The Church of the Immaculate Conception

June 19, 2013

  It's been one week on the road, but I feel light years away. Everything has flowed perfectly. After the silly timeshare presentation I felt inclined to see the Church of the Immaculate Conception. I've been reading Paulo Coelho and in his book he speaks about that religion and returning back to the Divine Feminine. The church was big and beautiful. I still feel a lot of resistance towards crosses and how Jesus is portrayed in churches, and religion in general, but I'm developing a relationship with the feminine side of god. I think it will open my heart more and help me heal all the emotional wounds I've inflicted on myself.
 I found the alter of Our Lady of Guadalupe and for the first time I knelt and prayed to the Divine Mother in a serious fashion. I became very aware of the energy of kneeling in a place so many other had knelt when confused or suffering. All those people project their questions, prayers and energy onto this statue representing something divine and holy. It's beautiful, sacred and powerful... but ultimately an illusion. It's the power of our energy directed and focused that creates. We are all divine little buddha bodies, unrecognized and in denial.
 "Everyone in the world is seeking one thing only: Bliss. That is because all being are manifestations of God's Bliss. Most people, however, translate that soul-desire into human terms: they seek emotional happiness. The only thing to which there is no opposite is inner Bliss." - Swami Kriyananda