July/August 2023 Alchemical Voice

With an extra “hour”, for all it stands for, I could write
a book, paint paintings with no end or beginnings. I
could speak to the birds in the garden, touch the stars
in the sky and listen to the music of the great mystery.
I could tap into the Cosmic web and surf the waves of
eternity. We can all have an extra hour. Do you know
where to look for yours?
Are you ready for change?
There is no such thing as being ready, being finally
prepared. To believe that you need to be “ready” in
order to begin something is to feed the dragon of
postponement. Life is a perpetuum mobile, it is always
in movement. You will never be ready, finished,
finalised or “done”.
For me personally, it is only a few years since I began
new activities in my life. My professional career in
corporate business came to an end and I took up
painting and writing. Not having to put a lot of energy
and effort into a technocratic work life, I could
develop my interest in spirituality.
What I enjoy most about the process of change is how
it seems to have woken up qualities that have
remained dormant within me, for lack of stimulation.
It is as if I am experiencing an ongoing rebirthing into a
new self, which may not be as “new” as I could easily
think. As much as it is a rebirthing, it is also a
reawakening of something I once was, maybe not in
this life, but in a previous incarnation.
The shift is eternally ongoing, from incarnation to
incarnation, from physical body to physical body, from
spirit form to spirit form.
It is not really about improvement or refinement. It is
about realizing the necessity of flow, of movement.
Fish in the sea need to move in order to breathe. A
fish that stops and remains still in one place will
suffocate and die. So the process is about maintaining
life, as a human and as spirit.
Change and movement are necessary aspects of
vitality.
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