Dear Ones,
As we continue to navigate the collective and individual fear that often arises in response to "facing the wild unknown", I hope we will continue to come together in heartfelt, contemplative communion. Inquiry, meditation, prayer, and deep-open listening. In the midst of feeling vulnerable and fragile, I encourage and invite us to become vitally available to the heart and soul of experience. Rooting in the Divine Ground which gives birth to and pervades the fabric of existence. With commitment to conscious Presence, all is lit-up and transformed. Denial and repression become less and less available as Wholeness becomes the lived Reality. Directly, consciously touching-in with the mystery at the heart of Being, naturally gives rise to inspired expressions of compassion. Even a glimpse of the inconceivable beyond, from which all of existence dances, transfigures the life.
In gratitude and love, Jennifer.
You ask me what the human soul is? No human science can ever fathom what the soul is in its depth. What the soul is in its ground, no one knows. But this we do know: That the soul is where God works compassion.----Meister Eckhart
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The fullness
A friend explained to me that the planets are in retrograde. Meaning that they are appearing to move backwards or to be standing still.
Planets appearing to move backwards, people appearing to move backwards, retroviruses, time slowing down, time speeding up, time running out. Time out! Everything in its own time.
Standing still, be still,
stay at home orders, retreat, be still
the space between, socially distance, take a step back , be still.
We find ourselves in a pregnant pause. A season of inwardness, downwardness. The impossible and necessary rest between contractions.
And yet the whole universe is on fire. Spinning wildly with the dancing breath of the Divine.
Prior to the out pouring, the Great Dark is kissed by the Holy breath of the Source of Love. Quickened somehow by the essence of the essence, the heart of the heart of all matter. The great dilation, primordial breath……..the OOOOmmmmm. The conception of mind, heart, body. The sacred, unfathomable birth of “Let there be Light”.
Seeds germinate in the darkness. They transform underground in the love of the nutritive Mother. The nascent potential unfolds and roots in a dazzling, mysterious blindness. We are blind. We are blinded.
Seeds are tended as they soften and open. Requiring attention if they are to break ground, see light, grow up. Beginnings need willing hands and hearts. Waterers, weeders, and take your pre-natal vitamin-ers. Incubators. Consciously at home.
Staying. Attending. Remaining.
Where am I? I am right here and now. I am home. All-ways.
Prior to the pushing. There is the waiting and the contracting. A potent mix of pain, expectancy, fear, joy, dread, anticipation, approaching death, approaching life. The mind is full of anxiety and doubt. Knowing it cannot control or bear the process. But the process moves forward, from and AS Life itself. A no turning back primal urgency. The contractions must first prepare an opening. Eventually the moment comes to bear down, push forward, and trust more completely.
The birther looks into her sister’s eyes. “Am I going to die?”. Most certainly one way of life will give way to another. One moment gives birth to the next. As we die so we live.
To exist, seeds must give way AS sprouts. The existence of all that has been, will be and IS. Reflected and illuminated AS the immediate and current expression. All beginnings. All endings. All origins. Originalities conceived. In the darkness of eternal birthing.
"I" finds it-Self in this original darkness. Where beginning/ending, backward/forward, inward/ outward have no fundamental meaning. Where the originalities, the potentialities, arrive as the Universal Body. Unfolding from, in, through and as Love.
Jennifer Tyler, July 10 2020
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"Sometimes I can feel like I am in my own closed-channel backwater of experience, perception, and thought. Jen's presence and support in discovery sessions feels like a flow of fresh water and nutrients, connecting the backwater back to the current. Discovery sessions are a rich opportunity to be well-accompanied. For me, in these crazy times especially, I feel like this journey is not to be done alone. When I have sessions with Jen, it's less about seeking some answer or insight (although that can happen too!), and more about trusting that interpersonal support with a trustworthy guide settles my system, deepens my practice, touches my heart, and gives me more courage."
"So challenging to encapsulate something that is wordless......Jen, as my loving teacher, has been the holder of the light... gently guiding, supporting, clarifying, pointing. The ego is easily distracted by flashy invitations, to take this direction or that, rather than devote to“Straight and narrow is the path...waste no time!” (Dr. David Hawkins).Regular discovery sessions with Jen, support this aspiration, for truth and love. Healing sessions integrate mind, body and spirit.... in stillness... unity. I love when Adya asks, “How’s that working for you? ”Discovery sessions are working! Humble gratitude for your teaching Jen!"
"Jen, I want to thank you from my heart of hearts for being a spiritual beacon, mid wife and teacher to me. You see so much and you love so much. Your care is supportive and confidently expectant. Our circle is growing in depth and love- your tending is nurturing our courage, fortitude and emergence. I am deeply grateful to you and our full circle family for holding and encouraging me on this waking to and living from Truth."
Still by A. R. Ammons
I said I will find what is lowly and put the roots of my identity down there: each day I'll wake up and find the lowly nearby, a handy focus and reminder, a ready measure of my significance, the voice by which I would be heard, the wills, the kinds of selfishness I could freely adopt as my own: but though I have looked everywhere, I can find nothing to give myself to: everything is magnificent with existence, is in surfeit of glory: nothing is diminished, nothing has been diminished for me:
I said what is more lowly than the grass: ah, underneath, a ground-crust of dry-burnt moss: I looked at it closely and said this can be my habitat: but nestling in I found below the brown exterior green mechanisms beyond the intellect awaiting resurrection in rain: so I got up and ran saying there is nothing lowly in the universe:
I found a beggar: he had stumps for legs: nobody was paying him any attention: everybody went on by: I nestled in and found his life: there, love shook his body like a devastation: I said though I have looked everywhere I can find nothing lowly in the universe:
I whirled though transfigurations up and down, transfigurations of size and shape and place: at one sudden point came still, stood in wonder: moss, beggar, weed, tick, pine, self, magnificent with being!
Jennifer's beloved teacher, Sharon Landrith (a teacher in the lineage of Adyashanti), has confirmed her as a teacher in the lineage. And encouraged her to be a guide for those genuinely moved to remember and embody their essential nature. Jennifer's joy is to be of service in the unfoldment of spiritual awakening through: private meetings for spiritual-inquiry, group silent retreats and evening gatherings.