In the past 5 weeks I’ve been living here in Mt. Shasta, I’ve experienced many profound changes. I am not the same person I was when I first arrived. In fact, most days I hardly recognize myself….
I’ve realized much of my transformation has come from “dropping my masks,” releasing those aspects of my self with which I have so long identified, letting go of who I thought I was—so I can experience my true self, who I really am.
While here, I participated in much of a 40-day 5 a.m. kundalini yoga/chanting sadhana practice which involved a special infinity loop chant whose purpose was to facilitate “dropping the masks.” During those early mornings, I had many mystical experiences of losing my body consciousness, merging into oneness with All That Is, feeling myself dissolve into The One.
And also in my experiences here, with the people of Mt. Shasta, my dear soul family, I have experienced much letting go of my ego/mind/three-dimensional personality…trusting and opening my heart to others…allowing myself to be soft, vulnerable, fully present with myself and others…surrendering to the divine flow of my life, of Life itself…knowing I am always divinely taken care of and provided for, if I can but get out of my own way and allow Life to express through me….
All of this has required dropping my masks, similar to the Buddhist practice of bodhichitta, allowing our hearts to crack open so they can let the whole world in—all beings, all life, with no exceptions…feeling the oneness with all. This is the path the compassion—with ourselves, with our loved ones, with those we don’t know and might never meet, indeed with all of creation.
For when we fully let go of all of our defenses, all the external trappings of the self, we allow our true identity to reveal itself—we allow our Godself to shine through in all do and all we are in this world of our creation. This is what we’re here on Planet Earth for…to remember who we really are & to help facilitate this remembrance in others…To help all of us awaken to our divine nature, to wake up from the deep sleep we’ve been in, the illusion, the maya, this Game of Life….Rise and shine! 
