In This Edition Of Mystical Scuttlebutt:
Upcoming Events
New Web Site Up & Running
Are You A Marketplace Mystic
Dilemma Of The Month
Clues For When You're Stressing Out
Testimonial

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A Practical Tip For Your Marketplace Mystic

Being a marketplace mystic means at least two things: 

• Being concerned with how to consciously live in the moment's mystery, with understanding and acceptance of your role in it.
• Being concerned with how to be both a human being and a divine being simultaneously - at the office, at home, and in the privacy of your mind.

If spiritual commitment defined by dedication to monastic living or surrender to a guru is not of interest to you, you may well be on this pathless path. If you desire to bring your spiritual understanding into your daily life through conscious living and understanding from the heart, you may well be an emerging marketplace mystic.

Make no mistake, this is not an easy road to find yourself traversing. You may not have even been aware that this is indeed your way. As you become more aware that this pathless path is yours to explore, you will be glad to know that you are not alone, and you are not crazy. You are among many kindred souls for whom believing alone is not enough. You need to know as much about God, the universe, and the nature of reality as you can uncover- as crazy and embarrassing as that may seem to your probably well-educated, cynical, western, sophisticated mind.

For more insight into this paradoxical approach to practical spirituality based on the psychology of the Mystics, please visit www.facticity.com

Dilemma of the Month: Poverty vs. Wealth (underdog vs. privileged)

A graduate student at our monthly Paradox Soiree was sharing her struggles around the dilemma of wealth versus poverty and the privileged versus the underdog. Her inner conflict revolves around her passion for the re-distribution of wealth on the planet versus her absolutely rabid dislike of the people who have the money and don't wish to use it to support this goal. She was sharing her realization that to avoid being someone she would dislike (someone with the money), her unconscious mind has avoided accumulating any money and thus she is constantly broke and cannot fund her passion to change the world. 

Upon seeing this dilemma, she became aware of her unconscious polarization against the privileged and for the underdog, and paradoxically, against poverty and for wealth. A bit stunned by the paradox, she began to grasp that in order to re-distribute the wealth, she had to begin with herself and become one of the privileged - which in actuality she already was but couldn't accept because it placed her on the side of the dilemma that she was against. Without claiming her status as one of the privileged, who she unconsciously believed to be the problem, she was helpless to fund her internet company designed to help solve the problem. She thus ended up in poverty and seen as the underdog.

Managing The Dilemma: Any time we choose one end of a polar pair and say it is the right way to be, we have set ourselves up for certain frustration and possibly failure. Setting up what we think is right against what we think is wrong creates Polarity Blindness - an inability to see any strengths in what we are against and an inability to see any weakness in what we are for.We are blind to the possibility that our way of relating to what we hate and are against is what stops us from being effective at creating the outcome we seek.It is fundamental to understand that neither of the two opposites in these polar pairs will ever go away permanently.What has changed for our beloved activist is her relationship to these polar pairs and the role she has to play within their on-going dynamic. 

Clues For When You're Stressing Out & Heading Away From Your Heart

• When you're convinced you're right and the other person is wrong.
• When there is no more room inside you for discussion or dialogue and the urge toward aggression begins to arise through clenched fists, tight jaws, or shallow breathing
• When you look down your nose at someone and deem them to be less than you or hold yourself to be better than them.

Remedy: Remember setting up what you like against what you dis-like is known to be the dis-ease of the mind.Paradoxically, this action of setting up what you like against what you dis-like is an automatic and unconscious function of the mind - and, amazingly enough, there is nothing you can do about that!

You can, however, be conscious of its arrival on the scene, usually accompanied by a strong emotion. Instead of allowing what has now become an unconscious judgment to take over and determine your behavior, your new option is to breathe, relax into the tension created by the setting up of one against the other, and just let it be there in your body.

As you breathe into the unpleasant sensations, imagine your understanding opening and expanding, and invite a felt sense of what it really means, practically, to let life be what it is in this exact moment. Inner Peace arises when you can simultaneously experience the paradox of being both human (experiencing the pleasure and pain of life), and divine (embracing all life experience with acceptance and compassion) moment to moment. 

Testimonial

"This work has taught me how to come back to balance - that it's actually possible and I can do it! It's like learning a new dance. I'm getting the knack of knowing when to just relax into "what is" instead of drowning in my life drama. I thank you 1001 times!" Vidheya, Berlin, Germany