“We are reuniting at this time in order to understand and help one another articulate to those around us what is happening inside of us. While we are each in varying states of reverence, grief, bliss, silence, and speech clearer than we’ve ever spoken, we need to be advocates for one another, drawing one another out with touch, with beauty, with the quiet companionship of the silence of Knowing but no longer alone.”
After almost four years of traveling much of the world reciting the poetry that began to come through me as my own “awakening” process began 10 years ago, I for the first time feel as if I have reason to write a blog. And it seems that the thread running through each of these first four entries is everything to do with what we are calling “The Shift”: this wildfire of waking consciousness that is spreading across the planet, igniting hearts with the inspiration to become an advocate for all of Life and burning away anything in our personal path that doesn’t serve the white-hot flame of Truth.
I dedicate this blog to You, The Tribe: Those of us who are coming together now, each day a new arrival, recognizing one another at first glance.
We are reuniting at this time in order to understand and help one another articulate to those around us what is happening inside of us. While we are each in varying states of reverence, grief, bliss, silence, and speech clearer than we’ve ever spoken, we need to be advocates for one another, drawing one another out with touch, with beauty, with the quiet companionship of the silence of Knowing but no longer alone.
Within this last week I have had conversation after conversation with others of this Tribe, but these sacred conversations would not have taken place had I not the courage nor the commitment to share what’s really going on within my body and mind.
It sounds like this: “In truth, my heart is breaking. I disagree with almost everything that humankind has touched and has desecrated. Tears rim my eyes most days, and my mind and dreams are extremely active at night. I experience storms of heavy grief that move through my bones, and across my breast and brow, and some days it is all I can do to speak aloud one more time, especially to a conversation that seems to be a great waste of precious energy and time. And then come storms of searing clarity – as if the hurricane of humanity’s collective heartbreak is cleared by my ability to bear witness to it and it needs a conscious vehicle to pass through so that it can be transmuted. I am returned to my Truth more vital in every way, and even surer of why I came to this life to live in the times we are in. Yes, if I were to be honest with you, my heart is breaking. But it is breaking open. And I have never been happier in my life. I was a miserable human being before this, even though I seemed to “have it all”, because I was trying to play along with the absurdity of what we are told is “civilization”. At least, and at long last, I am standing in my Truth, and I am an Advocate for this Planet, and for the New Human and I will do only those things that make sense to my soul in every moment and nothing less. I support you in doing the same. You know exactly what those things are – do them now. Step fully in, now. The earth can’t afford to have you play small.”
What happens next are laughter and tears of relief. Your fellow Tribe member’s face is lighter, even within the weight of the conversation, and the obvious and deep kinship warms and brightens the exchange. They begin to tell you of their own experience that is near-identical to yours. You see the god in one another and the courage and commitment that this Brother or Sister made to be here, and you take each other’s hands as tears of joy now fill the eyes and the Awakening continues to have its way, seeding the New Dream and the New Human into the present, and into the future, and you can hear and feel the wildfire in your own heart, and it’s light can be seen for hundreds and thousands of miles…
Never Broken
I am my own Home now.
Wherever I move
the Light –
It moves with me.
I open all of the windows and the doors
so that God can come and go, easily.
I don’t know why God takes such delight
in this House I call “Me”.
This place
where hearts come to be broken.
At the end of the Long Day I always ask,
“God? Why, hearts to be broken?”
And God always replies,
“Never broken, dear Lover –
only Opened.”
‘Never Broken’ – Em Claire ©2007 All Rights Reserved
Written by Em Claire
Em Claire was born in Seattle, Washington in the United States, and was raised in the beautiful Rogue Valley of Southern Oregon, where she now lives. Twenty-three of her poems appear in the New York Times best seller When Everything Changes, Change Everything by Neale Donald Walsch, and her first full collection of poetry has just arrived in bookstores under the title Silent Sacred Holy Deepening Heart. www.EmClairePoet.com
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this is almost like reading my own blog which I have not yet written. Everything you describes is Exactly how I have been feeling and living for the last 4 weeks. It was as if I turned a corner that I didn’t know was there and found myself on a street of my truth I had never known. I grieved, and slowed, I embraced myself and sat with what is and felt this moment and who I truly am. I am still feeling this deep sense of rebuilding releasing, remembering, embracing. Thank you for writing this blog – I feel even more embraced by my truth and yours as well:)
Even in my grief I have known this is exactly what I am meant to feel,, even with the sobs I have known a clarity afterward that I have never felt. I have let go of everything and settled in this moment and now after reading your words I know even more that this last month I have truly listened to my truth – at time I wondered if I was coming unglued – now I know I was, and am. The brilliant Universe is un-gluing the pieces of my broken heart and the broken heart of many beautiful beings so that we may continue to open open open.
In much gratitude to you,
– Christine Christensen
I just read this blog and the previous one, of what you are experiencing I couldn’t have described it better. I thought maybe it just had to do with some personal things that are going on in my life, but it seems like it is something that is being experienced on a grander scale.
The not wanting to talk a lot, not wanting to be around too many people, wanting silence, peace and quiet, being outside, yoga, exercise, etc.
I’ve had nightmares for the past year, most of them about the world ending. My dreams have calmed down in the dramaticism, but are still very intense and very vivid. I’ve been overcome with various memories of the past, or maybe even rather feelings, and I don’t know where they are coming from, like the come from a void, because they are completely irrelevant to me at the moment.
I’ve always been such a people person, but lately the less I speak, the better I feel. There’s a thousand other things I could write, but I don’t know if I could put on ‘paper’ what I feel and think.
I can say for sure that things do feel different…
At this moment all I can say is THANK YOU….Sometimes I don’t know how to explain my truth in words….it’s far to intense. But you were able to. Thank you ….
~~Techqua Ikachi….Blending with the Land and Celebrating LIFE
Peace
What you have experienced is what might be called a mystical experience. These are life-altering experiences and never leave us where they found us. Everything looks different once you’ve seen with these new eyes of awareness. We are truly newly born in them, each time we have them. They can bring us to our knees both figuratively and literally. They cleanse, purify, crack us open, burn away all that is not true of our being and never was. They can be disorienting and so very, very lovely but always beyond description…beyond tiny words.
We usually think we know a lot more than we do after our first experience…I know I did. And over the couple of decades now that have passed since they first began, instead of knowing more, I find that I know so very, very little. It is increasingly more humbling every day but so sweet, so very irresistible. The Lover of all Love’s embrace becomes all that matters and singing it’s song one’s only desire. And like the flower that does not even know it blooms so beautifully, and whose perfume draws all near to it, we become the instrument for something so much larger than anything we could have ever dreamed of in all our little goals that are now laid by. We touch the hem of Love itself and discover that all live there with us in what is our home. And in our own acceptance of the beauty that we are, beauty not of our own design, we stand as a testament to all those that are still seeking in misery and pain.
With deepest gratitude,
Jane Lee Logan
Thank you! You have described very accurately what I have been living also. It began around a month ago in the physical, with lower back pain that would not leave and just grew in intensity (not a regular thing for me) and then ovary pain and cramps that lasted for over a week. I felt as though I was in the beginnings of labor. I received a message that I was…although not only on a personal level, but helping birth a new state of being for everyone. Odd I know but I listen when I hear the voice inside, it is always true. As this realization was accepted the physical pain left, replaced with a series of events affecting me, although not instigated by me, where friendships of decades began to dissolve. Dramatically and without recovery. I grieved but also felt some relief, some friendships adhere because of the length of time rather than the quality of sharing.
Now I find myself in a place of seeking solitude (difficult during 12 weeks of school summer break) and quietude. I find I am open to community invitations more than usual although, reluctant to engage in spending time frivolously.
After nearly a month of creative drought (I am a painter) my work is flowing, colors are pinks, purples, white and turquoise instead of my primary colors of the past. The works are titled during their making with titles such as \’They speak, if we listen\’, and so on!
I share this in the spirit of yourself and others with their comments, making me smile as I recognize indeed we are not alone, and this discomfort is serving a higher purpose for all.
I am sure you will hear this over and over again…YOU HAVE WRITTEN MY STORY!
My shift started longer ago than I was aware of, but just in the last 2.5 years, it has intensified. I LOVE my quiet time anyway, but lately, I could be alone more than not. I have purchased a cabin in the woods, I ride my horse in the woods, mostly alone, or with a friend of like mind. I make jewelry that speaks to the wearer to uplift, awaken, and enlighten. More than ANYTHING, I have been getting to know WHO I REALLY am, to be honest about looking deep inside of myself, and working on those things that I want to fine tune, I see myself in others, and that helps to get deeper to those things I want to release, that do not serve my purpose. And my DREAMS! Good God! They have always been amazing, however lately, they are more like epic blockbuster movies! I hear others speak of old, fearful belief systems, and I remain silent, knowing that to argue is pointless. I see them as fearful children. I have compassion and love, sometimes pity, for them, but just cannot seem to engage in deeper converstaions with them. My body has been completely drained, and in that,forcing me to slow down, and be alone to recharge. This business of filling the air with noise of conversation has always been bothersome, but now, just plain annoying! I have resumed my yoga practice, and that feels so very good! Being an artist, I can be with people that are more free thinking than most of the population, this helps, but I find that even sometimes, THEY are standing still. I love change, expanding my mind and heart, even if it hurts, I have learned that trust is one of the most important elements, once you TRULY learn that, the fear melts away, and EVERYTHING falls into place! I ask myself, \" is this or that right for me, for my life?\" The answers come in the form of feeling it inside of my body. I \"know\" more than ever, my own truth, and sometimes the truth for others around me. I hope to aid them in some way to their own truth, and to know that I am NOT alone, that this is happening to others on the planet…IT IS BEAUTIFUL BEYOND WORDS!! Thank you for being!
I just wanted to express my thanks to you for the brave expression of (y)our truth that you have shared with us here. You have bought me comfort, and in reminding me so beautifully that I am not alone, I see a higher purpose at work once more.
I am indebted to you.
Namaste x
Sweethearts, thank you for sharing your own experiences with me, and with all of us. My heart fills with yet more light, and I am so grateful for your place in this world, at this Sacred time. I am noticing that the more I use yoga practices – or any practice that helps move the energy: chant, dance, singing, breathwork – that the “gunk” moves out, or is transmuted, and there is more and more L I G H T filling my being where the Gunk once was! If we are to be conscious vessels for the Awakening process, then it is important that we move, move, move the Old out and Receive the NEW! Blessings on your incredible Opening & Deepening. I am here for you in every way I can be. – Em
Thank you Em, for speaking our truth so beautifully.
Your writing has re-sparked a desire in me that I have allowed to drift away many times before. I catch glimpses of my ‘real’ self in relation to this illusory and at times painful world but for some reason I just notice them and then allow them to float by. Much like seeing a pretty sail boat but not wanting to get on or in the water myself. For some reason that I won’t try to explain your writing makes me want to sail the boat myself, to enter a time of experience and to allow the theology to float by.
Deepest Gratitude for Sending out the call.
Loving Experience.
jules
Thank you
It’s always a joy to read about shiny people as they radiate love and light.
Your words give hope that at sometime we can all become shiny like you.
Still looking for the polish
Graham
The Light Within
With realizations and revelations racing through my brain.
I seem to find myself at a crossroads, yet agian.
Only this crossroad I am more sure than I have ever been.
Of where I am going, and in which direction to go in.
Although my mind is heavy, constanly deep within thought.
The thoughts within there, are suddenly certain, and without wrought.
Within a moment of the realization, it seems, my soul cleared from my confusion.
I see much in this world, that could lead to our conclusion.
So many peoples needs are just simply an illusion.
When all we really need is, to come together in communion.
Lets make an agreement to shine our light out from within.
Come together and bond, with a new spiritual union.
We are after all truely one, none need be alone.
We all live in the same, beautiful earth we call home.
The same father to protect us, and mother to nurture.
A loving father who wants nothing, but to see us in a happy light filled future.
And so Lightworkers unite now, shining with words of love.
Reigning in souls with which, to emit their light from.
So when the work of these dear ones reach you, open yourself up to see that life is truely zen.
And the light of happiness and peace is, already within!
Terri Lynne Campbell (TLCPoet)
8/4/2011
DEAR EM…..U SURE DO HAVE THE ART OF ‘ILLUMINATING’….your WRITE-UP n POEMS are BEAUTIFUL EXPRESSIONS OF YOUR SOUL…each life is DIFFERENT N PERSONAL…no two JOURNEYS are IDENTICAL…YET! WE ALL COME FROM THE SAME CREATOR N RETURN BACK ‘HOME’ TO HIM….THATS OUR COMMON GREATEST CONNECTION….so we need to GO BEYOND OURSELVES n ADD TO THE LARGER PICTURE…if we each one of us CONTRIBUTE ‘to THAT’…A COLLECTIVE SHIFT can TAKE PLACE….it already has BEGUN….IT JUST HAS TO GATHER MOMENTUM………..people have become MORE AWARE N THERE IS ‘AM AWAKENING’…..WE NEED TO REINFORCE THIS FOR THE LARGER GOOD….YOU ARE DOING A MAGNIFICENT JOB OF STIRRING PEOPLE INTO ACTION……YOU NOT ONLY SHINE THE TORCH ON THE FACES BUT ARE AN ACTIVE ‘TORCHBEARER’…….THANKS FOR ENLIGHTENING US……….SHINE ON…….as ever GOD BLESS…………………
I too am a published poet. I would very much like to begin using my writing gifts to further the path toward consciousness evolution on our planet. Your work is tremendously beautiful and inspirational to me. I am participating in Neale’s current telecourse and I will see you soon, in Denver, Colorado, in October. Thank you so much.
The magnificence you hold within, like a star so bright you shine the love you send out fills the heart and minds of humanity a love so deep, so true, so kind you today touched my heart and mind. The voice of your soul speaks out to me although your words I do not hear none the less your a blessing a true spirit my dear thank you for all you share with us (the many who read your poetry) for it really speaks loud and clear to me…. Blessings and love to you and all from my heart to yours Namaste xxxx