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Welcome to the Enlightened, Apparently blog where we explore the cheeky, dark and weird side of spirituality and learn how to embrace the chaos of life (with a dash of humor)! Here we hope to delight, excite, and embrace the chaos of life with you! Enter if you dare for deep thoughts and wide perspectives.
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We will shed many skins in this lifetime if we really lean in and embrace the messy chaos of it all. And just like the snake, we will emerge clearer each time, more colorful – brighter. In the end, our true self isn’t something to be found, only something to be revealed. It is not so much a seeking of the light that we must engage in then, but a “simple” remembering of the spark of light we inherently are.
We’re the kind of people who like to hear about what’s hard, what’s stupid, what’s annoying and sucks (there’s a lot). We want to scream and then cry and then laugh and then dance around on unicorn stick horses wearing silly hats. You don’t have to pretend here. We are here for the humaning.
Light and dark have been estranged for a long time. If we can learn to marry the two, weaving them together like a beautiful tapestry individually and collectively…I think that we can certainly hope for a brand-new kind of future
So, what follows “enlightenment,” or this oneness with the light? Embodiment. Embody means: “to put into a body.” We bring the light of the spirit back down into the human form. And we begin the messy but rewarding work of humaning.
Spirituality is often presented as a path of the mind and spirit – the masculine energy that transcends the body – where the goal is to leave the body to go up into the sky. But we often forget about the path of the heart and soul – the feminine energy that lives within the body – where the goal is to live your spirituality right here, in this body, on this Earth.
But of course, it’s both. Transcend to touch the light, descend to re-enter the body.
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This week we celebrate the Summer Solstice! It's a time of celebration, culmination, and basking in the light. But life isn't just about thriving in the good times, or feeling joy and gratitude when everything is going our way. The real secret is knowing HOW to find the sweetness during the hard times, the dark times, the times when things aren't going the way we would like them to. With hummingbird as our guide, this is the perfect time to start honing your sweet-seeking radar. Because life is meant to be full of beauty and sweetness! We just have to learn to see it.
When the world is awash in springtime abundance, but you're just not feeling it? It might be a reality check about how you're living your life, and how out-of-alignment you might be with the messages of your soul. Learn to connect with your intuition - the inner compass that will keep you forever soul-aligned, plus discover the 8 barriers to trusting your intuition that are tripping you up and keeping you from feeling the joyful abundance of YOUR life.
Life is too short and also too long to be living in a way that doesn't make your Soul happy. We tend to think our purpose here is to make money, or make children, or build a business, or make a name for ourselves, or change the world in big systemic ways. But do we consider that it might be our purpose to be JOYFUL? How drastically would we have to alter our lives and our jobs and our aspirations if every day our main goal was to be joyful? Learn to heed the call of your Soul, have the courage to recognize what is no longer serving you, and find joy in new beginnings this spring!
"The world is a weave of energy and every human being is a thread on that Great Weave..." -Amantha Murphy, The Way of the Seabhean: An Irish Shamanic Path | The Spring Equinox really marks the beginning of Nature's New Year, so this is an excellent time for planting seeds of intention; it's a time to know what we really want! So with the right energetic conditions in place around us, let's do some tending to our inner conditions - on an energetic level that allows us to get up close and personal with our Soul - so that maybe this spring we can finally get what we really want. Or perhaps instead of getting what we really WANT, we just might get what we need.
Consider for a moment that, like a diamond, you too start out in a 'less-polished' state and it is only through the application of extreme pressure, a bit of heat, and the passage of time that your true brightness really begins to shine. But, unlike the diamond, we have the added responsibility of free will and the option to completely get in our own way and stunt the process from completing. Oops. To avoid that, we can choose to be conscious partners to our own process of growth and healing! A process that leads us from a random pile of carbon atoms to a lustrous, fully integrated, shining diamond.
If you peel back the “NEW BEGINNINGS” overlay that we’ve put onto January and pay attention to the energy of the season beneath the expectations, you’ll find that we’re smack dab in the middle of the dead of winter. And winter…is a time for deep rest, restoration, healing, quiet, solitude, stillness. Not exactly New Year resolution energy, eh?! So here's what we can choose to do at this time of year instead - that still honors new beginnings - but is more in alignment with the energy of this season!
Cheeky, Dark, and A Little Weird.
Cheeky, Dark, and A Little Weird.
