The Deep Hearts Core – Spiritual Direction for Difficult Times

As the Anamcara Experience invitation to divine purpose unfolds in form as a website, this storyteller has been increasingly attracting energies unleashed by attachment to language.

What this storyteller writes about is not always popular.  It never has been popular but thankfully that seems to be changing.  When you begin to live the invitation to Divine Purpose you can expect to be visited by those energies of what I call the Moneychangers in the Temple of the Divine.

These are those writing to me telling that the language of invitation to divine purpose is their language.  They write threatening to pull this site down because I use the language of divine invitation that belongs to them.  These are individuals who use the language of sacred unity to change the currency of your life situation rather than unfold the radiance of the Divine with you.  They know the language. They know the law but they are not the spiritual knowing of the Divine invitation.

They use exactly the same words as I am using here.  Only to use a Biblical metaphor, they are pouring old wine into new wine skins.  What does this metaphor actually mean?  Let this storyteller invite an understanding of this beautiful metaphor in this way.

Jesus of Nazareth was probably the greatest of all storytellers.  These stories eventually got him murdered under the law. The language of Divine Purpose is still being murdered under the law of old wine, the ‘mine, mine, mine’ law that is so prevalent in many modern divine purpose invitations.

In this metaphor you as a living form of the formless are the new wine skin.  The Divine is, as the beautiful tradition of the Sufis tells us, the Wine Pourer.  The Divine gets us drunk on Love.  Not the sentimental love of popular song, but the direct experience of Oneness when you as the dewdrop merge with the ocean, when you are no longer loving but Love itself.

The Divine created you for the purpose of Love.  This is forever new.  You don’t get it if you get it.  You don’t get it by going after it, except that you won’t get it without going after it.  You are like someone trying to bite his or her own teeth, the fish in the ocean looking for water.  The unveiling of your Divine purpose is a revelation.  It is an absence. You are required to be absent while present.

This is unpopular language and an unpopular invitation. The ego does not like not being invited along to the party. What would happen to our precious sense of self if we all gave up the illusion of separateness from Love?  It looks and feels like we would become nobody.  In our go-getting, self-improving, goal setting culture this invitation is anything but popular.

So, as this invitation to divine purpose that is the Anamcara Experience unfolds, I receive emails from moneychangers in the Temple of the Divine.  In this sacred space they are shouting a mantra of narcissism.  ‘Mine, mine, mine!’ Let’s be fair here. A writer, a speaker and a teacher who invests time, money and energy in creating a product, a book or course for example, is entitled to be heard for that invitation they have manifested in form from the formless.

This storyteller has no problem with this.  I ask that what I write to honoured as the invitation it is. I am not asking you to agree with it.  Most people, including very dear and old friends, don’t want to hear such an invitation.  Still and all, I have one long ally.  It is to the revelation that I was graced when I was around twenty-seven years old.  This revelation is not mine. It does not belong to ‘me.’ It was lost because I claimed the power and the beauty of it for myself.

The perfume of that revelation remains in this writing.  It is not always popular.  It gets up the noses of those who embrace the smell of the separateness from Love and bottle that as the perfume.  Yet another kind of old wine in a new skin. These are the moneychangers who claim to change your life with the emphasis on ‘your’ life.  This is not an invitation to the radical revelation that blows your sense of self out of the water.

Divine purpose begins with the opening of the heart chakra.  This is the conduit through which the power of the Divine works its purpose.  This heart is not yours.  You give it to Love so that the work of Love can be done through you.  Anything below this chakra can be considered ground preparation for the seed of Love to begin to flower in form.

The language of the Divine tends this seed.  It does not belong to you or me or to anyone else. Honour it and give it away.  That is why you are here.  You are here to serve the revelation of Love in form.  Until that revelation lives in your heart you are a moneychanger in the Temple of the Divine.  The Divine never loses but you do.  Your wealth is in the language you use to serve that which is creating you in every moment from the force of Love.  This lasts forever.  This is the real invitation to Divine purpose.  Any lesser invitation is stealing your birthright to, as Gangaji so beautifully puts it,  the diamond in your very own pocket.

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As a writer on divine purpose I am interested to see and read what others are writing on this beautiful invitation.  I have to say that what I read is, metaphorically speaking, old wine in new wine skins.  As one who was once one who was an earnest wine drinker, seriously in love with ‘the women with the dimple in her bottom’, I can say that in my opinion it is not even very good old wine.

So I am writing this article to give you some guidance on who to recognise a true invitation to the revelation of the beauty you create and what can be called Divine Purpose.

1. The Issue of Time

Does the teacher ground you in the issue of your relationship to time and your relationship to the timeless? Or is it simply more goal setting techniques that offer you the ability to live in the prison of time a little more or a lot more comfortably.  Get comfortable in the Timeless.  It is the only comfort that lasts.  Get comfortable in time and you will be ‘doing time’ rather than having the time of your life.

2. Are they inviting you to serve?

Does the teacher continually live the invitation of service to the Divine or are they living their ‘divine purpose’ as invitations of self-interest.  Service is understood by all true teachers of Divine Purpose to be at the heart of what it is to live in form as a revelation of the formless.  This is fundamental to the process of divine purpose unfolding.

3.Are they creating clear boundaries?

Does the teacher offer you a license to say what you think or feel just because this happens to be what’s on your mind? This might sound silly to you but there are those teachers of divine purpose promoting a ‘tell it like it is’ approach. They proudly wear the badge of unbridled self-expression.  While this might be understandable in small children, divine purpose requires that you actually create clear boundaries with precepts. The boundless that is your Divine Purpose is not revealed to those engaged in narcisstic self-absorption or self -expression.

4. How do they deal with conflict?

This may be difficult to know until a conflict arises!  Anyone intent on the unfolding of divine purpose within and through them will meet resistance from within and without.  You are not going to transform lead into gold – the spiritual alchemical process of Divine Purpose – by living a life of pure self-interest and comfort.  Conflict is inevitable. It is not its absence that makes you grow, but how you alchemise it. This is not done through unbridled self-expression. If takes humility to be the authentic expression of the Self.

5. What language are they using?

Does the teacher hold himself or herself up as an example? Do they give you a sense that they are broadcasting an “I did it My Way” wavelength? Do they use paradox, metaphor, or poetry to invite you into the river of presence?  Divine Purpose is a presence that embraces those willing to surrender.  The more you are invited to do your purpose the more you are likely to get in the do-do.  You might end up doing all you ever wanted to do but never know who ‘you’ are.  If your divine purpose teacher is not asking, “Who are you?” then go and seek again. Be open to other invitations. Knock on a few different doors. Anyone that is intent only on making the prison house of being separate from Love a more comfortable prison truly has your divine purpose at heart. As all the mystics will tell you that way can only end in tears.

So whom can you trust? You can trust any of the following teachers of divine purpose. This does not mean you can trust those who profess to be their followers.

You can trust Rumi. You can trust Hafiz. You can trust Christ. You can trust invitations from the Buddha, Lao Tzu, and Chang Tao.

Modern teachers you can trust with the invitation to Divine Purpose include Eckhart Tolle, Guy Finley, Wayne Dyer, Deepak Chopra, Joseph Campbell, Clarissa Pinkola Estes, David Whyte, Mary Oliver, John O’Donohue and Gangaji.

So be very discerning.  The invitation to Divine Purpose was not popular two thousand years ago.  It still is not popular.  When it is then Heaven will be on earth because the consciousness of duality will be transcended and sacred unity know to be the true purpose of living in form.  Anything less on offer is what this storyteller calls the invitation from the Dreamstealers.

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I am the Lord of the Dance!

Dance! Dance! Wherever you may be.

I am a recovering alcoholic.  I am also recovering from the impact that Christianity had on my heart. Both these processes are ongoing.

I was brought up in the ecclesiastical capital of Ireland. This is the city of Armagh, the city of saints and scholars, neither of which applies to myself.  I love this city but it haunts me in many ways.  I was in that town scripted someone who it seems had the word ‘sinner’ on his forehead like a scarlet letter.  Then there was the other idea.  This was that God had a plan and that I had better get in line.

This invitation is still being dressed up in new books and sermons.  Essentially it is old wine in new wine skins.  Both of these invitations to recognising that you were a sinner and that God had a plan for you seemed intent on creating feelings of guilt.  As someone with very low self-esteem at that time this was an emotional experience that until I left Northern Ireland when I was twenty-one years old.

Little has changed. This is, in part, the reason why this site exists and for The Work I do.  It is an invitation to the awareness of the beauty that is at the heart of creation and which you are created to express without any sense of guilt.

Guilt has a value when it arises from one’s internal wisdom.  It is an invitation to correction, to take action that follows Love.  It is corrosive to the spirit when imposed from an authority outside oneself.  There can be outside corrective instruction but there is no place within such instruction for the invitation to feel guilty.

This writer is for conscience and not guilt.  Conscience is there as a protection, not a punishment.  Close it down and you wound yourself and shut down your power.

For years I was a reactionary to the word ‘sinner.’ If you attend some of the Protestant churches I have attended you would suspect that this word was an obsession.  This writer thinks that in many places the institutional mind reigns rather than Love.

I am less of a reactionary than I was but my alter ego Mrs. Batty still appears when I hear or read about us ‘all being sinners’ who need to follow God’s plan.  Mrs. Batty can be a bit of a ranter.  It is my work to keep her contained.  She has a problem with what wisdom traditions refer to as ‘right speech.’  She likes to shout her mouth off and say exactly what she wants and consequences be damned. One thing about Mrs. Batty – she is sure she is right, which is always a dangerous card to play.

So let me share where I am now as a recovering mystic/seer wounded by the institutional mind called christianity. I deliberately am using the small ‘c’ to indicate the small mindedness of that mind set.

Am I a sinner? The answer to that is ‘Yes.’ Am I to feel guilty? The answer to that is ‘No.’

A sinner is someone who misses the mark, misses the centre.  The centre is Love.  So a central to the sinner’s experience is the absence of Love.  All I do is invite awareness to this absence.  This does not condemn any of us. Your are being invited into a love affair that was created to last forever and you are one side of it that, paradoxically speaking, you are never apart from.  You certainly leave Love but it never leaves you.

Does God have a plan for you?  At this stage in this storyteller’s life the answer is ‘Yes’ and it is ‘No.’ God is not a planner.  All those who tell you God has a plan are focused on time.  When you question them you will find that most, if not all of them, think that eternity is a time beyond measure.  This is one key to knowing that they do not know.  Any teacher who teaches the invitation to the timeless, who has not been graced the knowing of eternity here and now, ought to shut up.

God is not a planner because a plan has to have a beginning and an end.  God – Creation – is in love with creation.  This is why creation is.  It is a manifestation of Love in form. To say that God has a plan would involve you in saying that there will come a time (within the timelessness of Creation) when God ceases to Love.  This is childish nonsense. Not only that. It wound the mystic heart that is a heart seeking missile for the Beloved.  It screws up this inner guidance system.  Not only that but it sets up an idea of a chosen ‘elect.’

God is a dancer.  You are a part of this dance of eternity that is stepping into higher and higher forms of Love.  If there is a plan it is contained in the word Love.  How this Love is expressed needs a boundary.  You are that boundary designed to contain the boundless.  This is more a love affair than a plan, more a dance of the timeless than within the prison of time.

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