The Sacred Wound

Gloria Brinkworth has spent a lifetime searching for the answer to life, meaning of life, purpose of life, and why am I searching anyway?   As a child of 3 or 4, I searched with the holy star of Bethlehem for many nights during Christmas time and then in church from 6 to 12, where I could not even get one answer after 6 years of walking 2 miles, each Sunday, to church.  I left church after 12 when there were no real answers.

Then alone, I continued for years and years and years of study and courses, books, languages, living in different places, a long ordeal of private schools, a wonderful academic background, and yet when it was done, there was nothing, no experience of living.   I thought books would have the answer so I read and read and read and read and read, and when I got to studying the culture of India, I was fascinated, nay hooked.  I wanted to stay there and a couple of years later I went to India.  That was it.  I couldn’t take anymore of being answer-less in America.

I gathered my belongings into a small purse & left.   Okay, needless to say it was a very difficult journey.  I took the airplane from Gander, Newfoundland to Glasgow, Scotland.  It was the cheapest ticket we could find to get across the ocean.   Otherwise, I pretty much hitchhiked all the way to Newfoundland from Detroit and then to India.  My beloved India. Land of the gods and goddesses and anything else you are looking for.

Once I arrived in India I felt like I was home.  It was just a miracle and since I traveled there on a Canadian passport I thought, “Oh goody, I’m here forever.”  I never planned on returning to America. However, after 3 months, Master said, “and when are you leaving sister?”  I thought, no, no, no.   But it was back to America to try to maneuver all the intricacies of what is becoming an increasingly difficult life in America.

And yes I got the degrees and jobs and longevity in the jobs, until finally I have reached the stage for contemplation, of relative ease, so that I can sit down, ponder and search the inner regions which takes me up to my current profession, psychology, and to the secret room that we can all partake of in this club called Life.

Our job is to live and serve our karmas, our destiny, and to deepen that search from the individual soul to the big God, Atma, Oversoul, Kahuna, Our Life Journey.  This is the Journey that I invite you to join me in pursuing; the one filled with wisdom, love, understanding, humility, compassion, empathy and God.  Namaste.