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We are trying something new for the myss.com newsletter.

This content is from the past Austin healing workshop and we found it very interesting.

Have a great weekend.

For Teresa, again, the lower mansions are where you're going to do the work on your interior soul. The 1st, 2nd, and 3rd – the most difficult mansion you're going to have to work with, the 1st mansion, of course, ties you to humiliation, chaos and the seduction of God, where you have to look at patterns of chaos in yourself and illness is a pattern of chaos, when you tie illness to chaos and how illness has created chaos in your life, how change has created chaos and how chaos has become a comfort zone, because it does. (Illness, not chaos)

In a chaotic way, you can create chaos for people - for example, an alcoholic. An alcoholic can create a lot of chaos for everybody, but it's his comfort zone – it's his comfort zone. And so, his idea of healing that chaos is very threatening, it doesn't work. Taking away his chaos is the worst thing in the world for him. So, for an alcoholic to have to admit, I create a lot of chaos is a moment of great enlightenment, but it's very threatening because that chaos is a sanctuary for him, it's a form of power, it's destruction for everyone else, but for him (or her) it's complete authority, it's a language.

You come up to the alcoholic and you say to him, "You have a problem," and before you have anything, the house is burning down, because he's convinced he doesn't have a problem, and the chaos is the blockade. We all something like that that has to do with the illness. Even if the chaos is the madness is where we can't figure out why in our insistence that we must have a reason, and the idea that there isn't a reason and what if this just an experience, what if this is (as John of the Cross would say) just a Dark Night, a situation where there is no reason and I simply need to battle my addiction to having to have a reason. I have an addiction to needing to have a reason, and that is what's breaking me in two, is because I am in a situation where there is no reason, and it's me versus God. And I insist on having a reason and heaven is saying, "So, sit there. I'm not giving you a reason, pout, starve, I don't care what you do. It is what it is, and that's the reason. Because I said so, and that's all that you need to do is endure. Bask in your self pity or just say so there it is, it is as it is."

Austin Healing Healing workshop 2007.

Join New York Times Best Selling Author Caroline Myss...for an extraordinary event “The Madness of Mystics and Your Personal Spiritual Journey” Caroline Myss will explore the mystic's experience of the Divine, describing the many encounters with Divine madness that has characterized - and continues to characterize - their spiritual journey. In the midst of their experience with God, the individual discovers his or her personal attraction to the Divine, an unrelenting call to be a part of the Sacred and to share intimately in the richness of an illuminating spiritual life. www.myss.com

Ms. Myss will speak together with nationally renowned mystical scholar and author of best selling books including the critically acclaimed Son of Man.
Andrew Harvey “The Madness of Shakespeare” Andrew Harvey will present his vision of the theme of madness in Shakespeare's tragedies and show how obsession with both the devastating and illuminating aspects of madness come from a profound and mysterious personal tragedy that he explored in the famous sonnets. Andrew's presentation will involve readings from the tragedies and sonnets, profound inquiry into the text, and reflection on the way shattering personal crisis can lead both to a knowledge of human evil, and to an expanding vision of the divine in the human. www.AndrewHarvey.net
Date: Sunday July 29th       Price: $200 cash, check or charge Time: 10am - 5pm       Reservations: 1-866-764-1010 Village Players Theatre 1010 Madison Street, Oak Park, IL (three blocks east of Harlem)

Entering The Castle / Findhorn Foundation

October 2007 - Findhorn Scotland
Oct 6-8, Caroline Myss
Oct 9-11, James Finley
Findhorn, Scotland

James Finley/Caroline Myss Avil,a Spain 2007

Surrendering to Love: The Teachings of Saint John of the Cross

Tuesday 9th October, 2007 (3 days)

This retreat is a follow-on workshop after our three-day event with Caroline Myss, Entering the Castle. James Finley is offering this workshop on the teachings of Saint John of the Cross, based upon the work of that mystic's spiritual companion, Saint Teresa of Avila. An emphasis will be given to the saint's teachings on our passage through the dark night of the soul, in which we surrender to and dissolve in the divine love that is our reality and the reality of everyone and everything that exists. Following closely the saint's teachings in his book The Ascent of Mount Carmel, we explore how passage through the dark night transforms our prayer and meditation into the love-filled silence of contemplation. We also explore how our passage through the dark night transforms our most intimate experience of our own mind and heart in ways that empower us to help others awaken to who God calls them to be. Time will be given for silent group meditation, personal reflection and discussion of the themes presented.

Caroline's recommendation for this retreat speaks highly of James Finley: There are many compliments that I can pay James in my introduction of him to you, but of these, the highest is that I have never witnessed another teacher captivate his audience more profoundly than James Finley. The combination of his mastery of the of mysticism along with his style - that of a well-seasoned and astute spiritual director and psychologist - allows James to create an unparalleled atmosphere of receptivity, essential for piercing the depths of the human soul. I must encourage all of you to extend your plans beyond doing my workshop and continue into the exploration of the real meaning of the Dark Night of the Soul, as Saint John of the Cross intended this process of the soul to be understood. The work of James Finley is the perfect companion material to my own work with Entering the Castle, just as Saint Teresa found in Saint John the perfect spiritual director. I promise you that each person who combines these two workshops will discover that they have, in fact, merged the genius of two great souls whose work was meant to be united.

A special event following Caroline Myss - Surrendering to Love: The Teachings of Saint John of the Cross with James Finley