Wisdom Bowls
by Meredith Young-Sowers
Introduction by Caroline Myss
Book Review by Marie-Claire Wilson
Meredith Young-Sowers is the author
of the best-selling books Agartha: A Journey to the Stars and the
Angelic Messenger Cards. She is also the Director of the Stillpoint
Institute and the Stillpoint School of Advanced Energy Healing.
Meredith Young-Sowers invites us to accompany her on a sacred journey,
which is actually a wake-up call about how to bring about the seven
qualities of wisdom. Meredith Young-Sowers, intuitive healer
and spiritual teacher, says that these seven qualities, which are
like bowls of wisdom within us, are: vision, joy, love, power,
intimacy, abundance, and healing reflections. She uses the
bowl as an image to help us understand how the human body functions
as a sophisticated mechanism on a high level of consciousness. The
bowl as a symbol reminds me of another symbol for bowls, that of
treasure discovered. To take possession of our bowl is to
amass a treasure. To break our bowl is to cause annihilation
in our lives by way of the disrespect for the treasure that the
bowl represents.
In Medieval literature, the bowl always contained the treasure,
as in the Holy Grail, the litanies chanted by the monks, the prayers
said by knights on a sacred quest, etc. There are also other
bowls, such as that of the legendary alchemist of Medieval times,
the precursor of the chemist, who was often a sorcerer type and
usually had some kind of metaphysical role in society, and who
claimed to have the secret of being able to make gold out of lead
in his crucible-bowl. There is the hermit’s bowl, which
was the place where miracles were born. The bowl is also the
maternal breast that nourishes each infant, and it is the uterus,
where each human begins to grow and develops consciousness. This
is where the belief that the bowl contains the secret of metamorphosis,
and it is also the symbol of secret forces.
The different forms that a bowl can take include its representation
of the many essences of life… it is the reservoir
of life, containing the virtues of the soul. The bowl can
also represent the treasures gleaned from living a spiritual life. A
bowl, open on the top-side indicates a receptiveness to heavenly
influences and spiritual virtues. Each bowl contains the sacred
essences of the soul.
The chapter on love is most beneficial. Most of us have not been
taught what love is, let alone how to love and how to get the love
that we want and need. Even worse, it’s very clear that
most of us have WRONG perceptions about love. And as we all
know, the energy of love put into action can produce miracles.
Here, in the author’s own words, is a powerful example: “Who
taught us to love? How did we develop the understanding of
how to grow emotionally and spiritually to sustain loving relationships? We
think that in exchange for love, ‘I’ll do this for
you, or be with you, or give this to you, if you understand my
troubles respond to me in the ways I need, and don’t ask
me to change’...”And here is one of the most powerful
points about love: “Because we’ve focused exclusively
on taking care of someone else’s needs, we have no time,
energy, or motivation for taking care of our own needs! “This
is another way of saying, if we do not love ourselves, we cannot
take care of anyone else’s needs.
The author gives affirmations in each of the chapters, and the one
that I liked the best is what the author calls “My personal
contract to abundance,” which is the affirmation about abundance. The
author says: “Guidance is intended to alert me to an opportunity
for abundance, but it is not a guarantee…I am a life steward
of God’s resources, and I have a right to use them, grow them,
and share them. I am responsible always for the wellbeing of
others, and using the same enduring love and tenacity that I exhibit
for my own family because I am kin with all life. I am responsible
[for myself] for dismantling my [own] hidden agendas of personal
greed, self-interest, judgment, and fear, which block God’s
intention of abundance to me. I can trust God’s word that
what He or She offers is truly being manifested. The speed at
which this manifestation takes place depends on my own actions and
attitudes about own sharing with an open heart. Although I do
not understand how the Creator is working in my life, that lack doesn’t
change the fact that He or She is. I have the self-confidence
necessary to proceed toward abundance knowing that I must use MY
HEART, MY MIND, and all my PREVIOUS EXPERIENCES TO DETERMINE THE
MOST APPROPRIATE WAYS TO USE MY ENERGY, TIME, AND MONEY. When
I enjoy the abundance that is already in my life, I open each day
to a greater flow of abundance in my life.”
So in a fundamental way, the bowl represents the virtues of the
soul, which when practiced, lead us to a better and more successful
way to live our lives. When we learn to master the tools that
these virtues provide us, we are in a constant state of becoming
masters of our own lives in the truest sense. We also begin
to ascend to a higher plane of consciousness and spiritual development. We
are only free to verify, prove, attest to, and see the defects
of our “armor,” the imperfections that we all
have spiritually, and that exist in all of nature, that which brings
us life, nature that we have denied. But it is through this
verification process that we are given the gifts of virtue for
our soul, which in turn allows us to take advantage of the desire
for positive change and then to effect positive change in our lives.
This is a kind of energy that we can all attain and use to our
advantage. And in developing the virtues, which are the tools
to access this positive energy, we can escape the inertia of life
and transform our lives in positive change.
Meredith Young-Sowers has quite a talent for explaining and demonstrating
these concepts, and part of her talent undoubtedly comes from her
abilities as an intuitive healer. Her understanding of such
a fundamental and essential key to living a positive life by being
in touch with our own soul motivates her to encourage all of her
readers to seek the light on their personal path to spiritual enlightenment. The
light comes from within us, and we can access it and shine it out
to see our way better. In considering each virtue, and the
discipline to apply to develop each virtue, we evolve a little
more spiritually. The more we shine our positive lights, the
more we attract to us more positive light that gives us greater
clarity. Every effort, no matter how small, helps to fill
our bowls.
Our thoughts are forces that are an integral part of the most important
and universal law of attraction. By thinking our positive
thoughts, the energy goes out from us, and can attract other similar
positive energies. The bowls are like veritable currents
of energy that then become conductors, which sustain the spiritual
forces. These forces can work across great distances! When
we follow our feelings, we are submitting to the mental influences
that act on our lives and also have an effect on our physical bodies.
Meredith Young-Sowers uses luminous stories from her own life and
from the lives of her students and her many clients. The experiences
show us how much influence we have over our own lives and the things
that happen to us, as well as on the meaning and the character
of these events. Our true wealth is in our soul, and no one and
nothing can take that away from us or steal it. One of the superb
examples that Meredith Young-Sowers gives us in the book is a sure
methods of succeeding in life and attaining real happiness for
ourselves and for those we love. This happens in part by growing
in our own self-worth and by developing these virtues so that we
can appreciate our own inner wealth.
We could think of these creations that we put in our bowls as the
archetypes of forms, an outline of invisible forces. All of the
substantial elements of the Universe come together into these outlines
of forces, and they group themselves in their proper hierarchies,
and take on the real forms from which they have been imagined. The
greater the positive thoughts, the higher the synthesis and the
more immense the spiritual development becomes. The brilliant
faculties of the mind and the spirit are revealed by the metaphysical
experiences and pure thought. To think and to pray from our hearts
and to ascend in our spiritual development enriches our souls. This
overflows from us, and spills into and fills up our wisdom bowls. It
increases our understanding of the world and the cosmos. This understanding
of the infinite is one of the most enjoyable outcomes of the methods
you will discover in this book. One of the essential keys
to life is self-knowledge. To do this, we must put aside our ego
and delve fearlessly into ourselves. There is no better companion
than the methods that you’ll discover in this book. You
can be both the observer and the actor, and the captain of the
ship that is your life. I highly recommend this book to all those
who are seeking enlightening reading and some practical keys about
self-discovery.
Marie-Claire
Wilson, author of the Spiritual Tarot: The Keys to the Divine Temple,
is a bilingual writer and poet. She has been a practicing medium
for 28 years using direct clairvoyance, the Tarot, numerology and
palmistry. For an appointment face-to-face or phone readings call:
404.847.7330
www.Marie-Claire.tv
Marie-Claire
Wilson, author of the Spiritual Tarot: The Keys to the Divine Temple,
is a bilingual writer and poet. She has been a practicing medium
for 28 years using direct clairvoyance, the Tarot, numerology and
palmistry. For an appointment face-to-face or phone readings call:
404.847.7330 
