Episode 52: Access and Radiate Your Full Luminosity

[00:00:00] Well, welcome back to The One Thing Podcast where we all get to usher in the new age of humanity

[00:00:19] beyond homo sapiens which Laurie and I call homo spiritus by practicing dancing with

[00:00:27] The One Thing that individuals, communities and countries have yet to try on mass. That One Thing

[00:00:34] is the connection to the higher self part of our true self anatomy that people call by various

[00:00:39] different names. We call it The One Thing for the purpose of this podcast and our prime directive

[00:00:45] above all else is to make and constantly return to taught connection day in and day out and

[00:00:53] breath in and breath out as our first step in dealing with everything in our daily life, rather than

[00:01:01] viewing problems as things we can solve separately from taught. And in this episode which is called

[00:01:08] Access and Radio Radiate, let me say that again, access and radiate your luminosity will be

[00:01:16] illuminating ways to unlock the untapped brilliance within you that's been yearning for expressions

[00:01:23] so you can shine your light more effectively, authentically and fully without unnecessarily

[00:01:31] scaring people. So Laurie, go ahead and start off with our framing.

[00:01:40] We don't want to be scary also although sometimes that does happen. So I want to say that there's a

[00:01:48] whole level of healing available in Chinese medicine and it's called alchemical healing.

[00:01:54] And basically what that means is taking and David will say more about this shadow piece in a minute,

[00:02:00] but it's taking our blocks, our stuck places, our shadows, our our our heavinesses the things we

[00:02:10] bump up against are you know the energy that is tangled in us that is no longer working anymore.

[00:02:16] And and that's called lead in alchemy and and alchemyzing it or transforming it

[00:02:25] into the gold which is an outcome or a way of being or a pathway or a connection that actually is

[00:02:33] at a higher serving level. And the the ancient philosophers within the Chinese medical path

[00:02:40] or the Taoist pathway and honestly all philosophy past spiritual pasts even religious pasts talk

[00:02:46] about this just in their own way. So because I'm you know imbued in Chinese medicine,

[00:02:51] I thought we would throw this part in which is every particle of life is light. And so the

[00:02:59] philosophers talk about turning our light inside because it's so easy to be distracted by all

[00:03:06] the happenings and the you know just the things that are going on in our life. And of course we have

[00:03:12] to tend to those but if we do that only and we leave the part out about where we turn our light inside

[00:03:18] and we do you know we look into ourself, our soul, our heart and we ask questions of our of our

[00:03:27] illumination right about how do we shine light on some on something that isn't working.

[00:03:34] We always get those answers in those directions and those insights but most people won't stick to

[00:03:42] a regular practice of going inside to illuminate their wisdom, their guidance, their soul's purpose.

[00:03:50] So we just wanted to start out by framing the reason we are having this episode with that.

[00:03:58] And as you kind of alluded to briefly I'm going to talk about another framing piece having to do

[00:04:07] with what is referred to as golden shadow. So shadow from Jungian psychology is the parts of us that

[00:04:16] we're not in good conscious connection with basically as the shortest way of defining shadow

[00:04:25] and there are parts of us that we've hidden away or that we're out of conscious contact with

[00:04:33] because we judge those parts of us to be unacceptable or bad or we have a negative spin on them.

[00:04:43] And that's lead in shadow if we extend the alchemy metaphor from lead transforming lead into gold.

[00:04:50] The golden shadow is the parts of our light, the parts of our brilliance, the parts of our

[00:04:59] our giftedness that and what we're calling in this episode luminosity that we learned at some point

[00:05:07] while growing up was too much for the people around us. And so we learned how to and I certainly

[00:05:15] learned how to tamp down my luminosity. I learned how to tamp down the amount of my gold

[00:05:26] that I expressed because I discovered, I didn't decide, I discovered that there were parts of

[00:05:34] that that word too much for other people and I didn't know what to do about that. So yeah.

[00:05:41] What I learned at a young age was that parts of my luminosity scared people

[00:05:48] or confused people too but mostly scared people. And so this episode in ending up the framing

[00:05:58] portion of this, this episode is about developing conscious relationship with or accessing our

[00:06:08] luminosity and embodying it, expressing it into the world in ways that don't unnecessarily

[00:06:17] scare people. And you know if we scare people without meaning to then that's a whole other thing but

[00:06:25] but it's really not about intending to scare people with our luminosity.

[00:06:30] Yeah. If we're truly aligned with our higher self and the light of our higher self is integrated

[00:06:38] into us, we would never purposely harm any part of life. So that's kind of one good thing to know. I

[00:06:43] had the same experience with my growing up life. You know, I learned very early that I was too

[00:06:51] much and I had to tamp down my being in my light. And sometimes I think well, that's part of the

[00:06:58] that's part of the push pull of being on on a planet of contrast. Does it always have to be

[00:07:04] that way? I don't know, but it is that way now. And the other thing I was going to say about

[00:07:10] is that sometimes we do need to develop ourselves enough to be able to handle our own shadow

[00:07:16] in good ways that don't destroy us or you know send us down paths of addiction or all the other

[00:07:22] ways that it could harm us, right? Or anybody else for that matter. But I wanted to read something

[00:07:28] which is I'm in the middle of this of this learning of alchemical healing. And so from the viewpoint

[00:07:35] of Jungian archetypal psychology, the innate drive of the small self to become the fullest

[00:07:42] expression of the big self is equally recognized as the beings, the human beings most important

[00:07:50] task. And so a conscious return to a wholeness that we wordlessly remember, meaning we don't always

[00:07:59] have words but we it's there in every single heart. And and that you know that that describes the

[00:08:07] illumination or the luminosity that we're having this conversation in order to you know bring

[00:08:12] awareness to so that it can be consciously cultivated. Yeah, yeah. So next let's talk about a few

[00:08:22] keys to embracing and exposing or expressing your true radiance. We were talking early about should we

[00:08:29] use the word expose? Anyway, and we chose express but I said expose anyway. So there are many ways.

[00:08:38] One of the primary ways is mindfulness and meditation because it helps us to bring our attention

[00:08:46] and our awareness internally. A lot of people will say, oh I just can't quite my mind so you know

[00:08:53] that's not good for me but there's you know there's other ways too there's walking meditation.

[00:08:57] There's a I've said it probably at least a thousand times on this podcast it there's the invitation

[00:09:04] of light to flow into your system from above from your higher self into the top of your head and

[00:09:10] filling your whole system. There's the focus of a of an orb of light in the center of our brain that

[00:09:17] we can actually pulsate and you know kind of expand and contract when we see photos of

[00:09:25] ascended beings or saints who used to be human they they have that orb around their head right and

[00:09:33] what they did is they dedicated their life to walking their small self their human self

[00:09:40] closer and closer to their divine self or their light enlightened self and they closed that gap

[00:09:47] to the degree that they you know they had luminosity in their cells they you know radiating from

[00:09:52] their their pores basically. So yeah that's one key do you want to say anymore before I say

[00:10:01] the next ones? No no you keep going and then I'll share some of my keys. Yeah I think

[00:10:09] you know the other work and and David might say this too is that when something presents itself

[00:10:16] that's a trigger or a charge or a hard a hard place or a block something we can't move the energy

[00:10:22] around and sometimes those it doesn't they haven't been around a long time and other times it's

[00:10:28] but it's been a long long time and we get we get weary of trying to figure out our way around them.

[00:10:36] One of the things I've personally learned is that if I don't turn my back to that energy if

[00:10:41] I if I turn toward it and find where that feels like it's heavy in my body and then I bring light

[00:10:49] to that part of my body and or I journal I ask it what it needs and then I journal about that

[00:10:56] and or I do a creative art process around that. Then those are helpful tools to help move the

[00:11:03] energy so that I can just all we need is just a little you know a little opening of insight

[00:11:10] because then we can connect into it and invite more and it's sort of this dance if you will this

[00:11:17] reciprocal exchange between setting up the the the sacred altar or the you know the the conditions

[00:11:23] for insight to drop in our intention is very big you know part of that and and heartfelt not

[00:11:31] not a drive from our lower human mind to try to make something go away but a heartfelt connection

[00:11:37] to the energy that isn't working in order to alchemize it into energy that will work right and we're

[00:11:43] doing this all our let we're do constantly doing this you know sometimes we're blocking the process

[00:11:48] but we're going to be doing it for the rest of our time in these physical forms so in my view

[00:11:52] we might forget good at it so those are those are the few of the keys that I would offer marvelous

[00:12:01] and my keys have to do with adding on to what you were saying honey the the imagery components

[00:12:12] that I have found are very very important for me and this goes all the way back the origin of what

[00:12:20] about to share goes all the way back to my childhood when I had a series a regular series of recurring

[00:12:30] dreams for quite a period of time where I at this we're sleeping dreams not waking dreams so at night

[00:12:39] when I was asleep I would see myself I would dream about being in a tunnel and

[00:12:46] the tunnel would go down deeper and deeper and deeper until it would kind of come to an end and

[00:12:54] it would open up into this massive cavern of incredible jewels just bedecked in jewels

[00:13:04] full of all kinds of dazzling jewels and over time that dream

[00:13:12] changed to where I would go into the tunnel and it would go down and down and down and wouldn't

[00:13:21] ever find that chamber which was very upsetting to me as a child and then years later I found access

[00:13:33] to that chamber again and have brought the chamber more up to the surface so that's the short

[00:13:44] version of my own personal experience as a backdrop for the imagery so what I'm going to invite

[00:13:50] you to do in terms of a key another key to embracing and expressing your true radiance

[00:13:57] is to first of all and I'm just going to summarize this I'm not going to give you time to do

[00:14:02] this during the podcast so you might want to pause and then keep going if if you need my guidance

[00:14:10] but here's the overall picture of it. The first thing is to allow an image to form of the place

[00:14:19] inside you where your full luminosity has been stored especially the parts of your luminosity

[00:14:28] that you needed to hide or diminish in order to survive whatever you needed to survive

[00:14:36] so the first part is allowing that image to form in whatever way that happens for you

[00:14:43] internal imagery journaling artwork doesn't really matter the form but allow that image to form

[00:14:52] and once you allow that image to form of where your luminosity the parts of your luminosity that

[00:15:00] you learned to tamp down are stored and and what that looks like and feels like and what it's

[00:15:08] like for you to be with that then the second part is to allow another image to form in which

[00:15:19] you retrieve that hidden luminosity so an image of retrieving that and bringing that

[00:15:28] fully into you into your being into your every dayness and then the third part of the imagery

[00:15:38] is allowing an image to form of you fully expressing that entire luminosity into the world

[00:15:50] and the imagery there is about it being expressed in ways that that are beautifully received

[00:16:00] are received in lovely ways and that isn't necessarily shared with everyone because some people

[00:16:09] might be scared of it but where we have this imagery of what it's like for us to be in full

[00:16:17] embodiment of that full luminosity beautiful yeah that's I'm really glad you included the part about

[00:16:28] bringing it into our life because what when we touch into our luminosity which every single

[00:16:35] human being has bar none it's in the core of our heart you know held until the time when we are

[00:16:45] devoted to connecting into it but if we don't ask it to teach us and ask it to help us know how

[00:16:55] integrated into all the parts of our lives our relationships our work our you know our self-care

[00:17:01] are how we impact the world all the parts of our life right then then it will it will with her

[00:17:08] just like a plant who goes on watered so it really is important to make a decision to have this sort

[00:17:13] of ongoing forever more relationship with this this part of you and it will it will grow it will

[00:17:20] evolve you it will teach you it will it will show you the way you know everything that you could

[00:17:26] possibly imagine that you would need from a teacher you would you would get from this from your own

[00:17:30] luminous self right and and it might be valuable to consider that this the un cultivated part of our

[00:17:43] luminous self is a superpower waiting to be liberated and we all have our own versions of super power

[00:17:52] not every we're not going to all come out to be the same beings but I think a lot of the attempts

[00:17:57] right now in you know people talking about they want more to be more authentic and they're reading

[00:18:02] books on authenticity and taking courses on authenticity this is this is really the deep treasure

[00:18:09] of authenticity because underneath becoming more authentic and more feeling like we're ourselves is

[00:18:18] this radiant luminosity and the liberation of that is is potent it's medicine it's a guide it's

[00:18:27] it's healing I mean there's just there's just there's a lot there so yeah go for it

[00:18:36] beautiful so we we just touched on keys to embracing and expressing your true radiance your radiant

[00:18:44] luminosity as as you beautifully called that and the second part of what we want to offer up is the

[00:18:53] part about without triggering unnecessarily defensiveness or unnecessary rather defensiveness or fear

[00:19:02] in others and I'll start by sharing a joke that's one of my favorite jokes and if you if you know

[00:19:12] me and you've heard this before forgive me what's the difference between a schizophrenic and a mystic

[00:19:19] well a mystic doesn't go telling their mystical experiences to just anyone and there's I think

[00:19:28] real truth in that joke because if I'm telling my mystical experiences to people who would be afraid

[00:19:38] would be frightened to hear those things then I'm being indiscriminate I'm actually not being fully

[00:19:47] loving so there's discernment involved and I'll double back to that in a moment but first what I want

[00:19:55] to add is that there's a form of luminosity that is universally expressible and that is embodying the

[00:20:07] energy of love embodying it just embodying it not verbalizing it necessarily not forcing it on

[00:20:17] anyone just being in full luminosity and when we are in full luminosity and certain people get

[00:20:26] scared by that that's what I would consider to be unavoidable fear we can't control that in people

[00:20:36] we can certainly be responsible for being conscious and deliberate about how we express

[00:20:46] that luminosity in words and in offerings beyond just embodying love and the way I do that now

[00:20:53] doubling back to what I mentioned a moment ago is I live with three questions based on when I'm

[00:21:02] intending to be a luminous presence presence and wanting to offer something of value to someone

[00:21:10] and I get a download I get I get input that's that feels wiser than me the first question I ask

[00:21:20] is did I get that accurately versus did I kind of distort that or filter that or interpret that

[00:21:30] through my own preconceptions and when I get a green light from my higher presence from the one

[00:21:38] thing that I got the download accurately the second question I ask is is this for me to share

[00:21:48] with the person that I'm with and again it's not my ego that's answering that I'm asking

[00:21:56] my higher presence I'm asking the one thing for guidance about that and sometimes I get that

[00:22:06] this is not for me to share it's for me to know in order to love more effectively but not necessarily

[00:22:14] for me to share because sharing it might be too frightening and then the third question when I get

[00:22:22] the download yes this is something to share not simply to know in order to be more helpful but

[00:22:30] to share in order to be more helpful I ask the one thing I ask my higher presence I ask spirit

[00:22:39] source whatever your word again is for the one thing is this for me to share now or at a future time

[00:22:49] because sometimes I will get a download that is not only for me it is for the other person

[00:22:56] but it's not for them right this moment and so those are my three questions did I get it right

[00:23:05] is it for me to share and if it's for me to share is now the time for me to share it and that's

[00:23:13] how I go about doing my best to embody and express my luminosity without triggering unnecessary

[00:23:22] defensiveness or fear in others how about you honey yeah that's beautiful I think that um simply put

[00:23:32] I'll riff off of what you said about embodying love because I know that light carries love so when

[00:23:38] I call forth that light slash love it's the in-young principle the masculine feminine alpha the omega

[00:23:45] we all have those parts and we're bringing those parts into better and better and higher and higher

[00:23:50] harmony even as for many years many centuries that has been out of balance um you know there's this

[00:23:59] this line in in the bible that says be still and know that I am God so you can say be still and know

[00:24:05] that I am love or be still and know that I am present be still and know that I'm one with nature whatever

[00:24:13] way you want to say it but the point is is that we settle the tendency of the human mind to spin so

[00:24:20] that we can even have an opening for a download like David was talking about or maybe all you can

[00:24:26] access at the time depending on the circumstances just being in that stillness or in that embodiment

[00:24:34] of love and I think we've said this before but maybe it's worth repeating that we're not when

[00:24:39] we talk about love we're not talking about the romanticized version of love we're talking about

[00:24:43] the greater um archetype of love that pervades all of the universe and holds the universe together

[00:24:52] it is the fabric of the universe so we're we're tapping into that field and we are one with that

[00:24:56] field and we're calling it into ourselves so that first and foremost we we are we have a stillness

[00:25:04] in that an openness an expansion if we can do that it that is capable we're capable of doing

[00:25:10] that with practice and then an offering to a person or a situation if it's if it's appropriate

[00:25:15] by guidance so you know that's probably the I mean there's other long list of things but that's

[00:25:23] really the starting place I think for every for every human even even once we're further on

[00:25:29] the spiritual path sometimes forget this basic foundational piece so um and I guess I'll just

[00:25:36] let me let me just add really quickly that one of the words for that expanded version of love

[00:25:45] is agape so it's not a new word necessarily for you to learn but if you're familiar with the

[00:25:52] form of love that's been called agape that's the form of love that we're we're talking about wouldn't

[00:25:58] you say that would yeah I don't use that word but I understand it's meaning and I don't either

[00:26:06] but I it came into me to to just offer that opportunity cross translation and then as you were

[00:26:13] sharing the the quote from the bible be still what I what I heard in the context of this podcast is

[00:26:21] be still and know that I am taught yes yes same difference right just different wording I mean

[00:26:28] it's funny we have to find our right words other I mean that those are like the the the keys

[00:26:33] that open the door that gets us past the gates of the mind and if we have the wrong words it's like

[00:26:39] having the wrong key or the wrong combination to get the lock open exactly and what and I want

[00:26:43] to underline that because the right words or the wrong words are the ones for us that's not a universal

[00:26:51] your right words aren't necessarily my right words even though we're both trying to

[00:26:58] get access to and expression of the same thing right exactly so I feel like you know

[00:27:08] are we are we good to go on to the takeaways yeah yeah I'm good now I feel like um you know

[00:27:13] this is a call a call the soul that has been around since the beginning of time you know since

[00:27:20] human beings have been experiencing humanity on the planet and there are times where we've

[00:27:26] done better than others and I I like to maybe it's idealistic but I like to think that even as we're

[00:27:33] moving through some you know some hard stuff on the planet right now this is still the call

[00:27:39] right the call to um turn in access your your luminosity

[00:27:45] and then radiate it on purpose consciously with your awareness with a direction with a directive

[00:27:52] from your from your mind this is literally ancient wisdom in modern times and all

[00:27:59] ancients who have done this successfully um you know it's basically the same thing as what we're

[00:28:06] talking about maybe different words and and just remembering that this idea of alchemizing

[00:28:12] what isn't you know what is in not in the light yet into the light it includes a healing power

[00:28:18] of imagination as David mentioned with using it it includes connecting into your creative life force

[00:28:24] and this energy this life force this light that we are insists on the dynamic field created

[00:28:32] through relationship and it invites spirit into the experience of being human and those are the

[00:28:39] that's the dance that we're inviting you know that every human being really does want to be invited to

[00:28:47] and that that wording I love invites spirit into the experience of being human

[00:28:58] so my yes I mean well of course you agree I was just saying what you said

[00:29:05] yeah well so well it's what the whole podcast is based on is what I was going to say oh

[00:29:15] gotcha through that and so my takeaway that I want to offer is basically another way of saying what

[00:29:26] what Laurie just said which is the world needs all of us to stop holding back our

[00:29:34] inner radiance including me including all of us because the the transcendence that humanity

[00:29:43] is moving into with fits and starts and rebellion and terror and divisiveness and all of that stuff

[00:29:53] despite all of it the transcendence that humanity is evolving into can't happen without our

[00:30:04] radiance without our luminosity and yes so when you when people often ask me what can I do I mean

[00:30:13] you know the world needs so much help and so much healing well yes and if each of us is doing

[00:30:21] our unique appointed part then all of the things that need healing or need freedom

[00:30:28] or need transcendence will be covered not none of us can do all of it but what all of us can do

[00:30:36] to help that happen in every single moment with every single breath is to stop holding back our

[00:30:43] inner radiance beautiful well said yes it's there it's there you know a lot of people doubt it but

[00:30:52] not once you start getting in and creating this relationship with it then it'll prove to you that

[00:30:58] it is there and it's worthy of all the attention you have to give it so our next episode as has

[00:31:08] become the case is we're awaiting guidance to know what that is and it usually comes as we

[00:31:15] for our first glass of wine unless you have and talk about the episode unless you have some ideas

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[00:31:35] any any requests you have for future topics that we would you know that you would like us to talk

[00:31:40] about we'd be happy to so until the next time please remember to dance with your better half

[00:31:48] the one thing or whatever you call it so you can keep living more and more fully as homo spiritus

[00:31:54] as you're illuminated luminous homo spiritus itself