The " Journey Begins Tapestry and 0 - Seeker Card" is the egg 🥚 stage. If this is you, you are filled with new life, ready to be born. You are ready to break out of the shell of past and be a new version of yourself. It is the time of night just before dawn in the most still hours. There is a feeling of anticipation and hope for what is to come. You feel an impending life change. You may have seen a sign in nature like a butterfly or maybe the stag in this image is your message that the time is now. Not sure yet? See if the following reflects you... You are ready to make the aware choice to begin your spiritual journey. You have always been on the path, but now the goals you have previously sought are unsatisfying. You have exhausted all variations of the physical world to find happiness and peace and have narrowed it down to what does NOT bring this. You have a growing awareness of what brings disruptive emotions and are interested in learning how to maintain peace and have more. You seek meaning in life and giving to friends, family, community and world. You begin to ask, "Is there more to life?", "Why am I here?", "Am I more than a body that sleeps, eats, and reproduces?". "If I am more, what animates me and makes me unique?", "If matter is never destroyed upon death, but merely transforms...what does it transform into?" The many ways to explore what is beyond our physical senses is called a "spiritual" path. A spiritual path heightens our abilities and senses but must not be confused with the path itself. The path is about exploring the cause of all abilities, senses, bodies, ideas, life, death and everything in between. This series is about the "Cause" of all - creator, God, Goddess, or Universal Consciousness...that of 1000 names and the sum of all or the macro. Imagine the world in the MACRO as cosmos holding multiple universes. A universe that holds galaxies, a galaxy holding a planetary system around a star - then earth, country, community, family, then, finally-self. In the micro world, inside the "self", we are made of cells, atoms, DNA... The macro world is composed of the micro, essentially making both the micro and the macro the same elements. You may have heard we are made of star dust, and at a micro level - we really are. All atoms have the DNA information to hold the form of whatever matter they appear as. When the form is ready to disperse, the atoms disassemble but the EXPERIENTIAL information remains. In a sense, cosmos is one organism in varying forms experiencing "self" in many ways. There is a story... A group of blind people were led to a portion of an elephant and asked to describe it based on the one area they had access to. No one person was able to describe the elephant as a whole. When they changed places, they began to understand the whole of what "elephant" meant physically, emotionally and mentally. For some, it took more time because their minds would wander, thinking of things to do or troubles they had. Those who stayed focused on the task understood "elephant" the quickest. You are the one investigating the macro or creator or "the elephant" and also the reverse at the same time...the creator investigating itself through you at a micro level. It's all the same - just from different perspectives and states of awareness. That is the spiritual path...becoming aware of the whole of creation and our place in creation in the macro and the micro. In the Hindu Deity Pantheon, Ganesh is the elephant Deity stomping out distractions or obstacles keeping us from evolving. Deities represent an aspect of "God or Goddess", "The Cause of it All", "The Creator", "Highest Intelligence" or whatever name you would like to call "it". Or in other words, if you had your hand on one part of the elephant at a time, trying to identify the whole, each of the deities is one place your hand. The whole is simply too vast to explain in any one language, one name, or one description. Lifetimes are needed to consciously explore the whole or "Cause" of it all. Because the task is daunting, a GPS and help from those on the path, are helpful for your journey. A spiritual GPS works like this: Every day... have a plan for your spiritual to-do list. At the end of the day... introspect about how you did. Why? What will you do to improve? My art can help as well. Each work of art in this series has multiple areas to meditate on to get the whole of it, just like the elephant. As your consciousness expands, new parts in the art will reveal themselves to you in meaningful ways. Each artwork is accompanied by introspective questions to serve as a GPS for your journey. I encourage you to: 1. Meditate or pray 2. Look at an artwork 3. Read the introspection questions 4. Journal Introspect: Identify where you are in your journey. Where would you like to go or do next? What skills supplies or knowledge will you need? Learn to meditate or pray and ask for the Cause of it all to provide using these affirmations: I am provided with what I need today to fulfill my highest purpose. I know what I need to know, when I need to know it. People, signs or lessons come to me today for my highest purpose.