| Margaret's New Book, Landings! |
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Dear Friends,
I am very pleased to announce the upcoming
publication
of my new book, Landings, The Spiritual
Return to Living Fully in the Body. Landings is
due for release late this spring. I will be
providing updates on the website and in Spirit's
Scroll, so keep checking in with me and I will let you
know when it becomes available. I plan to offer
signed copies that you can order in my online store!
Here is a brief overview of the Landings storyline. I
hope you are intrigued and want to read further!
Traumatized by past sexual abuse, Jesse lives in a
fragmented world, where unknown aspects of her
personality take charge whenever she feels
threatened. Split away from her awareness of her
whole self, she survived and grew into adulthood
with dissociative disorder. She now stands at a
precipice of crisis, teetering on unstable ground,
which may crumble, descending to the loss of her
marriage, her sanity and her life.
Rose, an enigmatic healer whose lineage traces its
origins to the revelatory mystical teachings of Mary
Magdalene enters Jesse's ordinary worldview,
ushering her into a transformative realm of spiritual
healing and self-actualization. Together with the skill
of psychologist Dr. William Blackburn, these healers
assist in reuniting the shattered fragments of Jesse's
soul, by teaching her how to integrate her heart,
mind, body and spirit.
Jesse's heartrending and poignant adventure
launches her perceptual awareness beyond the
boundaries of personality and guides her to land upon
the transcendent territory of the infinite possibilities
of her soul. From the cellular release of traumatic
body memories to the emergence and integration of
altered states of personality, Jesse's tale of visionary
evolution reveals the gnosis, or inner knowing of the
Magdalene's legacy of sacred marriage, which unveils
the finest point of an individual's soul.
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| Mysteries of the Labyrinth |
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Walking the Labyrinth is akin to the movement of a
Woman’s Inner Moon, her cycle of creativity and
reproduction.
Movement from the outer opening into the center of
the labyrinth represents the ovulation phase of a
woman’s cycle. As estrogen circulates throughout
her body, her inner moon waxes, filling her with
creative energy as she brings forth her life-giving
eggs that peak at mid-cycle of her full moon. This is
her time to dance in the outer world, to be creative,
active and able to manifest her dreams. Her
shedding eggs journey down the lunar horns of her
fallopian tubes. Ovulation is the journey
inward to the center of the labyrinth. It is the first
phase of the labyrinth walk. The journey toward
the
center of the labyrinth is the time when we pose a
question to our intuitive voice.
When she reaches the center of her serpentine
journey, she will find illumination, a moment of clarity
and the conception of new insights to be birthed
with the release of her moon flow. As the waxing
into her full moon progresses, progesterone is
released, building up the uterine lining at this phase
of her moon cycle. At the center of the labyrinth
attention turns inward. She must take a moment to
reach into her essence and unveil her deeper
truth. She allows her inner knowing, her intuition, to
guide her as her dark moon flows. She floats and
dreams within this inner pool of feminine essence.
At its center, the labyrinth reveals the message
of the inner voice.
The return pathway is a walk of integration, a
journey where the treasure is unveiled and
understood. The cycle completes and begins anew.
Her void has been cleared and a space for new
ideas can be birthed, new concepts can grow and
fresh dreams can be implanted in the dark only to
rise and smile at the reflection of the moon’s return
to the light. The Oracle becomes the Awakened One
as she returns from the labyrinth’s spiraling inner
core. She is the bringer of the dawn of new wisdom.
The walk out of the labyrinth reveals
the insights and understanding of the message of the
inner voice.
This description of the how the labyrinth walk is
similar to a woman's reproductive cycle has its origin
in a transformative passage Jesse experiences in my
book, Landings, The Spiritual Return to
Living
Fully in the Body.
As I have worked more deeply with the guidance of
my inner voice, I have found the labyrinth to be a
particularly helpful process and tool for accessing my
inner guidance. I keep a finger labyrinth at my desk
and
when I am stumped, confused, unfocused or in need
of answers, I pose a question to the labyrinth and
then take the journey. What follows below is the
process I use for inspiration and intuitive guidance.
Try it out and see what you discover! (A good
source for a finger labyrinth you can print at your
desk can be found at www.lessons4learning.com)
- Place your left index finger at the opening of
the labyrinth’s path. Follow your breath for a few
minutes and center yourself, bringing your
consciousness down into your bodymind.
- Pose a question. This question can pertain to
any area of your life. As you pose the question, hold
it in your mind as you move into the labyrinth and
trace its path to the center with your fingertip.
- Come to the center and wait. Meditate for a
few minutes or until some form of an answer comes.
This illumination may not appear at first to be an
answer. It may be a vision or a symbol that at first
blush may not appear to have any meaning as a
response to your question. Just hold the thought or
vision in your womb space and allow it to be.
- Retrace your pathway out of the labyrinth
allowing the question and response to integrate
within you.
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| Chakra Work with the Labyrinth of Intuition |
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Our circle of intuition creates an opportunity for
inquiry and revelation that can be
accessed between the mind of the brain and the
mind of the body. We can travel the ladder of light,
or
the chakra system of the body, when we embark on
this kind of spiraling journey. Our intuitive voice
enlightens us as we take the knowledge gained from
the brain's mind and move it down into the body's
mind. In this movement of energy and
intelligence, we are able to access the wisdom
stored within the chakra system of the body.
The labyrinth exercise described below is included in
the Kuan Yin Personal Seminar now available at
wisdomwalks.com. If you missed our online course
on the Kuan Yin material, this work is offered to you
now in the self study seminar version of these
empowering teachings.
Let’s practice this mystical movement now with the
Finger Labyrinth. We will follow the same exercise as
previously given but this time, imagine you are
traveling the ladder of light (chakra system) within
the labyrinth, from your brain's mind to your
bodymind, (located at the center of your body near
your navel).
You will begin at the brain, represented by the outer
opening of the path and you will travel inward to the
body mind at the center of the labyrinth. There will
be natural resting-places on the spiraling path where
you encounter each of your chakras. Allow your
fingertip to sense and determine where these
chakras exist on your spiraling journey.
Place your left index finger at the opening of the
labyrinth’s path. Follow your breath for a few
minutes and center yourself. When you feel ready,
pose a question. This question can pertain to any
area of your life. As you pose the question, hold it in
your mind and move into the labyrinth, tracing its
circular path to the center.
Begin at the crown chakra at the top of your head,
which is represented at the opening of the labyrinth.
This energy center is home to the aspect of you that
is the old soul within, who knows and sees all of
your inner truth as it merges with the vastness of
your spirit. Ask this energy center to awaken and be
with you on your labyrinthine journey
to the center of your bodymind.
Now move your finger along the path and allow it to
rest when your fingertip senses the place of
your third eye chakra on the labyrinth. This energy
center is home to the aspect of you that
is insightful and open to the cosmic all-seeing-eye of
your inner truth. Ask this energy center to awaken
and be with you on your labyrinthine journey to the
center of your bodymind.
Now move your finger along the path and allow it to
rest at the place on the path that
represents your throat chakra. This energy center is
home to the aspect of you that speaks with the
sweetness of your inner truth as it reflects the
greater truth of the Divine. Ask this energy center
to awaken and be with you on your labyrinthine
journey to the center of your bodymind.
Now move your finger along the path and allow it to
rest at the place on the path that
represents your heart chakra. This energy center is
home to the aspect of you that is loving
and willing to open your heart to the intelligence of
love which is the eternal source of your inner truth.
Ask this energy center to awaken and be with you on
your labyrinthine journey to the center of your
bodymind.
Now move your finger along the path and allow it to
rest at the place on the path that
represents your solar plexus chakra. This energy
center is home to the aspect of you that
is curious about your intuition and willing to explore
your inner truth. Ask this energy center to awaken
and be with you on your labyrinthine journey to the
center of your bodymind.
Now move your finger along the path and allow it to
rest at the place on the path that
represents your sexual chakra. This energy center is
home to the aspect of you that is
playful, creative, and open to the imagination, the
gateway leading to
your inner truth. Ask this energy center to awaken
and be with you on your labyrinthine journey to the
center of your bodymind.
Now move your finger along the path and allow it to
rest at the place on the path that
represents your root chakra. This energy center is
home to the aspect of you that is innocent and one
with the beauty of nature. Ask this energy center to
awaken and be with you on your labyrinthine journey
to the center of your bodymind.
Come to the center of your labyrinth and drop your
consciousness down into your bodymind. Feel your
center of awareness and be still. Meditate and wait
for a vision, sensation, message, or a feeling to come
to you, slowly and gently with great ease. Stay with
this until some form of an answer comes. This
illumination may not appear at first to be an answer.
It may be a vision or a symbol that initially may
not have any meaning for you as a response to your
question. Just hold the thought or vision in your
womb space and allow it to be.
When you feel you have received the message,
retrace your pathway out of the labyrinth allowing
the question and response to integrate within you.
Again, stop when your fingertip senses the presence
of each chakra and anchor the energy in each of
these centers, allowing the message to deepen along
the ladder of light with each center of wisdom
offering its contribution to the meaning of the
message you have received.
Once you have reached the outer opening of the
labyrinth, imagine you have arrived at the height of
your crown chakra and visualize a golden lotus
blossom unfolding at this energy center. It is
unfolding with the beauty of your inner wisdom.
Inner Teen Mini-Online Course
This Mini-Online Course is designed to help you
reconnect to your Inner Teen and to forge a
meaningful and life long bond with this aspect of your
soul. You will discover inner pathways that reveal
healing practices to remove any blockages between
the adult and teen aspects of you. You will
encounter the perpetual question every teen asks of
herself, Who am I? Within your circle of life, you will
discover how your teen perceives her self in relation
to your body image, self concept and identity,
search for meaning, and where you fit in the world of
your unique creations.
The teen within is the blossoming rose, filled with
beauty and the light of your budding intuitive self.
The archetypal energy of the Inner Teen often
contains unknown or forgotten aspects of your divine
light. Most adults look back to the child aspect of
self for healing and hidden keys to passion and
purpose in life. It is true, the child holds many of
these keys, but so does the aspect of you that is
the Inner Teen! Many participants of the Kuan Yin
Online Course, (which pertains to the teen stage of
life) discovered and expressed to me that very deep
healing work lay with their inner teen.
By re-establishing contact and creating a sacred
trust with your Inner Teen, you will learn how to
effectively heal wounds she may be carrying
from your past, which could be impacting your life
today. Through relationship and inner dialogue and
true partnership with your Inner Teen, you will
reclaim your sense of well being in your present life.
You will discover any missing links from your sense of
purpose and destiny that your inner teen may
embody for you. Come explore the wonder of your
intuitive nature that finds its source within your inner
creative teen!
So often in present day adult life, we lose touch with
the part of our self that listens to the inner voice of
wisdom. We disown the supposed 'rebellious teen'
who questions our adult authority. And yet, it is this
aspect of self whose impetuous nature provides the
uncanny ability to zero in on insight that the adult
mind may feel too burdened with responsibility to
perceive.
The untamed teen has a quick wit and wild spirited
core at the essence of her being and she holds many
directives to your destiny. Your Inner
Teen is a vital contributor to the holistic nature of
your intuitive voice. She is the one who listens
without judgment or distraction and with lightning
speed, she uncovers the pearls of intuition's truth.
Come join me in this online adventure of spirit with
unique coursework offering pathways for reuniting
with your Wise Inner Teen!
This Mini-Online Course provides the Inner Teen
Teachings as given in the Kuan Yin Online Course and
Personal Seminar. If you want to focus on the Inner
Teen aspect of these teachings, then this mini-online
course is for you!
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| About Margaret Hart Lewis |
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Margaret H. Lewis is a highly regarded professional
speaker, workshop facilitator, business and personal
development consultant, gifted spiritual practitioner
and author. For over 20 years she has provided
countless training seminars and workshops on a wide
range of life management and personal development
skills.
Margaret is a graduate of an intensive four-year
program of spiritual study, receiving her
professional certification and ministerial license. She
is continually engaged in many areas of research and
study that further her continuing education as a
spiritual practitioner.
From 2000 - 2005, Margaret directed Lynn Andrews
website where she designed, wrote and taught
Online Spirituality Courses with Ms. Andrews. In her
role as the Online Course Creator, Margaret oversaw
the entire learning environment and curriculum
presentation. Margaret has ventured out on her
own and is offering many new online courses and
learning adventures on her website at
www.wisdomwalks.com. Please keep checking the
website and new issues of Spirit's Scroll for
updates!
In private consultations, Margaret has assisted
hundreds of people in releasing the blocks that are
holding them back from achieving their goals and
visions of fulfillment. To set up an appointment with
Margaret, please email her at info@wisdomwalks.com
or visit her online store at www.wisdomwalks.com.
"Please do not discard me", says the soft voice of
Spirit's Scroll. "I am a thought form, an energetic
being. Help me live on. Share me with a kindred
soul, someone who might want to hear my voice.
Please forward me to a friend so I may travel on,
dancing on the fibers of Spiderwoman's web!"
To forward this email to a friend, scroll down to
the very bottom of the newsletter and click on the
link in the bottom left hand corner that says Forward
Email. Thanks!
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Wisdom Walks the Spiraling Life Stages |
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Each Wisdom Walks Online Learning Experience,
whether it be an online course, personal seminar, or
a focused mini-course, addresses a specific life stage
and its particular attribute of intuition. Like a
spiraling nebula, our passage through each life stage
marks the unfolding DNA of our soul. This spiraling
journey shapes us individually and allows for spiritual
growth to occur as we master the gifts of our
intuitive voice at each stage on our circle of life.
Now Available! The WisdomWalks Kuan Yin
Personal Seminar and the Inner Teen Mini-Course!
Online Courses
The Wisdom Walks Series of online courses relate to
the attributes of intuition at each life stage. Each
course in this series stands on its own, so there are
no pre-requisite courses. You are welcome to join our
series with any course from any life stage at any
direction on the wheel of life.
Each course is characterized by the archetypal
presence of the wisdom of Ancient Goddess figures.
Artemis, Greek Goddess of the Moon and the Hunt,
symbolizes the untamed virginal aspects of the
Child's intuitive nature. Kuan Yin, Chinese Goddess of
Compassion embodies the teachings of the Inner
Teen's pearls of intuitive wisdom.
White Buffalo Calf Woman, the Native American
Goddess of the Sacred Pipe of Prayer, guides the
Adult's intuitive relationship with the Divine Source of
creation. Brigid, Celtic Goddess of the Inner Flame,
represents the everlasting fiery wisdom of the
spiritual Sage.
Online courses include a comprehensive workbook,
online audio versions of all the meditation and
visualization practices, two conference calls with
your classmates and Margaret, and the online
message board for discussion circles relating to the
work of the course.
Personal Seminars
Personal seminars are designed as learning
experiences created for independent study. The
seminars contain the same teachings as offered in
the Online Courses.
If you are unable to participate in a scheduled online
course, you may take the seminar version of the
Online Course in your own time and at your own
pace.
Personal Seminars have rolling registration, which
means you can register for the seminar at any time.
Personal seminar materials include a comprehensive
workbook, online audio versions of all the meditations
and visualization practices, and a one hour phone
consultation with Margaret to review your discoveries
upon completion of the seminar assignments.
If you are one who enjoys self study in accordance
with your own schedule, the personal seminar is an
ideal fit for your path of endeavor! You can take all
the time you need to explore the work, and when
you feel you have reached a place of completion,
Margaret will make herself available to discuss your
realizations, answer any questions or concerns, help
you release any blockages to your intuitive voice,
and she will offer new avenues for further discovery.
Mini-Online Courses
Mini-Online Courses are designed to create a focused
area of study regarding one particular life stage
offered in each of the Wisdom Walks Series of Online
Courses. For example, the first mini-course is based
on the Inner Child Teachings as given in the Artemis
Online Course and Personal Seminar. The second mini-
course focuses on the Inner Teen as examined in
the Kuan Yin online course and seminar. Future mini-
courses will be developed for each life stage.
Mini-online courses include a comprehensive
workbook and a CD set of all the guided journeys and
meditations that accompany the course materials.
These courses have rolling registration, which means
you can register for the course at any time.
Intuitive Lessons at each Life Stage
The child within you knows her source exists among
the stars and her dreaming world of magical thinking
opens the floodgates of star guidance that showers
you with the starlight of your intuitive soul. The
great lesson in the child life stage is to learn to trust
the intuitive voice.
When the child grows into the teen, she moves down
to earth from the starry realms and becomes fully
embodied in her physicality, with both feet planted
on the earth. She is driven to experience all things of
the material world and she becomes acutely aware of
how her gut level intuition guides her. The great
challenge in the teen life stage is to learn to truly
listen to the intuitive voice.
The adult is the one who orchestrates the symphony
of sound manifesting into form between the heavenly
cosmos and planet earth. Where the child is of the
stars and the teen is of the earth, it is the adult who
choreographs the energy between the above and
below realms of the stars and the earth. She is the
one who manifests her soul's intuitive starry dream
on the material plane of earthly existence. The
adult's learning at this life stage is to follow the heed
of the intuitive voice.
We come full circle when our wheel of life turns
toward the life stage of the Sage. She is the one
who holds the wisdom of her experience. Her
challenge is to share her intuitive voice with all who
come into her life circle. Understanding the
lessons of earthbound life, she looks again to the
stars, the place where she knows she will one day
return when at last she finds her wings of intuitive
flight.
I invite you on this journey from the stars to the
earth and back to the stars as we explore the
inherent wisdom within your soul. All the aspects of
you from the child to the teen, the adult and the
sage, have so much to share with you. Let’s do the
deep work of spirituality. Let’s dive below the
surface of the mind’s meditations to the heart’s
soulful beat and the gut’s primal understanding of
the very core of your essence. That is
what I offer in our online learning adventures. Do
you have the courage to take the plunge with me?
For the Child and Teen stages of your life's circle,
you may participate in these online courses the next
time they are scheduled. If you missed the online
courses for these life stages, Personal Seminar
versions and mini-online course are available for
purchase now in my online store at WisdomWalks.
Later this year, I will be offering the Adult Online
Course for this very intriguing life stage and I am
already gaining wonderful insights into the design of
this new work!
Come join us for our next Sacred Fire on
May 6th, 2006 at Lake Erie for a celebration of
Rebirthing your Creativity! All are welcome
to our fire circle! I'd like to see your
golden countenance shining in the firelight of our
circle of kindred spirits.
We held a Mid-Summer Fire on Thundering Lake and
now plan to follow our Autumn Fire and Winter Fires
with a Spring fire of rebirth! Our fire on
May 6th will awaken the Great Creative Artist within
you. Spring is the time of new life and the
manifestation of our dreams. Come join us at the
light of our Spring Fire of Creativity and leap over the
flames of your winter slumber and land among the
lush blooms of your rebirth. This fire will capture and
dance alive the energy of your creative acts of
manifestation!
I would love to hear from you! Please email
me at
info@wisdomwalks.com with your questions and
thoughts about this issue of Spirit's Scroll.
Calling All Artists and Photographers! If you
have work you would like for me to feature in Spirit's
Scroll, please contact me at info@wisdomwalks.com.
My thanks and full copyright credit belongs to NASA
for the amazing spiraling nebula photo featured in
this issue of Spirit's Scroll.
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