WATCH: The Holy Emergence of Your Everyday Mystic
Befriend the ongoing process of your human experience and soul’s journey — including the multiple meltdowns, re-emergences, and uncomfortable in-between states along the way — through a powerful visualization of your own metamorphosis.
A caterpillar has to completely digest itself… dissolving entirely into a liquid state before it develops its beautiful new butterfly body. And even then, their wings are initially soft and droopy, which delays their ability to take flight.
Mirabai Starr, interspiritual teacher and innovative translator of the mystics, gently holds this as a metaphor for the human experience and the continual evolution of the soul.
It’s her belief that we all carry within us an everyday mystic, and like certain indestructible cells of the caterpillar — even in its most challenging state of deconstruction — that part of ourselves is always there, waiting to be unlocked.
She inspires people to unveil and birth their own inner mystic — holding them with profound compassion as they return time and again to the landscape of their heart and learn to look at everyone and everything through the eyes of love.
On Thursday, December 1, Mirabai will share how, throughout the journey of our lives and the unfurling of our souls, we experience multiple breakdowns and re-emergences, which can leave us feeling lost, uncertain, or even despairing… especially at a time when there are such challenging circumstances in our world.
You can register here for The Holy Emergence of Your Everyday Mystic: Lean Into the Awkwardness of Transformation to Reveal Your Brilliant Butterfly Within.
In this transformative hour, you’ll discover:
- A potent guided practice to visualize your own metamorphosis, as Mirabai lovingly walks you through its 4 stages — from caterpillar to butterfly
- A deep dive into the teachings of the ongoing unfolding of our bodies, minds, and souls as everyday mystics in this beautiful, broken, and constantly burgeoning world
- The importance and sometimes inevitability of transforming your inherited beliefs about enlightenment, freedom, salvation, and ultimate awakening — and the power of bowing at the feet of the reality of yourself and others
- How to make friends with ambiguity, mystery, and vulnerability — and rest courageously in the silence of unknowing with self-acceptance and peace
- How becoming an everyday mystic has global impact, because working on ourselves lifts up the whole planet
Go here to watch Mirabai’s brief introductory video.
Mirabai will invite you to rest in the awkward stage of the unknown, of the chrysalis — and even to embrace the discomfort — before you grow and spread your wings anew and take flight into the next phase of your transformation.
Live long, love life and be well!
Harold
P.S. In The Holy Emergence of Your Everyday Mystic: Lean Into the Awkwardness of Transformation to Reveal Your Brilliant Butterfly Within with Mirabai Starr you’ll befriend the ongoing process of your human experience and soul’s journey — including the multiple meltdowns, re-emergences, and uncomfortable in-between states along the way — through a powerful visualization of your own metamorphosis.
We hope you’re able to catch the event as scheduled. But if you register and miss it, you’ll receive a downloadable recording as soon as it’s available.
About Mirabai Starr
Mirabai Starr is an award-winning author of creative nonfiction and contemporary translations of sacred literature. She taught Philosophy and World Religions at the University of New Mexico-Taos for 20 years, and now teaches and speaks internationally on contemplative practice and interspiritual dialogue. A certified bereavement counselor, Mirabai helps mourners harness the transformational power of loss.
Mirabai’s book, Wild Mercy: Living the Fierce and Tender Wisdom of the Women Mystics, was named one of the Best Books of 2019 by Spirituality & Practice. It’s essential reading for anyone ready to awaken the feminine mystic within, and birth her loving, creative, and untamed power into the world.
Mirabai has received critical acclaim for her revolutionary new translations of John of the Cross’ Dark Night of the Soul and Teresa of Avila’s The Interior Castle. She is author of the poetry collection Mother of God Similar to Fire, a collaboration with iconographer William Hart McNichols, and the award-winning book God of Love: A Guide to the Heart of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The transparency of her journey through grief in her memoir, Caravan of No Despair: A Memoir of Loss and Transformation, is a gift to those who are struggling with unimaginable losses.
Mirabai was named one of 2020’s 100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People in Watkins Mind Body Spirit magazine.
