Emma, Ernest,and The Power in every word!

Over a year ago I bought the book,"Scientific Christian-Mental Practice", by Emma Curtis Hopkins. Being a student of Ernest Holmes, I was so excited to learn about his great teacher. For over a year, I would pick up the book, read a bit, then it would go unread for a month or so and the I'd pick it up again...and on like this until December. Then, a few of my friends from CSL invited me to join in "Emma Circles" , I leaped at the opportunity to finally explore Emma properly and get to share my experience with others.
I picked up the book, started reading...it was different this time, she was Speaking To ME! I kept reading...then I began taking notes...I realized I"This is a song.. I am writing a song here..." the words(as has been happening to me quite a bit lately) just came pouring our of me! I was so happy, so grateful, so free!
I have written a lot of songs, but the ones that have come me lately are filled with Power, Love, Fury, Fire, Passion...I hear them being sung...I see them being performed.
In the past poems, songs, stories, plays come to me easily(everything from show tunes to chants)but these new songs have brought me to a new place! I feel I am am steeping onto yet another new Stage. One filled with my Pure Light!
Dr. Holmes writes,"The potential knowledge of all things exits in (this) Mind; that the abstract essence of beauty, truth and wisdom co-exist in the Mind of The Universe, that we also exist in it and may draw from it. BUT WHAT WE DRAW FROM IT WE MUST DRAW THOUGH THE CHANNEL OF OUR OWN MINDS"(SOM pg 40).
The vision of being "plugged in" to the One Mind got me thinking about one of my fave improv games, "Remote Control". Where an audience member has an imaginary remote control and actors on stage perform scenes from TV shows and the audience member "changes the channel" and the actors change the "Show". It's a lot of fun! I love being different character, exploring different genres, always going for the laugh...
So many times I feel someone else is holding my remote control, changing my channel without watching the whole show...
These are the times I remind myself to strengthen My Connection, not worry about the loud commercials, but just realize My power, that no matter what Show is on, I am in it. Present. Aware.
The events of the past few weeks have touched us all deeply, I am hugging my kids a little longer, calling my folks a bit more frequently. Just being grateful for my life, in general. But, all this talk over words..funny...the song I wrote is called,"There's power in every word". It's new thought-rock anthem!!(think Janis)


"There's power in every word"

The first piece of truth is God.
Sing out and be set free!
The first piece of truth is God,
Sing out, sing out with me.
The first drop of rain is Good
To cleanse and purify me,
The first drop of rain is Good
I let Gods Love Reign over me!

By Mind alone we're taught to be strong
We share the strength of the Word
By Mind alone We Are so strong
We share the power of The World
By Mind alone we Are so Strong
We bring love with the Power of the Word!

Our Hearts are open now
Our hearts are open now
One Mind, One Heart, One World we start
MY God MY Good Is ME!
Our Hearts are open now,
Our hearts are open now
renew your life, jump out of strife
above, away from the physical play
Re New your Hope
define your scope
reach up, reach out be Free

Our hearts are open now,
our hears are open now
One Mind One Heart One World lets start
It's time We Defy Gravity
Our hearts are open now,
Our hears are open now,
reach up, reach out Jump up and shout,
I'm free when I say I am free.
Jump up and shout,
Hey world I"m out
It's time we Defy Gravity!!

Our hearts are open now
Our hearts are open now
ONE MIND
ONE HEART
ONE WORLD
LET'S START
WE'RE FREE WHEN WE SAY WE ARE FREE
ONE MIND ONE HEART ONE WORLD LET'S START

IT'S TIME WE DEFY GRAVITY

MY GOD MY GOOD IS ME

I AM FREE



Thank you Emma!

Now, this past week has also shown us the Power in the word in so may ways. A decade ago I read an article which prompted me to think about removing certain,"toxic"words from my life. I began with "Kill". I wrote a poem about it. It went something like this:


No-Kill Zone

What if I took the word Kill out of my vocabulary:
"This headache is killing me,
Jacob if you touch that again I'll kill you,
The red Sox kill me every year,
If I don't get that part I'll just Kill myself,
How many soldiers has fkn Bush Killed today,
This is some killer shit
I killed that bottle of diet coke,
I swear if I hear that song one more time I will kill you!
If that guy doesn't drive faster I am gonna kill him
He has a Killer body
That set Killed, I knocked em dead!!
Would it kill ya to pick up that towel?

give peace a chance, would it kill ya!


I have maintained my curtailing of the use of that word and many others of that nature. It's much easier to live in peace.

All you need is love

Peace,love and Happiness,
Julie


The first piece of truth is God.

New Stage

A New Year has begun. I step onto another new stage. As I do, my light shines brighter. This is the year I step into My light. Riding the wave of life, catching the spirit of freedom. Taking stock in all that I have accomplished since my move west....I have done so much. From The 4-T's and Seabeck, Palm Sunday and all my Great Spiritual Ahas and Awakenings. I got Miracles from Motown and more!! I found God in gourmets and superstars named Jesus and Michael. I found prosperity and security and complete love for and from friends and family. I am ready for this New Stage. I am grateful. This new Dawn. Lord Love Ya!


Yesterday my angel came to me in my darkness....

He pulled me into his light and then led me back to mine...



PULLED

Pulled away by your voice
An Angel in my light
My vision spotty,my heart dizzy
Light seeping thought the cracks
To the Thing Itself
Shadows Swell until the dawn
Dreams come and Good goes forth
Following our rainbows to the golden bath
Our Light Streaming Love
Pure Love, One Love, My Love
Turn around into the Light
Turn around again
I am alone so I turn around
and I see my friend
Spin your web and Give Give Give
Turn around and Live Live Live
Shadows Swell
Building Arms to hold me through
The Night
To follow my dreams to my Heart
To touch the sky and Love the Why
Come now sweet child dream with me
finding the answers to set you free
Oh my sweet love take my hand and dance
Turn around
Turn upside down
Spin a Web
Catch Your Dream
Take a Chance



Pure Love, One Love, My Love

Turn around into the Light

Happy new year all!

This Year's theme:Success and Happiness

as always:

Peace and Love

OPEN STAGE

Open Stage

I am a chameleon
on a mirror
reflecting change
for all to see

peace

The Grateful Dead - Ripple (Studio Version)

Today my daughter is Four.

Her love has rippled throughout the world

Her smile brings waves of joy

Her energy is full

Her light is pure and true

She is Love in Action

She healed my heart

She is my light

peace

Soy Sauce

Golden Stage

Face is change with age

Step onto a Golden Stage

God is Truth in Light

I love sushi!

I love Thai, Chinese, Japanese, in fact, I love most Asian cuisine. I worked for years in a great sushi place, Fusion Point, in St. Augustine Florida. So, I know a bit about soy sauce...or so I thought. Having poured it, eated it, spilled it and cleaned it; but never have I seen it like this!

Yes, this is Soy Sauce. This what it looks like really close up-it's a micro photo, taken by a Japanese filmmaker.

It's so beautiful, I see faces and so many other things...

What do you see?

Write about it, dream about it.

Think about it as you put that next Yum-yum roll in your mouth!!

peace and love,

Jules

All the world's a stage

All the world's a stage -

"'All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. At first the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms;
And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice,
In fair round belly with good capon lin'd,
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side;
His youthful hose, well sav'd, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion;
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.' — Jaques (Act II, Scene VII, lines 139-166)"

The Six Stages of Life

A few weeks ago we took the kids to the International Sand Sculpture Contest. No, it wasn't on a beach, it was in a mall parking lot, and that was ok. Because the sculpture's were Amazing. I fell in love with this huge Sand Shaman. I could have stayed and looked at him all day...anyway, on the back of him was a simple, but cool mandala. It had six points, and for some reason this sent me thinking about the points of change, or stages of my life. Bringing me round,once again, to Shakespeare:





"All the world's a stage..."





Working on my one woman show, I am continually exploring my stages, but I always want to go deeper...so...


I spent the morning reading, writing and pondering the Stages of Man, the stages of women, the stages of life. I've read everything from Confucius to Conquest... from Solon to the Sphinx.

It seems everyone has their own version of the stages of life.

Basically it boils down to this:

We're Born, We Walk, We Learn, We Love, We Live, We Move On....

There are many stages and phases we all go through. Some resist change...I try to explore each stage of my life to the fullest. For many years I was a wild child, traveling all over the world, dancing on many stages. Exploring new thoughts, new places, new ideas. I seemed to always be circling back to myself.

Returning home. Physically. Spiritually.

After spending a lot of time in the South, when I went home, to RI for a year; I was missing my Choir and spiritual friends in St. Augustine, Florida. I was singing at some of the Healing Heart Services on Wend nights at the Center for Spiritual Living in Warwick, RI. I was inspired to write a Chant, country style. Now, I was thrown that this song came through me...I am a ROCK N ROLL GIRL!! But, somehow, it's become a favorite.(makes me feel like Bonnie Raitt). I sing it all the time with my daughter.
This past week, at an amazing service at the Center for Spiritual Living Seattle, I was able to raise my vibrations by chanting along with wonderful musicians and friends. The whole community was lifted up. At one point in the chanting, the phrase, OM is my Home as sung. I was healed by those words as they came off the stage into my heart. I knew It was time to share My chant with the world. I have shared it with a few, now it is for all.


Sing it out with a bit of twang.


Om is my Home

OM OM OM IS MY HOME
OM OM OM SHANTI OM
OM OM OM SHANTI OM
OM OM OM IS MY HOME
OM OM OM IS MY HOME

LOVE LOVE LOVE
YEAH, I GOT LOVE
PEACE PEACE PEACE
YEAH, I GOT PEACE
JOY JOY JOY
I GOT JOY

OM OM OM IS MY HOME
OM OM OM IS MY HOME

LOVE LOVE LOVE IS MY HOME
PEACE PEACE PEACE IS MY HOME
JOY JOY JOY IS MY HOME

LOVE LOVE LOVE
PEACE PEACE PEACE
OM
SHANTI SHANTI SHANTI
PEACE PEACE PEACE

OM
OM
OM

OM IS MY HOME


Indeed "All the world's a stage", where are you at? Are you happy there? If not, just do what I do...Step onto a new one, change the scenery, get a new light plot, and write a new script.

Step into your Light.

Step into a new STAGE.

peace and love.

jul