Digest Number 1291

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>> I do not have a daily schedule of meditation, I do not know

mantras, and have never read the book from which Victoria quotes from

daily, have never sat and listened to a guru, nor was I raised in any

kind of environment that does any of these things, and

yet..................the voice of truth still speaks to me....one

needs not change who they are to hear the voice... one only needs to

listen. <<

Ah Lynette, now I must confess. I also do not have a daily meditation

schedule. I agree whole heartedly with you about the voice of truth.

I was reminded of this yesterday (I have mentioned this already, but

will repeat it anyhow) during an unexpected visionary experience. I

am alway reminded, and often it is not through any merit of my own

that I can think of, that the voice is with me, even when I feel

bereft and alone. When I am able to hear again, I am always gently

reminded that it was I who had become absorbed, or turned away, or

didn't pay attention. The shamanic path speaks powerfully to me. At

the same time, since I am drawn to truth as it is spoken/portrayed by

many different cultures, and what I find again and again is that the

essential truth is just that, whatever the form in which it is

clothed, whatever the voice with which it whispers, sings, chants,

speaks. I must confess to loving mantras and Sanskrit, though I have

no idea why. Perhaps it is due to being a musician and also an

artist. There is something so compelling about a "thing" (for lack of

a better word) that is both visual and linguistic...word and form. I

am only now learning more about mantras and how they are formed of

the bijas and how the bijas are the subtlest vibration(s) that

represent all that is in the world of form. Waves and vibrations, we

are afloat in Divine amniotic fluid (no idea why that association

came to me). Ah, I babble. Love ~ Linda Rae