 'Raw and Cooked Vegan' site.
I love your video so much. It has brought some real
ReplyDeleteemotions of sadness, joy and humor up in me.
I just rewatched the last 30 minutes of your interview
2 more times because I keep starting to cry and miss
what you're saying next. Especially, near the end
talking about being love and experiencing it over and
over until you know Yourself is love.
That's just beginning to happen in me with Shakti. A
deepening has been happening during the last 10
days or so.
Ever since the sat sang where your energy passing
through me sank in a circular motion into my belly
and I felt adhesions popping open, I have felt both a
real deepening of relationship with Shakti and a very
extreme sense of vulnerability.
Sometimes there is also great sadness, but most
often I feel vacant. That's the closest word for it.
My belly feels open and soft and unstructured.
I don't exactly recognize it as my belly. I have very
little thinking and feel apart from whatever thinking
comes. Its like the opposite of my usual obsessing.
The only thing I know to do about all this, is to sink
into it further and further. So far there is no bottom.
When I'm scared I call for Shakti to help me. She often
envelopes me and pulls me down deeper inside.
I've had several moments of great startle when we
spontaneously meld together and then flow apart
again. My favorite thing is kind of Tibetan like,
'becoming the Deity'. I move away from her and turn
back, to see, not her, but to see me through her eyes.
That's when a transforming love arises in me/her, love
for my Self. Several times the force of love for me is
so strong that I seem to burn with it until I'm gone and
just a pillar of love is left. So far, this sense of being
love lasts a few seconds before I rushes back in fear.
So when you talked about being love itself near the
end of the video, I just broke down in tears of relief
and recognition. Its so disconcerting to be so vacant
when not meditating, then gradually sink below the
vacancy into a black velvet world with Shakti.
I dreamed that my empty belly filled up with light that
became like molten gold and and flowed out of my
womb and down my vagina into the world. A glowing
golden light form. I gave birth to something beyond
knowing.
When its really
hard with an emotion like fear/panic, I have cried to
Shakti for help. She has become very real to me.
When in doubt, just always return to the I Am sensation however you feel it, whether a soft energy and openness around the heart, or as a solid sense of presence permeating and extending beyond the body into the world, just relax and be the I Am.
ReplyDeleteAlmost everyone has some sticking points. With you it is your abdomen. With me it has been my upper back and lungs as well as a too ready naivete at believing some or another spiritual figure rather than my own experience.
Just keep talking to Shakti, love her, and feel her love.