Sunday, February 18, 2007

Awakening to the Artistry of Living

The Art of Inquiry

· What is the meaning of life?

· What are you here to express? How do you find your soul's purpose? What is your destiny?

· How do you know you're on the right path? Or, if you feel that you aren't on the right path, how do you discover it?

These are the kinds of questions most of us ask and grapple with, at least on occasion. They are the kinds of questions that stir up all sorts of books and seminars, therapies and practices. We each have that built in "dissatisfaction factor" stimulated by an inner yearning to remember who we really are. Some part of each of us wants very much to know and to fully be able to express our own unique reflection of our Divinity.

Somewhere in there we know that this is ultimately why we are here. Somewhere deep inside we sense that there is a gifted and unique purpose to our lives. Often times for most of us, we only know this feeling as a small wishful hope that we hardly dare express:

"Could it possibly be that I have a unique destiny - a purpose for my life?

Still it is there, even as just a small thread of hope: "What do I live for? What is my purpose?"

These are sacred questions. They are awakening questions. They live and move and well up from deep within our souls. These questions are the calling of our hearts to remember who we really are.

These questions pave the sacred path to Soul. It is good to ask them, to grapple with them, to question yourself deeply. These questions contain within them the power of Creation because they spring from your soul's yearning for fullness of expression.



So begins Chapter 1 of the 43 page e-book, The Art of Living Your Destiny. Ronda LaRue wrote this as a very special gift for everyone who registers for Thursday's Creative Soul Works TeleSeminar: Awakening to the Artistry of Living: Falling Into the Love Affair of Life.
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Thursday, February 15, 2007

Mystery, Intuition and Creativity

Or How Far Down the Rabbit Hole Are You Willing to Go.
A One Day Workshop presented by Emily Hanlon


Saturday, March 3, Snow date, March 10,
Emily's House, Westchester County, NY. 9:30-5:00

How do you explore the mystery of you?

What does intuition have to do with creativity?

How can you give birth to the true Self whose visions of possibility and becoming are beyond the mind's horizons?


Inner Vision is the mediator between the worlds...

Creativity is a force that gathers its energy in the mysterious inner worlds and gradually moves toward definition and completion in the outer world. The problem, especially in Western culture, is that we are educated to focus on the outer world, which demands us to get it right, get it done and be successful!

Creative success can not be determined by the outside world. If we focus on that "prize" we are very likely to miss the real success, which is internal, deeply personal and will, paradoxically, affect your relationship to others in the outer world, but rarely in ways we expect.

The question becomes how to turn our sights inward? How to trust the inner vision as our wise guide in the shadowy and chaotic inner landscape? This demands a leap of faith, which is why the metaphor of falling down the rabbit hole is such a good one.

Like Alice, we must hurl ourselves after the white rabbit knowing that once we enter the dark, the inner vision will flip on... like a switch... but we have to believe!

Our inner vision has very different abilities from our outer sight.

Our inner vision has no fear of the unknown.

Our inner vision can pierce the veils of mystery and magic and embrace paradox.

Our inner vision is innately a wanderering pilgrim who knows that getting lost is being found.

Our inner vision is an explorer and imagineer of divine proportions!!!

Our inner vision is guiding light into our soul.

How do we take this leap of faith and hurl ourselves like Alice into the unknown?

There are many ways to do this and it is an ongoing process. We are going to explore some of the ways in this workshop, Mystery, Intuition and Creativity or How Far Down the Rabbit Hole Are You Willing to Go? It will be a day of total nonlinear thinking filled with energy of the unexpected!

Be ready for some serious fun as we throw open the doorways of you inner seer through a variety of techniques that will call upon the powers of intuition, a belief in the cosmic possibilities of Wonderland and the reuniting of the imaginative child with the deep knowing of the wise woman within.

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Friday, February 02, 2007

The Newsletter Is Now Available

The first issue of the Divine Imagination,
Newsletter of Creative Soul Works is now up at the website.

In this issue:
1. Workshops and TeleSeminars from Creative Soul Works
2. Creativity as Mediator Between the Worlds, or Wild Dog's Kingdom
3. Additions to the Mentoring Programs
4. The Creative Soul Works Blog, an Ongoing Dialogue
5. A Message to My Friends from the IWWG Skidmore Conference