This article is about following your call and knowing who you are, but it could easily be about any number of things - perseverance, commitment, focus, following your dream - because, in a way, it is about all these things. We each have a unique purpose in this lifetime, something that we each as a spiritual being came here to do. We each have a calling, something we are drawn to, a way in which we seek to learn and explore our creative potential.
Each being's call is individual and may express itself in a variety of ways. We are each a slightly different vibration in the All That Is, a different expression of the God and Goddess. And as we are such, there is no one else anywhere who can bring our vibration into the world.
I think of it as an orchestra; each instrument is different, but when you put them together you get an incredibly beautiful and complex musical performance. Every violin is played separately, but when you put them together they produce a full chorus of sound, which is different from that of harps, oboes or French horns. A symphony wouldn't sound complete if it were played on only one type of instrument. Or you can think of it as voices in a choir, each voice adding a tone or note to create a chord that rings out and is more than the sum of the parts. Each individual creation is important.
Now, it's very likely that you have been taught to hide or downplay your individuality, being shown that different meant bad, needing to be the same to be part of a group, either at home or perhaps at school. It's very possible that your call was something that you were taught to ignore. Maybe you had a call to the arts and were taught that business was more appropriate, or perhaps business was what you excelled at but you were taught that science was the most productive path.
So often, we learn that the body and all the material things like money, possessions and security are the only things that are important, or real for that matter. If we focus on the purely physical, it's easy for our own personal spiritual call to become faint, almost drowned out by the worries and needs and the force of the world all around us. Have you ever found yourself wondering: Why am I here? What is my path or tradition? Perhaps even looking to others to tell you what was right?
I believe that all we each have to do is to quiet the noise of all that goes on around us and within us, turn within, ask ourselves the question and then listen.
We each have a call, a purpose, a way to follow. We simply need to take the time to listen and hear it for ourselves. That is where perseverance and focus come in. Since it takes faith and focus to follow your calling, whatever it is, it also takes courage and strength. There is always the pull of our own fears and doubts, images of what's "right," things that we have been taught are "essential for happiness" by our upbringing, church or the advertising media. The act of simply sitting down to communicate with yourself as spirit, and with your source, whether that be the God and Goddess, the Tao, the Universe, the Great Spirit or some other expression, may end up at the end of a very long "to do" list. It can be easy to lose ourselves as spirit in the loud din of this modern world if we don't take the time to stop, turn within, listen and remember who we are.
So who are we? As a working psychic and spiritual teacher, I find in my experience that we are spirit, we are light, each a unique spark of the God and Goddess, an amazing creative expression of infinite possibility.
As we express our individual light, it is like lighting a candle. It illuminates all that is around and in us. Bringing our awareness of ourselves as spirit into the body brings our energy into the body. As we focus, work and learn, we illuminate all that is within us, and the more light that you bring into the body, the more you can see. You naturally develop your clairvoyant (clear-seeing) ability. I believe that we are all psychic. Psychic can be translated to mean "spirit." It is just a matter of putting your attention on it and developing it.
Many people are interested in this, but there are challenges to this kind of work. I have seen many people have a lot of enthusiasm in the beginning, only to falter later on. One of two things can easily happen: 1. Things start to really work great, and whatever malady originally got the person's attention is now gone, so he or she figures there is no need to continue the practice. Or: 2. Things start changing, and things get really uncomfortable for a while. So the person decides it isn't really working and gives it all up.
I will address the latter of the two examples with an analogy. As I said before, as we come into the body there is more light to see by. As we look around at all that is stored in our body, we may find things that we don't like very much. It's kind of like opening the door to an unused room and turning on the light and seeing all the old furniture and clothes, dust, cobwebs and crumbs there. Maybe, as we look around, we see some things that we had forgotten about or had wanted to hide. It is possible that as we look into this room, peeking in from the door, we wonder why we turned on the light at all - so much cleaning to do!
This is the point at which a lot of people decide to walk away: to quit the practice, to give up on their call, to stop experiencing their own ability to see. We get caught in judgment. This, in my opinion, is the very time to keep going. It is at this point that change can actually begin.
I believe that we are spirit. We are not our body or our creations. We are each a unique bright creative spark of the God and Goddess, divinity incarnate. We as spirit are the light that illuminates the body, our creation. Going back to the room analogy, we are not the room or the things we have stored in it, but the room and all it contains are our creation. We each have a choice, since there is free will, to begin to illuminate, to become "enlightened," to even enjoy and have fun with the process. Or to walk away. But whether we chose to deal with it or not, the room (our body) is still our responsibility and will be for the remainder of this life.
Perhaps you have decided that you want to bring that light of you as spirit into your body. You begin a practice; you begin to turn your awareness within to experience yourself and your power. And, as you do this, you are faced with what seems like a daunting task. Sometimes it can obscure the beauty of your creation. But as you make that decision to begin the process of owning and clearing and using that beautiful body (your room, so to speak), you begin to find some space to move around. It can simply be a project, something that takes time and space. One step at a time, but as a process, a learning, you find that you can allow yourself some amusement as you toss out the 20-year-old magazines you have been keeping.
Until you allow yourself to be there and start that process, you keep yourself from all the joy, learning and creativity that is possible, which you actually went to a lot of trouble to put together.
We have each stored unpleasant energy in our bodies, had experiences that were far from pleasant, in this life and in others, that we may not even remember. As soon as we bring in that illumination, we begin to see all of it, pleasant and unpleasant, the things we want to keep and the things we want to release. That just ends up being the process of healing. It is a process we are all in: learning to balance spirit and body.
My point is that it takes time and that's okay. As you learn and grow into your craft, you can begin to love and appreciate this room, workshop, temple, your body, fill it with you. Know yourself as the amazing expression of the Goddess and God that you are! And as you do that, you will shine and attract others who are interested in that healing process themselves. You don't have to be done with the project! Simply being there and allowing your divinity will remind others of who they are and that it is possible to heal yourself.
Sometimes it seems easier not to open the door, to ignore our home in this physical reality. But then we keep ourselves from accomplishing all that we came here to do. And that brings me back to where I started. You have a calling.
When you are allowing yourself to be there working with your body, you can hear the sound of your call. You can have the strength and vision to follow it. There is the abundance and harvest and joy that comes from hearing your call as spirit and responding. By following your dream, no matter what it might be, you bring forth to yourself and to this planet more than you could ever imagine.
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