Notice! No Circle on these dates:
Week of March 16th (so, no live Zoom Circle on March 17, 19, & 21)
Weeks of April 20 and 27 (so no live Zoom Circle on April 21, 23, 25, 28, 30 & May 2).
Circle meets this am at 10 am ET. And now meets four days a week. Half an hour. To register or get your link go here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/upMvf-Gtrjops6UWtB8ML-AioDYBQP3eug#/registration
I can tell when info is overwhelming and flooding my brain when things I know to be true become oddly distorted. I’ve felt this sense of time speeding and shifting and this morning my phone calendar showed 11am Circle. I KNOW it’s at 10 but when I saw it, I didn’t question it. A peaceful morning and full night sleep so the sudden realization that I’m off kilter completely this morning feels very odd. Bummer. I’ll do a meditation and ask what’s going on w this time warp feeling.
Hi community, there is no circle tonight but I will be back on track tomorrow Thursday at 10 AM Eastern time.
I hope to see you there!
Jeanne
Circle of Light is on this morning at 10 am ET, 7 pm PT.
That was a powerful Circle of Light. We had a guest from Denmark and a dog from Michigan who sent extra light this morning. @Tesseract, your name was invoked with reverence and gratitude, even though you could not be there. Our Denmark guest told us that, in spite of some bad feelings towards the US in Europe, she knows many in Europe who are sending us light.
Today's reading: To find peace, we need to transform our relationship with our enemies:
- Outer enemies: People, institutions, and situations that intend to harm someone.
- Inner enemies: Anger, hatred, fear, and other destructive emotions.
- Secret enemies: Self-obsession that isolates people from others.
- Super-secret enemies: Deep-seated self-loathing that prevents people from finding inner freedom and happiness.
These ideas are from Sharon Saltzberg and Robert Thurman's book, Love your Enemies
We have a secret enemy -- It’s about self-preoccupation and disconnection from others. When we meet someone, we hardly notice anything about them, but tend instead to focus on how they might perceive us. It comes from self-preoccupation, or narcissism. Narcissism is not about loving yourself. On the contrary, it is about obsession from inner bleakness. It is coming from a completely separate, disconnected, independent self.
Look at a tree. It appears to be alone, but there is the soil, rainfall, and everything that is affecting the quality of the soil and rainfall. The tree is a network of relationships, of connection, of interactions.
Examples from our lives.
We were in terrible traffic. Then as they had been complaining about the traffic, they realized, We are the traffic too. They realized the issue was traffic, not all those other people.
Imagine you are in a subway, and Martians come and zap the subway, so you are stuck with these people forever. So now you take an interest in them. You become interconnected with them.
@jeanne-mayell your last paragraph hit me right between the eyes: “Imagine you are in a subway, and Martians come and zap the subway, so you are stuck with these people forever. So now you take an interest in them. You become interconnected with them.”
Thank you, Jeanne, for the visceral reminder that like it or not we’re connected to every other soul. Sigh. I’ve got work to do. I’m back to hurling scatalogical insults at the TV again… I feel helpless and useless and guilty… today I watched the honorable, brave leader of Ukraine being insulted and bullied to his face by the President and Vice President of my country. God help us all through this nightmare.
Please pray for Zelenskyy> Some people are predicting harm for him.
We are on it, thank you Elaine. We have prayed for him during Circle of Light many times, but I will keep it going.
Circle of Light starting in 6 minutes! ❤️
Circle of Light does not meet this week, starting Monday March 17. I am on a retreat (planned since early last year) and will be back next Monday, March 24! I hope to see you then. ❤️
Circle not meeting April 21 through May 2. Back May 5!
In the Circle of Light, I shared a dream I had some weeks ago. It included a person central on the world stage at this time. In the dream, I visited this person in one of his office buildings. We had a healing session sitting in front of each other. I reached out with my hands palms up, and he laid his hands on mine. It was very realistic. I could feel his hands as well as smell the products he uses.
I tried to convey to him the value and importance of empathy, but he could not understand. He threw me out in the street along with my bicycle, which I had brought with me inside the building. I was standing there in the street, but then decided that I would not give up, so I went back inside the building, found him and said the following to him in an attempt to get through to him one last time:
"If somebody at some point in your life had not shown empathy towards you, you would not be here".
I felt that was the only way I could reach him: by relating it to him and his person. Then I woke up.
I could not quite understand the meaning of the bicycle, but this morning, I had a sudden vision of this person riding a bicycle in a wobbly manner as if trying it for the first time. There was a warm and almost innocent smile on the person's face.
At first, I did not connect this vision with the dream, and found it peculiar. Then I remembered the dream and now I think that they are connected. I think that maybe the bicycle represents empathy, which is my primary "mode of transportation" in the world.
I hope that this is good sign.
I welcome your comments.
Thank you.
@fattigmo Your dream is beautiful and fills me with wonder. I would like to comment further at a later date. For now: The bicycle is a truly genuine mode of transportation that uses our own energy to move us along, rather than taking the energy from the earth or from an animal. We all must move forward in this life, and how we do that reflects upon our connection to our bodies and this world. In some ways, humans' tendency these days to move around in cars, trains, and planes has removed us from our place on this earth. In your dream, the bicycle reminds us of our true place.
@fattigmo Your dream is beautiful and fills me with wonder. I would like to comment further at a later date. For now: The bicycle is a truly genuine mode of transportation that uses our own energy to move us along, rather than taking the energy from the earth or from an animal. We all must move forward in this life, and how we do that reflects upon our connection to our bodies and this world. In some ways, humans' tendency these days to move around in cars, trains, and planes has removed us from our place on this earth. In your dream, the bicycle reminds us of our true place.
Thank you, Jeanne, for your insightful reflections on the symbolism of the bicycle in my dream and in general. They add another layer to the meaning of my dream that I had not considered and ring very true to me 🙏
I do not have much (if any) experience with premonitory dreams, but I was struck by the timing of both my initial dream and my vision on the 26 of April. I am certain that my dream was a strong reaction to a disastrous almost unbearable meeting taking place between the person in my dream and another central figure on the world stage.
As some time had passed since my dream, I did not at first connect the later vision with the dream. It was not until I checked the news later on 26 April and saw the footage of the second meeting that I connected the two. I noticed the set-up of the meeting with the unusual positioning of the chairs, which mirrored the way the person and I were sitting in front of each other in my dream. Well, they were not exactly holding hands, but close. Definitely another energy!
As I mentioned, I do not have much experience with precognitive dreams, but this type of dream and vision are not normal for me and somehow resonated deeply. I do think that it is also significant that they took place not long after me joining the Circle of Light meditations. Perhaps the deep and strong energies generated in the Circle have opened a new energy flow.
Thank you for opening the Circle of light and love 🙏