The Sacred Temple of Scripture
Read the news lately? Not much helpful information there. Same with most things on social media. Two days ago, I went down a “green bean recipes” rabbit hole on pinterest, quickly ended up in the “detox” section, and found advice to breathe more because apparently most toxins get released through the lungs. Um… one toxin actually. Just CO2, as necessary for biological gas exhange.
And the self-help industry? There’s some good stuff if you know how to spot it. But most of it comes with judgment baked in; learn how to work harder, produce more, get a different body, date differently, stop dating, start dating, detox everything including your mind/body/spirit/gut/house/car/life, get new and better habits, and on and on and on. I’ll be honest, I know most of the self-help categories because I’ve spent months going through each of them convinced I could change, that who I am wasn’t up to snuff.
But something shifted in me at the beginning of this year. The last two years have been sort of an unofficial giant self-improvement project. Honestly I needed it. Like many folks, being stuck at home meant I was stuck with myself and noticed the cracks in the foundations. I put in the work repairing them, then I replaced the proverbial windows, cleaned the proverbial baseboards, threw out the proverbial dead plants and old clothes, and filled the proverbial fridge with greens, fruits, and only a little good cheese and icecream.
At the turn of the year however, I realized it was time to put down the endless self-improvement work and adopt the New Year’s Resolution: “No New Projects. I am me and I am good enough.”
There’s no new information that I can learn about myself or how I work that I actually need right now. What I really need is to remember who I already am. And deeper than that, I need at least a year of accepting myself just as I am. I mean reallllly accepting myself without trying to change or improve on any of it. There’s no news story, pinterest board, or self-help book that could tell me today the things I really need to know about self-love, self-forgiveness, self-compassion, (i.e. acceptance!), or my relationship to Spirit.
Honestly, this is a little nerdy to say, but the only real source I trust about those things is ancient scripture. Which is why I’m going to deep dive there this year. Now I know I just said No New Projects! But the truth is, my love of scripture is something very old - lifetimes old - and a foundation that has never cracked.
So I’d like to invite you to join me in this exploration.
Join me as I dig into the ancient languages of Aramaic and Koine Greek to expose the multilayered, multidimensional, metaphorical meanings of the actual words spoken by Jesus and his contemporaries.
Join me as I bring to light the context (it’s all about context!) that the ancient Jewish peoples were living in, how they met God in every wilderness, and how they tended their temples in the midst of great power and strife.
Join me as we find the connection between Christ consciousness and the Buddhic bardos, between meditation and forgiveness, between metaphysics and Jesus’ healing powers.
How to join, you ask? I’ll be offering a twice-monthly teaching, followed by a guided meditation and spiritual practice, and finishing with a sound bath every 1st and 3rd Wednesday of the month through June. Can’t wait to explore this ancient wisdom together.
