Make Love to Life

This message is a gem of a recording that I received in my inbox from one of my teachers, don Oscar,  today.  It is so rich in its message, and in its simplicity, that I took the time to sit down and transcribe it.  Enjoy!~*

It's simple.  It involves being an artist.  It is an anthropology of the Soul... not to be studied, to be memorized, to be with great effort and deliberation... to be contained in any manner.  It is to be danced.  It is to be made love to.  That is why it's appeal is so great.  It does not require a rigorous practice of meditation.  

On the contrary... it requires an open, effortless giving of oneself to the blessing of the perfection of the moment, and engaging in the game of life with the awe inspiring freedom and curiosity of a child.  It also allows for great creativity and great spontaneity and great integration of your own medicine ways, your own meditative practice, your own pagan experience, your own earth honoring ceremonial artistry. 

For this open ended organic participative approach to walking the earth in shamanic service is the dynamism behind evolution.  Evolution itself is really the same as mindful growing of a Soul.  By growing of a Soul just as you would grow a crop of medicinal plants, or edible flowers, simply involves paying attention to the seasons, to the cycles, to the pulses, to the rhythms, and ordering expressions of the natural world... both that witnessed in sky and that witnessed on Earth.  To understand that our mother, Pachamama, is the greatest scholar and University that there is.  It is the sanctuary, the highest temple of learning, the uber Alexandrian library. 

And by learning to observe her ways, and then, when the time is right, to lift your sight to the heavens and take in the movements and prescribed orders of that canopy of stars, will allow you as a two-legged to be the bridge between the worlds of Spirit and Matter, between the Above and the Below.  And all that you experience Within, through that Connectivity, through that inextricable solidarity with the mirroring that takes place in the natural world with a self regulating aesthetic that one can observe in Mother Nature is the great work... is the Rite of Passage... is the becoming.