[fusion_builder_container hundred_percent="yes" overflow="visible"][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type="3_5" layout="3_5" last="yes" spacing="yes" center_content="no" hide_on_mobile="no" background_color="" background_image="" background_repeat="no-repeat" background_position="left top" hover_type="none" link="" border_position="all" border_size="0px" border_color="" border_style="" padding_top="" padding_right="" padding_bottom="" padding_left="" margin_top="" margin_bottom="" animation_type="" animation_direction="" animation_speed="0.1" animation_offset="" class="" id="" min_height=""][fusion_content_boxes layout="icon-with-title" columns="1" title_size="" title_color="" body_color="" backgroundcolor="" icon="" iconflip="" iconrotate="" iconspin="no" iconcolor="" icon_circle="" icon_circle_radius="" circlecolor="" circlebordersize="" circlebordercolor="" outercirclebordersize="" outercirclebordercolor="" icon_size="" icon_hover_type="" hover_accent_color="" image="" image_width="" image_height="" link_type="" link_area="" link_target="" icon_align="left" animation_type="" animation_delay="" animation_offset="" animation_direction="left" animation_speed="0.1" margin_top="" margin_bottom="" hide_on_mobile="small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility" class="" id=""][fusion_content_box title="" backgroundcolor="" icon="" iconflip="" iconrotate="" iconspin="no" iconcolor="" circlecolor="" circlebordersize="" circlebordercolor="" outercirclebordersize="" outercirclebordercolor="" image="" image_width="35" image_height="35" link="" linktext="" link_target="_self" animation_type="" animation_direction="left" animation_speed="" animation_offset=""] IN THE NIGHT By Angela Fischer, October 2013 In the night the beings of the future come to me. They come into my dreams as children. They ask to be seen. They embrace me with deepest love. They remind me of the golden web woven by love, made of invisible threads, reaching out into eternity. Woven between our hearts, these threads are running through our bodies – born and unborn. Running through galaxies, from star to star. By the tender touch of their small hands – hands of the future – I sense the meaning of the moment, now. Be awake to what is now. This moment, now, and the awareness of it, is what flows through the woven texture of time and space, through the threads created by love and holding the world together. Those who will come after us, they need us now. They need us to be awake, breathing with the light that circulates through the fabric of creation. The light that connects us within the oneness that has always been, from before the beginning of time. And in the early morning, with the promise of the dawn, a particular sweetness is left in my heart, like dew drops from the night: The taste of the Beloved’s infinite love for creation. [/fusion_content_box][/fusion_content_boxes][/fusion_builder_column][/fusion_builder_row][/fusion_builder_container]

[fusion_builder_container hundred_percent="yes" overflow="visible"][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type="2_3" last="yes" spacing="yes" center_content="no" hide_on_mobile="no" background_color="" background_image="" background_repeat="no-repeat" background_position="left top" hover_type="none" link="" border_position="all" border_size="0px" border_color="" border_style="" padding="" margin_top="" margin_bottom="" animation_type="" animation_direction="" animation_speed="0.1" animation_offset="" class="" id=""][fusion_content_boxes settings_lvl="child" layout="icon-with-title" columns="1" icon_align="left" title_size="" title_color="" body_color="" backgroundcolor="" icon_circle="" icon_circle_radius="" iconcolor="" circlecolor="" circlebordercolor="" circlebordersize="" outercirclebordercolor="" outercirclebordersize="" icon_size="" icon_hover_type="" hover_accent_color="" link_type="" link_area="" link_target="" animation_delay="" animation_offset="" animation_type="0" animation_direction="left" animation_speed="0.1" margin_top="" margin_bottom="" class="" id=""][fusion_content_box title="" icon="" backgroundcolor="" iconcolor="" circlecolor="" circlebordercolor="" circlebordersize="" outercirclebordercolor="" outercirclebordersize="" iconrotate="" iconspin="no" image="" image_width="35" image_height="35" link="" linktext="" link_target="_self" animation_type="" animation_direction="" animation_speed=""] DANCING WITH LIFE Translated excerpt from the book "Frau sein – sensibel und stark. Mit der Kraft weiblicher Spiritualität das Leben neu gestalten“ (Being a Woman – sensitive and strong. Renewing Life through Feminine Spirituality) by Angela Fischer, chapter " Dancing with Life ". I was a hidden treasure and I longed to be known. Thus I created the world. —Hadith " Those of us who have been given a knowing of the sacred within ourselves and within the world have a responsibilityat this time. We may ask ourselves, ‚What can I do?‘, but the inner world primarily requires consciousness rather than action. It is the lack of an awareness of the sacred that is at the root of this crisis. Therefore we first need to bring the light of our spiritual awareness into the present predicament. “ —Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee When I was old enough to walk on my own feet with my mother outside our home, she began teaching me to say a prayer in my heart each time we came across a pregnant woman. A prayer for a good birth and for the well being of the child and the mother. So quite early, from the particular way by which my mother passed on a certain understanding to me, a deep respect began growing inside me, an attitude of awe before every woman who was pregnant, no matter if I knew her or not. I felt that there was something intensely sacred permeating her, and at the same time I sensed that the grace of God was needed to make it happen, needed to really manifest what is sacred. That is why prayer was important for me. Women with their round bellies were radiating a certain light that already in my childlike perception gave them the appearance of being infinitely vulnerable and delicate and at the same time being conspired in a secret bond with God. But only few years later did I become confused, because for other people these women were „in other circumstances“ (literally translated German expression of „being expecting“) – something that in those times and in the culture in which I grew up was only mentioned covertly. Why was the source of life something that people did not talk about - or only in a rather complicated way (via „circumstances“), somehting that one was noticing or watching only abashedly from the corner of an eye? Why didn’t they celebrate this, and why did those women sometimes look so sad? Yes, it seemed to be a mystery, yet so full of life and promise – and so palpable. I felt a silent bond with my mother that went beyond the mother-child relationship. We shared a wisdom that, despite the seemingly few members in this alliance, undoubtedly was real and authentic. We had direct access to something absolutely holy, to life itself! Somehow I knew that I was taking part in the magic of creation, I sensed a familiarity with the enchantment connected to the possibility of a child coming into the physical world. Every child remembers in a certain way, where it comes from. The knowledge, the perspective that we enter this world from a different world, a world of light and that this physical world is not the only one that exists is not uncommon for children. However, beyond this kind of remembrance my eyes had been opened for the simple but forgotten truth that life is a feminine mystery, in which women participate in a particular way. They are the ones who know about the mystery and who live it. Women know about the light that pervades all of matter and penetrates it from within.(*) They have it in their blood, even when they are cut off from a consciousness that embraces the wisdom of the oneness of life. They know how the light in matter communicates with all that is created. They know about the interconnectedness and the interrelatedness within all of life. Deep in her innermost a woman has the knowledge of the real language, the dance of life and its wholeness. Now is the time we can give back to life the music to which it wants to awaken and to dance again. If women give back the wisdom of oneness that they carry within the cells of their body to the whole consciousness of creation, life can heal again, can begin to sing again. We will recognize again how to dance with life rather than fighting against it. The energy of life flows through a net of infinite connections of infinite number, and human beings can get in contact to these connections and affect them so that the life energy is able to flow freely, and every part of the whole can be reached through this web of energy. If we give back to life the consciousness of oneness and if this consciousness reveals itself through the living web within creation, life itself can unfold its inert wisdom and its healing powers. Women carry within themselves the instinctual knowledge of this web, of the interconnected relationships within life, of the oneness of spirit and matter. They are the ones who can make a vital contribution so that a new era can unfold in the consciousness of humanity and our world can regain a new balance. What has been violated in the feminine has also been violated in life. Both of them can heal, they heal together, and women are at the centre of a certain work, to which everyone can contribute through the power of consciousness. Women are able to remember, women are allowed to remember. The world is calling for this. But they need to do it on their own, no one else can do it for them. They need courage and confidence which they will find in their own hearts in order to detach themselves from old patterns; courage to leave the refuges, the valleys of tears and the battle fields of competition and self-assertion. Real liberation for women is the liberation from a haze that has enclosed them for such a long time, has locked them up and separated them from the light of the feminine in creation. To step back into this clear light, to remember again and to be upright and carry the dignity of the feminine is a big step in the contribution that women offer for the healing of the world. If women remember again the magic of life and the secrets of the divine feminine, they begin to bring this consciousness wherever they go, wherever they stay. We reflect this light. We can live it alone in sielende, inwardly, and we can carry it out, weaving it into our daily work, be it in our professions or in our families. The most important step, however, is to reconnect ourselves with this light. All those feminine qualities like caring, creativity, being in relationship, interconnectedness with the earth will automatically unfold, when a woman physically and spiritually reconnects herself with her potential by remembering the divine in herself and in creation. Although every single woman needs to find this wisdom in herself, it is very helpful to seek out a common feminine space. This can happen in the inner as well as in the outer realms. The feminine in us also knows that inner and outer are not really separate, they belong to the same reality. Life is dancing between both spaces, and it needs both spaces. There is an inner net of connections between all women, through which the feminine wisdom flows, a wisdom that is so much desired by life itself. Women can learn again to be with this inner net und to tune into its inherent constant flow. Yet this is only possible if women break down the artificially dividing walls that they have accepted or even built to stand between them and other women. Only if women leave behind rivalry and competition - which is more coherent with the masculine, yet for women, rather based on the adaptation to the masculine, can take on a very destructive quality when combined with feminine power - only if they leave behind this attitude, can they find access again to the inner streams of energy that flow between women. ‚Dancing with Life‘ is an excerpt from the book: „Frau sein – sensibel und stark. Mit der Kraft weiblicher Spiritualität das Leben neu gestalten“ , Chapter: Der Tanz mit dem Leben, in German. (Copyright Crotona Verlag, Germany) This is a private translation. ____________________ (*) The inner light of the feminine, her wisdom and connection with the light in creation, is not dependant on actually giving birth. All women carry it within, no matter if they physically give birth or not. 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[fusion_builder_container hundred_percent="yes" overflow="visible"][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type="2_3" last="yes" spacing="yes" center_content="no" hide_on_mobile="no" background_color="" background_image="" background_repeat="no-repeat" background_position="left top" hover_type="none" link="" border_position="all" border_size="0px" border_color="" border_style="" padding="" margin_top="" margin_bottom="" animation_type="" animation_direction="" animation_speed="0.1" animation_offset="" class="" id=""][fusion_content_boxes settings_lvl="child" layout="icon-with-title" columns="1" icon_align="left" title_size="" title_color="" body_color="" backgroundcolor="" icon_circle="" icon_circle_radius="" iconcolor="" circlecolor="" circlebordercolor="" circlebordersize="" outercirclebordercolor="" outercirclebordersize="" icon_size="" icon_hover_type="" hover_accent_color="" link_type="" link_area="" link_target="" animation_delay="" animation_offset="" animation_type="0" animation_direction="left" animation_speed="0.1" margin_top="" margin_bottom="" class="" id=""][fusion_content_box title="" icon="" backgroundcolor="" iconcolor="" circlecolor="" circlebordercolor="" circlebordersize="" outercirclebordercolor="" outercirclebordersize="" iconrotate="" iconspin="no" image="" image_width="35" image_height="35" link="" linktext="" link_target="_self" animation_type="" animation_direction="" animation_speed=""] RECEPTIVITY Excerpt from a talk by Angela Fischer (English translation) January 2012 „Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.” -Rainer Maria Rilke You might remember a certain experience in your life, or even more of them, when in a difficult and seemingly insolvable situation you were painfully approaching the moment, when you had to realise that you do not know how to go any further. We humans are stubborn and complicated, a strange species. Now and then we need a long time to get to that moment. Although we tend to avoid pain, we sometimes seem to deliberately stretch the time of increasing pain, because the last thing we want to do is to give up. Yet what happens, once we fully allow to not know? When we stop fighting and stop complaining, just because we are tired of it? When all at once we become still and give ourselves to the moment just as it is? When we stop doing anything and just are ? A space opens. And the open space is getting wider and wider. How do we relate to this space and how does the space relate to us? We are not thinking at those moments, we are not in our mind, we are beyond trying to make use of this space, making plans or creating concepts of what could be the right thing to do. Sometimes we may pray. It is not a prayer of asking for something, because prayer in this state is just being, being with all the need and vulnerability inside of us. We are completely naked, and so is the space – empty. In our nakedness we are human, full of need, and we do not deny it any longer. And then, very tenderly, an ear is opening, an ear in the heart, and we are listening into the silence of just being. Listening here is not stressful, there is no effort. It is infinetely relaxing. This is the moment when the tide is turning. There is room for something new that is waiting to arise, something we would not have thought of before. Sometimes it is through a clear thought, an answer that comes from within or an outer experience that lifts the whole situation to a different level of experience. We truly experience a deep process of transformation, but this transformation could have never happened without the crucial point of allowing to become receptive. Like a woman can never attract a soul to come into this world without being receptive. Without her receptivity there is no conception, no pregnancy and no birth of a child. The feminine quality of receptivity is what mystics know as the deep loving and longing in our relationship to God. Many mystics from various traditions contributed to the treasure of poetry about the most beautiful relationship that ever has been and will be: The loving relationship between the soul and God. And in this relationship the soul is receptive. In the soul there is a deeply rooted yearning for receptivity, to live it, to be feminine, no matter whether we are women or men, to be as we are – naked human beings with a deep unfathomable need for the Love of God. As Meister Eckhard says, „God is the sigh in the soul.“ [/fusion_content_box][/fusion_content_boxes][/fusion_builder_column][/fusion_builder_row][/fusion_builder_container]

ARTICLES – Page 2 – Oneness of Life

In the Night

Women are Interconnected

We are Called to Respond

Witnessing the Magic of Life

The Feminine and the Earth

Dancing with Life

Receptivity

A Pure Moment – A letter at New Year’s Eve