* It was exactly one year ago that I made a conscious decision to explore my Inner New Agey. To try being more mystical.
* In July 2011 that I read the first book that really helped me turn a corner (Hold Me Tight). The first time, after nonstop reliance on my oracle cards, after much internet perusing and reading forums and sites that were less than helpful--it was the first time I read something that 100% spoke to me, that gave me new ideas, and gave me a serious paradigm shift towards the world. A book I added to my Core Values Library.
* In August 2011 I read another piece of the puzzle: Dr Jill Bolte-Taylor's book (My Stroke of Insight) about what the right side of our brains do for us. It was the science side of the mystical stuff. I had taken a leap of faith into mysticism, and as in the fourth Indiana Jones movie, a platform was right there for me to step on.
* In March 2011 I read another holy-crap book (Mindsight). It was another plank under the mysticism, and another book that gave me a concrete understanding of my situation and how it can change.
* And finally this month I was cataloging my books and cleaning up, and came across a book I bought a couple years ago but hadn't read (Steering by Starlight). Sitting on my bed I randomly opened it up to the last chapter and read it, and decided I had to read it right now. When I started my Mystic Quest, it wasn't for the purpose of aiding my personal issues. But it's where the solutions lie. Like I was already taking the prescription, before I'd even experienced all the symptoms, and before I'd been diagnosed with the disease.
So it's exactly one year since I decided to broaden this part of me, and I feel like I have all the basic building blocks to do it. It's like what the Storywonk people would call the Discovery and Magic stages of writing a novel--gathering ideas, research, images, ideas, and inspiration. And now it's time to write the book.
I'm going to look for the blog posts this past year that deal with My Quest for My Inner New Ageo, and put up a link to them or something. And I'm going to try to keep sharing. We'll see what comes of it all.
Coming up: Martha Beck's method for dream interpretation. It's rather cool.
Steering by Starlight from abebooks: $1 before shipping
...bargain book from Indigo: hard cover for $8
...used audio book: $12
...downloadable audio: $24
6 comments:
I've also been on a bit of a spiritual journey in the past year, London. I knew a lot of the stuff prior but hadn't put it all together. I now read a ton of Deepak Chopra and he is finally making good sense. Ha ha.
What a wondrous Journey it's been too . . . thanks for sharing it with us.
'The Librarian: Quest for the Spear'!!! Please tell me that's a real movie!
Could you post the list of your books with authors? I'd love to read them as I am questing too and get tired of the therapeutic books, which are not fascinating, only helpful.
Thanks
@Robena - I hope it's leading you nice places! I saw Chopy on an Oprah special last week, he said some cool things.
@widders - It appears to be a real movie, and I must see it!
@Skye - I'll post them in a sidebar.:-)
OMG ... Just did a search zip.ca where I rent DVD's ... there are 3!!
The Librarian:Quest for the Spear
The Librarian: Return to King Solomon's Mines
The Librarian: Curse of the Judas Chalice
This is the blurb for the first one!
"To be a librarian, you must master the Dewey Decimal System, ace internet research and, if you're new librarian Flynn Carsen (Noah Wyle), save the world! Wyle (ER) heads a sterling cast in a fun, fantastical, special effects-laden adventure that soars around the world from the Metropolitan Library to the Amazon jungle to the Himalayas. Geeky Carsen lands a job as the Librarian, keeper of such top-secret Met treasures as Excalibur and Pandora's Box. Then the Serpent Brotherhood, seeking world domination, steals one of three parts of the magical Spear of Destiny from the library. Only Flynn, aided by a gorgeous bodyguard, has the know-how to thwart their plan. But does he know how to be a hero? He will - even if he has to gouge, kick, punch, brave Mayan death traps and plunge off icy precipices every inch of the way!"
ohhh marathan!!
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