You can find out a lot about life and walking the path of spiritual development and self awareness when you move. The actual moving of physical belongings from one space to another is cathartic in and of itself. You find yourself pitching stuff that no longer fits where you are and who you have become. And you also find yourself walking down memory lane with other things you may have long forgotten you had.

Comedian George Carlin once did a classic bit about “stuff.” He joked about how we gather and accumulate stuff, then buy plastic bins to put all our stuff into until eventually, because we have so much stuff, we have to move into a bigger place to hold all it all! We laughed loud and strong because all of us could identify with it. We all hold on to too much stuff!

Besides making us aware of all the things we have accumulated thus far in our lives, moving can also be a very powerful spiritual experience. Excitement, anxiety, anticipation, exuberance, fearfulness… the whole gamut of emotions will be brought up when you go through a move.

I approached my recent move with an air of excitement and anticipation. I didn’t mind gleaning through my stuff, trimming out what was no longer in resonance with me.

The interesting thing is that you realize how much you have grown since you last cleaned out your closets and purged.

Now, this girl just LOVES to read so I have saved and gathered lots of books, magazines, articles and printed things that all needed weeding through. I gleefully took on the task of attacking those huge stacks of old magazines and papers. It became like a game to me, a treasure hunt, to find the gems buried in the piles. So I dug in. I hardly paid attention to People, Us or volumes of travel magazines that I dropped into huge black plastic bags. I did find myself, however, leafing through and even stopping to read from my stacks of body, mind, spirit type magazines.

Down memory lane I went, tripping through volumes of New Age Journal, Magical Blend, Psychic Guide, Vegetarian Times, Yoga Journal and other old texts, yellowed from age. Then one stood out among the rest… the well-worn edition of New Realities magazine from 1977. On the cover was a painting of a bright yellow sphere suspended above blue and purple swatches with the words, “You are entitled to miracles,” running across the image.

I recalled back to when I first saw that cover. Those words resonated so deeply within me that they inspired me to continue my spiritual quest. I ordered a copy of the poster and had it framed. It was something I looked at every day on the wall of my first office. You could say that this one image was instrumental in starting me on the path of what would become my continual spiritual journey which would lead me to my future destiny… phenomeNEWS.

As I held that magazine cover to my heart, I closed my eyes and felt all the power it had once stirred inside me. This one phrase was the conduit to my deeper connection with Source. The painting on the cover, by the way, was done by Jean Shinoda Bolen who, back then, was the wife of the editor of the magazine, Jim Bolen. Years later, when we had the opportunity to interview Dr. Bolen, I told her of my resonance with the message in her painting. We had come full circle.

It never ceases to amaze me how many ways we are reminded and offered opportunities to re-connect with our Source. Sometimes it may be in gentle nudges, like words on a bumper sticker or a certain phrase in an email or even a song whose lyrics touch that special sacred place inside. Other times, it comes like a crack of lightning, perhaps taking someone close to us from this lifetime which causes us to reflect on what is really, really important and how we can get back “in touch.”

However it comes and whatever the package looks like, pay attention. You are being called to re-join the group. You are remembering the essence of who you really are. You are receiving a call from Home.