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First offering as this LightHearted Voice

What is This LightHearted Voice?

I hope to share it as it arises within me. It’s not the typical idea of a writer or speaker having stuff to say about stuff. Bleah! Enough of the talking about stuff that distances us from our direct experience. Have you noticed that? It’s our typical way of talking, speaking — it’s about an object we have in mind. It’s what we think, feel, believe we know about the object and our relationship to it as the subject observing, engaged with the object.

It’s the underlying prayer of this offering to not do that, which I just did in the above paragraph. To speak from direct experience opens a different door, a different means of expression. Speaking from the aliveness of what is unfolding in our experience now allows what wishes to express to find this moment’s space for real speaking, voicing what needs to be heard. In allowing such an activity to occur a basic human need is met. It requires a certain open aware quiet receptivity to be in-touch, attuned, whole and inclusive. There’s always more than can be said happening. To allow the time for fullness of exploring the whole experience gives us something very valuable. The voicing of this is the LightHearted offering of a very different way of being and living. We all deserve the time and space to digest and metabolize what we share with One another, to take in what resonates and reaches us in untended places aching to be contacted and allowed breathing room, light of awareness and warmth of loving acceptance.

These words: This, LightHearted, Voice mean a lot in my system. I am still in the joyous discovery of them which will continue unabated until my last breath on earth. Briefly, the word ‘This’ points to an intimate connection with our Beingness including all the transcendent dimensions of our consciousness; including where even consciousness is absent: the absolute emptiness the Buddha pointed out. All This Is is right here now. Much of spiritual scripture uses the word “That” which to me is an objectified object, as in I Am That: some far off thing and destination to achieve in many people’s minds, like enlightenment. Pardon my irreverence here, but what is That thing over there somebody says i am? The true teachings thereof are ending the subject/object dichotomy which leads to divisiveness, conflict and war. So I’m not disparaging that by any means. It all has made invaluable contributions. I’m simply saying that in my experience the word This is much closer to the no difference, no distance intimate experiences of communion and conscious union. It remains somewhat mysterious, we don’t know what it actually is or means, which is an openness that allows revelation. The infinite nature of This continuously reveals itself. We are the living display of that.

LightHearted is a word I’ve considered writing a book about — our very Being is LightHearted in my experience which is how the word came forward to describe something that is beyond words, conception and language. But our conveyance to one another involves including these linear linguistic LightHeArticulations. So what is Light? What is the Heart? Why LightHearted which includes holding all experience LightHeartedly? It implies a kind of humor, joy, lightness of being (unbearable and not), with the warmth of an open radiant heart. What if there’s a life-giving sun shining right through our hearts? What if that’s a human localization of something that is essential?

Voice: yeah, that darned still small voice that thunders throughout creation, that one. The primordial sound hailed as essential to existence in several wisdom traditions. I’ve discovered much about the unique voice that we have that has a certain signature, a sound that’s like a fingerprint, unlike any other. We have voice recognition now. We have associations to voices, to tones of voice and what they mean, and it’s interesting to convey through writing a tone of voice, a warmth, humor, LightHeartedness, inclusiveness and care, beauty and brilliancy of Being and all the non-human and non-verbal voices that are our communal collectivity. We typically and unconsciously think of ourselves as a solitary person that stops at our skin. What we are and what voices through us is very far from that.

The loving intent of “Anrael’s LightHearted Voice” is to offer not just what is found to be voiced through the interdimensional all-inclusive communal collectivity appearing as Anrael, but to enjoy conversing, letting many voices be heard and expressed holistically. May we sing together, laugh and commune LightHeartedly, with respect and appreciation for the vast intra-connected living mystery we are. May we help One another discover more of what it means to Be This Being Human.

I am one of many
I'm not one alone
when I sing from the bottom of my soul
I shine like a diamond in the old king's throne.

~Hafiz

This Is Anrael’s LightHearted Voice Substack’s first offering. I’ll be setting things up and offering whatever comes in the near future. May it be something worthy of your time, attention and essential engagement bringing about the radical shift in consciousness necessary to beget a human world that stands for and supports Life.