This
writing is an effort to summarize the verbal wisdom released by Carole and Jane
in their weekly radio show. Please know that these shows are SO rich that we
can only hope to offer an aroma of the spiritually hearty “stew” which must be
tasted and, perhaps feasted upon, to enjoy the full potential nourishment. Only
listening to the shows can provide the full nutritional value, but it is hoped
that these brief “cliff notes” will help to enrich the experience AND to spark
further written interactions among listeners/readers on the blog.
The Gift of
Children Among Us
Carole
begins by clarifying that each show is an inspired “heart-happening” and that
there is always room with each subsequent recording for elucidation,
clarification, and, at times, corrections of material presented along the way.
She wishes at this time to clarify that Laurel Birch’s artistic works were done
primarily in Thailand and not in Taiwan as previously stated. She also repeated
the beautiful poem, which got “rushed” due to time constraints at the end of
the last show and is set to writing here because it is so profound and so
central to the theme of these shows:
The
Sacred Romance
We
are faced with a decision which grows more urgent with each passing day.
Will
we leave our small stories behind and venture forth to follow our Beloved into
the sacred romance?
The
choice to become a pilgrim of the heart can happen any day and we can begin our
journey from any place….
Carole has
spoken of intelligence systems built into our design to allow us to tune into
and understand the divine realities that makes sense to our hearts and to tune
out the confusing, distorted, discordant realities of world-driven systems. She
has referenced three such systems of intelligence in previous shows and today
she elaborates on the gift of the meditative faculty which allows us to connect
with our heart-knowing (what really makes sense to us) and to translate that
knowing to a cognitive level of understanding. The meditative faculty allows us
to go to our calm place of being “the witness” in which we can view cacophonous
world events, but sort through and translate those events to find our heart-truths.
She speaks of the writing of Martha Beck (e.g. The Four-Day Win) who talks
about the scientific discovery (through brain mapping) that this “translator”
seems to be largely associated with the left frontal lobe of the brain.
Carole
speaks at some length of the fascinating work of Candace Pert, a neuroscientist
and pharmacologist who discovered that there is a biochemical basis for the
mind-body connection in the form of polypeptide configurations that are found
throughout the various organs of the body and which, when stimulated, release
cathartic memories. She then discovered that the polypeptide configurations of
the heart are not associated with world memories such as found associated with
other organs, but are rather connected to deep spiritual realities. Thus there
is actually a physical, biochemical basis for our heart-knowing which can be
accessed through the meditative faculty!
From this
point Carole and Jane go on to discuss the various aspects of helping our
children attune to their own heart truths. She emphasizes that “ our children”
may be the little human beings who are chronologically defined as such, or they
may just as significantly be the “inner children” who reside within our
grown-up selves. Our inner children (associated with “old story pieces”) also
need guidance in coming to understand what truly makes sense to them, such that
their truths can be integrated into their adult being.
Adults tend
to have a more highly developed set of tools to discover the realities of our
own heart-truths and to assist children in finding their place of calm
centeredness. The beauty of all this is that when adults (always with divine
assistance!) help to guide children to their heart-center, they often assist
themselves and their own inner children to a greater place of centeredness.
Situations
that don’t make sense to our hearts are often very emotionally upsetting to our
children, who may then “shut down” or respond strongly with behaviors that are
viewed from an adult perspective as socially unacceptable (crying, tantrum-throwing,
etc). It is important for adults to be sensitive to children’s feelings at such
times and not to squelch them, but rather to make efforts to assist them to get
to the heart of the matter (literally).
While a
tantrum-throwing child may be a trying experience for an adult, it is important
that such difficult behaviors be viewed as the beginnings of a blessing.
Whatever it is that is “hitting the fan” for that child is a relevant issue,
albeit one that the child is unable to bring into language, and helping the
child to work through the issue can bring to the surface crucial understandings
for both the adult and the child that might otherwise remain submerged. The
struggling child might even be understood using the metaphor of the “canary in
a coal mine.” Such children help us to become aware of the “invisible” toxins in
the environment that impact us all, and to carry ourselves (and our canaries)
into more healthful and wholesome conditions.
Finding the
melody line of our heart’s knowing in the midst of the cacophony of world
distortion can be a very uncomfortable process. Carole points out that it
important that we be an “eager learner” when a divine lesson is coming to light
so that we can open ourselves and be able to integrate the new spiritual
understandings associated with the lesson. In this way we can leave our “small
stories” behind and, with a whole new set of lenses, view a reality that is
vast and divinely perfect.
From this
point Carole begins to give multiple examples and tells many powerful stories
that demonstrate these ideas. She also weaves a variety of exercises among
these stories to provide us with tools for helping children find their way back
to that which makes sense.
Carole
speaks of “remembrance” in explaining the original source of the heart truths
that we all carry. She says, “ We came from the realm of love becoming
manifest. We begin to gather form and come into this world as a soul on its
forever journey having physical presence for awhile. So we have a remembrance
of what is our most familiar home where we come from.”
The show
ends with Carole telling several lovely “essence child” stories to further
elucidate the concepts presented throughout.
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