Pentecost and the Spirit of Fire

Speaking in tongues
Slain by the Spirit
Fearless speaking
Kundalini rising
Explosion of Joy
Samadhi

- more than
just a connection?



Sunday 31st May
- Pentecost or Whitsunday -
is celebrated in Western Christianity
as the outpouring
of the Holy Spirit
upon the apostles.
It is a powerful festival
with many different hidden meanings.

Two and half years ago I wrote about
some healing experiences of the Spirit
in my life. You can read my post here.

My heartfelt and convinced conclusion
was then, and is now, perhaps even stronger,
that the Holy Spirit is One, whatever form
She* may choose to take to manifest
Her* power in tangible form in humans,
on Earth, in this physical Reality, and that
no one religion or group within a religion,
or spiritual group, however miraculous,
has any cosmic claim on being the only
true interpreter of how the Spirit works.

I love the tangible way the Spirit can be
experienced in charismatic Christian services.
As I implied in my 2007 article, I think I was
subconsciously drawn to these services
so that I might experience in my own body
the Spirit tingling within. Yet I was shown that
what I experienced there was the same Spirit
I experience in tantra, in shamanic healing,
and in the way music forms its own patterns
in my head when I let go of consciously composing!

In our Christal Temple celebrations all the
prayer and healing and journeying have
increasingly become places of inspired depth;
none of us have really done anything other than
dare to be whole in the presence of the Divine,
within and without and beyond - we have
"showed up" and offered ourselves in service.
But in allowing Creator Spirit to infuse us, I know
we have been made better channels for
leading Spirit-led lives in the world,
and there are miracles taking place,
quietly and powerfully in our own lives,
and in the lives we touch.

In the body lies our inner Divine Fire.
It hides in the depths of our body's most
intimate part (sacrum - the holy bone.)
When it is deeply connected to Earth
and raised in Spirit (google Kundalini!)
we become inspired by Heaven to be
whole and fearless in living all of
our Divine Purpose - herein lies real Bliss,
a state which may well be likened to the
Buddhist Samadhi.

Through that Breath of Fire Within,
connected to the Anointing from Above
and the nurturing of the Ground Below
(that Earth-oneness-with-us which
Patrick of Ireland so wonderfully
expressed in his prayers and hymns)
we have the Power to live our dream and
experience the deeper Heaven-on-Earth.
Somehow the words of the great hymn
Veni Creator Spiritus, written for this
Pentecost feast over 500 years ago,
are being fulfilled now in this place.....

The Well of Life, the Fire of Love,
Our souls' anointing from above!

In us, appeared in seven-fold dower,
the sign for us of Holy Power!

The Eternal Promise, making rich
with every Truth, our Earthly speech!

Our senses with this Light inflame,
our hearts in blissful Love reclaim!

The women and the apostles in the picture
found themselves transformed by a power
they had not known - these careful people
became bold and eager and inspired.
This power was always within them; yet
it took the Holy Wind to blow where it wished
to transform the "limited" into the limitless.
(See Chap 2 in the New Testament Book of Acts.)

May your lives be transformed by the
miracle powers of Creator Spirit -
to live that deepest Life which is
truly, divinely yours!

Blessings

John O

PS I know that I'm liable to denunciation by those
who see the Bible as God's literal Word,
only to be known in handed-down traditional
*male-centred ways within the "saved" club.
But I cannot deny the evidence of experience,
nor that inner knowing of the Spirit, working
absolutely beyond our human confines of how
Divine Creation and Inspiration "ought to be"!