Morning Prayer

Morning Prayer

I wake, and fragments of yesterday

plunge through the tunnels of my soul –  

But I let the light wash them away

and I let its sweetness make me whole.

I float in a pool of ecstatic light

Sweetened to stay soft in the fight –

Warriors whose wars will never cease

Will lie amazed in my place of peace.

Ladler in soup kitchens, tired but true,

I’ll pass out bowls of light to you.

My book is coming out soon!

Good morrow, gentle reader!

Not only do I have two fun CDs of baroque blues music waiting for you at Kapa'a Music and Sound (823-8000), I am also just about to publish a book. 

Who am I? I am Dr. Matt Miller, PhD in Medieval English Literature, literacy teacher, poet, composer, wood-carver and practicing mystic. On Kauai I am known for helping quite a few young people improve their literacy skills, which I believe is the most useful thing I can share, after the Teachings of the Holy Spirit. 

 What Happened to Happiness? is a short book I have written that reveals the seven steps to direct experience of the Sacred. Using these steps has turned my life around from bitterness and anger to peace, acceptance and an unquenchable desire to help others who suffer.

In the mid-1990’s I began a prayer dialogue with the Holy Spirit that still continues. In our exchanges She has patiently taught me seven universal truths about human life, by showing me how they are at work in each life situation that arises. She has also taught me certain details of Her own history.

I have written down what She has said to me in prayer, and through research I have discovered the same teachings in many cultures all over the world – Hindu, Tibetan, Hawaiian, Cherokee, Senecan, Toltec, Christian, Judaic, Taoist, alchemical, Buddhist and Gnostic, as well as the ancient Mystery religions that were the foundation of paganism. The Teachings are seven universal truths that apply to all souls of every land or creed or time.

In brief the Teachings are

1.     Learn to experience Community with all things as vessels of the Holy Spirit

2.     Develop a Partnership with the Holy Spirit immanent in the world around you

3.     Master the Power to communicate with all things telepathically as vessels of the Holy Spirit

4.     Experience the Holy Spirit daily as a living, sentient Love permeating all situations

5.     Strengthen your Will in any situation by fusing it with Hers

6.     Dedicate your Mind to the task of understanding how this technology works inside you.

7.     Learn to feel and act upon Compassion for all who suffer, as parts of yourself.

These teachings are together a Path to an enlightened state in which the accidents of fortune no longer hurt you as they did before. A great measure of your personal unhappiness is alleviated, partly because you learn to think about things differently, and partly because the Path is inscribed in your body and central nervous system, and by following it out there you can learn to return to the pool of bliss and inner peace whenever you wish to do so. It is a change in perspective – a personal transformation – but it is also a physical technology built into the soft machine of your own body.

Operated backwards, the technology becomes a Pain Machine, a set of habitual stressors that create and store stress in the tissues that eventually becomes a physical problem  of some kind. Operated as it was meant to operate, the technology generates ecstatic union with the Sacred, triggering the flow of a healing anesthetic bioelectricity through the body which is alive and aware of you. In India they call Her Shakti, and She permeates every body, not just your own. In the West She is known as the Holy Spirit.

The bliss of union with Her has a gentling effect on the soul – you no longer seek external pleasures so relentlessly, for now you have this unspeakable Joy that blooms within yourself when you call It up in prayer. Things you used to fight about don’t seem to matter so much any more. You become willing to let other people have things their way. Why not? As long as the bliss continues!

I will discuss the technology in these blogs, but first I want to share a poem, whose seven verses combine Her teachings of Her own origins with the seven great Teachings that guide the human soul to inner peace and deep pure experiences of bliss. Check out the next blog for the first verse, about the first Teaching: Community with all things. It is mingled with the tale She told me of how She was born from the volcano on Kauai, five million years ago. 

Blogulater!

Dr. Matt

Cat Telepathy: They don't have to

The examples of telepathic contact with cats, in my last posts, all show the richness that grows in one's life as one learns how to awaken the senses. I taught a brief class in how to do this once. When I saw one of my students a week later, he said he had tried it with his cat. I was intrigued.

What happened? I asked. He smiled a bit ruefully.

Well, I thought to her, “Why don’t we talk together like people do?”

And she answered – or at least I heard in my head – “Because I don’t have to!” And then she turned around and walked away waving her tail.

I will admit I cracked up. It was so feline.

Was it a woman’s voice? I asked him when I had stopped giggling.

Yes, he answered thoughtfully, it was.

So one of the first lessons we learn, in exercising our new-found powers of sensory awakening, is that other things are not only alive, aware and responsive, they also have their own opinions about us, which may or may not be complimentary.

This is why it is so important to approach all things with respect and kindness. Bring gifts. 

She will want to talk to you, I pointed out, if you have something interesting to talk about. Cats are very practical and self-centered creatures. I suggested that next time his cat is sitting quietly and dinner time is near, beam a big close-up image of her dinner, complete with fragrance. After a moment, ask her mentally,

"Do you want some food?"

If she bounces to her feet and starts meowing hungrily, ask her mentally which flavor of food she would like. See if you can get some input from her that is in her own interest.Then, of course, bring her the food she asked for.

He said he would try it, but I have not seen him since. So I do not know if he followed up, or he and his cat lapsed back into companionable silence.

Cat Telepathy: Twinkle Starr

In the last post, I told about a moment of contact with my cat Lilith. She didn’t have many other conversations with me – she was content with petting and food and a warm place to sleep. But her successors were a white, long-haired, feather-brained sweetie named Twinkle Starr, and a long-legged tiger tom (fixed) named Tigger, with a Siamese meow and a very quick understanding. 

Twinkle didn’t ask for much – being the family beauty and treated accordingly was enough for her. But she did have one problem. This was that I persisted in shutting the screen door, when she wanted it left open so she could go in and out as she pleased. It didn’t matter which side of the door she was on – when I shut it she began to wish she were on the other side.

This persistent failure to communicate led to her meowing forlornly before the screen door until I got up from my seat again, and let her pass through the same door she just went through in the other direction. Since what she really wanted was to have the door left open, she was never satisfied and there was a lot of forlorn meowing.

Then one day, as Twinkle was sitting with reluctant patience beside the closed screen door, I heard a girlish voice in my mind. It said,

Can I go out please?

I stared at her. She had told me what she wanted telepathically! I was so thrilled I stood up right away and let her out.

After that she knew she had me. I was so excited about hearing her wishes in that way, that she got what she wanted instantly. From Twinkle’s perspective, that was more like it! The next time Twinkle ambled over to the screen door and found it closed again, she looked over at me and again I heard

Can I go out please?

I complied promptly and she went out like a shot, obviously pleased. She had finally trained me!

Like Lilith, Twinkle saw no reason to expand her repertoire beyond that one practical application. But she used her one human trick for the rest of her life, and we all had to endure a lot less meowing. I found it much harder to blandly ignore her when she spoke to me in the voice of my own kind.