The Tale of Icarus and the Book of Psalms
Both written by Artists in an Effort to Guide Humanity
Let the nations listen and heed; we are all called to live with integrity and justice. For You O Blessed Counselor, will guide every nation on earth as the leaders and people open their hearts and respond.
I have a daily practice, (well, many daily practices) of reading the Psalms. I am on Psalm 67, above. I’ll explain how I do this. You could give it a try. It doesn’t matter if you are Jewish, or Christian, I don’t think. But, It would matter perhaps that you are sincerely wanting to build your faith.
Faith in what? Well, in Love Itself.
Which brings me to my practice. First, I use an amazing translation or interpretation of the Book of Psalms, Psalms for Praying, and Invitation to Wholeness, by Nan C. Merrill. What I like best about this rendition of David’s hymns of lament and praise, is that Merrill has “substituted” the word Love, for God throughout.
What an amazing idea, which when read over and over and over, “love, love, love, love” has this effect that is, I believe, penetrating. Of course, I believe, is what I bring to the table. And, it’s this consent, that ushers in the Divine, I believe.
Here’s a buffet for you, a love feast. I use the following as food to fuel me as I vigorously navigate my bumpy existence in many worlds; consensus reality, nature, illusions, false self and false narratives.
Love’s penetrating Light breaks through hearts filled with illusions. Ps.1
Now I shall forgive all illusions that my ego tries to build, for my courage is in You, O Love. Ps. 3
Let all the fragmented parts of my being gather around You. Help me to face them one by one, Love’s healing presence will mend all that has been broken and I shall once again be made whole. Ps. 7
Don't you want to believe this? Did you feel anything, when reading these lines? Like, that in fact, Love is a real possibility? Why wouldn’t humans be able to do this? We are made for it! Wired for it. Have all the right hormones, and range of emotions. We got the DNA baby.
If there is resistance to reading the Psalms, which I indeed had, I recommend bringing in some of your own special sauce. And, that is, instead of just reading the words on the page, and, maybe getting that, “I should” feeling that so often comes up in religious practices, try, putting your artist self into the mix. Here’s the way I do it.
I read through the Psalm. And, notice if anything “rings the bell.” Maybe it’s an image.
“fears and illusions must be faced, like an iron rod hitting a clay pot.” Ps. 2 Wow, I love that. I can see that. So, once I land on something, I then take my gel pen and create a picture of what I feel and see. I do this right in my book, not on another sketchpad. That way, I can underline the words, and connect it to the image. Something else gets connected as well—my heart to a greater heart.
My substack is meant to bring you to Love. Hey, I’m with you. There is much despairing going on. I throw up my hands half the time and say,
“How numerous are my fears! They rise up within me whispering…there is no help for you.”
Ps. 3.
But, I ask you to join me in reclaiming your inner artist as you confront the world. Think of your art as the armor of Love. It will protect and defend you.
What happens when Love touches us? When art bubbles up in us? Art transmutes everything into beauty. Or humor. Or at the very least something uncensored and provocative.
If you have read my posts, you know that I am a theatre artist and a writer, but, I do not stop myself when it comes to using any art form for the heavy lifting of creating the New Earth!
All is needed—painting, poetry, dancing, writing, woodworking, crafting, coloring booking, playwrighting, singing, writing songs, playing the ukulele, drumming, arranging a bouquet, growing herbs and making teas….this is powerful powerful stuff.
In 5th generational warfare, you have to bring out the big guns! “Take that, you evil doer, you! Pow! A beautiful water color of dazzling sunlight on dew, right when you least expected it!”
“Look out! A poem to knock you flat! To take the wind out of your sails! You naively believed that fear is the overriding emotion. That humans will do ANYTHING—lie, comply, conform, reject friends and relatives just to become part of a herd and be told what to do, so as to be safe.
Did you read that poem by Margaret Anna Alice? Don't Let them Get Away with it? Oh boy, you’re in for it! That will buckle your knees!
HA! Just TRY to control a citizenry that is in love with life, that reveres the experience of being human and that is connected to source.”
Oh my.
Truly, nothing can stop a citizenry so in love with life that they must create just to express it! And, here’s fair warning evildoer, “We’re coming for you.”
I have to be an artist. Whether I feel worthy or not. And, whether I am “good enough.” And so do you. We have to wage our side of this 5th Gen warfare and start making some headway!
Rick Larson, in his substack, Rick’s Garden Newsletter, shared a video of Dr. Ian McGilchrist, a neuroscientist/philosopher, who talked about the two hemispheres of the brain. His lecture provided a simple but beautiful way to see the whole problem we face in our 3 dimensional experience of the binary.
Primarily only one side of the brain is being used by most of us, and undoubtedly by the controllers—the left hemisphere. To the oligarchs, elite scientists, and academia as well. (And, I am part of academia, so I know this) I say:
“Oh, you may think you are soooo smart, being all rational, and reasonable, and calculating, and non-emotional…..BUT, it won’t get you what you crave, which is a world that you control.
Why? Because there is another side of the brain that is perfect for what is needed right now in the creation of the New Earth and the ascension to 5 D. The right hemisphere. This is developing more and more in all of us even as we speak!
The right hemisphere allows us to accept the complexity of life, to flow as part of nature knowing that we cannot have all the answers before us. We must rely on intuition, faith, and transcendance.
“What’s the deal controllers? Too much hubris to admit you don’t know everything?”
Take heed from the tale of Icarus. In Metamorphoses, by Ovid, the story of Daedalus is a cautionary one. He tried to escape the tyranny of King Minos, by creating massive wings out of candle wax and feathers. His son, testing the wings but ignoring his father’s warnings, flew too close to the sun, where the wax melted and he fell to his death.
Ironic, that the controllers are the ones flying too close to the sun, (or trying to block it for God’s sake!) even in their pursuit of being the Kings not the peasants escaping!
And, this my friends, is the difference between this ancient story and the Tale of Humanity today. The slave class, the underlings, the captured, the condemned, have somehow awakened to the illusion of all of this.
They see what has been “done to them.”
And, now they are compelled to see who they really are. They, We, must shed our victim status. Because only the empowered, the brave, the sovereign, the human-connected-to-source, will be able to take on the task of self-rule.
It will not be easy. Dr. Tess Lawrie calls the work, “Developing a sovereign mind.”
I believe it will be through our art that we will wake up the sleeping genetics of a species long forgotten—one of love, cooperation, empathy and understanding, of which we are all biologically formed and destined to embody. And, through epigenetics, which has to do with self-determination, we will transform all that needs to change, in order to be master manifesters! And, Co-creators with the Divine.
Good work if you can get it!
I will try your approach to the Psalms, which so far haven't "grabbed me at all.
I did recently invest in a new guitar for myself, after having abandoned it in my 20s.
Learning McCartney's "Let it Be" to sing at our mom's memorial ... she always loved that song and said she'd like it to be played at her funeral. My sisters balked. Doing it anyway.
Are you familiar with the artist Akiane Kramarik? Miraculous work.