hahaha!

I couldn’t resist posting this, as it is a pretty unique ‘capture’ — of Rick Jarow laughing uproariously. Anyone who’s spent time around Rick has probably noticed that outright laughter is not typical of his demeanor.

At the Prophets Conference, however, he led a visualization process wherein you visualize sending specific emotional energies into particular organs of the body. As energy workers are aware, each organ has a specific job of emotional processing (and cleansing), and backups of negative emotions held in an organ can lead to illness in that specific place. Rick’s visualization involved sending antidotal emotional energy to lighten the load of each organ.

So here he is, leading the charge of sending laughter to the organ that has the burdensome task of processing worry. “Send laughter into your spleen, and imagine all your worries turning to Lightness,” he advised, and proceeded to howl outrageously for a good few minutes, bringing the room with him. I’m sure many spleens were tickled.

I share this vignette with with you and invite you to laugh into your spleen! Maybe transform your daily commute into a daily transmute — unless you’re on public transit…

:)

“Take the poisons,
make them into medicine,
allow them to lead you to the gold.” ~ RJ

Fall Workshops Posted

Rick’s late 2007/early 2008 workshops are now available to see on the blog’s ‘workshops’ page:  http://alchemyofabundance.wordpress.com/events/   Reminder: he is taking a break from his usual workshop schedule next year.  Hopefully we will see a personal message from him soon, re: his plans and intentions.

Manifestation Beyond the Project of Me

Many think of manifestation as “self-improvement” but if that is all it is, it is but another ego project doomed to failure. To renounce manifestation on the other hand, due to some notion of temporality or futility of this world is to remain in reaction to thought (to samsara) and not to break through to the other side. What then exactly is manifestation? 

The Idols of Environmentalism

Greetings, all~

Rick was sent an article published in Orion Magazine, and he thought it might spark some thoughts and conversation here.  It’s a formidable piece, spanning two issues of the mag – I am posting just a couple of excerpts here and providing a link further down for anyone interested to pursue.

Have a brilliant summer!

Whitehawk

The Idols of Environmentalism
Do environmentalists conspire against their own interests?   
by Curtis White

Published in the March/April 2007 issue of Orion magazine

THE IDEA THAT WE HAVE powerful corporate villains to thank for the sorry state of the natural world is what Francis Bacon called an “idol of the tribe.” According to Bacon, an idol is a truth based on insufficient evidence but maintained by constant affirmation within the tribe of believers. In spite of this insufficiency, idols do not fall easily or often. Tribes are capable of exerting will based on principles, but they are capable only with the greatest difficulty of willing the destruction of their own principles. It’s as if they feel that it is better to stagger from frustration to frustration than to return honestly to the question, does what we believe actually make sense? The idea of fallen idols always suggests tragic disillusionment, but this is in fact a good thing. If they don’t fall, there is no hope for discovering the real problems and the best and truest response to them. All environmentalists understand that the global crisis we are experiencing requires urgent action, but not everyone understands that if our activism is driven by idols we can exhaust ourselves with effort while having very little effect on the crisis. Most frighteningly, it is even possible that our efforts can sustain the crisis. The question the environmental tribe must ask is, do our mistaken assumptions actually cause us to conspire against our own interests?

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The Sacred Art of Manifestation: This School of Earth

How many times have we heard that the “Earth is a school” and that we are in a process of learning?  But how many times have we refused to take the course?  The idea that manifestation is a process of consciously desiring, a conscious way to “get what I want” is immature at best and pernicious at worst, for it assumes that “man is the measure of all things.”  In fact, we cannot even remember what we did yesterday, not to mention our birth, or lifetimes past.  

Who are we, really?  Where do we come from?  Why are we here with one another?  Is it not, ultimately, to learn how to love, and to love more fully and powerfully? 

And what if, in this process, what we want is what we already have? This does not have to be resignation or fatalism.  What if we are being asked to work skillfully, lovingly, intricately, and mindfully with the exact circumstances given to us, with every detail from taking a drink of water, to tying our shoes, to fixing the car, to opening to our pain, to accepting the depth of our feelings, to working energetically for change?  

An ordinary day can become an eon.  A simple walk outside can be a walk into blazing glory. Can we love our life, the one we have been given, so much that we may be inspired to use it well? 

Can we receive so deeply that every exhale is an offering? 

Can this very day be the day, the time of our awakening? 

RJ

The Community of Acceptance

The search for community is often a long and hard one. We all desperately want, and need, to belong to something, somewhere, somehow, and yet we have also fought desperately for our freedom and are legitimately fearful of backsliding into group dynamics that suffocate individual expression and creativity. 

This, in essence, is the problem around the desire and need for both community and freedom, for arguably, we cannot have one without the other. The late 70’s and so called “me-generation” 80’s perhaps witnessed the apex of individualism in unbridled capitalism, the quest for endless sensation and experience, and ultimately (as Philip Slater entitled it) the pursuit of loneliness.  

Ironically, as the “glory of me” ideal was cracking through various forms of addiction, existential despair, and loss of will, the ideal of the commune was also falling apart. The construct of any collective willing to sacrifice the individual for its group mind was revealed as stultifying and oppressive.  And as one communal experiment after another grew up, and then disbanded, through the counter-culture, the challenges of our living together were painfully revealed.

Radiant Spirit (cont.): Abundance Practices 5, 6 & 7

 

This is the fourth installment of Rick’s “Radiant Spirit” article, featuring practices of abundance 5-7, that we can work with daily.  This series began on April 4.  

Radiant Spirit (cont.): Abundance Practices 1 & 2

This is the second installment of Rick’s “Radiant Spirit” article, featuring the first & second practices of abundance.  The first installment was posted on April 4.

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Deep Alchemy: Loving What Is/Envisioning What Can Be

The challenge of time will not be resolved by “scheduling tips” and the like, just like money problems are generally not solved by money. What is needed is a deep alchemical shift in our approaches to our comings and goings. Here is one of the major shifts that I am working on. I would love some feedback on this:

Deep Alchemy: Loving What Is/Envisioning What Can Be

On one hand, in order to manifest our heart and soul’s vibrancy and reality in the world, we are asked to hold a “healed vision” of what can be. Without a healed vision, be it of health, finances, or relationship, we keep recreating disease by focusing on what is not working instead of what can work.

On the other hand, however,