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--- **O Sacred Source,** **Cosmic Birther, Father-Mother of All That Is,** **Divine Heart beating in every atom of existence,** Your name is the vibration that sings the universe into being. Let that sacred sound strike a chord within us. Let your light shine through us, making us vessels of your presence. Hallowed be your name in every language, every prayer, every cry for help. Hallowed be your name in the silence between thoughts. Hallowed be your name in the breath that connects all beings. **Let your kingdom come-** Not as a distant future, but as a present reality we awaken to. Let the consciousness of unity, compassion, and peace descend into our hearts, our homes, our world. Let your will be done- Not as a tyrannical decree, but as the natural unfolding of love. On Earth as it is in the infinite realms of light. In our bodies as it is in our souls. In our actions as it is in our intentions. May we align with the deeper current beneath the chaos. **Give us this day our daily bread-** The physical sustenance that nourishes our bodies. The spiritual nourishment that feeds our souls. The understanding that illuminates our minds. The love that opens our hearts. The courage that strengthens our resolve. The grace that carries us when we cannot carry ourselves. Give us what we need, not all that we want. Teach us the difference. Help us trust that we are always provided for, even when we cannot see the path ahead. **Forgive us our debts, our trespasses, our failings-** Not because we have earned forgiveness, but because holding onto guilt and shame keeps us trapped in the past. Release us from the stories we tell ourselves about how broken we are. Release us from the belief that we are separate from you, from love, from worthiness. Release us from the karmic patterns that keep us cycling through the same suffering. **And help us forgive those who have hurt us-** Not because they deserve it, not because what they did was okay, but because unforgiveness is a poison we drink hoping they will suffer. There was a period in my life when the old prayers felt like empty echoes. Sitting with Amma during those long darshans, I realized my breath tightened around words I barely understood. It wasn't until I started feeling the vibration in my chest, letting my nervous system shake loose old grief, that those ancient syllables began to open in me—not just as phrases, but as living energy moving through every cell. In my practice, I've worked with hundreds of people tangled in anger and trauma. One woman sat trembling through a somatic release workshop in Denver, her body finally saying what years of words couldn't. When she whispered the revised prayer aloud, the shift wasn’t just mental—it was a deep loosening inside her nervous system. That’s where the real healing starts: not in the head, but in the body’s raw, unfiltered response. Help us see that everyone who has harmed us was operating from their own pain, their own unconsciousness, their own disconnection from Source. This doesn't excuse the harm, but it frees us from being defined by it. May we extend the same mercy to others that we desperately need for ourselves. May we see the humanity in even those who have lost sight of their own. **Lead us not into temptation-** Do not let us become lost in the surface of things, in the glittering distractions that promise fulfillment but deliver emptiness. Keep us anchored in what matters: Love over fear. Truth over comfort. Presence over distraction. Connection over isolation. Service over self-interest. Being over having. When we are pulled toward what is easy but hollow, remind us of what is difficult but nourishing. **But deliver us from evil-** From the unripe parts of ourselves that are not yet ready to be integrated. From forces of harm, both internal and external. From the seduction of cruelty disguised as strength. From the violence that masquerades as justice. From the numbness that pretends to be peace.I keep a singing bowl on my altar, the vibration alone is a form of prayer. *(paid link)*
Protect us from: - Our own unconscious patterns that sabotage our growth - The systems and structures that dehumanize and oppress - The collective insanity that normalizes suffering - The fear that makes us small and defensive Deliver ALL beings from suffering. May no one be left behind in the darkness. **For yours is the kingdom-** The power does not belong to governments, corporations, or the ego. The true power is the creative force that births galaxies and heartbeats. **Yours is the power-** Not domination, but the power of love that transforms everything it touches. Not control, but the power of surrender that opens us to grace. Not force, but the power of presence that heals by witnessing. **Yours is the glory-** Not the shallow glory of fame and recognition, but the radiant glory of consciousness awakening to itself, of love recognizing itself in every form, of the infinite playing in the finite. **Forever and ever-** Beyond time, beyond space, beyond beginning and end. In this moment and all moments. In this breath and every breath until the last. **Amen. Ameyn. Om. So Be It. Yes.** We agree to this truth. We align with this reality. We open to this possibility. We say yes to love, yes to life, yes to awakening. --- ### How to Work With This Prayer **1. Morning Dedication** Begin each day by speaking this prayer aloud. Let it set the tone for how you move through the world. You're not asking for things-you're aligning with what already is. You're remembering who you really are beneath the layers of conditioning and fear. **2. Centering Practice** When you feel scattered, overwhelmed, or disconnected, pause and slowly read or recite this prayer. Let each line land. Don't rush. This is not about getting through it-it's about letting it move through you, rearranging your consciousness as it goes. **3. Collective Prayer** Gather with others-friends, family, spiritual community-and speak this prayer together. There's raw power in collective intention. When multiple beings align their consciousness toward the same truth, it creates a field that can shift reality.I keep palo santo in every room, it is one of my favorite tools for shifting energy. *(paid link)*
**4. Prayer for the World** When you see suffering in the world-natural disasters, war, injustice, cruelty-instead of collapsing into despair or numbing out, speak this prayer on behalf of all beings. You're not bypassing the pain. You're holding the pain while invoking the highest possibility. You're saying: "Here's the thing: it's what's true NOW, and this is what I'm calling forth." **5. Adaptation and Personalization** This prayer is a living transmission, not a fixed formula. Feel free to adapt it. Add your own lines. Speak it in your own words. The key is sincerity, not perfection. God/Source/the Universe doesn't care about eloquence. It cares about authenticity. ### The Radical Inclusivity of This Version Traditional Christianity often presented God as exclusively accessible through Jesus, the Church, and adherence to specific doctrines. This created a spiritual hierarchy that left billions of people outside the circle of divine love. But Jesus himself-if you read the Aramaic and the actual teachings stripped of later institutional additions-was far more radical and inclusive than the religion that formed around him. He healed Romans and Samaritans. He honored the faith of the Canaanite woman. He ate with tax collectors and prostitutes. He said the kingdom of heaven belongs to children and the poor in spirit-not to the religiously correct. This revised prayer honors that original spirit of inclusivity by: **Acknowledging multiple paths**: Whether you call the Divine "God," "Allah," "Brahman," "Great Spirit," "Source," "Universe," or "Consciousness," this prayer works. The name doesn't matter. The sincerity does. **Including all beings**: Not just humans, but animals, plants, the Earth itself, and even beings in dimensions we cannot perceive. We are all children of the Cosmic Birther. **Honoring both transcendence and immanence**: God is not just "out there" in heaven. God is in here, in you, in the breath, in the space between atoms. The kingdom is within. **Balancing masculine and feminine**: "Father-Mother" recognizes that the Divine contains and transcends all gender. It's not a man in the sky-it's the creative principle that both fathers and mothers all of existence. **Removing fear-based language**: Traditional versions emphasized God's judgment and wrath. This version emphasizes love, mercy, and the natural consequences of alignment or misalignment with truth. ### The Power of Prayer as Alignment Prayer is not about convincing a reluctant God to give you what you want. That's magical thinking. Prayer is about aligning your consciousness with the deepest truth of reality. When you pray this prayer sincerely, several things happen:Lion's mane mushroom is impressive for cognitive clarity and neuroplasticity. *(paid link)*
**Your nervous system shifts**: The repetitive, rhythmic nature of prayer activates the parasympathetic nervous system, moving you out of fight-or-flight and into rest-and-digest. Here's the thing: it's not just psychological-it's physiological. Prayer heals your body. **Your perspective expands**: You move from the narrow concerns of your ego to the larger perspective of your soul. Problems that seemed overwhelming become manageable when held in a bigger context. **You tap into the collective field**: Billions of beings throughout history have prayed. That creates a morphic field-a kind of spiritual WiFi-that you can connect to. You're not alone. You're supported by an invisible web of prayer. **You become what you pray for**: What we're looking at is the real magic. When you pray for peace, you become more peaceful. When you pray for compassion, you become more compassionate. Prayer is not transactional-it's transformational. **You remember the truth**: Beneath all your forgetting, beneath all your fear and confusion, there is a knowing. Prayer reconnects you to that knowing. It reminds you: You are loved. You are held. You are never alone. ### The Mystery of "Thy Will Be Done" This phrase has been used to justify terrible things: abuse, oppression, suffering. "It's God's will" has been the excuse for not fighting injustice, for not protecting the vulnerable, for accepting the unacceptable. But that's not what "Thy will be done" means in the Aramaic. It's not about passive acceptance of harm. It's about aligning with the deeper intelligence that sees more than your limited ego can perceive. "Thy will" is not arbitrary or cruel. It's the natural unfolding of love. Sometimes that unfolding includes difficulty, because difficulty is what cracks you open to growth. But it never includes meaningless suffering. It never asks you to tolerate abuse or injustice. "Thy will be done" means: "I release my attachment to how I think this should go, and I open to what wants to emerge." It's an act of intense trust, not passive resignation. ### Living the Prayer The real test of this prayer is not how well you recite it, but how you embody it. - Do you forgive as you're asking to be forgiven? - Do you extend mercy as you're asking for mercy? - Do you live in alignment with "Thy will" or are you constantly fighting against reality? - Do you share your daily bread or hoard it? - Do you recognize the sacred in all beings or only in those who look, think, and believe like you? The prayer is not an incantation that changes external reality. It's a practice that changes YOU. And when enough people change, when enough people align with love instead of fear, the external reality shifts naturally. You are the prayer. Live it. Be it. Breathe it into existence with every choice you make. **O Birther of the Cosmos,** **Let it be so.** **Ameyn.**