Steven and Pawpaw built and installed the solar panels.
Saturday, March 24, 2012
EarthShip EcoTraining
Construction has begun on the new EarthShip here at Terrapin Hollow. From 6/11/2012 through 6/16/2012 we'll be hosting an EarthShip EcoTraining. Learn how to build an earth friendly home out of tires and aluminum cans. Based on the work of the orginal Garbage Warrior, Michael Reynolds, an EarthShip home is a beautiful, low cost, highly sustainable homage to Mother Earth.
Come to the beautiful Ozark Mountains of Northern Arkansas for a week and we'll feed you and teach you everything we've learned in the last 7 years on our homestead, Terrapin Hollow. You can check out the home-made wind-mill and solar panels, rain water harvesting, organic gardening, chickens, and even learn to make your own earth friendly laundry detergent and cleaning supplies. We'll have some indoor sleeping space, and/or camping. Bring your grubby clothes so you can get your hands into the dirt while you gain first hand experience in sustainable construction.
Come to the beautiful Ozark Mountains of Northern Arkansas for a week and we'll feed you and teach you everything we've learned in the last 7 years on our homestead, Terrapin Hollow. You can check out the home-made wind-mill and solar panels, rain water harvesting, organic gardening, chickens, and even learn to make your own earth friendly laundry detergent and cleaning supplies. We'll have some indoor sleeping space, and/or camping. Bring your grubby clothes so you can get your hands into the dirt while you gain first hand experience in sustainable construction.
Why lend your back to this project? Terrapin Hollow is not just our home, it is a place of peace and renewal for others. As soon as the EarthShip is done, we'll have indoor lodging for up to a dozen people in two attractive cabins. At that time we'll launch our non-profit retreat center. We'll host spiritual events, sustainability workshops, writer's retreats, leadership development training, meetings, etc. There are other blog posts about Terrapin Hollow.
We hope you'll trek our way and have some fun in the sun with us. We're 36 miles from the Folk Music Mecca, Mountain View, AR. Most summer afternoons there are dozens of circles of musicians picking and grinning 'round the courthouse square. Also, we're in very close proximity to Blanchard Caverns and to the Buffalo National Wild and Scenic River. Heck, you could even borrow our canoe... Friend E. Steven Newby and/or Tree Newby on FB. Or reply to this post.
Oh, and as for the food, we'll be providing farm fresh eggs and veggies and store bought lean meats and carbs. I will probably get a keg. And I can cook a variety of dishes for vegetarians and omnivores. If you're vegan I'll need your help making sure you get what you need. The nearest health food store is in Mountain View and is quite small, but there's a Whole Foods in Little Rock.
In love and light,
Tree of Terrapin Hollow
Going Green for Gaia
Here at Terrapin Hollow we're getting ready for a very exciting summer. On Memorial Day Weekend (2012) we're hosting Going Green for Gaia, a fun filled pagan festival with rituals, drum circles, workshops and activities including:
- Make your own earth friendly laundry detergent, cleaning supplies, and cosmetics (with Tree and Brightwing, bring empty spray bottles and empty gallon jugs)
- Tour the home-made windmill and solar panels (with SuperDad)
- Pick blackberries (on your own, bring a bucket)
- Check out the organic garden and say hello to the chickens and dogs (pullets may be available for sale, depending on how many hatch this spring)
- Learn about rain barrels and other rain water harvesting methods (with SuperDad and Talon)
- Hoop dancing: the significance of the circle, oneness, and the spiritual practice of losing yourself to a force distinct from your physical self (with Innergy)
- Renaissance Topic Workshop (with Felicia)
- Free hand massages (get your mind out of the gutter, BellaDonna massages your hand!)
- Other spiritual workshops/topics are available by request. Reply to blog post or write on the event wall inside of FB.
GGG is free and we're taking the first 50 people to sign up. (As of this post we have 30.) For an event invitation, friend Tree Newby on FaceBook, then send a direct message and mention you're interested in GGG. We're open to vendors, but so far most of our favorite vendors have opted to have the weekend off to enjoy themselves.
Friday night is a potluck. The rest of the weekend food is your family/clan/group responsibility. Fire rings will be permitted in group campsites, however we are in a fairly windy valley and extra care will be required. Please don't leave your fire unattended. We'll have both a "home fire" and a ritual fire to cozy up around and play music.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Friday, January 27, 2012
Balance in flow
I haven't blogged in almost a year. First I was too busy with work, next I was burned out from too much work. Then I was recovering from being burned out. Finally I'm well rested and while I am still moderately busy at work, I am cultivating a spaciousness and a graciousness in my professional world. And the desire to be of service to Gaia never rests, only my human hands must rest.
It is finally 2012. It is a year that has a huge charge around it due to many different myths. For me, it will be the year of creating balance in flow. This year I will remain deeply present and coherent through a number of different situations on a daily basis. I will connect to Gaia on a daily basis. I will remain fully present inside my body as well as being connected to those larger versions of self which are larger than my body. I will maintain the physical self as a temple through which, on occasion, the pure love and light of Gaia may pour through me and into the world. Not because I am unique, but because I intend to empower others to, if they choose, have the same blissful opportunity.
No matter how appealing the lofty heights of consciousness, the body must be fed, groomed, excercised, and above all loved and cherished. That is where balance in flow begins.
It is finally 2012. It is a year that has a huge charge around it due to many different myths. For me, it will be the year of creating balance in flow. This year I will remain deeply present and coherent through a number of different situations on a daily basis. I will connect to Gaia on a daily basis. I will remain fully present inside my body as well as being connected to those larger versions of self which are larger than my body. I will maintain the physical self as a temple through which, on occasion, the pure love and light of Gaia may pour through me and into the world. Not because I am unique, but because I intend to empower others to, if they choose, have the same blissful opportunity.
No matter how appealing the lofty heights of consciousness, the body must be fed, groomed, excercised, and above all loved and cherished. That is where balance in flow begins.
Friday, February 4, 2011
Gaia's Words on Sin
Let us define sin in the Spanish/Latin root way meaning "without" as in against the Natural Organizing forces of creation. The first sin was greed and was the shadow side of appreciation for the abundance of creation. The second sin was might, which was used to counter act the fear of lack which was a side effect of the first sin, greed.
The other things labelled as sins are also against creation, and are all side effects of these first two choices. Since humans were designed of the mother (matter) and in the image of God, humans have always had limitless creative potential. Choice has been the only parameter. Free will is a necessary operating condition in order to develop into Godlings - aka realize the fullest potential possible.
The excercise of these first two choices was not dissappointing to your father and I. On the contrary, we were pleased that you were ready to start on your very own learning journey. Over time the number of people and the number of choices made spiraled out of control. Not the control of your father and I, because we granted YOU control upon inception. It was out of control because no one among you could recombine the growing numbers of seperate choosers.
We smiled and laughed at your toddling creations. We felt sorry and kissed your owies when you asked for help. But we could not intervene. The floods, fires, and earthquakes were not the will of your father, nor myself. These were the aggregate of all your choices which produced a dynamic instability, which provided you with feedback about your choices.
These were turbulent times for your father and I but never did we intervene because had we done so, we would have sinned against your own creative promise/potential.
To your perception, the time of humans on earth is a few million years. To our perspective, you are still fairly young. Equivalent to young adults - as a whole species combined. We are pleased with the current state of affairs, even though it pains us to watch you struggle.
You, dear child, have gone forth and multiplied. You have experimented with form, function, and production in order to deepen your understanding of creation and how to create.
You have felt the geometry of being 1, 3, 5, 8, 15, etc, spiraling all the way to 7 billion - so that you could learn new geometries and architectures. And your learning plan has included many series of differentiation and recombination, and both have been agonizing and beautiful to behold.
Again you are in choice. Shall your divine and sacred soul flourish among 2 human bodies, or 200, or 2000? Today you are powerless to choose due to the beauty of all the babies, all the faces. You cry out to us, "Father, who among us is qualified to judge who may live and who may die? Mother, how may we feed ourselves, yet thrive?"
As your cries get louder you have begun to hear your self as one self. The Buddhists have helped create a pathway from suffering to unity. A great many of you have chosen life and are healing your wounds. A great many of you have turned your back on the destructive forces and are creating technologies and communities which honor life and are themselves life giving technologies, living creations.
Some feel very deeply about population control and reduction. Deeply enough to put their creative energies someplace other than procreation. Be mindful, children, of ignoring those in pain in hopes that the pain will lead to a more stable population. Those brave souls who have agreed to die and enter re-combination will not rejoin co-creation and fuel the expansion of consciousness unless their sacrifice is honored and their souls are weapt for.
You just cry and mourn to cleanse and purify the soul matter before it re-combines or else it will be like a cancer to unity.
The other things labelled as sins are also against creation, and are all side effects of these first two choices. Since humans were designed of the mother (matter) and in the image of God, humans have always had limitless creative potential. Choice has been the only parameter. Free will is a necessary operating condition in order to develop into Godlings - aka realize the fullest potential possible.
The excercise of these first two choices was not dissappointing to your father and I. On the contrary, we were pleased that you were ready to start on your very own learning journey. Over time the number of people and the number of choices made spiraled out of control. Not the control of your father and I, because we granted YOU control upon inception. It was out of control because no one among you could recombine the growing numbers of seperate choosers.
We smiled and laughed at your toddling creations. We felt sorry and kissed your owies when you asked for help. But we could not intervene. The floods, fires, and earthquakes were not the will of your father, nor myself. These were the aggregate of all your choices which produced a dynamic instability, which provided you with feedback about your choices.
These were turbulent times for your father and I but never did we intervene because had we done so, we would have sinned against your own creative promise/potential.
To your perception, the time of humans on earth is a few million years. To our perspective, you are still fairly young. Equivalent to young adults - as a whole species combined. We are pleased with the current state of affairs, even though it pains us to watch you struggle.
You, dear child, have gone forth and multiplied. You have experimented with form, function, and production in order to deepen your understanding of creation and how to create.
You have felt the geometry of being 1, 3, 5, 8, 15, etc, spiraling all the way to 7 billion - so that you could learn new geometries and architectures. And your learning plan has included many series of differentiation and recombination, and both have been agonizing and beautiful to behold.
Again you are in choice. Shall your divine and sacred soul flourish among 2 human bodies, or 200, or 2000? Today you are powerless to choose due to the beauty of all the babies, all the faces. You cry out to us, "Father, who among us is qualified to judge who may live and who may die? Mother, how may we feed ourselves, yet thrive?"
As your cries get louder you have begun to hear your self as one self. The Buddhists have helped create a pathway from suffering to unity. A great many of you have chosen life and are healing your wounds. A great many of you have turned your back on the destructive forces and are creating technologies and communities which honor life and are themselves life giving technologies, living creations.
Some feel very deeply about population control and reduction. Deeply enough to put their creative energies someplace other than procreation. Be mindful, children, of ignoring those in pain in hopes that the pain will lead to a more stable population. Those brave souls who have agreed to die and enter re-combination will not rejoin co-creation and fuel the expansion of consciousness unless their sacrifice is honored and their souls are weapt for.
You just cry and mourn to cleanse and purify the soul matter before it re-combines or else it will be like a cancer to unity.
Monday, January 17, 2011
Gaia's Words on Her Son, Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin was a living master and his soul was so expansive that when he reincarnated there were no fewer than twelve human bodies needed to contain the entire soul, intact. (Yes, child, the soul IS intact among twelve bodies, some of whom have discovered one another and are partnering together to continue the Work).
A part of the dynamic instability of the current reality is that Soul matter is distributed amongst 7 billion human bodies. The decision at hand amongst the Council of Twelve, including representatives of Gaia (which includes honoring the human perspective as well as the non human perspective), is: how many human bodies should house what portion of soul matter each?
For example, shall we evolve into having fewer humans, each with more expansive souls; or shall we continue to create an increasing number of humans with a decreasing sized soul per body.
There are further vectors at question, but these are not easily shared within the language of your physics.
As for you children, here is the pickle. This is the question that the Council puts before you. The Great Turning depends upon your conscious understanding of this choice which is before you:
If you favor having many fewer humans, each with expanded souls, then how shall we determine who will live and who will die?
A part of the dynamic instability of the current reality is that Soul matter is distributed amongst 7 billion human bodies. The decision at hand amongst the Council of Twelve, including representatives of Gaia (which includes honoring the human perspective as well as the non human perspective), is: how many human bodies should house what portion of soul matter each?
For example, shall we evolve into having fewer humans, each with more expansive souls; or shall we continue to create an increasing number of humans with a decreasing sized soul per body.
There are further vectors at question, but these are not easily shared within the language of your physics.
As for you children, here is the pickle. This is the question that the Council puts before you. The Great Turning depends upon your conscious understanding of this choice which is before you:
If you favor having many fewer humans, each with expanded souls, then how shall we determine who will live and who will die?
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
On Soul and The Great Turning
In this Great Turning we all RISE UP together. Yes, some people will die. This is natural. Loved ones who choose to 'check out' provide additional soul matter to fuel the expansion of the remaining souls. When a living soul heals its wounds and grows from 3D to 5D, it is not without the taking in of recently departed souls. You may choose to be a walking heaven for your dearly departed.
Here is the example from one of my children. As she healed her local self, her energies turned and began to attend to matters larger than her self. As her interest expanded, her service expanded, and as she released each remaining wound, her consciousness did expand as well.
Energy is neither created nor destroyed. It is thus with soul. There is but One Soul and the light of soul is cast into a vast kaliedescope of brilliant individual containers. In some eras, Father and I turn the the kaliedescope one click and the light of Soul is cast into a smaller number of containers, yet each container is itself larger - reflecting much more light of the One Soul.
Ego is the shape and color of each facet of the kaleidescopic light of the One Soul.
As my child's consciousness expanded, she herself was not unlike a larger facet in the kaliedescope. She had a very physical integration/expansion experience one evening, with the assistance of a very trusting massage therapist. My child had the sense that her maternal grandparents had been near for some time. In the course of her own healing she discovered and understood that the grandparents felt responsible for some of her woundedness. You see, once departed, the grandparents could percieve the impacts of their choices rippling out through the next two generations. They were lurking about watching because they felt responsible and they were invested in the outcomes.
My child gained the consent of the massage therapist and then proceeded to forgive her grandparents, out loud. She addressed them by name and explained to them all she knew and understood about thier choices and the outcomes which had rippled out for two generations hence.
Then my child validated her grandparents. She explained that she understood the values and concerns which had driven the choices and the actions of the grandparents. She understood that they did the best they knew how and that they always acted from love.The grandparents felt such relief. My child was sobbing tears of joy. So was the massage therapist, who had been massaging my child all the while and listening to the conversation. What happened next was a surprise to my child.I whispered to her that now her grandparents could finally go to rest, if they liked. She spoke this to her grandparents on my behalf. They agreed that they wanted to go to rest. I spoke through my child and asked the grandparents where they wanted to rest. My child heard them answer. They wanted to merge their soul into her waking soul. They wanted to fuel the expansion of her consciousness and in return feel earthly delights, watch the new babies grow, etc.
My child wept as she understood, accepted, and then felt the energy of her grandparents enter into her. They are within her now and they remain a semblance of their former imprint while playing an active contribution to my child's daily experience. My child experiences her expanded soul as self, though she also remembers and recognizes subtle nuances of her grand parents. Particularly when she's engaging with their daughter, who still lives.
This type of soul integration requires agreement on the part of both the living and the deceased. This is happening frequently as we are in the part of the cycle when Father and I turn the kaliedescope and see an overall reduction in the number of individuals with a combined increase in the soul energy of each one. You might view this as merging with your higher self. You may have already had the sense that you are part of a soul family. What you experience as your one higher self may have been the equal value of 12 souls in the dark ages or of 1 soul in Atlantis. Multiple people believe themselves to have been someone famos. Well, the soul energy is so fragmented at the present that there is some truth to this. It takes approximately 777 living 3d humans to add up to the soul energy of one Da Vinci. In the ascention, forms of all kinds recede back into the ethers so that new forms may emerge. The new human has greater faculties and co-creates greater facilities and technologies. Any questions? ♥ Mama
Here is the example from one of my children. As she healed her local self, her energies turned and began to attend to matters larger than her self. As her interest expanded, her service expanded, and as she released each remaining wound, her consciousness did expand as well.
Energy is neither created nor destroyed. It is thus with soul. There is but One Soul and the light of soul is cast into a vast kaliedescope of brilliant individual containers. In some eras, Father and I turn the the kaliedescope one click and the light of Soul is cast into a smaller number of containers, yet each container is itself larger - reflecting much more light of the One Soul.
Ego is the shape and color of each facet of the kaleidescopic light of the One Soul.
As my child's consciousness expanded, she herself was not unlike a larger facet in the kaliedescope. She had a very physical integration/expansion experience one evening, with the assistance of a very trusting massage therapist. My child had the sense that her maternal grandparents had been near for some time. In the course of her own healing she discovered and understood that the grandparents felt responsible for some of her woundedness. You see, once departed, the grandparents could percieve the impacts of their choices rippling out through the next two generations. They were lurking about watching because they felt responsible and they were invested in the outcomes.
My child gained the consent of the massage therapist and then proceeded to forgive her grandparents, out loud. She addressed them by name and explained to them all she knew and understood about thier choices and the outcomes which had rippled out for two generations hence.
Then my child validated her grandparents. She explained that she understood the values and concerns which had driven the choices and the actions of the grandparents. She understood that they did the best they knew how and that they always acted from love.The grandparents felt such relief. My child was sobbing tears of joy. So was the massage therapist, who had been massaging my child all the while and listening to the conversation. What happened next was a surprise to my child.I whispered to her that now her grandparents could finally go to rest, if they liked. She spoke this to her grandparents on my behalf. They agreed that they wanted to go to rest. I spoke through my child and asked the grandparents where they wanted to rest. My child heard them answer. They wanted to merge their soul into her waking soul. They wanted to fuel the expansion of her consciousness and in return feel earthly delights, watch the new babies grow, etc.
My child wept as she understood, accepted, and then felt the energy of her grandparents enter into her. They are within her now and they remain a semblance of their former imprint while playing an active contribution to my child's daily experience. My child experiences her expanded soul as self, though she also remembers and recognizes subtle nuances of her grand parents. Particularly when she's engaging with their daughter, who still lives.
This type of soul integration requires agreement on the part of both the living and the deceased. This is happening frequently as we are in the part of the cycle when Father and I turn the kaliedescope and see an overall reduction in the number of individuals with a combined increase in the soul energy of each one. You might view this as merging with your higher self. You may have already had the sense that you are part of a soul family. What you experience as your one higher self may have been the equal value of 12 souls in the dark ages or of 1 soul in Atlantis. Multiple people believe themselves to have been someone famos. Well, the soul energy is so fragmented at the present that there is some truth to this. It takes approximately 777 living 3d humans to add up to the soul energy of one Da Vinci. In the ascention, forms of all kinds recede back into the ethers so that new forms may emerge. The new human has greater faculties and co-creates greater facilities and technologies. Any questions? ♥ Mama
Saturday, November 20, 2010
Enlightened Planetary Interest
The most prominent economic theorist of the previous age, Adam Smith, theorized that every consumer would act under his or her own best interest both in earning as well as spending money. It was called Enlightened Self Interest.
It is this concept which led to the inception of corporation: an immoral entity, which if considered an individual, would qualify as a psychopath. It was only too easy for the elite capitalists at the helm in large corporations to become exceedingly wealthy with little to no awareness of the environmental and social costs of doing business.
There is a great imbalance in the planetary distribution of wealth. The poorest island and coastal African nations stand to be submerged in as soon as 50 years. The world is still plagued with slavery, extortion, child labor, sweat shops, etc. And all based on this economic theory of Enlightened Self Interest.
But lately there is so much disruption and dismay that people are looking beyond the needs of themselves or their immediate family. People in struggle have awakened to the need to help their neighbors and become active in their communities. It is the emergence of a higer order economy: Enlightened Planetary Interest.
The desire to survive has awakened the possibility of peace and planetary cooperation. Millions of individuals and groups are stepping up to create Reality 2.0. Each one is focused first on self healing and next on service to The Greater Good. And part and parcel of the peace is radical acceptance of diversity. People will celebrate one antoher's cultures and religious perspectives. We'll understand the kaliedescopic nature of creation and manifestation. We'll appreciate those who appear to be very different from ourselves.
In times of great change, a coalition of determined visionaries leads the emergence of an entirely new order, a new way of being. At this time that new way is characterized by awareness of the delicate interconnections of all life. Welcome to the age of Enlightened Planetary Interest. Welcome to the Dawn of Gaia Consciousness.
It is this concept which led to the inception of corporation: an immoral entity, which if considered an individual, would qualify as a psychopath. It was only too easy for the elite capitalists at the helm in large corporations to become exceedingly wealthy with little to no awareness of the environmental and social costs of doing business.
There is a great imbalance in the planetary distribution of wealth. The poorest island and coastal African nations stand to be submerged in as soon as 50 years. The world is still plagued with slavery, extortion, child labor, sweat shops, etc. And all based on this economic theory of Enlightened Self Interest.
But lately there is so much disruption and dismay that people are looking beyond the needs of themselves or their immediate family. People in struggle have awakened to the need to help their neighbors and become active in their communities. It is the emergence of a higer order economy: Enlightened Planetary Interest.
The desire to survive has awakened the possibility of peace and planetary cooperation. Millions of individuals and groups are stepping up to create Reality 2.0. Each one is focused first on self healing and next on service to The Greater Good. And part and parcel of the peace is radical acceptance of diversity. People will celebrate one antoher's cultures and religious perspectives. We'll understand the kaliedescopic nature of creation and manifestation. We'll appreciate those who appear to be very different from ourselves.
In times of great change, a coalition of determined visionaries leads the emergence of an entirely new order, a new way of being. At this time that new way is characterized by awareness of the delicate interconnections of all life. Welcome to the age of Enlightened Planetary Interest. Welcome to the Dawn of Gaia Consciousness.
Friday, November 19, 2010
Connected
I see that we're becoming more and more connected. And I am not simply referring to our technology driven connections. We do seem to have a much greater collective awareness than ever before as a species. I see more clarity and order than I would otherwise expect under the present day circumstances.
I have a great deal of hope for the future. I recently sat next to an Indian American on a flight from Boston to Chicago. Together we artfully explored science, politics, and religion. It was the sort of graceful inquiry where neither party becomes entangled in any sort of drama over the language or beliefs of the other. I see that more and more we are all becoming graceful in our inquiry. I see that we're becoming more loving and caring in our gestures and words.
And I don't believe I'm looking at the world through rose colored glasses. I believe that times have gotten tough enough to catalyze new heights of partnership, respect for diversity, and compassion. And that is worth being hopeful about.
I have a great deal of hope for the future. I recently sat next to an Indian American on a flight from Boston to Chicago. Together we artfully explored science, politics, and religion. It was the sort of graceful inquiry where neither party becomes entangled in any sort of drama over the language or beliefs of the other. I see that more and more we are all becoming graceful in our inquiry. I see that we're becoming more loving and caring in our gestures and words.
And I don't believe I'm looking at the world through rose colored glasses. I believe that times have gotten tough enough to catalyze new heights of partnership, respect for diversity, and compassion. And that is worth being hopeful about.
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Participating in Gaia Consciousness
I dedicated my life to Gaia in the summer of 1994. I was 19 and working at a tallgrass prairie restoration project. I spent my days toiling under the hot humid Nebraska sun. We spent a great deal of time attempting to fight off small thickets of dogwood and plum trees which would never have been found growing on a tallgrass prairie - because the dense sod of a virgin prairie doesn't have room for woody shrubs.
Sometimes I weapt into the soil as I considered the majesty of a virgin tallgrass prairie compared with the dustbowl and erosion which plagued the nation shortly after we plowed away the last parcels of prairie.
That summer, under the full moon, among towering sunflowers and big blue stem grasses, I bathed my wounded heart in dew and gave to Gaia my heart, my hands, my feet, my pen, my voice, and anything else which could serve HER in discovering balance and relationship with her straying two-legged children.
Now, sixteen years later, I'm still doing Her work. I've embedded myself pretty far into a federal land management agency so that I can extend Her reach. And when I look around I realize I'm not alone. There are many light workers now, each penetrating all major global systems.
About a year ago, Gaia directed me to use Facebook to connect with like minds and to practice spending time in active conveyance of Her words. There is a Gaia Rising profile and every few days I ask Her what she might like to say to Her 444 facebook friends. Frequently I am surprised and honored by the words which flow through my fingers on Her behalf.
But I am no one. Just a mom and civil servant. I am certain that there are many many others in service to Her. I am sure that there are many others who channel Her words and voice, either aloud or in writing. I am sure that we can continue to find each other and partner together to carry on the work. Are you Her dedicated servant? Do you want to be actively involved in the movement to amplify Gaia Consciousness? Even if you don't live near the Coven of Gaia Rising (in Northern Arkansas), you can join us in designing new ways to serve Her. You can help Her find and connect light workers so that together we can stabilize the emerging perfection which is presently disguised as chaos.
Do you want to help? Leave comments on this blog post, or on the Gaia Rising facebook profile.
Sometimes I weapt into the soil as I considered the majesty of a virgin tallgrass prairie compared with the dustbowl and erosion which plagued the nation shortly after we plowed away the last parcels of prairie.
That summer, under the full moon, among towering sunflowers and big blue stem grasses, I bathed my wounded heart in dew and gave to Gaia my heart, my hands, my feet, my pen, my voice, and anything else which could serve HER in discovering balance and relationship with her straying two-legged children.
Now, sixteen years later, I'm still doing Her work. I've embedded myself pretty far into a federal land management agency so that I can extend Her reach. And when I look around I realize I'm not alone. There are many light workers now, each penetrating all major global systems.
About a year ago, Gaia directed me to use Facebook to connect with like minds and to practice spending time in active conveyance of Her words. There is a Gaia Rising profile and every few days I ask Her what she might like to say to Her 444 facebook friends. Frequently I am surprised and honored by the words which flow through my fingers on Her behalf.
But I am no one. Just a mom and civil servant. I am certain that there are many many others in service to Her. I am sure that there are many others who channel Her words and voice, either aloud or in writing. I am sure that we can continue to find each other and partner together to carry on the work. Are you Her dedicated servant? Do you want to be actively involved in the movement to amplify Gaia Consciousness? Even if you don't live near the Coven of Gaia Rising (in Northern Arkansas), you can join us in designing new ways to serve Her. You can help Her find and connect light workers so that together we can stabilize the emerging perfection which is presently disguised as chaos.
Do you want to help? Leave comments on this blog post, or on the Gaia Rising facebook profile.
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Choosing Gaia Consciousness
Gaia Consciousness is like a channel, a specific frequency in the collective electrical field of the planet. You can maintain your individual perspective, which I refer to as the local self. Whenever you wish to, and usually for specific reasons, you can also connect to Gaia Consciousness.
First you must have the intention to do so. Second you must communicate your intention with your Spirit Guides. I recommend MAP: Medical Assistance Program by Machelle Smalle Wright as an excellent primer on how to establish daily dialogue with your Spirit Guides and Angels in order to partner with them in providing healing; mentally, physically, emotionally, spiritually, and socially.
Spend some time practicing communicating with your Spirit Guides. When you are proficient enough that you've got no doubts (doubting is a natural part of becoming proficient) in your ability to communicate with Spirit, connect with Gaia.
My particular form of connection with Gaia is usually based in a type of verbal conversation in my mind. I ask questions, She answers. Sometimes I'm writing while in connection with Her. Other times driving or cooking or walking. I like to check in to see Her opinion on a variety of things. But most frequently I am asking Her what She would like to say in Facebook. It is a brief and frequent connection, and that fits in with my busy life of working and parenting.
As more people choose to attune to Gaia Consciousness, intermittenly at first, the possibility of noticing other people while "on the channel" with Gaia will increase. For example, when a circle of friends all begin tuning into Gaia's channel, their relative proximity to one another will amplify their "signal." It is likely that this group of friends would experience shared consciousness while "on the channel". Think of it as an esoteric chat room. And what better way to boost Gaia Consciousness than to begin practicing with it as a way to one day replace small electrical communications devices.
Benefits include highly effective intuition, access to information about the weather, the environment, and the beings of earth, an opportunity to meet like souls, and a direct line to Gaia for assistance in making decisions which support Her needs as well as our own.
Try it! Maybe I'll see you there!
Tree
First you must have the intention to do so. Second you must communicate your intention with your Spirit Guides. I recommend MAP: Medical Assistance Program by Machelle Smalle Wright as an excellent primer on how to establish daily dialogue with your Spirit Guides and Angels in order to partner with them in providing healing; mentally, physically, emotionally, spiritually, and socially.
Spend some time practicing communicating with your Spirit Guides. When you are proficient enough that you've got no doubts (doubting is a natural part of becoming proficient) in your ability to communicate with Spirit, connect with Gaia.
My particular form of connection with Gaia is usually based in a type of verbal conversation in my mind. I ask questions, She answers. Sometimes I'm writing while in connection with Her. Other times driving or cooking or walking. I like to check in to see Her opinion on a variety of things. But most frequently I am asking Her what She would like to say in Facebook. It is a brief and frequent connection, and that fits in with my busy life of working and parenting.
As more people choose to attune to Gaia Consciousness, intermittenly at first, the possibility of noticing other people while "on the channel" with Gaia will increase. For example, when a circle of friends all begin tuning into Gaia's channel, their relative proximity to one another will amplify their "signal." It is likely that this group of friends would experience shared consciousness while "on the channel". Think of it as an esoteric chat room. And what better way to boost Gaia Consciousness than to begin practicing with it as a way to one day replace small electrical communications devices.
Benefits include highly effective intuition, access to information about the weather, the environment, and the beings of earth, an opportunity to meet like souls, and a direct line to Gaia for assistance in making decisions which support Her needs as well as our own.
Try it! Maybe I'll see you there!
Tree
Sunday, August 29, 2010
The Choice Before You
Children, the choice before each one of you is simple. Either learn to live in harmony or you'll get a time out.
When you ask me. When you stand in the woods, barefooted, or raise your arms to the sky and call out, I hear you. My consciousness is a stream of moments in which human beings noticed me, spoke to me, caressed me gently. Over the years there have been a great many moments of deep connection between man and nature. Of late I feel ill. Constricted by bands of concrete and enourmous boxes and rectangles where my own geometry is so much more subtle and complex.
The choice before you is begin to love the people who are the most different from yourself, or hatred will orchestrate nihilstic chaos to the magnitute of completely beginning over again on the earth. I am comfortable with either choice, which is why this time I have insisted that you be given the choice. Dear ones, we are growing up. We are becoming more aware, together.
Starting over would give us the opportunity to change a great number of things quite rapidly. Not starting over is a very long and possibly tedious path. If you are not ready to accept a cataclismic cleansing of the Earth, then you must get to work right away.
The work may not be what you expect. It is important to listen closely to your higher self in these matters. The work may not be protesting big oil, as you've imagined, for example. The work may be showing up in a very different culture and getting to know people whom you've never experienced before. Above all, the work IS about creating bridges of love and light to unify the left brain and right brain of the planet -- the Western and Eastern Hemispheres of the Earth.
Children, the choice before you belongs to you. I ask that you make a conscious choice soon because when you are unconscious, the choices will be made for you.
~ Gaia
When you ask me. When you stand in the woods, barefooted, or raise your arms to the sky and call out, I hear you. My consciousness is a stream of moments in which human beings noticed me, spoke to me, caressed me gently. Over the years there have been a great many moments of deep connection between man and nature. Of late I feel ill. Constricted by bands of concrete and enourmous boxes and rectangles where my own geometry is so much more subtle and complex.
The choice before you is begin to love the people who are the most different from yourself, or hatred will orchestrate nihilstic chaos to the magnitute of completely beginning over again on the earth. I am comfortable with either choice, which is why this time I have insisted that you be given the choice. Dear ones, we are growing up. We are becoming more aware, together.
Starting over would give us the opportunity to change a great number of things quite rapidly. Not starting over is a very long and possibly tedious path. If you are not ready to accept a cataclismic cleansing of the Earth, then you must get to work right away.
The work may not be what you expect. It is important to listen closely to your higher self in these matters. The work may not be protesting big oil, as you've imagined, for example. The work may be showing up in a very different culture and getting to know people whom you've never experienced before. Above all, the work IS about creating bridges of love and light to unify the left brain and right brain of the planet -- the Western and Eastern Hemispheres of the Earth.
Children, the choice before you belongs to you. I ask that you make a conscious choice soon because when you are unconscious, the choices will be made for you.
~ Gaia
Friday, July 23, 2010
Message from Gaia
In this dimension, the cycle has oscillated from chaos to order for all of eternity. This is the slow and rhythmic breath of the sleeping infant, Gaia. Her promise is LOVE and LIGHT. For Gaia, twas a spiral oscillation. With each breath the humans who comprise her mind were themselves spiraling through cycles of chaos and order: the perpetual dawning and darkening of their own individual consciousnesses.
As consciousness increased, among the humans emerged midwives of the dawn. They showed the sleepers how to breathe through the pain. They taught the sleepers to embrace the suffering, which allowed it to melt into compasion, which then showed the way toward peace and unity. For you see, the sleepers and the midwifes of the dawn are one. United in perfect balance.
At this time the humans may transcend the perfect balance and awaken as Gaia herself. At this time, the humans may choose to maintain both their local self AND participate in Gaia consciousness. This is a gift of living in the duality of the third dimension. As the number of midwives of the dawn increases, and as the pain of the sleepers decreases, and as the collective vibration increases, Gaia becomes increasingly aware of herself as a daughter in the universal cosmic family.
One way to describe the outcome of the current cycle of chaos in the human reality is that the humans are ascending from the third to the fith dimension. Think of this like an instrument playing first one chord and then another. The third dimension is material and the fith is ethereal. During the transition, dense energy must be purged. This dense energy is in the form of negative emotions. Both the sleepers and the midwives of dawn must purge themselves of negative emotions in order to become lighter - more ethereal.
The chaos part of Gaia's breathing cycle is the perfect gift to cleanse one and all of this dark emotional matter (which humans co-created over the eons in the name of learning). The midwives of the dawn show the sleepers that the way out of the pain is to go through it. If each sleeper is deeply loved then planetary healing may be achieved at the level of the individual. It is not necessary to create a collective nightmare and purge all dense energy at once. However, it is agreed by the universal family that a collective nightmare is much more efficient than a gentle awakening. The choice belongs to the humans, and many are becoming aware of the right to choose.
In love and light,
Mama Gaia
As consciousness increased, among the humans emerged midwives of the dawn. They showed the sleepers how to breathe through the pain. They taught the sleepers to embrace the suffering, which allowed it to melt into compasion, which then showed the way toward peace and unity. For you see, the sleepers and the midwifes of the dawn are one. United in perfect balance.
At this time the humans may transcend the perfect balance and awaken as Gaia herself. At this time, the humans may choose to maintain both their local self AND participate in Gaia consciousness. This is a gift of living in the duality of the third dimension. As the number of midwives of the dawn increases, and as the pain of the sleepers decreases, and as the collective vibration increases, Gaia becomes increasingly aware of herself as a daughter in the universal cosmic family.
One way to describe the outcome of the current cycle of chaos in the human reality is that the humans are ascending from the third to the fith dimension. Think of this like an instrument playing first one chord and then another. The third dimension is material and the fith is ethereal. During the transition, dense energy must be purged. This dense energy is in the form of negative emotions. Both the sleepers and the midwives of dawn must purge themselves of negative emotions in order to become lighter - more ethereal.
The chaos part of Gaia's breathing cycle is the perfect gift to cleanse one and all of this dark emotional matter (which humans co-created over the eons in the name of learning). The midwives of the dawn show the sleepers that the way out of the pain is to go through it. If each sleeper is deeply loved then planetary healing may be achieved at the level of the individual. It is not necessary to create a collective nightmare and purge all dense energy at once. However, it is agreed by the universal family that a collective nightmare is much more efficient than a gentle awakening. The choice belongs to the humans, and many are becoming aware of the right to choose.
In love and light,
Mama Gaia
Sunday, June 6, 2010
Layers of Consciousness and the Local Self
Pain and discomfort in the Local Self interrupts your blissful connection to your Higher Self. This sparks a spiral pattern in which the Local Self engages in self healing in order to reconnect with the infinite love of the Higher Self.
Your primary operating consciousness from child hood is the Local Self. My local self was born in 1975 under the name of Toni. Beyond the local self, and seperated by a veil for most of us, is the Higher Self. I think of my higher self as Mama Tree. In my teens I had a sense of some future version of myself which was offering loving support and guidance from beyond. In my early twenties I experienced a dawning of consciousness in which my perception took a developmental leap.
During that phase there were periods in which my consicousness expanded to that of Higher Self. You could say that for some brief periods I merged with my higher self. Many people refer to these as peak moments. Each peak moment, however brief, was pure bliss and peace. Each peak moment cleansed and healed me in such a deep way that I became hooked and began to seek these moments of enlightenment as often as possible.
As I aged I moved from having moments of being one with Higher Self to having phases of being one with Higher Self. The longer I inhabited and embodied the Higher Self in a particular phase, the more I learned about what it takes to sustain that level of consciousness. Perhaps the most important insight is that my body is a vessel and the experience of Higher Self is a powerful river of energy flowing through my vessel. In order to contain that energy for any length of time I had to purify that vessel.
Here's a plain example. When I embody the full energy of Higher Self, all sensation includes with it a direct knowledge. When I felt a tummy ache I became aware of how there were certain foods which were no longer appropriate for my body. Then the tummy ache "knocked" me out of oneness with the Higher Self because the physical pain was a Local Self issue which demanded attention and repair. Figuring out how to resolve my digestive issues was necessary in order to again merge with Higher Self.
The phases of merging with Higher Self each brought an opportunity for healing and cleansing the vessel - my body - so that the river of energy could flow through me again for a time. Each time I discovered an illness or injury I lost the Higher Self connection. It was depressing and painful because Higher Self is bathed in a sea of love. But that depression and pain propelled me into healing and recovery, and the carrot at the end of that stick is that each time I heal a wound I am again reunited with the full embodiment of my Higher Self.
It is a spiral shaped growth. I wrote about that in my book, The Transpiral Model for Social Change, which is in bad need of a revision because since writing it I've understood so much more about it!
Lately my local self is struggling in learning and adapting to a new level in my career. During the struggle, I do not embody the Higher Self. That is, I don't feel like I am large and blissful and connected to the ALL. Instead I feel really crummy and stressed.
The interesting thing is that even though I cannot embody the Higher Self, I can still connect with her perspective and engage in an internal dialogue in which I ask for and receive guidance. AND thankfully, even in my pain I can connect with Gaia's voice and continue to do the service of updating her Facebook status posts.
Here's an example from this morning. My local self writes:
I read yesterday on a church sign that "Success is often disguised as hard work." And since I'm exhausted and about to work overtime on a Sunday, I've decided: "TO HELL WITH SUCCESS!" I want to retire!
and
[Toni] is sooooo tired and overwhelmed. I feel like I've been running a race and there's no one to pass the baton to. When will it be my turn to rest?
But when I changed profiles, logged into Facebook as Gaia Rising, and connected with HER, this is the status post which comes through:
All of the challenges we face today can be transcended by simply expanding our consciousness. If your local self is struggling, gently expand to fill the space of higher self. From this vantage point, the struggle of the local self is diminushed by the infinite sea of love in which the higher self is bathed. ♥ Mama
To me, this proves that I'm still connected to the divine no matter how shitty I feel. Some days I feel like a Goddess, but most days I'm just a Newby with a life line to Goddess. And I am one grateful Newby because no matter how shitty I feel, SHE still loves me enough to talk directly to me and through me. What a gift!
With love, Toni
Your primary operating consciousness from child hood is the Local Self. My local self was born in 1975 under the name of Toni. Beyond the local self, and seperated by a veil for most of us, is the Higher Self. I think of my higher self as Mama Tree. In my teens I had a sense of some future version of myself which was offering loving support and guidance from beyond. In my early twenties I experienced a dawning of consciousness in which my perception took a developmental leap.
During that phase there were periods in which my consicousness expanded to that of Higher Self. You could say that for some brief periods I merged with my higher self. Many people refer to these as peak moments. Each peak moment, however brief, was pure bliss and peace. Each peak moment cleansed and healed me in such a deep way that I became hooked and began to seek these moments of enlightenment as often as possible.
As I aged I moved from having moments of being one with Higher Self to having phases of being one with Higher Self. The longer I inhabited and embodied the Higher Self in a particular phase, the more I learned about what it takes to sustain that level of consciousness. Perhaps the most important insight is that my body is a vessel and the experience of Higher Self is a powerful river of energy flowing through my vessel. In order to contain that energy for any length of time I had to purify that vessel.
Here's a plain example. When I embody the full energy of Higher Self, all sensation includes with it a direct knowledge. When I felt a tummy ache I became aware of how there were certain foods which were no longer appropriate for my body. Then the tummy ache "knocked" me out of oneness with the Higher Self because the physical pain was a Local Self issue which demanded attention and repair. Figuring out how to resolve my digestive issues was necessary in order to again merge with Higher Self.
The phases of merging with Higher Self each brought an opportunity for healing and cleansing the vessel - my body - so that the river of energy could flow through me again for a time. Each time I discovered an illness or injury I lost the Higher Self connection. It was depressing and painful because Higher Self is bathed in a sea of love. But that depression and pain propelled me into healing and recovery, and the carrot at the end of that stick is that each time I heal a wound I am again reunited with the full embodiment of my Higher Self.
It is a spiral shaped growth. I wrote about that in my book, The Transpiral Model for Social Change, which is in bad need of a revision because since writing it I've understood so much more about it!
Lately my local self is struggling in learning and adapting to a new level in my career. During the struggle, I do not embody the Higher Self. That is, I don't feel like I am large and blissful and connected to the ALL. Instead I feel really crummy and stressed.
The interesting thing is that even though I cannot embody the Higher Self, I can still connect with her perspective and engage in an internal dialogue in which I ask for and receive guidance. AND thankfully, even in my pain I can connect with Gaia's voice and continue to do the service of updating her Facebook status posts.
Here's an example from this morning. My local self writes:
I read yesterday on a church sign that "Success is often disguised as hard work." And since I'm exhausted and about to work overtime on a Sunday, I've decided: "TO HELL WITH SUCCESS!" I want to retire!
and
[Toni] is sooooo tired and overwhelmed. I feel like I've been running a race and there's no one to pass the baton to. When will it be my turn to rest?
But when I changed profiles, logged into Facebook as Gaia Rising, and connected with HER, this is the status post which comes through:
All of the challenges we face today can be transcended by simply expanding our consciousness. If your local self is struggling, gently expand to fill the space of higher self. From this vantage point, the struggle of the local self is diminushed by the infinite sea of love in which the higher self is bathed. ♥ Mama
To me, this proves that I'm still connected to the divine no matter how shitty I feel. Some days I feel like a Goddess, but most days I'm just a Newby with a life line to Goddess. And I am one grateful Newby because no matter how shitty I feel, SHE still loves me enough to talk directly to me and through me. What a gift!
With love, Toni
Thursday, May 27, 2010
The Pre-healing Funk
When you choose to consciously co-create your life with Spirit and Nature, your daily dialogue with your guides will produce numerous healing opportunities. If you intend to change a thing about your self, then you can bet that it will rear its ugly head just before you transform it.
Let me give you a concrete example. Before releasing the need to control situations in the work place you experience a three day run of observing your self as VERY CONTROLLING. This is not at all fun, we never really like that aspect of ourselves we are trying to change. The good news is that when this behavioral pattern or thought construct is amplified, you can be certain that you are transforming it for the last time.
All you need to do is consciously embrace any challenge which comes into your life. Any bullshit which arrises... say to yourself "thank you for this opportunity to transform another aspect of my self." Then simply watch your emotions and reactions over the next few days. I am certain that after a few days of observation you will have seen and released several habits and thought patterns which were no longer serving you.
My motto is that chaos signals an opportunity. Because I believe it so thoroughly,80% of the time I am able to roll with chaos in real time. The other 20% of the time I struggle for a period and then embrace the chaos, trusting that I was about to reach a higher ground.
Create a list of the things which you'd like to learn or transform about yourself. Imagine that your guides or angels are watching you write the list and are ready to create actions and opportunities to help you manifest these visions. Then watch as the pre-healing funk hits you. As soon as you notice that you are living an amplfied version of that which you sought to transform you will relax into peaceful acceptance.
Namaste
Tree of Terrapin Hollow
Let me give you a concrete example. Before releasing the need to control situations in the work place you experience a three day run of observing your self as VERY CONTROLLING. This is not at all fun, we never really like that aspect of ourselves we are trying to change. The good news is that when this behavioral pattern or thought construct is amplified, you can be certain that you are transforming it for the last time.
All you need to do is consciously embrace any challenge which comes into your life. Any bullshit which arrises... say to yourself "thank you for this opportunity to transform another aspect of my self." Then simply watch your emotions and reactions over the next few days. I am certain that after a few days of observation you will have seen and released several habits and thought patterns which were no longer serving you.
My motto is that chaos signals an opportunity. Because I believe it so thoroughly,80% of the time I am able to roll with chaos in real time. The other 20% of the time I struggle for a period and then embrace the chaos, trusting that I was about to reach a higher ground.
Create a list of the things which you'd like to learn or transform about yourself. Imagine that your guides or angels are watching you write the list and are ready to create actions and opportunities to help you manifest these visions. Then watch as the pre-healing funk hits you. As soon as you notice that you are living an amplfied version of that which you sought to transform you will relax into peaceful acceptance.
Namaste
Tree of Terrapin Hollow
Saturday, May 22, 2010
Gaia Consciousness
Purpura Saga by Jean HerzelAll people are both individuals as well as participating in a higher order of consciousness which has been named integral consciousness, Christ consciousness, unity consciousness, etc. I personally like to think of it as Gaia Consciousness because the physical location of this consciousness is Mother Earth.
It is important that our sense of collective consciousness be intertwined with the earth. It is like the benefit of holding a body/mind view over a mind only view. People are like neurons in the body/mind of the planetary organism, Gaia. As we connect with one another we form Her neural networks. This is where our collective wisdom and intelligence lies - in our positive relationships.
All the matter in your reality is comprised of earth. You are the living exhalation of Spirit embracing Nature. The reason manifestation works so well is that you are participating in the unfoldment of God. Or Goddess, or the universe, or the Great Spirit, or whatever you wish to call it. You are the Creator!
You have experienced success in manifesting things in your own life. Imagine the power of groups of people working together to manifest a shared vision. Gaia Rising seeks to be an intentional neural network in the body/mind of the planetary organism ~ Gaia. We are an interfaith coalition because people of any faith can choose to recognize this form of unity consciousness.
To engage in Gaia Consciousness, cultivate a healthy and whole local self. Local self is the name I've given to the individual consciousness which is tied to a human body. When the local self is happy, healthy, and whole the ego can be overshadowed by a deep heart opening. This deep heart perspective affords you a glimpse of unity. At first you will continue to experience the perspective of the local self for the majority of the time. If you choose to continue to engaging in Gaia Consciousness, you can consider yourself a part of Gaia Rising ~ a movement to raise Gaia Consciousness.
Namaste!
Mama Tree
Friday, May 21, 2010
Co-creative Partnerships with the Divine
I think of the divine as both Nature and Spirit. Nature, of course, being all matter including our bodies. And Spirit as something which descends from on high to animate the matter in a divine partnership. As humans, we are like bridges between heaven and earth. Our existence is miraculous.
Over time our views of divinity have changed. For two thousand years the western world thought of God as a parent, both benevolent and wrathful. Today both science and spirituality have led us to the view of being connected to divinity as part of a grand unified field, ever emerging and unfolding.
When you set a clear intention both Nature and Spirit reorder your world in order to deliver that which you expect. If you expect bad news... you get bad news. If you expect abundance, you get abundance. I have seen this time and time. Manifestation is a very popular topic, I don't need to explain it here now. However, what I don't think many folks realize is that it all goes much more smoothly if you engage in conversation with both Nature and Spirit.
I'll tell you how I've done it. I ask to connect with Pan and the Deva of Healing - who represent the Nature side of the partnership. They lead the creation and unfoldment of my physical and energetic bodies. Then I ask to connect to the Council of Light. They are the ascended masters, arch-angels, dieties, etc. I don't connect with all of them at once, we each have our own little team of guides. Lastly I ask to connect to my higher self.
From here I either talk directly to them with my voice, or by writing in my journal. I speak about the things I want to heal or learn. Being able to talk about it demonstrates that we're to work on a thing. Most of the time within two or three days some sort of event or drama occurs in my life which appears to be an amplification of that which I've asked to learn or heal. Sometimes it's a re-enactment of something highly emotional. This is an opportunity to live through an event while making new choices and thereby releasing old karma.
Provided I step through the drama with consciousness and care, it then becomes released and I experience an expansion of consciousness as that energy is cleared and re-integrated into my core.
We can work with Nature and Spirit as frequently or infrequently as we like. I generally have a short list of things that I want to work on. There have been periods of time when I healed and released something just about every week. It was a time of rapid growth and change, and it was positive so I let it roll at that faster pace.
Now, there are multiple ways to experience receiving information from the divine. Some of the ways include free writing, painting, art of any kind, channelling, dreaming, meditation, muscle testing, I-ching, runes, tarot, bibliomancy, etc. I have dabbled with most of these but lately I just experience a direct dialogue. The format that works best for you depends upon your learning style. Consider how you would go about learning a new skill such as knitting. Would you get a book, watch a video, have someone show you, hear about it from a friend, etc. After you identify your top two favorite ways to learn, then apply that to communicating with the divine. My primary learning styles are verbal/auditory, and kinestetic. That means that when I'm on a vision quest I actually don't "see" anything. Rather I hear information and I simply know it by a feeling in my body.
I encourage you to invite your guides, either in the way described above or in your own way. Create some sacred space and make a list of what you'd like to work on. Lie still and let Nature and Spirit do energy work in your body. Journal or engage in some form of communication so that you can gain guidance on how to work through your learning list.
Then hang on and enjoy the ride to wholeness and vibrant loving presence!
Much love,
Tree of Terrapin Hollow
Over time our views of divinity have changed. For two thousand years the western world thought of God as a parent, both benevolent and wrathful. Today both science and spirituality have led us to the view of being connected to divinity as part of a grand unified field, ever emerging and unfolding.
When you set a clear intention both Nature and Spirit reorder your world in order to deliver that which you expect. If you expect bad news... you get bad news. If you expect abundance, you get abundance. I have seen this time and time. Manifestation is a very popular topic, I don't need to explain it here now. However, what I don't think many folks realize is that it all goes much more smoothly if you engage in conversation with both Nature and Spirit.
I'll tell you how I've done it. I ask to connect with Pan and the Deva of Healing - who represent the Nature side of the partnership. They lead the creation and unfoldment of my physical and energetic bodies. Then I ask to connect to the Council of Light. They are the ascended masters, arch-angels, dieties, etc. I don't connect with all of them at once, we each have our own little team of guides. Lastly I ask to connect to my higher self.
From here I either talk directly to them with my voice, or by writing in my journal. I speak about the things I want to heal or learn. Being able to talk about it demonstrates that we're to work on a thing. Most of the time within two or three days some sort of event or drama occurs in my life which appears to be an amplification of that which I've asked to learn or heal. Sometimes it's a re-enactment of something highly emotional. This is an opportunity to live through an event while making new choices and thereby releasing old karma.
Provided I step through the drama with consciousness and care, it then becomes released and I experience an expansion of consciousness as that energy is cleared and re-integrated into my core.
We can work with Nature and Spirit as frequently or infrequently as we like. I generally have a short list of things that I want to work on. There have been periods of time when I healed and released something just about every week. It was a time of rapid growth and change, and it was positive so I let it roll at that faster pace.
Now, there are multiple ways to experience receiving information from the divine. Some of the ways include free writing, painting, art of any kind, channelling, dreaming, meditation, muscle testing, I-ching, runes, tarot, bibliomancy, etc. I have dabbled with most of these but lately I just experience a direct dialogue. The format that works best for you depends upon your learning style. Consider how you would go about learning a new skill such as knitting. Would you get a book, watch a video, have someone show you, hear about it from a friend, etc. After you identify your top two favorite ways to learn, then apply that to communicating with the divine. My primary learning styles are verbal/auditory, and kinestetic. That means that when I'm on a vision quest I actually don't "see" anything. Rather I hear information and I simply know it by a feeling in my body.
I encourage you to invite your guides, either in the way described above or in your own way. Create some sacred space and make a list of what you'd like to work on. Lie still and let Nature and Spirit do energy work in your body. Journal or engage in some form of communication so that you can gain guidance on how to work through your learning list.
Then hang on and enjoy the ride to wholeness and vibrant loving presence!
Much love,
Tree of Terrapin Hollow
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