Goddess Kindled Universe

07/09/2024

Arty weekend doings and a peek behind the GKU publishing curtain.

06/09/2024

These are the best cinnamon sugar cookies I've ever made! is my new cookie guru. Let the sugary goodness roll.

04/09/2024

Desire is instinctive, arising from a place of seeking satisfaction (happiness, peace, fulfilment). It has always been true; since before that Desire inhabited human bodies, before we prowled into animal form, fluttered inside leaves at the treetops, grew in crystalline colonies.

04/09/2024

DESIRE AND PEACE (maybe a touch of non-duality)

Desire is instinctive, arising from a place of seeking satisfaction (happiness, peace, fulfilment). It has always been true; since before that Desire inhabited human bodies, before we prowled into animal form, fluttered inside leaves at the treetops, grew in crystalline colonies.

Goddess did not make the body—directly. She is the original desire extending in all directions, eternally. This universe is an ordered fractal existence. Even in seeming chaos, that is true.

So, when "A Goddess Course In Miracles" talks about Goddess not creating something (bodies, sickness, war, etc.) and therefore it isn't real, it's difficult to hold the idea in contemplation. It's true and false at the same time. At the pure point of origin it's true.

And now at this point, since She is Creatrix of all, the truth is She did put this all into motion as the original impetus for now. But there's no point blaming Her for anything. Think of this like the breaking of ultimate generational trauma.

Since like attracts like, judging any actions—even Hers—as good or bad does not help those of us seeking peace to expand in new and satisfying ways. Experience is either satisfying or not. And we can only know through experience.

Something judged as good? Conditioning has trained us to want more of the same, which is at best pleasant stagnation. That which is bad we seek to avoid. But our desire to avoid is so active, that the bad fills our awareness until it's all we see. Also not a path to peace.

Ego and spirit are human constructs. (What, in fact, is not?) More bad and good judgements, transposed as the whim of your current truth dictates.

We can never return to Goddess because we never left Her. As fully divine human expressions, however, we can attune ourselves to the present moment where fresh experience of satisfaction is possible. And might possibly show us a way to peace.

-from "The Creation of A Goddess Course In Miracles"
© 2024 Sondra Turnbull

03/09/2024

Sister Judas is giving me pause for thought today. It's time to get brave and share some of the real spiritual and shadow work AGCIM brings up for me.

01/09/2024

Art journaling to practise faces in preparation to create the illustrations for A Goddess Course In Miracles. The Priestess series is in my artist's cauldron.

28/08/2024

Delicious after work grounding medicine.

28/08/2024

Deserving is dangerously disempowering.

It assumes existence is a transactional arrangement with a higher power separate from you. Too often I've heard "karma" spoken of in the same way. Law of attraction is regularly misunderstood in this context.

Existence is all energy. Pure. Simple. Everything resonates, all the time, always attracting its like.

Any spiritual practise we do is an effort to tune our energy to resonate in ways we believe are beneficial to that existence. All the things we do, actually. Whether we mean to or not, our thoughts, actions, stillness, and chaos all affect our vibrations constantly.

But, none of the result is deserved. It simply is. And you're in charge.
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27/08/2024

Red pen focus. When a crucial behaviour of the text is the capitalisation of specific instances of she and her (to name but two), staying present is key. Did someone say, "Hyperfocus?"

I used to comment jokingly about my life being the apprenticeship for this project, but it is simply true. My instinct for patterns, wrong words, and wonky punctuation is no longer a quirk of personal preference. It's actually brilliant and exciting!

21/08/2024

Coffee, chocolate, draft manuscript, and an old red pen. I belong right here.

17/08/2024

"The Pistis Sophia, surviving in just one manuscript of staggering complexity, makes "The Silmarillion" look like Ikea bookcase instructions." - Dr. Justin Sledge

This quote made me chuckle with delight! I first heard mention of "The Pistis Sophia" during my research for "A Goddess Course In Miracles." I've tumbled down many rabbit holes of interpretation and explanation of the teachings of Miriam of Magdala.

When I began dedicated work on the most recent incarnation of AGCIM (which is heading into book design next week—Woohoo!) I realised that the text came not ultimately in Mary's voice, but Sophia's.

I had forgotten (in my ADHD way) of the existence of that obscure Gnostic Scripture as I sought a feminine face of Christ consciousness. But in any case, Sophia came to the fore of my awareness. It is afterwards, I find my way back to Mary to go still deeper.

And now I have an urge to watch The Lord of the Rings. Again.

08/08/2024

THE END ♥
10,613 words today.
458,179 words in total.
86 days of active writing.
"A Goddess Course In Miracles" complete and unabridged:
2 Textbooks; 1 Workbook; 1 Manual
Draft manuscripts complete.

04/08/2024

This is my contemplation in this moment, as I sip peppermint tea and nibble pistachio nougat. This is the way I "feel a prayer," as Anne Shirley would say.

“Mother, Your trust in me has been so great, I must be worthy. You created me, and know me as I am. And yet You placed Your Daughter’s salvation in my hands, and let it rest on my decision. I must be beloved of You indeed. And I must be steadfast in holiness as well, that You would give Your Daughter to me in certainty that she is safe Who still is part of You, and yet is mine, because She is my Self.” - Sophia, A Goddess Course In Miracles (Lesson 238)

21/07/2024

Did you know I have a YouTube channel?
I'll be making new videos soon.

I've found a brilliant new art-working surface! It's actually a material used in patching holes in interior house walls (I think). But I've been experimentin...

19/07/2024

There was a deer walking through the back meadow when I came down to make tea this morning. The scene perfectly captured my state and mood.

Sleep has cured the hyper-focus headache I developed yesterday from sitting too long in a position unkind to my neck. I had been drawing a map to the pole point of an unknown world. It was hours before I realised I was wearing the wrong glasses.

The quiet here is . . . saturating.

I'm sopping with it.

17/07/2024

It's been a while since I posted. Amongst other things (more to come on that!) I've been busy cracking wide open to create space for this little one.

Sylvan. Because he was rescued from our neighbour's wood shed. He is perfect - arrived with divine timing and evokes waves of feelings too immense to be contained in my physical body.

17/07/2024

Sunset with friends.

08/07/2024

I needed to publish. Normally writers say they needed to write, but according to a comprehensive astrological chart I once had interpreted, I'm a publisher several times over. I write all the time. Today, I needed to publish.

So, here's a new little bloggish venting: Finding your spiritual path.

Here's the thing . . . and it's simultaneously mind-blowing and insignificant. You don't find your spiritual path so much as become aware that it's awareness you're desperate to bathe in.The path is not a stretch of something along which you make you...

24/06/2024

Hey darlings. It's been a while since I loved on this GKU page. Most of the recent posts have been automatic from things I've posted on Instagram; cooking, painting, drawing, all the comforting processing kinds of things I do in between writing projects.

When copyright complications caused A Goddess Course In Miracles to be pulled out from under me on the eve of the online course launch late last year, I was devastated and retreated into myself.

But Divine Mother always has things in hand. And I do not know what anything is for (to quote a lesson from the workbook).

She wanted it all. Not just a portion. She wanted what I wanted, which makes complete sense since We are One.

Enter a persistent sister who really wanted AGCIM, and the Public Domain version of things. And into my crucible with it!

I've been in the thick of translating the complete collection of books for A Goddess Course In Miracles: Textbooks, workbook, manual. Transforming hundreds of thousands of words from masculine to feminine has only deepened my knowing that now is the time for ACIM to be resurrected into the world with Sophia's face shining out on us all.

In another couple of weeks I'll be ready to begin formatting the manuscripts into paperback, hardback, and digital realities. I'm going all in with special issues for larger print and dyslexia-friendly weighted fonts where I can.

Tomorrow I'll be putting out this month's newsletter. If you're not on my mailing list I'd love to see you there. That's the place I talk about everything, every month.

Here's the signup link ♥
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13/04/2024

Today was the first hot-in-the-sun day of spring. Longer evenings are lengthening, and night insects are sounding occasionally.

This is a little landscape doodled with my watercolour pens, a water loaded brush, and fave uni-ball waterproof pen, sprinkled with a few little white acrylic pen stars and their silver reflections.

09/04/2024

Bright and vibrant colours to ease the heaviness of a cold working its way through my body.

30/03/2024

I baked, and it's way too delicious to keep to myself. Chocolate cake is not my favourite kind of cake, but even I don't have a crumb left on my plate after a slice of this velvety scrumptiousness.

It felt peaceful to potter around my kitchen, today: washing dishes, drying and putting them away, gathering all the cake ingredients, baking, setting the space to rights again after plumes of flour and sugar had dusted all the surfaces.

It's not always a pleasure to wash the dishes, but it was today.

14/03/2024

Hanging out after practise.

13/03/2024

When a piece feels stuck and I don't know what to add next, often adding words as part of the design gets the energy flowing again. It adds life and subtle layers that nudge me in new directions.

The words are usually flow of consciousness, conversation with the picture or myself kind of stuff.

09/03/2024

The deep, savoury comfort of rich roasted tomato and bacon soup tonight was good medicine.

05/03/2024

Hyperfocus caught me today. Five hours of making connections and trying combinations and weaving all the things I do into something that looks and feels like a membership community I'd pay to be part of.

Not actually sure how many times I even blinked.

I've recently become an active member of two online communities. It feels good to be part of conversations and in-sayings. I'd forgotten that I do, in fact, like people.

A very late lunch has been inhaled, and now it's coffee, sofa, and book time. I'm wrapped up in a shawl I crocheted years ago. I love the way my fingers hook through the open pattern.

01/03/2024

This began with a dare from my sister and the end of a bunch of celery. Where it will end is the adventure!

22/02/2024

This fussy and time-consuming caramel tart. It's been the bridge between mental churn of work and a now oncoming stillness. I feel the settling of my muscles, the steadying of my breath.

I listened to a podcast about women in Greek Mythography while I measured, pulsed, and stirred. Not exactly relaxed listening. Not subject matter designed to calm: the mythologisation of dominator heroes is mildy rage-inducing on a good day.

But now, the tart is cooling. I'm processing my shadows by writing to you here. The coffee is ready to pour, and the sofa awaits.

19/02/2024

I See You Anger - Guided Journalling
This session is only ten minutes long but it's beautiful, and as intense as you are ready to make it.

This link will take you to my blog, but you can easily click through to watch the video on YouTube from there.

Are you ready to know yourself better?Use this guided process for contemplation and journalling. Each time you join with your shadows for this session, notice the invitation you are offered rather than deciding where you will go before you even begin...

19/02/2024

Guided Journalling session coming to my YouTube channel this week! It's powerful and deep: I See You, Anger.