Your Humble Servant

Tonight I signed a covennant. I am bound to give you whatsoever you might ask of me, with a few conditions.

1. You actually ASK me for something.
2. You consider it a NEED as opposed to a WANT. (You be the judge, not me).
3. It is within my ability to say yes.
4. It creates no harm. Especially no harm for myself, my family, or our home.

I am bound to do this for free. Yes, free. I will not count on any of these services for direct income. I'm already collaborating with a small group of trusted friends to create a non-profit organization so that if money shows up it will automatically be directed into something charitable. And besides, at the moment I am blessed with a great job and all of my family's needs are met.

I offer all sorts of things, many of which I have specialized training and experience, and some of which, quite frankly, I allow to flow through me on the spot and couldn't really claim to be the source of, and so trying to claim expertise would be akward at best. Here's a stream of consciousness list of a bunch of random stuff one might ask for, but feel free to make up your own request based on your NEED.

• Ritual/ceremony design
• Channeling
• Facilitating dialogue between you and your spirit guides/angels/deceased loved ones, etc.
• Facilitating dialogue (or even mediating) between and among friends, lovers, circles, groups, etc.
• A wide array of healing, including energy/faith healing
• Transition planning (birth, death, marriage, divorce, etc.)
• Helping you die
• Helping you recover
• Life coaching and guidance
• Transformative Hololeaps
• Soul Retrieval
• Past Life Regressions
• Shamanic Journey Work
• Magical/transformative collaborative performance art
• Process design
• Goal planning
• Manifestation: training, planning, and support while you're doing it over time
• Complexity mapping
• Biofeedback sessions

Also, I'm not interested in debating with you or convincing you of anything. I'm not selling anything and so I don't feel compelled to present you with a long list of credentials in this moment. I'm always willing to share this kind of information, but only in the spirit of collaborative exploration.

And here are some very important caveats:

You hold power over your self and the reality you create. I am a humble servant to love and light. Never, under any circumstances, surrender your power to me or anyone affiliated with this work. You are responsible and accountable for your intentions and requests. I am not the source of the love and light, I am merely a chalice on the shelf and you may reach for me any time you feel thirsty for that which might pour in to me - should the Gods wish it.

Your humble servant,

Mama Tree

Hemispheric Synchronization

I'm traveling on business and the facilitators of our week long meeting offered participants the chance to try something called hemispheric synchronization. I'd heard of it and jumped right on the chance. I did it last night and tonight. I'd like to briefly share some of what I got out of that.

First, the idea is that one ear is hearing a frequency of 440 megaherz and the other is 444. Because they are so close your brain works hard to try and reconcile the ever so slight discrepancy, but rather than changing the prerecorded frequency, what changes is your own brain wave frequency. (As your left and right brain sync up together, hence the name). This facilitates a really quick entrance into the gamma wave state (same state you're in while actively dreaming every night). Think on-demand lucid dreaming.

The facilitator has 1000 different programs, each designed to take you all over the collective unconscious, or universe, or God, or call it what you will.

The first night she chose for me a past life regression. Here are the highlights of what I learned. In the year 1124 I was initiated into the position of shaman in the northern part of South America. To the east was the Amazon and to the west, the Andes. I re-lived his initiation, which included preparing and consuming a bitter yellow mixture -- some type of power plant(s). When he entered the spirit world he saw me. I was curious about the year and I asked him if the White Devils had shown up yet. He didn't understand and so I showed him a picture of what a conquistador style Euro invasion probably looked like. This had definitely not happened yet, though I believe he went on to make some prophecies for his people based on having met me. He died in a conflict involving natives. He was stabbed in the gut with a spear type of thingy. I was informed that the significance which would be useful to me to understand in the present is that it was the first life time in which I had been initiated into the Earth Based Ancient Mysteries. Which led me to reconsider a great number of other things... but that's another set of stories for another time.

Guru, Teacher, or Servant?

In this time of unprecedented change there are countless beings offering up guidance and support. Every person frames their particular offerings differently. There are thousands upon thousands of gurus, teachers, priests, reverends, swamis, yoginis, authors, etc. I like to think that the reason for this flourishing path is that there is more love and light flooding the planet now than in a long time. As each of us learns and grows we reach that precious moment when our focus turns from personal growth and healing to the growth and healing of those around us.

In my book, The Transpiral Model for Social Change, I describe the relationship between personal transformation and social transformation. In brief, you can't change yourself without affecting change in your family, community, and society. And any changes occurring in your family, community, and society also affect change on you personally. We call that "circular causality".

Only you can judge whether or not someone is qualified to teach or guide you through some aspect of your growth and healing. Sai Maa Devi Lakshmi says that the grace of a guru can take you deeper. She explains that a guru holds the frequency of the 5th dimension and that by being in the guru's presence, the student can experience higher frequencies of being and knowing. As a student, only you can determine whether or not the guru produces this kind of tranformative effect on your awareness, both in the moment and over time.

Teachers generally have a set curriculum including models, tools, and practices which are designed for personal growth and healing. Teaching arrangements span from short term to long term and can be one on one or in group settings. Teachers don't appear to promise as much as a guru, but in some cases perhaps they deliver more. Again, only you can judge whether or not engaging with some teacher is going to deepen your natural ability for self healing and growth.

I've long considered these questions for myself. In some paths the Master is the only access point a student has with the divine. In other paths the student learns to speak with the divine for him/her self. Personally I've resonnated with the latter. Over the course of my path I've created relationships with guides and teachers who are on the other side. I call them by the name "The Council of Light". To me, they inlcude beings like the Archangels, Gaia, Jesus, Pan, and the Nature Spirits. The more I surrender my limited self view in order to share understanding with the Council, the more guidance I recieve. My relationship is collaborative and dialogic. I ever maintain free-will. I ask the Council for advice and guidance and then I choose whether to heed the advice or make a new choice.

It has been a very rich relationship over the past 3-4 years which has resulted in very deep healing for myself. While there will always be room to improve myself, of late I'm called to offer support for others who long for self-healing. In my professional career I'm a trainer, facilitator, and organizer of people into groups. When my focus turned from self to others I offered up all my skills and compassion to the Council of Light. The word I use to describe myself is not teacher or guru, or any of the afore mentioned titles. I am a SERVANT. I serve the Council of Light. I serve the emergence of love and light. And I serve anyone who is inviting love and light to emerge in their own lives. In an upcoming post I'll explain the kinds of services I've been called to offer. I'll also elaborate on how I've been guided to release the need to recieve monetary compensation for those services.

Humbly serving Love and Light, ~Tree

The Magic and Mystery of Dialogue

For as long as there have been people, there have been talking circles. From ancient indigenous tribes, to the Quakers, to corporate management teams... speaking one at a time inside a circle has always been a very powerful act of co-creation.

In his book Theory U, Otto Scharmer interviewed a group of women who called themselves The Circle of Seven. They reported having felt like by engaging in deep dialogue over time they had created a deeply nurturing and collaborative space which took on so much life and texture that they began to refer to it as the Circle Being.

Physicist David Bohm considered the practice of participating in a dialogue circle to be a co-creative emergence of innovation and novelty. He ran a number of experimental dialogue circles. Read more at wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohm_Dialogue

A number of sacred geometry texts describe the act of being together in circle as a deeply creative process. Imagine that the circle represents a sacred yoni, a portal to/from another realm. As participants pass ideas, in the form of energy, around the circle; there is a build up of energy. If individuals are willing to dive deep

• into the present moment
• into themselves and their assumptions

then something transformative may emerge through them into the circle.

The way I've experienced this is that the ideas build upon each other until something shifts and all the ideas pouring out are brand new ones, which we're thinking up together, right in the moment. Organizational experts call this "generative dialogue" because the conversation is generating something new.

But there's more than just coming up with new ideas. While I'm deeply engaged in dialogue I feel more whole and healthy than at other times. By being in that particular resonnant field with a group of people I feel instantly healed and transformed. I always gain some insight about myself about a small refinement or tune-up which I could make that would allow me to feel this quality of presence more often.

Gaia Rising, we don't have to know what we're going to talk about until the moment it is happening. Tonight on the conference call, we'll create a space in honor of personal and planetary healing and transformation. We will invite our higher selves to dance together within the virtual circle. And we will leave the circle more healthy and whole than when we arrived.

For even when we walk alone, we are ALL ONE in Gaia.

Loosing My Religion

I lost my religion and my virginity in 1991 when I was 16. My parents were the sort of Christians who preferred camping and fishing to church. But I was very curious, so when I was 8 I began attending Emmanual Baptist Church in Blackwell, Oklahoma. I was a very devoted Christian with a deep sense of mission and purpose. When I turned 16 and chose to engage in an intimate relationship it sparked for me a spiritual crisis. Pre-marital sex was definitely a sin. It was the year that the band R.E.M. released the song Losing My Religion. The song moved me deeply. I performed an interpretive dance to the song at the state winterguard contest with a black flag and a black flowing dress.

In 1992 I was picked to join People to People Youth Science Exchange. We were to go to a major world environmental summit in Brazil. I diligently raised money so that I could go and experience the Amazon Rain Forest. Near the time to take the trip I was notified by the organization that it was too dangerous for a group of American teens to go to Brazil due to an increase of violent attacks against Americans in the region at that time. I was heartbroken, even though there was still promise of a rain forest experience as they replaced the plan with three weeks in Hawaii.

Upon arriving in Hawaii I was 17 years old and engaged to the young man with whom I'd been having that intimate relationship of which I spoke. I was beautiful and bright and very extroverted. There were three adult chaperones and approximately 20 young people from the US and Puerto Rico. Within a matter of a few days I found myself very attracted to a young man, but perhaps more importantly, very attracted to all the possibilities represented by a group of intelligent young people. Pretty soon I was deeply conflicted about the path I'd chosen. If I married the boy in my small home town I was certain that my path through life would be somehow limited and diminushed in comparison to the sense of expansive possibilities that these other kids were representing.

It was the only time in my life that I ever considered suicide. I would rather have died than to break his dear heart. Luckily I was clever enough to know that the bottle of ibuprophen in my suitcase would not be an effective out. The meds in my roomate's bag were equally useless. One day we were at a beautiful scenic overlook site. I think we were looking down on Oahu's North Shore, but I'm not certain. As I stood on the edge of the precipice I considered jumping. I felt deep energetic ebbs and swirls and felt as if part of myself did infact jump. I remember watching this imaginary self plummeting over the edge and slamming against rocks and ledges over several minutes. I could envision the black shadow which would be cast upon the day and the memory. I looked around and saw the families and the other kids from my group and I watched as their amazing Hawaiian experience turned into a horror.

And I couldn't do it. It would have been so damned selfish of me to kill myself like that. So I rushed back onto the bus and sat in the back and cried.

It was a most amazing three weeks. Each day was filled with activities designed to help us sink our teeth into science as well as the Hawaiian culture. It was the first time in my life that I noticed that there were religions other than Christianity. Somehow it had just never occurred to me that not everyone was Christian. But more importantly, I met the Goddess Pele. Both the scientific explorations of Hawaii and the cultural activities were centered around nature as the sacred feminine.

This made sense to me in such a deep way. It fit with what my parents had taught me before I chose to attend church. They had always said that we didn't need to go to church because God was everywhere and that when we were camping out every weekend we were celebrating God's creation.

When I was 16 I lost my religion. When I was 17 I found the Goddess. I devoted my life to the Earth Mother. But sixteen years after loosing Jesus I found him again. He was misplaced and burried under my anger at the history of Western Civilization. I have forgiven Him and the acts done in His name. Seventeen years after loosing my religion I have realized that Gaia is both the Mother of and Bride of Christ. That is why witchcraft and Christianity are no longer mutually exclusive to me.

The great divorce between Matriarchy and Patriarchy is being healed. In my heart Gaia and Jesus are developing quite the romance. And their romance is, to me, the most fundamental co-creative divine force in existence (at least in our corner of the universe).

All Hail the Newly Re-Wedded. All Hail the Bride in her green and blue gowns with white gauzy veil. All Hail the Groom whose light envelopes and impregnates the Bride. Their union is responsible for everything which exists on Earth. This is the Second Coming.