The web of love and light that connects us is enlivened as we feed it with energy. To do this we have to overcome our habitual state, dominated by often negative and worrisome thoughts and emotions. This habitual way of being is like the warm familiar cloak that veils possibility and keeps us in the ever repeating known. While the routine knowns of life can feel comfortable for a time, after a while we begin to stagnate and lose our zest for adventure, and to fear what we do not know.

The way to step out of this ever repeating past, to begin to evolve and awaken new potentials is twofold:

• Embrace a willingness to change, and techniques that allows you to penetrate through your veiled perception to the inner expansive field of light. You can then learn to attune to a higher frequency, stabilize it in your consciousness and return to three-dimensional reality with the capacity to operate from a clearer and more connected place.
• Surround yourself with conscious community....

What are we seeking from our practice? Is it peace, connection, grounding, a feeling of belonging, a way out of pain and suffering, an orientation toward the sacred, a methodology to pierce through the veils of misperception? There are so many approaches. All are valid, and in my experience, what we seek can change over time.

What keeps us coming back is our direct experience of, or glimpses of that which we are seeking. We take one committed, wholehearted step toward our goal and that which we are seeking comes toward us. My teacher said to me “the Divine connection you seek and meditate upon is always meditating upon you.” To experience that I had to change my orientation to what I was doing. I needed to recognize that the deeper teaching for me was to slightly shift the way I was interacting with my inner being. If the Divine is within me, then how to truly orient toward it? This set me on an accelerated path of discovery because any preconceived notion of what I...