Starting a practice

And we begin...

The daily practice of...
      ...well,  of practice.

And you say....
What kind of practice!?
    Towards what end!?
      By whose authority!? 
 What IS it that we will be practicing anyway?  (I wanna know up front what you're conning me into?)

And I reply...
We are going to practice being fully ourselves.
We are going to practice authenticity.
Practice love.
Practice owning both the light and the dark.
Practice taking responsibility for ourselves.

Practice stepping into our rightful place in the order of things.
 In essence, we are going to practice being human.

I mean, after all, we are already earth and spirit, so why not human soul too?

Our bodies evolved with the elements.
Our spirits evolved with the Gods & Goddesses
Our humanness - mind, emotions, heart and soul - they've been hijacked.
By what? 
Doesn't matter.
It is not the issue.
Our very survival is the point.

So we're going to delve in...
  Drop the mask...
    And find what we've been searching for.

And we're going to be renegades in the process.
    following several paths all at once.

With the highest regard and respect to the great teachers and wisdom keepers of our time, this blog's practice is to empower ourselves in connecting to our own bodies, spirits and souls...through the authority that already exists within us.  Just as we  reclaim healthcare from the business of medicine by studying plants, herbs, breath and holistic living, we reclaim spirituality from the business of religion by studying the elements, our minds and the more subtle realms of our being.

We will re-Member our souls - our humanness - from our own internal experience.  Not from some esoteric codification of ideas that tells us what should be.  Yes, we go to the ancient texts for guidance, but we listen to our experience for growth....and we tell the truth about it.  No spiritual by-passing here.

We practice
Authenticity...
    Acceptance....
       Awareness....
Presence....
    Patience....
       Passion....

We practice...
  loving what is
  and making our mind our own best friend.

Through it, we will finally begin to fully live...
           live the life of fullness we came here to live.

Knowing pleasure and pain...
Love and hate...
Joy and sadness...
Connection and aloneness....
Certainty and doubt...
Knowing the both/and...
    and the paradox of truth.
Knowing that WE ARE ALREADY WHOLE
We are here...
And we are both human and spirit, earth and soul.

So let us begin...
One day at a time.
Truer than before...perhaps.

Let us practice the joy of living in its wholeness.
I hope you will join me.
on this extraordinary journey...of being authentically human.