Venus, the chaste celestial virgin of divine love, is a holy portal-of-connection to the non-physical, immortal-spiritual, aspects of existence
Revealing the invisible causal plane as a mirror through which one can see the beauty of higher dimensional realities
Nourishing an unfed-mind with the wisdom of the sacred-feminine
A loving emotional intelligence that reawakens the divine nature within
Surpassing one’s earthly ego through love’s everlasting expansion
Unconditional and all-encompassing, she elevates one’s psyche beyond materialistic pleasures, animalistic desires, selfish love and addictions
In pursuit of alignment, blissfully absorbed in the unified language of love, reverence and devotion
Thus the soul is released from the corporeal chambers-of-captivity, as one’s inner-dragons of dark-desires are freed from the dungeons of the lower-emotions
Blessed by the kiss-of-deification that awakens the sleeping princess of inner-beauty, rekindling the fires of the heart
Liberating the imagination and the will with the silver blade of truth, shining brightly like a laser beam of light that eliminates all unproductive thoughts and traits
Instead replaced with empathy, kindness, compassion and a drive to honour one’s true vocational calling
Though the distillation, crystallisation and reclamation of the invisible dimensions; transcendental states-of-being embodied as integral
A bridge of balanced partnership between the realms, a blend of both earthly and celestial wisdoms
Where Venus tempers Mars, leaving all sorrowful memories and scars of yesterday behind like discarded weeds
So that one may plant new seeds-of-perception, unlocking the gates to higher states-of-consciousness, relinquishing all hesitation
Silently communicating with the Ascended Masters and Beings of Love, endowed with the Solar-Christic force of initiation
Accessing the sacred soul’s abode beyond the celestial-circuits of the mercurial-mind
Top: The Birth of Venus (1486) by Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510) Above: 1) Nude statue of Ares / Mars with lance and shield from south wall fresco in remains of a house in Pompeii, 2) Venus and Mars (1485)by Sandro-Botticelli, 3) Mars Breastplate, MBA, Lyon, bronze statue from Gaul, 4) Venus of Willendorf (24000-22000 B.C.) Clay figurine.
All women and girls at some point in their lives, appear to have experienced some form of ‘enforced sexual servitude’, and is a fundamental feminist observation
That her body has been pre-appropriated for a specific purpose or task, either as a recreational pleasure principal, or repurposed as a political pawn for state procreation
Although now with the advent of theartificial womb it would seem that women are destined for obsolescence, earmarked for extinction
Superfluous and unnecessary, even the notion of female beauty for at least the last century, has been defined by the white Male to Female Trans gender woman
For you might be interested to know, that there have been NO leading ladies in Hollywood since the 1930’s, including the celebrated Audrey Hepburn and Marilyn Monroe(whose real name was Norman)
And NO first ladies in The White House either, no female models at ‘Victoria’s Secret’, in Hugh Hefner’s Playboy centerfolds, or in his harem of bunny-men
Including many elite royals within the monarchy, such as Wallis Simpson, Princess Di (or David) and Monaco’s Princess Stephan
No women allowed in the political arena too, unless one is a trans Illuminati / Freemason
All of which serves to seriously distract from critical debate and moral reflection
– Q: Should bodies or relationships be controlled, choices contrived, towards an engineered trajectory?
– Q: Is free love really free?
Amidst a multiplicity of sexual transgressions, pushing at the boundaries of personal liberty
Expanding the regulated range of the consumer market-bubble
Blind eyes are turned, just so long as its profitable
While the public are force-fed a tightly scripted diet of symbolic fictional imagery
A daily bombardment providing a carefully manufactured illusory façade of acceptability
A manipulation of things being done a ‘certain way’ presented as usual, lulled into a false sense of insecurity and self-rejection
As one attempts to dismantle the edifice of patriarchal tradition
Where the Divine Sacred Feminine has been intentionally erased from the Narrative of Creation
Side-effects of conformity, a consumer-centred despotism
Fraught with hidden murky undertones, where the misuse of power over women and children’s lives and bodies succumbs to normalisation
A quick-fix relief-outlet from suppressed, repressed addictions, panda-eyedperversions and secret-society subversions
Where innocence is ritually sacrificed like a throw away consumer product, driven by the machine of greed and instant gratification
Endorsed by corrupt governments and organised religion
While the sanctity of life is willfully forsaken, bent, misshapen and stretched beyond all sacred limits and spiritual recognition
Thus we see the curious behavioural antics of a post-millennial age of psychopathic narcissism
Languishing out of balance in the absence of spiritual integrity and the subtle nuance of the Divine Sacred Feminine
Where the lack of acknowledgment for the ‘missing twin of creation‘, ultimately subverts the entire course of evolution, effecting everything and everyone, not just women
For without the female counterbalance, there is only half a lopsided yin-yang, askew in personal gain and devolution
Over-compensating for the loss of spiritual identity via a co-dependent relationship with A.I., V.R., bio-engineered Nano-tech and Transhumanism
Combined with a lack of algorithmic accountability, ultimately can only lead to self-annihilation
Unless! One can assist in the occurrence of a massive spiritual awakening
Opening up to Love’s Presence as an energetic karmic currency bestowed by the Creator
As an unparalleled alchemical blessing that is kismet by nature. ❤
Adam’s apple, (grows back) Shoulders wider than hips & rib removal surgery scar Prominent brow ridge, widows peak hair line, wide jaw, wide spaced eyes, broad shouldersHip augmentation surgery scar
Shoulders wider than hipsNo hips, long armsA male torso, shoulders wider than hips, no hips
Paula quotes: Q: ‘What are women looking for in men?’ A: ‘Women are looking for men who will honour our uniqueness, who will realise that our gifting is not lesser, is not weaker, it’s just different, it is in fact more comprehensive and it’s essential…. We need more men who will honour and empower women.
Although said with good intentions, Paula has never had a period in his/her life and therefore will never be subject to the hormonal fluctuations that adversely effect women’s emotions against their will. The responsibility of fertility for many women poses a huge imposition upon personal independence and emotional freedom, which many women resent, particularly when surrounded by so much pressure to emulate the behaviour of men, expected to fit into a world designed by men for men to the exclusion of women’s needs and requirements. Read: Sexism in the City(Article published in: The Conversation, April 17, 2018)
Germaine Greer points out that men who undergo gender reassignment surgery, after the procedure they are still essentially men whom happen to have had gender reassignment surgery. The surgery does not magically transform a man into a woman. The skeleton will always be a male skeletal structure no matter how much surgery one engages in. Having surgery is simply changing ones outer envelope, or avatar, like changing a set of clothes. Over focusing upon the outer form is like looking at the finger that points at the stars, instead of looking at the stars themselves. Self love begins from within. Gender reassignment surgery only offers an external cosmetic solution, creating a man-made hybrid gender, that is in addition to male and female, not instead of, deserving of a unique gender classification in its own right. Rather than having to fit into one of two previously existing categories, which for many in search of authenticity, have found could not contain the diversity of the human spirit.
Death, the rogue variable of the unknown, the un-defeatable foe of a finite life
Is also the same curtained veil that furnishes the resurrection of the soul
Rising like a phoenix through the portal of immortality
Adorned with the sovereign crown and sceptre of divine agency
Worn like a regal cloak made from a hundred thousand smooth white pearls
Harvested from the deep undulating seas of awareness
And the flowing pools of wisdom's whirls
Where vapourised soul particles rise like the morning Sun to purify the pineal
And once illuminated sets like the evening star that warms the lion’s heart
Blessed with the golden key of selfless compassion
That opens the gate to Eden’s Garden
Where one may gaze upon the event horizon of all consciousness
A magnificent panoramic view where one’s inner-witness
May contemplate the vastness of the spiritual sky
As a blueprint and reflection of the grand design
Illuminating the sine wave’s four ecliptic conditions
Frequently perceived through the iris of sacerdotal madness
A quantifying separation, re-organised into one unified mind
That expedites a necessary rediscovery of ourselves as infinite beings of energy
Pulsing sinusoidal formations, fully cogniscient of the cosmological macrocosm
Hidden beyond the glittering firmament of a microcosmic simulacrum ❤
In addition to airborne metalloids such as selenium, arsenic and aluminum, via inhalation and contamination of soil and GMO’d crops, further compromises one’s immune system
Not forgetting the cancerous DNA damaging Ethylene Oxide Gas that’s used to sterilise PCR & LF swab sticks for collection
All part of the gross-reset, planned parent-hood, euthanasia and the depopulation programme
Blind-sided by media-propaganda and lies, hypnotised and straumatised by mass-formation-psychosis and psychopathic government legislation
Having been dumbed-down and brain-washed for the entire duration of one’s life, through social-engineering, religious conditioning and educational indoctrination
Does anyone even know that the Earth’s natural EMF range is between just 3 and 30 Hz?
Yet HAARP, GWEN, Mobile Phones and the Internet, each generate electromagnetic frequencies in the hundreds and thousands of KHz, MHz and GHz?
So make no mistake, ‘this’ is a frequency war, a war against one’s natural organic right to physical and emotional health, well-being and autonomy
It’s also an A.I. Transhumanist invasion of serpentine hybridisation and assimilation into the hive-mind, an inevitable and irreversible collective singularity
Whereby the exponential growth-curve of machine-learning and so-called ‘human-enhancement’, has been here for quite some time already!
Their goal is to reverse-engineer the human brain, turning everyone into Satan’s-little-serf-Borgs, incapable of original thought, or critical thinking, initiating the degradation of all individuality
And so this is why everyone ‘must’ rise up and fight to reclaim one’s inherent spiritual sovereign-identity, as a direct-extension-of-god-source-energy
It is everyone’s divine birth-right, as an electromagnetic-being of energy, vibration and frequency
To align with the omniscient loving energy of The Creator, daily, just as nature intended, naturally and organically
Free from impediment, staying mindful, grateful and appreciative for every little blessing
Including life’s challenges, for these become our greatest teachers, imparting hard-earned hind-sight and inner-wisdom
On the never-ending journey of resistance and expansion
Learning how to become: Masters of Alignment with Source-Energy and Syncretism ❤ __________
Dr Bryan Ardis reveals the cv19 bio-weapon’s secret ingredient and who is responsible
DR. BRAUN: – COVID IS AN ENVENOMATION CAUSED BY REPLICATING VENOM ON THE SPIKE PROTEIN OF SARS-COV-2. U.S. National Counterterrorism & EMS Advisor and Trainer. READ THE INVESTIGATION
scroll in 35 mins and start from Laura Louise says:
Dr. Bryan Ardis (www.ardisantidote.com) and Stew Peters in a Network exclusive interview revealing both the ingredient and the perpetrator behind the pandemic.
‘Mass Formation Psychosis‘ is a known method of population-control, used by governments world-wide, that literally traumatises its subjects into a state of hypnosis, keeping them in a perpetual state of fear, stress and anxiety, via habitual threats upon collective safety and well-being. The purpose of a negative ‘World News’ narrative, is to trigger a protracted state of hyper-vigilance, whereupon a person is literally waiting for the next disaster to strike and will virtually do anything that the government tells them to do, even if it goes against their moral and ethical compass.
Enduring a prolonged state of ‘fight, flight or freeze‘, causes adrenal burn-out, which in turn causes physical fatigue and mental resignation. Which, if in addition one throws-in some unresolved childhood trauma, a health crisis or two, a failed relationship, a bereavement, a house-move, with other business and financial worries, then a person is also simultaneously bombarded with unproductive thoughts and memories on constant rotation, either regurgitated from previous circumstances and situations, or generated by fears and anxieties for the future.
These all serve to re-activate powerful emotional charges, that can blind-side a person’s decision-making process, through the interference of unresolved fear / anxiety / rage / regret / guilt / loss / remorse / resentment / denial / revenge / grief / hurt / lack / greed / insecurity / etc., keeping these energetic vibrational frequencies ever-present, sometimes going around and round in circles for years, never moving forwards despite the best-of-intentions.
As a result many people are driven against-their-will, into re-enacting pre-programmed unconscious patterns of trauma. Patterns such as escapism and avoidance, or of over-achieving, competing-to-win, to-please, seeking endorsements of external validation and approval from outside sources, instead of generating one’s self-worth from within, through one’s inner-alignment with Source-Energy. Inevitably, self-doubt and seeking outer-validation, takes one out of the present moment, and also out of alignment with Source-Energy, which effectively shuts down the ‘God-gene’, inhibiting consciousness growth and halting forward-momentum.
Needless to say many people are stuck on ‘autopilot’, triggered by whatever narrative the elite-owned, fake-stream media, feeds them, consisting of multiple deceptions and psyops that trap people inside their own minds, through the use of impending doom, gradually leading the public (without their informed consent) towards a TranshumanistA.I. digital agenda, where everyone will be connected 24/7 to the internet-of-things and bodies, further imprisoning people within their own minds, through the use of Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Holograms, Wi-fi, Bluetooth, Digital ID’s, implants, scans and social profiling, subverting healthy organic development.
(For further reading on Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, and the Transhumanist Agenda please see links at the end).
These forms of mental self-imprisonment, are without walls, bars, locks, keys or jailers and is basically designed to prevent people from ever waking-up, or owning their God-given sovereign-identity, specifically by keeping people dumbed-down, ignorant, distracted, preoccupied, seduced and completely unaware that in truth; one is born into this world as an unlimited divine being, who is powerful beyond measure.
But if no one knows that they are magnificent powerful beings, how can we combat this? There are several methods that can assist stepping into and owning one’s divine inner-sovereignty, and by far the most effective is literally by reducing, or removing altogether, exposure to mainstream media, social media apps, and as many digital devices as possible, as not only do they serve as distractions but also as radiation transmitters. Distancing oneself from radiation bombardment, will enable one to focus in real-time upon aligning one’s inherent electromagnetic torus field, that serves as one’s energetic signature, in line with the energetic signature of Source-Energy. Source-Energy is always broadcasting on the energetic frequency of pure love, which is the purest form-of-energy in the Universe. Divine Intelligence, combined with Unconditional Love, is the true source of unlimited power in this world. All of Nature and the Natural World is already in alignment with Source-Energy.
But we humans seem to be suffering from a form of divine amnesia, finding ourselves stranded in some kind of simulated reality-game without a manual. Guidance therefore, can only come via one’s authentic alignment with Source-Energy, involving focus and commitment to removing old habits and distractions that keep us from better knowing and comprehending our true identities (as immortal spiritual beings on a never-ending journey of expansion), cultivating daily mindfulness, making time for meditation, exercise, reading, healthy eating and the minimisation of toxic substances, situations or people. All in the name of self-care and self-love.
Most people cannot conceive of life without their beloved smart phone, or laptop, as we seem to have become fully dependent upon our electronic gadgets for pretty much everything now. However, given the amount of into-the-red levels-of-radiation, that all of these devices emit; such as one’s WiFi, which is between 5180 MHz and 5825 MHz on the frequency spectrum, plus one’s fridge and smart meter, which are both at 2400 MHz on the frequency spectrum, and one’s smart phone, which is between 450 and 2700 MHz, not to mentioncomputers, laptops, tablets and Plasma, LED, OLED Flat-screen TV’s, it makes sense to take some down time.
One’s mind and body will be very appreciative of any reduction in exposure to Electromagnetic Radio Frequencies, which penetrate the blood-brain barrier, preventing quality sleep, causing headaches, mood changes, memory loss, brain fog, chronic fatigue, dehydration, tinnitus, tumors, cancers and a multitude of other ailments. (This is without taking the effects of 5G towers into consideration). Not only will reducing exposure assist physical well-being and alleviate symptoms, it will also assist to fully liberate one’s mind from layers of inherited disinformation, conditioning, programming, brainwashing, a colossal dumbing-down that one has been subjected to since birth. Now it can be stripped back to reveal refreshingly new levels of critical thinking, open-mindedness and clarity.
In the light of daily-disclosures, we are fast learning that pretty much everything one has ever been taught, and led to believe has happened in the last two-thousand years, has been a concoction of myths, lies, fiction and elaborate illusions. A construct of The Maya, designed to deceive and manipulate us into believing that we are limited, insignificant and powerless. And so, while it is helpful to be able to stay abreast of all this new information, it is also helpful to draw a line as to just how much of it one consumes at a time, in order to stay mentally and emotionally strong, confidently navigating through these ‘portals of illusion‘, so that one can begin building completely new paradigms that are totally supportive, built upon the foundation stones of love, life and the natural order of the world.
When one is surrounded by illusions it helps to remember that only love is real and to keep bringing oneself back in line with the loving energy of the Source of all Creation. One can do this easily by checking-in regularly, with how one feels, paying attention to one’s heart center and also by consciously connecting with one’s right-hemisphere-of-the brain. The part that connects up one’s heart with the Universal collective heart, by engaging in creative and artistic activities / a regular practice of meditation / Tai Chi / Qi Gong, or anything that brings one into the present moment, allowing one to observe one’s breath. Observing the breath assists one to stay fully present, where it is easier to listen to the inner-whisperings of one’s heart. Always follow the heart for the Heart knows the way.
It is important to try to stay as fully-present in-the-moment as possible, to become as aware of one’s thoughts, beliefs, intentions, desires, strong emotions and feelings, as one can, for the simple reason that they are actual real things, which have powerful energetic-signatures, with outcomes attached. So be careful what one thinks. Become more mindful what thoughts one revisits and what feelings one indulges in. Do they serve one’s highest good? These thoughts and e-motions are choices that we can regain control over, so that we are no longer at the beck and call of social and political programming. Returning to ones inner-self is the first step towards cultivating a healthy sense of self-worth and self-love, (not narcissism) but an inner-acceptance of ‘who’ one is, just the way one is, warts-n-all, and an inner-forgiveness for what is, where one is, how things are, right here, right now. Often this requires tuning-out a tyrannical inner-critic, (that offers up a judgment 24/7), transforming one’s inner-voice into a kindlier, more supportive inner-best friend, that does not berate, belittle, criticise, or torment.
Love, whether for self, others, or creation, is an electromagnetic torus field of energy that extends beyond the body. A Torus field is the energy-source of all Creation. Everything but everything is energy, vibration and frequency, and once we inner-stand that everyone and everything are direct-extensions of this electromagnetic-field of Source-Energy – that we are literally carbon copies of God-Source-Energy – that we are direct-extensions of Unlimited Love – that this creative power is not outside of ourselves – that it is fully integrated into our being – that we are made from the same energetic-signature as our Creator – just like holographic chips-off-the-old-block – then all illusions simplyfall away. And once one can begin to see through these illusions, they no longer hold any power over us.
We often hear that the real power is within but now we can truly embody what this means as each and everyone of us begins to tap into and access this infinite unlimited power that resides within our minds and hearts, via one’s alignment with the source-of-energy that created us in the first place. Maintenance of one’s alignment with the frequency of one’s electromagnetic-torus field, AND, with the energetic signature of Creation, creates a vibrational-match, enabling one to receive abundant serendipitous blessings and well-being, flowing straight from the universe into one’s life, without any effort, manipulation or control. These can show up as serendipitous and synchronistic coincidences, which is evidence of the Law of Attraction in motion.
This is why the elites want to shut you down, distract you, deceive you, because most people have no idea of just how powerful they really are. People believe that they are powerless to effect change, but in fact the complete opposite is true. And I believe that this realisation, that we are primarily electromagnetic beings of energy, frequency and vibration is at the heart of the great awakening that is occurring at this time. It is a natural inner-sensory union, between thought and feeling, mind and heart, knowing and being, that literally manifests as one’s outer reality. Knowing this is what sets one free.
One becomes so free in fact, that one is literally able to see the face-of-god in all beings, choosing to love one’s enemies, telepathically extending forgiveness and compassion to all those whose external behaviour, either appears evil, or overly personal-gain orientated, inner-standing this is simply a level of thinking and operating that emanates from an absence of awareness of Love’s Presence. Often, behaving badly stems from a deep-seated belief that one is unworthy of deserving the love, or the life style, most desired. Whereupon acquiring wealth, possessions, or power becomes a life’s mission to fill this inner-void. But because it is an inner-hunger, this void can never be satiated externally from without, it can only be nourished through one’s inner-connection with Source-Energy, maintained through the correct use of one’s mind, through love, gratitude and appreciation, enabling heart-supported choices that are mutually beneficent and kind.
Therefore, the greatest social, political and spiritual work, an individual may do for another human being, is to assist withthe removal of the blocks to an awareness of Love’s Presence, arriving at the inner-standing that Love is a very real and tangible source of ‘energy, frequency and vibration’, that is available and accessible to ALL beings, 24/7. For even though the opposite of fear is LOVE, what is all-encompassing, can have no opposite. 💛
Further Reading:
Sustainable Development Report 2021: The Decade of Action for the Sustainable Development Goals: PDF published by the Sustainable Development Solutions Network, A Global Initiative for the United Nations. https://www.sdgindex.org/
‘IF’ the public can awaken to their INNER-mother-father-god-source-energy-SELF: the divine-spark within, that constitutes ones SOUL
Also the non-physical, direct-extension-of-Source-Energy, part-of-who-we-all-are, that unites all beings as ONE
THEN, a worldwide collective of conscious and awakened individuals, could effectively render obsolete any further need for the so-called ‘powers that be’
For ‘IF’ people knew their true identities: that everyone on Planet Earth is an immortal spiritual being, temporarily incarnated as physical
AND that every single human being is immensely powerful
Then there would be no more need of hierarchical power structures, governments, mega-corp elites, or the complex military industrial
That commandeers all research: scientific, tech and medical, for the purposes of profit manipulation and control
Certain secret organisations, bloodlines and fraternities are already in-the-know, and this is why our true identities, from our own selves have long been withheld
And for why the true history of the Earth, for millennia has been hidden, including prior advanced civilisations and ancient Mystery School’s knowledge and wisdom
And why free electromagnetic toroidal energy is still suppressed, an alleged national security threat, or simply isn’t profitable
Is also the exact same reason for why RNA jabs, are designed to modify the human genome
Because one’s DNA serves as an umbilical spiritual antennae, direct up-link to Source-Energy, one’s integral origin, and spiritual home
And, for the first time in human history, right now dormant strands of light within the DNA coil, are activating, increasing and expanding one’s bandwidth, ever-strengthening the signal
Attuning the individual to the divine spark within, enabling a reawakening of consciousness that’s veritably global
Therefore, maintaining one’s primary focus-of-attention inwardly, is the key to cultivating a higher vibrational-offering, energetic-signature, sinusoidal-frequency
A spiritual and emotional ethicacy, that affords algorithmic accountability
For behold! We all co-create our own realities via our most frequent points-of-focus, as every single feeling, thought and belief one has ever had, is energy, and all energy is eternal
So utilise one’s fertile imagination to focus upon the best, most desirous outcome possible!
In order to become a ConsciousCreator, surrendering to the pure loving energy-of-Source, that’s non-physical
Releasing all mindless illusions of fear, trusting implicitly in the power of Love to heal
For at the end of the day, fear is only: False Evidence Appearing Real
And the power of a fully-conscious awakened state-of-mind, can manifest truly wonderful, infinite, multiplicious miracles. ✩
False Evidence Appearing Real – the canonical one False Emotions Appearing Real Future Events Appear Real False Expectations About Reality Finding Excuses And Reasons For Everything A Reason F*%# Everything And Run Failure Expected And Received Fighting Ego Against Reality Frantic Effort to Appear Real Federal Employee Anti-discrimination and Retaliation Act of 2002 (A positive take on it) Feelings Expressed Allows Relief Face Everything And Recover Forgetting Everything’s All Right
KALEIDOSCOPE MEMORIES:
One cannot help but bear-witness to pandemic storm-clouds-of-contagion, earthquake, volcano, fire, flood and landslide
Ubiquitously sweeping, shaking, erupting, raging, surging, far-and-wide
While many of the world’s leaders profess ‘geo-thermal-fracking-as-usual’ with heads buried-deep in dunes-of-denial
And so, in the face of multiple-global-crises, one is forced to shop elsewhere for spiritual gnoses and emotional renewal
Further afield than the aisles of neon-lit supermarket-dreams and dot-com same-day-deliveries
Further afield than high-brow department-store life-style fantasies
Laid out like scenes from the silver-screen in elaborate window-displays and glossy magazines
Further than the online prime-time trailer, box-set, binge-watch seduction
Plethora’s-of-perfectly-packaged-illusions to provide temporary-alleviation
From the overwhelming threat of global-annihilation
From sexist-racist, elitist-ageist denigration
Or from rust-riddled-regrets on constant-rotation
Mourning the ghosts of narrowly-missed, sugar-coated ships-of-desire that set-sail long-ago
Or impossible-to-forget childhood-traumas, bereavements, divorces, augmenting serial-self-love-deficit-disorders
Inescapable neuroses, seared into one’s psyche, branded like slaves-to-key-frame-memories
Leaving a trail-of-distorted, aborted-destinies behind in their wake
Yet another empty-void, full-of-emotional gaping-holes to fill as the planet is systematically plundered and destroyed
By the addictive machine-of-consumerism, where ecological-sustainability and wellbeing is wilfully-sacrificed
With nothing left, except the bitter-aftertaste of a forfeit-future...
This is how we welcome 130-million new-born ‘kidults’ into the world every-year, weaned upon html and social-media
Whose childhood-innocence and genetic-lineages were surgically-removed at birth
Stolen by neo-narcissists ‘neath smog-filled skies, where bright-futures turned grey
Dumbed-down by smart-technology and antidepressants
And yet, in-spite-of-all-this, some intrinsic built-in desire to seek-out and search for truth-and-authenticity, persists
Sends out its call like a beacon, calling upon every human-soul to awaken, to activate one’s innate inner-knowing, like a homing-device
Beckons to journey far-beyond the comfort and safety of objects, or co-dependent relationships
To look past the emotional barbed-wire snags-and-grazes of parental/ professional/ romantic/ societal lies and betrayal
Or the nettle’s-sting of missed-opportunity
In lieu of moving-forwards, towards new desires-satisfied, and revised goals-fulfilled, collectively
For nothing stays-the-same and ‘change’ is always the one, true, ever-quickening-constant
Henceforth, it is in the ‘unspoken-moments’ where humanity happens
Where one quietly pieces-together water-colour-poems, sifted and fathomed from kaleidoscope-memories
Dreaming in silent smoky-swirls and mirror-gleam sunbeams
Peeling off rose-candy-coloured gels from the lids of one’s eyes
Like fleshy onion-skin layers of reflective-introspection
As one wakes from the lucid-dream-state with the revelatory-understanding
That in a vibrational-universe-of-Energy, every thought and feeling is eternal and therefore accountable
As non-physical energy can never die, nor expire, it can only change form
Transformed by an awareness of one’s perennial-vibrational-offering
Atonement through candour and a willingness to upgrade one’s most-frequent-point-of-focus
As an integral requisite of self-care, a daily-practice
By virtue of LOVE, whether for self, others, or Source
Is still the purest-form-of-energy in the Multiverse.
Updated: 29/02/2020
Kaleidoscope Memories is Published in the Pluralist Magazine:
Twilight is the inky blue-black, steely-cool lens of the logical mind
The rational left-hemisphere that’s always asking: Who? What? Where? When? And Why?
Generally, over-focusing 24-7 upon all the little things one should have said, or could have done
Inner-narratives on constant rewind, sometimes for years, decades or even lifetimes
Retrospective key frames in ones timeline robbed of fun
Completely oblivious or unaware, that one was born with a Right-Hemisphere
Offering an additional lens of self-compassion, via heart-supported mind
Like a prism of decision-making processes that are mutually beneficent and kind
Via a hemispherical union, of left and right, both online at the same time
Co-operating as a ‘Whole Mind’
Balancing the polarity of individuation via an authentic heart connection:
With each other, the natural world, the cosmos and ‘The All There Is’
As a direct extension of Source-Energy, each of us, a little piece of Primordial-Qi
A metaphysical integration, providing meaning, purpose and Inner-Peace
Awakening ones third-eye, that can scry a previously unknown spectrum
Discover a parallel dimens:ion
Refracting the piercing white light of inner-sight
The other side of the Rainbow crescent moon…
Heart-Supported Mind has been acquired by the Wellcome Library in London and is also featured in the new collection: ‘Now Is The New Now’, available from: Barnes & Noble® | Blackwells | Waterstones | Booktopia, Amazon and more. More info HERE.
Commenting on how many leaves are gathering now under the trees, fallen to the ground
We count the grazing geese upon the green, (there’s more than fifty!)
And remark upon a fearless squirrel darting across our path with boundless energy
I let down our ponytails so we can feel the Autumn breeze in our hair
With the sound of the fountain spray upon the lake in the air
We stop to say ‘Hello‘ to a majestic white swan upon the pond who holds its neck so proudly
And over the hump back bridge we say ‘Hi’ to a crow changing branches in a tree
Whose slick black feathers shine iridescently
Then we see two little girls chasing each other around a playground
They laugh and shout: ‘you can’t catch me, you can’t catch me…’
On the way back we wave at our reflections in the window and pause briefly
Before I comb and braid your hair into a plait so very neatly
“Nothing’s lost forever. In this world, there’s a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we’ve left behind, and dreaming ahead.” – from Lydia’s monologue in the last scene of ‘Still Alice’
‘Inner Sun’ was written by Cat, recorded / produced by Martyn Ware at Tile Yard Studios with music composed by Gabriel Ware, especially for Charlie Morrow’s Solstice Project 2016 – June 21st
A sunny disposition radiates from deep inside one’s heart
Like a beautiful beaming ball of fire
Whose warmth can melt away a frown with a single smile
Impossible to take anything as personal
When one comes from an elevated position, place of unconditional love
Non-attached acceptance for all
Just like the Sun always shines, way-up high above the clouds
Heart-centered love is the rainbow’s kiss in the sky
That transforms the mundane, the monochrome-grey
Into colours that dance with laughter and joy
For ones inner-core is made from the same stuff as the Sun
We are the ‘Star-Dust Children’
Honnouring our Mother Earth, and Father Sun, daily
Shining in the gratitude of love made visible
For One Sun, One Earth, one perfect solar-system
Not forgetting the gift of life, being alive and human
One’s spiritual sunshine always begins from within
And emanates without, united in selfless compassion
For everything and everyone, as a pure self-reflection
Holiness of the Heart written and directed by Cat Catalyst
La Sainteté du Cœur translation by Yacine Himour
Santidad para del Corazón translation by Olga Navarro Romero
La Sacralità Del Cuore translation by Gabriele Adragma and Maria Sabrina Scassa ____
Yes! There is a holiness, to the heart’s affections Oui, il y a une sainteté pour l’affection du cœur ¡Sí! Existe una santidad para los afectos del corazón Si! Esiste una sacralità per gli affetti del cuore
When one is moved in purity and truth, to love another Lorsqu’une personne est touchée par la pureté et la sincérité de l’autre Cuando alguien se muda en pureza y en verdad al amar al otro Quando si èmossi dalla purezza e dalla veritá, ad amare un altro
Or rather there ought to be a holiness Où plutôt qu’il devrait être une sainteté O más bien debería ser una santidad O piuttosto dovrebbe esserci una sacraltá
A recognition of the Divine Une reconnaissance du Divin Un reconocimiento de lo Divino Una consapevolezza Divina
An acknowledgment of the ‘spirit of creation’ Une reconnaissance de l’esprit de création Un conocimiento del “espíritu de la creación” Una riconoscimento dello ‘spirit della creazione’
A healthy respect for the holy union Un sain respect pour l’union sacrée Un sano respeto por la unión sagrada Un sano rispetto per l‘unione sacra
Of two souls captured De deux âmes capturées O dos almas capturadas Di due anime catturate
With a mutual affection and bound Avec une affection partagée et liée Con mutuo afecto y en comunión Da un legame reciproco e stretto
Without self consciousness to express Sans conscience de soi à exprimer Sin conciencia de sí mismo Senza nessun imbarazzo
Such a delight of relatedness Tel une joie apparentée Tanta delicia compartida Con cosi tanto piacere nell’appartenenza
It is still so wonderfully innocent Cela est pourtant d’une innocence merveilleuse Es aún bellamente inocente È cosi meravigliosamente innocente
In an age where innocence is rapidly being obliterated by progress Dans une ère où l’innocence est furtivement éradiquée par le progrès En una era donde la inocencia es súbitamente arrasada por el progreso In un epoca dove l’innocenza è rapidamente sradicata dal progresso
In a world where nothing is sacred (anymore) Dans un monde où plus rien n’est sacré En un mundo donde nada es sagrado (nunca más) In un mundo dove più niente è sacro (non più)
And vulnerability is seen as an opportunity for exploitation Et la vulnérabilité est perçue comme une opportunité à l’exploitation Y la vulnerabilidad es expuesta como una oportunidad para la explotación E la vulnerabilitàè percepita come un opportunità di sfruttamento
The heart’s affections then, must surely be, the most sacred Alors, les affections du cœur doivent être les plus sacrées Los afectos del corazón entonces, deben seguramente ser lo más sagrado Gli affetti del cuore devono essere quanto di più sacro
In a world where nothing else is Dans un monde où rien n’est plus En un mundo donde nada es In un mondo dove più niente lo è
And are to be honoured, respected and heard Et se doivent d’être honorées, respectées et entendues Y se debe ser honesto, respetuoso y comprendido E devono essere onorati, rispettati e sentiti
For in listening to the inner whisperings of one’s heart En écoutant les intimes chuchotements du cœur Escuchando los íntimos susurros del corazón Ascoltando gli intimi sussurri del cuore
One may learn something more valuable and precious than gold… On peut apprendre quelque chose de plus valeureux et précieux que l’or Uno puede aprender algo más valioso y precioso Si può imparare qualcosa di molto più prezioso dell’oro
For to evolve through Love Pour évoluer à travers l’amour Para evolucionar a través del amor Per evolversi attraverso l’amore
Is the greatest spiritual teaching on Earth C’est la plus grande philosophie sur terre Es el mayor aprendizaje espiritual sobre la Tierra È il più grande insegnamento sulla terra
To which one may aspire A laquelle chacun devrait aspirer Por el cual todos podrían inspirarse Al quale tutti potrebbero inspirarsi
From personal through transpersonal Du personnel au transpersonnel Desde lo personal a través de lo transpersonal Dal personale al transpersonale
To unconditional and universal De l’inconditionnel et de l’universel Hasta lo incondicional y universal Fino all’ incondizionale ed universale
Emanating like the sun Qui émane tel un soleil Emanando como el sol Emanandocome il sole
Fostering life where previously there was none Cultivant une vie où il n’y avait rien Cultivando una vida donde previamente no hubo nada Coltivando una vita dove prima non vi era nulla
An illumination of the soul Une illumination de l’âme Una iluminación del alma Un’ illuminazione dell’ anima
A massive deposit in the karmic bank account of destiny Un immense dépôt dans le compte en banque du karma de la destinée Un descomunal depósito en la cuenta bancaria del karma del destino Un’ incommensurabile versamento karmico nel conto in banca del destino
A lifetime investment that can never depreciate, even into the afterlife C’est un investissement de toute une vie qui ne peut jamais déprécier même dans l’au-delà. Una inversión que no puede nunca despreciarse, incluso después de vivir Un investimento di vita che non si svaluterà mai neanche dopo di essa
The true role of love is to uplift and inspire Le véritable rôle de l’amour est d’élever et d’inspirer El verdadero papel del amor es elevarse e inspirarse Il vero ruolo dell’amore è di elevare ed inspirare
Infectious like a smile Infectieux tel un sourire Infeccioso como una sonrisa Contagioso come un sorriso
Like a virus of giggles Tel un virus de gloussement Contagioso como un virus de la risa Come un virus della risata
Like a sweeping epidemic of laughter and joy Tel une déferlante d’épidémie de joie et de rire Como una expansión epidémica de la risa y el júbilo Come un’epidemia di gioia e risa
A conscious choice everyday Un choix conscient de tous les jours Una consciente elección de cada día Una scelta giornaliera consciente
There really is only One way forwards Il n’existe vraiment qu’une voie pour avancer Hay realmente un único camino para avanzar C’e’ soltanto un ‘unica via peravanzare
Everything else, is resistance… Après tout c’est de résister Todo es resistencia … Tutt oil resto é resistenza __
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June feature interview with Cat catalyst Poet, Artist and Peace Activist
Tuck Magazine: Many of your poems are infused with matters relating to the human spirit and the state of humanity. Do you consider your spirituality to be your primary muse?
Cat Catalyst: Poetry and Art for me is a spiritual practice and a social responsibility.
‘The good artist is wise,
God is in his heart.
He puts divinity into things.’
– (Mayan Saying).
To me this means that the poet has the ability to communicate deep and meaningful truths in a simple uncomplicated way that the general public at large can understand. The poet synthesises and translates strong emotions with lofty ideals. It is a language of the heart that speaks to the soul.
My primary muse, as is traditional with many poets or song-writers through the ages, is ‘Love’. Or in my case spiritual and emotional evolution, as a way of aiding the next step in humanity’s awakening, working through the lower emotions in order to open to ‘Loving Kindness’ as a way of life, a philosophy of life, enabling man and woman kind to work together as co-curators of Planet Earth. Loving and caring for Planet Earth as an extension of ones own self-love and self-care in the same way we are urged to ‘Love one another as thyself.’
The problem is that no body loves or accepts themselves in this day and age as everyone is so separate and disconnected from them selves, from each other, from the natural world and from spirituality, and so therefore what most people are projecting is ones own self-loathing, denial, and insecurity. An absence of self-care.
Love has to come from within, otherwise its needy, competitive, controlling and co-dependant. And self-love is not to be confused with a narcissistic self-absorbed obsession, no, activating the heart-center is all to do with being able to accept the Self as it is, right here, right now, with all ones imperfections and flaws, guilt and shame, (as well as ones strengths shining brightly), as a simple honest acceptance of what is, and therefore cultivate an ability to accept others, just as they are, with all their imperfections (and also their strengths), for in the evolution of the soul there is no hierarchy.
Carl Jung says: “The best political, social and spiritual work we can do, is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others“
This is about training the mind to stay in the present moment, to drop all judgments, let go of attachments to desired outcomes, to honour the innocence of the body, (and the innocence of all living beings and creatures), to see through the charade of separation, to see through the illusion of materialism and personal gain, and become Conscious. For everyone and everything has a right to be here. (Although Love also requires firm boundaries, it does not mean subjugating oneself in the process).
When interviewed by Lily Cole, British sculptor Anthony Gormley postulated that if we carry on as we are, the Human race faces extinction within the next 300 years and I tend to agree with him on this. I would even go as far as to say it will take much less time than that, for once the delicate balance of the eco system becomes unstable, plundered by Capitalism, pollution and war, the process will rapidly escalate. Much of our prosperity and peace is dependant upon climatic stability.
If Planet Earth, and the survival of all Her creatures and beings are to have even a chance of a future as Nature intended, then we have to work together as a whole planet, a whole Earth, and a whole community, with no divisions, for there is no where else in this solar system to go, we have to learn to take care of our only home, to stop crapping on our own door step, to learn gratitude, humility, compassion, non-personal love, and work together in order to move forwards. At the end of the day, it’s everyone or no-one.
Training the mind begins with the breath. The breath connects the ever-present internal dialogue of the mind with the innocence of the body. It allows for space, calm and observation away from the incessant inner chatter. If one feels like saying something in response to a thought just take a breath instead. If ones mind offers up a judgement, just take another breath. The over rationalising neurotic logic of the ego will begin to dissipate and this in turn will lessen the pressure on the emotions to react. (I call it the push-button effect). A mind that is not trained can really torture and torment a person by turning ones inner dialogue into a habitual inner tyrant. How one treats ones inner self is how one treats another. The trick in this instance is to turn ones inner tyrant into ones inner best friend.
Meditation is a wonderful tool for calming the mind and the emotions, and is something that I think should be taught in all schools everywhere as a necessary survival technique. It can help kids into adulthood to cope with over exposure to the media, from being seduced by the advertising aesthetic, brain washed by TV crime and Hollywood, social networking addictions, combat computer games, peer pressure, gangs, bullies, etc, especially at such early ages.
Kids become a commercial target audience as soon as they leave the womb. Rapid advances in technology have produced a new generation of ‘kidults’ equipped with smart phones and laptops who seem to have skipped their childhood. Today much of a young persons dialogue is through an electronic device and not necessarily face to face. Yet it is through innocence that an individual learns valuable interactive social skills through the act of play. Meditation can also assist with being able to ‘turn the other cheek’, to not take the ‘bait’, to rise above the ‘limitations of others’ and to stay ‘true’ to oneself.
When one has self-worth one doesn’t need approval from other people to be ones self, one isn’t dependent upon the appreciation of another, a partner, a spouse, a lover, for validation in order to feel worthy. One is empowered to help others as one would help oneself, to treat others as one would expect to be treated oneself without necessarily expecting anything in return. The vision is for a nation of empowered individuals interacting with other empowered individuals, rather than a nation of neurotic walking wounded behaving erratically, trying to exploit one another out of self-interest.
Tuck Magazine: There is also an activist bent to your poetry that tackles many societal issues we currently face as a species. Do you think a poet has a social responsibility to impart information about their journey through this life as a way of holding up a mirror to the reader?
Cat Catalyst: Yes I believe that the ‘real’ poet, or the ‘real’ artist, those who are motivated by an invisible driving force from within, driven to honour an inner calling, yes, those are the ones whom have a social responsibility to communicate personal insights and truths, although not necessarily as a mirror, for everyone is unique, but perhaps as a sign post, an alternative way of thinking, a seed of suggestion, something which provokes a new thought process, creates new neurological pathways in the brain.
Also identification and catharsis can be very healing, through the sharing of human experience, for one can feel less alone or isolated by ones problems, and perhaps instead of seeing something as a problem, one is able to see certain challenges as a growth opportunity, for it is often only by undergoing a passage to the dark side that one can uncover ones inner pearls of wisdom.
The artist or poet’s process of self-introspection can lead to personal revelation. It is these personal revelations that I wish to share in the pursuit of aiding not only my own spiritual growth but also to be of assistance to other ‘Catalysts’ out there, other agents of beneficial social change and transformation, through the planting of seeds of inspiration and perhaps paving the way forwards.
Actually that’s about the most one can do for another human being. The only person one can change is oneself. The best one can do for another is to plant a few healthy seeds of inspiration, in the hope that at a later date when the timing is right they may germinate, blossom and flower.
And like a farmer tending his crops through the cycle of the seasons, so must ones seeds be watered and tended, through the speaking of ones truth, the walking ones of talk, and leading by example, consistently over time.
Tuck Magazine: In addition to being a poet you are also a painter. Have you ever incorporated your poetry into any of your paintings or vice versa and if so, is the finished product the complete work or can each stand alone as separate entities.
Cat Catalyst: Yes, although mostly I only incorporate text or audio with my digital art. Yes they can stand alone individually too, for example my poetry film ‘Swim’ was screened at the Tate Britain as a poetry film, but it was originally created as a combined backing track and visual projection to perform vocals over the top. The idea was to wear white so that I would blend into the projection and appear to be swimming in the water, however, I have yet to find a compatible venue to test out my creative vision for this poetry performance and so in the mean time it was picked up as an independent film. I would still like to test out my idea one day to see if it actually works.
Tuck Magazine: There are two schools of thought regarding the composition of a poem. Some poets claim that too much editing destroys the soul of a piece while others swear that to labour over a poem, sometimes for days or weeks perfects and polishes it. What is your process for revising your poetry and have you ever written a poem that had no need for revision?
Cat Catalyst: For me each poem is a unique and individual entity and so its birthing process is also individual. There are some poems that come through perfectly intact requiring absolutely no editing at all; ‘Inversion’ was one such piece, although it largely depends upon how transient or complex a feeling or an idea is that I am working on. Bringing through ethereal or emotional concepts that have no words and exist only as feelings can take time to articulate in ones mind before committing to paper. An idea takes work to bring into form, it’s a bit like creating a sculpture:
“…Like a sculptor chipping away at an idea
Until it says exactly what one wants it to say
Like a slab of marble that invites one to discover the hidden form within
The body of a poem will largely arrive with its own structure. I see that like the trunk of the tree and then the minor tweaks and edits are like the branches of the tree, fleshing out the boughs with leaves, and blossom and fruit. Usually a blog post will require two to three days of constant re-reading with some minor tweaking and attention to flow and punctuation, before it feels right.
“I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.” – Oscar Wilde
The act of posting a blog, or a poem, online has the effect of objectifying a piece for me and therefore I am able to distance myself without becoming overly attached to it. I try to stay as close to the source of the muse as possible without allowing myself to become overly distracted from the original intent. I think it is important to keep a check on the ego for the desire to impress can totally ruin a poem and turn it into a complete pile a drivel.
Tuck Magazine: Have you ever gone through a period like many poets where you were blocked and felt unable to produce? What ultimately reignited the passion for words?
Cat Catalyst: No not really, at least not yet anyway, for me it’s more about not losing the order of the words as and when they appear in my mind and capturing them in time before the arrangement is gone for good.
Sometimes the ideas are relentless as more often than not they come in the middle of the night and keep me awake into the small hours as I diligently try to commit them to paper or copy paste into a word doc, in an effort to keep up with the express train of thoughts as they race through my mind.
I don’t know why but it always feels like there is an important urgency to it, especially as it can happen so fast. If you are not prepared you can completely miss the whole thing and still be left dithering looking for a pen that works, or a pencil that isn’t blunt or a back of an old envelope to write on.
I used to pull all-nighters regularly and work right though until 8 or 9am in the morning, sometimes never going to bed and working through to the next day, but as I get older I get too tired to keep up with the voice of the muse in my head and so I just say: OK if I’ve had that idea once before then chances are it will come back around again, although sometimes the poignancy is not quite the same the second time around.
I never try to force the words. The words come when I feel I have something particular that I want to say, a feeling to unravel or a concept to articulate. If I don’t have anything to say I don’t write anything. I never know when the next time will be when I am called upon to write but I am quite opinionated so life is always striking a chord or moving me in some way, so I know it is only a matter of time before I shall be required to play the role of the faithful servant to the muse once again.
It’s a magical alchemical process that is completely timeless, of which I shall always be in awe. I have no idea why the muse chose me, especially as I have never been able to spell particularly well, although I have a theory that perhaps it is to do with retaining a sense of humility and honesty. I regard myself as a custodian of the ideas that are bestowed upon me and I am the conduit by which they are able to become manifest. I feel it is my duty to stay as true to the muse as possible.
Tuck Magazine: How do you prefer to write, with pen and paper or computer?
Cat Catalyst: It’s a combination of both. Usually when the idea is stirring within I need to capture it as fast as possible before it’s gone and so I shall use whatever is closest to hand. Now I always carry a little notebook just in case as it is the worst feeling to be having an inspired moment without a pen or paper to hand to write it down, even a paper napkin or an old train ticket is better than nothing.
The iPhone notes app is OK but too fiddly to cope with the rushing onslaught of inspiration when it comes. For those initial stirrings you just can’t beat a good old-fashioned pen and paper to get it down. So the bare bones of an idea usually begins its life on paper and then later I will transfer it to the computer to edit.
When I didn’t have many blog followers I would just transfer the ‘bare bones’ straight into a blog editor online and then keep publishing and editing directly in the blog editor until it said exactly what I wanted it to say, but I cant really do that anymore for as soon as I post a blog now two thousand and something followers will automatically receive a copy of the first draft in an email notification as soon as I click ‘Update’, and so it if its something that is not yet fully formed, or I am not yet happy with, then my subscribers will not see my work at its best and it is unlikely that they will know to keep checking back to view subsequently revised versions.
Now I try to work as much of it as I can in a word doc before transferring to the blog, but inevitably there are still a few tweaks once it is up. I don’t think I can actually avoid that. The online tweaking process usually lasts for one or two, maybe three days max after it has been posted, although in a few rare cases it has taken as much as week before I was completely satisfied.
When I worked in IT I learned that the attention span of ones online audience is just two clicks and then they are gone, which is unfortunate for me, as its not until I actually see my work on the computer screen and I know its live that I can really get into the meat and flesh of it. Somehow it initiates a process that once started I cant stop until its finished. That’s the alchemical and timeless part of the process I mentioned earlier. For I seem to remain in one long continuous never-ending present moment for however long the writing and editing process takes, even if it takes three days it still feels like ten minutes to me.
Tuck Magazine: All indie writers are innovative and I suppose part of the motivation is to stand out from the crowd. You are very adept at social media and have taken healthy advantage of the various ways to market your art and for many emerging writers the vast internet terrain is daunting. What have you found to be most challenging aspect of getting your poetry out there and do you have any advice for those who are new and trying to attract readers?
Cat Catalyst: I left a career as an IT contractor to focus on my art and poetry and so I was well equipped with a broad understanding of multi-media, web design and the usefulness of the internet, so for me it was a fairly natural process to utilise my IT skills as I would any other skill in the creative process. It is fortunate as I haven’t needed to employ anyone else to do it for me and so I haven’t lost anything in the translation as I have had complete creative control of how my work is presented.
I would say anyone in the arts and humanities pretty much needs to have a web page or an online profile of some sort these days to represent them selves in the virtual world, as it acts like a digital business card. Writers should definitely keep a blog and have some sort of cross feed to notify their readers of new posts.
For me the Internet is a way of making my ideas accessible. Unlike most other authors I am not precious about my ideas as I have so many of them and they all feed into each other. I need to get them out pretty much as soon as possible in order to make room for new ones otherwise they are backing up like crazy causing a massive bottle neck in the creative process.
Tuck Magazine: I found what you are doing on SoundCoud to be uplifting and socially conscious in a beautiful and artistic way. You are donating a significant portion of the money earned through the sale of your spoken word tracks. Do you feel part of the answer to many social ills could be found if there was more work being done between those within the arts community and social causes or does this risk polluting the free thinking of art with political bias?
Cat Catalyst: No I don’t think it pollutes the world of free thinking art with a political bias, because there are so many deserving causes out there that require our attention, such as homelessness, deforestation, the protection of children, animal rescue, refugee displacement, family mediation, women’s refuge, etc., and I think that if by association my work can raise awareness to any one of the underlying reasons for why they have become a problem in our society then it can only be a good thing. Addressing the causes rather than the symptoms equals prevention rather than cure. Although I feel any sort of awareness is better than no awareness.
Also, when I used to organise ‘Catalyst’ events they would usually be fund-raisers for various causes or charities or had various themes like the use of ‘recycled materials’ in the exhibits, or ‘Unity in the Community’, bringing groups of people together in urban environments. I have never really been motivated by personal gain, money was never my primary concern, call me a dreamer but for me ‘Love’ is by far more valuable, and by far the most important quality to embody, embrace and understand more deeply. Actually it’s the only key to personal freedom in a society where the minority inhibits, limits and controls the majority.
In the English language there is only one word for ‘Love’ when in fact love has many different faces and forms. In India there are seven different words to describe Love and still that is not descriptive enough. I think perhaps that only having one word in the English language for Love gives the illusion that perhaps it is simple or easy, or that perhaps it is ‘old hat’ or ‘hippy dippy’, when in fact it is one of the most evolved and elevated concepts of behaviour that one can embody in waking Life. And once this concept is embraced and understood, it then becomes the road less traveled and one of the most challenging paths in life to walk, for keeping the heart open in the face of adversity is one of the hardest challenges to champion and overcome.
Rooted, steadfast, embodied in a world of physicality
And without fears too, for the deserted drying
Of heartfelt words, or inspiration
Forever drawn to all my time spent, in dedication
For no greater pleasure do I feel, may’st I apply
Whilst chained, imprisoned, in this dimension
My only freedom, flight of soul, needs must express
Such a deep felt love, for all humanity
A curious quest, I cannot explain
Impression’d on high from an invisible plane
So sublime, that poetic craft
Is not required for meter, or to rhyme
Unless such craft imply, inject, ripened hearts
With the jewel of ‘inner meaning’
Inner truth infused with love
All pervading and genuine
Connecting precious principals beyond mere words
Which seek to make whole thus human kind
In complete align
So that intelligent insights into our complex universe
May penetrate not only the heart, but also the skin and the mind
Whereupon tinsel-gilded illusions
May fall away into nothingness
Instead replaced by a delicacy and a gentleness
A refinement of the senses
Through an indiscriminate understanding
That the elixir of love
Is wisdom plus integrity
And connects us all
To every single living being, or entity.
‘Elixir of Love’ (above) was written in response to the sonnet: ‘When I have Fears’ by John Keats. Keats sent his sonnet in a letter to his friend John Hamilton Reynolds in January 1818.
‘When I have fears that I may cease to be Before my pen has glean’d my teeming brain, Before high piled books, in charact’ry, Hold like rich garners the full-ripen’d grain; When I behold, upon the night’s starr’d face, Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance, And think that I may never live to trace Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance; And when I feel, fair creature of an hour, That I shall never look upon thee more, Never have relish in the faery power Of unreflecting love!—then on the shore Of the wide world I stand alone, and think Till Love and Fame to Nothingness do sink.’
Another Keats quote: ‘I am certain of nothing but of the holiness of the Heart’s affections and the truth of Imagination‘ that he wrote in a letter to his friend Bailey (Full letter here) had the same effect upon me and inspired Holiness of the Heart.
Yes! There IS a holiness to the heart’s affections
When one is moved in purity and truth to love another
Or rather, there ‘ought‘ to be a holiness
A recognition of the divine
An acknowledgment of ‘the spirit of creation’
A healthy respect for the holy union
Of two souls captured
With a mutual affection and bound
Without self consciousness to express
Such a delight of relatedness!
It is still so wonderfully innocent
In an age where innocence, is rapidly being obliterated by ‘progress’
In a world where nothing is sacred, anymore
And vulnerability is seen as an opportunity for exploitation!
The heart’s affection’s then, must surely be ‘the most‘ sacred
In a world where nothing else is
And are to be honoured, respected and heard
For in listening to the inner-whisperings of one’s heart
One may learn something more valuable and precious than gold!
For to evolve through Love
Is the greatest spiritual teaching on Earth
To which one may aspire
From personal, through transpersonal
To unconditional and universal
Emanating like The Sun
Fostering life, where previously there was none
An illumination of The Soul
A massive deposit in the Karmic bank-account of Destiny
A lifetime investment that can never depreciate, even into the afterlife
The true role of Love is to uplift and inspire
Infectious like a smile
Like a virus of giggles
Like a sweeping epidemic of laughter and joy
A conscious choice everyday
There really is only One way forwards
Everything else
Is resistance…
Holiness of the Heart was inspired upon hearing an adapted version of John Keats famous quote: ‘I am certain of nothing but of the holiness of the Heart’s affections and the truth of Imagination‘ which Keats wrote in a letter to his friend Bailey (Full letter here) regarding his love affair with neighbour Fanny Braun. It was adapted for the film ‘Bright Star’ (2009) directed by Jane Campion.
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