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			   <copyright>Copyright 2008 Tony Cuckson</copyright>
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                 <title>Endeavors of a Bardic Soul Friend</title>
                  <pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 17:04:48 +0000</pubDate>
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				 <description><![CDATA[Your soul is always inviting you to learn. This learning tends to be holistic rather than rational (meaning ratio -in part). This bardic way of learning is insightful. It is the learning that is undertaken by one who would be a seer. This is the ability to see through the eyes of the heart with wisdom and compassion. In the Native American Lakota tradition this is referred to as cante-ista.

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                 <title>What if God where One of Us</title>
                  <pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 10:56:14 +0000</pubDate>
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				 <description><![CDATA[One of this Irish storyteller’s favourite things to do is to pick up his white guitar and sing songs.  I have sung at various venues in England and Ireland with many kinds of singer and musician.  

Sometimes you come across a song that simply speaks to the heart. It is a song that works on many levels. A very talented young lady sang such a song at a club I recently played at. It was the song “One of Us” by Joan Osborne.]]></description>
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                 <title>Deep Hearts Core Podcast</title>
                  <pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 22:14:28 +0000</pubDate>
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				 <description><![CDATA[I have begun a series of podcasts inviting you into the empowering experience at the deep hearts core.  This will be a weekly podcast.  The first podcast examines the lines from the song Stairway to Heaven and the second what it means to be on of the beautiful people who know the deep hearts core.]]></description>
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                 <title>How does it Feel to be One of the Beautiful People</title>
                  <pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 19:01:16 +0000</pubDate>
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				 <description><![CDATA[An Anam cara - a soul friend - is in love with poetry, storytelling and song. These are stories, poetry and songs that are invitations to knowing who you really are. Once you are the knowing of who you are it becomes absolutely clear that you really are one of the beautiful people. In Ireland these beautiful people were once known as the Shining Ones called the Tuatha de Danaan. These are the beautiful people who became the little people or the fairie people.]]></description>
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                 <title>Peace Comes Dropping Slow - Remembering 9/11</title>
                  <pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:36:53 +0000</pubDate>
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				 <description><![CDATA[Today is 11th Sept. It is a day of remembrance for people all over the world. For most people it is a day of sorrow and for others a day of celebration. 

On this day I like to share a vision of what could be. Sometimes I write this and sometimes I take the writings of others. One writer I love is an American woman called Gangaji - born Toni Roberson who grew up in Mississippi. Here is an extract from "Choosing Peace" from "A Diamond in Your Pocket - Discovering your True Radiance."

"Unless all of us take the responsibility for our own inner peace, the wars will continue. We cannot wait any longer for someone else to change. We cannot wait for someone else to forgive us so that we can forgive them. We cannot wait for someone else to say they are sorry. Peace cannot be postponed.

Recognize that to whatever degree the war is going on in your own mind, it is based on one thing: the firm belief that you are a separate entity, separate from your parents, your children, your lover, your enemy.

All wars are based upon the ignorance of our true nature and the illusion of separation. When you firmly believe that you are separate from totality, separate from peace, separate from love, you protect yourself. That protection takes many forms involving personal and territorial identification. The horror is that if what you are protecting is the thought of who you are, it does not, in reality, even exist. It is only a thought, and whenever a thought is honestly investigated, it is found to have no inherent reality. Yet this thought of who you are has immeasurable power, because it becomes the filter of all experiences of reality.

As a conscious human being, you have the opportunity to discover that never, not even for an instant, is it possible to be separate from Love, from the source of everything, from God. Once you discover this directly, you then broadcast it with every breath you take. Whether you speak of this discovery or you never speak again, you will broadcast it through the natural radiance of your being. In your willingness to take the chance, to accept that invitation, you will naturally share that peace everywhere."

Tell me that is not a most beautiful of invitations. Note that Gangaji says, " Once you discover this directly------" This direct discovery is so essential. It is not a question of belief but an experience of radiance. You know it because you are it. Belief requires a believer separate from the experience. A believer is not one who is the experience of direct knowing.

Gangaji also invites each one of us to take responsibility for our own mind. Listen to your mind. On this day of remembrance sit still for 10 minutes and listen to the way your mind is forever on. This is not peace of mind. This is not attunement to the source. This is not stillness knowing that it is Love. If this is your mind then you have no peace to offer. You have no still point centre from which radiance happens.

This monkey mind is not your natural radiance of being. You on this day of remembrance can commit to this radiance of being. Then the tragedy of 9/11 can become the invitation to Heaven on Earth. It only happens when you are willing to become the invitation to the radiance at your deep hearts core.

Today share this invitation. Share this invitation tomorrow. Share it everyday in whatever way you are called to be the radiant presence of Love in form. Then when you know directly that you are the living presence of eternal Love you need have no fear. Though you walk through the valley of the shadow of death you will fear no evil. Then you become a beacon of hope in a fear filled world. Then you become the invitation in New York Harbour of a woman welcoming all that mass of separateness from Love. You liberate others from their sense of separateness from Love.

Peace of the Infinite Peace to You. 

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                 <title>Asking a Real Question</title>
                  <pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:47:26 +0000</pubDate>
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				 <description><![CDATA[In this weeks podcast you are further invited to learn the art of being one of the beautiful people.  This is an experience beyond simply appearing glamorous.  Real beauty is a state of consiousness that you can live moment to moment.  In order to do this you have to take a journey.  You begin a real quest for real answers.  This requires your asking real questions.  This podcast invites you to ask such a question]]></description>
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