AMEX Radio Interview

Outline of a Radio Interview of 4-17-13 with Aprylisa Snyder on AMEX Radio

              Links:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOtxo-06yFg&feature=youtu.be

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/energymedicineexchange

  

                                                 

ON RESURRECTION  

Question: What are three main points you would like to share with our audience?
a) Two images of love – fire and light (from the Aramaic)
b) The importance of letting go – love and let go(d).
c) Bliss as the subjective core of love.

 

Question: On the image of "The monk in the lab coat."

Question re: My personal story of spontaneous renunciation and; cultivation of Bliss.

Question … about the medallion I wear around my neck.

a) The Labyrinth – a maze in which you can’t get lost – Just keep moving through the twists and turns of life and you will find the center core.

b) The Phoenix – symbol of death & resurrection
i)  Hesychasts greeting – “May you die before you die” … “May you resurrect before the resurrection.”

ii) Charles DuBois Quote: “The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.”
iii) Rasa Coaching – may be said to be about directly engaging this dying & resurrection theme. 

Question (as a coach) How to do that?  
a) Koran Quote:  “Do you not know that you are made of light and love?” - Allah (The Unity)

b) DNA, bio photons, epigenetics – Darwin (Nurturing). 

c)  The fire of love - healing

d)  The light of love - love-bliss – Inner Smile practice (basic)

Rumi Quotes: Lines from Rumi’s poetry chosen and arranged to elaborate on the discussion.*

Note:  love and pain are often associated in our experience, yet, as with the mystics, love is purified of pain by a “passing away” (fana) of the persona and what remains is an essence of perfect joy.  For Rumi, this love-play is symbolized (metaphorically) as wines intoxication.

#1) You are wrapped up in the self from head to tail. What are you looking for in yourself? You’re like water in the jug, encased in earthenware. Embark on the journey of love. It takes you from yourself to Yourself.  And cut the story short, my friend.

#2) If you want to feel rapture, then give up thinking, and quit worrying.

#3) Thoughts are limited, but the one who gathers them is endless. Let what is limited disappear into 

the unlimited.

#4) Don’t be a man of thought. Stay pure and clean. Become a man of joy and ecstasy instead. Reason is a monster on this road. O my soul, get crazy, and go insane. Why are you so reasonable?

#5) Look for the path in the heart, O moonfaced soul. What can you find in the earth besides dust?

#6) In every moment you are reborn anew. But the crowd of people doesn’t know that.

#7) The world vanishes, but God remains. 

#8) This is the whole fortune. This is the whole glory. This is the pleasure. This is the life. There can be no trading, no gain besides this love.

#8) No one there feels jealous of anyone else’s attainments. In the soul’s garden, everyone is happy.

 #9) Your troubles will stay with you until you become God’s drunkard.

#10) Come, O sweet-lipped beauty. Drink this haram wine if you have the nerve. If you have a heart like the sea, pick up the wine that reveals what being human is really about.

#11) Forget about separation. Respect and embrace each other. Strive for Union. Open the door of heaven.

#!2) Who thinks a glass alone is enough?
Who can be happy with just one glass?

#13) Fill your skull with that divine wine. For God’s sake, roll up the covers of reason and the mind. O lovers, remove the garment of self-consciousness. Annihilate yourself while gazing at the face of Immortal Beauty.

*Source: Ergin, Nevit O.; Johnson, Will (2010-04-10). The Forbidden Rumi: The Suppressed Poems of Rumi on Love, Heresy, and Intoxication (p. 124). Inner Traditions Bear & Company. Kindle Edition.