“If not for reverence, if not for wonder, why have we come here?”–Raffi
My guy, Alby, once described Mozart’s music as so pure and so ever-present in the universe that it was simply waiting to be plucked out by someone with a sympathetic ear.
That’s my overarching goal these days—to listen to the universe with a sympathetic ear. To hear, not with the dirty bathwater of my brain, but with the music that’s ever-present in the universe. I do this mainly by connecting to nature.
Truth is I’ve always been connected to nature (so are you, we all are), but because we pay so much attention to other things, we rarely notice. We focus on the file cabinet in our brain where we store grievances and beliefs that we just know are absolute fact.
The Course in Miracles is all about rewiring the mind—not the brain. The brain is basically a receiving device that, as I said, keeps files from the past. It superimposes old stories, old judgements on “the now.”
“The now,” for anyone who takes time to notice, is brimming with possibility. It hasn’t yet selected one out of the world’s gazillion trillion superpositions and named it fact. It hasn’t discarded all that’s possible for that one measly superposition.
True guidance doesn’t come from the brain, doesn’t rely on the three-pound blob of grey matter that plays nothing but old tunes from the jukebox of the past. The brain stores yesterday, ideas that were conjured up when we were two or ten or twenty-one.
My intention is to discard yesterday as any kind of guidance for today. And to recognize that the sights my brain shows me are nothing but a catalog of what used to be.
We might think our eyes show us the world as it is. But it’s been proven over and over again, that our eyes, mandated by the file cabinet of grievances called the brain, show us but a depiction of reality that we’ve long thought was true, but actually isn’t. It shows us a limited, inaccurate view of the world that’s so far from truth we can only laugh when we finally see it.
Rather than buy into the brain’s evaluation of good/bad, right/wrong and trust its depiction of the world, I prefer to close my eyes and FEEL the universe, to listen to the music of the spheres.
Have a stellar week, oh joyous ones.
Life is kinda stunning when you quit trusting the brain’s faulty wiring and listen, like Einstein said, with a sympathetic ear.
#222 Forever!
Pam Grout is the author of 20 books including E-Squared, E-Cubed, Thank & Grow Rich and her latest book, The Course in Miracles Experiment: A Starter Kit for Rewiring Your Mind (And Therefore Your World).
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Pam, I just love reading your periodic diatribes against all we think/know to be true. Keep it up lady.
Jim@wheeleraudio.com
Why thank you, Jim! Hopefully, I’ll be sitting in your studio again reading them to you in person. I so appreciate the stellar times we had recording was it three of my books?
There is so much richness, so much endless possibility in the moment and what do we do? Bitch about why the guy in front of us is driving so slowly.
Silly rabbits!!
Giant Groundhog infused blessings, Grout!!
Taking in those giant hedgehog infused blessings, Comerford!!!
Yes! Yes! Yes!
Thank you for all the reminders, Pam!
I am fantastic at connecting with Nature, but too often rifle through the yesterday files and rely on my eyes.
Have a ginormously glorious day!
xox
Pamela Joy
I will have a ginormously glorious day! And I know you will, too!
Have you perused A Course of Love? It’s all about moving from thinking to feeling. From gathering info and learning to trusting your inner guidance in the moment. From doing and thinking to experience and being which leads to knowing. It’s quite beautiful ❤️❤️❤️
I’ve heard of it. And maybe even perused it at one time. Any book that talks of love speaks volumes to me.
So happy when I get an email from you, Pam. Yes, somebody is making sense!
And I am so happy when I get a comment from you, Noreen!
There are lots of ways you are talking about things I’ve been trying to talk about to friends, family and occasionally in school papers, since childhood. I’m reminded today of the time in 8th grade I went to my junior high school library and asked if they had any books about the music of the spheres. My librarian was tickled. I can actually remember how his face lit up.😊
Another graduate of The Magical Mytery Manifesting playshop and I have started a Possibility Posse. It’s been lots of fun.
I love that you started a Possibility Posse. And that you’re a proud graduate of the Magical Mystery Manifesting playshop!
I closed my eyes, and soon realized I was hearing music of spheres through the window, namely that of rain drops. I also heard some from circles, namely car wheels on the wet road and a fan.
Thanks for this refreshment, Pam! I’m ready get back to washing dishes 🙂
Thank you Pam your messages always arrive at just the right time for me xxxx
Oh, how perfect this is. Seeing and feeling with new openness and intention. Thank you. I’m off shortly to walk on the sand and listen to the music of those ever rolling waves. Have a wonder filled day Pam and all. Lots of love sent from Far North Queensland 🩵🌴
Thank you Pam! Nature…Heaven on earth. I am always so amazed that no matter how challenging my day has been, once I let the waves cover my feet or walk with the trees those worries seem so much smaller and peace begins to come. What a gift.
Love, Kate
Thank you Pam. Your words (truths) always speak to me so directly and lift me up from my troubling “what if” thoughts. You are truly heaven sent.
“The dirty bath water of my brain” is such a fabulous phrase! What a great way to describe the ineffectiveness of relying on our old, stagnant, overused thoughts when we’re wanting to create something new, and wish to open ourselves up to the endless possibilities in the present moment. I love it! Thank you for that excellent image Pam, and for encouraging us to try closing our eyes so we can feel the universe and hear the music of the spheres. Sounds like bliss to me. ✨🎼🌝
I loved Pam’s perspective about the dirty bathwater phrase as well!
Knowing I cannot see anything clearly through it with all my created grievances floating around in there.
Signals me to pull the bathtub plug so to speak, and drain the brain of untruths.
Forgiving and starting each day fresh, clean, and grateful.
Hallelujah 🙏. I love this. A perfect blog for me at this time of life. So true but also so filled with joy and encouragement toward better and more connected and enlightened times ahead 😊☀️
Thank You 🙏
This judgment of your brain seems a bit harsh to me, Pam – like maybe you’re throwing out a bouncing baby with that dirty bathwater you mentioned? Please know that’s NOT to say, “you’re wrong,” just that the approach doesn’t feel good to me.
I see my brain as WAY-more than a “listening device” and a “file cabinet” for storing grievances. That’s part of it, yes, but peering beyond I find a neocortex and thalamus fueling my power of imagination and driving a desire to create. Deeper still, I see my pineal gland’s ability to support spiritual vision.
Reasonable (and rewired) minds can differ, of course, but from my perspective the brain motivates and empowers us to envision, create, appreciate and share things of beauty, like this…
https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/naturemandala/
…to become spiritual beings simply *enjoying* a human experience. I’ve been eager to share that link with you, and I’m happy to find your website working again today. 😊 Namaste, and Happy Thursday!
Thank you for your inspiration Pam!
Thank you, Pam~ there is so much rich wisdom throughout this post! After reading your blogs and listening to your book about the Course of Miracles, I think I will pull mine out and spend some one on one stillness time with Its words.
Namaste😇
Thank you, Pam. What a beautiful reminder.🩷
Pam Grout, thank you for sharing your thoughtful reminders, agree wholeheartedly and since reading
A Course in Miracles Experiment, which is now part of my daily morning ritual; have been noticing a magical connection to you and your beautiful daughter, Tasman.
On car trips, number plates, shop windows, 222 is showing up and it fills me with goosebumps every time.
Remarkable <3