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| 20 Mar 2010 04:41:03 pm |
| A New Personal Economy |
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Below is the previous newsletter:
January 14, 2010
A New Personal Economy
As I began to think of creating another newsletter, I looked back on how long it had been since my last submission.....over a year.
I'll begin this issue by reviewing the past year. In the last newsletter (I have posted it on my website at http://www.charleskempf.com/blog/) I wrote about personal power. This past year has been a year of owning some of my personal power.
2008 ended with me being asked to be camp director for a March, 2009 vision quest. Being camp director is mostly about managing the flow of energy. Keeping the energy flowing enables questors, and other attendees, to get the most out of their experience. The quest can be healing and allows for individuals to come away with a clearer vision for their lives. The energy of a vision quest is quite high. There are many sweats and participating in them can bring issues to the surface for individuals to release. Emotions can get raw. People are tired and dirty. Feelings can be easily hurt. Keeping the energy positive and flowing is an important task. Fortunately there was a good supporting cast and the quest was a success.
After the quest comes the real work....the return to our everyday lives where one must put into practice the insights gained from the quest.
That was how the year began.
2009 ended with me being called on to step up my efforts to expose wrong-doing in the local community in which I live, confronting issues on a state level and, to a lesser extent, addressing issues that are of national concern. All of these required me to get in touch with more personal power than I realized I possessed.
Along the way, I was advised by well-meaning acquaintances to walk away, to let it go, to steer clear of certain powerful individuals, or even to move to a new community. But how does one walk away from one's own destiny? Even if I was successful in leaving behind the controversy (as if karma would allow me to leave it behind), how could I live with myself knowing someone else would suffer because I walked away instead of speaking out...just like I was harmed because those who came before me chose to remain silent. How could I refuse to acknowledge my own personal power in the situation?
As is always the case in a situation like this (confronting one's destiny) fears are experienced and ultimately erased. And in that process, more insights occur.
One such insight came through a friend I reconnected with towards the end of 2009. Here is a portion of what that friend wrote to me: "Corporations have influenced and often controlled our world and yet they have an inherent flaw." "Their main intent is to make money." "...a corporation can actually be sued for making decisions that place the good of mankind over profits."
Her words reminded me of a previous newsletter I sent out (refer to my November 26, 2008 blog entry at http://www.charleskempf.com/blog/) in which I made note of a father who was so worried about the possibility his daughters would be diagnosed with breast cancer that he put together a plan to offer $1 billion to the person who discovered the cure. I also wrote that the breasts represented nurturing and that this might be a clue to the consciousness that gives rise to the disease. What I did not catch, even in my own writing, was a very clear contradiction: An issue of nurturing cannot be solved with money alone. If that were the case, it would just be a matter of raising enough money. The only proof you need that money is no substitute for nurturing is the example of a small child, or even a flower.
How many stories have we heard recited about children growing up in the most daunting of conditions who rose from that environment and went on to achieve great things because of the nurturing provided by a parent or guardian or teacher? Likewise, a flower does not require massive amounts of money to be beautiful, only the proper nurturing. A focus on the inherit value of nurturing, not the money value, offers the most hope for a cure. The thought form that gives rise to breast cancer can be eradicated but only if enough individuals begin to realize the value of nurturing.
I want to take this idea of the problem with a focus on money a little further. Have you ever heard of the One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge? The prize is offered to anyone who can show evidence of any paranormal, supernatural, or occult power or event. Even though the prize has been offered since 1996, it has never been claimed. There could be a lot of reasons for this and any discussion of the topic could could be rather lengthy. But I want to draw attention to one possibility.......focus. Anyone who has a primary focus on matters of health or spirituality or happiness will, by definition, not be focused on money. And anyone who is primarily focused on money cannot be focused on spirit. Therefore, anyone who is likely to be tempted by the prize money has lost their focus on the "supernatural". So it is not surprising that the money has gone unclaimed and is likely to remain unclaimed UNTIL someone with "supernatural" abilities is spiritually guided to claim the money.
To illustrate I present a few questions for the reader to ponder: How much of Ghandi's focus was dedicated to money? Would Martin Luther King, Jr. have accomplished all he accomplished if he was focused on money? Did either of them claim a million dollar prize? Were they influenced by a billion dollar prize for a cure? And yet, can anyone deny the "supernatural" things they accomplished? Great things can be accomplished, including great wealth. But to truly be in harmony with one's spirit, the spark that ignites those things and brings them into being must come from within.
This concept ties into another article I once wrote on the things I learned from a shaman that could be applied to business. In that article, I referred to the role of ethics. By ethics, I am not referring to externally applied laws, I am referring to being true to one's spirit and the guidance it provides. This takes work and practice and sometimes assistance from others. It must be cultivated and NURTURED. The reason it must be cultivated and nurtured is not because it is not inherent. It IS inherent, but our society teaches us otherwise and we, to a greater or lesser extent depending on our circumstances, let ourselves be lead away from what is inherent. That is why we must takes steps to reconnect with our spiritual selves.
Not being true to one's internal guidance system can lead to disastrous results. A friend of mine who worked as a federal law enforcement official prior to his retirement asked me about my thoughts on the tragedy in Sedona, Arizona, where several individuals participating in a sweat lodge perished. My response to him was that that it takes years of training for a person to learn to pour a sweat lodge properly. The stones that are chosen must be able to hold heat without exploding or giving off noxious fumes. The pourer must be capable of monitoring everyone in the sweat lodge. But most importantly, the individuals must be aware of their own limitations. If participants are shamed or goaded into staying in a sweat lodge or otherwise prevented from leaving when they know they have reached their limit, that's when disasters occur. After all, the intent behind a sweat lodge is to help one learn to trust their own guidance. It is counterproductive and dangerous when attempts are made to override another individual's spiritual connection. Not only is it counterproductive, it defeats the very purpose of the sweat lodge.
I informed my friend that the sad irony of the entire situation is that there are experts who have been doing this for generations. These experts don't require that you pay them large sums of money. All they require is that you approach the ceremony from a pure space. And no amount of money will convince them to offer the ceremony to someone who is not ready. The problems arise when someone takes a deadly serious ceremony like this and hijacks it for primarily monetary gain and/or seeks to override the participants own guidance system because of their own ego-centric needs.
This sad situation reminds me of another story I heard about a particular popular "guru". An acquaintance told me that he had attended a workshop given by a so-called spiritual leader. This "guru" supposedly ridiculed Joseph Campbell's famous advice to, "Follow your bliss." "What if killing others is your bliss?", this "guru" reportedly asked his followers. His question not only illustrates his inability to grasp what Mr. Campbell was pointing to, it exposes him as a spiritual fraud even though he is considered by many to be a guru. Spirit takes no pleasure in harming another. It is the ego-based individual which imagines it must destroy another in order to have fulfillment. And this "guru" does not know the difference.
This brings me back to the friend with whom I recently reconnected. Here is another quote she shared with me, "Mankind is evolving at an unbelievable rate and now is the time for all of us to look at evolving our corporations, governments and religions as well as our individual selves."
I would add relationships to that list. In other words, there is no turning back. As we have seen with our financial system, the old way will not work. Efforts to prop it up, if based on outdated ideas/models with the sole focus on earnings, will fail. A new system is arising to take its place...a system that is dependent on each individual finding their own spiritual connection and following their unique path. In other words, healing one's wounds and accessing one's personal power.
So...........follow your bliss. And if you don't know what your bliss is, it's time you started searching for it. And if you need help finding it, write or call. I would love to help.
Blessings on your journey
Charles Kempf
PO Box 51073
Amarillo, TX 79159
806-677-6206
charleskempf@gmail.com |
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