Putting out the Clarion Call

At the outset of 2009, a new year with great promise, I would like to frame the opportunities available to us as answering the call to live our destiny and fulfill our purpose.

Joseph Campbell suggested that one fundamental story underlies all inspirational myths throughout history and across cultures, the Journey of the Archetypal Hero. The hero’s journey always begins in the ordinary world, with the hero receiving a call to enter an unusual world of strange powers and events (the call), where he or she will receive initiation. If the hero accepts the call, and it is a choice to accept or refuse, the hero must face tasks and trials, sometimes alone and sometimes with assistance. At its most intense, the hero must survive a severe challenge, often with help earned along the journey. If the hero survives, the hero may achieve great gifts of self-knowledge and new powers. The hero must then return to the ordinary world with these gifts, often facing challenges on the return journey, and use them to improve the world. The hero, now returned to the community, issues the call to others who themselves yearn for a journey of their own.

This is what we do, energetically, when we invite people to participate with us. There are times when we put out the call to attract people for a class, or a project, or a therapy group. This process begins with an idea or a creative moment. Many people have lots of different ideas about what they would like to manifest in the world. At times we may think, “I’d like to teach this class or write this book or accomplish this task.” So what is the difference between the millions of thoughts, dreams and hopes that humans have everyday and the idea of “putting out the call?”

When we put out the call, our soul knows that what we are asking for is really going to happen. There are no doubts, no thoughts of unworthiness and no ego. The call comes from a place inside of us that “knows” that there are souls out there waiting to be called. We know that there are souls that are yearning to re-connect and to “come home.” We know, with all of our being, that these souls will answer the call. There is no fear inside of the one who issues the call, only clarity. The clarity is knowing that we are on the right path and that this is a spiritual path. The clarity is trusting that those who are ready to respond to the call, will hear it. Clarity is knowing that those who are ready to respond to the call will be in the right place at the right time. The one who calls knows that the Universe is always working perfectly and that all needs/yearnings will attract the correct fulfillment.

The stronger the yearning is in someone, the quicker they will respond to the call. They will search through books, classes and the internet to find the fulfillment of their yearning. The internet is a great tool for searching since computer users are in their subconscious mind, in a trance state induced through eye-fixation. The subconscious mind is able to attract what is needed because it can read clues. There are certain words, pictures and feelings that are energetically emitted through a website. Most people can read energy even though this reading is not done on a conscious level. Often times there is instant recognition through a picture of someone who has previously been our teacher and who may be calling us back. Or the call may come through a dream. Messages in dreams are often loud and clear. They may come through words, clear pictures or a vibrant image that carries a clear message. The call is often sent out so clearly by the teacher that the student cannot miss it; by the healer that the client is attracted like a magnet.

Now you may wonder why the teacher or healer puts out the call. They often become clear about their purpose on the earth, sometimes very early in their lives. It is part of their own spiritual development to learn what they must teach or how they must heal, and how to reach those who need them. When they are ready, they put out their message, and it is often very serendipitous how the correct people are attracted to them at exactly the correct time for things to fall into place. At this point, the teacher or healer is humble yet free of unworthiness, heart-centered and emitting lovingkindness. How can it fail that those who yearn and seek come together with the one who has put out such a clarion call. This is the unspoken half of the equation, “Seek and you shall find.” That is to say, “Offer, and those who seek will find you.”

Love, Diane