My new digs enthrall me. Its nourishing Energy is unmistakable. I am immersed in breathtaking bucolic life. Allowing myself to feel the luxury of its essence I deeply appreciate those who work in the dirt and assist in keeping our beautiful Mother Nature happy. Growing up in a tiny rural farming neighborhood I would often hear the term ‘it’s time to mow the back 40 (acres)’ in reference to haying a field. My first trek down the lane after taking up residence here I find myself in the middle of the back 400! This is the real deal out here. I am in total awe of those farmers who still lovingly keep the livestock and caretake the land. So beautiful and fragrant (most of the time) it is beyond words to describe. The farmers’ sacrifice is to the benefit of us all who live on our Planet today. I dare say they deserve our utmost respect and gratitude. These are the guys that can put down the GMOnsantos of the world. They live to serve, not to impress. It is up to us to support the farm in any way we can. In meditating we are enabled to offer a type of covert recognition and gratitude that uplifts and values the tenders of the back 400, and the world. We really are magnets and draw to us what we vibrate out. Meditation is the ultimate sustenance. So remember to RPM baby – rise, pee and 5 minutes of silent MEDITATION at the start of each new day changes everything. It’s only natural.

glimpse of Mitchell’s farm

‘She’s baaack!’ Not sure where I first heard that expression. Possibly from early SNL or a wide grinned Jack Nicholson. The vision of my brother saying it comes to mind, along with him making a clawing motion with his hand pointing in my direction and calling it an ugly finder that is working. TCA is definitely not in Kansas anymore. We are living in the country now. Day one included a chameleon type toad sitting next to me on the deck. First thing in the morning on day two an adult turkey and her four chicks were feeding in the backyard. Day three, the turkeys were back in force with at least five adults and more than fifteen chicks. Turkeys are funny. They are so big yet they can fly and perch in the trees. Listening to their language reminds me of an old lady babysitter I had as a child. They chant ‘squawk quack squeak’ in direction to the tastiest morsels in the tall grass.

turkeys in the vortex

It is magical here. I can feel the difference that meditation provides in clearing the path and allowing for smooth transitions. No longer a country girl living in the city, I am home, in the country. It’s only natural.

Greetings Readers,

TCA is currently relocating to the countryside and will be temporarily electronically inactive. Energetically speaking it feels as though we are pinging around like the pinball in a vintage pinball machine. Contrary to the normal helter-skelter randomness of an active pinball though, this move is the smoothest ever and I’ll bet you can guess why. MEDITATION! The opportunities, the vision and the clarity of every logistical detail seems to be taking care of itself. The ease with which the particulars are transpiring tend toward effortless. New doors are opening with many adventures to be had. It is just amazing what focused breathing/meditating for a few minutes every day does for personal Well-being. Please stay tuned and watch for our return in a couple of weeks. Appreciation abounds!! It’s only natural.

I Am, the Closet Academic

Dear Friends,

Appreciation abounds as theClosetAcademic celebrates its first birthday. Another year of expansion in my own life, I am happy to report that it is all good – no, it is GREAT! Changes they are a’happenin’ so hang on to your hats. This is a very exciting time in our world and a very exciting time to be alive!

TCA is on the move this summer, literally. Though I had hoped to introduce a total revamp of theClosetAcademic today –  well, you know how it goes sometimes. Often, when things go our way we can find ourselves saying ‘Thank You. I’ll take over from here.’ and you know what happens then.

If there is one thing I have learned over this past year it is that MEDITATION IS the name of the game! Keeping an active MEDITATION practice has enabled many many positive shifts and has  helped me to extract myself from so much muck I cannot begin to tell you… well, to tell you now anyway. Breathing In Breathing Out Breathing In Breathing Out Breathing In Breathing Out – Aummm… Thank you ALL and please stay tuned. And remember to MEDITATE MEDITATE MEDITATE for a few minutes every day. It’s only natural.

With Profound LOVE,

I Am, the Closet Academic

or ‘Thank you, Jon Stewart’

“It’s my duty to say what’s right.” Malala

The gig is up. No more jokes. Another mutation, only 24 years old. We are currently experiencing the collective consequence of the age of acquisition. The effects of a propagation of big pharma and big insurance are just a scratch on the surface of human corruption. We are collateral damage for promotional moneyed interests and imposing belief systems gone rogue. They have commanded long-term influence and dumbed-down the masses. With duty to the shareholders, overall sickness has been justifiably promoted and our sense of self manipulated. The cancer rate is now 1 in 2 over 1 in 3 just ten years ago. Problem is we are so drug addicted and paralyzed by fear that it seems we have relinquished control of our lives to those very systems we were once free to change. As a young person during the 60s and 70s, atrocities gripped us then as they do today. With JFK and Bobby, MLK and Vietnam, it is all horrible. The youth of the era started demonstrating and forced the establishment’s hand. As young people we vibed-out and had sit ins. You could find us singing and sharing flowers and loving one another while draft dodging and getting high in the attempt to escape the twisted influence of big brother. We the people harked in a Call to Peaceful Action. It seemed the powers that be had finally started to understand the concept of embracing one another. Peace Accords and (earlier) the United Nations came into being and held clout. Community and regional churches began to reach out. One small step for mankind, they let down their hair a bit. I was a young teen when, by invitation, our Protestant youth group attended a Catholic Mass. It was in Latin. The churches were never the same after that and communities became much richer within this whole idea of being One. We even elected a President who put solar panels on the White House. The bulk of that youth are now our decrepit baby boomers who unknowingly acquiesced their personal power, health and self-control to those very influences that they had protested back then. Our biology is poisoned and environmental programming manipulated, now chemically hazed even before exiting the womb, we have been silenced. We have been sold. And, we continue to be sold, over and over and over again. What are the remedies today?  Through Mindfulness our Millennials and the new Gen Z are being equipped to implement viable answers. We have recently crossed a threshold of Big Data and Epigenetics. We the people are really on to something with all the interest in Yoga and Meditation. Government follows the people’s lead. It’s not the other way around. We evolved then and with Meditation we will continue to evolve, and this time we’ll do so mindfully. It is time we enhance our collective perspectives. Meditation makes that possible. It’s only natural.

Long before I realized that meditation was a ‘thing’ I had always taken for granted that we are truly spiritual beings having a human experience. Spiritual presence can show up when we least expect it – and usually does. There have been a lot of events in my life that have resolved and evolved in what some might call miraculous ways. Living in New England, I liken the roadways here to a type of chaotic quagmire. The phrase ‘down the road a piece’ is common navigational boondocks terminology where the lanes, avenues, streets and hills curve and round, up and down in degrees, slants and lengths. Being born to this turf of twists and tangles it is a second nature that GPS often just does not grasp. And then I moved to our Country’s heartland.

I was a stay-at-home mom while my offspring were young. Their father often traveled and his time with us was sacred. In his absence I would often pack up the children and drive around to explore the area. When living more than a thousand miles from native roots one often appreciates the vast diversity that surrounds us in this incredibly beautiful country. The roadways there are in a NSEW grid. Most of the land is relatively flat with very few trees. Of course, being the tree hugger that I am we found and lived in a nice little neighborhood located outside of any town lines. It was in a county, on a dirt road with most of the trees happily growing on our property. The immediate drive to us was wooded and my husband would often spy owls with six to eight foot wingspans.

One day, surrounded by wheat fields with the air warm and pleasant we kept the windows down in our new Isuzu Trooper 4 cylinder turbo diesel, which was a nice change from the constant running of the air conditioning during the normal harsh heat. Peace was the flavor of the day. Still on the dirt road I stopped at the stop sign which seemed almost comical to do as there was very little vehicular activity beyond the tractors. Crossing the intersection I felt something off to my right where the road held a slight rise. In that instant a white Mercedes Benz appeared. My first instinct was to speed up and get out of its way. I knew we were sunk. Surrounded by a dust cloud, its trajectory was a bullseye for a broadsided impact on our SUV. It was in that instant that a giant hand, bigger than the Trooper, placed itself between us and the Mercedes. It quickly and magically moved us out of the way and across the intersection. To this day I can still see that hand. Were drawing my forte, I could sketch the detail.

Meditation is the name of the game. The more practiced I become the deeper my appreciation for this Knowledge becomes. It’s all about the breath, the breath, the breath…. It’s only natural.

Like eating, meditation is a priority in my life. It offers that mindfulness we so often hear about. It is the ongoing refining of clarity and vision. I love how the Universe really does bring to us what we are vibrating. Recent days have challenged me to feel my way out of a self-imposed slump. Last night my Internet went caput. It is still that way this morning. I’ve come to learn that it is my wireless router that is creating the issue. I’m going to have to hardwire in to be able to post here today. Oh, woe is me!

What is that vibration that I’m generating which has brought me to my Internet dilemma? I’m not really sure but I know what has commanded my recent train of thought and of course, it’s meditation. What, you might ask, does meditation have to do with being frustrated with my wireless router?

Due to the timing of an unexpected bright opportunity, I decided to withdraw my application to TheBostonBuddha’s-MeditationForEveryone teacher certification program scheduled for this summer. It’s been months that I had been looking forward to participating. It is so odd to notice a down in the mouth attitude when in reality everything really is working out for me.

Like gravity, the law of attraction is always in action. I suppose when we focus ‘out there’ sometimes that wireless can get a little tweaky. When we meditate we naturally and mindfully focus more in the ‘now’ where the hardwired connection is strong and steady. Meditation allows us to transcend stinkin’ thinkin’. Keep on breathing and meditating and you too will squeal with delight at the unfolding of your life. Opportunities abound beyond our wildest dreams. It’s only natural.

I’m really enjoying the 2015 HayHouseWorldSummit. It is a plethora of validation. It brings my mind to places of wisdom that I’ve not visited for years. It’s good to remember that with the evolution of science picking up momentum by leaps and bounds, that it may never catch up to intrinsic Universal Knowing. As we grow into the understanding of the law of attraction we are awakening to the absolute Power that we possess as a species of the mind.

If you read this blog you know that Dr. Wayne Dyer is one of my earliest teachers. Thirty years ago, before the Internet and before the animal news channels, he discussed the condition of our world. He pointed out that less than three percent of Earth’s human population was participating in war and turmoil. Basically, the point being that, why direct our precious thought and so much negative energy in that direction when ninety seven percent of the world is at peace?

Years later as global communication became rampant and the quest for an increased ‘bottom line’ infected the world like grotesque cancerous cells, our collective focus began to exploit that three percent. As we know, what we focus upon expands and look at us now! The areas of climate change and global warming get a tremendous amount of fear based energy along with a multitude of other undesirable topics. When we consider these conditions it behooves us to consider the Source. We, as humans, are just fleas on the dog. Mother Earth will never allow herself to be destroyed by ignorant parasites.

Fortunately, we humans are awakening to our true Essence and ultimately are beginning to understand our Power. We, as a people, are indeed Energy and Energy says ‘yes’ to every thought we generate. Wouldn’t it be nice if… the media was proportional – we gave a little more air time and allowed for what is going right – we emphasized the positive – our populations began to nourish our humanity through breathing and meditating a few minutes each day thus enhancing our mass consciousness?

A more recent teacher Abraham-Hicks describes our non-plight this way – “The basis of life is Freedom. The purpose of life is Joy. The result of life is Growth”. It is natural for us to feel good. When we meditate and breathe we begin to gain the faculties to direct our energies toward our natural states. On a scientific level we know that when we meditate and breathe our very brains change. As our understanding of this Neuroplasticity evolves we are liberated. Breathing Meditation is vital to our loving existence on this planet – which is the real ‘bottom line’. It’s only natural.

I’ve always been a meditator. Though it is through the conscious, deliberate and daily practice over the last two years that has really swung open the doors of my life; and I’m just getting started! We often hear that the best things in life are free. Right now, the 2015 HayHouseWorldSummit is underway and it’s free for everyone. I have been acquainted and have studied with several of Hay House’s authors and teachers, some from their earliest days over thirty years ago. Many of it’s voices are new to my realm. Listening and participating in the work of Louise Hay and the Hay House crew is a major validation for me. I feel my Essence relax in the messages that are celebrated. It really brings home the fact that I am not alone.

To say that a daily meditation practice is like a daily breathing practice is an understatement. As our mass consciousness evolves we are really starting to pick up momentum in this idea that we get what we think about and that we have absolute control over where we wish to go within our own minds. When we pray we ask. When we meditate we open for the affirmative answer. Meditation keeps us on the rails. It grounds us and flows us in ease. Like enjoying a nice meal, we need do it only a few minutes a day to nourish ourselves. In meditating we invite quality of life to flow through us. As our dear Davidji advises, RisePeeMeditate. Take the time to sit quietly, get comfy and focus on our breathing for a few minutes at the start of each new day. Meditation is a real game changer and it’s free! It’s only natural.