Larger Than Life

As we move into June and closer to the solstice — that day of greatest light — it's important to remember our greatest light: the light of our soul's desire and highest passion, expressed in the physical in this body and on this earth.

I'll be focusing on that light in this newsletter and the next.

Larger Than Life, today's article, reminds us that we are all greater than the limitations we place on ourselves. Two years ago, in a newsletter titled How Great Thou Art, I reminded you that as an embodiment of the energy of infinite love, you are the God acknowledged and glorified in the well-known hymn. Today, I encourage you to take the next step in living the wondrous limitlessness of your natural state.

In the next newsletter, leading up to my July 7 teleconference, I'll invite you to step through the portal of your passion, the passion that is the key to your joy, success, abundance and prosperity.

And speaking of teleconferences and prosperity, the free online recording of my most recent teleconference, Genesis: Manifestation Beyond "The Secret", is still available (unexpectedly) on the conference-call center web site. To access it, follow the instructions in Free Teleconference Recording, below. (The CD is available for purchase through this link.)

Elsewhere in this newsletter, you'll find news about my novel, The MoonQuest, an opportunity to wear your personal energy portrait as a t-shirt, a chance to participate for free in my July 7 teleconference, Portal to Your Passion, and more news and notes.

Enjoy the information and inspiration, even as you remember how great thou art.

Namaste,
Mark David

P.S. In the next weeks and months, I'll be crossing the country (and into Canada) again. Depending on the audience and town, I'll be offering sound events, book signings, free literary readings, and inspirational talks based on the spiritual lessons of The MoonQuest. Please drop me a line if you're interested in seeing me in your part of the U.S. or Canada.

Larger Than Life

Back in October when I was visiting Toronto, a friend treated me to a ticket to Barbra Streisand's first-ever concert performance in that city. Although we were sitting high in the rafters in a hockey arena that was anything but intimate, I was startled by how fully and personally her energy filled every corner of that venue.

"She's larger than life," I remember gushing to my friend at intermission.

I recalled that experience a few days ago after purchasing a CD recording of the concert tour. "That's what I want," I heard myself say and was so startled by what seemed such a profoundly ego-driven thought that I was almost embarrassed.

But it wasn't until yesterday morning, lying in bed thinking about what I would write here, that I fully understood both the Streisand experience and my inner voice.

What I realized was that "larger than life" isn't about being famous. It simply means living larger than the restrictions and limitations we all carry so willingly through life. I also realized that access to that energy is not limited to the Barbra Streisands of the world, unless we choose for that to be so.

Even as our souls yearn for us to "play big," to discover our passion and live it to the fullest, our fearful self continues to seek out ways to hide and play small.

"Our deepest fear," writes Marianne Williamson in A Return to Love, "is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure."

Perhaps even deeper than the fear she describes is the fear of experiencing and expressing our power out in the world, of being larger than life, of living beyond the self-imposed walls and barriers we create in the mistaken belief they will keep us safe.

They can't and they won't.

Our only safety resides in living our largest life to its fullest potential, in living our truth...in living our passion. In walking through life as though we are safe...as though nothing can stop, limit or restrict us.

As I write this, an old Cole Porter lyric keeps running through my head:

Oh, give me land, lots of land under starry skies above,
Don't fence me in

At a literal level, the song is sung by a cowboy who longs for the endless space of the open range.

Yet it's also the song of every soul deprived of its fullest expression by the fences of a fearful mind, a soul that seeks only the limitlessness of its natural state.

Whatever you think of Barbra Streisand's talent or personality, when you are in her energy field, you touch that limitlessness and your soul cries out, "Me too! That's who I am, too!!"

Here in the Western world, where we have been taught to play small, we transfer all of our natural desire for the fenceless world of a life lived large to our movie stars and sports heroes.

If we can't play out our own passion and power, we play it out through a celebrity cult that's no healthier than any other cult, one we also find in countries with charismatic leaders/dictators, in religions with unapproachable gods and in all situations where we abdicate the expression of our infinite nature to someone or something outside of ourselves.

In The MoonQuest, very much a metaphor for all our journeys, the main character is destined for a greatness he continues to resist. Yet destiny, as he is constantly reminded, is not cast in stone. There is always a choice.

"Every choice you have ever made, has led to this moment. Your moment. Still, the power to make a different choice remains yours."

The power to choose is always ours. In every moment and through every situation, we're offered the opportunity to choose our greatness, our passion, our light.

It's what we do with each moment and situation that governs our destiny, that decides whether we live in our greatness or in the shadow of someone else's, that determines whether we build fences or tear them down.

In this moment, what do you choose?

The MoonQuest — Info, Offers & Updates

The MoonQuest now has its own web site: TheMoonQuest.com!

Over time, all MoonQuest-related links will point to that site, which features audio and written excerpts, a bio describing how I came to write the book and retail order info.

Still to be added is wholesale-order information (for now, contact me directly) and a media center, featuring images and news releases.

Please check it out.

• Offer #1: Prepublication Special — June 11 is your last chance to take advantage of the prepublication offer that gets you an autographed copy and free U.S. shipping. Normal shipping charges will apply to orders received after June 11. To take advantage of this offer, go to www.TheMoonQuest.com, call the toll-free order number (800/369-4506) or, if I already have your credit card information, contact me by e-mail.

• Wider Availability — The MoonQuest is now available through Amazon.com (Attention non U.S. readers: It's only available through the Amazon's main U.S. site, not through other national sites.) I hope to list retail-store availability on www.TheMoonQuest.com in the coming weeks and months.

• Offer #2: Free eBook — If you post a MoonQuest review on Amazon and let me know about it, I'll send you a free copy of my eBook, The Book of Messages.

• Offer #3: Free Teleconference — My July 7 teleconference, 7-7-07: Portal to Your Passion, is free to anyone who has purchased a copy of The MoonQuest directly from me. The regular cost is $44. (See sidebar, top right.)

Wearable Energy Art

I'm excited to announce a new option for anyone commissioning a personal energy portrait: a t-shirt bearing a full-color image of your portrait.

Wearing your energy portrait is like wearing a crystal, only your custom portrait is fully personalized to your life and energetic needs at this time.

Portrait t-shirts are US$33 each plus shipping for the first portrait, $25 for each additional t-shirt of the same size bearing the same image.

T-shirts are Hanes 100% preshrunk cotton and are available in sizes S through XXL, in white only.

This offer is available for all newly commissioned portraits, as well as for previously commissioned drawings, as long as I have a scan of the art work.

(T-shirts are also available bearing most most energy-drawing images at US$25 per shirt, plus shipping. Contact me for details.)

New Earth Chronicles

If you don't subscribe to my New Earth Chronicles blog, catch up on the recent posts:

• Monday, May 14, 2007 — A Horse (or Two) of a Different Color

• Monday, May 21, 2007 — A Stunning One-Liner During Dinner at the Diner

• Monday, May 28, 2007 — Holy Faith

You'll find them all, as well as all blog posts dating back to February 2006, at www.markdavidgerson.blogspot.com.

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