The Invisible Garment
An Interview with Connie Kaplan
by Connie Hill

“We each wear an unseen garment, woven in divine threads, which holds us, shrouds us, veils us, protects us and simultaneously connects us to every other being in the universe.” The Invisible Garment

Connie Kaplan is the author of three books, Dreams Are Letters From the Soul, A Woman's Book of Dreams, which was published by Beyond Words in Hillsboro and her newest, The Invisible Garment, 30 Spiritual Principles that Weave the Fabric of Human Life, which is due out in July.

ch: Connie, how did you become an author?

CK: I was working in the television industry. I got a bizarre disease which made me sleep 15-18 hours a day for two years. During that time I encountered a number of teachers in my dreams who taught me the cosmology of dreaming. I started quietly teaching that radical information. Eventually a literary agent joined my dream circle and offered to help me publish my dream handbook. From that time on, the work has continued to get bigger. This is my third book, and a fourth is in the works.

ch: After reading the galley of your book I thought maybe this information came at your father's death.

CK: My father's death came 6 or 7 years after my illness. But it seems it was part of the process. When the universe picks you it uses any authentic, real opening to flood in new information. Most of us are just so busy with our doingness that it takes something really profound for us to dissolve into our beingness. It's only when we are in beingness that we can open to cosmic truth.

The difference in how we operate when we are do-ers and be-ers is the whole energy behind this book, The Invisible Garment. We have created a society that is so disconnected from spirit that we have convinced ourselves that what we do is who we are. And if we don't do anything that leaves us pretty empty in this external way we measure ourselves. The material for this book basically said if your doingness doesn't arise out of your beingness then it's useless. It's something that you are using to fill up time and it has nothing to do with who you are.

This is very exciting information. You are a biological being and have a genetic history, DNA, a fingerprint and a face like nobody else's. You also have a unique spiritual DNA. No matter what you do, the spiritual fabric never changes. It's the supporting and often the motivating piece in our lives. You are a certain configuration of spiritual principles and that configuration never fails you. The whole spiritual world is made up of thirty principles. Each of us contracts with eight to 12 of the principles. In eight years of giving readings using this information I've seen people completely rewrite their history. They look back at what they used to call abuse and begin to see it as a fast track to actualization.

ch: One of my principles is regeneration.

CK: With regeneration you must have a rich relationship with plants. Either through diet or herbs or healing, cooking or gardening. There is something really empowering between you and plants.

ch: Most of my garden is different kinds of lavender plants. If I could, I'd have my entire yard in herbs.

CK: And in the world of aromatherapy there is nothing like lavender. It is the balancer. It affects every aspect of your being. Have you ever read the Peralandra or Findhorn materials. You are one of them.

ch: I was thinking about the midheaven or the tenth house. In Caroline Myss's work she says the tenth house represents our highest self.

CK: I'm not really an astrologer, but that takes us right back to beingness and doingness. Your ultimate beingness is reflected in the principle on your midheaven which is the way you access the soul. Your doingness or tenth house, has to be a direct reflection of your beingness or midheaven. If it's not, you are wasting time.

My midheaven is the principle of silence. I spent 35 years as a doer, finding my path, doing my thing. I loved television production and the money it provided. I was a happy doer. Then I was struck silent. When I went into silence, my real doingness showed up and said "do me. "

ch: So you had no background in astrology?

CK: No, I didn't. I know the symbols, but hadn't studied it. The angels told me that the information came through me primarily because of my ignorance. I didn't know astrology. This information either fits into your field or challenges your field.

This information also says, "no, no, no" to original sin. It says that everyone is born blessed. Sin is part of the human drama, not the cosmic drama. All of the things that you may interpret as broken probably are part of the blessing. And in terms of astrology it says there is a spiritual configuration that must be taken into consideration when you are looking at the cosmic blueprint of a person. People who are self actualized, love this work. Those who aren't are really threatened by it. I get letters all the time from people who say they didn't understand the reading at first, but totally get it now.

ch: You talk about soul siblings in your book. Can you tell me about them?

CK: The human soul is one living organism. It manifests in lots of different ways beyond what any of us can imagine. When something is happening on planet earth and there is a call for an infusion of one or several principles, an aspect of the soul takes an incarnation to deliver it's gift to the world. In other words when we come in it's not to learn lessons, it's to deliver a gift.

We come down in small groups of souls and at least in Western society we don't know the others in the group. If we were to come in and know each other, we'd never deliver the gift. One way we recognize our soul siblings is they have the same midheaven principle and were born within a few years of us. And many times we don't particularly like them.

ch: Anything else you want to say about your workshop or your book.

CK: I feel the reason we are in the present global mess is because we are not operating from beingness into doingness. In our capitalist world where we think the bottom line is the most important thing, we have lost track of what the real bottom line is. Until we begin to operate from our basic fabric, out into the world, we are going to continue to create a world that is mad. This information says, first, everyone has a unique spiritual DNA, and second, if you live your life in absolute alignment with it everything you do will benefit everyone else.

And what I'm going to do at New Renaissance is have people look at their astrological charts and show people how to work with this information and how we interface with each other from a spiritual perspective, so that we begin to understand that every conversation is actually a dialogue between your fabric and mine, your principles and mine.

ch: Thank you, Connie.

Interviewed by Connie Hill, who is in charge of events and the website at New Renaissance Bookshop.She is a local astrologer. She can be reached at 503-291-8229, ext. 2.