This article is to introduce  my new Category, ” Journal of Awakening”  which will have as its focus, How to Recognize and Follow Spirit’s Guidance (actually, I tend to think of Spirit as being The Great Mother, or, The Goddess,  so I’ll probably use these terms interchangeably.)  I’ll be using my own personal experiences for illustration purposes,  but, of course,   you will have your own personal experiences and adventures with The Goddess which will be tailored to you and your needs and requirements. 

Our Great Mother  is always trying to guide us, but we don’t realize this because we’re not usually paying Her any attention. We are usually too busy paying attention to another guide: our ego, that dazzlingly deluded creation of our thinking mind that thinks it’s an expert on everything! (Well, mine thinks it’s an expert on everything, I don’t know about yours.)

Learning to Recognize and Follow Spirit’s Guidance is a Practice and a Discipline.

 Learning how to recognize and  follow Spirit’s guidance  is a practice, a discipline, and it marks a new stage of accelerated growth and awakening for us. It’s also a practice which, ultimately,  frees us from being dependent on any other person  for guidance -  persons such as myself. Unfortunately, we often only turn to Spirit for leadership and guidance when we realize how incapable our ego-mind  is in protecting us and leading us towards wholeness and joy. As I discussed in my article, “Initiation: Crucifixion, Death and Resurrection,” we sometimes need to reach a very low point in our life before we’ll admit to ourselves that we need  a higher, wiser,  form of guidance than our own thinking, rational mind has been providing us with. 

If you have reached this point you will know it, because you will know that you  need help. This marks the beginning of wisdom for us: we are finally ready to admit that we can’t go it alone! Now, we start to look for our Divine Mother to lead us towards wholeness, safety and joy. 

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With reference to my article, Finding Heaven . . .  Once Upon a Time, in which I talked about my personal experience of the One World, or Unus Mundus, which is the goal of individuation and alchemy. One of my friends told me that she couldn’t find any information on the web about this phenomenon.

This state of being,  incidentally,  in which you experience yourself as being unified with, or,  at-one with,  all of Creation,  is also the “healed,” or “whole,” state,  symbolized by the Holy Grail.  Basically, the Quest for the Grail, is the quest for wholeness and healing, so that once again, we may be re-united with the land - literally. (Love the film, “Excalibur,” which tells this story.)

If you remember, in the grail legends, the knights are searching for the grail so that both King Arthur  and the land will  be “One” ie. healed, re-united. They had both fallen ill and were wasting away,  if you recall.  

Anyway, there’s  an essay by the famous Jungian,  Marie-Louise Von Franz,  on ”The New Alchemy Website,” entitled “The Unus Mundus and Synchronicity,” (1979) which is taken from Von Franz’  “Alchemical Active Imagination.

The essay on the Unus Mundus is listed on the website’s Homepage under the section,  ”Brief Extracts on Analytical Psychology.” Happy reading, and don’t worry, the extract isn’t very long.