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How To Be Nothing

December 13, 2017 By Cara Lumen

OUR LUMINOUS LEGACY

How To Be Nothing

Ninety-five percent of our existence is invisible.  Our human part is full of ego and separation. The rest of us, the majority of who we are, is in The Great Nothingness, the All That Is. We are all one energy, one vibration.  There is no separation.  We are all just part of the Great Nothing.

How does it feel to be Nothing?

If you’ve ever meditated and “disappeared” in the process, you understand how to be nothing.  Have you ever had a moment when you’re totally one with what you’re doing:  that perfect physical act that’s effortless and seems almost miraculous?

That phrase or idea that comes floating in from nowhere that sends you catapulting in the right direction? The feeling of everything falling perfectly into place – effortlessly?  That is the Great Nothingness in you, coming through your bodysuit, pushing through your human ego. Pulling you into Oneness with All.

What is “out there?”

The Sufi poet Rumi says,  “Live in the nowhere that you came from even though you have an address here.”  Nowhere.  And everywhere. All That Is, The Great Mystery.

Put aside the limiting human approach of seeing yourself as separate and feel yourself absorbed into an unseen unity of all there is. Move into the inner realms, the unseen world, the Great Nothingness. Know that you’re one with all.

It’s challenging to lose our feelings of separation

Even trying to imagine ourselves as being part of a great universal nothingness, we want to feel separate. We want to feel we are a unique individual. That’s our limitation as humans and what we must learn to move beyond in order to feel and be nothing – and at the same time everything.

From our limited humanness, we cannot understand the concepts of a great nothingness, a nowhere that we came from.  We have to look within our inner world to begin to understand and accept and experience. We are all that is. Each of us – are one.

The invisible realms are noticeable

I explore the invisible realms every day as I take regular shamanic journeys. To create Our Luminous Legacy series, I go to my inner realms for guidance. I went within to the invisible realms to channel the first draft of this newsletter. I closed my eyes, asked my helping spirits for guidance and wrote what showed up. It flowed as fast as I could type. Of course, there were small edits, but the words appeared out of nothingness and flowed into my human world with ease. We are always connected to our inner realms.

There are no forms in the invisible realms, although, in order to communicate with us in our limited body suits, the helping spirits appear in many shapes – power animals, teachers in human form, wee folk, talking trees and animated elements.

The invisible world speaks to us in metaphors, symbols, shapes and unexpected images that only have meaning to us as individuals in our body suit form.  So in our imagination, we get shapes and subtle messages that only we can interpret for use in our body suit life.

If you have meditated deeply, you’ll know nothingness

Years ago, I was led in a guided meditation in which we steadily moved through each part of our body, focused on becoming the space between the molecules.  For each part, we gradually moved past skin and bones and tissue and blood into the space between the molecules.

Our arms disappeared from our experience.  Our legs disappeared.  Our body disappeared.   We went through one part of our body at a time, moving into the space between the molecules.  I absolutely remember the moment the last part of my awareness of my physical body disappeared into the space between the molecules. I was like a pinpoint of consciousness floating in space, in nothingness. No body.  Just one point in my head where my third eye had been.

That’s the feeling we all want to recapture.  We want the experience that there’s nothing but this one link from our consciousness to this all-encompassing radiant light, this embracing vibration of positive energy, this floating experience.  The Great Nothingess.  The Nowhere That We Came From.

Learn to lose your ego

We spend most of our lives paying attention to what we do, who we are, what we want.  Our human lives focus primarily on our needs and wants.  We are, after all, the only one who can live our lives.  We begin to cherish our uniqueness, our individuality, our gifts, our achievements.  And it makes us stay separate.

This is not about merging with another person.  No, that’s ego and ego. I’m supporting us both in this idea of losing our ego selves to become pure light. No body, no ego, no separateness.  Just one all-encompassing experience of simply being. Nothing.

I sometimes picture the Great Nothingness as Cosmic Soup and how we are each a flavor that affects the whole soup. What flavor we add (negative, positive) affects the overall flavor. Our individual seasoning of “self” blended into the whole.

I used to think in terms of the Web of Life, but being a strand of that made me still feel separate.

There are only limiting words to describe this disappearance, this dissolving of our body suits until we are free floating in a healing, wholing state of pure light, being vibration, just being.

When we go within, when we disappear into the nothingness, we heal, we release the human stuff that’s blocking us, and we step into light, healing, wholing, oneness.  We feel embraced and included and supported.  When we open our own hearts, we feel love – spiritual love from our collective spiritual hearts.  The world drops away and we are in Nothingness.  There are no problems, no pain, no worries. There is just a sensation of being.  Our body disappears. We are Nothing. And Everything.

What do you learn in the Great Nothingness?

Nothing. You learn nothing. You do nothing. You simply are.  When you move back into consciousness, you can bring back to your human form that feeling of calm, that feeling of connection, that feeling of well-being and you can walk around with that glowing from inside you all day.  That will affect how you experience your day and how others experience you.

You can purposefully move into the Great Nothingness before you begin to work, or sleep, or before anything you’re doing in your body suit.  Bring this feeling of oneness with you in all you do.

What if you feel separated?

Coming back to the human existence can be jarring.  Ease back into consciousness.  See what feelings and awareness you can bring with you. Continue to experience yourself as immersed in a greater whole. Maintain those feelings of calm and stillness and flow easily and effortlessly through your life. Just float. Just be. Be present.  Be.  Float in meditation.

Flow in your work, let your intuition and imagination have full rein.  Back away from the confines of your body suit and flow through your day, flow through your life, maintaining your experience of being within and of the Great Nothingness.

Can you “be” light throughout your day?

Find a way to slip into the stillness within, even with your eyes open.  Take regular moments throughout your day to take a deep breath, let go of your body suit and float in the Invisible Realm.  It’s replenishing and restorative.  And it’ll change how you experience your life.

Go within each day

Every day, go to a quiet place and simply be.  Let go of feeling separate in your human world. When you are worried, go within.  When you are scared, go within.  Remember these are all body suit experiences, not experiences of the Invisible Realm.

There is no separateness within

It’s challenging to imagine a world where all are in agreement.  The Invisible Realm is not like what we see and experience living in the human world.  In the Invisible Realm, there are no separate opinions and thus no disagreement. We are part of a whole. Everything is one.  One Energy.  One Light. One. How different our worldly experience would be if we could bring back those feelings of oneness to the physical plane.

Go within for comfort and lessons and guidance. Go talk to the great Nothingness and bring back the knowledge of the Oneness. Know that there is no one else, nothing else.  All simply is. One.  One radiant light of wholeness.

Bring the wholeness of Nothingness to your physical plane experience 

Allow wholing energy to come to you on the physical plane. Sit.  Go within and feel your oneness with everything, all that is.  Step into the light that is everywhere and feel its wholeness embracing you, encompassing you, filling you. Feel it hug you and love you and support you, even though those are human feelings. Feel your individual light merge more deeply with the light of all that is.  Feel the support from this ongoing, massive field of energy.  Let it lift you and heal you.  Soak it up.  This is healing light. Healing energy.  It makes things whole.  Because it is wholeness.  It is All There is.

You learn to be by being.  Let your body suit go and float off in your Invisible Self and merge with the Light That Is.

Simply be.

Will you practice simply being? Will you immerse yourself in the Field of Wholeness? Will you radiate the light that you are?

OUR LUMINOUS LEGACY PRACTICE

  • Two or three times a day, take time to go within and simply be. Be present.  Follow your breath, slowly and mindfully, in and out.
  • Feel the light energy from within vibrating around you, encircling you in light.  Blending and merging with your body suit.
  • Notice how you let go of everything and how your body suit responds.
  • Lose all awareness of your self until you no longer exist but are simply present in the glow, the light, the wholeness.
  • Feel and experience yourself in the Invisible Realm.  If something shows up in your imagination, explore it, talk to it, ask its purpose.
  • Journal after this to solidify your experience.

A Message from My Spiritual Heart

Our Luminous Legacy emerges from my spiritual heart. I know myself to be a spiritual explorer who serves as a messenger and a bridge to the Invisible Realm.  The Luminous Legacy series is part of the maps I leave to guide you on your own inner journey.

Namaste,

Cara

Our Luminous Legacy Series

1- Unleash the Power of Your Inner Garden

2-How to Be Nothing (this one)

Filed Under: Our Luminous Legacy, Spiritual Heart, Transformational Community Tagged With: metaphysics, Our Luminous Legacy, Spiritual Expansion, transformational thinking

17 – Exploring The Village of Nothingness

September 17, 2015 By Cara Lumen

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Would you like to be like this?

“He is planted in his own integrity, and there he stands, gnarled and knotted, perfectly at ease with himself, his roots deep in truth, his branches held up to let the light in.” – Stephen Mitchell’s The Second Book of Tao, 82

Cara Lumen, seeker, explorer, guide and founder of the Deeper Song Community discusses how we might achieve that goal by planning our seeds in the Village of Nothingness

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In the Village of Nothingness there are:
No preconceived beliefs
No expectations
No forcing

In the village of Nothingness there is just a willingness to make each moment as clear and clean as we can. Here are ways to do that.
To Reflect on Your Deeper Song Consider

You Are All-That-Is
What is Your True Nature
I Am You
Return to the Simplicity of The Uncarved Block
Are You a Gift Person
What is Your Personal Promise?
The Road Taken, the Choices Made
The Shedding Of Your Skin
06– Unfolding And The Art Of Wu Wei (podcast, 20 minutes)
10– What Will Change Because Of What You Are About To Do? (podcast, 20 minutes)

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Filed Under: Podcast, Reflections of a Deeper Song, Uncategorized

Nothing Is Required But the Next Step

March 29, 2014 By Cara Lumen

In my spiritual reading today, I read “nothing is required but the next step” and it brought my world up close around me. It means I don’t have to worry about the future, make long-range plans, or even stay frozen in inactivity. I just need to take one step. One baby step. One giant step. One sideways step. Even one backward step. Just so I move. If nothing is required but the next step, my “now” holds infinite and exciting possibilities.

Take one step of exploration

When we are at a crossroads or even a place of indecision in our life, we need to go exploring. We need to take a few steps deeper into the path that interests us to see if that is the direction we would like to take. If I want to change career paths, I need to explore the other options that interest me. If I want to change my relationship, I can explore what I might change within me that would enhance and alter my current relationships and even draw to me those who are more aligned with my own vibration. If I want to change my health, I need to explore the paths that interest me.      Don’t worry over options you have not been given. That path is no longer open. Focus on what is available to you. Go exploring. Immerse yourself in the feeling you find and let them guide you.

Take one step and see what happens

Try a day when you only say positive things and see what happens. Try a day when you do only what your own heart asks of you. Try a moment of silence before you speak. Make a list of possibilities and circle the ones that inspire the most emotion in you, the most passion in you. Examine yourself for fears that are holding you back. Take a step and see what changes. Whenever you act, something happens. Moreover, whatever that something is, it holds new possibilities, new inspiration, and new choices.

Step outside your comfort zone

“Do not follow where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail,” advises Emerson. Where can you go that is your unique direction? How can you express yourself in ways that nurture you, motivate you and inspire you to action? It’s not going to be a path someone has already taken because you are unique, you are different, you are the only “you” there is. You must find your own path – one step at a time.

Leave your old path behind

Leave your past behind. Leave your old self behind. Create a new version of yourself based on how you feel right now, what you need right now, what you believe right now, what you are willing to do right now. This moment begins a new journey. Begin by taking one step at a time.

Filed Under: Positive Change, Self Awareness, Self Mastery Tagged With: change, positve change, self-awareness, vision

Portals and the Unseen World

October 22, 2019 By Cara Lumen

Portals and the Unseen World
An Inner-world Exploration

I explore the 95% that is the Unseen World through the process of a shamanic journey.  I have established guides and guardians and metaphors that only I am to interpret.  I journey every day.  Sometimes I ask for advice.  Sometimes I ask for guidance and deeper awareness.  Sometimes I just journey to myself for my future path.

Learn to interpret the inner nudges

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Filed Under: Raise Vibrations, Self Transformation, Spiritual Expansion, Unseen World Tagged With: Sing a Deeper Song, Spiritual Expansion, transformational thinking, unseen world

The Packed Potential Before the Beginning 

May 29, 2019 By Cara Lumen

The Packed Potential Before the Beginning
An Inner-World Exploration

Wuji means “no limits.” Wuji is at the center and the beginning of our pilgrimage.  Wuji is essential stillness, the packed potential before the beginning.  It is the beginning of the beginning. – I Ching, Deng Meng Dao

Imagine yourself in deep, deep stillness.  No ideas frolic through your mind.  No emotions nudge you for attention.  You are simply there.  At the beginning.  Filled with packed potential. “Packed potential!”  What a fabulous idea! What does that look like?  Feel like? Can I truly be so still and present inside that I can feel the wuji, the center at the beginning of the next step of my personal journey?

I would like that.  I would like to be so present and still and centered that I am like a bird sitting on a branch prepared to fly but not yet doing so.  Simply being present and filled with the potential for movement.

How else can I experience wuji?  How might I think of packed potential? How might I cultivate it and use it to move into whatever form I take that creates change? 

Part of wuji is about waiting

Wuji is how you feel before you take action. For instance, I wanted to write this article in order to figure out how to apply this concept of packed potential. There are, as I write this, organic pauses that allow new thoughts to emerge for consideration and clarification.  But underneath it all is that deep, deep, deep sense of permanence, of a part of me that is always present, the wuji, the packed potential that is me. Here in my body suit.  Living my body suit life.  

“Wuji means “no limits.”

I have to get out of my body suit in order to understand the concept of wuji – no limits – because my body suit is full of limitations. I have to journey to the unseen world of my inner knowing in order to even begin to conceive of “no limits.”  That’s not a body suit concept. It’s an inner world concept, an unseen world concept.  That unseen world is within us, open to us, beckoning to us to come explore.  We can simply close our eyes, turn off our minds and fly. With no limits!

When we use our body suit minds, we cannot conceive of limitless potential because we can’t get there in our body suits.  But our inner self knows and can take us there. 

Perhaps all we need is to know wuji, “packed potential”, exists and that it is possible

If I sit here at my desk and go within, there’s a stillness.  My body suit disappears and I’m left as an energy floating in the present moment.  When I release my body suit, my inner self moves softly into the Great Nothingness where everything is potential, where everything is evolving and changing and shifting shapes and direction – constant unfolding and evolving movement.  I become part of that transforming energy and I, too, change.  I become presence.  I become potential.  I simply am.  

And that’s where we begin to let our lives unfold.

Make time to unpack your wuji, your packed potential

You may find this wuji awareness of packed potential in meditation.  You may find wuju in nature.  You may find it in an action that you take.  

I am changing my spiritual practice to include smaller but more frequent moments in my day. That gives me the opportunity to be still and silent and present more often.  I pause to examine and evaluate where I am and where is calling me, deepen my spiritual connection and then make an aware and aligned choice. I will expand my midday shamanic journeying to include meditation with a crystal and more drumming and singing of power songs.  I will pause again as the sun sets to be with nature and to begin to close the cycles of my day.  At night I will drum my power songs to guide my dreams in the night.  You get the idea. Create small moments of spiritual practice and inner awareness at various points in our day, then make that a habit.

How will you unpack the packed potential that awaits you? 

Wui means “no limits.” Wuji is at the center and the beginning of our pilgrimage.  Wuji is essential stillness, the packed potential before the beginning.  – I Ching, Deng Meng Dao

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

I sit in perfect stillness and experience the packed potential
that awaits me at each beginning.

TO SING A DEEPER SONG CONSIDER:

Another Part of You-The Unseen World 

How to Interpret the Messages from Within 

Do You See and Hear and Walk in a Sacred Manner? 

Unleash the power of your Sacred Garden

How to Be Nothing

Raise Your Vibration and Change the World.
I help transformational thinkers raise their personal vibration so that we, collectively, can raise the consciousness of our planet.  

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Filed Under: Self Awareness, Self Transformation, Unfolding Tagged With: positve change, potential, Unfolding

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