Manifesto of Love

Where do I begin ... to tell the story of a love that never ends? To give words to our double spiral of life ... where every ending is a new beginning? How does it weave together, all of it, the joy and the sorrow, the love and the loss, the peace and the unknowing that is beyond our understanding?

How do the perfect souls simply show up in our lives in the ways that our own learning and growing, our dissolving and becoming, can unfold in our pathless path with both choice and destiny?

I've come to trust, radically trust, the many colors, the many dimensions of love in this love story without end. Timelessness has given me time, it seems, in which to decipher and see facets of light and darkness, at least in my own life, that are beyond my understanding.

What I know is that there are codes in the mystery. And they are codes that, if we are willing to see higher and deeper into our lives, we can begin to understand and know their ways. We will all begin to find our own ways of entering the vastness of our unique and individual mysteries that are part of the one.

It's like there are many paths that lead to the mountaintop. And when we reach the top, if we are above the clouds, we can look into the vastness and see that there are many mountaintops.

We will also find moments in time when we recognize that we are, or were, on or off the path. Points of new beginnings emerge, sometimes out of what has seemed to be darkness. Such a moment occurred in my life ... now more than thirty years ago. It came as a surprise; I didn't plan it. For me, it was when what I've come to call the "Codes of Co-Creation" penetrated my very being.

I knew that my life had changed. It was like a flash of lightning in the night. There was a living f lame of love that was beyond understanding. It took me into the journey without distance. My body tingled even as my mind dissolved.

I somehow knew there was a territory and there was mystery. There were veiled clues related to this territory that has seldom been seen and only rarely mapped by human minds. Somehow I knew my life's work would be about this. And the awareness of the details was not there, only a knowing that was as a glimpse.

Each of us has our own gifts of such moments in time. Sometimes we recognize them; other times we don't. Sometimes we say yes to the invitation; other times we ignore it, discount it, or even run.

Yet these glimpses are numinous, coming from dimensions beyond our human understanding. If we are willing, we may perhaps come to know them as our soul's calling, our destiny, calling us to a greater, higher, and deeper plan.

You are invited to an odyssey, one in which you participate, where you bring your own life, your soul's yearnings, into the journey. In some ways, it will be a memoir seen through the eyes of the soul. In other ways, it may involve glimpses of a future that exists, always already. If you say yes, you will participate at whatever level your heart tells you. It will be up to you ...

There is a map that has imprinted itself in my heart and mind. It has become, for me, an invisible guide. It is an ancient map, based in ancient scripture in part. It has been and is sacred in the hearts and minds of millions of people around the world.

There are other parts of maps that have become deeply imprinted in my being. Some of them may weave their way into our unfolding tapestry. You will find your own maps from your own imprints weaving themselves in your experience.

Some of the weavings and wanderings on this unusual quest will be part of what I call Codes of Co-Creation. My deepest desire is that we not get caught in our human minds and that we follow where our hearts lead.

I've found significant pointers in this mystery. They have revealed themselves over my lifetime in different stages and ways. If you are willing to say yes to the exploration, it will happen for you also.

In that ancient scripture, they have been called the seven days of creation. The simple understandings have taken on deeper meaning...