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

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

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.

Dialogue Circle Basics

Beginning on January 12, 2010; Gaia Rising will host monthly dialogue circles on the second Tuesday of every month. The conference line will allow up to 96 separate callers and even with half that many we must all be aware of some guidelines and ground rules in order to keep the process as smooth and fluid as possible.

Ground Rules and Pointers

1. Join the call a few minutes early so that we can begin promptly.
2. Call in from a phone which has mute capability, if at all possible, and keep yourself muted except when it is your turn to speak.
3. Bring a pencil and paper so that you can keep track of when it will be your turn to speak.
4. Honor all beliefs and values and speak only in love and trust. Seek not to prove or disprove, seek only to hear and be heard.
5. Only speak when it is your turn. Be patient and trust that you will be heard when the time is right.
6. With the exception of the 2 minute check-in at the beginning of each call, take as much time as you need to say what you need to say, but also be mindful of others and as concise as possible.

The Process For Our Dialogue Circle:

1. Tree will begin by asking for first names which begin with the letter A, B, and so on. When your letter is called speak only your first name (or nick-name, it's your preference).
2. After gathering all the names Tree will read back the alphabetized list in order to establish the seating arrangement for the virtual circle. Please write down the several names before yours so that you'll be aware of when it is about to be your turn to speak.
3. Tree will then make opening remarks and the first trip around the circle will begin.
4. The first round is a 2 minute check-in. During your 2 minutes we'd like you to share your name, your geographic location, how you are feeling (mentally, emotionally, spiritually, and/or physically), and whether you enter the circle in the spirit of RELEASE, ACCEPTANCE, or INVITATION. You may take less than 2 minutes, but please do not pass on this round.
5. When the last person has checked in, Tree will pose a question for the next round. Everyone will have the opportunity to either speak or pass.
6. Depending on how many participants are present, there may only be one round before check-outs.
7. Each participant will have up to 2 minutes to check out by sharing their name and any brief sentiment they choose to share.

Watch for subsequent blog posts which will offer additional information about the theory and practice of dialogue.

Gaia Rising: Monthly Dialogue Circles

Gaia Rising hosts a monthly dialogue circle via conference call. The purpose of the circle is to explore personal and planetary transformation in a mutually supportive and caring environment.

Up to 96 people may join a call. Tree will facilitate the dialogue by establishing a virtual circle (in alphabetical order by first name). Each participant will be given the opportunity to speak or pass the "talking stick". Each call will begin with a 2 minute check-in, in which each participant shares where he/she is (emotionally, geographically, mentally, etc.). After the check-in, the dialogue will continue in rounds, with each round centering around a question.

In the beginning, for sake of ease, Tree will pick the questions. After a few calls the group will co-create questions.The calls are scheduled to last 2 hours and will occur the second Tuesday of every month at 8:00 pm Central Time (US) which is 9:00 pm in New York City (as a reference to international guests).


Date: Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Time: 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Location: 218-844-0850, passcode: 209064#