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Month: February 2009

  • Ego Math Quantum Soul

    Ego Mind Functions in Cause and Effect

    quantum_soulWhen it comes to life, the ego mind has ideas. Many of us spend most of our lives trying to get a life, we’re constantly busy trying to put it all together. Ego mind, functioning from the past, is always trying to add things up to get the perfect life:

    1+ 3 + 1 + 2 +5 + 9 =

    My Perfect Life

    And what are the components? Money? Attention? Love? Celebrity? Good Job?

    This mental orientation to an ego ideal (which includes our spiritual ideal) helps to sell a lot of books. Books like The Secret, The Science of Getting Rich, in fact, the whole self-help field works this ego mind thread. Don’t get me wrong – I don’t see this as a bad thing or a wrong thing – it is simply the way this mind functions.

    On the other hand, we have the quantum physics of the soul which can be reflected as 0 or 1 – depending on how true nature is orienting it in the moment.

    The soul isn’t trying to get a life, it is life. Developing the ability and capacity to reside in the nature of the soul – presence – means we are the life. There is no life to get, no formula needed for fulfillment, contentment, satisfaction, completeness, and meaning.

    Life unfolds in an organic way – with its challenges and pimples. It’s all good, it’s all you, it’s life happening – it’s a wonder!

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  • New Heart Designs for Valentine’s Day

    pomegranate_heartThe Pomegranate Heart

    My friend Cathleen Bunt has done it again – the Pomegranate Heart for Valentine’s Day. You may recall my past post on Cathleen’s Buddha Pendants.

    Here’s what Cathleen has to say about her latest knock-out pendant:

    The name pomegranate derives from the Latin words pomum “apple” and granatus “seeded”. With its bulging red seeds, orb like shape and crown like calyx, this fruit has captured attention throughout the ages and become an enduring symbol.

    In my design I have merged the pomegranate with the heart to create a symbol of passionate and abundant love. Some Jewish scholars believe the forbidden fruit from the Garden of Eden was actually a pomegranate rather than an apple. Perhaps you’d like to tempt your sweetheart with this exquisite delight.

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    Pomegranates are often seen in religious paintings like this one by Sandro Botticelli.

    The fruit, in the hands of the infant Jesus, symbolizes  Christ’s heart, while the calyx represents a crown and the seeds, the sweetness of the heavenly kingdom.

    In the Judaism, the pomegranate is a symbol of righteousness, because it is said to have 613 seeds which correspond to the 613 commandments of the Torah.

    In Greece it is a symbol of abundance, fertility and good luck. It is traditional to break a pomegranate on the ground at weddings and on New Years.

    My Pomegranate Heart – is richly seeded with red rubies, exposed by a heart shaped opening in the rind.

    The locket-like form of this piece, has 3 layers. The top rind in 18k gold, the inside layer – an 18k plate set w/ .70ct of fine red rubies and a back plate (shown below) with a pierced design.

    the_pomegranate_heart1The chain cleverly passes through an opening between the leaf and the stem.

    Whatever the pomegranate represents to you, with its many seeds, it is undeniably a symbol of fruitfulness.

    Here you see the back of my pomegranate heart with a pierced design I like to call,  ‘planting the seeds of love’.

    Why not plant a seed in your loved one’s heart this Valentines Day?

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  • Crazy Guidance Spiritual

    Spiritual Guidance Works for Crazy People

    What a day last Thursday was. With two big projects about to launch and the normal work load to attend to the day was like a walk in the Gobi desert – long, hard and brutal. crazy-spiritual-guidanceI found myself going south on a street to get to the freeway to go north.

    I was talking to my friend, Holly, and commented, “I must be crazy. I’m going south to get on the freeway, when I should be going north to do so.”

    No sooner were the words out of my mouth than I came upon the accident – a white Honda and a pedestrian in the road. It just happened.

    The older couple from the car were jabbering in Spanish and very upset. Obviously English was not their native language, they were distraught  and having trouble dealing with the situation.

    I checked with the woman lying on the pavement to determine her condition. She was conscious and did not seem seriously hurt. I got a coat to cover her, reassured the couple that things would be fine and called 911.

    After giving the details to the dispatcher, I noticed the struck pedestrian was sitting up, so I took a foam mat from the back of my Jeep and offered it to her so she could get up off the cold pavement. She could not remember her husband’s cell number, so we left a message on the home phone and I then asked her for the name of a friend that might have her husband’s cell number.

    By this time the paramedics had arrived. They ascertained that her condition did not seem serious and loaded her into the ambulance for transport. I managed to contact the family friend and got a message relayed to the husband.

    As I continued south to get on the freeway going north I was pondering – am I crazy or am I guided? I suppose I’m a little of each.

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