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My Mission

June 30, 2014 by Dede Osborn Leave a Comment

 
 
I will live my life to be an inspiration to those around me.
To express optimism, caring, generosity, fairness, and integrity.
To influence, not coerce.
To suport not carry.
To be open to new ideas and new people as I age, bearing the unknown
   challenges ahead with grace and dignity.
I will be more accepting of myself in order to be less demanding
   of others.
And most difficult of all, freely accept the love and support offered
to me as a precious gift.
 

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Prayer

June 30, 2014 by Dede Osborn Leave a Comment

Father Mother, source of all,

I thank Thee for this island in time, to heal, to be in the company of goodness and joy, to feel your love and to hear the whispers.   Thou art with me to polish an unfinished facet of this rough diamond.  Many years have passed, but with still so much work to do.  Who am I?  What is this stinginess in my heart that keeps me from releasing the love that is at my core.  Why the fear?  It comes from a part of me that has no name, no feelings; mute, small, but persistent.  Please release me with the help of your love.  Let my heart sing from the depths of my soul; free my passion.  Bless me with strength and kindness for myself.  We are your children.  Thou art great.  Bring us into the sunlight; to bloom, to grow and to reflect that light into the shadows of the lives around us.        

                                         Amen.

 

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The Tiger in Your Tank

June 30, 2014 by Dede Osborn Leave a Comment

Levels of awareness, consciousness, and ‘are we really driving our own car’ or is the tiger of unconscious emotion and belief in charge?  (double click to enlarge)

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Perspective Taking in Coaching Supervision

June 30, 2014 by Dede Osborn Leave a Comment

  7 Eyes on the Supervision Process:

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The Dream

June 30, 2014 by Dede Osborn Leave a Comment

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What is this dream we call life?

This continual ‘flight;’ this searching, seeking, yearning, 

and running away.

Always rushing across the surface like a stone across water.

Afraid of sinking, afraid of stillness, avoiding the darkness, the loneliness.

Thou art still.

With quiet, one awakens to see the glorious dance of the universe…all waves of light, cacophony of color, 

breathless awe, weightless wonder.

But so alone.

Where art Thou?

If I rest, will you be there?

If I awaken from this dream, who do I leave behind

to struggle alone?

If I hang onto my dream, life becomes but a bird 

with a broken wing.  

To awaken is to fly!

 
 

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Rhapsody in D Major

June 30, 2014 by Dede Osborn Leave a Comment

 

 

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Research: The Psychopharmacology of Psilocybin in Healthy Volunteers

My experience on a moderately heavy dose: 2001

 

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Rhapsody in D Major

Full autumn moon over the Potomac,
Snowy egrets reigning over the pilings below;
A lone blue heron standing sentinel,
Frozen in the stillness before a Sunday sunrise.
In the pristine interplay of dark and light
Thou art still.
And in the quiet beauty, listening carefully,
The dance of the universe begins anew…
“A cacophony of color, breathless awe,
tuning fork of my soul” written so long ago,
Danced and sung once again.
An interactive fugue in D Major.

Sanctus jubilate; living requiem; amanitas deum.
Joy! Pain! Ecstasy! The Rapturous River Flows Through It.
A sweep of color , cascading images
On the cosmic playground
Beginning light and lively

With senses floating free of their earthly fetters.
Powerfully enticing tweeds, feathers, and tapestries
Undulating against a backdrop
Of shimmering emerald green, royal purple, and precious gold.

The show as seductive and playful as promised!
Tiny figures open the windows of the universe!
Figure and ground play together in a quantum
Paint box; where you focus, it fades away.
“Lookie here!” “No, here!” And while you’re looking,

The tingling creeps in, introducing a symphonic play

On the stage of feeling.
Lips vibrating with om as the veil parts.

The entryway to the heart is primed.

A rush of erotic power and release, the grappling hooks

of love lift me heavenward toward the light
Suspended by lips, breathless with awe, and speechless.

Surrendering, the Sun Dance begins.
Such anguish and joy in the presence of the Beloved!
I am dying in service of the self
On the altar of spirit. Lark Ascending!
The sacrifice of the heart on the inward journey,
Fueled by yearning, ecstasy awaiting.

The wrenching,
Rendering of tissue and muscle as the heart opens.
The body field is plowed to receive the seed.
Waves of pain and the breath of birthing take over,
Puffing faster as the pain overwhelms. Relief as it passes.
The spiritual sojourner, weary with the onslaught of love
Rides the waves as the tantric tsunami crashes over the heart.
Erotic spirit, union eternal, cosmic orgasm and ecstasy divine.
“Roar, lion of my heart, and tear me open!”

At once the awareness of loss, grief, and yearning
Manifests in the vision of an earthly existence.
Open hearts weeping blood and wrapped in thorns.
Christ on the lap of Mary. Pieta perfecta!
Earthly reality is tinged with sacred suffering.
Surrendering to the Beloved and living with an open heart, the challenge. world domain names
Grace incarnate…
Familiar words hover around the edges of my mind,
“Washing away the sins.”

The lullaby begins…”shuun, shuun” the little one is
Forgiven and released once again, regaining the guileless eyes of Buddha.
“Shuun, shuun” releasing ‘her’ that I see in him.
Releasing the innocent back into the world,
The ballistic nylon dissolving from around her heart.
Sacrificing worldliness to love.
May the green world within re-seed the wasteland without.

I am Lancelot in search of the Holy Grail,
And finding myself.
Beloved, Thou art with me forever; co-partners in evolution,

Dancing the rhapsody of life.
A romantic re-enters the world, forever changed.
Will I hear you call out in the glory of Faure’s Requiem?
Or Rachmaninov’s Concerto No. 2?
Or in the sight of the Kihei sun plunging into the Pacific?
Or in the feel of a baby’s skin, or the smell of grass
And flowers and the sound of surf?
Keep my antennae alert and my compass on ‘true’,
I beseech Thee…forever listening for my name.

 

 

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Who Needs Government, Anyway?

June 20, 2014 by Dede Osborn Leave a Comment

I am noticing that while there is traditionally a lot of anti-government talk around, when there are large scale tragedies it is to the federal government that we turn and demand instant response for $, food, water, lodging, medical help etc.  [FEMA has learned the hard way how to respond and is getting higher marks as weather related disasters increase.]  Maybe because of this increasing need for large scale prevention, protection, and action linked to our changing climate and growing population, this is really where government finds one of it’s most important roles, another being national security.  I actually think that the role of government is becoming even more important in the future but not in the way that it has been in the past.  Hands off of my uterus, my choice of worship, my choice of dying, my choice of living, my choice of spouse; maybe my seat belt, too.  But I couldn’t help but wonder what percentage of the folks demanding ever more government help in rebuilding after the frequent environmental disasters are also espousing emotional anti-government opinions elsewhere…

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‘Spiritual Literacy’ Reading List

June 20, 2014 by Dede Osborn Leave a Comment

In no particular order
From Ray Smith (who ought to know)

•The Immense Journey, Loren Eiseley
•The Wisdom of Love, Jacob Needleman
•Varieties of Religious Experience, William James
•Cosmic Consciousness, Maurice Bucke
•In search of the Miraculous, P.D. Ouspensky
•All and Everything, G. I. Gurdjieff
•Living Time, Maurice Nicoll
•The Art of Loving, Erich Fromm
•Time and the Soul, Jacob Needleman
•On Fear, J. Krishnamurti 
•The Ending of Time, J. Krishnamurti + D. Bohm
•Wholeness and the Implicate Order, David Bohm
•Man’s Search for Meaning, Viktor E. Frankl
•The Gospel According to Jesus, Stephen Mitchell
•The Art of Happiness, The Dali Lama
•A New Science of Life, Rupert Sheldrake
•The Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle

The Hidden Poem

June 20, 2014 by Dede Osborn Leave a Comment

THE HIDDEN POEM

 

Spirits leave notes at my house.

Messages from across the veil and from the next room.

Touches of reassurance tucked away in a book

And posted with love.

The timing is always magical; significant.

“I’ve arrived ok,” it says.  “I wanted you to know.”

In the book Your Second Life, the “Letter from Heaven”

Peeked from between the pages 

in the chapter on dying.

Sent Priority Mail, 3 months the travel time.

One from Nel and one from Berg

Like a message in a bottle across the sea of life.

“Author Unknown” it says

But only on days clouded by doubt – 

My heart glows brightly when I listen to the silence.

                                                                                                                                   Dede 2012

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Two Symptoms of Enlightenment

June 20, 2014 by Dede Osborn Leave a Comment

    According to Vedanta, there are two symptoms of enlightenment. They are indications that a transformation is taking place within you toward a higher level of consciousness.

    The first symptom is that you stop worrying. Things do not bother you anymore. You become lighthearted and full of joy. The second symptom is that you encounter more and more meaningful coincidences in your life, more and more synchronicities — and this accelerates to the point where you actually experience the miraculous. A miracle is just a synchronistic event in which the time span between the intention of an event and the manifestation of the event is dramatically shortened. That is what synchronicity is all about, and that is what spirituality is about, too. Whatever spiritual tradition you study anywhere in the world, you also hear about miracles. So losing your worries is one symptom of enlightenment and increased synchronicity is the second one. And that is it. Those are the only two symptoms of enlightenment.

    Whether you are a vegetarian or not, it really does not matter. Whether you believe in the peace movement or not, it does not matter. After all, there are a lot of people who believe in lots of things; but they are full of worries and they cannot sleep at night. They have a big burden on their shoulders. A person might have been in a monastery for thirty years, but it does not matter. They are not moving in the right direction. Because according to Vedanta there are only two symptoms that indicate that we are becoming intimate with the spirit.

 

What Is Synchrodestiny ?

    So you can see why I consider this program on synchronicity, or meaningful coincidence, to be a very important one. It is especially important because, in my opinion, synchronicity is not something that just happens by itself — just as spiritual development does not happen by itself. We can foster synchronicity by introducing attention; and we can use synchronicity by introducing intention. When those two elements–attention and intention — are linked to the phenomenon of meaningful coincidence, synchronicity is transformed into SynchroDestiny, and our lives are transformed into something that is truly magical.

    The purpose of this program is to show what that means, and to explain in detail exactly how you can make it happen. The first time I heard about synchronicity was for me a synchronistic event. I was reading about Carl Jung, the Swiss psychologist, on a plane flight from New Delhi to London and then from London to New York. Jung was an early colleague of Freud, but they eventually had some fundamental disagreements. Freud believed that altered states of consciousness were essentially forms of psychosis — forms of insanity; but Jung thought of altered states as the capacity to be in touch with a hidden reality. One of Jung’s most important books is called “Dreams, Premonitions, and Wishes.”

    As I was reading this book on the plane from India to England, Jung was discussing about a patient who had described a dream. In this dream there was a very large beetle, a scarab beetle, and it was trying to break through the patient’s window into his bedroom. As the patient was describing this dream to Carl Jung, they heard a rattle, and Jung looked around and saw that a beetle was trying to break in through the windowpane. So this was a synchronistic event. The fellow was describing his dream, and then that very thing happened in real life, just at the moment that he was describing it. So I was reading about this on the airplane. Then a few pages later the book said that because of their great differences, Jung and Freud finally parted ways, and Jung established a practice in Lucerne, Switzerland. Just at the moment that I read that sentence, the pilot announced that if you look out your window on the right side of the plane, we are flying over Lucerne, Switzerland. So immediately I was convinced that there was some message here for me, that I was going to pursue this topic of synchronicity I have been thinking about that topic ever since, and out of it has evolved this new concept of SynchroDestiny. In your own life, the more you become aware of these events, the more they will happen.

    The more attention you put on synchronicity the more frequently you will encounter it. Because there is a very important principle that says whatever you put your attention on becomes stronger. If you withdraw your attention from something, it becomes weaker. So one of the first things I would like to suggest, on a practical level, is that you start paying attention to the synchronistic events that happen in your life. The more alert you are to them, the more they will happen. And then when you introduce intention, your intentions will be expressed and manifested through these events. So to sum this up for a moment, synchronicity is always a coming together of seemingly unlikely events. On the surface it seems like pure coincidence. But in reality there is much more to it than that. So right now at the outset, let me suggest something very practical that you should begin to do. Start putting attention on the synchronistic events that happen in your life — and also introduce the intention that you will experience at least one synchronistic event each day. Then later, have the intention of experiencing at least two synchronistic events. Gradually you will see these things begin to accelerate in your life, because attention and intention makes any phenomenon grow stronger.

 

This message comes to you via the Namaste mailing list, hosted by Deepak Chopra and The Chopra Center for Well Being.

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