Title: Love Leads the Way

Gender: Female

Age: 51

Sun Sign: Scorpio

Location: Santa Rosa, CA

Hello.  Thanks for stopping by.  You can get a sense of who I am from my blog postings, although they do make me appear to be far more cerebral and serious than I am.  I think I just caught myself in some more serious moments. 

I like to read, ponder and write.  I'm really interested in human nature.  I think all these ideas about being spiritual beings having a human experience are quite lovely.   But, I find that most spiritual practices seem to spend a lot of time trying to get out of being human.  Not me.  I am as human as I was created to be.  I am I.  Ego identification and all.  And, that does NOT negate the spiritual part of me. 

And there seem to be a lot of practices that are under the guise of spirituality, but seem like little more than self-absorption and self-aggrandizement.  We get whatever we want to experience about whatever we believe God is. So, whatever floats someone's boat is fine with me.  And it's a good way to keep some folks employed. 

I've been on an intense spiritual exploration for the last 11 years that began with spontaneous mystical experiences that still happen from time to time.  I'm not as easily seduced by them as I used to be.  I've done a lot of different “spiritual” things.  Seems to me that they're all pretty much the same thing, only different.  So, these days I'm tolerant of whatever other folks want to do for themselves, but I don't leap into everything that comes my way.  I don't eat certain foods, wear certain clothes, visit certain teachers or gurus (since the teaching is already inherent and we already have the tools for discovery of it), burn certain incense, speak weird languages, or wave dead chickens over my head.  Been there, done that.  Besides, chicken blood stains and I'd rather have my chicken with gravy and mashed potatoes. 

I need to qualify all of this by saying I am very aware of the Presence.  I am intuitive and I am keenly aware of energy.  I'm a healer and a teacher.  I'm a Reiki Master, but the healing that moves through me seems to transcend that these days.  I'm an explorer and a challenger.  Many say “Why not?”  I say, “Why?”  And, my spiritual name is Sumayya, which means, “the Soul of The Love” or, “Who Reaches the Center of The Love.”  And I do live from that loving place.  My “calling” was given to me in 1999:  To allow God to come through the doorway of my heart to ignite the God in others. 

I may seem overly cerebral and somewhat disinterested.  It's just that I'm unimpressed by spiritual ya-ya.  Spirituality and consciousness (whatever they are) are becoming Mc-spirituality and Mac-consciousness.  Watered down, patented, packaged and marketed to death.  No one really knows what these concepts really mean.  But everyone thinks they do.

I'm not a go-along-with-the-crowd kinda gal.  I was the last person on the planet to get a cell phone (and it's still off most of the time) see Star Wars or Titanic, and that's only because my kids goaded me into it.  Okay, they were fun movies.  But still… .

I'm not a neoluddite.  I like technology just fine.  It makes my life easier when it actually works.  It's just that I like to believe that I am the boss of it, not the other way around.  Yeah, I know.  It really is the boss of me, but I assert my independence of it wherever and whenever I can.

There is a lot of injustice in this world.  I don't really know these days what I can do or what I'm supposed to do about it.  I don't ignore it, and I don't agree with it.  I try to be the change I wish to see in the world and make whatever difference I can in my corner of it.  Emerson said that, if we see that something needs to be done it's up to us to do it.  He lived in a much simpler time.  I wonder what he would say today?

I'm intelligent, creative, capable and likeable.  I'm involved in my community, primarily in support of community based radio and television.  As a natural and award-winning communicator, it's the best place to use my talents and gifts.  Free speech needs a venue, so that's where I do my work.

I'm a double-Scorpio (sun and ascendant), moon in Sagittarius, and five planets in Scorpio.  It's a riot.  At the same time, I clock in as an iNFj.  An introvert by nature who's learned how to be extroverted.  That's a riot, too.  Chinese astrology: fire rooster.  I don't know what I am in the Eneagram.  These are all fun, but really just show us as archetypes.  They don't define us. 

Simple complexity.  Pushing out my edges, seeing where things lead.  Looking to see where others are heading because they might be interesting places to visit.  I'd be bored if I were stuck in a corner.

Karen E. Kelsay   

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