Inspiration?

[OneGrassRoot]

There are periodic posts here with wonderful videos and websites which provide inspiration, especially when we may be feeling lost and truly clueless as to what path to take or what tomorrow may bring.

Would you kindly share here what/where you turn to when you're lost and seek inspiration?

:grouphug:

[I Have A Dream]

1. I go to the SOUP (Seekers on Unique Paths) group...

and check out what Dover has posted. Her stuff always makes me feel inspired.

Otherwise, I listen to Krishna Das music. It doesn't really make me feel "inspired", but it certainly helps me to feel "connected".

:loveya:

[OneGrassRoot]

2. My goodness, I had no idea that was even here....

Thanks, IHAD.

:loveya:

[Kind of Blue]

3. I've been listening to

Lonnie Liston Smith since I was 15. His music, to me, seems to encompass all the goodness of the Universe. I think the songs are of the highest vibration that lifts me up and up. I recently found out and should have known that he studied with Miles Davis in the early '70s, who Smith says drew his talent further out.

The authors I turn immediately turn to are Ken Keyes, Jr. and Joseph Campbell. Whenever I pick up one of their books, any page I land on seems to be enough to start alignment - Hey, this thread is doing the same thing :) :hug: :hug: :hug:

[I Have A Dream]

4. Oh, yeah... Joseph Campbell is great!

:hi:, Blue! :loveya:

I'm also going to check out Ken Keyes, Jr.

[Kind of Blue]

5. Hi, IHAD!

"My reality is that I am far too busy and involved in my life activities to have time to concern myself with self-consciousness in the wheelchair department. Today I view my so-called 'handicap' as another gift my life has offered me."

And then I was like, who am I not to at least try living life as fully as possible, no matter what :hug: :loveya: :hug: :loveya: :hug:

[OneGrassRoot]

6. Thanks...

:hug:

[Celebration]

10. Speaking of Joseph Campbell

Whom I love, I heard this person the other day

http://www.coasttocoastam.com/show/2011/11/26

Paul A. Trout (book link), retired professor at Montana State University, for a discussion on how ancient mythology about animal predators in search of human flesh has factual roots based on mankind's early history. He traced this concept back to the Pleistocene Era, when the human species was living and evolving on the African savanna. During that time, Trout said, humans lived amongst predatory creatures, like sabre toothed tigers and birds of prey, that were far more massive than their contemporary counterparts. He cited archaeological evidence which indicates that human beings were frequently eaten by these creatures, who likely saw man as easy prey, since they had yet to develop weapons to defend themselves.

Among the predatory creatures from the Pleistocene Era that Trout detailed were giant snakes that had a diameter of 18 inches and weighed 800 pounds as well as a bird of prey which weighed 50 pounds and could lift humans off the ground. Additionally, he said, there were massive dogs, weighing 200 pounds, that hunted in packs of fifty and bears that had skulls which were 3 to 4 times the size of a modern grizzly bear. Given this extreme preponderance of predatory creatures, Trout observed that our ancestors living in this environment would likely witness "stacks of bones littering the landscape" and hear the sounds of not only victims of these predatory animals but also their calls to each other while on the hunt. "It must have been very unnerving for our ancestors to live within this milieu," Trout mused, "that was nosy with death and littered with corpses, bones, and kill sites."

So, he did talk about the "brilliant" Joseph Campbell, but thought that Campbell had missed our existence as prey to various creatures, as opposed to just "the hunter." After listening to him, I think he is on to something. There are places in African now where people are afraid to go out at night, because of animals preying on them.

Campbell is a true genius, but I would have loved to have heard a dialogue between these two people.

[kimmerspixelated]

7. Yes, and I learn so much every time someone posts something!

I am going to check out your suggestions.. But I am really inspired lately by something I just came across while cleaning, my old , first copy of A Happy Pocket Full Of Money by David Cameron Gikandi.

I highly recommend this wonderful spiritual book with some alarming facts about our monetary system. Even though it is old, 2002, the universal truths of wealth consciousness ring very true. It covers a little of Quanta, so naturally I love it!

[MagickMuffin]

8. I find it in the most unusual places ;=}

My cats provide me with a lot of inspiration. I make up songs for them about them, which they don't seem to upset about. Although after watching the movie "Song Catcher" about Appalachian music. I started signing in a manner like in the movie. Sateeva didn't care too much for it and came over and bit me, not hard but still it was as tho she didn't appreciate me signing like that :rofl:


My newest inspiration comes from the vintage bikes we rescued/bought this past summer and fall. We are in the process of fixing them up for sale. Some of these bikes are so old that it inspires me to think of using different ideas on how to turn them into art projects that you can ride.

Sometimes listening to music inspires me, other times turning to my studies and learning how to "master" some aspect of myself really helps provide the essential awareness I need to help increase my creativity.

[kimmerspixelated]

9. Oh, yes, Music!

I usually write poetry in the mornings against the backdrop of classical music. I like a bit of celtic as well. Really... nature, a sunny day, synchronicities, the list is endless.

[Ricochet21]

11. Ram Dass

Eckert Tolle
A Course in Miracles

[Saokymo]

12. Foo Fighters, for me

May not be the most spiritual thing around, but I love their music. (And Dave Grohl is freakin' awesome :D) Some of my favorite uplifting songs of theirs are Next Year, Times Like These and Walk.

[I Have A Dream]

13. Me too! I love them!

:bounce:

[kimmerspixelated]

14. Any music that resonates

And allows us to get out of our monkey minds, and put on a soul-groove, even if opera or country, is the right music. Music is love.