Claudia Dawson 10/28/22 Claudia Dawson 10/28/22

See souls as orbs of light

Visual meditation inspired by the Emerald Tablets of Thoth

Strip away reality. Imagine yourself in a black void and every being you meet is a glowing orb of light. Some are dim and smaller. Some are large and bright. “These are the lights that are souls among men, growing and fading, existing forever, changing yet living, through death into life.” When you see people this way, you see us all the same. You see how we light the way for one another — banish the darkness that envelops us all. I see your spark of light in the void and I beam my radiance back at you — a cosmic wink — until we meet again.

Claudia Dawson 3/25/22 Claudia Dawson 3/25/22

How I stay grounded and soar in the skies

I’ve seen what happens when a spiritual seeker becomes ungrounded. I used to believe I could only live in one world at a time, or have one and not the other, but that’s not true. You can have both.

You can be a bird with legs that grow and stretch past your current point of existence and consciousness and you can also come back home — down to earth — whenever you want.

This image was actually intuited by Kathy Crabbe, who is an artist and soul reader, and a psychic I trust. Her energy is beaming with love and creativity and kindness. I’ve been getting readings from her for more than ten years now.

She saw me as this bird and when I heard her describing the bird, I got chills (chills and goosebumps can be a confirmation of truth). She had her own interpretation of what the bird meant, and said it was important spiritual imagery for me — and it is!

And I took that imagery and I sat with it and I drew it out and in that process, I made the final decision as to what it meant for me — and that’s how all of this psyche archeology / psychic revealings should work — it can be collaborative, but ultimately, it is your fate to create.

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How to draw closer to your mystery

The above audio is a reading from a transcript. It is a thirdhand creation story. They are not my words, but the story was told to me orally by someone I loved, and for almost twenty years has lived on a microcassette unplayed. It is an unearthed treasure and I wanted to share it with you.

Claudia Dawson 12/18/21 Claudia Dawson 12/18/21

A New Temple

A New Temple is the completion of a three-month psyche project. It is a short, small book of poetry, dreams, visions and animal spirit messages. It is a quest for healing ancestral trauma and it is dedicated to my bloody, muddy ancestral mothers who made their entrance in the middle of my life and said, “You wanted aliens, but instead you got us.” It is available here.

A form of cord cutting is becoming a new creature. This book was a quest to heal and to honor my mothers by building a temple with my words. Their blood is my ink. Completing this was a form of soul recovery. Now that it’s out of my system, my psyche has more room to play and imagine and create something new.

The book itself is 5 x 7 inches and 54 pages long. A New Temple begins somewhere in the middle and the rest is a visual journey through dreams, visions, poetry and animal spirit messages. Below are some pages from the book.

Claudia Dawson 12/3/21 Claudia Dawson 12/3/21

Late night revelations

Sometimes, after weed and wine, I’ll have a “revelation.” Usually, in the light of day, I’ll delete them. Some I’ll keep forever, like this one:

Note: This post is an excerpt from my weekly mind dump newsletter, sent out each Friday.

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Found notes

*This note is not dated. Possibly an attempt to time travel. Not sure where the quote came from, but good advice nonetheless.*

Dear Claudia of early ‘03 — you will get your heart broken a bunch of times more.
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“You should be cooking on all 4 burners.”

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Illustrated journaling: Time Anxiety

Related resources:

How much sunlight do you have left?

Prioritization board

Just breathe

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High school wisdom

Here are scanned pages from my high school notebook where I collected what I considered to be sage advice and quotes.

A lot of these quotes, which now seem banal, really helped me survive the discomfort of high school and bullies and a broken heart.

Here are the quotes that still resonate with me twenty years later:

“Be tough in the way a blade of grass is: rooted, willing to lean, and at peace with what is around it.” — Natalie Goldberg

"Do you imagine the universe is agitated? Go into the desert at night and look at the stars. This practice should answer the question. The superior person settles her mind as the universe settles the stars in the sky. By connecting her mind with the subtle origin, she calms it. Once calmed, it naturally expands, and ultimately her mind becomes as vast and immeasurable as the night sky.” — Lao Tzu (apparently refuted)

“The greatest unexplored territory is the space between our ears.” — unknown (to me)