Back in India Once Again

I’m back in India and while I am as in love with India as ever, I notice I am looking with a sense of new eyes.

This is a good thing. I’m checking things more thoroughly than before. I’m anticipating anything that could possibly go wrong and putting into place alternatives for “just in case” scenarios.

I feel good to do this even though I choose to operate in positive intention rather than doomsday saying, “What if…?” and “What if…?” Yet I can see that it is a necessity as an alternative to getting fucked if something possibly goes wrong.

I can hardly blame myself because that is exactly what happened last year and even when I think the thing done and complete another layer surfaces to remind me.

Hey, don’t get me wrong. I have so grown as a result. I have let go of all the attachment and grown. And then even so attachment still comes up from time to time to bite me or haunt me. Oh well, I can embrace this too.

So, I find myself excited, scared, ecstatic – all of it – to be in India once again. I did not/would not let last year's experience stop me. I’m taking my chances with the tour with people I don’t know and people I do know. Should be interesting at least and exhilarating at best.

I am looking forward to every moment yet with a different take, a more aware take, a more “take charge” attitude having found out that not everyone can hang in India. Not everyone can surrender to the “mother” no matter how enlightened or how much work they have done on themselves. India will steam roll people and troll for surrendered survivors. Yes, she will.

And so for the last few years I have been the cause and source of such a process. And I plan to continue this no matter what.

What a great thing it turns out to be! It causes me to examine every inch of myself. Every inch!!!

Countdown to India

Yes, I am returning to India this year to take another eleven people on tour and get a good injection of the Mother of all mothers once again.

I leave the US in four days and I am so excited to be going.

I wonder what adventure awaits me this time. I certainly hope this group connect more naturally than the last one. I feel certain that it will be a very successful journey.

I am doing this trip because last January I declared myself unstoppable and ever since then I felt just that - able to continue forward despite unforeseen circumstances, despite unpopularity, despite what anyone else thinks or says. I feel empowered and more successful and whole than ever. I am sure that the awful happenings on last year's tour had a lot to do with it. My metal was tested and I feel tremendous personal gratitude and accomplishment as a result. My integrity remains in tact.

I'll be blogging along the way in case you choose to follow along.

Oh and by the way, I'll be back before the holidays this year so that I can spend X-mas to New Years with the Immortals in Scottsdale. Then in early January I'll be offering a Bliss: Beginner's Tantra course in Scottsdale/Phoenix for the first time.

I love having it all!

The Country Pushed the BLUE BUTTON and Jumped into the Unknown

What a historic day! I am crying with tears of joy! I am so happy and astounded at what has just happened in America! Here's the email I just got from Barack Obama:

"Laurie --

I'm about to head to Grant Park to talk to everyone gathered there, but I wanted to write to you first.

We just made history.

And I don't want you to forget how we did it.

You made history every single day during this campaign -- every day you knocked on doors, made a donation, or talked to your family, friends, and neighbors about why you believe it's time for change.

I want to thank all of you who gave your time, talent, and passion to this campaign.

We have a lot of work to do to get our country back on track, and I'll be in touch soon about what comes next.

But I want to be very clear about one thing...

All of this happened because of you.

Thank you,

Barack"

How wonderful is that? You know, when I went into to voting place today, I was very nonchalant, but as I walked back to my car, I noticed I was crying. I was so moved. I had forgotten the things I have done all my life to get Barack Obama elected. It wasn't just the last few months of doing something for 20 minutes a day. It was everything I've done from the day I was born to bring a certain quality of life to all people, my urge to make a difference.

I thought back to all the programs I have led that have empowered disempowered people. I was reminded of the Give a Damn program I directed for Mayor of New York John Lindsay called Astoria Youth in Action in 1966. Then I remembered the 5th and 6th grade students I taught at Carver Elementary School in Washington, DC and the Poor People's Campaign with Dr. Martin Luther King. Then there was TARGET, the grant program I created to help teens in DC stay away from drugs and the grant I wrote for the Muslim movement in DC. There were the countless teens I urged to register to vote as soon as they were able during the years I was an ANC Commissioner in DC. When I was on staff at Landmark Education I stood for the Landmark Forum for People of African Decent until it manifested. And then there were the Welfare-to-Work folks who were trained by my company to take on the new responsibility of finding and keeping a job during the Clinton administration.

Yes, I made this happen today by everything I've ever done and I am so proud and happy. I am living an amazing life and many others are today as well. I always imagined it was possible although against all odds. The whole world just shifted today for the better as far as I am concerned. The US election caused a dramatic shift in the entire world and the odds have changed.

Someone with HEART got elected. Someone with SPIRIT got elected. Someone who is an INSPIRATION to all people got elected. TODAY!

How grand is that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's the best. This is the first time in a long time I am proud to be American. My heart is spilling over with joy.