Category: Writing

Sacred Circle of Love

Photograph © 2013 Peggy Kornegger
Photograph © 2013 Peggy Kornegger

Are our ideas about love evolving right along with us? Yes, I believe they are. Today, in our seemingly chaotic world, beneath the surface of visible turmoil and divisiveness, there exists a gradual, almost imperceptible shift in the way we think about love. We are seeing an expansion from clannish familial love and romantic love based on physical appearance/attraction to a more inclusive universal love that encompasses all beings. In the past, this universal love has often been linked to the Divine love associated with a God or Goddess. In various spiritual or religious traditions, the Divine Mother is the primary image of unconditional, compassionate love. Historically, it has been difficult for ego-bound humans to express this kind of selfless loving. But all that is changing.

Now, during this time of accelerating evolution in human consciousness, we are opening our hearts to that infinite love without conditions or parameters. As we step into embodying the archetypal mother’s love for her child, we experience and radiate that love to all whom we meet on our life’s journey. The Divine within each of us mirrors the Divine in others: I love, you love, we love—the sacred circle of unconditional love. This is the love that is at the core of our being and at the center of the cosmos. In truth, both our universe and we were born in love. And we are finally awakening to that universal Divine love that permeates all things.

This February, the month in which people celebrate Valentine’s Day and romance, let us also recognize a love greater than cards or candy or our individual lives. A love that, if we let it, could redefine the way we live on this planet and make every day one filled with profound human connection and global harmony. Let us celebrate Love in the capitalized sense. Let us love the way Mother Teresa, Gandhi, and Martin Luther King Jr. loved all peoples of the Earth. Let us love one another, and ourselves, with the delight and wonder a new parent feels when they look at their child. Let us, at long last, love from the depth of our souls, beyond limits and beyond words.

 

2012 and Beyond: Radio Interview

On January 31, 2012, I was interviewed by Peter, Barb, and Ric on the Spiritual HelpDesk online radio show. We talked about the energies of 2012 and beyond and how the Great Shift is affecting all of our lives. I also read an excerpt about my trip to Guatemala with the Maya elders from my book Living with Spirit, Journey of a Flower Child. The program is available for listening at this link: http://spiritualhelpdesk.com/2012/01/23/peggy-kornegger/.

2012: Year of Awakening

This is the year to step away from all the negative messages within the media* and the collective consciousness that have to do with fear, scarcity, suffering, loss, and the end of the world. This is a time of change and transition, of awakening to our greater potential as human beings, but it is NOT the end of the world. It is merely the end of one way of being on Planet Earth and the beginning of a new way of being, one centered in trust, abundance, joy, sharing, and oneness. We are living the transition between those two ways of being.

Transitions can be edgy and challenging, but they also can be filled with new energy and inspiration. It is up to us to define how we choose to go into this new age before us. For my part, I don’t want to go forward kicking and screaming and crying about what has been lost; I want to dance into the new energies full of gratitude and appreciation for the blessings and abundance of each day as it unfolds. And isn’t the sun rising each morning a blessing? Isn’t the very act of breathing a miracle of abundance? The more we look around with an eye for the positive aspects of each moment, the more we see. Trees, flowers, grass, birds; friends, family; music, dance, song; shared laughter, shared love…. There are an infinite number of possibilities for wonder in each individual life. Choose one wonder each morning, however small and seemingly insignificant. Let it carry you through the day. The more you focus on it, the more it will grow, expand, and spark recognition of other wonders in your life.

So take a deep breath, smile, and look out through your eyes as if you had never seen the world before. What tiny miracles are you overlooking in your daily life? Find them. Celebrate them. And watch the wonders multiply.

*For a refreshing and inspiring alternative to the negativity of the mainstream media, see www.positivenewsus.org.

 

Gateway to the New Earth

My article “Gateway to the New Earth: The Time Is Now” is in the  Winter 2011 issue of Spirit of Change. It is available in bookstores as well as online at http://www.spiritofchange.org/mind-spirit/gateway-to-the-new-earth-the-time-is-now.

I also have a letter to the editor about dolphins and whales and navy sonar in the same issue: http://www.spiritofchange.org/letters/letters-military-sonar-nonotuck-switching-banks.

Article in Awareness Magazine

My article, “The Inner Eye: Balance in a Changing World,” is in the May/June issue of Awareness magazine (California publication). Visit their website to view the article online:
http://www.awarenessmag.com/ezine_mayjune-2011/index.html. Click on the magazine cover, turn to p. 19, and zoom in to read.