Planting seeds requires faith that they will grow, or so I am learning. You put them in the ground, cover them up, and it looks like nothing is happening. But something is happening, invisible to your eye. You just have to have faith in the process of growth.
So, things are getting easier. I'm still not fully understood or taken seriously, but the cumulative effects of my actions are beginning to pile up, thanks to the wonderful technology of social media.
I am on the verge of entering into more expanded mediums such as video and audio recordings. Words are great, but the saying is true. Pictures are worth a lot of words. And when you have words with pictures, in real time, well that's just outa control.
The missing link is still finding the money source. At least people understand what I am doing now to a certain extent. I can feel those investors on the horizon, sniffing this work out, watching me, waiting to see where I will take it. The key is to get people involved. Something I'm not too shabby at.
It's really quite simple. "I'm bringing about positive change in the world. Support it." I think that's my slogan now. That way the question isn't why, it's are you really delivering what you say you are. That's my home turf. I'm confident that I can demonstrate functional contributions to positive change, and the evidence is mounting daily.
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Into the Rain
I am now in Seattle, Washington. I have decided that when planting a seed, the growth of that seed is very dependant on the type of soil it is put in.
I've been used to growing my seeds on rock. That was very hard work, you can imagine. Then, I decided that I would instead use that energy to find really rich, fertile soil.
That's what brought me to Seattle. So far so good. I'm focusing my thoughts and hanging on by visualization and faith when I feel alone, in another big city, sleeping in a hostel, away from my tribe. It's easier to make connections here. There's a lot going on in the way of spritual action.
I've only been here two weeks, and things are already moving much quicker than they ever have before. Yet, when I return to the hostel, I sometimes can't help feeling that sense of aloness.
So I counteract that by imagining being surrounded by my family, even though I don't neccessarily know who or where they are yet.
I learned to make friends with loneliness a while ago, in the woods. Just me, my fire, and the darkness of the night around me. The energy of the trees and wildlife.
Loneliness is a quirky companion. It makes you feel that the world is indeed a strange and mysterious place.
I've been used to growing my seeds on rock. That was very hard work, you can imagine. Then, I decided that I would instead use that energy to find really rich, fertile soil.
That's what brought me to Seattle. So far so good. I'm focusing my thoughts and hanging on by visualization and faith when I feel alone, in another big city, sleeping in a hostel, away from my tribe. It's easier to make connections here. There's a lot going on in the way of spritual action.
I've only been here two weeks, and things are already moving much quicker than they ever have before. Yet, when I return to the hostel, I sometimes can't help feeling that sense of aloness.
So I counteract that by imagining being surrounded by my family, even though I don't neccessarily know who or where they are yet.
I learned to make friends with loneliness a while ago, in the woods. Just me, my fire, and the darkness of the night around me. The energy of the trees and wildlife.
Loneliness is a quirky companion. It makes you feel that the world is indeed a strange and mysterious place.
The Starfish Care
Frustration has been a big part of this journey. How do you speak about something that many people either don't believe possible, or are afraid to believe in? How do you get your voice heard when you appear unimportant and insignificant to any establishment?
Well, the answer has been to handle a lot of rejection, and to keep on finding ways to speak my truth until someone responds.
One night I asked the question. Is it worth it? Why should I try when there is so much rejection? I asked the question out loud, on a porch in Brattleboro, Vermont, while hanging out with friends.
The answer came from one of my friends. He said, "The Starfish Care". Appearantly starfish can get washed ashore by the thousands. Too many to throw everyone back in. But for each one that does, that action means everything.
Well, the answer has been to handle a lot of rejection, and to keep on finding ways to speak my truth until someone responds.
One night I asked the question. Is it worth it? Why should I try when there is so much rejection? I asked the question out loud, on a porch in Brattleboro, Vermont, while hanging out with friends.
The answer came from one of my friends. He said, "The Starfish Care". Appearantly starfish can get washed ashore by the thousands. Too many to throw everyone back in. But for each one that does, that action means everything.
Friday, June 12, 2009
Message from a Mutant
A mutant is an individual, organism, or new genetic character arising or resulting from an instance of mutation, which is a base-pair sequence change within the DNA of a gene or chromosome of an organism resulting in the creation of a new character or trait not found in the wild type.
The natural occurrence of genetic mutations is integral to the process of evolution.
Mutation is generally accepted by the scientific community as the mechanism upon which natural selection acts, providing the advantageous new traits that survive and multiply in offspring or disadvantageous traits that die out with weaker organisms.
"Wikipedia"
My mission on the Cosmic Scale
The manifestation of one family and one community that gives full credence to the diversity of existence, yet encompasses that diversity through relationships that are complimentary and cooperative.
More Specific
I am a representative of the sacred feminine. By this I am not referring to gender, but a quality of consciousness. I am defining the sacred feminine as that substance which has no shape or form, yet encompasses and allows for the existence of all forms.
That is why the nature of my work is so difficult to describe within our current paradigm. It is about the very essence that allows for expression and diversity to come into being, but also holds the possibility for those different parts to interrelate and see themselves as part of a whole.
Even More Specific
My work is with people. As a gardener tends to, cultivates, and cares for the outer landscape of nature, managing the complex relationships of organisms that make up the garden in an interrelated tapestry, I tend to the inner landscape of human nature.
My domain is that of relationship. I make myself responsible for the ecosystems of emotions, visions, creation, expression, and divine inspiration within an individual and groups.
When I look around, the ingredient I most feel is missing is true understanding. Having myself experienced the pain of being misunderstood and mismanaged, I set forth into the world to provide understanding and support to as many people as I can.
When a person feels seen, there is no mistaking the experience. It is like setting a caged bird free. The setting free of the other, is the setting free of oneself, which is something that can be physiologically experienced. When one adds to the mental and conceptual sphere, emotions and intuitive intelligence, it becomes possible to literally travel through time and space, and find where the other is. Both viewer and viewed are traveling through their own fields of identity. The place where they finally meet is altogether different from either ones' isolated reality. It is a new place, composed of both realities, like the creation of a child.
This embodies our creative heritage. Social interaction that's built on that kind of engagement is fluid, formless, and has the capacity to form heartfelt agreements, allowing each individual to be heard, acknowledged, and therefore to join consciously into the cosmic dance of our universal family.
The benefits of adopting an intuitive, improvised approach for design are boundless. Life simply does not present itself in neat, predictable, pre-arranged ways. Problems that are approached with these kinds of solutions don't work, because they simply aren't multidimensional enough to encompass the full diversity that pure intelligence has to offer.
These ideas are nice, but what kind of action are you taking?
Most of my work deals with mentoring. I take interest in people, and mentor them into how they can meet the other, whether it is within or without. Because I don't have the resources yet to base myself out of one place, I travel about, meet with people, and organize and facilitate circles where people begin to hear each other out and learn about each other. The intention is to build communities of people who will take an active interest in the condition and fate of other people, and in formless, creative, and innovative ways provide aid and support in addressing the challenges of each individual involved.
I use music, dance, and drama to bring people into a place where they can know their authentic self. My work with performance also includes using myself as a graph unto which people can project various qualities, feelings, or questions, which I then mirror back through movement, so they can look at them from an objective perspective. I teach people how to move, and how to make music.
I also institute social sculptures that are aimed at bringing people into a space of connection beyond concepts. These initiatives are always easy to implement, requiring no special equipment or space. They tend to be unconventional, and require participation of the mind and body. One example of such a sculpture, is the "Carry Project".
To learn more about it you can go to www.armencarry.blogspot.com
Disclaimer!
My disclaimer is that even though these are descriptions of specific things I am doing, they do not accurately describe the full scope of my work. My work is to embody and infuse that substance-less quality, which makes creation possible. That's what I do. The variety of expressions are limitless, and there is no way for me to predict or encompass that in words.
Where am I now?
For the last six months I have been living in a Sufi community in New Lebanon, NY, called the Abode of the message. My time there is coming to a close, and I am about to go en route to Brattleboro, Vermont. As I reflect back on my experience at the Abode, I can say that I came here to get in touch with my rage.
Perhaps some of you will find it odd that I would encounter rage in a spiritual community. In my estimation, a spiritual community worth its salt is not about serenity, but about looking for and facing what is within, without judgement. Emotions are not a mistake, and represent the full spectrum of divine experiences we can have. Rage is a part of our being, and that's what I happened to find. Recently someone said to me that in Chinese medicine anger is associated with the season of spring, because it is that energy that causes one to break through the ice and frost, to form new life.
My rage came to me in the form of a monster, but I was in a safe enough environment that I could face this monster and begin to get to know it. What I found, was that like all monsters, it was a friend who had been ignored too long, and that it had much to teach me if I could agree not to be afraid of it.
"It is ok to take up space in the world".
In closing
My life is about serving the world in its shift of consciousness. I not only work internally, but take creative action to bring about change in the way we treat each other, to move closer towards the ideal of harmony and beauty.
For the time being I am transitory, traveling to where people show interest in what I have to say. I believe that we are in a time where duality no longer is possible. Therefore, the spiritual and material worlds can't function in separation any more, but have to be seen as parts of a whole. That means that people who have material success also diserve time and space to cultivate spiritual success, and people who have spiritual wealth diserve to be supported in the material world.
So, please enjoy this at the level you feel inspired by. The major function of this journal is to share my work, my journey, my epiphanies, my experience, and my life. Even the most delicious dish becomes more enjoyable when we share the experience with someone else. Expression becomes sacred when there is a witness, and the same holds true the other way around.
The most delicious dish I have ever tasted, is true understanding.
Feel free to write and ask questions. I like to be engaged.
Until the next time.
Sincerely,
Armen
The natural occurrence of genetic mutations is integral to the process of evolution.
Mutation is generally accepted by the scientific community as the mechanism upon which natural selection acts, providing the advantageous new traits that survive and multiply in offspring or disadvantageous traits that die out with weaker organisms.
"Wikipedia"
My mission on the Cosmic Scale
The manifestation of one family and one community that gives full credence to the diversity of existence, yet encompasses that diversity through relationships that are complimentary and cooperative.
More Specific
I am a representative of the sacred feminine. By this I am not referring to gender, but a quality of consciousness. I am defining the sacred feminine as that substance which has no shape or form, yet encompasses and allows for the existence of all forms.
That is why the nature of my work is so difficult to describe within our current paradigm. It is about the very essence that allows for expression and diversity to come into being, but also holds the possibility for those different parts to interrelate and see themselves as part of a whole.
Even More Specific
My work is with people. As a gardener tends to, cultivates, and cares for the outer landscape of nature, managing the complex relationships of organisms that make up the garden in an interrelated tapestry, I tend to the inner landscape of human nature.
My domain is that of relationship. I make myself responsible for the ecosystems of emotions, visions, creation, expression, and divine inspiration within an individual and groups.
When I look around, the ingredient I most feel is missing is true understanding. Having myself experienced the pain of being misunderstood and mismanaged, I set forth into the world to provide understanding and support to as many people as I can.
When a person feels seen, there is no mistaking the experience. It is like setting a caged bird free. The setting free of the other, is the setting free of oneself, which is something that can be physiologically experienced. When one adds to the mental and conceptual sphere, emotions and intuitive intelligence, it becomes possible to literally travel through time and space, and find where the other is. Both viewer and viewed are traveling through their own fields of identity. The place where they finally meet is altogether different from either ones' isolated reality. It is a new place, composed of both realities, like the creation of a child.
This embodies our creative heritage. Social interaction that's built on that kind of engagement is fluid, formless, and has the capacity to form heartfelt agreements, allowing each individual to be heard, acknowledged, and therefore to join consciously into the cosmic dance of our universal family.
The benefits of adopting an intuitive, improvised approach for design are boundless. Life simply does not present itself in neat, predictable, pre-arranged ways. Problems that are approached with these kinds of solutions don't work, because they simply aren't multidimensional enough to encompass the full diversity that pure intelligence has to offer.
These ideas are nice, but what kind of action are you taking?
Most of my work deals with mentoring. I take interest in people, and mentor them into how they can meet the other, whether it is within or without. Because I don't have the resources yet to base myself out of one place, I travel about, meet with people, and organize and facilitate circles where people begin to hear each other out and learn about each other. The intention is to build communities of people who will take an active interest in the condition and fate of other people, and in formless, creative, and innovative ways provide aid and support in addressing the challenges of each individual involved.
I use music, dance, and drama to bring people into a place where they can know their authentic self. My work with performance also includes using myself as a graph unto which people can project various qualities, feelings, or questions, which I then mirror back through movement, so they can look at them from an objective perspective. I teach people how to move, and how to make music.
I also institute social sculptures that are aimed at bringing people into a space of connection beyond concepts. These initiatives are always easy to implement, requiring no special equipment or space. They tend to be unconventional, and require participation of the mind and body. One example of such a sculpture, is the "Carry Project".
To learn more about it you can go to www.armencarry.blogspot.com
Disclaimer!
My disclaimer is that even though these are descriptions of specific things I am doing, they do not accurately describe the full scope of my work. My work is to embody and infuse that substance-less quality, which makes creation possible. That's what I do. The variety of expressions are limitless, and there is no way for me to predict or encompass that in words.
Where am I now?
For the last six months I have been living in a Sufi community in New Lebanon, NY, called the Abode of the message. My time there is coming to a close, and I am about to go en route to Brattleboro, Vermont. As I reflect back on my experience at the Abode, I can say that I came here to get in touch with my rage.
Perhaps some of you will find it odd that I would encounter rage in a spiritual community. In my estimation, a spiritual community worth its salt is not about serenity, but about looking for and facing what is within, without judgement. Emotions are not a mistake, and represent the full spectrum of divine experiences we can have. Rage is a part of our being, and that's what I happened to find. Recently someone said to me that in Chinese medicine anger is associated with the season of spring, because it is that energy that causes one to break through the ice and frost, to form new life.
My rage came to me in the form of a monster, but I was in a safe enough environment that I could face this monster and begin to get to know it. What I found, was that like all monsters, it was a friend who had been ignored too long, and that it had much to teach me if I could agree not to be afraid of it.
"It is ok to take up space in the world".
In closing
My life is about serving the world in its shift of consciousness. I not only work internally, but take creative action to bring about change in the way we treat each other, to move closer towards the ideal of harmony and beauty.
For the time being I am transitory, traveling to where people show interest in what I have to say. I believe that we are in a time where duality no longer is possible. Therefore, the spiritual and material worlds can't function in separation any more, but have to be seen as parts of a whole. That means that people who have material success also diserve time and space to cultivate spiritual success, and people who have spiritual wealth diserve to be supported in the material world.
So, please enjoy this at the level you feel inspired by. The major function of this journal is to share my work, my journey, my epiphanies, my experience, and my life. Even the most delicious dish becomes more enjoyable when we share the experience with someone else. Expression becomes sacred when there is a witness, and the same holds true the other way around.
The most delicious dish I have ever tasted, is true understanding.
Feel free to write and ask questions. I like to be engaged.
Until the next time.
Sincerely,
Armen
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