{"id":5897717,"date":"2012-09-16T00:00:24","date_gmt":"2012-09-16T07:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.californiapsychics.com\/?p=5897717"},"modified":"2013-06-05T17:37:49","modified_gmt":"2013-06-06T00:37:49","slug":"psychic-liam-what-does-your-soul-embody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.californiapsychics.com\/blog\/mind-body-spirit\/psychic-liam-what-does-your-soul-embody.html","title":{"rendered":"Psychic Liam: What Does Your Soul Embody?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Psychic Liam helps us to understand the godliness within us and how it grows and changes over time. Learn how this divinity changes us and our souls.<\/p>\n<h4>Gods of the Era and The Cult of Elvis<\/h4>\n<p>Floating through the forest fog in our ancient black Chevy, on my way home from a morning run, I find myself smiling. On the radio, Elvis is singing&#8230; crooning&#8230; chanting his incantation of <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.californiapsychics.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/dreamcast-release-the-bonds-of-loneliness.html\"><strong>absolute loneliness<\/strong><\/a>. &#8220;Heartbreak Hotel&#8221; is a hymn to steamy disillusionment, and as the honky-tonk piano clinks away, I am amazed at how this simple, old song provokes such <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.californiapsychics.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/are-love-predictions-tied-to-emotion.html\"><strong>a strong sense of emotional connection<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You see, my father is a high priest in the cult of Elvis and my aunt, one of his wandering mystics making pilgrimages to Graceland as she is able. When I was a kid, we had a behemoth floor model television that would buzz and flicker late into the evenings. If luck was with us on rare occasions, the late, late show on the local channel transmitted from a small city 100 miles away would feature an Elvis film. Maybe &#8220;Viva Las Vegas&#8221; or &#8220;King Creole&#8221; or, by the grace of the pop culture gods, &#8220;Blue Hawaii.&#8221; He was a mythic figure&#8230; both minstrel and jester&#8230; the player and piper of my sheltered childhood world. By then, the real Elvis, the living flesh and blood man, had been gone for a few years\u2014lost as so many are, before his time. It seems the gods themselves don&#8217;t get much say in their entrances and exits from our stage. But thanks to the miracle of that giant magic box, his enchantment lived on.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>We grow older. If we&#8217;re lucky, we grow in knowledge, in power, in force and the things of our youth start to seem silly. Youth requires expansion and the sacrifice of the Gods of Childhood. Things once revered become downright nonsensical. Young people are forced to watch the world around them become colder, more logical and rigid.<\/p>\n<p>My very first psychic teacher was a wildly wacky witch from California, and I recall her warning that the gods of my youth would not be the gods of my manhood. At the time, I thought that only made sense. After all as we evolve, our beliefs, our outlooks and faiths are bound to change. But I don&#8217;t think I really understood what she meant until that morning hearing Elvis singing on the radio. Our gods are emanations of our Selves. Archetypes that embody ideas based on need, on desire, on what constitutes our sense of safety. What we call divinity is purely a radiation from within, a projected image we cast onto external figures be they modern and mythical or traditional and archaic. <a title=\"Ask a psychic today!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.californiapsychics.com\/newcustomer\/v5\/selectapsychic\/?utm_source=blog-articles-cta&amp;utm_medium=blog-articles\" target=\"_blank\">Ask a psychic<\/a> about your situation today!<\/p>\n<p>The Tibetan mystics say that at death a soul is confronted by the gods. And if in that moment\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.californiapsychics.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/10-ways-to-spring-clean-your-soul.html\"><strong>the soul can recognize<\/strong><\/a> that these beings are but aspects of itself, then Nirvana will be attained. But if the soul continues to see the gods as separate, then it falls back into the circle of Karma and rebirth. Any good mystic knows to look beyond definition, but it&#8217;s important to know why those definitions exist. It&#8217;s not a bad thing to venture back to the alters and temples of one&#8217;s youth. And for me that might mean checking out &#8220;Speedway&#8221; late some night on TCM.<\/p>\n<p>Long live the king.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Psychic Liam helps us to understand the divinity within us and how it grows and changes over time. 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