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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Dear Taylor,</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I want to thank you too for this mazing poem!</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">So timely, now at Easter... it happened in front of many two thousand years ago... and remembering it, we all can get an extra push from the collective's intent, as I have been experiencing it here in Europe the last 4 days so strongly ...<span style="letter-spacing: -0.02em;">to resurrect ... </span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.02em;">Thank you for sharing ....<img title="Emoji" alt="Emoji" class="yahoo-emoji-wrapper" height="16" src="https://s.yimg.com/nq/yemoji_assets/latest/yemoji_assets/1f64f.png" width="16" style="padding: 0px 2px; vertical-align: middle;" data-inlineimagemanipulating="true"><img title="Emoji" alt="Emoji" class="yahoo-emoji-wrapper" height="16" src="https://s.yimg.com/nq/yemoji_assets/latest/yemoji_assets/1f4ab.png" width="16" style="padding: 0px 2px; vertical-align: middle;" data-inlineimagemanipulating="true"></span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Viktoria </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Blessings,</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Viktoria </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div><br></div>
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On Monday, April 21, 2025 at 01:09:27 PM GMT+2, Taylor Slevin via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org> wrote:
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<div><div id="ydp54f5b2b8yiv9741052029"><div>Thank you all for your thoughtful and wise responses. They mean much to me. <div>So grateful to be a part of this Community. </div><div>Love your Grace statue in your yard Ed! Thanks for sharing that. 🙏</div><div>All Love,</div><div>Taylor </div><div><br clear="none"></div><div><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr"><div id="ydp54f5b2b8yiv9741052029yqtfd04123" class="ydp54f5b2b8yiv9741052029yqt4862010409"><br clear="none"><blockquote type="cite">On Apr 20, 2025, at 8:20 AM, balldinger via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org> wrote:<br clear="none"><br clear="none"></blockquote></div></div><div id="ydp54f5b2b8yiv9741052029yqtfd23603" class="ydp54f5b2b8yiv9741052029yqt4862010409"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"></div></blockquote></div></div></div><div id="ydp54f5b2b8yiv9741052029yqtfd16441" class="ydp54f5b2b8yiv9741052029yqt4862010409"><div><div><br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"></div><div id="ydp54f5b2b8yiv9741052029composer_signature"><div style="font-size:12px;color:#575757;">Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone</div></div><div><br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"></div><div align="left" style="font-size:100%;color:#000000;"><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Toni Bernbaum via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org> </div><div>Date: 4/18/25 8:59 PM (GMT-08:00) </div><div>To: thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org </div><div>Cc: Toni Bernbaum <tonijean@mcn.org> </div><div>Subject: Re: [Thespiritexpress] Poem </div><div><br clear="none"></div></div><div>Thank you Taylor…….I had been told by a teacher long ago…."this work ain’t for sissies."<div><br clear="none"></div><div>The disolution of our egoic structure cares naught for whatever we might employ to resist. We are laid bare in a process bigger than anything we have known</div><div>and we must surrender our resistance if we are to be transformed by this process. So much unknown in this and yet, necessary for us to see something we couldn’t have seen otherwise. </div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>This metamorphosis, although,can be extemely difficult to withstand, is indeed a spritual initiation, as something dies, as in everything we thought was true, </div><div>something else, more essential, is given and realized and can come more consciously alive in us. Your poem is a beautiful tribute to this journey, in all its gore and glory. And yes……</div><div><br clear="none"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div>A new foundation is forming from the unknown. </div><div>Alchemy, Magic, Mystery, Grace all swirling around her, lifting her up. </div><div>She smiles. </div></div></blockquote><div><br clear="none"></div>with only love, T<br clear="none"><div><br clear="none"></div><br clear="none"><div><br clear="none"><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Apr 18, 2025, at 7:52 AM, Taylor Slevin via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org> wrote:</div><br clear="none" class="ydp54f5b2b8yiv9741052029Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div>Hello Everyone,<div><br clear="none"></div><div>Here is the poem I read in class on Tuesday that many of you requested. </div><div>Thank you. </div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>It is my lived version of the Myth of Inanna, which is no longer merely a myth to me. </div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>I felt moved to record my experience of the past month and this came to me during my morning journaling. </div><div><br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Resurrection </div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Losing her crown and her treasure of jewels, She descends. </div><div>Shedding her fine clothing, She descends, arriving in the dark cave naked, vulnerable and frightened. </div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>She is hung on tender hooks where the birds of prey tear and wrench her very flesh from bone. </div><div>Muscle, tendon, ligament all torn away. </div><div>Nothing left but bare white bone; </div><div>stark, sharp, exposed. </div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>She lifts her weary and exhausted skull saying, “It is finished. Into Your hands I commend my Spirit.”</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>She completely surrenders, lets go and collapses onto the earth. </div><div>Shattered. Broken. Alone. </div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Mother Gaia holds her gently,</div><div>supporting, soothing and rocking her sweetly. </div><div>She allows the nurturing feeling. </div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Slowly, ever so slowly She inhales the fertile, nourishing earth, taking in the gifts of minerals and rich nutrients so freely given. </div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>She raises her head and rises. </div><div>A new foundation is forming from the unknown. </div><div>Alchemy, Magic, Mystery, Grace all swirling around her, lifting her up. </div><div>She smiles. </div><div><br clear="none"></div><div><span>💗</span><br clear="none"></div><div><span>Taylor </span></div><div><span><br clear="none"></span></div><div><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br clear="none">Thespiritexpress mailing list<br clear="none">Thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org<br clear="none">https://lists.mcn.org/mailman/listinfo/thespiritexpress<br clear="none"></div></blockquote></div><br clear="none"></div></div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br clear="none"><span>Thespiritexpress mailing list</span><br clear="none"><span>Thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org</span><br clear="none"><span>https://lists.mcn.org/mailman/listinfo/thespiritexpress</span><br clear="none"></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>Thespiritexpress mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org</a><br><a href="https://lists.mcn.org/mailman/listinfo/thespiritexpress" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://lists.mcn.org/mailman/listinfo/thespiritexpress</a><br></div>
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