Message From A Large Red Poodle

   

"Take back your sovereignty. Bathe friend and stranger alike in the radiance of your heart. Stay centered in the boundless simplicity of your core, and don't let your mind be infected with the negative energy of warring parties. 

"The chaos happening on the surface right now just belies the cleansing in the depths. Old stories and corrupt institutions must collapse to make way for a new earth, whose energy will be generated through the Heart, self-organized through the Intuition. 

"Let empires break up into small, autonomous, bio-regional republics. This is not the end but the beginning. There will come a time when you will not be able to remember why humans ever needed governments. Solve political problems before they become political, in the sphere of intimate personal communication. Let I-Thou relationships replace nation states. Let local shamanic circles replace world religions. 

"You do not walk on a time-line. Time is not a tight-rope from past to future. Time opens in all directions at once, the petals of eternity, unfolding from the flower of the present moment. 

"Go ahead, fall off the tight-rope, into the abyss between the lines. You will be held. You will soar. By descending, you will rise on a current of dark energy, precious healing waters from the center of the earth. 

"Rest in the diamond stillness at the center of your heart. This Sabbath is your greatest doing. Heal beyond action, bathe in the ocean of effortlessness. You need to have a little more faith in what already IS. 

"Every home a temple, every parent a priest, every deed an offering, and every word a prayer... So in each shall be increased the mystery that is everywhere."

My giant red poodle, Finn, spoke these words through his eyes in beams of silence this morning. I did my best to translate them into human language. My teachers are not ascended masters or intergalactic spirit guides. My teachers are hummingbirds, frogs in the wetland, midnight owl wings, coyote howls. The wild and gentle gaze of the Friend.