Turning Red can be more than a bit allusive, paradoxical, and contradictory. But it can also be a whole lot of fun if you keep your sense of humor, take long walks, have some evolved sex, and pet cute puppies. Let’s briefly look at how spirituality can twinkle our toes.

• It can be brain shatteringly complex and yet intuitively simple.

• It’s relatively personal and yet absolutely impersonal.

• It will go on and on about the importance of knowing one’s self and then in the very next breath ask you to lose it, that very precious self you have just worked so hard to know.

• It builds the true you up and tears the false you down. Simultaneously. So sometimes you have no clue who you are and who you are not and where the hell you put your keys.

• It will insist that you become your own authority, own your power, in order for you to truly surrender.

• It will ask you to know that you know that you know, and then show you that it’s all just a big mystery, really.

• It will ask you to use common sense by trusting intuition over logic

• It will offer you the most awesome, body- tingling, life- changing experiences, and then ask you to let them go. Constantly.

• It will remind you that you are a special, integral, individual spirit, and then have you realize that essentially you are no different than that drooling golden retriever, your snarkey co-worker, the fathomless ocean.

• It will remind you that healing your self is very important, yet in the grand scheme of things, you and your issues, no matter how dramatic and universe altering they may feel, are nothing but a tiny blip to the universe, a cosmic hiccup.

• It will teach you that the divine is inside you, yet also outside you. That you are the divine, yet the divine is also so much more than you.

• It will teach you the divine dichotomy, which means that the exact opposite of what you experience as truth, is true as well. It seems we live in a universe where truth is relative and its diverse expressions are not just accepted, but encouraged. That’s why all the half- naked wiggly wise ones always chant  “yes, that too, that too”.

• It will remind you over and over again, that there is no right or wrong.

• That there is no such thing as failure.

• That you should always wear red with purple.

• That if you try to “figure it all out,” you will go mad.

• That all is perfect as it is. Really, there is nothing to do, no one to become, nowhere to get to.

• That you are not here to save anyone or anything. Nothing needs saving messiah-head so get over your self. Now then, please know who you really are, act like it, and go be of service already.

• That igniting your divine spark is the most serious process you can engage in, and yet you need to take it, and your self, very lightly.