A Chorus of Voices
October 24th, 2009In fact, as you get into this practice, you may even find that you want to utilize techniques from Voice Dialogue to help you. You might even want to use techniques from Jungian therapy to help you. You see, each one of us has to find the keys that open our own doors. What I’m doing, and what I’m outlining, is cool. It works, and it helps. When I’m more integrated, and when I can bring my thirty-year-old into doing the mantra, it’s fantastic. The ideal is to leave nothing behindto run away from nothing. I end up manifesting Divine Radiance in my life.
I’m feeling all of that very deeply right now. It’s almost as though I’m feeling the radiance from the viewpoint of different ages simultaneously. Because that period of my life when I was thirty was very, very traumatic, I’m feeling that. But I’m also feeling another time, when I left high school and eloped. I’m feeling my radiance there. I also remember the first time I fell in love with a girl, and I’m feeling that. And that’s all happening for me at the same time, Sean, like those different voices in Voice Dialogue.
We could call this ‘Voice Dialogue with an attitude’, because what we’re doing is saying to each one of these, “How can I amplify your radiance, so that my voice becomes the chorus of all of you, integrated, in connection, and in communion with God?”
So there’s a chorus of voices from the past, and I’m doing my Deity Yoga Practice of the present with my dancing Shiva. That dancing Shiva has never left me, as you know. Since we started, it’s kept going. Now, with the chorus of voices, I feel the flames getting higher, taller, and more powerful. I have more ease, and I’m even more relaxed. You can open up to it. You can open up to create expression. See, the heat is a manifestation of Shiva’s expression. A manifestation of Divine Radiance is the transformation flame. Figuratively speaking, if the logs in a fireplace are my structure, and I’m putting more of me into it, of course it will burn hotter.
It becomes a song that you can sing. It doesn’t have to be structured. It doesn’t have to be Om Namo Shivaya. It can be, “Oh, how happy I am!” Ramananda loved creative prayer. He would say, “It’s very good to read somebody else’s prayer or to do a mantra… a couple of times.” He wanted me to sing the Song of Creation, but I can’t sing the Song of Creation if I’m constantly repeating somebody else’s words.
