Sacred Guidance with StellaMuse

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Chemical Pilgrimage ~ Are Drug States Spiritual? May 02, 2019

Show notes

Some want to feel God, to know God, to be God, some want to escape and avoid life, get high, be one, feel pleasure, have fun and, they want to do this by taking something to get them there…wherever there is.

I've been asked many times about drugs – from ayahuasca and peyote to ketamine and LSD. So, I wanted to share the Ageless Wisdom, the ancient spiritual, psychological and soul based insights combined with modern science to answer some of the big questions. Because I understand the alluring, beckoning, glamourous call can seem like the thing to buy into. For some, to buy into it time and time again. But at what cost? For what ends and benefit? And based on what factual knowledge and true wisdom are you or anyone making this choice?

I'm sharing this from the light and love of my soul because I want you to have more to go on if you are yet to make the choice to take a chemical pilgrimage and more to question and contemplate if you already have and maybe intend to continue. Before you do, let's explore this together;

Together, We Also Explore

Setting an intention – does this make it spiritual?
How drug states remove sovereign will
Playing roulette: good, neutral & bad experiences
New studies on alcohol
LSD V's Tantra, Meditation and the Yogic Way
Spirituality is the thing that is higher…
Perceiving the lower and higher planes of consciousness
How drugs expand you outwards or down
How spirituality takes you upward
The dream state of the astral plane: drugs & dreaming
Ancient practices we leave behind, Ageless Wisdom we carry forward
Drug 'feelings', visions and pleasure states
Purging: release & renewal or physiological effect?
Shaman, sham or false sense of security?
Self and spiritual development with a spiritual teacher or therapist
Psychology is not of two minds…
The choice is yours…

Stella Excerpt

"These chemical pilgrimages whatever the substance have become so normalised, even commercialised now, that perhaps you or anyone you know is not even sceptical about it. But you should be."

Takeaway Gem

"…drugs will expand your senses outward or downward, but not up. They will give you more of the universe at your level of functioning. The trap is that most people will usually perceive more of the astral and physical world and will assume because it feels or is 'more' that it is higher. Which isn't case. Yes, you may see more things, feel more of the world, experience more pleasure, but drugs cannot help you transcend the lower parts of the planes. It is a tangible chemical, so it has a ceiling limit to what it can do."

As always, as a sovereign being with free will, the choice is yours. To gamble on the fast track or to commit to the spiritual way which will take more time and require more effort but can take you to the heights your soul and being long to go this lifetime and those to come.

In the light and love of the soul, Elise | S*M

Living a Tantric Life: With & Without a Partner Apr 11, 2019

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In Tantra, we work on the lower self and transform it – that being your body/actions, heart/feelings/emotions and mind/thoughts. Part of your role in living a Tantric Life is learning your lower self. Then realising your higher nature and manifesting that into reality. So that you can live from your place of truth.

True Tantra is both lower and higher – specifically it is transforming the lower to manifest the higher.

This is part of the work of living a Tantric life; working on yourself. If you stop growing you can easily slip back into old patterns, habits, addictions and ways. Many people who stop growing and doing their inner work become bitter, with no vitality and eventually great regret. So, we must transform ourselves while we can. By always learning and growing.

Together, We Also Explore

Quality time - Being with self | being with partner.
Communication - Loving kindness, compassion, non-judgment, humility.
Presence - No distractions. BE fully where you are.
Cultivating harmony - Unity of masculine and feminine. Giving / receiving.
Harmlessness – In thought, word and actions.
From sex to sacred - Is there love in this or just sex?
Self-pleasure, pornography & the fetish of dominance – to raise primal/physical or pleasure states to higher places of consciousness, letting old habits go, and creating new acts of love.

GUIDED EXERCISES:

Grounding
Body check; body, heart, mind, soul, spirit
Understanding how True Tantra is both lower and higher nature – specifically it is transforming the lower nature to manifest the higher, divine nature.

The power of giving and experience – not seeking to gain an experience
What to do if you are struggling with your relationship

Stella Excerpt

"We are here to walk a path that transcends ordinary human experience. Tantra is one path to lead you to this higher place. It can be sex merged with love and intimacy, to lift it to a higher place, to make it an act of love and meaning…"

Takeaway Gem

"When you know yourself better within, your inner world will change and as a result your outer world will change – this includes your most intimate relationship with a current or future beloved and all your relationships."

May you weave all elements of all you are, raising, lifting, alchemising each thread, weaving the way along your spiritual path to liberation and unity.

With Love, Elise | S*M

Rediscover the Essence of Tantra Apr 03, 2019

Show notes

If you mention 'Tantra' most think it is purely sexual; multiple orgasms, multiple partners, multitudes of pleasure. I'd say this is more like multiple layers of glamour, illusion and fog now veiling the truth; the pure essence of what Tantra encompasses.

The real Tantras are complex beyond what you can image.

Tan-tra is colours, symbols, sound, mental control and harnessing the forces of nature all to quicken your evolution. It is a very guarded study that people devote their entire lives to. With many of the western paths purely sexualised (to make you feel good as often as possible), the key parts of this science and art, the pure essence of Tantra, is often lost. So, let's rediscover the Essence of Tantra together.

Together, We Also Explore

-Tantra either comes from Hinduism or Buddhism…

-The real Tantras are complex beyond what you can image…

-Tantra is not about sex or even "moving sexual energy"…

-Transmuting and alchemising addiction and habits to higher consciousness

-ONENESS is at the heart of the essence of Tantra

-Falling into the dangers of just pleasure seeking

-Transmute daily moments into sacred moments

-Corrupted Tantra

-Setting BOUNDARIES and cultivating DISCERNMENT – with questions to Muse on

-Tantric Glamours – the false truths and veils that blind your spiritual path

-A journey of a life time: with highs and lows, darkness and new light

-Vajrayana path of Tantric Buddhism

-GUIDED JOURNEY TO COSMIC LOVE: close your eyes and be guided to higher states of love from partner to cosmos

Stella Excerpt

"To rediscover the essence of Tantra within yourself, you need to better know yourself:

Do you know your own desires (habits or addictions)? What are they?

Do you have any will power to stop them or do they control you?

What are the quick fixes you go for when you want to feel good or stop some form of pain or suffering?

Do you know your default reactions?

Are you selfish or selfless in relationships – in intimate moments and in everyday life?"

Takeaway Gem

"Eventually Tantra helps you transcend your limited perspective. You become part of your beloved, together you become part of the universe – part of the cosmos. Anything that ends at pleasure misses the essence of Tantra."

Whatever your path, be it Tantra, Yoga, The Esoteric & Ageless Wisdom, or what it is that speaks to you, may you find your way to the unity, the oneness of all that is. May you find your way to ALL that is Light and Love, Wisdom and Truth, Beauty and Peace.

With Love, Elise | S*M

Awakening Tantric Consciousness: From Sexuality to Soul Love Mar 20, 2019

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Sex can be just a 'feel good' experience or it can be a selfless gift. Like trying to create a baby through love or becoming deeply connected and conscious with your beloved…

If you are honest, what it is you want from this, from a Tantric path? Is it just pleasure? Or making someone feel deep love and connection? Merging of beings? Higher states of love and consciousness? One way is animal nature driven and selfish, the other way is aspiring to divinity, to Tantra. This duality is part of the world we live in and thus it is part of Tantra.

Day and night, masculine and feminine, summer and winter, hot and cold. Yang and yin. It is in seeing the duality for what it is, understanding we have both qualities within us. We also have a choice as to which we may favour and how we want to express ourselves and live our lives.

Buddha spoke of The Middle Way – where we are in the world but not of the world. Instead of being stuck in the lower space of too much animal nature, as this is not divine, we learn to raise our desires higher. To desire of heart/love, of mind/wisdom, of consciousness, of a weaving of all that is to reach pure love of pure Soul. As Soul can love and unify with everything, when it does you know great joy. Let's learn in this episode how to Awaken Tantric Consciousness: from Sexuality to Soul Love…

Together, We Also Explore

The Path from;

-Primal / Physical animal desire

-'Astral' or Emotions desires (manipulative)

-Romantic love

-Devotion

-Sacred Love and committing to the way of the Soul

Why true union does not reach fulfilment between two lovers

GUIDED VISUALISATION: Union with Soul & Cosmos Ascension

Conscious questions to Muse on and contemplate

Answering common questions on chakras, teachers, sex and divinity

Stella Excerpt

"Most of what we see in the world – from social media and pop culture to the pseudo spiritual world of quick fixes and feel good pleasures speaks to our desire nature and animal impulses – we like what we like, when we like it and, we want it to feel good. As often as possible. But this would be like wishing to live in eternal summers and daylight. It does not embody the duality of all that is. Neither does it embody conscious evolution let alone the laws of the universe."

Takeaway Gem

"Sex can be divine, but it is not automatically divine. We have to make it so by consciously creating it to be so. We can work at this over time. But we need to be honest about what is pleasure and what is union with the cosmos."

May you find your way to the Light of Divinity on the Tantric path of sacred love.

With Love, Elise | S*M

Cultivating Patience & Radical Acceptance Feb 12, 2019

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How often are you frustrated, upset, angry, sad or overcome with emotions?

Ever noticed that getting upset and losing your patience makes things worse?

Are you ready to instead take back control of your body, heart and mind? Embrace life, cultivating patience and radical acceptance?...

Patience and frustration seem to be a tricky seesaw to balance at times. Especially when you find yourself wanting what you want, how you want it, NOW! … and, well, life just doesn't work like that.

Frustration is the sign that you're experiencing delayed gratification of sorts. You know it, that feeling when your needs - whatever they are - aren't getting met in the time frame you have in mind and they sure aren't being delivered the way you want.

Dare I say many of us have grown increasingly impatient with day to day life despite having more machines and technological advancements to help make things run smoother. None of which can make our internal world and our reactions or responses any different if we don't take back control of our own body, heart and mind.

But what if you don't need to get upset, frustrated, angry, or impatient? And instead can learn to cultivate inner calm, a sense of ease, grace, peace. Almost like awakening the Buddha within you, your most powerfully poised self…

Together, We Also Explore

#PathLife – finding the humour in the hurdles and harder moments
Cultivating Patience
Radical Acceptance – being OK with how things are
Gripping & Projecting Impatience
Flow – with no emotional suppression
Buddha & the "perfection of the heart"
Western psychology & 'affect tolerance'
Esoteric psychology & mind control / will power
Patience as strength
Ways to create time and space to ease the emotions
Perseverance & Tolerance
Key go-to's to cultivate patience and radical acceptance
- Flow
- The Intention of Patience
- Asking "What REALLY Matters?"
- This Too Shall Pass
I share part of the 'frustrating' journey of finding an agent & publisher for my novel RUNWAY & the lessons I've learnt along the way
Self-reflection questions to dive deeper and break your old habits, cycles and patterns
Fear & Frustration – "What am I afraid of?"
Cultivating presence in the Here and Now
…Continuing the work.

Stella Excerpt

"Sometimes when the world and the people in it don't do what we want, expect, need or ask for we take it personally. It can also feel like an attack or sabotaging of our efforts to control. You can end up feeling hard done by, personally inflicted or wounded and sabotaged – by someone, or something, by God or the Universe, by the Powers That Be etc. But I want to you to know there is a better way to see this and flow with it."

Takeaway Gem

"We not only have to intellectually get that all things take time, we need to reach a point of acceptance – by being ok with how things are, particularly those that we can't control."

May your Path be one of ever cultivating patience and radical acceptance.

With Love Elise | S*M

Bodhicitta ~ Guided Practice Jan 30, 2019

Show notes

If you have the high desire of experiencing life beyond suffering. If you want to experience freedom from fear and those triggers that set you off and make you sad or mad and stressed – sometimes all of those in a day. If you also want others to feel this too then you are called to Bodhicitta. This isn't a selfish motive, it is a selfless motive. You are pulled, called, drawn, magnetised and attracted to helping every being on earth to also experience this.

If you want to wake up, be non-reactive, open and fearless in the face of any challenge for your growth and the growth of all beings, this is a beautiful way to ultimately live life. Whether this is a brand new beginning for you or a deepening of your already existent practice. It is a specific meditation that you may now be called louder than ever to explore. I'm here to guide you through…

Together, We Also Explore

What does Bodhicitta mean
What is this 'luminous heart of the Dharma' we call Bodhicitta
Seeking only 'the good' & trying to escape 'the bad' experiences
Pain – how we avoid it, how we can release it
Life beyond Suffering…Freedom & Liberation
Selfless motive
Why I practice Bodhicitta meditation each morning
3 Part GUIDED Bodhicitta Meditation
- Taking refuge
- Developing Bodhicitta
- Dedication
- Om
The Bodhicitta Prayer

Stella Excerpt

"From being afraid, angry, frustrated, worried and feeling the need to protect yourself from feeling any discomfort. This way of life we are all familiar with is based on constantly desiring and getting good feelings and experiences and trying our hardest to escape bad feelings and experiences. But this view of the world only isolates and separates us. It builds walls between our hearts, our minds and, our cultures and countries. Instead Bodhicitta offers you the experience to reach freedom from all of this separation and suffering."

Takeaway Gem

"We know we feel pain, and if we feel pain, everyone at some point must feel it too. Therefore, in any way we can contribute to relieving this for others, we do."

May all beings be free from suffering.

With Love, Elise | S*M

Desire ~ From the Playground to the Path Jan 14, 2019

Show notes

Ever noticed yourself looking for love in the all the wrong places? How about validation? Pleasure? Escapism? Quick, feel good hits? Even looking for 'spiritual' experiences, authentic knowledge, sacred wisdom, guidance and truth in the wrong places? Because your desire nature leads you to the shiny, the sexy, the alluring and the "you can have it all now!" sales copy and smooth talkers. You're not being led by your pure heart, your clear conscious mind or, your soul.

It's not easy to rise above the animal nature of desires – the escapism (and at times addiction) of all that you crave, lust over and want; from sex and food, to shopping and porn, and all that's in between.

So, how do you cultivate control and will? How do you shift the primal animal desires, pleasure seeking or even sexual nature to a desire of the heart or something higher? This is what I want to share and explore together with you today.

Together, We Also Explore

You have a Will-to-Live but are you living?
The search for Happiness
Seeing behind the veil of illusions & desires
Searching for glamourous short cuts
The inner doorway to higher worlds
Your worth and strengthening spiritual connection
Knowing your power and the choice of 'Right Desires'

Six Key Tips:

All you see here is not real
Witness, Watch then Conquer your desires and false power
Alchemising Desire into Will
Daily Stillness
Morning Ritual
Envisage a Plan - a Divine tomorrow today
Together We Rise - Unite with Others on the Path (relationships to invest in, relationship to release)
Reclaim the Invisible, the Mystical & Esoteric (plus a short guided exercise).

Stella Excerpt

…any extreme, any addiction, anything that controls you that you cannot say "no" to and use your Will against is a desire that is driving YOU. And is thus using you as the puppet on a string. No matter how much you try convince yourself you can stop anytime, can you? Will you? Or, will you stay a slave to your own desires? Sometimes it is the slaying of former habits and desires on the Path that help you evolve. We must fight against desire or we will not grow.

Takeaway Gem

You no longer want to remain at the effect of these forces which you once thought you had no control over. Now you know you can take back control. You know you have the ability, the innate power to control your own reactions, thoughts, feelings, actions. That lifting your lower desire nature to higher consciousness can only be brought about by conscious choices and actions.

The possibility begins now and I'm right here to guide you there if you are willing and ready to leave the pseudo-spiritual playground and all those old toys of desire behind. And begin the journey toward your secret doorway within the sacred temple on the mountain.

With Love, Elise | S*M

The Four Noble Truths Dec 17, 2018

Show notes

Everyone I know is going through something…everyone you know is too. Even if we don't know what it is or they don't show it. It can be small or grand, but it's on their mind, it's in their heart, it's effecting their emotions and the way they feel when they get up in the morning and eat dinner at night. Even if something good or great or life changing happened just the other day, that unresolved or underlying issue/challenge/trauma is still there waiting. Maybe you're feeling this right now too.

But in the darkest of hours, we must take heart in accepting that this is part of the human experience. That as Buddha realised, through his dedication to the Path of awakening, suffering is inevitable. What we do with it, how we see it and live despite of it is what we have control over. So, I want to share with you some wisdom that the Buddha offered us on The Four Noble Truths.

Together, We Also Explore

The Four Noble Truths:

1.The truths of suffering – exploring the three versions of suffering

2.The cause of suffering – suffering in the modern world.

From Craving to Happiness to Craving
Exploring Anger
The Middle Way of Buddhism
The Razor Edge Path of Esoteric studies

3.The cessation of suffering –

Beyond the Craving Desires & Wants
Investigating the mind
Eliminating disturbing thoughts

4.The path to the cessation of suffering –

Self-governed study and practice
The Eight Fold Path of Enlightenment
Three traditional Paths to Enlightenment – Hinyana, Mahayana, Vajrayana
If you don't want to be a monastic or a Buddhist but what to walk the Path
A simple change – your problem is not a problem

Stella Excerpt

It's like people saying you can or should or need to be happy all the time. Really? How is that truly possible? These emotions and thoughts you have are changing so much, that if you tried to elect just one emotion and grasp it as tight as you can to keep it, it would be as foolish as grasping for smoke and expecting it to be there when you open your hand still. Sounds crazy, but isn't that what you been doing?

Takeaway Gem

Awareness, witnessing, catching yourself out, and making small consistent changes all help to better cultivate a noble mind.

May you find your way from suffering to liberation.

With Love, Elise | S*M

Self-Care for Depression & Dark Times Dec 08, 2018

Show notes

We all can benefit from some Sacred Guidance to navigate the depression and dark times that affect us in this human experience. For at some point or often more than one point, along the way we are faced with these challenging time.

So, let's explore together a top four of sacred tools that can help you or someone you know who needs some guidance in navigating depression or dark times.

Together, We Also Explore

Embodying The Patient Strategist
Time - For grief & healing
Depression & medication to suppress feeling
The circle of life-death-rebirth
Meditation & Prayer - a profound longing to connect to something 'real'
Cultivating a morning practice
Safe People – To be alone or to seek help and support
Rituals of Calm or Joy - 'Loving action' as an act of goodwill for yourself
Show Up for Another – Selfless service to shift your darkness
Action is love in motion
Crisis is opportunity for either development and growth to new light, or closing down.
…making your way back to the Light

Stella Excerpt

"We can understand here the concept of impermanence; that nothing tangible lasts forever. All that is eternal is the Soul. Everything else is in a constant state of change; of rebuilding or recreating, dying or changing."

Takeaway Gem

"It is no easy way to navigate such heart aching or life changing darkness that visits you and I and all of us. But you, just like me and those around us, have the ability within if we are open and willing to accept it and take that gentle, patient loving action."

From darkness to Light, we go.

With Love, Elise | S*M

Knowing Yourself Beyond: Body, Heart & Mind Nov 19, 2018

Show notes

It's time we go beyond the familiar & comfortable and challenge ourselves to reach new heights and depths of truth, love-wisdom and innate beauty – to feel, sense, see, know what we really are. Which is not our bodies, not our feelings and emotions, not our thoughts.

But love and light, ultimately Soul. With a higher purpose to contribute to a greater good and light the way for all those we connect with who are ready to walk the Path with us.

To know Yourself Beyond Body, Heart & Mind we first demystify the mistaken perceptions of these the 'lower vehicles' which govern us, then learn to clear the blocks that hold us back from higher consciousness. Are you ready to know yourself?

Together, We Also Explore

The 3 'lower vehicles';

- Body on the Physical plane,

- Heart on the Emotional/Astral plane,

- Mind on the Mental plane.

The commitment of personal growth
Change isn't always comfortable…
Demystifying & Clearing your blocks
What are 'Glamours'? & How do they effect you?
Examples of Glamours – from quick fixes & 'magic pills' to blind spots…
Glamours of the Physical & moving beyond
- Obsessions with 'purifying' & 'detoxing' the body
- Western interpretations of 'yoga'
- Social media
- Stability, discipline & vitality of the body
Glamours of the Emotional / Astral & moving beyond
- Drug states
- Seeking 'Bliss'
- Is your Psychic truly psychic?
- Astral feelings & Mind knowing
- Balancing heart & head for inner harmony and beauty
Glamours of the Mental / Mind & moving beyond
- You need the Mind!
- Love & Wisdom
- The Master of Love & the Master of Wisdom - The Christ & The Buddha
- Learning the art of Discernment
- Reading, studying, educating the mind…
Your opportunity for Growth, Healing & Spiritual Progress
Learning how you work – what is your strongest & weakest body / vehicle?
Learn how you relate to Divinity
Learn to spot you own Glamours and the Glamours of others / clients / friends / family…
Begin to better balance your heart & your head
Debunking 'Love, Sentiment & Devotion' – and which you drop into in your relationships.
Learn how Awakenings are opportunities and need Action to be taken for growth
The Path of a Lifetime – how to keep showing up and doing 'the work'
The importance of psychological & emotional guidance
Where to from here…

Stella Excerpt

Check where you are strongest;

Where do you think your soul works from you best?

Do you analyse and are you sceptical? - mental

Do you feel the beauty in the meditation? – emotional/astral

Do you do your practice religiously? – physical

Check where are you weakest;

Is it your body and its pains?

Your erratic emotions?

Your short concentration of mind?

Takeaway Gem

Vehicles do not start divine, they become divine through progress on the Path – this can take lifetimes for some. It is not a race. We must remember the esoteric truism that tells us to "make haste slowly".

We're all in this together to rise as one.

With Love, Elise | S*M