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The Modern Mystic

Laura Basha

 Photo By: Laura Basha

 

Ushering In A New Year
For Positive Transformational Change

 

Are you interested in seeing what difference you can make towards positive change, given what’s happening in the world? And maybe your calling isn’t politics, or directly taking action in the environmental organizations, or in any one of the other great organizations that are focused on ending hunger, saving children, as well as saving some of our endangered species. Yet you care deeply about these issues.  There are many humanitarian crises that are confronting us now: firestorms and earthquakes, tsunamis and hurricanes, theunconscionable ways human beings can treat each other …

 

One can succumb to a feeling of helplessness in the midst of such overwhelm. But I boldly state, you can be a change agent of the most powerful kind. And you can be seemingly anonymous in the process. Your profession – or what you accomplish in the world every day, has nothing to do with it. Whether you are known, in the public eye, famous, or essentially anonymous – makes no difference.

 

YOUR POWER TO EFFECT CHANGE RESTS ON WHO YOU ARE BEING
WHILE YOU DO WHAT YOU DO.

 

You can become self-realized. Don’t let the words intimidate you or have you roll your eyes. This is a very attainable and pragmatic process in which to engage. And, by the way – it is the process that can free you to become the person you always dreamed yourself to be. No kidding. A self-realized person is a natural change agent. Change agent is one modern term for the true mystic.

 

THE TRUE MYSTIC WEARS NO ARMBAND ADVERTISING SUCH.
THE TRUE MYSTIC, AS A CHANGE AGENT, WALKS THROUGH ALL ARENAS OF LIFE: AS HOMEMAKER, LINE WORKER, CEO, EXECUTIVE, POET, TEACHER, STUDENT, ELDER,CHILD.

 

At any age, any gender, any role in life experience, any cultural or educational background, the true mystic emanates a serene countenance, listening from the cues of Infinite Intelligence, Omniscient Wisdom, and OmnipotentLove.

 

This modern mystic is a person who has cultivated the capacity to deal with their own inner turmoil, frustrations, and inauthentic expressions of self. The mystic turns to the Silence for intuitive guidance. Such a person consistently does the true inner work needed to cultivate Presence, being present to themselves as their purpose, their own authentic self-expression.

 

To have done this inner work is to have developed the capacity to act from being willing to be responsible for creating your experience of life. You can then be around reactive people and not get seduced into your own reactive response. You can maintain your bearings, your equilibrium, in the face of even extreme and dramatic behavior. The self-realized person knows that to react to another’s reactivity or drama, is to actually become the very behavior or action you are not committed to being.

 

This is a powerful freedom and a gift to give yourself. Grace permeates someone who understands the innate freedom available through the willingness to be responsible for creating his or her own life experience.

 

 This attitude emerges from alignment with the Silence, and is quietly contented and hopeful. It is an attitude which delightfully anticipates the unexpected, and allows for people’s mistakes without judgment. Operating from this gentle stance, you cast your own light, resulting in that light permeating the environment within which you walk. Your presence raises the feeling of the environment to one of hopefulness and calm.  Your light – at home, at school, or in the office – is simply the luminosity of the quality of your thinking. All is  thought.

 

The thought is the thing.

 

Since the physics of a higher vibrational rate catalyzes the lower  vibrational rate of the instruments around it, the resonance of your state of mind when aligned with the resonance of the Silence catalyzes the health in yourself, in another person, as well as in an entire system. The unhealthy system cannot stay the same if a consciousness of health and compassion remains withinit.

 

This is true leadership.

© Dr. Laura Basha, 2019

 

~ For deeper understanding regarding the process of self-realization, please read The Inward Outlook, by Dr. Laura Basha ~ 

Available on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Inward-Outlook-Laura-Basha/dp/1499038402

Joy to the World!

Laura Basha


 
Photo By: Arto Marttinen
 

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me
there lay an invincible summer.

 

– Albert Camus

 

 

It’s the beginning of December, and I just watched a beautiful sunset within this brief window of no rain in a week of much-needed rainy days.
 

The days are shorter, the nights longer. Cozy nights by a fire, soups, holiday movies and lots of reading – all call to us, whereas 6 months ago we were still out running errands and working and just being busy until the sun set much later in the day.
 

If we look at Life as a metaphor, we could see the symbolism within nature’s timetable. Less time for outer activity, more time for inner reflection. As the season gets colder, nature slows down, hibernates, leaves fall from the trees, growth slows or stops, and nature lies fallow to replenish and rejuvenate for Spring and its expansion.
 

We too could slow down, reflect, review the past accomplishments of the year, consider what we could evolve and grow into in the coming year, with the renewed capacities born of rest and reflection.

 

It is the Christmas season as well as the holiday season for many spiritual traditions to celebrate the birth of an awakened consciousness. In the dark and quiet seclusion of the deepest winter night, in the quiet seclusion of our deepest reflection, wisdom unfolds, gathering substance as we allow ourselves time to be present to the Silence. Wisdom emerges as inspired and awakened consciousness, lighting the way for our own inner sage to find voice, ready to take form in the coming longer days of Spring.
 

 

Peace within emanating to peace without,
choosing peace for all who think of us, all who speak of us,
and to
all whom we contact.

 

Happiest of holidays to us all!

 

Joy to the world!

Seeing the Possible Best in Everyone

Laura Basha


 

Photo By: Nathan Dumlao

 
While I was interning in graduate school, the psychiatrist who was the medical director of our clinic for the county’s most challenging persistently mentally ill, became quite frustrated with me for being so idealistic with my patients. He said I was not reality-based enough to be able to assist them. I replied as respectfully as I could that, perhaps he was right, but my perspective was to see the possible best in every patient in order to elicit the same from them, in spite of their presentation.
 

I never read the clinical reports on my patients until after I met with them, because I didn’t want my initial assessment to be contaminated by the previous clinicians’ diagnoses. As a result of allowing myself to “not know”, I was able to perceive possibilities with these patients that very likely wouldn’t have occurred to me had I assumed from the get-go the reality of accepted clinical diagnoses and reports. Of course, I read the reports later, but I had by then been able to bring a fresh perspective to what was assumed, thereby achieving some very unusually positive results with patients diagnosed as people who would never improve.
 
Interestingly enough, my work with them was so effective, that a year later the same medical director requested supervision from me on my particular methodology.
 

 

This article is an excerpt of a larger body of work, The Creative Process: A Portal to ‘Not-Knowing,’ which you can read HERE.
 

What is My “Truth?”

Laura Basha


 

Photo By: Raphael Schaller
 

What if we were to listen to the inner silence of what we don’t know, the inner wisdom of “not knowing”, with nothing on our minds but a complete curiosity for what we haven’t been hearing? This creative walk is available to each one of us, and can be applied to any project, situation, crisis, or conundrum.
 

Instead of a beautiful painting or dance or poem or piece of music, perhaps the creative Source emerges as a brilliant concept to expand a business vision, or as the insight of a missing equation for a new scientific breakthrough. Perhaps It emerges as exactly the right words that capture and articulate an individual’s personal purpose. Or for a parent at wit’s end with the situation they find themselves in with their teenager, in the quietness of listening to Source from not-knowing, the humility intrinsic in deep listening arises. From this reflective humility a thought occurs to them: Maybe they could listen for how their teen’s thinking makes sense to the teen? As parents they could then see a whole new world which is their teen’s view, and then compassion born of understanding might enter into the conversation, and a lack of judgment and dialogue could ensue, transforming separateness into communion.
 

When I finally began to do this with my own teenagers, it was an act of letting go within my own thinking, in which I finally granted greatness to my children instead of insisting they absorb my perceptions like sponges, as if I had the only realistic perspective.

 

I remember one day about 20 years ago, I took my daughter to lunch when she was a junior in high school. She became very frustrated with me before the lunch was finished and I couldn’t understand what had happened since the beginning of lunch was so pleasant. Humility came to me from being more committed to rapport with her than proving to myself that I was right.

 

So, once home, when she finally let me back in her room and I apologized for whatever I had done but told her that I didn’t know what that was, she turned to me with the sudden visage and wisdom of a mature woman and said, “I used to think that everything you told me was true, but now I am becoming aware that other people have other points of view, and I can’t just take your word for it, I have to figure out for myself what is true for me.” Her frustration instantly made sense to me as impersonal, and the result of my lack of listening to how she saw the world.

 

 

This article is an excerpt of a larger body of work, The Creative Process: A Portal to ‘Not-Knowing,’ which you can read HERE.

Behind Each Eye

Laura Basha


Photo By: Kazuend
 

It had been over 40 years since we had all been together. Separated by the annihilation born of a traumatic youth, we finally trusted enough to reunite to see our mother after all these years. It was moving to me to observe us, 4 women now, cooking, navigating the kitchen, each doing her part as only four women who have raised children know how to do. Silently, musically, harmonized with no outer conductor needed.
 

We return next month, to Florida, to move this our mother who never mothered very well, to a safer place where we can all be there for her in her elder years. She is alone and she needs to be mothered and we can be that for each other and for her.
 

Bring what you are looking for.
 

 

Behind Each Eye

 

Spring overall. But inside us
there is another unity.

 

Behind each eye 
one glowing weather.

 

Every forest branch moves differently
in the breeze, but as they sway,
they connect at the roots.

 

– Rumi