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The CUSP Way: A New Way to Walk An Old Path
YOU can create long term, positive change in your life and manifest the life you want to live. There is no need to accept excuses or limitations anymore if you are willing to apply yourself to the process. For more than 16 years, Eric and Katrina Rasbold have used the CUSP spiritual path, which they personally constructed, to create positive, long term life changes and manifest their personal goals. Now, they share with you the principles of CUSP and teach you step by step how to employ this magical and effective system, regardless of your own personal religion or spiritual path.
You will learn how to appropriately and pro-actively work with the energies of the eight traditional holidays of the ancient agricultural cycle to "harvest" a new life each year. This book will teach you to tune into the natural cycles that have been woven into the fabric of our DNA over literally thousands of years of human life. The flow of Universal energy is already at work in your life and this book will show you how to tune into its guidance and work with your own Greatest Good and life's mission to create the life of your dreams.
Planting in the Spring, laboring in the Summer, harvesting in the Fall, and resting through the Winter have been the pulse of human life since the nomads settled into villages. Now, you can use that same rhythm that still vibrates through our collective consciousness, to harvest your own goals, effectively becoming a "spiritual farmer."
Most adults learn to program themselves out of expectations of living a magical and fulfilling life. Take a moment and remove the protective walls you built up around your hopes and dreams. Consider how you want your life to be different in a year's time or two years' time or five years' time. Do you want to be more in touch with your own spirituality? Do you want a new vocation, new home, or higher level of prosperity? Do you want to attract healthy interpersonal relationships? Have you "settled" too much and become comfortable with living a mediocre life because you don't know where to start in the process of manifesting change?
If you are like the majority of people in our society, you have trained yourself to not even want anymore because you resist engaging a cycle of disappointment, resentment, and frustration. The key is in working cooperatively with Divine Energy and opening yourself up to the process of pro-active manifestation. What you want, wants YOU. You just have to learn how to get all of your "horses" - meaning the different energies at work in your life - pulling in the same and appropriate direction. Once you effectively tune into the natural energies at work in your life and step into the flow, you will begin to see changes almost immediately. All you have to do is step into the zone!
What this process needs in order to work is a willing spirit and an open mind. If you are not happy with your life, if you do not greet every day excited for the blessings and miracles it will bring, if you feel oppressed and defeated as though you will never life a wonderful and sacred life, this book is for you. Let go of the negative assignments you have placed on your life such as "God must hate me" or "I always fail - why should I even try?" or "I will never be happy" and step into your own empowerment. This book will tell you how to take charge of your own future and begin working NOW to create the life you want to live.
You will learn how to appropriately and pro-actively work with the energies of the eight traditional holidays of the ancient agricultural cycle to "harvest" a new life each year. This book will teach you to tune into the natural cycles that have been woven into the fabric of our DNA over literally thousands of years of human life. The flow of Universal energy is already at work in your life and this book will show you how to tune into its guidance and work with your own Greatest Good and life's mission to create the life of your dreams.
Planting in the Spring, laboring in the Summer, harvesting in the Fall, and resting through the Winter have been the pulse of human life since the nomads settled into villages. Now, you can use that same rhythm that still vibrates through our collective consciousness, to harvest your own goals, effectively becoming a "spiritual farmer."
Most adults learn to program themselves out of expectations of living a magical and fulfilling life. Take a moment and remove the protective walls you built up around your hopes and dreams. Consider how you want your life to be different in a year's time or two years' time or five years' time. Do you want to be more in touch with your own spirituality? Do you want a new vocation, new home, or higher level of prosperity? Do you want to attract healthy interpersonal relationships? Have you "settled" too much and become comfortable with living a mediocre life because you don't know where to start in the process of manifesting change?
If you are like the majority of people in our society, you have trained yourself to not even want anymore because you resist engaging a cycle of disappointment, resentment, and frustration. The key is in working cooperatively with Divine Energy and opening yourself up to the process of pro-active manifestation. What you want, wants YOU. You just have to learn how to get all of your "horses" - meaning the different energies at work in your life - pulling in the same and appropriate direction. Once you effectively tune into the natural energies at work in your life and step into the flow, you will begin to see changes almost immediately. All you have to do is step into the zone!
What this process needs in order to work is a willing spirit and an open mind. If you are not happy with your life, if you do not greet every day excited for the blessings and miracles it will bring, if you feel oppressed and defeated as though you will never life a wonderful and sacred life, this book is for you. Let go of the negative assignments you have placed on your life such as "God must hate me" or "I always fail - why should I even try?" or "I will never be happy" and step into your own empowerment. This book will tell you how to take charge of your own future and begin working NOW to create the life you want to live.
232 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 2013
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About the author
Eric Rasbold
14 books8 followersA lifelong student of philosophy, spiritualism and religious theology now introduces the on-line world to the practice of CUSP. For the last 16 years, Eric Rasbold and his wife Katrina have created, developed, lived and now written of the philosophy and practice of the spiritual path known as Climbing Up The Spiral Pathway that has been enjoyed and celebrated by thousands wishing to take an active role in changing the course of their lives and improving their connection with the Divine. In addition to the main practice, he and his wife have also developed a complete series that teaches the ways and means of effective union of the body, mind and spirit through the responsible and ethical use of Energy Magic and Bio Universal energies.
Eric lives in the forested Eden of the High Sierras of Northern California near Tahoe with his wife and children. He enjoys all outdoor activities that will allow communion with nature, especially in places that are not often frequented by people.
Eric lives in the forested Eden of the High Sierras of Northern California near Tahoe with his wife and children. He enjoys all outdoor activities that will allow communion with nature, especially in places that are not often frequented by people.
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August 20, 2013
CUSP has been a favorite topic of mine to converse about for many years now, and Eric Rasbold has put it into a book. CUSP is a way of working within your chosen spiritual path, attuning yourself to become akin to (as Eric Rasbold coins it) "Spiritual Farmers". I have seen this method of spiritual work be fruitful time and time again. Throw away any misconceptions you may have, especially if you may have heard it's one of those "pagan/wiccan/witchy" books. It is so much more than that. You can follow the CUSP path whether you are a Christian, Jewish, Catholic, Mormon, Pagan, Druid, whatever floats your boat. It goes beyond those labels and is oh so much more. I implore you to open your mind and read, what has been a journey for me, and maybe it will be for you too.
December 27, 2022
I've never experienced a book that was quite so profound as this. Everything in CUSP aligns so perfectly with my personal philosophy and allows folks of any religion to come together and work towards being their best self. This is one that cannot be read only once, but rather is a book to be referenced at all points in the year as you walk along the spiral path.
July 5, 2014
CUSP: A New Way to Walk An Old Path (Kindle Edition)
by Eric and Katrina Rasbold
In spite of the Cymric origin of my last name my spiritual path can be best described as Irish Polytheist. I am a Druid so magic, the beauty of the nature and the cycles of harvest have been an important part of my life for some time. I establish this right away for reasons that will become obvious.
It has often been said that if you ask the same question of five Druids you'll get six different answers. The concept of "Awen", however, remains fairly universal. What is Awen? I actually heard it described by a Star Wars fan as "The Force". According to John Michael Greer, in The Druidry Handbook, "In its most basic sense, it means spirit, inspiration and illumination. Awen is the inner light that gives the mind the ability to reach beyond itself." According to Iolo Morganwg it represents the first energy, the God-name, which called the world into existence.
CUSP is an acronym for "Climbing Up the Spiritual Pathway". It is an easy to read guide for anyone who wishes to improve their spiritual life.
What the Rasbolds speak of the Universal Energy is essentially the "Awen" that has been a part of my Druid path for years. ". . .we have seen the ample benefits of patterning our lives around the cycles that our ancestors before us wove into the fabric of time. To embrace these integral patterns within us is to immerse ourselves into the symphony of nature that is ongoing and welcoming. After a short time of attuning ourselves to these cycles, we begin to feel a greater connection with the natural flow and process to life." (CUSP) This could, quite nearly, be accepted as an axiom for most modern druids.
Eric and Katrina Rasbold have created a spiritual path, a process, that allows one to naturally attune to the guidance of The Universal Energies (Awen) of whatever deity or deities are part of your spiritual path with an ultimate goal of a more fulfilling spiritual life. It is truly a universal concept that will enhance almost any spiritual path.
I highly recommend CUSP: A New Way to Walk An Old Path. It is a book that I intend to use and refer to often.
by Eric and Katrina Rasbold
In spite of the Cymric origin of my last name my spiritual path can be best described as Irish Polytheist. I am a Druid so magic, the beauty of the nature and the cycles of harvest have been an important part of my life for some time. I establish this right away for reasons that will become obvious.
It has often been said that if you ask the same question of five Druids you'll get six different answers. The concept of "Awen", however, remains fairly universal. What is Awen? I actually heard it described by a Star Wars fan as "The Force". According to John Michael Greer, in The Druidry Handbook, "In its most basic sense, it means spirit, inspiration and illumination. Awen is the inner light that gives the mind the ability to reach beyond itself." According to Iolo Morganwg it represents the first energy, the God-name, which called the world into existence.
CUSP is an acronym for "Climbing Up the Spiritual Pathway". It is an easy to read guide for anyone who wishes to improve their spiritual life.
What the Rasbolds speak of the Universal Energy is essentially the "Awen" that has been a part of my Druid path for years. ". . .we have seen the ample benefits of patterning our lives around the cycles that our ancestors before us wove into the fabric of time. To embrace these integral patterns within us is to immerse ourselves into the symphony of nature that is ongoing and welcoming. After a short time of attuning ourselves to these cycles, we begin to feel a greater connection with the natural flow and process to life." (CUSP) This could, quite nearly, be accepted as an axiom for most modern druids.
Eric and Katrina Rasbold have created a spiritual path, a process, that allows one to naturally attune to the guidance of The Universal Energies (Awen) of whatever deity or deities are part of your spiritual path with an ultimate goal of a more fulfilling spiritual life. It is truly a universal concept that will enhance almost any spiritual path.
I highly recommend CUSP: A New Way to Walk An Old Path. It is a book that I intend to use and refer to often.
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