First Episode: A Back Door to Transcendence
At long last, my new baby podcast has leapt out of the nest and is flapping your way through the Void! If you are so inclined, please listen to her brave and lusty peeps, give her a kiss and send her on — and keep on the lookout for another of her intrepid siblings on the first Monday of every month.
In case you are curious about what she means by “rebelling against death,” here’s a 2 minute explanation:
Do you want to fill your life with joyful meaning? It’s simple. Just rebel against death!
I’m not talking about physical death — of course the body will die, no matter how much we rebel. But there’s way more to being human than the physical body. There’s something deathless inside us all — something that was never born and never dies, something beyond description or apprehension, some no-thing that is rooted in the Sacred and the Profound…
That’s what the Day of the Winged Lioness Podcast is about. Getting in touch with that part of us that never dies, and letting that Presence be our comfort and our guide, so that little by little we begin to replace our fear of death with a boundless faith in life — life ever unfolding into the joyful endless future.
This takes some work, I’ll admit it — but not serious, deadline-ridden work that you can’t wait to finish. This is a joyful, alluring work, a work of discovering what you really want and need. It’s a deeply personal work, yet one that none of us cando alone. Paradise is not private — it’s a place we all share, a place of unspeakable beauty and delight inside each of us, a place that down through the ages humans have been striving, consciously or not, to manifest in this world.
And that is our collective work here. As South American sage Silo puts it: “I will tell you the meaning of your life here: It is to humanize the earth. And what does it mean to humanize the earth? It means to overcome pain and suffering; it means to learn without limits; it means to love the reality you are building…” (The Internal Landscape, Book Two of the trilogy Humanize the Earth.)
That’s beautiful, you might say, but my everyday life is so busy and complicated — I simply don’t have any time or energy left for other stuff. How can I possibly fit something like this into my life?
Actually it’s not so hard. This is more about direction than about doing anything in particular, and you can easily find your direction right in the midst of your daily problematic life.
How? You might start by asking yourself who you are, and where you are going. You could also try treating others the way you want to be treated; and no matter what is going on, you can look for the signs of the sacred inside you and around you. Or try any of the other good suggestions in “The Path,” at the end of Silo’sMessage…
You can also fit brief moments of reflection into your day without losing a beat — like taking a moment between phone calls to look out the window at a tree or a cloud in the sky; or remembering a favorite song while you shred that pile of paper; or asking inside yourself for the best for the coworker you’re talking to…
And in those rare and precious moments when you do have a little more time, you can do something that inspires you, something you love — read a poem, cook someone a special meal, sing to your children, put on music and dance, take a walk in the park…No matter what the voice of reason tells you, the ways to rebel against death and live with joy are countless, as unlimited as the paths to the Sacred and the Profound. In fact I’ve heard it said that doing anything at all with your whole being will lead you to the same place: that deathless realm we all come from, the Place Where We Do Not Die.
