Book Review – Connections – The Five Threads of Intuitive Wisdom
Someone once asked Edgar Cayce if others could do what he did, and he replied, “Yes, if you are willing to pay the price.” For some, this referred to the material sacrifices that Mr. Cayce and his family made to continue their work. However, there is another level of meaning in your answer. Many of his statements on intuitive or psychic development pointed to the need for personal transformation, not merely the learning of a technique. One could learn the technique of automatic writing, for example, and produce wonderful works. Although Mr. Cayce recognized that automatic writing was a valid channel for incorporating new truths, he constantly advised people to move away from it and opt for alternative, alternative and inspiring writing. However, the latter method requires more than learning the trick of making your hand write without paying attention. It requires one to learn how to enter into the consciousness of an ideal and then surrender to the flow of that consciousness as one moves into the writing phase. The caterpillar does not become a butterfly by attaching wings, but rather allowing itself to melt into a liquid that then crystallizes like a butterfly.
I have given students a taste of this kind of transformation through dance. I usually use Cayce’s favorite music to harmonize, Strauss’s “Blue Danube Waltz”. Don’t try to “dance”, I suggest, “but let the music dance for you!” It’s a fun way to explore the difference between straining to pull off a trick and delving into the mystery of unity. In her book Connections: The Five Threads of Intuitive Wisdom (Tarcher / Penguin), Gabrielle Roth presents an intuition-like approach to self-transformation. The author, a dance artist and a respected example of someone living the intuitive life, shares personal stories of her struggles, transformations, and discoveries. There is another life to live, more real than what he typically passes through, and there is a divine human being ready to live that alternate life, he writes, provided we can escape addiction to the consciousness of the separate self that must be in control. .
“To fully realize our intuitive abilities,” he writes, “we have to be instinctive, intimate, purposeful, whole, and inspired. Each of these energies is a facet of intuition, our connection to the divine force that moves all things. Problem. “It happens when we stop relying on its supreme intelligence, intelligence, when we allow our intuition to be overwhelmed and diminished by the strong and reactive defensive voices of the ego.”
By instinct, it refers to the wisdom of the body. A good example is the way the body can naturally move to the beat of music if allowed. Wisdom can come from dance, as you can discover for yourself. When you’re worried about a situation and don’t know what to do, if meditation doesn’t help, try dancing! When you sit back down, frazzled and exhausted, you may be surprised to find that you now know how to overcome your difficult situation.
By intimacy, she refers to the momentary dissolution of the boundaries that create separations between us and the life around us. Learning to listen, to experience a connection of the heart with other forms of life, is a form of cooperation with life that supports intuitive awareness.
By intention, she refers to the ability to accept change, even chaos, intuitively knowing that one has an internal connection to one’s destiny that will shake off potential mistakes and alert one to the symbolic signals that life uses to call us. forward.
By integrity, it does not mean to be right or good, but rather asks that we be real, authentic, not weakened by contradictions, but strengthened by the paradoxes that we can accept. It is not about what we say, but what we are aware of inside. Being honest with ourselves, having the innocence of a pure heart, gives us the courage to trust our intuition instead of doubting it and suspecting personal contamination.
By inspiration, she refers to the intuition of the Spirit. It is the ability to allow life to breathe you, to take you along your natural path of soul expression. Everyone has a purpose, a vocation, a destiny. With intention, we can establish an ideal and then allow the Spirit of Life to move us toward the fulfillment of that ideal. Very often life will take us to a new level of consciousness, to an even higher ideal, provided we are willing to be moved. Again, dancing to inspiring music is often a great wake-up call, a wonderful meditation on being moved by Spirit.
Gabrielle Roth’s personal confessions – lush, earthy, wild, sensitive – of her experience with intuition echo the description of the spiritual path described in both idealized and practical terms by Edgar Cayce. More than learning intuitive skills, the goal is personal transformation that allows one to “express the face” of the Creator in his or her individual way.