Communion of Light

When the lion roars

Frank Butterfield — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:40:02 +0000

From Frank:

A friend saw the following quote online and asked what the Communion of Light would say about it. And they had quite a bit to say. And, in the writing, a completely new way of transcribing was born. It was all very delicious!

Most people limit their lives by censoring their desires. Don’t censor them: allow yourself to own what it is you really want. The desire is telling you something. If the desire is appropriate, your owning it paves a path for its manifestation. If not, owning it is also necessary so you can surrender it for transformation. Live in the excitement of being pregnant with the life you truly want.

–Marianne Williamson

From The Communion of Light:

We would completely agree.

We don’t think that anyone’s desires can ever do the harm
that the person having the desire often thinks it can.

In other words,
you are often afraid
that if you just run free with your desires
then you will cause
havoc,
ruin,
and destruction.

We know that most people would think
that perspective is a bit extreme,
and it is,
but it is as if you are all thinking that way,
hesitating,
afraid to rock the boat
or upset your own or another’s apple cart.

And we say,
feel free to upset as many carts as you want because,
you see,
it’s not quite what you think it is.

You begin like a mouse who is
timid and afraid to speak
or make the slightest little peep.

Then you find Your Self,
often because you are boxed in and simply can’t stand it anymore.

Then, as you find Your Self,
and you find that inner truth that simply yearns to be expressed,
not for others necessarily,
but for you and you alone,
then you become like the lion that roars.

And when you roar,
it does not cause the whole world to go upside-down.

But it is more like a call that you send forth.

And those who find comfort,
relief,
inspiration,
freedom,
joy,
love,
or whatever it may be
within it,
will flock to you
and want more of it
because they find your roar to be one
that is just right for them in that moment.

And,
of course,
the moment you begin to worry
if your roar is the correct roar
or if it is the one that everyone wants
or the one that will sell books
or the one that will make Oprah call you,
then you will begin to notice
that it doesn’t have quite the oomph
that it had before.

And that’s perfectly fine.

If you just pay attention to how much
liberation
and love
and joy
you can have within yourself
by letting yourself roar
when you want
and sit in the shade
when you want,
you will discover
how this is very much
a self-correcting system indeed.

Now, what about the one who roars and no one attends to it?

No one comes forth?

Is that a problem?

Does this one need a better roar?

A kinder roar?

A more persuasive roar?

We would say that this might be the case,
but the call here is to find out –
what is the roar for?

Is it to fix something (inside or out)?

Is it to make money and banish poverty?

Is it to make things right because things are wrong?

If it is any of these things,
or similar,
then it’s not going to work that well.

Again, this is a self-correcting system.

And, so, the roar that comes from the heart,
the roar that feels good in the roaring of it all,
the roar that makes the lion’s hair stand on end…
this is the roar that is being called forth.

Now, who is doing the calling?

First and foremost the lion is doing the calling.

The lion has in his mind what he is wanting.

He may be wanting more connection,
more creativity,
more joy,
more freedom,
more and better improved conditions of whatever nature.

It doesn’t matter.

The point is that the lion has been
dreaming
and fantasizing
and informing the Universe how to organize his experience.

And because he pays attention to
when roaring feels good
and when sitting in the noontime shade feels good,
he doesn’t worry about how it will be
that what he is wanting will arrive.

He simply feels better when he roars
or when he sits
and they both feel equally delightful in turn.

But there is also a larger calling as well.

And that is the call that the others,
who would find the lion’s domain to be an attractive
and desirable place to spend some time,
are sending forth.

But it is not the lion’s task to know
where
or how
to organize such a thing.

To get into that organizing means
that the lion is deciding
how it will come about.

Now, he can certainly do this
but it will probably not work out very well.

And that, too, is fine.

Because,
once again,
this is a self-correcting system,
or we might say that the lion’s kingdom is always evolving.

The amount of time
that it takes to go from here to there
just depends upon how well
the lion allows
this natural evolution to occur
and how willing he is to go with the flow
that he himself started long ago
and that is just wanting to take him to all the places
he already wants to go.

So, the larger calling is never really the point.

How it feels in the moment to the lion:
to roar,
to feast,
to sit and bask…

Just deciding which of these,
among the many choices the lion has in front of him,
is the one that feels better from where he is in the moment.

Now, we say his kingdom is naturally evolving
and that he lives in a self-correcting system.

What do we mean by this?

Well, it is just this:
This is a friendly Universe.

All who are within it
(and none are not within it)
do what they do
because of what they believe the doing will bring them.

Most people do what they do
because of what they think their doing will bring them later.

So,
for instance,
the young lion is taught to eat his peas
before he can have his ice cream.

And this teaching is reinforced again and again
throughout the pride.

“Nothing good comes easily,” he is told.

“All things take time and you must wait for them,” he is cautioned.

And we do not necessarily disagree with this on the surface,
but we do take exception to the deeper meaning:
sacrifice is required before satisfaction can be acquired.

And we say that since satisfaction is a feeling,
you can have it now.

There is no need to wait,
unless you believe it is necessary.

But that is the lion’s belief, not the dictate of the Universe.

So,
in this self-correcting system,
you can draw out the amount of time it takes
to go from here to there
or you can shorten it.

All distances require some time,
even if it is only a second,
because time is a factor in your system
(present but not forever).

When you realize
that time is your friend.

That,
in fact,
everything everywhere only wants what you really want,
more and more of Source Energy in expression,

Then the time factor becomes a matter of minutes and seconds
instead of years and months.

And no matter how resistant you are to this flow,
that you yourself created,
you can not be eternally resistant to it
because you will eventually leave this system
and move on to something else.

And when you leave,
you will drop all the resistance
you ever had
to your many creations.

It will become moot.

So, we say that this system is self-correcting.

No matter how off-track you believe yourself to be,
you can’t stay that way forever.

You can’t continue to resist what is
(which is what being off-track really is)
any longer than you will be alive.

So nothing that feels bad,
feels tight,
feels overwhelming
can last forever.

And it can be a whole lot less than you believe it to be
once you realize this is a self-correcting system
all organized by a central principle of expansion and evolution
that says that what is focused upon becomes more of itself.

In other words,
dear lion,
what roar is coming forth from you?

What road will you travel?

The choice is up to you.

Our only suggestion is that you decide
to feel connected to your Source now,
rather than later,
and the fastest way to do so is to find
the thought in its thinking that feels better,
the word in its speaking that feels better,
or the action in its doing that feels better.

© 2010 Frank Butterfield.
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Your connection to your source

Frank Butterfield — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 02:20:10 +0000

When we speak of your connection to your source, we mean that thing that can’t really be called a connection because that would imply something that could be broken, which this connection really cannot be.

You can pretend, as much as you want and for as long as you want, that you are not connected to your source. The main way most of you do this is to insist on paddling upstream and doing all the organizing of your life and its events and connections on your own. You also, for reasons that we very much understand, want to be seen as standing on your own and not really needing help, physical or non-physical.

The thing is, however, that you are surrounded by reminders of your ever-constant connection to your source. You are reminded of this every time you hear a bird singing its simple song of desire. A bird calls out to another bird or simply wants to hear the sound of its song. Why the bird does what it does is not really that important. But that you have drawn to you something so beautiful and amazing and so very, very connected to the flow of all things is a powerful reminder of your own connection, if you will allow it.

Anything that you can observe that is beautiful to you or that moves you or that brings you relief or that just simply feels good to you is a reminder of your connection to your source. That basic better feeling is your source calling to you. Never impatient, never once believing the disconnection that you believe, and certainly never anything other than unconditionally in love with you, your source calls and calls and calls endlessly. When you hear its song, you feel better, your world improves almost immediately, your heart lifts, and everything around you moves more into a state of alignment as you begin to drop resistance to what you are observing.

It just takes a breath and a desire to remember who you are for that reminder to come to you. It is always, always, always there and has never, ever been lost to you.

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A quick update…

Frank Butterfield — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 03:09:21 +0000

The Road Trip is a smashing success!

There are lots of stories to tell, but I’m letting them sink in. Be sure to keep an eye out for updates in the next few days as I begin to write about all the amazing people and places that I’ve been connecting with.

Right now, I’m in Rapid City, South Dakota, near the Black Hills. Tomorrow morning, I’ll be getting up before dawn to go explore those hills just a bit (including a visit to the Crazy Horse monument, which I’ve always wanted to see) before settling in for a Q&A call in The Village later in the mid-morning.

I’ve been posting photos and little notes about the interesting things that have been happening on Facebook, if you want to take a look at some of it.

Also… I wanted to check in and let you know about the semi-annual tradition I have of offering discounted package rates for private sessions.

OK, the tradition started at the beginning of this year, so it’s not a revered tradition. But now that it’s July, I can start to call it that since this will be only the second time I’ve done this. Wait! Does that even make sense? I may have been on the road too long…

Anywho… here’s the deal:

For the next couple of days, there is a special page where you can buy a block of hours at a discounted rate.

The usual thing applies: these hours never expire and you can give them away, if that floats your boat.

All the details are on the website. Click here if it feels good to do so:

http://communionoflight.com/special/

And be sure to stay tuned as I will be posting about the people, places, and experiences that this Road Trip has allowed me to connect with. And it’s all been really, really good!!

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Road Trip 2010 starts on Tuesday

Frank Butterfield — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 22:00:50 +0000

Just a few notes about what’s happening with the Communion of Light…

Road Trip 2010

I’ll be hitting the road on Tuesday, June 8, on my way from Austin to New York City, which is the first stop on the Road Trip.

If you’re following the Communion of Light on Facebook, you can catch the latest there and see pics from the journey. If you’re not yet a “fan” of the Communion of Light, you can “like” them here:

http://www.facebook.com/CommunionOfLight

Register for a workshop

You can register on-line for the upcoming workshops:

In-person sessions

Did you know you can have an in-person session with the Communion of Light if you’re in or near one of the areas listed above? Each session is 30-45 minutes and costs a bit more than phone sessions at $110.

If you would like to set one up, the best way is to contact me directly.

Phone sessions in June

Since I’ll be on the road, I’ve scaled back my phone session openings through the end of June. I do have several openings before I leave, so be sure to check the schedule if you’re wanting a phone session:

http://communionoflight.com/sessions/

Well, that’s about it.

I’m very much looking forward to connecting with so many of you in person. And I can’t wait to see what sort of juicy topics come up in our workshops. It’s going to be awesome!!

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Hope is at the edge of your Vortex

Frank Butterfield — Sat, 29 May 2010 18:30:04 +0000

When you are on the edge of your Vortex, it feels like hope. If you can find your way to hope, the organizing principle of the Universe will take care of the rest. Hope on any topic means that you’ve dropped your resistance enough to let the Universe in and do the work you’ve been wanting it to. And that feels really, really good!

Now, when you are wanting more than what you are having, that can feel like hope. In other words, you are thinking about what there is so delicious about what you can have and yet you still know it’s not quite there yet but it can be and it likely will be. Well, you get the point. This is hope.

Hope is like standing on the fence and realizing that yes, the grass is greener over there and since it’s really all you, you might as well go ahead and go over and enjoy it. For, wasn’t the old story about the grass being greener all about the fact that you should just take what you were given because it’s not going to get much better?

Well, hope doesn’t pay much attention to this. Hope is like a very attractive friend who is looking at you and saying, “It’s all good over here. Why don’t you come over and enjoy it?” When you relax a little bit, you realize that you don’t have to guard your small, meager bit but that the whole universe is yours to explore and so that greener grass might just be the answer to your wanting.

We’re not talking, necessarily, about journeys of distance or time. When we say that the grass is greener, we don’t mean, get up out of your chair and go sit in your neighbor’s yard, although you might want to do that if it feels good to you and is in alignment with the totality of your desires.

What we mean is that you tend to parse the world into segments and say, “This bit is mine. And that larger bit isn’t. I can have this contentment and this managed pessimism, but hope is too far a land to ever reach.”

When you touch on hope, you’ll feel its pull. Hope is the opening that you have been asking for. It is here at your request. And, so, you can relax into the awareness that where you are going is exactly where you want to go. Hope is always leading you downstream and it always feels better.

Hope is at the edge of your Vortex. None of this is going to mean much if you are in your Vortex as you read our words.

But, if you are feeling adrift, in the land of the lost, wondering when your ship is going to finally reach its port, and confused about who you and what this is all about, then these words are for you.

Hope is here. Hope is beckoning. Hope is coming in response to your call for improved conditions, more money, ever-increasing wellbeing, deeper connections in your relationships, and more.

Hope is a response to your desire for things to get better. They are getting better and hope is pointing out the way to you.

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