Naming It

Hello all; Laurie Pentell here, coming out from behind the scenes as a guest columnist today. It’s been ten months since the Rick Jarow AoA blog went live on WordPress. I’ve enjoyed witnessing this largely successful experiment that opened a channel between Rick and folks interested in his ideas re: manifesting the life and livelihood they desire. Many thousands of guests have visited these pages. Learning to engage life as a grace-full dance of energies instead of a glut of enemies to be conquered is gaining ground — as it must. (Now for this to trickle up our governmental food chain…) The discernment between these approaches is crucial; it’s all about the energy signatures we engage as co-creators of our manifest reality. Are energies flowing in harmonious collaboration, or fractured into opposing dualities much of the way?

Early on, Rick encouraged me to contribute some writing in this space, and I have shied from doing so. Recently, though, I’ve been feeling, observing, and experiencing a few things along a certain theme that I thought I’d share, before the maiden year of the AoA blog closes out. So, while Rick is busy manifesting elsewhere, here’s my offering to the Alchemy of Abundance crucible – involving a manifestation journey of my own. Perhaps there’s something in it for you.

For over a year, I’ve had a slippery hold on a vision for a project I’d like to manifest. Like most creative projects in “this Now,” this one involves a website. In fact, the website is the core aspect; the sun around which numerous planets and satellites would revolve in mutually supportive alignments. The mere expanse and complexity of this project intimidated me, and moreover… the working title I had for it didn’t ignite me. This might not block most people, but I realized recently, looking back at other creations, that I seem to need to name a thing I want to call forth — its signature, or mantra, so to speak — before I can successfully manifest it. So the project kind of sat there, orphaned, burdened with a boring name.

These past couple of months I’ve given more attention to this situation, this name issue, and spent more time focusing on the nature of “the being” trying to come into manifestation. What is trying to emerge here? Who would the primary players be? What is the important service I’m feeling called to provide by way of it? What is the primary theme that is up for me that I dearly want to energize through this expression? I keyed in on the primary theme (not as easy/obvious as one might expect) and then a primary word, and then played with that word, in all kinds of forms and pairings with other words, for several weeks. THE name remained elusive. On occasion I thought I might be on to something, only to find that the domain was already taken, or the vibration just didn’t quite resonate in some other way. On and on.

Last week: a breakthrough…

I finally invented a word that had all the elements I was searching for. It clicked for me, and I committed to it. Got the domain (one of the bennies of coining a word: no one scooped me :). As it happened, the next day I had a standing date with a highly creative and intuitive friend to brainstorm this project, which until then had been limping along with its un-sexy, cold-oatmeal label. I tentatively unveiled the new name to Peter; he loved it. He instantly “felt into its field” (an interesting process to see), and worked out the numerology for good measure. He gave it his enthusiastic thumbs up, wants “in,” and he may well be a connector to other collaborators for the project. We spent a few hours brainstorming a rough blueprint for the website.

The next hurdle: how to manifest this awesome, highly sophisticated, complex website without the funds I’d need to engage a stellar web developer? Fund-raising is not, shall I say, my greatest gift. Peter, bless him, said something that rang brilliantly for me. He said, “Pray to it.” My first response was — I blanked. “Pray to… ?”   I didn’t get it in the first few seconds. He went on to suggest I “pray to” the newly-conceived entity (the name of which I’m not ready to divulge), asking it what it needed and wanted, to be “brought through” optimally.

I lit up, feeling this piece was Major. I began talking to the god of ******  immediately, and I have to say, this process marked an energetic watershed moment. I felt a luminous new “soul” stirring in the heavens, and, in response to my celebration of, and love for, this new entity and all it could become, it is “gathering” as surely as a magnificent cloud forms in the sky, or a yearned-for baby gestates in the love-drenched chamber of its mother’s womb. For me, it’s taken on a joyousness almost as exciting as the prospect of sacred union with a new lover.

Ok, maybe not that exquisite. But definitely life-affirming.

The very next morning, I visited a community website I frequent for non-local kindred connection. The first thing to greet me was a new post from a web developer offering her services GRATIS to people in our cyber-pod who want to develop community-encouraging websites. I emailed her, explaining the breadth of my “baby” with its community-building aspects, half expecting to scare her off… or at least hear back that it was too much for her to consider without remuneration. To my amazement, she countered that she’s up for it, and is now awaiting my next move (a complete design blueprint). We shall see how this goes, but so far — since creating the all-important name for this “big step” for me — the universe has responded with grace and amazing ease. The rightly named concept seems to have a certain magnetism to it; it is attracting what it needs to move forward. So the next chapter of my odyssey could be called Dreaming it Awake, as we evoke this entity through the causal plane – the imaginative realm — into physical Form.

I really could go on; this topic brought up so many other vignettes that would fold beautifully into this article, but this is a blog, after all, where “concise is nice.” So I’ll wrap up by sharing that this naming thing has opened out into incentive to audit other areas in my life, as I scan for fragments that might be dangling like amorphous orphans; neither embraced nor even acknowledged because they haven’t even been identified (named) in ages, withheld from their next level or mode of expression… just occupying neglected space beneficial to neither them nor myself. I’m watching now with fresh eyes for forgotten skills and dreams to re-identify and call forward if appropriate, or relationships that haven’t been honored or nourished; “not bothered with.” Maybe there’s an innocent soul in here somewhere waiting to be called home if I’d only remember and speak her name; re-calling my childhood nickname was poignant. Acknowledging that she IS STILL an actual living, buoyant entity, still seeking her outlet, but energetically trapped behind some door of my conditioned/conditional adult psyche provided a powerful shift.

I’m just now also recalling Rick’s Bad Vilbel CD, in which he chants, “What’s in a name?” in the male’s meditation. Apparently, I’m recently finding — or remembering — Quite a lot!

I wonder if you were to scan your life on a search and rescue mission for such golden nuggets, and named them (realizing them again), and asked what they wanted or needed to serve their evolutionary journey (perhaps honoring them for the first time), what might unfold next?

Just thoughts…
Thank you,

LP

PS – Of possible interest — One of the shining spirits at the recent Prophets Conference in LA (besides Rick of course ;-) was Lynn Twist, the author of The Soul of Money. Lynn’s keynote on sustainability and abundance was quite moving and thought-provoking. A few audio files of her are available for listening at the Global Dialogue Center website; you might enjoy them: www.globaldialoguecenter.com/collections/moi/lynne-twist-moi.shtml. She speaks on Money, Sustainability, Abundance and You. Her website is linked there as well. As far as perspectives on our relationship with money — and humanity’s priorities in general — Lynn’s observations are worth looking into.