Inspiring Artists Everywhere, Martha Stewart

Ready to write your Ph.D. dissertation on Deeper Perception? You couldn’t choose a better subject than Martha Stewart.

Aw, I forgot, there isn’t a university program about that discipline yet.

Okay, then we’d better just call it our Sixth Day of Christmas here at the blog.

How did scandal and prison change Martha? I’ll do empathic merges using these different photos.

For a larger version of our comparison image, click here, then copy and drag to enlarge. This comes from a Martha project from 1992. The insider trading scandal didn’t erupt until 2002.

And here’s a link to our more current photo, from 2006. Click here, then copy and drag the corners to enlarge Martha’s image.

WORD TO THE WISE

To learn more about doing empathic merges, learn the jet-propelled techniques like The Darshan technique, from Empowered by Empathy.

Also, just yesterday I happened to look at my calendar for the new year, and the Intensive for Empaths is coming up pretty soon, February 8-10. This may be the only time I offer it in 2008, so take note if you’re the sort of person who prefers learning in a supportive group.

I know that in the free-for-all culture of blogging, some of you readers may be thinking, “Forget official techniques. I’ll just find my own way and fall right into that image.”

Here is the single biggest and most important piece of advice I can give you as an empath. Don’t.

Unless you are skilled as an empath, doing a simple “Take it as it comes,” you risk taking on the person’s fear, pain, astral entities, etc. Will you notice at the time? Probably not. But will your quality of life suffer. Oh, goodness, yes!

Being skilled as an empath means that you know how to use your consciousness to turn your gifts OFF at will, and do this most of the time. Being skilled as an empath also helps a person to stay inwardly balanced when turning your gifts ON. Otherwise, doing empathic merges in an improvised manner is unwise. Not only do you risk throwing your aura out of whack even more, but you won’t have as deep or clear an experience as you deserve.

I’m not giving you this caution to limit you or to imply that I am the only one on earth who could teach you about doing empathic merges. But, please, save your do-it-yourself for doing Martha Stewart projects, not messing around with consciousness to find out what can happen. If that turkey doesn’t get roasted just so, you can throw it out. Try doing that to your own brain! Actually, don’t try.

Besides, I have spent a very long time finding photos and writing today’s Day of Christmas reading. You can read it much faster than I wrote it, so give yourself the satisfaction of learning about a celeb while saving hours.

AN ARTIST WHO WON’T QUIT

Auras contain chakras, as you know. But that’s just the beginning. Every major chakra contains 50 different databanks of information that you can read. (I explain how in the book that contains my latest discoveries, Cut Cords of Attachment.)

Every databank includes a permanent gift of the soul, so I’ll note that below. Databanks also reveal how a person is doing right now, and I’ll note that for each of the photographs used here.

Experientially, empathic merges are more in-depth than aura readings. One flows into the direct experience of being a person in that way. Still, the language used to communicate this experience sounds like a regular aura reading. Here goes, reading three databanks that demonstrate how much Martha’s aura changed.

“Expecting that society will respect her work” databank at the Root Chakra

A gift of her soul: Beauty motivates Martha Stewart the way gasoline makes a car run. That artist’s sensibility inside expects that people will recognize beauty and respond to it.

Before the scandal: Well, yes, the first thing to notice is the fake air of jollity being projected. “Rah rah to all those skeptics out there!”

Deeper into that databank I find a detached indifference, as though Stewart isn’t exactly human. To so many of us, what’s new about that? So many fascinating and evolved beings have incarnated now, during this time of extraordinary transition in the consciousness at earth. You, a reader of this blog, may be just as unusual as Stewart, though perhaps less wealthy.

Still, this uncanny detachment is a reason why many people simply loathe Martha (and you may be one of those people—and, yes, you are definitely invited to speak up an comment here at the blog).

After the scandal: Strength here is enormous. This isn’t a virginal expectation of good, more like rhinoceros hide. But the strength has been purged of bitterness. Martha has found a way to forgive her enemies and keep the learning. It isn’t just that she has chosen to move on. She has chosen to grow.

“Running a business” databank at the High Heart Chakra

Of the many aura databanks related to being a businesswoman, I choose this one. For Stewart’s human experience as an executive, this part matters most.

A gift of her soul: Instead of a pretty blonde, imagine a big strong warrior, dressed in chain mail. (You could call that a mail male.) Martha is a fighter, inwardly equipped to make a difference in the world and do it fiercely. If she has a business, she will win at this, never admitting defeat, not while she can draw breath.

Before the scandal: Martha is having the very best time, taking her homemaker passions and writing them large in the world. She represents every Home Ec. teacher, every unsung hero of a stay-at-home mother. So a very big joy lights up her aura, mingling her human zest for success with a world server’s passion.

After the scandal: Joy is the best single word to describe how it feels, at this databank now. Triumph, relief, “nobody can stop me.”

What is so horrible about gardening? What threatens people so deeply about mere arts and crafts? Is entertaining really that sinister?

I think Martha’s business is pretty darned wholesome, except for the guilt it engenders in some, the envy it triggers in others.

Has she always been perfect in how she gave credit to others? Has she acted meek or more like a diva?

No. Just Google and you can find plenty of criticism. Read it if you must, but then note the accomplishments of her detractors.

“Hands-on creativity” databank at the Belly Chakra

A gift of her soul: Once I heard a radio interview with a man who observed a cooking event where both Martha Stewart and Julia Child were present. Each prepared a chicken dish from a recipe. Julia Child’s dish looked delicious, but like the kind of food a regular cook might make in the kitchen. By contrast, Martha’s chicken looked perfect.

I find this fascinating. Do you?

Before I doing the empathic merge, however, I will put this information aside along with everything else I know about Stewart. I will, simply, jump in:

The joy of creating is intense. Time shifts for Martha, when she creates. This is because of the consciousness she brought in for this lifetime. Creating causes her to enter into a different dimension of experience. Time stops, then redivides itself so that space and sensory experiences are distinct fragments.

By analogy, imagine a large glass mirror that, to regular people, would seem all one piece. But for Martha, soon as she turns to that mirror in a creative way, it is as though that mirror breaks into thousands of pieces, each long shard perfectly aligned, in order with the rest of the series, each shard able to be worked with on its own. Right after Martha finishes working in that surrealest space, quick as a blink, her consciousness reassembles that mirror again, good as new and seemingly just as ordinary as any new mirror.

Then Martha stops using this particular kind of consciousness and returns to normal functioning.

Before the scandal: Oh, she has fun when creating. But there still is an overlay of fussiness, worrying that every detail must be perfect or else she will accomplish nothing. Until larger fears come into her life, leading up to a prison sentence and public humiliation of epic proportions, small fears like these could limit her aura. What’s the most effective way to cure them?

You’ve guessed. Life brought Martha Stewart that healing. You won’t find that fussiness in our last piece of this reading.

After the scandal: The joy of creating is tinged with defensiveness. It’s as though a portion of Martha’s awareness, some 5%, is constantly looking over her shoulder.

“Who  is going to criticize me now?”

Modeling, as she once did, the criticism was of a relatively superficial kind. But with the career for which she has gained lasting fame, the criticism has escalated. When people made fun of her, the mega-entrepreneur handled it just fine. But the prison experience, the scandal, the viciousness of the popular ridicule, that has been different. Her aura was scarred. Even with forgiveness, that scar remains.

Still, at this databank, Stewart could be compared to any great artist who keeps creating despite the pain being carried, humanly.

The way she continues to create is extraordinary. The pain of her human life doesn’t tempt her to go away quietly, living with a rich person’s indolence, retired but knowing her name will endure for generations and that she has made a positive difference for society. No, Stewart keeps on creating, even if scarred by pain.

In the material world, Martha Stewart has enjoyed an extraordinary success. Can any other artist today approach it? Deep inside, her wounding may be felt as keenly as all that she has accomplished. Yet she models for millions how to persevere as an artist despite being wounded. And this may stand as her loveliest creation of all.