The Alchemy of Abundance

For the last few days, I have been doing some guided meditations with Rick Jarow called The Alchemy of Abundance. I don't know what it is about them, but my second sight and connection to the Universe has been greatly enhanced. What I like most about the experience is that it is guided but not instructed or dictated. There is some genuine Alchemy going on in this work. Dream master Jeremy Taylor
says that Alchemy is the art of making gold out of feces. That is surely a leap. He says that saying it was being made from base metal made it more acceptable, but the reality was more base!

There is a lot of "baseness" going on in our world today. Lot's of raw material for gold I guess. At any rate, I recommend checking it out. It seems to be doing some transformation of what is base in me. Sweet dreams. JJ

Annette Covatta Turns 80

If you don't know Annette, you are poorer for it. There is a wealth to her life that enriches those around her. I went to Google just to see what would come up and there was a richness to the references there too. After 5 pages I was still getting amazing stories of her work in Music, drama, as a leader in her order, and as a superb teacher of enlightenment through her workshops that open and heal. She is a Catholic nun with a twist. She embraces deep spirituality in the many forms that she finds from Hindu wisdom of India where she visited, to mystics of her own faith such as Hildegard of Bingen and contemporary Matthew Fox, a priest who was dismissed from his Dominican Order in 1992 for his major work in Creations Spirituality.

For me, though, it is her warm, loving but very real presence here and now that makes me feel whole and embraced just being near her. If we have a saint among us, it is Annette and yet she is so much more than a canonized relic, she is a vibrant, gifted living reflection of the divine here with us. Don't get me wrong, Annette does not carry some garb of sacred aloofness. She is just Annette, with her humanity intact. Sister, we love you.