The Love Oracle

20. Teenage Love – In search of meaning. What’s this life all about?

What is the passion of teenage love? Just as the teenager develops there’s not only a physical change there’s a change in the brain and that lights up the need to feel your role in the world The questions start – What’s the point of all this life? What are we doing here? What is my role in the world? And how do I feel alive? These questions don’t end after teenage, however they are alive with the first real fire in the teenage. In older cultures, the child would go through an initiation to the dawn of their adulthood and leaving behind the child. Teenage love is the feeling of being alive through experiencing something new that is growing inside you – at one and the same time exciting and nerve-wracking and exhilarating. Teenage Love can open the doors of consciousness to mystical experiences and feelings of powerlessness at the same time. How do you make sense of the new self growing inside and capture the joy of life that is starting to open you to more of yourself and how you can be connected with another? FOR THOSE IN SYDNEY, Starting July 15 2022 Dance for Joy and Learn Sufi Movement https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/347203935317 [https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/347203935317] Good for those exploring deeper connection within and what it feels like to feel oneness with your body and in sharing joy and life with others.

20. The Inspiration of Romance through the Devotion to Life. The Sufi Movement and the Bhakti Movement.

The history of the Sufi Movement and how it has influenced modern poetry and concepts of romance is better explained by Filip here on Youtube: https://youtu.be/WQirjcT7ENs.   The Short Version of the Sufi tradition is philosophers, mystics, teachers and Saints that originated in Bagdad in the roots of Islam and then later travelled to India to mix with devotees of Hindu and Buddhist traditions and taught that the rules of religion were not the path to god or happiness.    The path of looking at the self and your inner world was the path to a closer relationship with the divine and true love.   They used music, poetry, song, dance, chanting and teachings of the oneness of humanity, brotherhood, kindness and connection of humans to their environment, the stars and the earth.   In Sydney I'll be sharing a Sufi Movement Workshop starting July 15 2022: https://classbento.com.au/sufi-movement-workshop-sydney  Famous Sufi poets and writers such as Rumi have influenced the medieval and renaissance poets and writers such as Shakespeare and modern-day artists such as Beyonce who named her daughter after Rumi.    The romance in the music and the poets of the Sufi go beyond the idea of being romantically inspired by one person.  The romance is with life itself.   One of my favorite poets is Kabir who was not just a Sufi he is also considered a Yogi and Saint who was and is revered by Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims.   Kabir is known as being responsible for the Bhakti movement in India, which is singing and creating poetry full of devotion that inspires romance and deep feelings with the speaker and the listener and brings people to a deep connection to their heart.   Check out some poetry by Kabir: https://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/Poets/K/Kabir/Mybodyisfloo/index.html   My body is flooded by Kabir  (English version by Andrew Harvey) Original Language Hindi   My body is flooded  With the flame of Love.  My soul lives in  A furnace of bliss.   Love's fragrance  Fills my mouth,  And fans through all things  With each outbreath.

19. Love of Humanity – is Humanity worth saving?

What is the purpose of nations and cultural differences if we just fight each other? There is a lot of talk about intentions of people to destroy humanity and start carte blanche. Or people that think of creating another option to leave earth and build an alternative on mars. People see war and conflict of religion, culture and nations and want to just end humanity. Just wipe it out. This is the exact thought form that will end us. What is the love of humanity? It is seeing the full potential of humans to be custodians of this earth and live in balance with all life on it. Society will only shift to harmony when we see from within a genuine love for humanity and the role we came to fulfill of being a lover of this planet and a leader of living the laws of honoring the gift of life on this planet. And that means honoring the gift of humanity to this planet and to ourselves and to each other If you are interested in joining a group working towards enlightenment contact me and we can set up a time to discuss: angela@dancewithangela.com

18. Finding Love through Death

What does it mean to lose someone when they die and how does that changes our relationship to love? Over the years, I've had many people share with me the strange wonderful sad and miraculous passing over of their loved ones. Maybe you have a story to share. I will share the phenomena of seeing things while people are passing over, a bit from my experience and also research on the phenomena of near-death and deathbed experiences of the other side. Death is actually the biggest reminder of what we do value, how we love those who are close to us and how when the body dies, we are still deeply connected to those we incarnated with. Maybe you also have some 'contact' with the other realms with loved ones being close to you. How can this show us that what we deeply desire is a deeper connection to each other - and a deep need to be with those we love and connected to their betterment - even when they are no longer alive. If you want to hear more about my near-death experience you can have a look here https://youtu.be/oGYcfxjhTsM?t=1695 [https://youtu.be/oGYcfxjhTsM?t=1695] I share my journey with Sydney’s Interfaith group led by Siva and Vasantha Peri Also in our podcast Patti and I have 2 episodes when I was still in recovery from cancer – and really just trying to process the experience you can hear the episode here: https://anchor.fm/bbr-at-home-and-work/episodes/Episode-12---Angelas-Journey-Back-to-Life---A-Life-Worth-Living---Part-1---The-Message--What-are-you-doing-here-ebl9t0/a-a1isi4s [https://anchor.fm/bbr-at-home-and-work/episodes/Episode-12---Angelas-Journey-Back-to-Life---A-Life-Worth-Living---Part-1---The-Message--What-are-you-doing-here-ebl9t0/a-a1isi4s] Resources on Death and Near-Death Experiences: Dr Peter Fenwick - The Art of Dying Life after Death – Scientific Evidence | An Interview with Oliver Lazar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9e1SLF7Kg8Y&t=1677s&ab_channel=ThanatosTVEN Anita Moojani – Dying to be ME https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTDp2sVwMnY&ab_channel=AnitaMoorjaniOfficialYouTubeChannel Sheldon Solomon - Death and Meaning https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=qfKyNxfyWbo&ab_channel=LexFridman

17. Natural Love and love of Nature. Are Humans "naturally loving"?

What is in our nature that makes us love naturally? If you have a child, they are naturally loving. Not always accepting or tolerating. But always loving. And then as we age, we lost that natural love of the world and life. Why? Recently I found a beautiful youtube channel where kids in trauma used music and dance to celebrate life and they now make an income from the channel to support their lives. You can see the Masaka Kids here: https://youtu.be/TH4V-yHbJXk Watching their videos, I feel life and I am happy. We have lost our connection to nature as a human species, and as a result, we have trauma, we have rising air pollution which is killing us, we have oceans filled with waste that kills other life and we are on a trajectory to the end of the human species because we have become the diseased peoples of the earth. Today, I'm going to look at natural love and how to reconnect to love in the self as a natural gift, when we connect to nature, and forget about the ideas of what humanity is, and reconnect to our initial role as a species that honored all life, animal, plants, microbes, fungi, bacteria that are our ancestors and the ecosystems of the planet that allow our earth to breathe and the natural kingdom that allows life to be possible at all. PS I've discovered this really cool Virologist Dr Zach Bush who shares how when we see the bigger picture of all life that allows us to exist on the earth - we can start to approach disease from an enlightened perspective. Check out Dr Zach Bush out here on the "VIROME" - how viruses are part of our evolution as a mammal and not an enemy, and instead a call to start looking at how we are part of the ecosystem of all life on earth. https://youtu.be/TEb33U0hHxM If you are in Sydney and want to explore your natural love through movement, join me here: Dance for Joy and learn Sufi Movement https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/347203935317 [https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/347203935317]