follow your bliss...happy Independence day

"[I]f you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. When you can see that, you begin to meet people who are in your field of bliss, and they open doors to you. I say, follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be." - Joseph Campbell, interview with Bill Moyer (via Nick Smith's Life 2.0 blog)

Was experiencing a not so stellar day. Have you ever felt like you are  plopped smack into the middle of some mysterious plotline, albeit cliffhanging as it is you're not so sure you want to turn the pages just yet, or ever again. Not another dragon slaying day, pleez. Because you're It, you're the hero/heroine of your story, and the heroine doesn't quite like the world she's thrown into, or the sentences and the punctuation and the incessant advancement of the drama. You'd rather crawl back into bed, thank you. Or howl about the inanity of the storyline and what the other characters are doing. Especially knowing this is the kind of advice Storyteller, aka your Soul, works with:

6. Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them - in order that the reader may see what they are made of. - Kurt Vonnegut, Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction

A friend offered to send me an energy packet remotely tonight (hmmm, whatever that is; he's the intuitive energy worker.)

Thx in meantime eatin strawberries chocolate tea now

These u live on?

Why not? My two great joys in life are chocolate and young men, said potter artist Beatrice Wood...she lived to 105...following my bliss

I should qualify and mention that that's deep dark chocolate and moonlight white tea.

Ah, I feel better already.

The chocolate and strawberries helped - alas no young men handily around -  because stopped for a second being ensnared by the storyworld and its masquerades, and where the other characters' dramas are spinning, and came back to me and my own soul compass (Joy).

"Now, I came to this idea of bliss because in Sanskrit, which is the great spiritual language of the world, there are three terms that represent the brink, the jumping-off place to the ocean of transcendence: sat-chit-ananda. The word "Chit" means consciousness. "Ananda" means bliss or rapture. I thought, "I don't know whether my consciousness is proper consciousness or not; I don't know whether what I know of my being is my proper being or not; but I do know where my rapture is. So let me hang on to rapture, and that will bring me both my consciousness and my being." I think it worked." - Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

Update: Sharing this epiphany with friend above.[He generously talked me through my venting this a.m.] sorry keep get ensnare by world drama, okay when focus myself follow my own thread o inspiration even if silly 2 everyone else

He: Thts all u gota do.
Me: 2 simple. guess can't believe so simple

Yes, it's too good to be true. Yes, it's that simple.

p.s. Independence Street, Desire Street and Piety Street are all a couple blocks from each other in New Orleans. What co-incidence! I view following your rapture, or bliss, or as I sometimes like to say follow my sassiness - as being the exact thing as following your desire and Will - which ultimately is the crux of the law of attraction. And that following is like following an electric current, or a magnetic force, a movement pulsing and flowing within the heart of your being that keeps right on waltzing and overflowing out in gushes of fountains and expresses as flinging rose petals and fecund blessings galore in a myriad of profuse ways. (Take a peek at the 3 Cups, or Abundance card, in Tarot; imagine the cups are eternally replenished with immortal waters of life everlasting.)    

Art: The Roses of Heliogabalus, by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema

Comments

[Nick Smith]

Wow Evelyn, there's a whole epiphany wrapped up in that tiny little 'Update' at the end of your post. "Yes, it's too good to be true"... It is isn't it? Just follow joy and don't worry about the rest.

The power of myth can snare us into believing that the journey entails sacrifice and effort. The mind quickly passes "follow your bliss" off as a great philosophy but not the literal truth. The eye will jump straight to the next sentence to find out 'how' in it's inability to comprehend those three little words - that we need only follow what makes us happy in each moment.

Maybe the dark night of the soul is unavoidable... I don't really know... by it is definitely of our own making.

Thanks Evelyn. Have a wonderful day.

[Loofa]

I wonder what it was your, if anything, your inner storyteller was yearning to plot, other than to obtain dark chocolate and tea.

I hope you have a stellar Independence Day!

[Evelyn Rodriguez]

Nick,
Yeah, you're right. The idea of the descent in the Hero's Journey is a pretty well-known narrative, for Story, and for Soul. So too in Kabbala, so too in Tarot: the arduous journey given to us from Fool to Universe is fraught with a few days we might not feel like skipping and rejoicing. At least that's the way myth goes.

I don't know if the Abyss (as Kabbala likes to deem "dark night of the soul") is or isn't avoidable in past; it was def there in vivid technicolor epic movie slow frame by excruciating slow frame for me prior 2006. Until I realized I was watching a projected movie! And it's darkest before dawn they say ;-) Things have gotten so much brighter, radiant, let's say since.

There is a world soul, and a cosmic soul, and well, that's enough for now. And they've evolved through the Hero's Journey too. I have this felt sense that the descent is no longer necessary. We've all been there, in this lifetimes and times past. The prison door is wide open, it is ours to choose to walk through. There is much to also be learnt in the acts of intentional play and creation, the journey isn't over, it just expands into an infinite playground. Too many (me at times) stuck in old patterns of drudgery and efforting, which is keeping us from the way the movement wants to flow now into greater and greater magic and miracles. We're looping old, ancient stories, insteading of inventing fresh ones.

This is a snippet from one of my teachers:

"Even many spiritual seekers still think in terms of effort, of trials and tests. But there is no longer any key needed to open the door. It cannot now be closed.

This change is so simple and fundamental it is easy to overlook. It is not a problem to be solved. There is nothing to be learned, no steps to success. Something is being given freely, with no strings attached. All that is required is for each of us to say "yes."" - Sufi master Llewellyn Vaughn-Lee, Working with Oneness
(More at http://evelynrodriguez.typepad.com/crossroads_dispatches/2007/05/if_your_knowled.html)

Loofa, "How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives." - Annie Dillard. Even I find it hard to grasp that chocolate and strawberries and moonlight spice white tea is actually just as sacred and as preciously exquisite as anything else She could plot. Drama is overrated. Though I sense we shall be seeing quite a bit o' drama next few years. But in a dynamically peaceful way. More later. Taking to heart that more folks would like vicarious thrill of knowing more about my visions, et al. Okay okay.

Somewhat an aside, from other offline comments I received, I find it amusing how many people take my offhand remarks about young men quite seriously, whilst dismissing my comments about faerie and fifth dimensions as Evelyn's whimsy and poetical license.

[Michael]

I believe once I get out of the way of myself and allow the present moment of just being to manifest then and only then am I happy. I crave my solitude and so much so that after writing 10 books and I have the ISBN numbers to prove it, I have not published them because I am in solitude so much that the writing takes over and there is no time for the packaging and all the work to get published. I lately though have experienced this knowing that I am going to start doing the work so I guess this might be the year I will release my first book. The feeling is a good feeling and it feels good to know why this new direction might be happening. Could this be another side of bliss?

[Kory]

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