Circle of Angels Holding Hands

This is a page from one of my more recently finished sketchbooks, it's a watercolor of a dream from last year in January 2020, while I was living parttime in Bangkok, around this time.  Sometimes when I am driving and listening to a great song, I will imagine in my mind most of the world dancing together to the song in the sky. I have been on a spiritual path since I was kid, and I got ever more serious and disciplined about it during the past 13 or so years. Yesterday, I experienced waves of bliss coming through the top of my head and filling my heart and extending beyond, it was so overwhelming that I logged off of Zoom yoga, since our teacher was speaking to us afterward and I thought I likely looked distracting, as if I were on mushrooms or something. I went and sat outside and endured these strong waves for what must have been about an hour and a half. I decided I would just go about my day and they remained gently in the background until by the time I went to bed, it was a bit like an afterglow.

 I spent half of 2019 on scholarship to Eckhart Tolle's School of Awakening, class was daily for six months, and then I got another scholarship from him last year in 2020 for his class Being the Light. As a teacher, he has helped me enormously and beyond any words I could say, but I also listen to and read many many teachers at any point in time. Our beliefs and the way we live our lives impacts every aspect of it, so naturally my spiritual beliefs influence my art and my writing-- even if, particularly in my writing, which can be seen as harsh or gritty or dark, there for me the point is to explore, to examine, to excavate, to process and to hold the darkness to the light where there is no judgment or punishment, but rather an understanding of cause and effect, and in that realization, a kind of transmutation. This is how I lift my consciousness about issues I would otherwise get stuck in the mire with. I could go on about this, but will just continue to share as we continue on this journey. I am so very grateful to all of you here, so much more than you will ever know.