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Prayer for You
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New Name/New Year
ADD A NEW NAME IN THE NEW YEAR. Why? Just because it's a fun way to expand your self-concept. There's no need to renounce your existing names. Simply integrate your fresh moniker into the ones you already have. Here's another good reason to add a new name in 2002. In some spiritual traditions, devotees must not only perfect their faith and master an understanding of holy texts. They also undertake an arduous process of self-transformation that requires them to retrain their hearts and minds to see things from God's point of view. If they work hard enough and long enough, they ultimately earn the right to undergo a formal initiation. During this rite of passage, each devotee is given a new name to consecrate the expanded worldview he or she has embodied. In my opinion, every one of you reading these words has, simply by virtue of living your daily life during this time of rapid mutation, done work that was previously the sole province of hermetic religious disciples. In other words, you have earned the right to receive a sacred initiation that will usher you into the pantheon of bodhisattvas, avatars, gurus, saints, adepts, and wizards. And you richly deserve to be blessed with a fresh spiritual name or title. Since there is no one more qualified than you to perform your initiation and bestow your new designation, I suggest it's time for a Do-It-Yourself ritual. Only you know how best to do it. Have fun! Below, to whet your imagination, we provide a list of possible names and titles you might want to steal for your own. Be sure to tell us about your fresh, hot name. Buddha Christ Athena Shakti Thunderbird Seriously Delirious Dreamweaver Fierce Epiphany White Knight Wild Face Kiss Genius Love Bomb Neuromancer Soul-Maker Fire-Licker Fizzy Nectar Rowdy Gusto Silky Banger Mango Sucker Wobble Binder Wish Crayon Gut Stormer Goal Thwacker Bobbie or Barbie Nostradamus Phoenix Nectar Pearly Thunder Dragon Gumbo Super Mirror Bliss Mutator Sweaty Meditator Shadow Wrestler Sacred Boinker Righteous Harvester Blooming Ha-Ha Rumbler Chthonic Riddler Painkiller Blue Thunder Earthshaker Slow Wild Heat Thumper Matador Senior Vice President of Strawberry Fields and Hummingbirds Deputy Director of Green Lights and Purple Hearts Associate Assistant of White Wine and Oysters on the Half Shell Supreme Commander of Free Lunches and Poetic Licenses Senior Vice President of Visionary Horse Sense Storm Tamer Fire Keeper Vajra (a Sanskrit word meaning both "thunderbolt" and "diamond") Puzzle-Master Supreme Molten Ruby Mucho Gusto Coco Loco Flux Splashy Hooch Lynx Whirlygig |
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