The InnerViews Archives

#1/pdf: Silence, and Integrating the Impact of 9/11: An Intuitive View of September 11 (1/02) I sense that a tremendous amount of data was released into our subtle energetic selves with the explosions of September 11th. I believe that openings caused by large group deaths and the deaths of spiritually important individuals allow an inflow of higher knowing, or a larger amount of awareness about how we are to evolve, to download into us. Then it takes time to integrate that data and begin to use it. We may feel that the event waves from that catastrophe have faded to mere ripples now, and that life is back to normal. But we are different inside, and soon to be different on the outside, too.

#2/pdf: Deepening Your Dreamstate: Dreams and Precognitive Omens About World Events (4/02) A friend told me that he dreamed repeatedly of people falling or jumping out of an airplane in the days before the attacks. I dreamed of the floor structure of a highrise building collapsing. Why did we have different dreams that were slices of the whole instead of seeing the entire situation? Perhaps we noticed the segment of the event that pertained most to what our own personal lessons are. I think it is important to interpret dreams as both literal at some level, and symbolic of your own inner growth process.

#3/pdf: When Life Gets Messy and Won't Behave: The Positive Use of Ambiguity, Uncertainty, and Disorder (6/02) On a scale of 1-10: How addicted are you to certainty? How many strokes from others do you receive by solving problems? How uncomfortable are you when you can't know something immediately? How upset do you get when you don't know the outcome? On the other hand, how addicted are you to clutter and disorder? In what area(s) of your home and life do you find the most distraction? How much do you avoid final answers? To open intuition and receive the highest source of guidance, we must be able to move through life with a loose grip, to be aware of new input the moment it occurs and respond seamlessly from a whole-body perspective.

#4/pdf: First Cues: Making Friends with Your Reptile Brain (Intuition Magazine 3/98) Just as animals sense an imminent earthquake, your body knows what's happening in the world long before your mind does and it transmits instinctual signals directly to your reptile brain. Learning to recognize these primitive body messages can give you the edge in knowing who to trust, what's true for you, or when it's time to take action.

#5/pdf: The Silent Mind (Intuition Magazine 9/98) How attuned are you to the subtle messages around you, like those hidden below our voiced communications, or those carried by synchronicities or life's omens? There is guidance available to us at all times, just below the surface of our logic, just after we stop pushing and striving, just before we jump to conclusions. By cultivating the ability to pause and be comfortable with silence, then by focusing steadily and listening for the first sounds, or feeling for the first impressions emerging from that core place, your intuition is likely to wake up suddenly and enthusiastically, as if from a long winter's nap.

#6/pdf: Intuition and Spirituality in Business: An Expert Intuitive Looks at Future Trends (Research Reading 5/94) As executives acknowledge the interrelatedness of the internal, invisible, process-oriented part of life and the external, visible, results-oriented part of life, they will consider new, softer solutions to problems. They will assume that nipping an unhealthy energetic pattern in the bud is a highly efficient way to maximize productivity. It will be common sense to deal with potential problems at the feeling and emotional level, before they erupt into physical breakdowns in the manufacturing plant.

#7/pdf: The New Children and The Future of Education: An Expert Intuitive Looks at Trends (Joyful Child Journal 1993) One of the important trends affecting education now is that the children born since the early 1970's have an unusually high level of fourth dimensional experience with relatively few incarnations in the physical plane. Most of their awareness has been focused in the higher, more abstract mental planes. They are inexperienced physically and emotionally, and often have trouble translating their soul's energy and wisdom down in vibration. This "awkwardness" produces irregularities in their daily functioning—such as hyperactivity, allergies, dyslexia and other learning disorders, absent-mindedness or uneven rhythms in health and self-expression.

#8/pdf: The Big World Is Your Body; It's Conscious, It's Cooperative! (8/02) If your life is building in intensity, if you are facing the things that scare you most, please don't freeze in the worry-mind, or in the duality reality! This is the time to actively look for the oneness and the underlying sanity in all things. This is the time to believe in your own destiny, which is the manifestation of Who you really are. Choose what's choosing you! Enter the experience that's seeking you and trust its compassion. Live it out in an engaged way, and keep walking, keep inviting in your destiny, even if you can't imagine how amazing it's going to be. Don't worry about not being up to it. You ARE it. When it finds you and you flow into it, you'll be saying, "You mean I get to do THIS????"

#9/pdf: From Polarization to Paradox: Eclipsing the Old Dynamics of Struggle (3/03) Peace is something we don't need to create; it already exists as the foundation of life. We must simply allow it to resurface into our conscious mind. And we must understand that peace is not a passive, static state where we all walk around wearing yellow smiley-face masks. Peace is a dynamism, a rocking and flowing back and forth between gazillions of polarities, the embracing of the paradox of both-and.

#10/pdf: Return of the Revolutionaries: The Case for Reincarnation and Soul Groups Reunited, Chapter 6: The Three Lives of Penney Peirce and The Intuitive Way, by Walter Semkiw, MD (5/03) . . .Peirce was shocked when Bobby Jo started to rattle off facts regarding a past lifetime as if she were reading out of an encyclopedia. Bobby Jo related that in a past era, Peirce's name was Charles H. Parkhurst, that he had been born on April 17, 1842, in Framingham, Massachusetts, had lived on a farm, and then had become a prominent minister. Parkhurst enjoyed mountain climbing and used the pulpit to fight crime.

#11/pdf: Becoming Transparent: Preparing to Live in the Permanent Present Moment (7/03) Then a voice said, "To survive The Void you must become like the void." And I knew then that we were all in a process of becoming transparent, every inch of us. To be transparent meant to hold nothing to yourself, to release all ego, to be soft and adaptable, porous and permeable. To be transparent meant that we would learn to live in a state without the need for fixed identity, without a set history, without limitation, without beliefs, without fear and reactionary behavior. Those things make us opaque, solid, and dense.

#12/pdf: Being a Medium for HER Voice (1103) I've experienced how my body can suddenly come to attention and even start buzzing when I enter certain forcefields and power spots, like Mt. Shasta, Sedona, Machu Picchu, the Isis Temple at Aswan, Abydos, Mt. Fuji, Notre Dame Cathedral, and Lake Titicaca. New Mexico is like that for me. There is an underlying hum, an increase in the frequency of my whole being, a sharpening of the senses, when I go there. There is always a feeling of being able to drop directly down through the earth, with no impediments, into the core of the planet. There is always, with these places, an overwhelming sense of The Mother.

#13/pdf: Beyond Suffering (Summer 1987) The only time we move into suffering is when we try to receive love, when we try to love other people so they will love us, or when we try to love ourselves by looking at our images through other people's eyes. We have lost our connection with the central issue that we ARE love and all we want is to radiate it, share it, experience it, and feel it in motion.

#14/pdf: For Those Who Are Called to Service, excerpt from The Golden Scripts, by William Dudly Pelley (1969, 1941)  Beloved, harken to my voice: I call you as of old, knowing that ye answer. Think not ye are neglected in that the times are not of kindness; greater indeed must be your bitterness ere ye know the secret of my delay in using you. I would not have you think that I ever make mischiefs; I make only order for that is mine essence. Twice two maketh four, twice four maketh eight; the things of spirit are ever positive, even as numbers in pure mathematics. Things of spirit come not at suggestion; they come by lengthy merit and delay.

#15/pdf: Almost Heaven: For John Denver (204) In the music I heard for the first time how John Denver had truly captured the sound of the goodness, the noble yet earthy qualities in the American soul, much as Oklahoma! and Appalachian Spring do. And I realized that the sound in so many of his songs marks the path of the recumbent soul who has waited patiently in the dark body for lifetimes as it finally rises up and seeks to take over the whole of life; seeks that stretch into full activation. As I listened and let myself be affected, my own soul seemed to be saying to me, "When did you forget about your passion? How did you become partially hypnotized by the world's semiconsciousness? How long has it been since you pushed the envelope?"

#16/pdf: The Art and Entertainment of Life in the Flow (604) I dissolved, dissolved, dissolved, and faced the blank space that appeared in the absence of my busy thought habits. I practiced converting the emptiness to an experience of pleasurable open space with room to move and breathe and rest. I allowed the possibility that nothing might ever fill me up again, and practiced not going into grief over this thought.

#17/pdf: Intuition and Politics: Seeing Through the Smokescreen of Spin (1004) I believe this country has a noble life purpose—to serve as a kind of laboratory for enlightenment—and that it has a global role to play as a catalytic spiritual force, not as the domineering, know-it-all boss of everyone. I am fascinated watching this process of national spiritual growth unfold, wondering if we will be strong enough morally, with good enough hearts and broad enough vision, to play our part in the world community and carry it off.

#18/pdf: The Time of Waves: Toward an Enlightened Emotional Body (105) The news has been full of waves. Water walls crash over beaches, hotels, and villages, sweeping people away to the depths. Avalanches of snow and mud cascade down to bury us. These are the among most fearsome of our collective dream images, coming alive in technicolor, and they have to be making an impact on our subconscious minds.

#19/pdf: Writing a Poem as a Sacred Act (Introduction to Penney's Poetry Book arrow of truth lands in the lake, a mouth makes a joyful sound, 205) The urge to keep a journal and write poems seized me early. Inspired by several years when my family lived on a farm in Kansas, I penned this preteen masterpiece: "The most beautiful time in Kansas, I think/Is when the sky turns shades of blue, gray, and pink/This is the time when the breezes are few/And this is the time when the insects are, too."

#20/pdf: Soul-Crafting: Getting Serious About Who We Want to Be (206) The winds of change are blowing our debris away. What will be left of us? To surrender to the clearing process can truly feel insane. If I achieve clarity, will I suddenly die? Or will I remain here, ingrained in this world, a clear light in a body helping guide other people to become clear lights in bodies?

#21/pdf: Forgetting What We Know to Know Anew (406) "Message from Penney Peirce": New Introduction for The Intuitive Way, Second Edition.
So much of knowing ourselves as our soul comes down to simply letting go of what is false, dissolving old habits of perception, and the ideas we cling to for security's sake. I have been systematically letting go of what I know, of my attachment to who I think I am—every time I can remember to do it. The more I clear the clutter from my tissues and from the field of my personal energy, the more intuitive I become.

#22/pdf: Armageddon & the Light in the Big Dark Hidden" (706) What are our old outmoded methods? The more I examine this question, the more I see they are any methods where we believe we alone are the driving force, where too much personal will power must be used to keep things afloat, or generate power to catalyze and maintain intended results. Or, they may be techniques that derive from thought systems that are not in harmony with universal principles, like "it's noble and necessary to sacrifice yourself," or "if you don't keep blowing yourself up like a balloon to take up space, you'll be swallowed by the void." Old methods reflect old motivations which tie to old identities.

#23/pdf: Break Through Your Stuckness: Re-Open Your Intuition by Shifting to a Different Part of Your Brain (Penney's contribution to Barbara Stanny Anthology 2006) I usually feel blocked (and often exhausted) when I've been "in my head" too much, trying to solve problems using my "enterpriser mind," or "masculine mind"—that part of my awareness that can compartmentalize, analyze, formulate, catalyze, and force. If I don't have an idea that excites me and makes me lean toward it, I notice I'm often trying to make things happen with will power, and inevitably, there is a "should" involved somewhere under the surface.

#24/pdf: Fellowship, the Soulgroup, & the Field: Noticing the New Way of Living As long as I can remember, whenever I access higher levels of information intuitively, I see a council or a collective group consciousness, rather than a single spiritual guide or wise soul at the top of a hierarchy. When I enter my meditative state, I experience merging with the collective knowledge of this group mind. If I soften and expand myself, I encompass more and more of it. Whatever comes through me comes from that pool of knowledge. In this model, knowledge is shared equally, given freely, and there is plenty for all.

#25/pdf: Princess Diana & Mother Teresa: Resurfacing with a Message for Today I remember being struck by the synchronous close connection between Princess Diana and Mother Teresa, both at the time of their actual meeting — one so tall, one so tiny — and when they died literally within days of each other: August 31 and September 5, 1997, respectively. One's candle was snuffed out early, the other's burned all the way down. When two such prominent souls weave themselves together by death, where there is an almost forced comparison between the meaning of the two lives in the consciousness of a planet — I acknowledge: "Spirit" is up to something; a lesson is being imprinted on us!

THE POETRY CORNER

arrow of truth lands in the lake
a mouth makes a joyful sound

poems on the path to spirit

Spirit that I love
Spirit that loves me
Spirit I dwell within
Spirit that dwells within me
Let us be One
Let us be One
Let us be One
And may the love I carry
Ever in my heart
Be made manifest perfectly
in all the creations of the world