Samuel Strickland

What you are, the world is.

And without your transformation,

there can be no transformation of the world.

j. krishnamurti

In alchemy, the fire is representation of the process in which we transmute one thing into another. In life, the fire is the symbol and essence of the life-force that animates our being. Fire can be the force that burns us up or it can be the force that we are. We can create with it, or be consumed by it. In both cases, when the fire is present, so is transmutation in the form of change. It is the inner fire that drives us and keeps us moving forward, ever changing, and ever growing thus transforming our lives from within. As we metamorphose into new and higher expressions, the world around us reflects back to us that which is now within us. When we consciously focus our fire, the way in which we perceive the callings of growth, change becomes less threatening and less of an attack. You see, as we identify with our fire, our life-force, the divine aspect of our being, we become less attached to the ego’s idea of our identity. The ego is a perfect deliverer of opportunity for conscious and deliberate transmutation, ego is the source of fear we feel when a change is present that could loosen the grip of rigid ideology. Identifying with the fire is not the destroy the ego, it is to observe it, and heal that which needs healing, love that which needs loving, change what needs changing, all to move us into a higher vibration and align us with our true purpose and calling. (more…)

Science is rapidly catching up with spiritual belief, as if we needed their approval to believe! This is wonderful, being that scientific proof of our world seems to be the way most people form the belief of how we are what we are. Outside of dogma, science is the “religion” that forms the patterns of belief about our world and our place in it. It creates wonder in our minds and stirring in our soul to have “proof” that what we know spiritually is now confirmed by science.

The video below is a great interpretation of where we are and rapidly headed. I found this on Michael Pollan’s Facebook page.

My favorite line – Neil DeGrasse Tyson ‘I know that the molecules in my body are traceable to phenomena in the cosmos. That makes me want to grab people in the street and say, have you heard this??

This month’s newsletter comes as a winter long feat of moving through old beliefs and patterns of existing that have been shaken up and shed from within. The recent earthquakes have moved a great deal of energy on and within the planet, and just as the earth has shaken and freed up old energy, so have we all. As the earth rippled from the epicenter of the quakes, the wave of energy encircled the earth, rippling each of us, blasting us with new energy and altering our consciousness.

Nothing happens to the earth that does not happen to us humans as well. As you read this, think about how deeply we have all been moved to change our perspective on the world. No longer is turning a blind eye or deaf ear acceptable in what we do to the earth, our selves, or our neighbors; far or near.

The earth is calling us to wake up, it is time to shed fear and accept change. It is time to allow the dawn of a new way of being and living to shine it’s light into the darkness of the past. We can choose to usher this in if we only listen to the rumblings of our inner landscape and allow the shifting of the crust of mind and belief.

If you are experiencing any inner shifting or shaking and need some help, I am here as always to help you through the rebuilding process. Body work coincides with spiritual work, they both unlock the full potential of your greatest expression, the soul that is deep within you, awaiting to reveal the love and light that you are. I offer both as one, healing body and spirit, moving energy to help you call forth your purpose and joy.

I have posted the rest of this month’s newsletter on my Examiner.com column. You can read it here.

As always,

LOVE, LIGHT and BLESSINGS to you and yours

Samuel

Well, it seems as though the universe has called me into a more public light with my work…! I now have a new commercial for television set to air here in Maine on the CW weekday morning show Better TV. Check it out.

I would like to give a big, big thanks to Frank North for making this possible!

My experience with Yoga is now over 10 years deep.

I have experienced growth through yoga that has reflected my highs and lows. As with other things in life I have had times when I didn’t go a day without it, and times when I didn’t give it any attention what so ever.

When I first became interested in Yoga, I was an avid young surfer, fit and somewhat flexible, or at least I thought so anyway. My spiritual practice then consisted of how much time I spent in the water communing with the ocean and drawing in my sketchbook. I took an interest to yoga when I came across an article in Surfer Magazine about some of the pros training techniques. Since I was convinced that I could obtain pro status in the surfing world, I decided to incorporate a training regimen into my life outside of just surfing as much as possible. Yoga, as it seemed was a logical step into boosting my agility, reflexes, and expanding my lung capacity.

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