Shakti is the flow of life force throughout the 18 Pathways. It lives in all 18 Pathways, and once you connect to each Pathway it wakes up; it ignites. Shakti is the essence of woman, the essence of life force, the essence of all energy that manifests and creates. It is the power that creates form, the energy that creates life from nothingness. It is the zest, the passion for life; it is the engagement with life, it is taking life by the horns and riding with it. Shakti seizes initiative, and leads when others sit back. It connects all life, weaving its way through the web of life and interconnection as the vital, pulsing wave that flows throughout all life, and all peoples everywhere. It is the thread that connects us all, which has been blocked and stagnating for so long.

It is sensual, rich, overflowing. It is the Mother, Lover, Creator and Destroyer. It manifests in order to play, it destroys in order to play. When we are in delight, free flowing, following our hearts’ desires and living them fully in every way, we are in the flow of Shakti. Living in the flow of Shakti is living in your innate image, living who you are, passionately, living by your personal myth and legend. Accomplishing your soul’s purpose comes through the flow of Shakti.

When Shakti flows fully, she dissolves the attachment we have to ideas about who we feel we should be, or who we want to be, or who we might not be, all of which create a constant distraction for the mind, and for our attention. Many of us are always trying to play a role, trying to live up to some idea about who we think we should be. Shakti dissolves these ideas and reveals who we really are, without our ideas of who we think we are. This is freedom, and great joy.

The first movement of creation is Shakti manifesting as pure joy. Joy that has no reason or cause to be joyful – just by its very nature it is. This is the most powerful creative pulse of the universe as it manifests through the dynamism of living form, the constant hum, throb, and pulse behind all Life, the vibrating within all life. It is bliss, bliss that has no reason to be blissful – it just IS blissful.

When we live in this stream, we live according to our hearts’ desires, our innermost urging and true calling, following our inner voice and listening to our body's natural rhythms as they harmonize with the Earth, our loved one’s, the cycles of time and rhythm, and Life Itself. Living in a way that keeps us connected to this core leads to joy, yet when we allow filters and conditionings to get in the way of this causeless joy bubbling up from deep within our core, then we lose our creative "spark", disconnecting from our own flow of vitality, our own unique expression of the Pulse in all life.

Connecting with our bliss, our joy, is the first step to living our hearts’ desires, the bridge into the Now. Feeling this presence and pulse in our own bodies is when we most align with the natural synchronicity and spontaneity that creates life itself, and all of nature’s processes.

The life spark within all of us pushes toward this movement. These movements constantly go through us and the earth, and are made conscious when our emotional state is agile and we can easily emote, for emotion = energy in motion. For us to align to this wave requires that we become fluid. When we are fully fluid, we can experience any feeling whatsoever at any time, at will. Thus if we can, at will, produce equanimity, delight, love, anger or tears without charge or attachment to them, then we can be moved from within by the Spirit that is always fluid and open. However, the less we can summon feelings, the more we are frightened of them, the more we are at their mercy; conversely, the more we allow ourselves to experience feelings, the less we can be enslaved by them. If we allow them to pass through us, we become transparent, without charge, without holding onto anything, or anybody.

Thus we learn to move the body, feelings, and mind, so that spirit can move us. In this fluid individuality, we can be any aspect of consciousness, or anybody, at any time, for we are able to feel and express whatever we are needed to be in any given moment, to express all parts of Spirit. We can be the servant and the master, the janitor and the Queen, the teacher and the student, equally at different times. Ultimately we flow and express whatever is required in any moment for the highest potential to manifest, not just for our own selves, but for all the people around us.

The main barrier to Shakti is our culture and upbringing, and the way it expects us to act and behave. The straitjacketing on free thinking and expression, the distortions and manipulations around sexuality and what love really is, and what is considered right and acceptable in ‘polite society’, in politically and spiritually correct circles, is what keeps your Shakti under wraps, and in a ‘safe’ place. To express Shakti is to freely be who you are, and all that you can be in your highest potential. Shakti is the fuel for this. How many people do you know like this?

The greatest achievements and greatest happiness come to those who do not care what others think about them; rather they follow their hearts first and foremost, even if they get judged for it by those unable to express themselves if it goes beyond what is conventionally accepted. Shakti is the ultimate transformative force, the movement of the spiral, and it flows best with no mind, no hope for the future, no reference to the past. It is the energy of the moment in full, dynamic, joyful expression. Shakti, the flow, love, and power of the ever-creative life force, flows through both men and women as:

Presence:

Being able to flow right here and now, without judgments, and concepts about what to do, or not to. Shakti simply responds and moves to dissolve these limitations by using whatever means is appropriate to move the situation or person onwards to their next spiral of growth. Sometimes this can be shocking, sometimes loving. It all depends on the unique situation, environment, soul, and relational dynamic you are in.

Paradox:

Accepting what appears to be contradictory as two parts of the same thing, dependent on context and the moment of expression. All teachings rooted in truth are unique and individual, responding to the moment. The Buddha would say to one seeker, “there is a God,” to another “there is no God.” What is good for you in one moment is death for you in another moment; what is bad for you today will be the literal panacea for your soul tomorrow. This is how spirals of evolution work.

Process:

Valuing process and the journey as opposed to putting all the value on the product. In the journey of life and its spirals, recognizing the beauty and wonder of each step keeps us flowing, no matter where we are on our journey. Staying with each step of our journey, and allowing it to unfold without us forcing it, allows us to surrender and flow deeper with Shakti. Awe and wonder keep us open to even larger pictures and movements of creation, with laughter being a direct connection to the beauty of process. Yet even process is held in the moment. It does not have to be a cathartic processing or healing: it can be simple and graceful. All that dissolves is resistance, and beyond the pain is bliss and further heart opening. Being present in each of these moments allows more to unfold.

Receptivity and resonance:

In the flow of Shakti, we feel we are in sync with everything within and around us. The world and our relation to it seems different – our connection to all we perceive is vivid and undeniable. This pulse of perfect rhythm, this synchrony, usually occurs when we are stripped of the boundaries of ego, language, culture, and judgment. At this point it is as if we are involved with the process of creation, instant by instant – we are creating it as it is creating us, for it is always there - we just are too busy in the mind to notice it. Have you ever noticed when you ask for something and it magically appears within a day or an hour? This is living in the flow of Shakti, for it is already happening; it is manifesting through us.

Being sensitive enough like a musical instrument, open enough to be able to resonate with, and act upon, what is coming both from the inside and from the outside, enables one to be able to surrender to powers greater than oneself. Each person is a symphony, a collection of individual notes playing together in a harmony. Some people know their theme, and can play it clearly and dynamically. As these people know themselves well, and are able to express freely, they can attract others to their music. Other people have many and varied life experiences, in many dimensions, and have many notes to play with. They are easy to connect to, as they can share a resonant sympathetic chord with our own music. Others are complex, deep, and unable to understand immediately as they share different chord structures to our own. These are people you might have to spend some time with before you can ‘catch on’ to their music.

We feel others’ music instantly, at first sight; we feel whether the person feels resonant to us, whether we feel attracted or repelled to that person, whether they fit naturally into our own symphony. We can also recognize people when they are being true to their own vibration, and are playing it, without disguise or added notes, without pretence or faking it. Our Bullshit detectors get activated.

As we are music, we have to work out how to play our theme. What is your keynote, what is your resonant chord? What tempos, what rhythms do you move to? Perhaps some people have more complicated melodies, and it might be harder for them to find their groove, and play it to its highest potential. Maybe some people find it easier to play what other people want to hear from them, as they have not yet discovered their own music.

Our main purpose in life is to syncopate, to tune into, these resonant vibrations behind creation. When we get stuck in our life, away from the flow of Shakti, attached or caught in a negative pattern, it is because one or more of our sounds is not being heard, because it is frozen within us, a frozen music that is not alive, or expressed. Here, we are not tuning into our resonance, our truth.

Communication is not just what happens when two people speak to each other, for in every moment of our lives we are immersed in a ‘living landscape’ of ever moving undulating Shakti, which is actively communicating to us. Whether you are walking down a busy urban street, sitting in the quiet cool depths of a forest, or are within the sanctuary of your home, you are in a vitalized field of Shakti. Each object, each person, every event which transpires is part of a continuous, unbroken stream of creating, constantly happening afresh in every moment. It is but for us to be open to receive. It is all a part of a field of communication of which you, as a conscious being, are a vital part.

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