I am pleased to inform you all that I have uploaded Episode 2 to the Synarchy Series. Run on over to http://dcs.podOmatic.com and have a listen! And then you should totally go buy the book. Seriously.

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“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”

-Rumi-Mevlana

Picture this.

You’re on your way home from work. It’s been a long day, you’re a little energetically drained, tired and looking forward to the comforts of home. You offer small, quick smiles at the people  you pass on your way to the public transportation system located within your city. Once on board the train, streetcar, bus, trolly, or subway, always crowded during rush hour, you find a spot next to a person and sit.

You glance at the person next to you, and a feeling deep in your gut tells you your next action will be welcome. You lean into them, lay your head on their shoulder, and release a content little sigh. The stranger glances over and smiles gently, places their arm around your shoulders, kisses the top of your head, then continues reading their newspaper. The gesture is loving and comfortable and your heart swells with the first emotion, unconditionally offered to this person holding you.

You remain like this, eyes closed, and perfectly comfortable until it is time for your stop. Then you stand up, smiling at the stranger and say simply, “Thank you. Have a great evening.”

The stranger returns your smile fondly and with a nod says, “You too.”

And that’s it. Nothing more happens. You go home to your mate and continue your evening.

You may think I’m loony, I’m sure its not the first time. but we’ve all had a day like this; where all you want is a little snuggle time, or a big hug. Our belief systems, or B.S. however, have told us that seeking that from a stranger is unacceptable. Dangerous even. Bah-humbug. Lets 180 our thinking away from all the reasons why this is simply not a plausible scenario and enter into the realm of imagination (thusly creation). How easy, comforting, natural even would that be? To cuddle with a complete stranger, simply because you want too, without entertaining fear that they might take it the “wrong way”. Where their gender, and race are as immaterial as what they look like. Its all about what lies beneath.

In December I received an email that talked about something called Deep Contact. When I went to my Quantum Leap meetup here in New Orleans (basically a bunch of crazy ::wink:: people like me, talking about these, and other things that I write and blog about) a gentlemen there actually had an experience where years ago he was walking down the boardwalk and saw this woman. When he looked into her eyes, a brief passing glance he saw eternity. Felt like he was looking at himself and experienced a connection, a sudden rush of love so simple and profound, like nothing he’d ever experienced before. He didn’t know this woman, never saw her again, but they shared a unforgettable experience.

As the veil thins we’re all going to become more transparent. Does that frighten you, that you won’t be able to hide from people anymore, locking away inside of you all those little parts you think are unlovable? The Group which channeled this message about Deep Contact explains it as, “a form of communication that you will eventually have with everyone.” First its going to start with your love relationships. Eventually it will evolve into something that happens daily, randomly, by a shared glance from a complete stranger.You’ve probably experienced this before in your life and not realized it. You look across the room and meet someone’s eyes. Suddenly you’re terribly uncomfortable because it feels like that person can see right through you, that they’re looking into your soul, that your open and exposed. You immediately look away and put your defenses up. But why? Blame it on your  B.S. When you truly see another persons soul, you fall in love. And it’s not their soul you’re seeing, but your own. In those moments of deep contact that person is a mirror for your higher self, for everything that you are.

I’m currently reading The Translucent Revolution. I highly recommend it, its a very real take on the changes sweeping the planet, taken from people like me and you, and what is in my opinion the reality of awakening in the 3D world. Its not all roses. We’re not “zen” twenty-four seven. We’re simply spreading the light anyway we can. I thought, at the beginning that I could banish my ego utterly, my negativity completely in one fell swoop. I can’t help it, we Scorpios must do everything in extremes. What I have found though, and what I’m learning to strive for is balance. I’d much rather the light outweigh the other but I’m not a lost cause when I drop. For example, just yesterday as I walking home from work, sucking in the energy that surrounds the french quarter which I love, I’m high tailing it, I’m a fast walker, just am, I was taken out of my peaceful zen moment by a sudden, strong urge of annoyance at the fucking tourists who feel the need to monopolize the whole mother fucking sidewalk when I’ve got somewhere to be. Yes I understand its all very pretty, but could you please get the fuck outta my way? Thanks. Namaste. And as that exact thought passed through my head, when it was done I giggled. I had no ill intent towards these people. They are me. They are awesome, bright sparks of creation and blah blah blah. I was not judging, I was just annoyed they couldn’t take another step to the left to give people room to walk by. I should probably learn to be more patient. We will all have our moments, how we handle them is what’s so important. I’ve also had two moments on the streetcar coming home from work, when I’ve felt the urge to do what I opened this blog post with, lay my head on a complete strangers shoulder. I’ve failed twice in acting out on that out of fear, I let my ego talk me out of it. One day, I’ll cast that fear aside, just go with it, and see what happens.

I have another confession to make; I’m in love with being in love. I remember a moment I had years ago as I sat and pondered my life, and relationship that I came to that realization, that I was in love with being in love. And then my B.S. spoke up and told me that was wrong. That I was flaky. That I should only be in love with one person. Love for family aside, that’s different, right? I thought for a while that I should only feel that deep level of love for my partner, so I did. I apologize now, to all the people I’ve shorted. I’ve got an amazing capacity to love that I want to share for the joy of doing it. I feel that a lot lately now, (in between my dictator moments ) and I can also feel where I’m blocked. I caught a bad chest cold a few months ago, and I was talking with my ex-wife about it and I pondered to her whether I’d caught the cold because my heart chakra was still blocked. I asked her what she thought about it and her response was that to her, I was the most loving person she knew, but she didn’t know how I was with other people. I thought about this, and I realized that for her, sure. For others, it was a little less than. As I wondered why, I came to two conclusions; A belief system, B.S. that there are certain things you can only do for your partner, not everybody else and  fear. Fear that they’d take it the “wrong” way.  People aren’t use to that sort of reaction from me. They have no idea really how loving I can be, what a shame! And I realized then, as I realize now, writing these words, I’d like to do it just to do it. For the joy of doing it. Because I truly believe one should fall in love as often as possible with as many people as you can, simply because who doesn’t like to be in love??

Ask most parents and I think they’ll tell you the joy in having children is getting to love them. I know for a fact that my mom loves being able to love us. She shows it all the time in the little things she does for us, and we watch her amusedly, and say things like “mom you don’t have to do that.” Her reply is that flippant wave of her hand, and a look we can’t fathom because were not that cool yet as she honestly replies, “I know. I want too.” My mother was down in nawlins for a few days last week. I had to leave before she left to go pick up my doggie and when I come home there is a blue mountain magnet on my desk, with one of those cheesy awesome poems. I laughed when I saw it, did that whole amused little head shake at mom as I read it. But how honored am I, that I can be an expression of my mothers capacity to love? That I can just accept it for what it is, creating joy in both her and myself?

Let people love you! No matter who they are!

I’ve decided I’m going to send out a missive to all my peoples and let them know that I’m going to start an experiment with expanding my heart chakra (they all think I’m weird anyway ) and want the opportunity to love them. I’m going to use you all as guinea pigs for the missive i’m going to write out. Tell me what you think;

Dear friends and family. Your out there friend Crystal is working on expanding her heart chakra and playing around with the freedom of expressing the full force of her love to all her peoples. I write this so it doesn’t come as a shock if I do something you consider randomly thoughtful, considerate, etc. Nothing is to be interpreted as an attempt to get with you romantically, make up for something I might have done but not told you about, or any other ulterior motive. My actions will stem only from the joy of getting to love you, because I am completely inlove with you all. In a way, its completely selfish. If this weirds you out, get over it

Love

Your lord and mastah, Foamy.

(P.S. If you have never watched a Foamy Rant go do so, right now in fact. But make sure you have a twisted, politically incorrect sense of humor).

Now, back to the Translucent Book. I’m reading the chapter called other-realization and its talking about deep contact, and relationships. I’m going to quote some things because I think they need to be shared, and when you go buy my book you should really get this one too. To quote Arjuna Ardagh, author of The Translucent Revolution “-when everything is only about separation and lack, the personality is nothing more than a desire machine. Cut off from connection to our real source, we have nothing to give when we feel separate, and our entire relationship to the world is based on addressing assumed deficiency.” He then goes on to talk about what he calls The Current, which directly quoted is, “a warmed up flow of Being, expressing itself through a unique human form. No longer completely non separate, we recognize the unique beauty of the other as an expression of life. But we also remain connected enough with our source that we no longer foster a sense of isolation.” Skipping a few lines, to get to the good stuff, or least the stuff I thought was profound, “-The Current only gives, it needs nothing from the other for it is connected to its own fullness. In giving all from within itself, it comes to know its own potential. Relation from this Current of deeper love is the opposite of Iago habits.” He refers to the ego as Iago. “Instead of meeting the other to get love, you meet to express and share the love that you are.” And then he goes onto quote from a dialogue he had with a spiritual mastah ShantiMayi – “What you want, you have to be; you cannot get anything from another person. If you want love, you have to love. If you want respect, you have to respect. If you want dignity, you have to dignify. We know this with our children. Its not so much others loving you back that’s so rewarding, as it is to have them to love….everything is going on quite harmoniously when there is no demand made on another to fulfill you. When you see the other person as an opportunity to really love, to really express what’s in your heart, every action is nothing but the opportunity to really dig deep into your own heart.” One more, from Ardagh, “When we meet in this Current, each human being becomes fascinating, relevant. There are gifts that can flow only from that person; love seeks to express itself uniquely in each human form. Love has never been expressed in that way before, and may never again.”

After reading that, I was totally taken aback by the awesome simplicity of it all. I had an “ooh” moment. We’ve all felt like we needed a person, fell in love, wished to change some of their habits, got jealous, put someone up on this pedestal and then hated them when they proved to be “less than” and failed to fullfill our needs, like our B.S. tell us they should. Now just imagine if we could go back to those relationships where we acted like drama queens and experienced them simply for what they were. Loved, to love, not needed to love. Where we were not completed by them, but complimented by their presence, and honored that they wanted to play with us. And when its over how nice would it be if we could just let it go, be a little sad over the ending but over-joyed that we had that experience? Think about all the drama that would vanish from your life, from your friends lives. I had an opportunity to simply enjoy a moment for what it was. I had a few different dates and I use the term loosely with this guy. He was older, how I like em, a musician with an MBA. Sexy as all hell. He does the sound for different bands around the city so when we’d meet up, he’d be working usually so I got to chill in the sound both with a great view of the stage. I even got to do play with the lighting once. I had a great time. But alas as happens to all of us, he stops calling, and doesn’t respond to the message I left to hollah back when he had time. Weeks pass. Now, I can fret over what might have been, drone on and mutter and bitch about the asshole who didn’t call me back, or, I can simply be glad I had the experience, smile at the memory and move onto the next. Don’t get me wrong, I wish he had called back but he didn’t and its all right. To quote a friend of mine, “Oh well, I had fun.”

So I highly recommend, giving into the urge to love when you feel it and not letting your B.S. get in the way. Try and fail, try and fail, keep going until you get it right where you want it. What else are we here for but to play?

Namaste and Espavo

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I know you’ve missed them and me. When Venus went retrograde I had this amazing influx of creative energy. It was so intense I could just feel it, like a little electrical circuit wrapped around me. Got lots done as you can tell. Then it went away, and I caught a cold and I’ve been a little lazy.

But I’m back now and there are things to report!

First of all two awesome events will be happening. We will be starting a YouTube campaign this week to promote the novel. I have given them a little excerpt of me reading a chapter and my friends at Gumbo Marketing are going to start pushing it.

Secondly, we’ll be going on a virtual book tour! Yay! Basically we’ll be hitting 15 to 20 Blog sites that are actively discussing the books topic, do author interviews, Q&A sessions, etc. That will probably be put together next month, so I’ll keep you posted as to where we’ll be.

Lastly, I have updated the books trailer. I think it grabs you better, but what I need is your opinion. You get a cooler beginning when you check it out from the website here: www.watchthetrailer.synarchynovel.com (that website addy will change friday when I buy a new one for it).

You can also check it on my channel on you tube. Both are actually up there, so you can compare and give me feedback: http://www.youtube.com/user/DCSSVT

And now, because I love my blog followers so much, I’m going to share the MP3 excerpt from the novel with you first hand. Aren’t you excited??

Follow this link press the play button and enjoy

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