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HATCHING A SPIRITUAL UNIVERSE

Seiki delivers more than cheap talk. Tune out the platitudinous spiritual chatter and instead tune in to the soul-stirring rhythmic pulse of seiki. We again invite you to follow some old school advice and pay more attention to whoever sings and moves spontaneously whenever holy things are mentioned. Be not concerned whether they are professionally trained, are musically in tune, or can do little more than raise their arms. Feel the heart and soul carried by their sound and movement. You can hide inside talk, but you can’t lie when your heart inspires you to sing and move.

It’s time to feel the seiki lines, hear the sanctified music, drink a glass of the vital life force, visit the spiritual classrooms, climb the ropes to God, and find out about the original mysteries that have been present since the first human beings opened their hearts to seiki. Let us return to what has always been available, even before the great religions were born and the holiest books were written. The original mysteries are the foundation of vibrant spirituality. Let us start at the beginning when mystery had its say and people followed its way.

In the beginning, God’s egg cracked and a universe was born.

When you first fall in love, whether it’s with a partner or your newborn child, you receive a hint about the ultimate secret to the cosmos. From that moment on, like everyone else you set out on a lifetime pilgrimage that takes you from one moment of love to another, finding different kinds of heart-to-heart connections along the way. If you are lucky, you eventually arrive at the holy grail. There you discover that there is only one teaching, though it can be expressed in many different ways: You were born to long for love, and in the longing is found the fullest living. The energy that pulls you when you long and love is seiki, the vital life force.

The Portuguese word for longing is suadade. Though suadade is typically associated with the longing for the presence of a departed loved one, there is more to it than that. Whenever there is deep love, we cannot stop longing for the other even when that person is by our side. This longing for complete union is the ache of love’s pulling. We feel suadade for those we love both past and present, as well as those who are real or imagined. It may also be a longing for that which is not even consciously identified. The deepest longing inspires and opens ecstatic entries to the miracles and mysteries of life brought forth through our journey in search of the absolute fulfillment of love. We love with longing, and our longing is the howling, praising, singing, and dancing of love. Love moves in circles, as it never stops chasing itself. Suadade makes the world go round, like a mythological dragon that circularly chases its own tail as it stirs a mighty wind and breathes the fire of life’s vitality. This wind and fire is seiki, the non-subtle life force.

When you are full of seiki, there is no need to consider any evolution of consciousness, progression of spirituality through stages of development, or pilgrim’s journey to the Kalahari, Tibet, Boulder, Sedona, California, or any points along the way. The spiritual cosmos exists in the felt rhythm, pulse, and heartbeat of eternity. Its journey is circular, bringing you home to love.

Love is complex; true love holds many contradictions. Whether love is fulfilled or unfulfilled, it breaks our hearts wide open. Finding your love can hurt as much as losing it. Love holds both agonizing pain and liberating joy. Suffering and happiness are necessarily wed in matters of love—they are both found inside the contrary but complementary embrace of life and death.

Your life is a quest for love, and you are pulled and moved by your longing for it. When the pulling of love breaks your heart wide open, the cosmic egg is cracked. Get out of the way and allow God to break open your heart. This is when you hatch the spiritual cosmos, a divine holy ground where love rules supreme. Here you are filled with seiki and find a homecoming for your searching heart. Only then is your hunger satisfied and your deepest thirst quenched.

In the greatest mysteries of human experience, especially those that involve the divine, sacred, and spiritual, love is always present. When we say that we long for God’s love, it is another way of expressing our biggest, deepest, and most important yearning. With the Bushmen, we sing because we are happy that the source of life’s vitality, seiki, is found in the longing, pulling, and feeling of God’s love.

We want you to hatch the spiritual cosmos and give birth to this immense love that no category can hold. Do so with the belief that this is possible if and only if you proceed boldly, creatively, and wholeheartedly.

The first teaching about spiritual “hatching” originated in the Kalahari, where the few remaining Bushman spiritual elders still even know about it. The Bushmen say that, though it is a rare occurrence, from time to time the Creator of Creation delivers an extraordinary sacred egg to those whose hearts are ready to crack open and receive an infusion of a miraculous, unfiltered divine love. This luminous egg, called “God’s ostrich egg” by our first Kalahari ancestors, was typically seen as standing the same height as an adult human being. The only teachers who may authoritatively speak of the egg are those who have received it and live inside its infinite luminosity. Whatever is true in any religion or spiritual teaching was hatched from this egg, or from the luminous rays it projected into the world; everything from the divine cosmos is found inside its shell.

In the whirling of the infinite unknowable, there is a constant movement of change that can never be stilled or understood. It is not for minds to hold, but for hearts to feel. The heart of God pulls as your heart longs to experience this pulling. When love knocks on your door, the pulling awaits. When love’s arrows pierce your heart, the pulling comes further inside. In all matters of love—big and small—the movement of pulling and longing draws you nearer to the heart of God. It is this motion that gives birth to the non-Newtonian law of ecstatic emotion as it rides the tides of the spiritual ocean, creates healing potion, and is worthy of loving devotion.

The hatching of the light begins with a sense of light-headedness. You feel free of worry and burden. Lightness and euphoria spread throughout your body, and gravity seems to disappear as you become almost weightless. There is no resistance, no friction, nothing to stop your movement and destined flight. You glide rather than walk, ready for the pulling to carry you forward. There is no knowing that is separate from the fullest presence inside this movement. Yet there is a sense of all knowing, as you realize that whatever is asked will pull forth its answer effortlessly and completely in a way that does not surprise, but seems the way it should have been surmised.

Now the pulling completely has a hold on you. It guides you to a holy place, perhaps a Gothic stone structure with diffuse light and stained glass windows. You sit down in the front pew. There you feel a tremendous awakening inside your body. A fire ignites at the base of your spine. At the same time a tightening takes place within your belly. It feels like a knot the size of a fist has formed there. As it tightens the fire gets hotter. Without notice the fist begins to contract and then release. It has become a pump, and it is lifting the fire up your spine.

Slowly and surely it climbs, bringing with it the certainty that this experience is the destiny of your life. None of this feels scary or weird, no matter how it may sound when it is later spoken and written about. It is the most natural thing that could be taking place for you right now. At the same time, there is no doubt that this is the most powerful experience a human being can have and that it will be forever life changing. Although it seems like something greater than nuclear power is moving inside your body, you are paradoxically feeling more tender, soft, and relational. You only feel love—for everything and everyone. Not the love of romance novels or preachy feel-good sermons. This love feels like the strongest current of life itself. It is the stream of life’s essence pouring through you, and it is a holy thing. There is absolutely no doubt about it: You have entered and dissolved into the current of the great cosmic flow. You are inside the vessels of God.

When the ball of fire was first lit, your heart began to expand and continued to expand as the fire ascended. Your reach now grows far beyond that of your physical self. You feel a blazing heat and energy permeate through every cell. All of this takes place as your body trembles and shakes. In an instant you know why there were religious groups called “Shakers” and “Quakers.” In this kind of rapture, shaking happens automatically. Again, it feels natural. There is nothing strange about it. It is as natural as breathing. The shaking vibrations are transforming you in some indescribable and mysterious way. This is the world of seiki.

We wish we could say that every human being is able to stand in front of this egg, but that would not be telling the truth. Few people are chosen to witness God’s luminous egg in a face-to-face encounter. Why they are chosen, no one knows. But when it happens to someone among the Bushmen, the whole community celebrates, because any spiritual gift given to one person is a gift given to all. The Bushmen say that the person who experiences God’s egg is one of the lucky ones. They are specially chosen spiritual teachers because what they teach comes through the direct illumination of the divine.

Those who face the divine egg of illumination and receive the calling to transmit its vital force find that the wisdom teachings are directly downloaded into them. Facing that egg in an ecstatic state, they experience the holy ones who have walked before them. They will recognize some but not all of these teachers. The teachers will include the Buddha, Jesus of Nazareth, the Virgin Mary—on and on the list goes, as the parade of luminaries traverses through culture, space, and time. Not only are these images seen in the light of the egg, they are felt in your heart. You tremble more with the joy and love that this transmission involves. This is the way the making of an ecstatically illumined healer, shaman, and spiritual teacher takes place.

Again, we are aware that words alone cannot convey these truths. Feelings of this life-giving and life-changing love hold the truth, and the feelings we have as we write are what we hope will cross the text-to-heart divide. Our hearts want you to feel the truth behind this statement: You must find your special longed-for destiny, the path of loving that is uniquely yours. It is the holiest road for you to follow. Whatever its form, it is part of the greater interstate network of love, the pathways that pull us as we long to come home inside the heart of God.

We pray that you might enter a capillary of the divine, flow into its streams and river ways, becoming a part of the holy sea. There the waves never stop moving—rising and lowering, back and forth—as the sea pulses with the pulling and longing of creation’s love for what it is always creating. Though you consist of mostly water, spiritually you exist as less than mist—such is the teaching of mystery. Become the carrier of the invisible motion that binds every molecule of holy water. Let others ridicule, while you carry the wisdom of the anointed fool, moving on a seiki stool, riding a spirit mule, attending mystery school, and entering the depths of the sacred pool.

Though few will face God’s egg directly, it brings a teaching that is true for everyone’s life. A special hatching must take place in order for you to step into your ordained destiny. This destiny is first and foremost to becoming a pilgrim of the heart, a warrior for sacred love, and a spirited deliverer of all the ways your heart desires to celebrate the longing that pulls you forward into expressing the ecstatic divine. There is a unique prescription that can help you become reborn through hatching the spiritual cosmos for your life.

We invite you to begin your journey tonight! On a fresh piece of paper—perhaps red paper to honor the spiritual heart—draw yourself an oval egg. Make it approximately the size of your hand. Now cut out the paper egg with a pair of scissors, and with a pen draw a crack down its middle. Make the crack look jagged, like a lightning bolt. Hatching a spiritual cosmos has the electrifying impact of spiritual lightning. It will bring a bolt and jolt of seiki to energize your newfound life.

Hold this egg over your heart every night while lying in bed, just before you go to sleep. Think of the luminous egg that comes to every spiritual teacher whom God has chosen to pass on this knowledge. Know that there is also an egg that is specially designed for you. Your egg was given to you at birth. You need to hatch it so your truest self and life purpose can be known. As you hold the egg over your heart, let your sincere longing and childlike excitement send ripples of seiki through your body. Ask the egg to hatch as you sleep. Mention that it would be nice if you could see it hatching in your dreams, but that you trust the gods to decide whether they want you to see this taking place. Accept that it is going to take place.

Finally, sing the egg a bedtime song—any song you would sing to a child to help her go to sleep at night. You can sing it silently, but it is better if you sing it out loud. Sing it with all your heart and know that the gods listen to anyone who does not hold back authentic emotions of love and longing. This is most important: You must voice unconstrained sincerity. Then place the egg underneath your pillow and sleep on it.

Do this every night for the next seven nights or longer, and believe that this is the time in your life when you will hatch the spiritual cosmos into your life. Inside this new reality will be your second life, your newborn presence in the ways of spirited love. Think of this throughout each day, and do everything you can to flood your consciousness with this realization. Write notes to yourself that say things like, “A new cosmos is coming,” “I will soon be a new kind of loving presence,” “The hatch is opening,” and “A new birthday is in the making.”

You may have a vision or dream of your egg hatching, or you may wake up in the morning feeling different, even though you don’t remember what happened in the night. Make a commitment to sleep with this egg for at least one week, the amount of time it took for God to create the world. You might hatch the cosmos during the first night, or you may wonder whether it happened later in the week. If you do this sincerely, something will get hatched.

As you prepare to hatch the egg, imagine that in some spiritual realm your guardian angel (and ancestors) will also be doing the same. Your guardian angel will be sleeping on her egg, praying that you will hatch yours in order to help her hatch her own. Yes, she is feeling the fire in her belly while spiritual lightning has entered her heart. She is doing this for you because she, like all other spiritual servants, sacrifices herself so you may receive the spiritual treasure. The ball of fire is moving up her spine as she trembles and shakes. She sings and wonders what song you will sing to your egg tonight. She is in this all the way with you, as are the Bushman ancestors in the sky and the gods who first invented love and your capacity to long for it.

What a beautiful cosmos love can create. It asks you to participate in its ongoing creation. Love wants you to stretch the cosmos further, making more room for the infinite joy it wants to share. In the clouds are the tears of joy and suffering that the gods pour on us so that all things may grow, including the capacities of hearts to long for the stars in the evening sky.

When one person receives God’s luminous egg, we all are given its gifts. But we must ask for this hatching in a way that involves more than words. Demonstrate to the deepest parts of your being and the highest beings of the heavens that you sincerely want to hatch the cosmos. When your sincere request is seen, heard, and felt by the gods, the new birth will begin. It was never about how much you knew or how much you deserved any of this. It is simply about sincerely asking. Ask and you shall receive. Knock and the door will open. Place the egg underneath your pillow and the cosmos will hatch with a newborn you inside it.

As the luminous egg shines its holy light on the beholder, the ancient ones shoot arrows of love into the hearts of those who ask for illumination. With the arrow is a song that pierces the heart. The songs hold and express the great longing and enable the pulling to move us into the depths and heights of the holy. The egg is ready to hatch. The spiritual cosmos is ready to be born. All that waits is your making an egg and preparing yourself to sincerely sleep on it in the night. This is how the gods have asked you to procreate the heavens. There is no need for any other magic. The longing must be expressed in the sincere asking. The deepest part of you must hear and feel your voice. This is how the gods tell you that you have been heard. Speak and sing to yourself so you may know the gods are listening.

Into the light of the night, the twilight of spirit, you must go. There is the place for giving birth to the holy presence of divine light. You must ask not only for yourself, but for others who are longing for the truth of God’s biggest love. Do it for them because they can’t make it without you. Similarly, they are doing it for you. Together we can enter the heavens. Alone we are grounded without flight.

Find another person to do this hatching with. It can be your spouse or friend. It can be someone to whom you spontaneously introduce yourself, and if you strike up a warm conversation and connection, ask that person to participate in a spiritual experiment with you. Whoever you find, each of you must send words of encouragement to the other throughout each day during the full week of hatching. Text your partner with words that say, “I am visualizing that you are hatching the cosmos,” “I feel that you will create a new world,” “This week is the beginning of a new life,” “Together we can accomplish anything,” “I want you to find the love of your longing,” or with a smile, say, “We are on a mission for God.”

It is never too late to find true love. Somewhere out there is your soul mate, your perfect partner in the longing and the living. This person may already be living with you, though the two of you have not yet been hatched. The other person you desire may be your guardian angel who already lives in the spiritual cosmos waiting for you to come home. The world of God’s love is mysterious and it rarely makes sense, but it is always present and true. You were born to love. Now it is time for you to love in order to be born.

In the egg lives the divine heart. It beats the rhythm of longing, the breath of living. It wants to come out and play in your everyday. Stop waiting to love. Do not delay fully living anymore. Say yes to love so it may pull you across to the other side, the place where poets long for the words that open hearts. You are here to be a lover, an extreme devotee of love that has no limits and is beyond measure. This is your time to love.

You are forever more to think of your bed as a nest. There you may hatch eggs of love that give birth to the loving cosmos. In the holy light of dream night, the teachings are given. Join the original ancestors—the saints, angels, prophets, poets, musicians, and lovers of love who are doing everything they can to bring you over. In the twilight you will find the crack that opens the sky. The luminous egg is calling your name. It is singing for you, pulling on your heart. “Come home, come home. Ye who are weary come home.” There in the light of love is a baptism of rebirth and renewal. It is time for you to be a child who can pass through the gates of heaven, the spiritual cosmos for all who are lost and waiting to be found by love.

When the spiritual cosmos is hatched, seiki pours into you. No matter the name of your role in life, your mission is the same as every other human being who has received seiki. You are to become a rainmaker, bringing seiki to a world that is dry and arid, desperate for a drink of holy water that has been fetched from the seiki stream. Fill yourself with this water and be a living well. This is what it spiritually means to achieve well-being.

Seiki comes to deliver the water

Rocking you like a teeter-totter.

Flooding away the understood

Empty mind is very good.

Become the rain that eases pain,

As thunder’s belly laughs away blunder.

Then shine your light upon tender ground

The morning dew of life now found.