Weโre living in a time when information is endless, certainty is scarce, and every day seems to come with a new theory, threat, or โtruthโ demanding our attention. Somewhere along the way, staying informed quietly turned into staying overwhelmed.
When I look at the energy online, it feels like everyone thinks the answer is to figure everything out, such as finding the right narrative, the real explanation, the hidden cause beneath the chaos. There is a lot of focus on getting the โtruthโ out, but I notice it only ends up as a source of frustration when two sides each have an opposing truth and different facts, studies, or figures to back it up.
Sometimes even pushing for the truth to come out doesnโt end of doing anything. Corruption or injustices appear to go unaddressed or ignored despite people yelling as loud as they can about them (metaphorically). The โbad guyโ always seems to be getting away with something. Which, I know for me, can end up leaving me feeling defeated or helpless.
I often find it simpler and more stabilizing to understand that not everything needs my attention, and not everything I can know actually helps me solve a problem or deception I feel faced with, especially those that exist at a collective level.
What these confusing times has taught me is that there is a difference between being curious and being consumed. Between caring and carrying too much. Between being distracted and focused on what is relevant.
The Exhaustion of Trying to Know Everything
So much of our collective anxiety right now comes from being exposed to more information than we were ever meant to process. Weโre asked to have opinions on global conflicts, economic systems, wars or other threats, scientific claims, political strategies, cultural debates, who we should love or hate, etc., sometimes even before all the facts have come out about a situation or event. And much of it is presented urgently, emotionally, and without context. The result, for me isnโt clarity. Itโs overwhelm and paralysis.
I notice that when people feel overwhelmed, they often respond in one of two ways: they either disengage entirely, or they try to chase certainty, such as through watching more videos, reading more threads, digging deeper in hopes that this next piece of information will finally make everything make sense.
But chasing truth can quietly become a trap.
When Truth-Seeking or Truth Exposing Stops Being Helpful
This may sound uncomfortable, but itโs something Iโve had to accept for my own sanity: not every truth is actionable or exposable in ways that will lead to someone or something outside of ourselves taking action (or the action we want).
Some information might be technically true and knowing or exposing it might still do nothing but agitate our own or othersโ nervous systems. Some questions donโt have answers that change how we live, love, or act. They only influence how anxious or helpless we feel. And some โtruthsโ are presented in ways that invite outrage or fear without offering any meaningful way forward.
Some people might not know what to pay attention to or what not to, or might even feel guilty if they feel they arenโt โcaringโ enough. But it is important to remember that being informed isnโt the same thing as being effective.
At a certain point, consuming more information doesnโt lead to insight. It leads to rumination. And rumination looks a lot like engagement, but it doesnโt actually move anything.
The Filter I Use to Weed Out What To Focus On: Relevance and Agency
Over time, Iโve learned to run information through a different filter, one that isnโt about whether something is interesting, shocking, or even possibly true.
I ask myself:
Does this affect something I can realistically influence?
Does this change how I live, choose, create, or care?
Does this lead to action, clarity, or compassion as opposed to just reaction?
If the answer is no, I let it go.
This isnโt about apathy. Itโs about stewardship of attention. I only have so much mental and emotional energy, and Iโve learned to give it to the places where it can actually do some good.
Action as an Anchor
One of the most grounding things Iโve learned is that action steadies the mind. Even small, imperfect action.
That might look like:
focusing on relationships you can tend
creating something tangible
improving one corner of your life or community
learning something because it helps youย doย something, not just argue about it
I also try to empower myself as opposed to giving power away (which I am in no way trying to claim I am perfect at) by:
approaching situations, asking how I can contribute in positive ways (or where you have contributed in negative ways), rather than getting stuck on what others can do, or did or didnโt do.
looking for ways to support myself or others through a challenge, instead of waiting for someone else to step in and rescue a situation.
paying attention to the types of actions that arenโt working (or creating a feeling of release or resolution) in order to come up with a different approach.
Action doesnโt require total certainty. It requires direction,
When I feel pulled into endless commentary or hypothetical futures, I try to return to questions like: What can I build? What can I contribute? What is within reach right now? What can I teach instead of just expose? How can I think out of the box so that I can dream up an out-of-the box solution or something I can take action with?
Those questions donโt make me feel either ignorant or superior to others, they simply make me feel oriented.
Tuning Out Without Checking Out
Tuning out the noise doesnโt mean pretending the world is fine or turning away from suffering. It means recognizing that constant exposure to everything does not equal responsibility.
Thereโs a difference between being awake and being overwhelmed.
We donโt need to carry every crisis in our body to care about the world. We donโt need to decode every narrative to live ethically. And we donโt need to have an opinion on everything in order to act with integrity where we are.
Here is where discernment can become a quiet form of resistance.
Choosing Relevance in a Loud World
We live in a culture that rewards reaction more than reflection, certainty more than humility, and volume more than wisdom. In that environment, choosing relevance over noise can feel almost radical, but also deeply human.
I donโt believe the answer to confusion is figuring everything out. I think itโs learning how to decide what actually matters โ and giving our attention, care, and effort to those things.
Clarity doesnโt always come from knowing more. Sometimes it comes from knowing what to ignore.
A Simple Relevance Check
When something pulls at your attention, such as a headline, a video, a theory, or a debate, pause and ask:
1. Is this relevant to my life right now?(Not interesting or alarming, but relevant).
2. Does this affect something I can influence or respond to? (Even in a small, local, or imperfect way).
3. Does knowing this change how I live, choose, create, or care? (If it doesnโt alter behavior, values, or action, it may not need to occupy space in my head).
4. Does this invite action, clarity, or compassion as opposed to just reaction (Reaction can be draining, while action can be grounding).
5. If I let this go, what would I actually lose? (If the answer is nothing essential, then I donโt need to obsess about it).
If something doesnโt pass the relevance check, itโs okay to release it. Not because it doesnโt matter, but keeping sane in an insane world matters more.
…Question: What does it mean to “game the system”?
Answer: Using the rules, loopholes, or mechanics of a system to gain an advantage….
….Go within. Make new priorities. Examine the system for what is really is and how it affects you. Its effects are not minimal. They are addictive.
Learn to see things from a different lens or perspective. Prioritize the inner over the outer. Find things you can do that donโt engage you in the system or its economy.
Grow something. Join with others in community. Go back to basics. If the system collapses, what will you do? How will you cope? Find a way. Donโt wait for an event to happen to push you in this direction. Allow this direction to arise from within.
Do it in steps. You donโt have to master everything overnight. You just have to be willing to learn something new, a little at a time. Donโt get disappointed or discouraged too easily. Itโs a completely new learning process for you. It has ups and downs.
Support small businesses. Give it a go. What do you have to lose? What do you have to gain? Who are you allowing to gain when you support what is top-down rather than bottom-up?
Treat economy like it is a game with winners and losers. The winners are on the top and the losers miss out. Ask how you can game the system so that everyone wins… or how you can create more balance….
Dandelions are among the most resilient and generous plants on Earth. They grow without permission, thrive in poor soil, and offer nourishment and medicine freely. Every part of them can be used (from leaves, to roots, to flowers), yet we are taught to see them as weeds, something to be removed before they disrupt the order of things.
This story we tell about dandelions is not really about plants. It reflects how we are taught to relate to life and ourselves.
Dandelion Energy & Borrowed Maps / Inherited Paths
From an early age, many of us inherit roadmaps for how life is meant to unfold, and even what kind of flower we are expected to become. Our paths, purposes, and destinations (the gardens we are meant to grow in) are shaped by family expectations, cultural norms, economic pressures, and survival needs.
We are seeded to thrive within specific environments, encouraged to grow into forms that fit particular gardens or ecosystems. These environments offer structure and protection, creating containers, i.e., systems with rules, roles, and requirements that allow the garden to sustain itself. In many cases, these systems include hierarchies, with different plants assigned different functions to keep the whole garden operating smoothly.
Such containers can be supportive. But they can also be limiting.
Like fish who have never seen beyond the pond they swim in, we may struggle to imagine the vastness of what exists outside the boundaries we were given. We might not even know to ask questions. Why would a fish have questions about what is outside the pond if it doesnโt understand there is anything outside of it?
The maps we inherit tend to point us toward what is tried, tested, and familiar, rather than toward new or unimagined destinations. Often, these maps are drawn long before we have the chance to ask whether they truly reflect who we are.
At first, these paths can feel practical or even protective. Over time, however, some begin to loosen. What once guided us starts to feel heavy, confining, or quietly misaligned.
Where Dandelion Energy Becomes Essential
How many of us feel like misaligned dandelions, rooted in soil that asks us to sell ourselves to stay alive, to purchase our place on the Earth, and to feed systems that donโt nourish us (and that grow larger while we grow smaller)? How many sense there must be another way? Not a return to old authoritarian models that have failed, but a path still waiting to be imagined?
Unlike carefully cultivated plants, the dandelion does not rely on a managed garden to survive. It grows where it can, nourishes itself, and adapts with remarkable resilience. In this way, it becomes a powerful symbol for those drawn toward off-grid living or out-of-the-box thinking. It favors those who favor self-reliance, willing to live less dependent on tightly controlled systems.
By embracing dandelion energy, we become more willing to drift where the wind (the mind or spirit) carries us and to land in unfamiliar places, explore new containers, and test environments we were never taught to consider. In doing this, we can feel carried to a destination that feels more authentic. This does not require rebellion or destruction. It does not ask us to burn down the garden. It does not ask other flowers to uproot themselves.
Instead, it invites release. Growth, it reminds us, does not always come from forcing change. Sometimes it comes from letting go, listening inwardly, and allowing ourselves to discover where we truly want to take root.
Dandelion Energy and Personal Destinations
Dandelion energy is especially supportive when we are grappling with change, such as change involving systems, environments, and ecosystems: the rules, roles, and containers we live within.
Often labeled a weed (noxious to some, yet nourishing and medicinal to others) the dandelion thrives precisely because it is less fragile and less dependent. It does not require ideal conditions or constant management. Its resilience allows it to settle almost anywhere, adapting rather than conforming.
Dandelions grow everywhere. You can find them between sidewalk cracks, along roadsides, in city parks, and across open countryside. They do not avoid dense systems or shared human spaces. And yet, it is often in cities (where collective agendas, aesthetics, and efficiency dominate) that we feel the strongest urge to uproot them. Uniformity is prized. Beauty is often defined by control. Growth is managed. What does not conform to the blueprint, or threatens to spread beyond its assigned place, is quickly labeled a problem.
While dandelions can grow almost anywhere, open land (symbolic of the open mind) offers fewer pressures to conform and less risk of being uprooted. This is not because it is better, but because there is more space for variation. Neither environment is wrong. Both are part of the whole. But dandelions quietly reveal how shared momentum, when left unquestioned, can make us wary of anything that grows freely, feeds without permission, or refuses to stay contained.
In this way, dandelions become mirrors. They ask us where we have learned to value control over nourishment, obedience over intuition, and sameness over resilience.
Dandelion Energy and Collective Transformation
On a collective level, dandelion energy invites a different kind of transformation. This kind of transformation is one that begins not with tearing systems down, but with loosening our attachment to the idea that what already exists is the only way things can be done.
When enough people stop uprooting what feeds them most easily, imagination returns.
New ways of living, sharing, and supporting one another do not need to arrive fully formed or universally adopted. Like dandelion seeds, these ideas travel lightly. They allow us to test possibilities without demanding rigid commitment (containers) or immediate conformity (to a garden blueprint). We can explore new approaches to cooperation, exchange, energy, and value. We can let what resonates take root, allowing what does not to drift onward without failure or shame.
In this way, innovation becomes less about enforcing solutions and more about listening. Some ideas settle and grow. Others carry insight to new places. Each is part of a living experiment guided by responsiveness, trust, and real human needs.
This kind of transformation does not reject progress or technology. It does not ask us to abandon advancement. Instead, it invites us to imagine systems that support equality, freedom, and nourishment without recreating hierarchies of dependency, fear, or scarcity. It asks what might be possible if survival were not driven solely by competition, labels, or control, but by shared well-being and creative adaptability.
Perhaps the future does not require us to fight harder against what is. Perhaps it begins when we loosen our grip on it.
And perhaps transformation begins when we stop pulling ourselves up by the roots and allow the wind to carry us somewhere new.
Dandelion is an invitation to release borrowed maps and trust where the wind carries you.
Why This World Feels Like a Simulation After a Near-Death Experience (NDE)
The soul vs. the avatar: navigating life after remembering the other side
Near-death experiences crack something open. People can come back with memories they canโt rationalize, clarity they canโt forget, and a strange new relationship with the physical world. For many, the return to โordinary lifeโ may feel somewhat “off.” Something feels artificial or thin, like waking from the most vivid dream into a dimly lit room.
For me, it was a feeling of, โThis world feels less real and more like a simulation.โ Prior to my experience, I had suffered from chronic sleep paralysis and hypnogogic hallucinations. This drove me to want to study my dreams, writing them all down in a journal and using a dream dictionary to interpret them. This led to a lot of lucid dreaming where I would interpret my dreams while dreaming them. However, after a near death experience, I started having the feeling that life operated in the same way…. even in the sense that I can get out the same dictionary to decode what is happening in reality to become more lucid. I have had those thoughts that maybe life is some sort of hologram, or at least, in the spiritual sense, it is a stage, a classroom, or a constructed field of lessons (not just personal ones but collective ones, as well).
One particular experience I had was that on the other side I realized reality isn’t solid. It could disappear like smoke. I even had the thought that I had everything backwards, that ghosts don’t walk through walls because they aren’t solid, they can walk through walls because the walls aren’t solid either. The first thing I did when returning to my body was touch the walls, to test to see how solid they were.
And, I’m sure this isn’t just reserved for people who have experienced an NDE. So, if youโve felt this, you are not alone. According to ChatGPT (which I used to understand my experience), hereโs why so many NDE survivors describe life afterward as simulation-like… and why that perception might actually be a sign of awakening rather than distortion.
1. The Other Side Feels โMore Realโ Than Earth, Which Reorients One’s Earthly Perceptions
People expect heaven to feel peaceful or even etherical. They do not expect it to feel more solid, more familiar, more โhomeโ than the physical world. Yet this is exactly what countless experiencers report:
Colors are more saturated
Thought and reality merge seamlessly
Communication is instantaneous
Identity feels whole, not fragmented
There is no โlagโ between intention and manifestation
Truth is felt directly, not interpreted
Compared to that, Earth can feel:
muted
dreamlike
heavy
slow
glitchy
constrained
Itโs not that Earth is fake, but that the “Other Side” is so real that it reframes Earth as a lesser-density environment, like entering a dimly lit room after standing in full sunlight.
2. The Body Suddenly Feels Like a Costume
After an NDE, the physical body can feel:
too small
mechanical
heavy
limiting
unfamiliar
Like wearing someone elseโs coat that doesnโt quite fit. Many experiencers say, โMy real self didnโt fit inside my body anymore.โ This mismatch creates the sense that Earth-life is a form of role-playing or avatar kind of experience rather than the totality of who you are.
This is one of the primary reasons the world feels simulation-like. You remember your consciousness existing independently of the body and functioning far better without it. For me, I also remember thinking how I couldn’t feel fear even if I tried. Instead, I felt this sense of expansiveness. I realized that the reason was because, without a body, I didn’t feel a charge of adrenaline. Coming back to my body, I was subjected to all those bio-chemical experiences (feeling disappointed I was succumbing to them).
3. Earth-Learnings Reveal Themselves as โScripted Experiencesโ
On the “Other Side,” lessons are understood instantly:
why you came
what certain challenges are shaping
how your relationships support your growth
where your soul is evolving
what themes your life is working through
When you return, you can almost feel the architecture behind experiences and can experience how events line up with uncanny timing, the way certain people appear at key crossroads, the way synchronicity becomes the guiding language.
Life begins to resemble:
a curriculum
a storyline
a mission
a guided growth simulation
How I started to see it was like a script that I was writing where I had the outline written before I came. I knew what I wanted to experience and the relationships I wanted to engage in. While writing the book, however, things can change, the story can move in any number of directions or even the ending can be different. The more lucid we are writing it, the more we feel in control.
4. Thoughts Become More Potent, Making Reality Feel Responsive
After an NDE, many people notice:
accelerated manifestation
heightened intuition
synchronicities clustering
โknowingโ what will happen before it does
feeling other peopleโs emotions more strongly
Though I don’t just think this pertains to NDEs but can accompany a spiritual awakening triggered by intense meditation, trauma, or other types of experiences. Such experiences seem to cause the boundary between inner and outer to thin. The world begins to feel less like a solid structure and more like a responsive dream. Not necessarily imaginary, but interactive, malยญleable, and energetic.
That responsiveness can make Earth feel simulation-like because reality starts behaving less like fixed matter and more like a conscious mirror.
5. You Remember the Feeling of Freedom, While the Earth Feels Restrictive
On the other side:
you feel no fear
you know without thinking
you travel without moving
you communicate without words
you exist without effort
you feel unconditional love without trying or thinking you have to earn the right
Returning to Earth can feel like:
restriction
compression
sensory overload
emotional turbulence
being placed โback in the mazeโ
Itโs a jarring contrast, enough to make Earth seem like a temporary training simulation rather than your true home.
6. You Become More Aware of Programming, Conditioning, and โThe Systemโ
According to ChatGPT, people who return from NDEs often become highly sensitive to:
societal manipulation
psychological conditioning
cultural programming
fear-based narratives
emotional control
propaganda
systems that suppress truth
structures that limit consciousness
Once youโve experienced freedom at the soul level, you begin to see how humans are shaped by invisible forces:
family dynamics
trauma loops
collective fear
societal expectations
survival pressures
subconscious imprinting
This contrast makes Earth feel like a place where consciousness comes to experience limitation, illusion, choice, and awakening. These are the very qualities of a simulation designed for growth…..
Entities: Ones We See and Clear and the Ones That Rule our Everyday Lives
How Energetic Attachments Mirror Our Consumer Ones
In the spiritual community, the word entity is often whispered with reverence or caution. It evokes unseen energies that attach to us, influence our thoughts, fuel our fears, or drain our light. Many spiritual practitioners spend years learning how to clear cords, release attachments, strengthen their energy bodies, and cultivate sovereignty of consciousness.
But few ever notice that the same word โentityโ is used for something far more mundane: companies, corporations, institutions, brands, governments, groups, and lifestyles.
Both are โentities.โ
Both interact with us energetically.
Both can shape our thoughts, influence our choices, fuel our emotions, and redirect our life force.
Both have manifesting power within the world if we align with them or allow them to influence our thoughts and beliefs.
Yet we treat one with vigilanceโฆ and the other with indifference, probably because we donโt know how to deal with this type of interference as it is so conditioned into how we live our lives.
Awakening shows us the Garden. Co-creation teaches us how to grow it.
At first, awakening feels internal. It feels like clarity, remembering, healing, and inner alignment. But eventually, it asks a sacred question: What happens when we stop only attracting reality and begin shaping it?
This is where manifestation evolves into co-creation, prayer begins to touch policy, and spiritual alignment influences lifestyle, community, design, and systems. It is where our inner values and worldly actions (or participation) begin to match.
The Highest Form of Manifestation Is Not Consumption but Participation.
Manifestation (via the Law of Supply and Demand) isn’t just about attracting/consuming what already exists. Itโs also about calling into existence something completely new. In fact, being more conscious of how the Law of Supply and Demand operates can act as a reminder of how powerful we are when we understand how we affect a demand and supply cycle.
We donโt manifest new realities through isolation, perfection, or escape. We manifest them through aligned participation and deciding what we truly want to exist or to be “supplied” in our world. Not through force, but through supporting what mirrors our values, nourishing what reflects wholeness, and investing energy into what is healthy, beautiful, regenerative, and alive.
This is creative demand that is less feeding systems we no longer believe in, but helping grow the ones we do.
What Does Co-Creation Look Like?
Co-creation doesnโt begin with revolutions or perfection. It starts quietly, in small, consistent acts of alignment:
We tend to think in a backwards manner when we think of changing our systems. Maybe we should go back to communism, maybe socialism will work if done right, maybe we need capitalism, etc. etc. We rarely think as designers or architects of something new. We wait for other architects to design something for us, but designing things is not so hard to do if you know how to think creatively (willing to take risks to try something new).
Small things that can be done include:
Starting a community garden or regenerative space
Creating healing art, wisdom, or storytelling
Supporting ethical business, shared learning, local innovation
Gathering in circles for collaboration, not competition
Innovating energy, food, or education based on reverence for life
These are not just โprojects.โ They are early foundations for new realities, each one emerging from deciding what we truly value.
You Donโt Need to Change Everything.
You are not being asked to build a utopia, dismantle injustice, or fix what is broken. You are simply being invited to:
Stop unconsciously feeding what does not reflect your truth
Begin nourishing what does
Every aligned choice, no matter how small, redirects reality. You are not here to carry the whole world. You are here to tend to your part of it, and trust that others will do the same.
And that (quietly, humbly, beautifully) is how new worlds are born.
Manifestation is not just imagination. It is participation.
Not an individual performance, but a collective remembering. It’s not an escape from Earth or responsibility to be good stewards, but a gentle returning to Her.
To read the full version of this article, visit my Substack: โSovereign Co-Creation: When Manifestation Becomes Architecture.โ
We know now that demand (when it comes to the Law of Supply and Demand) is not just about commerce or the market. It is about energy, alignment, agreement, and participation (such as in systems and lifestyles).
But what happens when our demand isnโt truly ours? What happens when our desires are influenced, shaped, and engineered… not by our hearts, but by algorithms, fear, marketing, convenience, or social pressure?
This is the hidden force behind modern manifestation: We are contributing to realities we did not consciously choose, simply by participating in them.
When Desire Gets Designed for Us
We often think desire is organic, something that rises naturally from within. But in todayโs world, much of what we think we want was actually suggested to us. Not through force, but through:
Emotional marketing shaping what we should dream of
Algorithms training our attention and desires
Scarcity narratives that keep us consuming
Convenience culture conditioning us to avoid effort
Social pressure telling us what success, happiness, or spirituality should look like
Over time, these influences donโt just sell products, they sell realities. They quietly script what we believe is normal, possible, desirable, or even necessary. And when something feels โnormal,โ we stop questioning it, but this doesn’t mean we aren’t lending it the power to manifest, rooting it more deeply, even if it isn’t truly something that aligns with our spiritual values or what we truly want manifested in the world.
When people feel lonely, industries sell digital belonging.
When people feel anxious, industries sell numbing.
When people feel inadequate, industries sell identity.
When people feel powerless, industries bank on it through selling temporary solutions
When people begin to awaken, industries sell โversionsโ of awakening that donโt threaten the system itself.
The Spiritual Cost: When Our Manifestation Power Is Rerouted
We may pray for peace, but spend hours consuming outrage. We may desire connection, but engage mostly with digital substitutes. We may value sustainability, but buy what is easiest or cheapest at the expense of the environment. We may want freedom, but rely on systems that keep us dependent.
This doesn’t make us hypocritical. It makes us human in a conditioned world. But we are capable of overcoming this conditioning and understanding that when our conscious intentions and our unconscious participation do not align our manifestation power becomes fragmented.
We begin supplying realities we never meant to empower.
The Turning Point: Awakening from Manufactured Demand
The first step is not to blame, shame, or radically withdraw, but to simply to notice. Ask yourself: Where did this desire come from? Did I choose it, or was it chosen for me for someone else’s profit?
Awareness is sovereignty. When we start noticing what feels true, and what feels programmed, we begin reclaiming our right to desire differently.
And Here Is the Beautiful News:
You donโt need to fix the system, change all your choices, or live perfectly. You only need to begin choosing with awareness. One aligned choice is more powerful than a thousand unconscious ones. One conscious moment can interrupt years of conditioning. And one enlightened decision can redirect the flow of energy.
If this resonates with you, you can read the full version of Article 2 on my Substack:โThe Hijacking of Demand: How Modern Systems Shape Reality Without Our Consent.โ
Weโve been taught that the Law of Attraction is something private and that we manifest through thoughts, intentions, and vibration. And while that is beautifully true, it is not the whole truth, because manifestation doesnโt just shape personal experiences. It also shapes collective reality.
Every day, we contribute to manifestation not only with thoughts and prayers, but with choices, habits, purchases, clicks, and participation. We are not just thinking beings, but energetic contributors to a shared world. And this is where the Law of Attraction quietly merges with the Law of Supply & Demand.
If the Law of Attraction shapes a personal reality from what we think, intend, and pray for, then the Law of Supply & Demand shapes our collective reality from our lifestyles, cultures, participation in systems, and how we engage in and participate with the world. This is true even in a Law of Supply and Demand model where we are part of demand that is supplied, which there can be byproducts we don’t think we are asking for, though if we look deeper we see that we are.
The Law of Attraction and Law of Supply and Demand aren’t necessarily two separate laws, but two programs running on the same operating system of our manufactured reality.
What we focus on individually, we attract.
What we normalize collectively, we manifest into reality.
The world is not just shaped by what we wish for but by what we repeat, support, fund, or quietly allow.
Demand Doesnโt Just Mean Money. It Means Energy
Demand is formed by everything we continually feed. It includes:
What we consume
What we subscribe to
What we share or react to
What we normalize through lifestyle
We may say we want peace, but if we repeatedly consume what promotes fear, status, division, or distraction, then we are unintentionally helping supply that reality.
Not because we are wrong, but because we didnโt realize that participation is manifestation.
The World Becomes What We Repeatedly Ask Of It
If enough people demand convenience, convenience industries bloom. If enough people crave escapism, entertainment multiplies. And if enough people demand awakening, awakening resources appear everywhere.
The world is always listening, not just to our words, but to our patterns.
This is why spiritual change must eventually become practical, not through guilt or perfection, but through alignment between:
What we pray for
What we believe in
What we support and participate in
Manifestation arises not just from what we ask for, but how we live our lives. Understanding this helps us to awaken and evolve into conscious co-creators instead of just unconscious participators.
If this resonates and you feel called to explore deeper, you can read the full version of Article 1 on my Substack.
Transitioning From Dependency To Divinely Aligned Stewardship
The Inheritance Forgotten
In the hush between dreaming and dawn, two angelic messengers once led me through the veils of time. They showed me two futures: one trembling (more near future), one serene (after the trembles were smoothed away).
In the former dreams, the world was unraveling. democracies were falling, and cities hummed with unrest. Some submitted to a new and coming system while others, tired of clinging to old dependencies, scattered like leaves in the wind. Yet, hidden beneath the scattering, small lights began to appear. Hearts began to remember something older than fear.
In those dreams where I was shown a future father out, the chaos had faded, and before me bloomed a gentle Earth reborn. People lived not by domination but by harmony. Geodesic domes, glistening in white, gleamed across meadows. Gardens climbed rooftops, bee keepers tended bees, ponds spang fresh fish, and rivers and streams ran clean. The air was filled with the contentment of those who had learned to live in rhythm again. Money no longer ruled; trade flowed like kindness, and wisdom and empathy moved freely among souls.
As the angels watched the scene beside me, they whispered:
โThis is not another world. It is this one, renewed. It will arise when humanity remembers who they are and where they come from. It will awaken when they comprehend their true creative power. It will manifest when Law of Attraction dances with the Law of Supply and Demand, and people move like lucid dreamers through the world of form. It will be born when humankind learns a new language, and spirit and matter begin to speak the same tongue. It will reveal itself when cause and effect is fully understood, and symbols of imbalance guide humans to make new choices.โ
The more I experienced such dreams, the more a knowing within me arose that we are heirs not to hierarchical systems of control, but to the living Kingdom that grows wherever love, faith, and community take root. But to reach this point of change, we need to see where we stand on a ladder of growth and make a decision to mature.
Are We Leaving Something Out of Our Spiritual Practice?
Read the condensed version of this article (written in 2013) at Om Times Magazine >>
If we begin to see nature as a Bank of Life, we will be more mindful of where we are becoming “overdrawn,” suffering from “debts,” and need to make a “deposit.”
Across many traditions, be they Christian, New Age, Buddhist, Muslim, and beyond, one essential element often goes overlooked: a living relationship with Nature.
Even those raised in faith-based traditions may admire scripture that praises creation, yet never fully embody the reverence those teachings describe. Nature becomes admired from a distance rather than integrated into daily living.
In the New Age movement, the connection tends to be more symbolic than experiential. We send healing energy or think thoughts of love toward the Earth, but rarely deepen into the kind of relationship that transforms behavior, values, or lifestyle. The question becomes, “Do we truly value Nature more than the conveniences and possessions created at her expense?“
Nature as a Mirror of Wholeness
Many spiritual ideals (including unity, oneness, wholeness) become easier to understand when we reconnect with Nature in a real, consistent way.
This is because nature mirrors the energy of the collective. She reflects abundance, beauty, and harmony. She also reveals where humanity is out of balance. She communicates constantly, not through words, but through the state of her waters, forests, soils, and skies. What she most profoundly communicates is that when we lose the ability to see the sacredness in Nature, we often lose sight of the sacredness in ourselves.
The Rise of โLifelessnessโ in a Material World
Humanity has gradually shifted its emotional loyalty toward non-living creations: objects, gadgets, conveniences, and technologies. These are made from Nature, yet we value the lifeless product more than the life that was sacrificed to create it.
We aren’t bad, necessarily because we do this. We live in a culture which our very survival depends our our having a mindset of โnever enoughness.โ We need to work more, create more, buy more (even having to pay to live on the earth’s body), pay taxes, and other requirements that separate us from nature and one another (treating ourselves and others in a buy-and-sell way) opposed to bring us closer.
Even in societies where most people have more than enough for basic needs, we are conditioned to believe we must constantly acquire more. As a result:
We focus on the future instead of the present
We feel anxious about what we might lose
We overlook the beauty that is already around us
We focus on the lifeless more than life itself
Nature reflects this imbalance by showing us, through environmental decline, how little we are treasuring life compared to lifeless things. If it really is true that we manifest what we focus on, then if collective, we are predominantly focused on what is lifeless (allowing life to recede from our awareness) then it makes sense that life, in the physical realm, would start to disappear.
Is Nature โManifestingโ or Simply Responding?
Some Law of Attraction teachers suggest disasters occur because humanity fears catastrophe, and this type of focuses makes them materialize. But a more grounded explanation is that people fear harm to Nature because they see harm happening… and feel helpless to live or act in ways to prevent this. Feeling helpless, it is easy to go into denial. It becomes someone else’s problem as we continue to focus on how we need to harm life (living with cognitive dissonance that we are doing this) in order to survive.
What would help us more is to understand that environmental changes act a mirror of human behavior,. Nature mirrors the natural outcome of extraction, pollution, overproduction, and emotional disconnection.
This isnโt about guilt. Itโs about awareness. We are meant to care. Caring is a sign of emotional and spiritual health, not weakness.
When we recognize Nature as part of us, and ourselves as part of Her, we begin to repair the separation that fuels both environmental damage and inner emptiness.
Choosing Lifelessness Over Life
Collectively, we have been choosing lifelessness:
Speed over slowness
Convenience over connection
Productivity over presence
Burning out over replenishing
Consumption over conservation
We protect objects more fiercely than living things. Nature reflects this choice back to us through loss of vitality, species decline, and environmental stress. She mirrors to us what we treasure and where we place value. She mirrors that we don’t view life and worthy of protection, what is lifeless has more meaning in our busy lives. She is a reflection of our own internal strain.
The Law of Excess and Depletion
Every choice that creates excess also creates depletion somewhere else. This applies to both planetary and personal energy. When we overproduce, overwork, or overconsume:
Resources get depleted
Our bodies become exhausted
Our emotional reserves diminish
Balance is lost
Nature operates through balance. When we break that balance, the consequences appear both internally and externally.
If we begin to see nature as a Bank of Life, we will be more mindful of where we are becoming “overdrawn,” suffering from “debts,” and need to make a “deposit.”
Returning to What Is Sacred
As we move forward, weโre being asked (spiritually and collectively) to reclaim reverence for what has life. This includes:
Nature
Animals
Our own bodies
Our children
The ecosystems we depend upon
When we restore our relationship with living things, we restore our connection to the Divine Spark within ourselves.
Nature as a Guide to Manifesting More ConstructivelyRather than Destructively
To understand what we are manifesting as a collective, we must ask ourselves:
Why do we create as we do? Who benefits?
Why do we value lifeless objects more than living beings?
Why have we forgotten how to enjoy or protect Nature?
Why are we comfortable with the destruction of life, including our own vitality?
These questions open the doorway to inner and outer healing. When I look at Nature and what she is communicating, I hear her whisper, “You must learn how to grow things.” Not just plants, but life itself, including emotional life, relational life, planetary life.
When we nurture something living, our energy naturally shifts from destruction to creation, from disconnection to care. It restores emotional clarity, intuition, and balance. It balances the Divine Feminine with the Divine Masculine in a world where the Divine Feminine seems overlooked or abandoned.
Seeing the Larger Web of Consciousness
Collective consciousness isnโt just about protecting human energy. Itโs about recognizing how our thoughts, fears, and behaviors shape the world around us, including our bodies, our health, and the environment. Its about seeing the fears we never really see or tend to because they are so normalized into our existence.
Lets go back to the example of manifesting disasters because we are afraid of them and so our fear is manifesting them. A good question to ask is, Why do we fear manifesting them? If we really examine deeply, is it because we can see what our collective actions are manifesting and we fear we can’t let go of participating in such lifestyles or actions? So these are the deep-rooted fears we need to begin to address.
We need to also have the courage to come up with new ideas, new models for lifestyles or even political systems which lead to our predicament. I think many of us are afraid to dream this way… I think because we feel too small to come up with powerful ideas, such as:
having community gardens or greenhouses on every blook as well as a fruit-bearing tree in every backyard (where possible) to reduce dependency on supermarkets and help with food insecurity and poverty.
having vertical gardens, rooftop gardens, indoor gardens
working with technologist to make gardening more easy and convenient
working with technologists to create plug-n-play alternative power solutions to free us from grid dependency (which forces us to be beholden to powerful energy companies, as well as the mining and transportation of power which incurs costs to nture, and the risks of pollution.
Buying more local, boycotting big monopolies, getting back to basics, focusing on community.
On the other hand, when we normalize stress, fatigue, powerlessness, depletion, and emotional shutdown, we lose the ability to notice and protect what is sacred. We manifest more of what isn’t sacred rather than what is. We manifest more of what is lifeless rather than what has life. We begin treating our own vitality the same way society treats Nature: as expendable.
The Invitation: Bring Nature Back Into Spirituality
When we bring Nature into our spiritual life, something shifts:
We reconnect with what is real
We regain sensitivity to life
We begin healing from the inside out
We rediscover beauty and enoughness
We remember we are part of a living Earth
And slowly, the missing piece of spirituality falls back into place.
Abundance can mean different things to different people. While the dictionary defines abundance as โa great and plentiful amount,โ โfullness to overflowing,โ and โaffluence; wealth,โ each of these definitions is open to interpretation as well. What is wealth to one person may be valueless to another, and vice versa. So, if we could categorize each kind of abundance by connecting it to a color, what would that color be, and what would make each category different? What would each color type say about the individual who is attracted to it?
White:
White abundance drives those who seek it to find their own connection to the divine. Those attracted to white abundance desire their cup to โrunneth over,โ but in this case, the Self is the cup. Their greatest treasures lie within the self; within a connection to the eternal rather than the transitory. For this reason, those attracted to white abundance tend to live the experience of being abundant and knowing abundance, rather than seeking abundance. With this mind-set, every moment is one of gratitude for what one already is or has, without any need to gain something in the future to complete oneself.
Violet:
Violet abundance reflects the seeking for wisdom. As such, individuals who pursue this type of abundance are seeking to fill the cup within their mind. Those who resonate with Violet abundance are usually devourers of books and information. They love learning new things, going to school, or taking classes. The wisdom and knowledge they feel blessed with is their true treasure. This type of abundance us best sought through inner passion rather than to feel superior to others.
Indigo:
Indigo abundance reflects what can be gained through being of service to others. Those who seek indigo abundance include intuitives, healers, guides, teachers, empaths and caregivers. Many of them take on or empathize with the pain or suffering of others and transmute this energy into caring and healing. Those attracted to this type of abundance cope best if they have boundaries. Otherwise, they can develop codependency issues, resentments, depletion, or a martyr complex.
Blue:
Blue abundance is the abundance of story weavers, actors, artists, writers and communicators of all kinds. This type of abundance is found through possessing a voice and having someone to hear it. Many who seek blue abundance have a message to share. The ability to express an identity and truth is important to them. However, when out of balance, those attracted to blue abundance can become defensive/sensitive to criticism, lose their sense of self, or may feel depressed if they feel unheard or not validated.
Green:
Green abundance is the abundance of the heart and of nature. In fact, if you look at the word โearthโ and take the โhโ off the end and place it in front of the word, you create the word โheart.โ Those who seek green abundance tend less to seek such abundance as to appreciate its presenceโthrough the appreciation of nature and all of our emotions and experiences. They thrive when they can embrace the natural world and its beauty and complexity. As a result, they are often protectors of the environment or of animals. Those who resonate with green abundance can develop issues if what is natural within or without them becomes suppressed, disrupted or mistrusted. They can suffer from emotional, energetic or physical issues and/or sensitivities if they try to go against nature or a natural cycle, diet or flow.
Yellow:
Yellow abundance most resonates with joy, playfulness, and humor. People who resonate with yellow abundance are usually the life of the party. What they most treasure in life are the things that make them feel light and full of pleasure. In fact, people who are attracted to yellow abundance have a faery or hummingbird like quality about them. They do not always do well when around depressing types who smother their magical energy. They have to be careful of not resorting to denial, addiction or escapism if a reality becomes difficult to face. They do not do well being controlled or caged as they need to feel free and inspired.
Orange:
Orange abundance resonates with creativity. People who treasure orange abundance are often highly inspired and creative types. They may be feelers rather than thinkers, and the things they feel inspired to create tend to be heart felt or contribute to a larger purpose in some way. People craving orange abundance need a purpose and feel moved to create something inspirational to serve it. When not feeling a sense of purpose they can feel lost, lazy or unmotivated.
Red:
Red abundance resonates with fame, power and authority. People who treasure red abundance are driven to succeed in the world and to be recognized. This is more valuable to them than any money to be gained. They have to be careful at times that they do not become overly competitive, self-involved and driven or they can become cold or unfeeling toward others. Due to the more transitory nature of this type of abundance, they have to be careful not to over-strive, burnout, or become despondent if knocked down a few pegs.
Pink:
Pink abundance resonates with love and relationships. People who are attracted to pink abundance feel most abundant when they have love and romance in their lives. In, fact, their main drive in life may be to attract the perfect or ideal relationship. They could have all the money or riches in the world but it would mean very little without their friends, family or a loving relationship to share it with. When out of balance, they can become co-dependent.
Black:
Black abundance is connected to the void, the occult and mysteries. People attracted to black abundance are not afraid of the dark or of what most people consider negative. They are not afraid of challenges. They thrive off of them and on turning negatives into positives. They love to learn the deeper mysteries in life and may be attracted to magic or the occult arts. When out of balance they can become morbid or depressing.
Grey:
Grey abundance resonates with the drive toward accumulating material treasures. Those attracted to grey abundance may be generous and have good manifesting abilities. They do best when motivated by a desire for sharing rather than greed, and if they can complement their desire for grey abundance with learning to appreciate green abundance as well (which contains life). When out of balance, they risk becoming as lifeless, low vitality or un-nature-al (cut off from their emotions) as the lifeless treasures they seek. They may have a hard time living in the present moment, preferring to focus on the future or outcomes. Unless they can develop a sense of abundance from within, they may experience fear of loss and have a hard time letting go of whatever they consider to be a possession.
In the end, there is a rainbow of abundance available to every seeker who seeks it. There is also a rainbow of abundance that we already possessโif we can acknowledge it. We each carry within us all the colors of abundance, and we can manifest any color that we desire.
By hosting the Archangels, Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, Uriel, Metatron and Ariel (optional) โ you are assisting them to serve Humanity and Mother Earth in more direct ways.
Hosting the Archangels is a simple yet profound spiritual practice that allows you to welcome Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, Uriel, Metatron, and optionally Ariel, into your home for five days. By doing so, you assist their work for Humanity and Mother Earth in a direct, heart-centered way.
This tradition began in 2010 through a New Yorkโbased medium named Irmi, who received intuitive inspiration after watching the film Pay it Forward. Since then, the ritual has quietly circled the globe, passed from person to person like a blessing carried on a whisper.
If you want to host the Archangels without using candles or physical items, you can do so. It is more about your intention rather than ritual. Some people connect better with a ritual, while others may not need them.
Preparing Your Home
Before the Archangels arrive, youโll prepare a small altar. Youโll need:
A white flower
A candle (lit when you are home or asleep, and in a safe container)
A sealed envelope containing three wishes:
one for Mother Earth
one for your family
one for yourself
An apple, placed on top of the sealed envelope
Each household member may write their own envelope (if others in your home wish to be involved). And, your home should be tidy, as if preparing to receive honored guests.
Welcoming the Archangels
At 10:30 p.m., open your door and say:
โHello and welcome Archangels to my home. You were sent to me from _____. I am grateful to each of you for purifying and bringing peace to this place and to all who live here. Thank you for bringing harmony, joy, serenity, and for fulfilling my wishes.โ
From that moment on, the Archangels are with you, and the next five days are considered sacred. This is a time to:
Meditate
Reflect
Speak with them
Channel or do automatic writing
Ask for guidance or for the angels to come to you in dreams
Invite the the angels to accompany you throughout your day
Begin preparing the names and addresses of at least three people to whom youโll pass the angels next. (Three is a suggestion, not a rule.)
When the Five Days Come to a Close
Just before 10:30 p.m. on the final day:
Write the names of the next hosts on a sheet of paper.
Place the paper near your candle for a few minutes.
Step outside with the candle and paper.
Give thanks to the Archangels.
Light the paper with the candle flame (safely), sending the names into the ethers as instructions for where the angels will travel next.
Remember: after leaving your home, the Archangels rest for five days before visiting the next host.
If you are mainly doing this ritual for yourself, you can skip this part and simply express thanks that the angels have spent this sacred time with you and wish them will with whoever will be greeting them (as part of this ritual or in general).
After They Depart
Burn your envelope of wishes, scattering the ashes into running water (outdoors or indoors, depending on climate).
Eat the apple, which symbolically holds the blessings of the visit.
Place the white flower on the earth so it may naturally return to the soil.
Finally, send the ritual instructions to the next hosts so the cycle continues (if applicable).
What to Expect During Their Visit
During the five days, expect to experience:
Your home is blessed
Your energy becomes calmer
Clarity and peace increase
Higher light anchors into your space
Tasks feel easier and more harmonious
Your intuition may heighten
Many people repeat the ritual again and again because the presence of the Archangels feels supportive, centering, and deeply loving.
If you donโt have anyone to pass them to, simply ask the Archangels to visit those who need them most.
Understanding the Archangel Energies
Gabriel
Guides dreams, intuition, balance, and spiritual awakening.
Raphael
Brings healing, clarity, warmth, and support for decisions.
Michael
Offers protection, courage, communication, and truth.
Uriel
Works through fire, alchemy, and transformation, burning away old programming.
Metatron
Guardian of the Tree of Life; bridges Heaven and Earth through sacred geometry and higher wisdom.
Ariel (Optional)
Connects you with Nature, manifestation, and the sacred spark within all living things.
An Open Invitation
If no one has invited you, consider this your invitation. You may host the Archangels whenever you feel called.
This ritual is not about perfection. It’s about intention, reflection, and reconnecting with something higher than the noise of everyday life.
May your hosting be filled with peace, warmth, and luminous presence.
The Blue Rose, Mary Magdalene, and the Energy of the Divine Feminine
Between 2006-8 I had a series of dreams involving Mary Magdalene. In one, she stood by a body of water, filling a jug, and spoke of โCarmelite.โ Then, in my dream, Mary turned to me, put a blue light into my outstretched hands, and called me to โbe a protector of the Blue Rose.โ I wasnโt really sure what to make of the dream at the time.
In 2013, I had another series of dreams. In one, a great lantern stood before me. It had panes of light that I could open like doors to reveal the past, the present, and the future. When I opened and walked through the past pane, I was immediately in a scene where I saw a king on a throne demanding peopleโs persecution and arrests, and I was among those fleeing to the forests to escape.
I was able to exit that pane and open and walk through the one representing the future. After doing so, I was taken by two angels to the banks of the Euphrates River where it branched in two. On the left side of the branch, war and conflict raged. One of the angels called it the War of Armageddon. But on the right side, I saw Mary Magdalene once more, this time gathering women into communities of peace and harmony. I watched them at a distance building their communities, making them off-grid, and helping one another. They were so enfolded in community and sharing that they were not touched by weapons and bombs exploding on the other side of the river. I asked the angels why I was seeing all this, the angels told me that it would be these communities which would be โprotected.โ
I share these dreams because I believe they are not mine alone. We are living in a time of choices: to engage in conflict and destruction, or to join in harmony and what heals both ourselves and the world. Perhaps the Blue Rose is not only a symbol given to me, but one which offers that if we protect the Blue Rose we will be protected by it. When we guard compassion, wisdom, and love, those very qualities surround us in return. The Rose shields its guardians even as they shield it.
The Call of Mary Magdalene
“Love is the bridge between you and everything.” ~ Rumi
For centuries, Mary Magdalene has been remembered as a woman misunderstood, her voice silenced by history. But in mystical traditions, she is not fallenโshe is faithful. She stayed by the cross when others fled, was the first to witness the resurrection, and bore wisdom passed from heart to heart.
In my dreams, she reappears not as a figure of the past but as a guide for the future. She is the one who gathers, shelters, and creates circles of love when the world falls into conflict. She reminds us that survival comes not through domination but through compassion, not through conquest but through community.
To follow her call is to carry the Blue Rose, guarding love and wisdom in an age of fear and division.
The Call of Women
In the dream of those protected communities, it was women who were gathered together….
The Power of Community: Rebuilding the World Without Waiting for Permission
Why decentralization isnโt just survival. Itโs love, community, and revolution
The Cracks in the Grid
Weโre living in a world tangled in dependency. Some of these dependencies are being regulated into the way we live our lives. This means we have to follow rules that block us from living in harmony with nature, each other, and our environment. Many of these dependencies are interwoven into our lifestyles. Nature, itself, has become a commodity. Something we purchase, rent, or pay taxes on. If any of us wanted to truly break free of a system, it would require hiding out in the mountains or going against laws, codes, or regulations. Many of us wouldnโt even know how to survive without our dependencies and the rules and laws that govern and keep us bound and tied to them. Some of them include:
Dependency on power grids stretched thin, owned by entities too big to see the people they serve.
Dependency on food systems that ship vegetables 1,500 miles before they land on a plate. This produce is wrapped in plastic, picked too early.
Dependency on policies and politics that tell us help is comingโฆ later. Maybe.
This centralization of power, food, medicine, and care breeds not only inefficiency, but corruption. When systems grow so large they forget their own hands, they stop feeding people and start feeding themselves.
The Future Isnโt Far Away. Itโs Close and Local
But what if the way forward isnโt waiting for the old systems to change? What if itโs already here and growing in backyards, blooming on rooftops, humming in solar panels and water barrels and hands in the soil?
Imagine:
Aย community greenhouseย on every city block
Fruit treesย in every yard, every park, every alley
Rooftop gardensย that feed not just households, but whole neighborhoods
Power that doesnโt need to be shipped, because itโs created right where itโs used
These arenโt fantasies. Theyโre possibilities. And many people are already building them.
A Quiet Genius: Thomas Massie
One of them isย Thomas Massie, a congressman, MIT engineer, and modern-day homesteader…
Finding New Identity by Letting Go of Programmingย
Three cards from the Angels of Earth Healing Oracle (Pawn, Deprogrammed, and New Identity) tell the story of awakening. They offer a path from unconscious entrapment to conscious creation. This substack explores that sacred journey.
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Pawn: Recognizing the Web
In the “Pawn” card, we see a simple figure caught in a spiderโs web. This image reflects how many of us are subtly or overtly manipulated. Not just by other people, but by beliefs, narratives, and emotional programming that keep us playing small. The world offers us information designed to trigger outrage or fear, dividing us and controlling our responses.
But the message of the Pawn isnโt just about victimhood. Itโs about recognition. Once we see the web, we are no longer asleep inside it. We begin to ask deeper questions: Who benefits from this narrative? Why does this idea feel urgent or triggering? And most importantly: Am I choosing this belief? Or has it been chosen for me?
Even in its reversed form, the Pawn card offers insight. It shows us a world where our striving, comparison, and focus on external success has disconnected us from the sacred web of life. One where beauty, truth, and abundance are already present. From this upside-down perspective, we begin to discern the threads we want to keep… and the ones we must release.
Deprogrammed: The Exit Door
If “Pawn” is the moment of realization, “Deprogrammed” is the moment of courage. In this card, one pawn has stepped off the chessboard and found the exit. They are no longer content to be moved by forces outside of themselves. They have questioned the script.
This card affirms that youโre not here to play by inherited rules. Whether the manipulation came from culture, media, family, or old wounds, you are allowed to step away. You are allowed to break the pattern.
Yet, with awakening comes discomfort. Not everyone will understand. You may face pushback or feel lost in a new kind of freedom. Thatโs okay. You are shedding the mask, releasing the labels, and preparing for what comes next.
New Identity: Becoming Who You Really Are
Once the web is seen, once the program is broken, you are left with a question: Who am I now?
The “New Identity” card shows a pawn standing before a mirror. But its reflection is no longer small. It is evolving. It sees its potential. This is not about ego or superiority, but alignment.
You are not who you were when you started this journey. You’ve grown. You’ve seen through illusion. And now, you are invited to rebuild yourself from the inside out. Not with someone else’s blueprint, but with your own.
This is the moment to explore what it means to move, speak, create, and relate from a place of conscious choice. This is the beginning of spiritual maturity.
Becoming the Weaver
You are no longer the pawn. You are no longer simply reacting to what the world hands you. You are becoming the weaver…
The Circle and the Square: Sacred Integration and the Rainbow Bridge
Reflections on the Crop Circle discovered in May 2025
From fractured ground I rose, drawn by light I almost forgot. Above the noise, I found the truth, and brought it home to earth.
In May 2025, a stunning crop circle appeared in Sutton Veny, Wiltshire. It portrayed an intricate Celtic knot held within a circle, with a square at its center. While crop circles are often debated, and I recommend everyone find their own symbolism and meaning, asking ChatGPT about how it would interpret the response offered was:
The design has sparked various interpretations among researchers and enthusiasts. The Celtic knot is traditionally associated with themes of eternity and interconnectedness. The inclusion of a square at the center is seen by some as symbolic of grounding or structure, potentially representing the material world. This juxtaposition of the infinite (circle) and the finite (square) may suggest a message about balancing spiritual and material aspects of existence.
The circle has long represented spirit, eternity, and the boundless. The square is its earthly counterpart, representing form, structure, stability. For the square to sit within the circle is to place matter within spirit. This is such a powerful message: the material world is (or must be) held inside the container of the spiritual, not the other way around.
But for many of us, when it comes to the way we live our lives, weโve learned to do the opposite.
Forward vs. Backward Integration
The reason this became meaningful to me was because, years ago, within a dream, I was shown two ways humans align spiritually. One way was called, โforward integrationโ and the other โbackward integration.โ
Forward Integrationย is when we start with our spiritual values and shape our lifestyle around them. For example, believing in peace, and choosing not to fund or support industries that profit from war or exploitation, even if it’s inconvenient. Our lifestyles are brought into alignment with our spiritual values of peace and love.
Backward Integrationย is when our lifestyle comes first, representing our need to survive, fit in, or succeed. We package or compartmentalize our spiritual values to fit a box we live defined by our material lifestyles. We might believe in peace, love, and oneness with nature, but still support unethical entities or consume things manufactured through an extractive, exploitative, polluting, or destructive process because โthatโs just how life is.โ
This second way leads to a quiet but aching rift inside due to the need to live with cognitive dissonance or to engage in spiritual bypassing. Itโs like trying to build a temple of light using bricks soaked in shadow. Many of us live in this dissonance daily and donโt even realize it, because the disconnection has become normalized or seems impossible to overcome and still survive.
Building the Rainbow Bridge
The way out of dissonance, is through creating a bridge: bridging the material with the spiritual with new awareness….
A call to remember the colors we carry and the worlds we are shaping
The below is story I wrote based on a dream I had. I couldnโt fully remember it upon waking, but did the best I could to recreate it. It takes us through all of the steps, using them to bring ourselves and the Divine Feminine into harmony.
Within the quiet of my mind, suspended between waking and dream, I saw an angel approaching. Without a word, she took my left hand within her right and led me across a vast and tranquil plain. It was a realm untouched by the ways, the means, or the hands of men. We walked together in silence until Mary paused and lifted her gaze toward the heavens. Raising her left hand, she extended a single finger and traced an arc from left to right. At once, a magnificent rainbow appeared.
She then asked me to notice how a rainbow forms a path: it rises from the earth to the heavens before descending to earth again. “So full of hope,โ she said, and then another word followed, carried like a whisper on the wind: โDestiny.โ
Together we gazed upon the rainbow, and she said, โThis rainbow is your destiny. It is part of who you are, because you are part of everything.โ
We silently viewed the rainbow towering majestically above us. It was both vast and awe-inspiring, like a bridge spun from light itself. Yet when I turned to the angel, I saw no trace of astonishment in her eyes. She looked at me with quiet knowing, as if aware that we were witnessing a sacred truth, It was one she understood, and one I had only begun to glimpse.
โNotice how a rainbow borrows from all of Earthโs elements to tell its story,โ she said. โThe fiery light of the sun casts itself upon droplets of moisture suspended in the Earthโs atmosphere. The light is split into a chorus of colors which form the shape of a brilliant arch. This arch forms a bridge between Heaven and Earth. And wherever a rainbow appears, whether or not a storm has passed, its message is always the same. Each carries every hue that can be imagined, reflected in perfect harmony.โ
She continued, โYour life on Earth, dear child, contains all the colors that life can attest. You, and all upon the Earth, hold all the colors that Pure White Light can possess. Such colors are displayed as split but joined together in a way that unites them all. Intangible, but clearly visible, such a rainbow reveals its beauty, unmistakably and everywhere.โ
As the vision deepened, and I remained suspended between waking and dream, the rainbow began to take solid form. Looking closer, I saw countless souls from every walk of life standing upon it at different intervals..
โWalk it,โ the divine messenger stated, which I interpreted as a command. So I began to walk the rainbow’s path, walking with her, hand-in-hand. As I looked at her with eyes of wonder, she led me upward along the rainbowโs arc.
As we climbed higher, other hands began to join our own. Men, women, and children of every culture, faith, and lineage imaginable joined us on our journey skyward. When at last we gathered at the crest, our heavenly guide lifted her gaze and spoke. Her voice was clear and calm, ringing with divine certainty.
โChildren of both the Divine Father in Heaven and Divine Mother in Earth,โ she said, โlook down from heaven onto the world below.โ
She continued, โFrom this higher perspective, it is clear that it does not matter your physical characteristics, the religion or beliefs you follow, or what you have manifested in your life. What truly matters is your shared purpose, which is one of walking the Earth as equals, creating awareness of who you are in Truth.โ
We listened in reverent silence as she continued, โLook more clearly, dear ones. Stand upon this bridge between Heaven and Earth and see from a higher vantage point the living mural of all your collective fruits. See the destiny you paint upon your loving earth, how itโs been painted with forms and colors that emerge from your joined prayers.”
She continued, “Look upon your creations with loving, unjudging eyes. From the top of the rainbow, where you enter the realm of spirit, you perceive your true perfection. Only from a higher perspective, after rising above appearances and recalling the essence of your being, can you gain the clarity to ask questions that you might not otherwise consider. For example, you can inquire about how to set intentions, think, pray, and live in ways that honor the Earth as your companion and reflection on the journey to understand the One and All..โ
She further encouraged us, โThis is how to bridge Heaven back to Earth again and have it touch ground. While many of you are on a quest to rise and meet Spirit, only through descending back to the material realm can you bring the light of Spirit’s truth to the world of form.”
“As you stand high above the Earth, looking downward,” she guided us, “you can see more clearly how She, your Earth, reflects your level of alignment with your truest spiritual form. She represents both the shadow within you and your divine reflection. She teaches you a Higher Law that what you do unto the Earth, you do unto yourself, for She and you are One.“
As I began to ponder her instruction, the divine messenger resumed speaking, “Begin to see everything that is and that occurs as a form of communication.If you listen clearly, from a place of heightened awareness, you can learn what the Earthโyour guardian, and you hersโis broadcasting through Her form. Through a language of symbols and mirrors, She will show you how to allow your collective, embodied life to radiate the Pure White Light from which all Her rainbows are born.โ
She continued, โLook to Nature and see what has been created there. Where do you find a tree bearing healthy fruit, and where do you see the unhealthy weeds that, without boundaries, threaten what longs to flower more radiantly? Whatever you observeโand without labeling it as good or bad, but simply what isโask yourself, What thoughts, desires, beliefs, or unseen seeds has this been sown from?
โDo not overlook the power of conventions, daily habits, and lifestyles, for these too are seeds in action. Like invasive weeds, they may spread and multiply until the original seed is difficult to find or to take accountability for.โ
Pointing toward a part of the Earth spoiled by human hands and efforts, she said, โHere among the weeds lie the roots of collective prayers and thought-forms that have sown imbalance and chaos into a world still yearning to know peace and love.โ
Then turning toward a landscape more vibrant and alive, she spoke again, โAnd here, within all that is beautiful, balanced, and unpolluted, dwell the seeds of Natureโs abundant, thriving fruits. Examining these fruits, and contemplating why they manifested more wholesomely, you may learn how to think and pray in more united and fertile ways.โ
She lifted her gaze, her expression both tender and firm. โYou can then unlearn the false conditioning that teaches you to adore the very seeds that bear unfriendly or polluting fruits. Choose instead to sow and create what serves the good of all. For, all are One, including One with the Earth Herself.โ
The divine herald’s voice grew quieter, as though speaking directly into the heart. She spoke, โTest all your thoughts for their truth in Spirit, for each must be tested. Test your wants and prayers for their wider effects, for all have effects. Test what or whom you follow, believe, serve, or invest inโincluding through engaging in a consumer economy. Ask yourself, why? See how your light, and all its colors, touch everything and help paint the greater picture of your world.
โKnow that humanity and Mother Earth are joined as One. With your minds, your hearts, and the works of your hands, you shape creation itself,” She reminded us. “Yet remember: whatever you manifest can never alter who you truly are in Spirit. It only mirrors how you see yourself and offers a story for your soul to tell.โ
Then, In each of our right hands appeared a paintbrush, and in each of our left hands, a palette filled with all the colors of the rainbow.
The angels then looked upon us and said, โWhen you gaze down upon the Earth below, you may see that, through your conjoined efforts, you have painted a portrait of the son of man beginning to see himself as the Son of the Creator, and yet still painting the likeness of one bound to the image of man. Such a man becomes a son of industry, a son of bondage to all he conforms and falsely relies. You are not creatures of self-destruction, beloved ones. You hold the choice to paint a life that unfolds in new and liberated ways.โ
She continued, โBe mindful of the divisions you create that keep you separated from Peace and from one another. In truth, you are all joined, One in Spirit, with the Creator of All That Is.โ
Paintbrush in hand and radiant with beauty, wisdom, and strength, she spoke, โMake the choice to paint this truth upon the Earth you see. Paint it into your experiences and realities. It is time to embody what you know of your true Self. Look down from the top of this rainbow and ask Nature how to live this truth. Your material world is alive with mirrors. As such, it is alive with the portraits you choose to paint, the colors you use, and the stories each portrait tells.โ
โAsk yourselves,โ she urged, โwhat within you allows you to treat yourselves or the Earth as if unworthy? For when your bodies and the Earth become polluted, this is a symptom of something deeper. Your brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers, children, and Mother Earth are all ever worthy. When you, as a part of humankind, treat any form of life unkindly, it communicates where you have forgotten the colors of what you truly are, and of what All divinely is.โ
As she spoke, she invited us to gaze upon the Earth with new eyesโeyes that know how to blend foresight with conscious intention.
โFree yourselves,โ she then said gently. โYou are here to learn a new freedom. You are called to remember who you are and why you came to Earth. The Earth is a story about yourself, first not knowing who you are and then learning the Truth. You are not a product to buy or sell. You own nothing and are owned by nothing. When you define yourself through the shadows of the world, you create suffering. When you define yourself through enlightened prayer, you recreate Truth. And if you cannot pray for light and peace to define your world, why pray at all?โ
A question stirred within me: What if no one prayed at all?
Our angelic guide seemed to hear the thought before I could voice it. โYou always have a choice,โ she said softly. โYou may choose whether or not to learn a lesson within a lifetime. Through not choosing, you never fail. You merely begin again. The cycle continues until you awaken.โ
With these words, the vision shifted. The radiant angel lifted her hand toward a new horizon, and a glimpse of a possible future opened before us. I saw enlightened communities where men, women, and children were clothed in white, living in harmony upon the Earth. They shared freely, learned together, and tended the land with reverence. They no longer relied on money, but on an economy of exchange, and trust. Lifestyles were simpler and gentler. Power was ecologically responsible, and people lovingly shared responsibilities.
These were the communities that had learned to walk the way of the rainbow bridge. They were made up of souls who had learned to create a bridge between Heaven and Earth, connecting both realms with a paintbrush of living light.
Note: this is a newer version of a story I wrote contained in the book, I am the Lotus, Not the Muddy Pond.
Four Fast Ways to Improve Your Life (Which You Keep Forgetting)
Your brain holds a vast array of self-help techniques youโve picked up over the years. Many of them affected you positively when you first encountered them. Sometimes, you even thought, โfrom now on Iโm going to use this method and my life will be better for doing so.โ In reality, though, you forgot to do all kinds of things that would have made life easier and happier. Here are four vital tips you need to remember from now on if you are to reap the rewards they offer.
1. Stop comparing yourself to people
You know comparing yourself to others is pointless. Thereโs no one like you and everyone has a different background and experiences, so you canโt accurately liken yourself to them. Nonetheless, you compare your appearance, skills, and your popularity. Itโs time you let the idea you are unique sink into your head and stop making comparisons. Follow your own talents and make the most of who you are and youโll be happy.
2. Donโt worry about what people think of you
Only you can judge your lifestyle and actions in a meaningful way when you measure them against your particular values. Other people have different standards, and you need only live up to your own. Still, how often do you get upset when you think someone doesnโt approve of you?
Let go of the need for others validation. Whether they think youโre amazing or terrible, their opinions only show the reality they have created. The only reality that counts lives in your head. Stay true to your principles and strive to be your best self and you canโt go wrong.
3. Recognize your inner worrywartโs a phony
You understand the critical voice within doesnโt tell the truth. It emphasizes challenges and turns them into insurmountable problems. Likewise, it makes little mistakes into unforgivable blunders. On many occasions, however, you allow your inner worrywart to run riot and offer bad advice.
From this moment on, vow to correct the voice within that tells you everythingโs dreadful. Soothe it like you would a worried child, or banish it like you might someone who tries to steal the food from your plate.
4. Look after yourself
You realize gorging on junk foods, not getting enough sleep, and drinking too much alcohol eats your vitality and ruins your well-being. At the same time, youโve probably told your best friend to get more rest, stop putting up with people who put her down, and use her talents.
Do you follow your own advice though? Perhaps not. Look after yourself by taking care of your body and respect yourself like you do the people you love and your life will improve.
If you used all the self-help knowledge youโve come across your well-being would soar. For now, though, concentrate on one of the four tips mentioned and watch your happiness expand. When youโve got the hang of your chosen improvement method, pick another. Eventually, youโll remember further ways to enjoy a happy life and practice them too.
Mindfulness in Meditation: Learning Not to Scratch the Itch
If you practice mindfulness, you might understand what is meant by not scratching an itch. When witnessing your thoughts and feelings, you detach from them. To reach this state, you need to overcome the urge to engage with sensations or your internal voice.
Your senses are heightened for a while as you begin meditating and attempting mindfulness. The quietness and lack of the need to do anything as you sit mean you turn your attention inwards. You notice aches and pains and other feelings. If you attend to these sensations, though, you become attached to them. As such, you are no longer mindfully observing.
Witness the itch
Many beginners to mindfulness imagine they need to ignore thoughts and feelings. Doing so increases their awareness of the areas they want to perceive lightly. The first step to detaching is to allow yourself to notice whatโs occurring. Have no resistance to the happenings of your mind and body, but know they are not you.
Understanding you are separate aids the realization thereโs no need to attend to what you notice. After all, if you observed a cloud moving across the sky, you wouldnโt feel the need to push it along. You understand clouds pass without help. Like clouds, your thoughts and physical sensations will leave without you doing anything.
Doing nothing
Doing nothing can seem harder than taking action. You know how to get up and move, but remaining still might be an alien concept. Until you are an experienced meditator, learning to do so is like lying awake at night. Unless you fall asleep quickly, your attention moves inwards. You become aware of concerns in your mind and body. If you attend to them by focusing on them, you canโt sleep. Likewise, you canโt practice mindful meditation if you concentrate on what you donโt want in your awareness.
Fill your mind
To be mindful, you need to fill your mind. It might be full of observing thoughts as they come and go, or, you can focus on a subject. Many mindfulness meditations begin with the observance of breath. You can notice other sensations, but keep returning your attention to the process of inhaling and exhaling.
As you concentrate on your breath, the urge to scratch an itch or pay attention to a thought will lift. At the same time, practicing will train your mind to choose where to focus. Youโll no longer be at the mercy of inner chatter or outside circumstances since you will be in control.
Learning to be mindful can be difficult. Once you experience consciousness as an observer, though, your perception will alter. Youโll be able to detach from any situation you want to witness with clarity.
In todayโs world of rush and business, we can easily become fixated on our work, priorities, and fascination with technology to the point that our relationship with nature and what is living, natural, and pure is eclipsed. We tend to think of the Law of Attraction as a law that states that we will tend to manifest from where we most place our focus. If this is true, is it possible that the external world is starting to communicate to us, and very loudly, that we need to change our focus for the sake of maintaining balance on a personal, collective, and environmental level? If so, what are some ways we can begin to turn our focus around?
Life Energy Tip #1 โ Increase your intake of live and organic foods
When we are in a rush or low in energy, it can be easy to grab something to eat that is quick, pre-packaged, or artificial. However, there are lots of quick and easy convenient foods that are natural and full of living energy. For example, fresh organic fruits can be grabbed when in a hurry, vegetables can be prepared ahead of time, or nuts and seeds can be sprouted. When you eat a more natural diet, you not only support your body to be full of vitality, but you are decreasing the demand for mass produced, processed, and packaged foods. In fact, if more of us can learn to see the value in buying less from polluting, greed-based corporations (in favor of local organic farmers), the more we send a message that creates a new kind of demand: i.e. that farmers will be rewarded for food production techniques that are organic, non-polluting and free of pesticides, GMOs, excess packaging, chemicals, dyes, and other vitality-depleting impurities.
Life Energy Tip #2 โ Spend more time in nature or with pets
It is so easy to spend our days working indoors and then go home and plop ourselves on our couch to relax through engaging in various forms of inanimate technology. Not that technology is bad or wrong, but our use of it can be balanced with our reminding ourselves to appreciate our connection to nature and animals. Things that you can do to restore the balance and renew appreciation for life energy are to exercise outdoors when or where you can, take a walk every day, play with a pet, make sure to notice the beauty of nature every now and then, or organize a weekend hike or trip to the beach or other natural, revitalizing activity.
Life Energy Tip #3 โ Grow something
A great way to refocus on life energy is to tend to plants or living things and watch them grow. Even those who have a black thumb can start small by bringing a few houseplants into the home. Those who feel more adventurous can store seeds, start a garden or greenhouse, or learn to grow simple food crops indoors.
Life Energy Tip #4 โ Understand that there is a Law of Balance
Sometimes less is truly more. Finding the beautiful and miraculous within the mundane and simple can be a wonderful way to revitalize and refocus on what truly matters. It also helps us to redefine our concepts of abundance and prosperity through making sure that it focuses on what has life energy. The downside to our viewing abundance/treasure as primarily money and non-living things is that we must fail to protect life if we wish to amass it. Life, environmentally and collectively, may then mirror that it has lost its value for many of us and thus begin to disappear.
We can turn this trend around through changing how we behave as consumers through being more responsible as to who we buy from and what we buy. This helps us to focus on enhancing rather than depleting vital life energy for ourselves and the environment. We can also rethink the Law of Abundance through understanding that there is also a Law of Balance. The Law of Balance exhibits that wherever we use our energy or resources to produce excess, there will naturally follow some level of depletion through burnout of our own bodies or natureโs resources. So, being able to keep our lives in balance can end up being the most truly abundant way to live!
Life Energy Tip #5 โ Make changes in your use of energy or fuel
While going fully off the energy grid to use more natural and life-sustaining forms of power may not be practical or possible for everyone, there are little things we can do to become more natural and focused on what preserves life. Walking or biking can offer a natural form of transportation. Using less gas, busing, or committing ourselves to using more eco-friendly vehicles also gives companies incentive to think in more sustainable and environmentally friendly ways in order to make a profit. Reducing exposure to EMF (electromagnetic frequency) emitting devices during the day can also help those individuals who can feel sensitive or easily depleted by such exposures.
Life Energy Tip #6 โ Protect water and trees
Water and trees are precious resources can be negatively affected or polluted by human efforts and activities. The first step in protecting them is to begin to see them as precious. The second step is to find ways to protect water and trees through our homes and how we use these resources. For example, we can learn to use less water, buy less packaged goods, use less plastics, buy recycled where we can, or be careful of what chemicals and toilet papers we flush down our drains, toilets, etc. We can also aim to buy from suppliers of goods and services that are more ecologically responsible concerning these resources.
Life Energy Tip #7 โ Honor your natural emotions and cycles
Many of us are conditioned by our spiritual beliefs or how we are raised to suppress our natural emotions. Many of us can end up living in our heads, over-think things rather than living from our hearts. If you have dreams at night where you are running away from something in fear or you are battling negative forces, then you could being in a war with yourself or your emotions; possibly trying to suppress too much. This kind of fight or flight can drain vital life force energy.
A better approach to suppression is to employ mindfulness. Mindfulness honors what we are feeling in the present moment rather than trying to run away from or suppress it. It is always best to honor all our natural emotions and cycles such as sleep, eating, and resting. In this way, we are not burning out during the day and trying to grin-and-bear with what was never meant to be natural.
Another thing you can do is to watch for tendencies toward self-medicating as a way to cope. Many of the ways we may try to self-medicate ourselves concerning the stress we feel and are taught to deny can get us trapped in a vicious cycle of running away. It also leaves us increasingly relying on what is unnatural in order to cope or having a need to self-medicate to take the edge off through overeating, addictions, recreational drugs, alcohol, anti-depressants and/or anti-anxiety medication.
When we make these small changes in our lives, we may find that we are more balanced and helping the world to be more balanced at the same time.
I was asked to do another meditation on the White Buffalo Calf Woman for Bellesprit Magazine. Here is what came through.
In my mindโs eye, as if in a dream, the White Buffalo Calf Woman approaches me. With her long dark hair waving in a gentle breeze, she smiles at me… and it is full of warmth and caring. However, there is also something powerful and commanding about her presence.ย It is a little intimidating.ย It is like she can read into the deepest reaches of my mind and soul.ย She knows everything that is hidden within me.ย Yet, she still smiles and holds out a hand of hers for me to hold.
As I take her hand, we are transported to a quiet place. Everything seems so peaceful here. It is a place that is free of the many sounds of civilization: the noise of traffic, technology and other noisy things. In place of these sounds I can hear more vibrantly the sounds of nature and her birds, insects and also the squirrels which squawk and chase after one another in the trees.
Making our way closer to the trees, I look up in amazement. They are very tall and I notice the type of energy they seem to impart is very much like the energy of the White Buffalo Calf Woman herself. It is full of gentleness and charm, but also full of power and strength. The Lady Calf Woman, seeming to read my thoughts, looks at me with a smile and speaks; โYou are wondering how something that is so full of power and strength can be full of gentleness and beauty at the same time.โ
โYes, that is exactly what I was wondering,โ I answered.
โThe world, at present, tends to confuse these qualities,โ she said. โPower and strength when used toward current western world goals and agendas can seem a little harsh, competitive or cutthroat. Strength can then become associated with something controlling or corruptive. What is gentle, on the other hand, can become associated with weakness. This is because to be gentle comes to be seen as being acquiescent; never having an opinion or a voice with which to speak.โ
Pointing up into the leafy green leaves of the tree in front of us, she continues; โBut, from these trees, we can learn that beauty and gentleness can be commanding when it has a voice, and when it can stand in the light of its truth; in a spirit of surrendering to that truth without acquiescing.โ
โThat is such a lovely way to see the trees; that they have their own voice,โ I replied.
โEverything within Nature has a voice,โ she stated. โEverything within Creation speaks of its own mystery and calling. It is simply a new language to learn for those who would wish to learn it.โ
As we gazed upon the trees that towered above us, my mind began to wonder what secrets they could impart to me. The White Buffalo Calf Woman, having read my mind, turned in my direction and asked; โWhy not ask them?โ
โI am not sure that I would be able to hear them correctly,โ I answered her.
โNonsense,โ she admonished me. โOpen your heart. Imagine connecting your own energy to their energy. Then, allow yourself to feel their energy speak to your energy field. Listen to what that energy has to say. The language will not always be transmitted through spoken words, but you still possess the ability to translate into words what is being communicated.โ
โYou want me to do this right now?โ I asked her.
She seemed surprised I would even ask this question; โWhy not now?โ she questioned me. Then, she turned to face the trees again and with a huge smile upon her face said to me; โTell me, dear child, what do you โthinkโ you hear them say?โ
โUmmm,โ I said, feeling a little unprepared.
โThere is no right or wrong way to do this,โ she reminded me. โYou are simply allowing within your own energy field an open door for the energy of the trees to enter.โ
I closed my eyes and focused upon connecting my heart to the energy of one of the trees in front of me. After a few moments, the Lady Calf Woman asked me to put what I was sensing from the trees into words.
โHere is what I think I hear them say,โ I answered. โโIn the circle of life, there is no real time, only a circling of life. Everything operates in this material dimension through various laws and balances.โ
โAnything else?โ asked the White Buffalo Calf Woman.
โYes,โ I answered her. โI hear the tree say; โThe Holy Spark of life within me is one with the Holy Spark of life within you. As the Holy Spark within me greets the Holy Spark within you, I greet a part of myself. As I bless you, I bless myself. As I love you, I love myself. Our life energy springs from the same seedโa thought within the mindโs eye of a greater universe of thought.โโ
The White Buffalo Calf Woman seemed pleased and stated; โThe trees thank you for your loving receptivity.โ She added; โYou can also use this approach to speak with almost anything living within this world. You can speak to your body, its cells, crystals, animals and more.โ
Then, the White Buffalo Calf Woman took my hand within hers and again the scenery changed. I suddenly found myself standing with her in the living area of my home.
โTell me something about this,โ she directed me while pointing to my radio.
โIt is a radio,โ I replied.
โYes,โ she affirmed. โBut, I want you to go beyond the label of what it is. If there were no labels, what would you say to me about this object and its purpose?โ
โHmmm,โ I said, needing to think about how I was going to put it into words. I finally responded; โI guess that it is an object that was designed to project sound and music.โ
โHow does it do that?โ she asked.
โFrom what I gather, sound waves and frequencies are picked up by a tower that transmits these sounds to radio devices. Radios have antennas that allow them to pick these radio waves up. They also have tuners that help to separate the different radio signals from one another so that one main broadcast can be selected The devices then communicate those sound waves into something audible. People listening can hear people speaking from far away, or can listen to various songs and music.โ
โConsciousness communicates with the material dimension in much the same way,โ she stated. โThe universe is comprised of waves of consciousness. It is like a dialogue of energy and creative intentions. In a way, the larger consciousness of the universe is in constant communication with itself.โ
She continued; โBecause there are created within this universe of consciousness various levels and dimensionsโincluding a material oneโan experience can be created where a part of the consciousness can seem to split off from itself and forget how to tune into the main Master frequency. This is similar to how you need to use a tuning dial to hear particular stations on your radio; otherwise you cannot hear a particular broadcast.โ
โI never thought of it like that before,โ I stated.
โIt is like if you imagined a huge diamond,โ she continued. โImagine that someone shattered that diamond into many pieces.โ
โOkay,โ I said.
She then continued; โEach piece is still a diamond. Each piece is still a part of the original stone. Each piece of diamond still vibrates the original radio frequency of a diamond on some level. You simply have to relearn how to tune into that original frequency, to let it communicate with you; to remind you that you are a diamond and that the diamond is your true source.โ
The Lady Calf woman took me by the hand and began to walk with me. Then, she turned to face me and said; โThe first step is to learn the tools and the language you will need to be able to tune into other pieces of the diamond so that you can begin to recognize yourself as true brothers and sistersโa part of one another; since each of you are a shard from an original diamond source.โ
โSo, this is something humans can learn to do with one another,โ I stated.
โNot just other humans,โ was her response. โPart of the problem occurs when humans only recognize themselves within others that share the same material form and spoken language. The trick is to connect with the Holy Spark. Whatever contains the Holy Spark can communicate the Master radio frequency. So, when you can connect with the Holy Spark within everything that was created from it and which contains it, you meet your Creator in a larger way.โ
โDoes this include inanimate things?โ I asked.
โInanimate things are part of the material dimension,โ she answered. โThough they have symbolic content and communicate the thoughts and intentions of those who created or became dependent on them, they are not life forms containing living energy or consciousness. For, you are not like the inanimate forms you create. You cannot perish or be disposed of. Your life is eternal in the same way all things that contain life are eternal and contain the Holy Spark of their Master Creator.โ
The Lady Calf Woman continued; โLearn to recognize yourself within everything that is living in order to better understand your true Self. Learn to recognize how valuable and precious you are through learning to value and to see as beautiful all that is living that is a part of the consciousness experience. All that lives throughout this Earth radiates what is part of your original essence.โ
The White Buffalo Calf Woman continued; โThe fact that your environment is suffering because you have caused damage to it is a mirror that true recognition has been lost. It is being regained in ways, but there needs to be more of a movement from the knowing of spiritual understanding within the mind toward truly accessing it within the heart. When you truly recognizeโthrough your heartโthe eternal all around youโas being a part of your Creatorโyou will cease to have such a destructive effect. Right now, many of you are more preoccupied with what has no life in it than what has life. You let your concerns over money and possessions dominate your mind, prayers and hopes.โ
โI know,โ I said. โIt is like people were finally opening up to understanding spirituality in a bigger sense; returning to some of the wisdom of the masters. However, something side tracked us and diverted our attention again toward focusing on money and material abundance.โ
โThat is only one way to see abundance,โ she stated. โFor, if you look at Nature, is She not the very definition of abundance?โ
โYes, indeed,โ I replied.
โWhen you forget to honor the sacred spirit within Her, She comes to be seen as perishable and to be used as a means to an end rather than cherished in the light of what She is part of; or for all the love She provides,โ explained the Lady Calf Woman. โHowever, many of you are now beginning to awaken and realize how She is an important teacher for this age. Which, it will be through learning to love and protect the light within Herโrecognizing it in its full and miraculous beautyโthat you will better learn how to love yourself, your fellows, elders, and children.โ
She continued; โYour world can speak to you through both what is eternal within one dimension and through what is symbolic and material within another dimension. If you allow, you will hear your world communicate to you on various levels that Nature is the missing step in your spirituality, among other things. If you allow it, the communication from Nature can help you redefine the various concepts you most support and live by. However, because youโve lost this communication ability, the dimension of the material has been out of balance.โ
โThough it is the dimension we understand the most. And, yet, still it is out of balance,โ I added.
The White Buffalo Calf Woman smiled and took my hand and we were transported out into nature. As we walked she stated; โWhatever is collectively out of balance externally is simply a communication regarding what is collectively out of balance or alignment internally; such as with your collective belief systems and Self- knowledge. What created the internal imbalance also creates the external communication of the same frequency of imbalance. In doing this, it teaches the way back home to what is sacred.โ
She had me look upon everything around me out in nature. So much life was all around us. The sound of nature seemed to create its own music.
With this, the Lady Calf Woman herself began to sing a song in a language I was unfamiliar with. As she sang, she appeared to be directing her song to everything within our midst. She sang looking up to the sky, looking down to the ground, and to all the living plants and creatures that surrounded us. Then, she took me by the hand once more and the next thing I knew, I was home within my own back yard. I heard one last whisper before she disappeared; โAwaken, dear one. The whole of Heaven waits in joyful anticipation to show you its Magnificence and Truth.โ
To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour. -William Blake, 1807
We live in an age of overconsumption, over-activity, and constant promotion. Everywhere we look, someone is selling something, sometimes even their spirituality. Modern teachings often tell us how to โmanifest more,โ โachieve more,โ or โbecome more,โ implying that if weโre not materially successful, there must be something wrong with us. Some even suggest we have energetic โblocks,โ as if our humanity were a spiritual disease to be cured.
But the deepest healing we can bring to Earth, to one another, and to ourselves does not come from chasing more. It comes from remembering that we are already whole. We are already enough.
The Wound Beneath Our Striving
If we could see into the heart of most human conflict (such as jealousy, resentment, competition, overwork, or emotional withdrawal), we would find the same root: A fear of being less than, more than, or not enough.
Nearly every interpersonal hurt traces back to this fear. And yet, imagine what would happen if we released the belief that anyone must prove their worth. What if enoughness became our default?
This is not idealistic. It is deeply practical.
Letting Go of the Drama of โMoreโ
To let go of struggle, we must first examine the human condition itself.
As humans, we are conditioned to compare, to compete, and to assume that security comes from external achievement. But much of this conditioning arises from an imbalance in our collective energy: an overemphasis on yang (doing, conquering, striving) and a dismissal of yin (receiving, resting, intuiting).
Most people fear yin energy because yin looks like surrender, softness, or โnot doing enough.โ But yin is the well from which abundance flows.
Yang creates action. But yin allows us to receive the fruits of that action without anxiety. Without yin, yang becomes frantic and represents the endless hustle with no sense of arrival.
Balancing Yin and Yang: The Hidden Secret of Abundance
True abundance requires harmony between yin and yang:
Yang: action, creation, movement
Yin: receptivity, surrender, intuition, trust
When yin is present, we feel full. We worry less. We trust more. We move from the heart instead of fear.
When yin is absent, and rely too much on the yang, we over-strive, overwork, and feel the constant pressure to achieve, without the ability to rest, receive, or replenish ourselves. We believe the present moment is โnot enough,” and therefore we are not enough.
This mistrust of yin leads to the modern obsession with chasing abundance rather than receiving it.
Redefining Abundance: From Egoโs Hunger to the Heartโs Wholeness
As Eckhart Tolle beautifully explains, the ego is sustained not by having, but by wanting. Wanting more. Seeking more. Needing more to feel substantial.
But wanting is not abundance โ it is lack.
True abundance has no fear of loss and no need for acquisition. It is gratitude. It is presence. It is the miracle of enoughness.
This is why spiritual texts say it is harder for a rich man to enter heaven. This is not because wealth is wrong, but because seeking more can obscure the heaven that is already within.
With this, we begin to understand that heaven is where the heart is. The more we look outside ourselves for completion, the further we drift from it.
The Miracle Hidden in Ordinary Things
When we experience true abundance, we find beauty in the seemingly simple:
a quiet moment
a kind word
sunlight on a leaf
a breath of peace
a shared smile
Seeing the miracle opens the heart. Once we see the miracle in the world, we recognize the miracle within ourselves. This is not striving. It is awakening.
Why โStriving for Abundanceโ Doesnโt Work
Striving implies lack. You are trying to manifest something you feel you need rather than have. You cannot strive for what already exists.
The truth The Secret never taught you is that trye abundance is not something to attract in the future. It is not something material. It is not part of the consumer paradygm that holds us hostage to outdated norms and values, that treats us as something to buy and sell and encourages us to treat the world and everyone around us in a similar fashion.
Abundance is something to recognize in the present. The miracle innate within such abundance is that it is always now. And this is why both the materially abundant and materially poor can share the same inner wound of โnever-enoughness.โ Neediness doesnโt disappear with possessions. It disappears with presence.
People who know inner abundance often live simply not because they must, but because they can. They have less fear, less grasping, less need for control. They experience more unity, peace, and freedom.
Cultivating Inner Abundance
If you want to understand what abundance you are truly seeking, ask yourself, โWhat feeling do I hope abundance will give me?โ
Acceptance?
Safety?
Worth?
Ease?
Rest?
Freedom?
Joy?
Then, begin nurturing that emotional state from within, rather than waiting for the external world to create it for you.
This shifts your entire life.
The Lotus Within
In the end, all we truly need to know is this: Inner abundance is not connected to material abundance. Inner neediness is.
You were born whole. You remain whole. Within you is a divine lotus that is eternally pure, untouched by the mud that surrounds it.
It never ceases to amaze me just how much luxury we all currently have, both material objects and levels of longevity. Well of course that is not the case for the majority actually, though to us in the west it would appear to be the case. The real truth is that almost 80% of the worldโs populations have very little of these commodities, and their lives are often cut prematurely short through hunger and disease. Kind of odd wouldnโt you say? That 20% of the people of the world have more than enough and may not even realise their good fortunes. A conundrum indeed, do we need more or do we need less (to share more)?
The undertones of the issue I see as the feelings of not-enough-ness: a supposed lack of โabundance.โ People seem to think that in having more (mostly material things) they will somehow escape the feelings of not being enough. The evidence is however, that many if not the majority of these poor souls never reach a point of satisfaction. They continually strive for more and newer gadgets and clothes and wealth.
Now, I am not here to criticize any of this. I simply wish to point out a few fundamental facts that may be escaping people and thereby direct others toward a different potential: one of peace, freedom, and avoidance of the outcomes of our current preoccupation (which their eventualities end in mental dis-ease and many other devastating physical health symptoms).
Point 1
The items we strive to accumulate are intrinsically dead. They are lifeless, motionless, without animation, created by destroying that which is living. It is a type of necrophilia to be killing the living earth and creating lifeless gadgets and other material objects. No-one (not even me) would argue against that these items can have a beneficial purpose and serve us well. They are tools to give us ease of life and help us to be able to achieve many more tasks and objectives than we previously were able to achieve in our lives or certain time-frames. However, we all are aware of many things that we hardly ever use, but do very little about this if we are honest. We stick them in cupboards, attics, garages, sheds and containerized storage facilities, waiting for a day to use them that often never arrives. My grandmother had plates and crockery which I never actually remember her using. After she died, all that happened was that her family argued and fought over who got what. And, for what? So that they could stick it away in another drawer, cupboard or garageโฆ.
I hope that you see the point that I am trying to make. Billions of created (dead) objects are not even serving any useful purpose at all, except possibly occasionally reminding us of a loved one. We all know someone whoโs house is so full of โthingsโ that their life is cramped and challenged by fear of someone stealing their dead goods. If we were actually using this stuff, then it wouldnโt feel so destructive and harmful to Mother Nature. But, we all do this: we take and we take and we give little mind to what the effects of our wanting/taking will have on her.
Point 2
We really donโt need all of these things to have a happy life. Before they were invented, we managed. We made the best of our situations and got on with appreciating Nature, our natural environment, the beauty in it, and how to enjoy it. We knew how to enjoy gatherings with friends, shared meals, sharing of tools and equipment, resources and the abundance of Mother Earth.
An example of this:
In rural communities the farmers would employ the local people to produce the crops and when harvest time came, even the villagers whom usually had other jobs, businesses, pretty well all gave a hand to bring in the sheaves. This provided unity of purpose, a shared income, and meaningful work for many people.
When mechanised farming came in, farmers needed less farm hands, were able to create more product from less resources of labour and could create larger profits (the debate about profits/loss can go on all year, and Iโm certainly not inferring farmers were/are greedy and therefore the cause of the suffering). But, people were the ones to lose out in this scenario, and also the earth. Because labour wasnโt needed so regularly, tractors, harvesters, ploughs, harrows and crop-sprayers had to be made; and, then, buildings to house them. (Have you also noted the amounts of old rusting rotting machinery there is laying around in farm yards/buildings? These could have long since been recycled).
Point 3
The clothes, shoes, jewellery, ornaments, make-ups, perfumes, designer things, named brands and technology have all come at the cost of using natures stored resources, and not always in very environmentally friendly ways. I, too, like some of these items and get great satisfaction from having their service. But it bothers me, that we as a race, have not really considered the long term damages we have wrought in having these things. Our wants have overtaken common sense and reason. Our needs have given us almost no conscience for the results of this action. We need to see that coexistence and longevity as human beings and Nature is a fine line that cannot be crossed without huge impacts.
Many others, including myself, have actually been championing this issue for many years. The ways in which it has become so evident that we, human beings are causing the majority of our environmental problems is clearly documented in scientific studies and ecological research. Al Gore, Severn Cullis, David Suzuki, Friends of the Earth, and Greenpeace are amongst the main initiators of action being taken to rebalance this caustic behaviour. And others, like Mandy Peterson, Radical Routes, Abundant Earth Community, People for Ethics, Awareness, Community and Ecology (P4eace.com), Fellowship of IntentionalCommunities, Diggers and Dreamers (and the groups/communities and organisations they champion) and many more are all taking positive steps towards de-cluttering the earth of the materialism and its cruel harmfulness towards Nature.
As a warrior for change, and out of respect for Nature, I have cut down significantly on using carbon energy. I make more informed choices now with regards purchasing products (which, does not mean buying nothing), so that I can have a clearer understanding about how these actions have impacted on physical resources. I am not totally against people benefiting from creating items for people to use, nor in favor of suddenly closing factories. But, I am saying that I have seen other ways of providing things that have less impact on the planet and communities.
I also gave up collecting huge stores of material items and now I share the things I had previously and keep little more than what serves me daily. I donโt own a car either. That way I donโt need to impact our environment through using petrol (which these companies destroy and harm the planet more than most). I donโt need insurance (another largely greedy commercial enterprise), nor roads already laid. I ride a bicycle and walk everywhere I can, occasionally ride in a car or on a bus or train. I buy foods from local enterprises and check that they have sourced them from greener sources as much as is humanly possible. I work to support myself, which as I have little outgoings, is far easier than before. This gives me some free time to pay attention to the beauty all around me. In fact, walking is a fantastic way to see Nature and engage with it and reconnect with the beauty it shares for free. Traveling at speed means that we miss most of this engagement.
I recount the above measures I have taken merely to highlight what is possible and not to say anything heroic about these actions. It is far easier though to go with what everyone else does, but it would not be the right thing to do. As I have seen the benefits of this choice, I wanted to share the idea that I am helping to implement here in Lincolnshire. It is presently called the Abundant EarthCommunity. Please check out the google group, read the blog entries and share whatever you can if you feel the passion to help create sustainable alternatives for our futures.
Most of all, please remember, that you are enough; without all the trappings of the world and its greedy selfish negligence of the planet.
What is Duality and what is Isness, and why does it matter what we believe?
Duality by dictionary definition is:
duality (djuหหรฆlษชtษช )
Definitions
noun
(plural) -ties
the state or quality of being two or in two parts; dichotomy
(physics) the principle that a wave-particle duality exists in microphysics in which wave theory and corpuscular theory are complementary. The propagation of electromagnetic radiation is analysed using wave theory but its interaction with matter is described in terms of photons. The condition of particles such as electrons, neutrons, and atoms is described in terms of de Broglie waves
(geometry) the interchangeability of the roles of the point and the plane in statements and theorems in projective geometry
to have presence in the realm of perceived reality; exist; liveย โย I think, therefore I am, not all that is can be understood
used in the perfect or past perfect tenses only to pay a visit; goย โย have you been to Spain?
to take place; occurย โย my birthday was last Thursday
copula used as a linking verb between the subject of a sentence and its noun or adjective complement or complementing phrase. In this case be expresses the relationship of either essential or incidental equivalence or identity ( John is a man; John is a musician) or specifies an essential or incidental attribute ( honey is sweet; Susan is angry). It is also used with an adverbial complement to indicate a relationship of location in space or time ( Bill is at the office; the dance is on Saturday)
takes a present participle forms the progressive present tenseย โย the man is running
takes a past participle forms the passive voice of all transitive verbs and (archaically) certain intransitive onesย โย a good film is being shown on television tonight, I am done
takes an infinitive expresses intention, expectation, supposition, or obligationย โย the president is to arrive at 9.30, you are not to leave before I say so
takes a past participle forms the perfect or past perfect tense of certain intransitive verbs of motion, such as go or comeย โย the last train is gone
British English: being You can refer to any real or imaginary creature as a being. NOUNPeople expect a horse to perform like a car, with no thought for its feelings as a living being.
To the untrained eye, it may appear that there are always pluses and minuses. Good or evil, love and hate, war and peace, cold and heat, or light and darkness. Up, down, left, right, inside and outside, forwards and backwards. But you may be surprised to know that by a process we call relativity we can arrive at many other points of conclusion and or debate. Duality would have us believe that both exist side by side and that there is only one thing or the other, with it’s opposite at the point of us determining our viewpoint.
For example: if we are cold, that means there is an absence of heat. Heat exists as a concept like everything else, therefore if we are not experiencing it, we are subjected to it’s diverse opposite. The amount to which we are experiencing it is determined by our personal decision about where one ends and one begins. Quantifying. In this theorising model, both heat and cold are the same thing, just adverse ends of a spectrum of sensation felt by our bodies sensory receptors, with determinable advances towards or away from each end. Which of course also indicates/theorizes that there is/are no ends, on this linear scale.
If we go up, by relativity, we are no longer going down or stationary. Right means less left, and so on… I’m sure you are beginning to get my point. So if we move from one to the other both still exist in the material and tangible world in which we perceive this experience to be taking place, whilst another potential truth also exists. That we can move and not move and whilst we are moving, one of the perceived ends appears closer, but also that the non movement requires a silence, a pause which in and of itself is neither of the ends of the scale. Is the fog clearing, or are you still confused?
I merely offer another perspective that you and I can consider, to be able to diversify our relative thinking, and see this in and of itself as somewhat limiting to our being, our Isness.
Duality gives us a reason to feel comfortable in the main, because we can fit things into a neat box. We label it up and pigeon hole it and go away thinking nothing bad can come our way because we have organised our world as we wish it to be. Compared to the theory of complete chaos, relativity and duality appear very sound and dependable. Have we considered our own limiting minds in all of our calculations? Our emotions, beliefs, prejudices and bias, not to mention our paranoia that we don’t know everything and our rationality dictating our soundness of mind? Duality really implies that something is, and it is, because of what it is not. And by definition, there are many things it is not, all at the same theoretical moment in what we have constructed to evaluate this and called this time.
Being, Isness however allows us to accept all things as equal, as being one with each other. This Isness means logically that each occurrence is as important as any other. That what holds each thing together is as important and relative as any of the other component parts which it bonds/holds/controls to keep them where they are, will and should be.
Significantly we as human beings have for centuries tried desperately to control, understand and manipulate everything in our material and tangible existence, but without the wisdom to see that we cannot and do not have the power to control everything. There does seem to be a type of order in the realms of the known universe, and the tangible reality we have called life. And yet there is also a lot of mystery, chaos and apparent tragedy in it too.
My personal experiences have shown me that following a particular path can lead to treasure as also it can lead to disappointment. No one way is superior to any other in discernible and or credible values, other than does it serve me or not. For this reason I cannot judge one way as being inferior or superior, despite what other human beings state of their experiences. My truth is only that. My truth. It is a truth, based upon present considerations and data. Tomorrow it may change, or it may not, depending upon what event comes along to offer me a new way of evaluating that new data.
When asking a question on Facebook regarding what I should write about for Bellesprit Magazine this month, a good friend of mine offered me an intriguing response. She told me to โchannelโ the White Buffalo Calf Woman regarding a post she had published on Facebook a few days earlier.
This post showed a map of how the radiation from Fukushima was spreading to the North. With theย mapย was a link to an article (seeย here>>). So, I sat outside for a bit with a pen and paper to connect with the White Buffalo Calf Woman and to see what story would flow through. While these have been called โchannelingsโ they are actually fictional stories. To begin each story, I close my eyes and imagine the White Buffalo Calf Woman approaching me. I, then, allow a dialogue to begin to unfold. Here is the story that would result:
Within my mindโs eye, as if in a dream, I see the White Buffalo Calf Woman approaching me. She offers me a pink rose and I accept it graciously. As I take the rose, it changes color from pink, to yellow, to white and back to pink again. Then, the White Buffalo Calf Woman finally speaks.
โLove is like a rainbow.โ she tells me. โIt has many different shades and meanings. It does not take much to bloom, but has certain requirements to thrive; just like the rose dose. And, while love represents strength, it also represents vulnerability. This is why the rose, a symbol of love, has thorns to protect itself from predators.โ
โCan love heal the waters that have been polluted by the disaster at Fukashima?โ I then asked.
โLove can heal your miscreations, but only once you understand why you miscreated them. Otherwise your miscreations will repeat themselves.โ was the Lady Calf Womanโs reply.
With this she took my hand in hers. The next thing I knew, we were both standing on a beach together, ankle deep in water. I jumped backwards and out of the water, shocked to see what I was ankle deep in. However, the White Buffalo Calf Woman kept to her position and posed to me a question, โDonโt you want to join me here?โ
My immediate reaction was โNo way!โ I could see that the ocean water where she was standing was full of many unclean things. It appeared as if it was full of oil, debris, sewage, and filth. And, I was sure that because my original question involved Fukushima, it was probably polluted with radioactive byproducts as well.
โWhy would you want me to stand in there with you?โ I asked her.
โYou are not afraid to be part of what has manifested it. So why would you be afraid of the effects?โ She asked me. โโAs without, so within,โ I always say.โ
โWhat do you mean Iโm not afraid to be part of what manifests it? Iโm very vocal about us becoming more aware.โ I said. โItโs the reason that I called upon you today.โ
Once more, she motioned for me to stand with her in the water, urging me not to be afraid. So, I joined her, trusting that it would be safe. However, as I looked down toward our ankles, I saw that lesions were beginning to form. I immediately felt afraid and almost jumped back out of the water again. My Lakota companion, however, encouraged me to stay standing with her by her side.
โWhy are you making me endure this?โ I asked.
โWhy are you making yourself endure it?โ was her response.
All I could do was continue to look down at my ankles in trepidation. The lady calf woman saw my anxiety. โDonโt worry about the lesions,โ she reassured me. โThey are only illusions; illusions that spring from mankindโs thoughts, wishes and deeds.โ
โWe wish for this?โ I asked.
โOf course.โ she answered. โWhatever you wish for, you receive. Do you not ask to enjoy ways of living, conveniences and power sources that you know have polluting or unhealthy effects, and to be able to live with these effects?โ
โSo, this is all illusion and we are not supposed to be concerned?โ I asked.
โYes and noโ was her response. โIn spirit you are always safe and your material life is an illusion. However, within this illusion you always have choice of what illusions you wish to create.โ
She continued, โRight now mankind is choosing to pollute the waters. It is illusion, yes, but it is also an active choice; though few of you would own up to what you are choosing. Not enough of you will take action to choose something else. โ
โThat is true.โ I responded.
The White Buffalo Calf Woman continued, โMost of you mistake knowledge for wisdom, and then knowledge becomes something to use in order to continue to produce miscreations.โ
โWhat do you mean that knowledge is not wisdom?โ I asked.
โI mean that no one can argue that mankind is not knowledgeable of many things. In more recent years, a great deal of spiritual knowledge has been passed down to the peoples of Earth. Though, it remains simply knowledge rather than wisdom. This is because wisdom is the ability to use knowledge in a creative way rather than toward miscreation.โ
โWhat do you mean when you say โmiscreation.โโ I asked.
โMiscreations are creations that fail to honor the sacred spark and your sacred Host, Mother Earth. They are creations that are not born from love or from an understanding that you are a part of a bigger picture and that bigger picture is a part of you. For, if you understood true love, you would not need to miscreate anymore. Your creations would all create peaceful, healthy and loving fruits. You would openly seek to bring balance back to your world, regardless of what you might have to give up. However you are unwilling to give up what creates pollution for you and the pollution itself. And you do not understand that the pollution you perceive outside of youโwhich results from your miscreationsโis merely a symbol of how polluted and โradiotoxicโ your mind, thoughts and wishes have become. You have left a place of being natural and of appreciating what is natural to choose something else.โ
โSo creating nuclear plants are miscreations?โ I asked.
โYes.โ she responded. โYouโve taken knowledge and refused to turn it into wisdom. Youโve filled your brains, but left a void within your heart.โ
โMany see that not as their fault.โ I said. โThey see that they didnโt create the nuclear plant and donโt even want to see it sustained.โ
โThey can choose to see it that way if they want, but it wonโt be the whole truth. For the lesson is a collective lesson, not just for the individual to learn, but for a collective to share responsibility for.โ
โSo, what can I do?โ I asked
โTake knowledge and turn it into wisdom. Then you will, for your part, cease to be part of creating unloving fruits.โ she said.
โWhat does that mean?โ I asked.
โIt is not enough for you and mankind to carry ideas of representing love, light and wholeness. That is simply the act of carrying knowledge that has been given to you. You must also learn to transmute knowledge into wisdom and allow the wisdom you gain to teach you how to change the way you treat life. You must begin to care for what is greater than yourself and your own advancement while at the same time not taking it too seriously. You must begin to care for the advancement of the Earth Herself. She is waiting.โ
โWow, she is actually waiting?โ I asked.
โYes.โ answered the White Buffalo Calf Woman. โShe is waiting for the sons of daughters of Earth to understand who they are and what the truth is. She is waiting for you to understand who She is and what Her truth is.โ
โWhat is Her truth?โ I asked.
โHer truth is love, sweetness. Her truth is a sacred truth. In Her own way she is knowledge and wisdom combined. She can teach you the meaning of true beauty and miracles, but only if you let Her. So, she waits for mankind to let Her.โ
She continued, โHer truth is the One truth which many of you do not yet understand. So this makes your intentions honorable, but not necessarily wise.โ
โWhat does all of this have to do with Fukushima?โ I asked.
โIf you can collectively unite in ways that allow you to use knowledge that has been passed down to you wisely, there will be no more Fukushimas. And you will know how to heal the Earth of what has already been miscreated. You will know how to separate the path of knowledge from the path of wisdom.โ
She continued, โThe majority within the collective generally live split between thought and action, what is conscious and unconscious, and what is spiritual and what is lifestyle. This manifests in split intentions concerning what many of you within the spiritual community are attempting to accomplish; which is ultimately Love.โ
โI think itโs a question that we want to know love, but have never truly known it to know what it is or what it truly encompasses.โ I offered.
โTrue. It is a journey where you have to re-learn something you have long forgotten; and you have to learn it from scratch again.โ
The Lady Calf Woman continued, โWhat creates more of a challenge for youโthough not a bad challenge because you chose to experience these challengesโis that you are immersed in streams of consciousness that place a fog over your perceptions. Then, you have to find your way through this fog to arrive at the truth.โ
โTrue.โ I stated.
โYou are born into this fog and consciously remember nothing outside of it,โ said the White Buffalo Calf Woman, โSo, it becomes hard for you to grasp any other way to live, feel, think and breathe. But live, feel, think and breathe you must. For, you are all on an amazing journey to find completeness. And you will not find it without challenging some of the fog and more unconscious thoughts that you prefer to remain blind to. Until you are willing to see that the path of blindness is not the path of love, you will not know how to truly bring peace into your world. In such a case knowledge of love has been acquired butthe wisdom regarding how to make it a walk of life is still absent to a large degree.โ
โPeople think that we can just use our thoughts to heal the waters.โ I told her.
โAnd this is not without truthโ She stated. She then closed her eyes and looked deep in concentration. As I looked down at the water, it had become clean and pure and the lesions around our ankles were healed and removed.
โThatโs incredibleโ I told her. โI would like to have this ability.โ
โAll in time, my childโ she stated. โYou first have to pass the test of knowing the difference between knowledge and wisdom. You then have to be able to use wisdom to create love and trust. You have to be able to know why you are miscreating, so as to refrain from miscreating anything more. You have to know what you are truly thinking, asking for and why. Otherwise all your efforts will yield some form of result and yet be returned back to dust.โ
โSo what is the first step?โ I asked.
โThe first step is to pray. Sincerely pray to have more than knowledge. Pray to also have wisdom. Pray to be able to recognize your miscreations and why you miscreated them. And then pray to know how to use love to create something else, instead.โ
She continued โUse nature as your guide. She will speak to you about your miscreations and what wisdom can be applied. But you will only be able to hear her if you listen. You will only be able to love her if you can put aside your love for material things enough to feel an opening in your heart. For, she is your true treasure and the spark of holiness and life within herโthe spark of miracleโis part of what you are as well.โ
โThat all seems like it would be so simple, but it is difficult at the same time.โ I responded.
โYou donโt need to make it so confusing for yourself.โ She stated. โSimply be willing to recognize how your soul and Her soul are partners on this journey. Treat Her with respect. Care for her as your Mother, your elder, your teacher, your lover and your heart. For if you take the โhโ off of the word โheartโ and put it on the end of the word, you have the word โearth.โ It is not an accident that the words โheartโ and โearthโ are of the same numerological vibration.โ
โYes, I have heard that before.โ I said.
With this the White Buffalo Calf Woman took my hand and had me kneel down in the pure water with her. Using her hands as cups, she scooped some water and poured it over my head. She then stated, โYou have now been baptised in the purity of Nature. Keep Her waters pure. Encourage others to baptise themselves as well. For water is what your body is made of. It is the same substance that makes up the lakes, rivers and oceans of Mother Earth.โ
With that, she began to sing a prayer as we waded in the water together; a prayer to the east, a prayer to the west and to all other directions. Her last words to me were: โRemember the rainbow bridge. That bridge is your bridge home.โ
I asked my guides how to make sense of the rift and arguments currently occurring between two factions of spirituality. One faction focuses on inaction, feeling that this is a peaceful and loving path. It perceives that to give any attention to problems in the world is “negative” or focusing on “illusion.” The opposing faction believes in seeing everything clearly. It feels that the way to peace has to be established through overthrowing those structures in the world that keep us dependent or “slaves” to a corrupt “agenda.โ It is focused on action and revolution. This is the answer I received through automatic writing:
While humanity is abundant in knowledge, it is lacking wisdom. Wisdom, after all, is the ability to use knowledge wisely; which you will know when true wisdom has been applied from its fruits. Until humanity can perceive the fruits of its miscreative thoughts and behaviors, it will continue to miscreate[i] and produce unloving fruits.
This problem of miscreation occurs when individuals possess knowledge, but do not yet fully understand it inside their hearts. They only know it within their brains.
Think of it this way: if a person truly believed in transcendent love or in serving only what was “positive,” while rejecting what creates a “negative” or unloving effect, they would automatically cease to partake in what corrupts the world. This is because their mind would no longer comprehend any need to have fear. It would no longer have a need to serve a way of life that is polluting. Nor would it need to live a lie that has them walking a path between thoughts which manifest something loving in spirit and thoughts which manifest something ugly and unloving into the world of form. Many can’t see this yet, and this deserves compassion. It is merely out of misunderstanding that many of you and your brothers and sisters can only understand Love, Light and Oneness in a mental way while remaining addicted and attached to what destroys Love, Light and Oneness at the same time.
The ability to transcend this dilemma lies with bridging what you intellectually know [such as of concepts] through the wisdom of the Heart. Then, the path of love can be redefined as simply what produces loving fruits. All that produces unloving fruits must be defined as something else. Only then will the Mind, desiring to be in Loveโs service, know through the wisdom of the Heart what action is required: the act of ceasing to partake in what corrupts the world.
As for those individuals who feel the corruption and negative fruits of the world must be denied because they are “illusion,” the Wisdom of the Heart does not judge and merely sees such fruits as a form of miscreation that has manifested from unloving thoughts.
Beauty abides within,
Grace be to all.
[i] To โmiscreateโ is to manifest in material, emotional or spiritual ways that are not loving, peaceful, or respectful of life/living beings. โMiscreationsโ are creations that are the opposite of what we may truly intend to manifest (life, abundance, love, peace).
The โLove & Lightโ Focus
The โTruth & Awakeningโ Focus
Focused on peace, presence, and positive energy
Focused on exposing illusion, control, and deception
Avoids negativity, media, fear, or conflict
Often immersed in research, seeking hidden truths
Believes focusing on darkness feeds it
Believes ignoring it enables it
Practices compassion, prayer, meditation
Thinks if enough people awaken and assign blame there will be top-down change
Risks spiritual bypassing
Risks spiritual burnout or despair, especially when exposing truths doesn’t create top-down change.
Without a word, she takes my left hand within her right palm and leads me through a meadow to the bank of a river. She motions for me to sit down with her and I happily oblige.
In the trees nearby, the birds look down from their high branches and I can hear their pleasant tweeting amidst the sound of the rushing water as it streams by. A clear sky overhead, the sun casts its brilliant light upon the river; which its ripples appear to sparkle as they reflect the light.
The White Buffalo Calf Woman can see what has caught my attention. She watches my face with a pleased but curious glance. Then, she finally speaks; โSee how the sunlight sparkles upon the river, but never reaches too far below the surfaceโฆ its beauty can only go so deep. The story it would tell, if it had one, would be a happy tale, however. It would be a story of joyfully dancing and playing upon the water; having no real concerns at all.โ
โI never noticed that before.โ I responded.
โVery few do.โ she remarked.
We look upon the flickering light together and then she shared a perception; โThe world is advancing so very quickly in its process toward awakening. However, one must also remember that the collective mind-set has been trapped in darkness and powerlessness for a very long time. It is only now beginning to wake up and look for a new direction to turn.โ
Motioning toward the sparkling river she continued, โAt times, the only way you could see the light was if it caught your attention on the surfaceโฆ never reaching much deeper than this. Oh yes, that light made you feel unburdened, possessing a playful and innocent quality. However, when locked into the surface of anything, you can become stunted in your capacity for greater depth, understanding, and growth. Fortunately, the time has come where the lock can finally be released.โ
โWhat kind of lock was it? Was it created deliberately?โ I asked.
The white buffalo calf woman replied, โIt was created by unconsciousness, and such unconsciousness is capable of being woken from. As for your second question, everything can serve a purpose, even unconsciousness.โ
She then turned her gaze away from the water and took my hand and placed it inside of hers. With a more serious tone she spoke, โFor a very long time, mankind has felt a void withinโฆa state of unconsciousness regarding who he is. This left man continually trying to find a way to fill this void from without, only to have his efforts leave him feeling unfulfilled. Whenever a spiritual light began to emerge, it was played with in various ways, but could only ever offer a small taste of its magicโฆ a taste that could escape from the mind of mankind just as quickly as it could be happened upon. Men would then return to the harsh and structured ways of the world, while left with a feeling of longing in their soul for the Lightโs returnโฆโ
โThat is something I can definitely relate to.โ I said.
She then asked, โHave you noticed how such a feeling of longingness can feel particularly difficult to cope with during times the skies above become overcast with clouds? Many of you can fall into a deep depression and wonder if the clouds will ever part again. This keeps you longing for the sun in an external way or through external acts that keep you waiting. You are left with the subtle realization that this playful light can only behave in a superficial and temporary manner before your mind is drawn back to how dark your world has truly become.โ
โWhat else can we all do?โ I asked.
Placing her hand over her heart, the lady calf woman replied, โThe answer to that question lies with where you choose to find the spiritual light. For example, if you keep looking for a light to shine down upon you from heaven above, it blocks you from looking within your heart for the warmth of a different kind of sun that shines from heaven within.โ She continued, โLook for the sun which arises from the holy spark within you. This sun is also a Son of the Great Spirit; which if you cannot see it in yourself, you miss it everywhereโwithin the trees, within the grass, within the creatures that stir.โ
We both pause for a moment in order to observe all of the breathtaking beauty that surrounded us. Then, the buffalo calf woman picked up the conversation where it was left off. She stated, โThe next phase of the world will see a return to recognizing sacredness. For a long time, sacredness was lost when you would greet a person, a creature or a part of nature. Now the world can enter a new phase where the focus is not merely an attempt to use the natural world and its creatures solely as a means to create something lifeless or transitory to indulge in or worship. In place of this, you can come to greet and revere the natural worldโas your companion on your Earth journeyโthrough recognizing the holy spark you share.โ
With this, the White Buffalo Calf Woman looked down to the ground and shook her head. She stated, โIn the past, there has been no responsibilityโฆno accountabilityโฆโ
โIn what way do you mean?โ I asked.
She answered, โBecause many of you innocently played with the Light while looking for it externally through various forms of religion, doctrine, concepts of material abundance or other means, you could not see the Light where it truly was.ย This was neither right nor wrong, but a step in your development.ย But, a change is now beginning to stir within many of you. Many of you will begin to know the truth of who you are before long.โย Which, pointing to my heart with a smile upon her face she exclaimed, โItโs in you! It is within your blood, within your heart, within your lungs. It is within the song your life sings and dances to! It is in all you have formerly thrown away and took for granted.ย For, both you and mankind lost the way of sacred prayer and the knowledge of how to smoke my sacred pipe.ย But, such knowledge lost can be returned to you again; in a way which appreciates it in a new light.โ
โIs this what many of us are starting to do through focusing on love and light?โ I asked.
โA small taste. A small sweet taste.โ she answered.
Silence passed for a few moments between us, and then she began to speak again.
โRemember, love is like a mirror in which you can see a reflection. Love is reflected all around you; in the trees, in Nature, in your heart, and in one another. This mirror has been lost and shattered; replaced instead with a broken record that keeps spinning out the same tune over and over; a tune which has you feeling mesmerized and lost.โ
Asking her what she meant, she replied.โ Your ideas of love are all enabling and thrive on ideas of hopelessness. They are ideas of weakness instead of strength. Yes, Yes! Love is gentleness, but it is also power and strength! It is responsibility! It is sharing and caring! It is the life giver and it never seeks to ungratefully take another life!โ
โTo me, it makes sense that true love would treat everything as sacred.โ I said.
โYes! Yes! For, would not love protect its mother and the giver of its life?โ exclaimed the white buffalo calf woman. โWould not Love know that within Her lies the very spark of the Holiest of Holies; which this holiness lies within all living things and beings.โ
The lady calf woman continued,โ The mother who gave you life is One with the Mother of all natural life. It is this Mother of all natural life that is the giver of your motherโs life and your own; which She, Herself, first took form within the womb of a greater Mother. Yet, in many ways, she has been unintentionally abandoned and disownedโฆ this mother who shared with you and yours her great abundance. Man did not know any better, for to know better would be to know the beauty and holiness that exists first within the Self. Many of you have been unconscious for a very long time; which in order not to feel Mother Natureโs pain as your own, you taught yourselves not to feel for Her at all. Though, this will change. You are now beginning to experience that what seeds you sow for your Earth Mother reap a harvest that affects you as wellโฆโ
The lady calf woman then stood up and approached the nearest tree. One of the leaves she took within her fingers, and then she spoke,โ Man has not yet learned to even love one leaf upon one tree most days. This isnโt conscious or intentional. He simply doesnโt know better. It is comingโฆ it is coming as now an increasing number of Earth children are stepping forward to teach other men how to love one leaf upon one tree most days.โ
โBut man does love its offspring and family.โ I replied.
โMan currently loves the idea of romantic relationships, offspring and family. This is because man loves not to feel alone,โ said the white buffalo calf woman.โ If he truly knew what love was, then he would surely love his offspring and family. But, he will not love as long as he is lost in darkness and trying to find himself in the external. He has to first unlearn the teachings that falsely taught him that he has to compete for love. Because of this, he cannot find peace; he cannot find happiness. He has never learned to love himself. He was never truly given permission. He thinks he needs permission and for this permission he waits.โ
I asked her what could be done about this.โ Speak.โ she simply said.โ Donโt enable this lack of love any longer. Would you enable a child to wander into the busy traffic with no one to guide its path?โ
โBut people donโt want to listen.โ I responded.
โOf course they do not want to listen.โ she answered. โThey are afraid of being shown that what they thought was light was only mediocrity and what they thought was only mediocrity was light. But the light is coming, and the light is increasing; whether they like it or not.โ
She spoke again, โFor the sake of the Oneness experimentโin other words, for the sake of a Oneness experience which you call unity consciousnessโthose who know the truth must get past the fear of knowing it. If they know where love exists, then they must have the strength to show where to find this love; so that others can learn in order to join with it. When people conjoin in love, love then becomes strengthened.โ
โWhat if it is too late?โ I asked her.
โIt is never too late for love.โ She said. โNoโฆFor love is not about achieving any outcome. Love is justified through its expression alone.โ
She continued, โSeek to love. Seek to always be loving. But, love from a place within the heart that knows what love is and what love is not. Love from a place that knows where love is, and where to greet it. If you do not know what love is and where to find it, it is not hard to learn. Simply look around you, because the opportunity to see and learn is everywhere. Love is the language of Nature and the Universe. It endlessly speaks to us of its great love. But, learn first for yourself what love is. Listen to what it has to teach you, and then teach it.โ
โHow will we know what love is and what it is notโ I asked her.
โYou will know if you can separate yourself from the world and its consciousness enough to begin to see life and love from a perspective that is unclouded by popular beliefs, stories and thought forms. For, the world loves to be carried away in its own stories and beliefs. In getting carried away, however, the collective consciousness has become slightly infected. Neither this infection, nor the collective consciousness, represents the truth of who you are, however. Such an infection is only a story each person weaves while united in consciousness and thought with brothers and sisters who were taught to weave the same story.
She continued, โNature communicates everythingโฆit always has. Nature is part of the Universe which communicates everythingโฆ.and always has. Some of the beliefs that infect the collective consciousness arise from mankind, while other beliefs arise from other sources. So, you must separate yourself from the world for some time, even from what appears to be โlight.โ While separated from the world for a time, you can then learn the ways of sacred prayer and how to smoke the sacred pipe.โ
โWhat is the sacred pipe?โ I asked.
โI will save this discussion for another time.โ she stated, letting me know she would return to speak to me again.
At this point, the White Buffalo Calf Womanโs expression and demeanor changed. She approached the nearby tree and placed her hand upon its body. She then looked into its branches for the bluebird that was singing. With a playful grin on her face, she exclaimed to the bird, โSpread your joy little bluebird! For pure joy is what you are! And, when you spread your wings to fly, please carry on your wings my own joy. For such joy arises in the recognition of your sacred spark; the same sacred spark which lovingly gave birth to all of Creation.
Then, she turned around to speak to me once more; this time with a grin upon her face. She informed, โDespite all that I have said, remind yourself never to forget to play. There is always time for it. If you watch little children, they know how to play. They know how to play with nothing man made, and they rarely focus upon an outcomeโฆโ
She continued, โPlay like the light that dances on the water, but go deeper. Bring light forth from your internal sun as well. Let that light greet everyone, not just of human form, but of animal and plant as wellโฆโ
And with this the lady calf woman began to sing a song; she sang a song of prayer to the east, to the west, and all directions. Then, the white buffalo calf woman merged into the tree and I was left standing by the river alone. Amidst the sound of the water rushing by and the birds chirping, I could hear one last faint whisperโฆ โI will be back,โ it said. โRemember, we are One.โ
Exert yourself, O holy man! Cut off the stream (of craving), and discard sense desires. Knowing the destruction of all the conditioned things, become, O holy man, the knower of the Uncreated (Nibbana)! – Siddhartha Gautama Buddha
In the last chapter, I discussed the Law of Attraction in a very personal sense as it relates to dreaming the personal dream of life. I had actually been planning to write a book a few years ago about my feeling that the prevailing understanding of the Law of Attraction is incomplete. I am glad that I waited, because I had not yet grasped that there existed a whole other dimension of thought and manifestation that I had never before considered.
An 2011 Reading
It was not until I was asked to provide a world reading for a 2011 New Yearโs Eve radio show that an alternative way to view our abundance driven lifestyles unexpectedly revealed itself. And, I refrained from voicing on the radio what I saw, needing time to process it all. This was in large part due to the fact that the main message of the reading seemed to challenge the rationality of some of our popular abundance centered philosophies.
A sample from the reading follows (Peterson, 2012b):
The message was very direct, that the wheel of fortune was reversed and stuck in that position. The core of what I remember seeing is that we are stuck and not changing in ways that we are really being called to change. There were cards of refusing to change, being stuck, addicted, codependent, and similar โstuckโ themes. Many cards were indicating that what we are being called to change is our materialistic lifestyles, our greed, and our perversions of nature. The main message for 2011 was that we were stuck, and many of us likely were not going to change in the ways we were going to be called. There is potential, though, because I kept drawing the card, โA choice will be made for you, if you do not make one for yourself.โ The other cards forewarned that โan unexpected change will be occurring, when or how remains uncertain.โ
While the reading revealed aspects about humanity that seemed harsh, what seemed even harsher was the outcome that was potentially coming into form via the card, โA choice will be made for you, if you do not make one for yourself.โ I do not believe the reading was meant to judge or frighten anyone. Its true intent, I feel, was merely to bear witness to what was going on within our collective mind-set, and to reveal what that mind-set was manifesting and whyโand that we do have choice.
Part of the reading relayed that a few disasters were in store for 2011; which, indeed, by March of that year the world saw Japan devastated by a tsunami, and deadly tornadoes tore through the United States shortly after. Even as events themselves drew closer, Spirit was revealing to me within my dreams how these happenings were not only symbolic, but manifested from various patterns of lifestyle, thought, and energy.
Conditioning Blocks Awareness Which Then Impacts Manifestation through Influencing Our Thoughts and Desires
What I had never realized before was how much I was blocking my own awareness of truth by going along with being conditioned (like much of the world is) to perceive the larger problems of the world as an โus-against-themโ situation. And, by using the word them I am referring to various parental constructs, governments, institutions, power providers, and etc.
Seeing problems in this way, it makes sense that I would have to project what was, in part, my responsibility onto something outside of me. So, like many others, I carried the unchallenged belief that something or someone external should take responsibility for and fix many of the increasing number of issues within the world. Then, when this huge change in my perception took place, I could no longer see the same issues in the same light.
Once I glimpsed this bigger pictureโone in which I had a share in the responsibilities of this planet and its problemsโit started triggering further realizations. It was like a domino effect. Part of me struggled for a while with how to deal with this change in my perception that was taking place. I had been part of the whole movement that believed, โlife is all illusion, so what is manifested, be it earth changes or anything else, does not matter.โ While this will always be true, certain angelic beings were telling me repeatedly, and even within my dreams at night, that we are gifted with โchoice;โ ultimately to choose what to serve: love or fear, the whole or the self, awareness or denial, etc.
Free Will’s Role in Choice, Desire, and Manifestation
At the same time, it became clearer that the path of blame and of running away from the compounding problems that were manifesting in our world was the path of fear rather than love. As I kept digging and asking questions, I realized that we are reaping what we sow through our own free will. Not only this, but our free will has in way lost its freedom. How so? Our free will has become so trapped in fear-based patterns of thinking and choosing that it is becoming more increasingly difficult for us to believe it is even possible to think or make choices in any other way.
What I started to realize was that free will has been gifted to us out of the highest love of our Creator. It is also the impetus behind our eternal and subconscious drive to come to know ourselves as this Creatorโs reflection. Many of us, I feel, unconsciously seek to become this reflection through the work of our hands, minds, and actions; which at the end of the day, these works can either reflect something that is life-giving or anti-life.
For example, notice how the word evil is the word live spelled backwards. Consider, then, that blasphemy may merely reflect a choice to scorn life, rather than to protect, revere and foster it. This โlifeโ does not simply pertain to our daily living, either. It encompasses the miracle and holiness that lives within all living things and beings. It is this miracle of life which has been imbued with our Creatorโs breath and ignited into living form through his great love. It is this natural abundance and treasure that our thoughts unconsciously undervalue while giving value to the lifeless and transitory. Why? Because we have lost the ability to cherish the original lotus seed we were born from. Instead, we live a life that is depressed and muddy. We have lost grasp of the miracle, and can only perceive abundance through using our will and manifestation abilities toward the creation of money and lifeless commodities.
Using the Fruits That Manifest in Our World To Decode Higher Truths and Shape More Wholesome Desires
I now believe that an opportunity to make a free will choice between serving the true life or the false anti-life is a prime reason why many of us incarnated during these amazing times. Due to the incredible fruits being sown in the world, we have the chance, unlike generations prior, to use the environment and world scale events as a way to see where we have gone astray in our thinking. We can use this time period to understand that we not only have personal karma to fulfill, but a responsibility to the collective and to the earth. Of the various lessons that are available for us to learn, we can choose to learn peace, we can choose to learn to wake up to our illusions, we can choose to learn how to bring balance back to our dream of form, and we can choose to come to embrace that we are part of a collective consciousness experience as well. But to do this, we must first understand what is meant by the term collective consciousness; we must understand how our thoughts may not necessarily be just our own but a reflection of a greater whole.
Here is where we get to the meat of this discussion.
Individual versus Collective Streams of Consciousness
What is a good definition of collective consciousness? I see it as a level of thought that extends beyond our personal thought level, of which our personal thought level can both be affected by various streams of collective consciousness as well as contribute to them.
If we can step back and contemplate a bigger picture concerning our thoughts and how they are intertwined with the consciousness of a collective, we may be able to view them as existing within a system of streams (visualizing these streams as encompassing different branches of collective thinking, patterning and belief). We can then visualize how there exists one large stream with smaller and smaller tributaries running from, into or within the larger streams. Some may cross over into other streams, take multiple pathways, etc. Though, when it comes to thought, its streams might not be as clear cut as those streams we view within nature.
In my perception, the biggest streams are those which involve our beliefs concerning life in general, such as that we are human and have basic needs for survival. Tributaries may form which encompass the beliefs of different cultures, norms, groups, religions, etc. Even these tributaries, may have smaller streams within them or branching from them, and so on and so forth; each reflecting more and more individualized and independent streams of thinking. Our individual consciousness is only one tiny stream that flows among many other streams to form a larger one.
The Two Levels At Which Manifestation Can Occur
To add a twist to this, in the same way that there are various streams of consciousness, there is more than one level which manifestation can occur. For the purpose of simplicity, we could categorize two main levels:
Personal Manifestation: creates fruits within oneโs personal sphere of experience. Such fruits affect oneโs personal/individual dream of life.
Collective Manifestation: creates fruits within a larger sphere, such as on a collective or world scale. Such fruits affect a bigger picture that goes beyond the individual level of experience. There may be a collective consciousness of the entire world, as well as sub-collectives (i.e. the sub-streams and tributaries), representing cultures, countries, areas, groups, etc.
If we can also take into account beings such as angels, guides, discarnates, or inhabitants of other realms and worlds and their belief systems, then there is even the possibility that nonhuman dimensions of consciousness and/or manifestation can have an effect upon the earth, or influence our individual or collective consciousness.
The Three Different Levels of Consciousness
Even the two main levels of manifestation mentioned aboveโpersonal and collectiveโmay be affected by different levels of consciousness:
Subconscious
Conscious
superconscious
If we can visualize these different levels as they pertain to streams of consciousness, we may find that the most stable and purest stream is the superconscious; of which our individual superconscious is our lotus nature, and our collective superconscious is a pond which is pure, immaculate, and free of mud or algae. The superconscious stream is the part of us that I see as fully awake, even if in our human form we are not conscious of it.
While our higher thoughts spring from these superconscious streams, our ego-based thoughts originate from the conscious and subconscious streams. These streams represent the illusions that make up our dream of life and all the stories it weaves and tells. I think part of our incarnated purpose is to find our way back to the superconscious stream, individually and collectively.
Furthermore, while the superconscious stream can never be polluted by the other streams of consciousness, the conscious and unconscious streams can become more purified and aligned with the superconsciousโthrough realizing we are the superconscious. This said, we are all living an experience as part of a multi-dimensional stream of consciousness. Within such an experience, the dualities and pollution only appear real, until we find our way back into alignment with the superconscious stream. Once doing so, we will not need to create various forms of emotional, physical, mental, psychic or spiritual pollution anymore.
What Really Constitutes Thought?
Not only do we have multiple levels of consciousness, we also have different carriers of consciousness vibration. Such carriers carry the energy and make it real by expressing it into the world of form.
In the Bible, it was the word becoming real, which when our will and intention are strong and unwaveringโwhile supported by the knowledge of who we truly areโmanifestation can happen that straightforwardly. However, I believe that there are forms of consciousness that are capable of manifesting, which the carriers of such consciousness can go beyond words. There are, after all, many different forms of thought, communication, and language that can be expressed all at once, and many do not involve language thoughts (thoughts composed of words).
So, what are some of these carriers of thought?
willful prayers, intentions, and desires
emotions
visualizations (intentional or subliminal)
conscious or unconscious wants, desires, hopes, dreams, beliefs
actions or inactions (arise out of thoughts, wants, desires, hopes, intentions, etc.)
lifestyles, habits, conditioning, addictions (arise out of various forms of thought and beliefs, whether conscious or not, sometimes operating on autopilot)
energy and vibrations
Again, many of these can be considered as existing at an individual level of expression, or as part of a collective level of expression (i.e. where a group of people act as carriers for the same thought consciousness).
What Happens When Thoughts Contradict One Another Or Are Empathically โTaken On?โ
Not every thought we have will manifest concretely. Additionally, different thoughts and intentions can contradict one another, even at a core level. I realized this one day when I saw a psychic while seeking to be released from various forms of suffering. He explained to me that I had two intentions that opposed one another. One was conscious and the other was unconscious. According to this psychic, not only did this frustrate me, but it manifested neutrality concerning what I consciously wanted to achieve.
As it turned out, I even had thoughts that were not my own that I had taken on from others around me in my personal environment.6 Yes, this is a form of thought as well; as is picking them up from the general collective consciousness.7 I had accepted a certain stream of consciousness, and it became part of my own energy, vibration, intentions, behavior, and language. Whether a person does or does not end up taking on another individualโs thought forms is largely dependent on their own thought level and susceptibility.
Many of us take for granted how truly sensitive we are at a vibrational level. Most healers understand that we can even forcefully project thoughts, beliefs, feelings, and other vibrational energy onto others. Such transfers of thought energy, when unloving, are often labeled as psychic attacks, curses, voodoo or spells. Such transfers of thought energy, when loving, are often labeled as prayer or healing. Through such prayer or healing, energy (a carrier of thought vibration), can be directed into another personโs energy field to help them with their own thoughts, or to help them to balance their energy or vibrations (since thought and belief is believed to be at its core a form of vibration/energy).
Other Carriers of Consciousness that Impact Our Own
Additionally, some of us even use homeopathic medicines, flower essences, and other vibrational medicines which carry the consciousness vibrations of various plants, crystals, animals, music, etc. These vibrational energies become integrated into the energy field of the person who uses and accepts them. We are also sensitive to the positions of the planets, and to the moon and tides. Some people with earth empathy may sense Mother Earth and her consciousness, energetic shifts or imbalances. Other individuals may be sensitive to animal consciousness, or that of cherished pets. And, as I suggested earlier in this chapter, it is even possible to have our thoughts or consciousness affected by nonphysical beings such as angels, guides, departed ones, extraterrestrials, etc.
The truth is, many of us subliminally take on thoughts and beliefs that are not our own all the time. It is by choice though. We do have free will and cannot attract anything unwillingly or which does not resonate with our energy and belief systems on some level.
The most common way we subliminally and willingly take on thoughts is through general streams of collective consciousness that linger around us and influence us more than we may realize. We take them on from television, movies, books, advertisements, magazines, culture, governments, and religions. We take them on from anything that tries to impress upon us who we are, what we want, how we should feel about ourselves, what we should look like, what we should believe in, what we should buy or sell, and the list goes on. While embarking on cleansing programs to vigilantly โclearโ ourselves of beliefs is not necessary (see chapter 9), finding a way back to Self does involve weeding through all these thoughts and beliefs (through becoming the detached observer) in order to find who we are, who we are not, and what thoughts are in true alignment with the energy that we truly, and on all levels, wish to carry into our world.
How to Tell What You Are Thinking & If It Is Aligned With Truth
A fool who knows his foolishness is wise at least to that extent, but a fool who thinks himself wise is a fool indeed. Ill done is that action of doing which one repents later, and the fruit of which one, weeping, reaps with tears. Well done is that action of doing which one repents not later, and the fruit of which one reaps with delight and happiness. So long as an evil deed has not ripened, the fool thinks it as sweet as honey. But when the evil deed ripens, the fool comes to grief. -Siddhartha Gautama Buddha
There is a reason the Bible and Buddha preached to us about the fruits of our actions and prophecy. As taught within the bible, we will be able to distinguish the true prophet of God from the false prophet according to the fruits of each prophetโs teachings (i.e. the effects of our seeds or beliefs). This may sound judgmental, but it simply means the true prophet is the one who speaks in service to Spirit rather than to the split or to the world. Today, there are many spiritual people who still serve the world. And, that service does yield the fruits of ecological imbalance, as well as bondage to systems, structures, forms, and other manifestations that have nothing to do with who we truly are. They are illusions. We do not necessarily need to fight them, master them, or change them. We merely let them reveal themselves to us for what they truly are: illusions.
Because all manifestation in the world is rooted in thought, we can use the world to decipher what our own thoughts and beliefs are, both on the collective subconscious and conscious level, as well as the individual level. As we discussed in the chapter on the Law of Attraction, we can use the symbolism within the world to locate even some of the subconscious thoughts of the collective that may be influencing us.
To begin this process, we can start to look at the problems of the collective world (i.e. the fruits of false prophecy) while connecting these problems to certain ways mankind is behaving. Once able to do this, we can then connect these behaviors to the thoughts and beliefs that lay underneath (as well as what streams of consciousness are promoting such beliefs). Then, we may be able to see where prophecy (i.e. guidance concerning how to live spiritually or otherwise) may have become misaligned. We may also begin to see how this misalignment process happened. Sometimes, when examining issues this way, we may find multi-levels of thoughts and beliefs all working toward various forms of misaligned manifestations. We may also find that some beliefs and systems we went along with without questioning are the ones that are leading to the disharmonious fruits in the world.
Yes, our wholeness exists, but our earth being-ness may not yet know this at a human level. It is still acting out themes that are self-undoing (see glossary) within its dreaming. This is not to say that this is โwrongโ or that we need to feel bad. We are simply having a consciousness experience, in which our consciousness is capable of growing, learning, and evolving.
In chapters 5 and 6, we look at how certain collective thought processes are affecting us on an individual and societal level.
[6] For those readers who will not know what I mean when I use the term โtaken onโ or “picking up,” these are common terms used in new age circles and various energy healing modalities. Another word used is โsponging.โ It reflects the belief that we can be affected by other peoples thoughts, prayer and energy through a process called โempathic spongingโ where one literally takes on(take into their own experience, beliefs and energy field) the thoughts, symptoms, feelings, or vibrations of other individuals, collectives, or earth Herself.
I have never before really wanted to say anything, nor put myself out there in certain โpredictiveโ ways, because Iโve never really been someone to predict world events before. Reading in this manner makes me uncomfortable. I also donโt believe outcomes are written in stone. So, in speaking about changes potentially coming or which are needing to be made, I had to think about how to present all this. I do believe information intuited can be used as a warning. We are not all fated to events, but in many ways have choice.
2010 New Years Even Radio Show
In 2010, I was invited on a radio show to give New Year’s prediction for 2011, and I refused to go on. I told the host that I was seeing some very ‘negative’ things. I didnโt know how to process it to feel confident saying anything on air. However, now that certain events have already transpired, I feel I should put forward the message in the way it was originally received. So please, take for yourself what feels right for you and ignore what doesnโt.
Wheel of Fortune Reversed and Stuck in that Position
The message was very direct: that the wheel of fortune was reversed and stuck in that position. The core of what I remember seeing is that we are stuck and not changing in ways that we are being called to change. There were cards of refusing to change, being stuck, addicted, codependent, and similar ‘stuck’ themes.
Many cards were indicating that what we are being called to change is our materialistic lifestyles, our greed, and our perversions of nature. But, the warning was that we were stuck and many of us likely were not going to change in the ways we were called to. There is potential though because I kept drawing the card, “A choice will be made for you, if you do not make one for yourself.” The other cards pointed to “an unexpected change will be occurring, when or how remains uncertain.”
Natural Disasters
We’ve suffered two extreme devastations in less than a year. We have also seen tornadoes go through the United States unlike ever before. Yet, life continued on like normal as if nothing happened. We all need that denial because it keeps us feeling safe. We could see the call in such events, but such a call becomes displaced by philosophies which tell us that denial is the only way to survive.
Just Be Love n Light
Others think the answer is to simply ‘love’ and to again enter a state of denial. But the message Iโm getting is that yes, we are always safe in spirit whose message is always to remain centered and loving in the eye of the hurricane, but we are also here to learn, grow and to find our way back to source. All this happens around us to help us to find a truly loving bond not just with our own source energy, but with the loving energy of creation around us… in true honor, awe and respect for it. All of this, if we allow it, can help us see what needs to be done. Yes, we can connect with our inner self and the core of love within. But, we can also let it help us change our lifestyles and connect in new and miraculous ways to everything outside of us.
Doing Away With Blame and Taking Responsibility for our Dependencies
The message I received is not one of blame, but of individual change. It’s not the forces, the illuminati, nature, or anything else outside of us that is creating all of the unbalance around us. It is our lifestyles, addictions and dependencies.
Many of us are also waiting for a ‘Venus project’, ascension or something external to offer a solution. But, the message is look within. Stop waiting on anyone else or anything else manifest the way out. We are supposed to learn during these times how we have created the very reality we live in, on both the individual and collective level of our experience. We have chosen to be here, in this time period. We have the opportunity to learn how to take our power back, through being able to see how many ways we have given it away, and in many cases created complete dependencies.
We are likewise being called to give up quick-fixes and ways of wanting an easy way out. For example: some of the external structures, institutions, entities or beings that we may overly rely on (for the purpose of creating more ease and simplicity within our lives) may include those which do not always have spiritual or loving intentions towards life or Earth. Some may be engaged in deception.
Most of us already are aware, on some level, that certain corporations come about to satisfy whims and desires that we collectively put out there. So many more new corporations are emerging as time goes on, not all of them possessing ethical, honest or ecological intentions. However, instead of blaming what has been created within the world, we are asked to recognize choice: choosing whether we will plug into a certain level collective consciousness at this time, or whether we are going to unplug and release ourselves. Choosing whether we are going to be part of a demand for an old life, or whether we wish to be part of a demand for a new type of world that can come into form.
The Law of Supply and Demand
We are meant to understand during these times that, in the same way that exists a Law of Attraction, there also exists a Law of Supply and Demand. This latter law controls what corporations, individuals, and energies gain the most power or influence.
This law demonstrates that, we, the public, are not helpless. There is no real or valid excuse for our being overly complacent or defeatist. The core of the message I received pertained to mankind becoming too complacent. We are meant to embark upon the next phase of of our spiritual growth and change, which includes examining certain societal addictions, dysfunctionalism, co-dependencies, and lifestyles which all emerge from our unconscious thoughts and beliefs about ourselves and our world.
The Abuse of Power
Yes, there is power being abused in the world. We are being shown an illusion where governments and other forces, seemingly outside of us, more frequently abuse power because we continue to give it away. But, trust that the outer is mirroring the inner: the problem is coming from within.
What is being created in many ways is based upon the collective demands of a world that has become dysfunctional in a multitude of ways. Examining the fruits of what has manifested, and what continues to manifest within our ecosystem and in other ways, displays this clearly. However, we are so used to the dysfunction it may be difficult noticed unless we are willing to look upon the world from a higher and more collective perspective.
Enlightenment Has Not Yet Shifted Us Beyond a Survival Consciousness
Despite increasing in awareness, we collectively still tend to operate within the level of the lower vibrational animal / survival consciousness that uses the earth for its primal needs and unconsciously destroys it. Knowing this, there is the opportunity for to become more human or “humane”. We can choose to move out of a more survival based consciousness into one which we choose to align our energies with nature and with one another in peaceful and love-fostering ways. Humankind is achieving this in steps. And, we can further open up and realize that, in the end, there is no true duality, no ‘good’ or ‘bad’, no ‘success’ or ‘failure’, just our united dreaming of a story where we become more in touch with a part of us that remembers what God, Love, and Truth really is.
Processing Our Emotions
Within the reading, the message was not about fear, but about love. We are not asked to deny any feelings, either. Within our process toward self-realization, we are not meant to, nor do we need to, shut any part of ourselves down. We are here to have compassion for and to love those parts of us we would run away from. We are meant to move through our feelings in ways that will help us to get to the other side. If we tell ourselves that we are not allowed to have our feelings, even negative ones, then we get stuck in what we are meant to process through.
Look at the World Through Eyes of Love but Without Denial
If we tell ourselves we can’t look at what we have collectively created within our world, we might get stuck in denial, unable to process our experiences and emotions. Know that it is safe to look upon anything. It is safe to feel emotions. If it helps, view everything occurring as if it is arising from a dream. There is no need to hold judgment towards the dream we are dreaming, the human condition, or our human feelings. If we make those parts of us ‘wrong’, then unconditional love cannot touch it with its healing and transformative energy.
Smashing Mirrors
Many clients I talk to have felt a huge push to resolve things with people from their past. This is all part of the process… coming back to purity, truth, and wholeness while realizing all the ways we have set ourselves up and searched for meaning only to still feel a void within.
A psychic friend said her guides called it a process of ‘smashing mirrors.’ This is happening.
For those who are awakening, certain certainties that we thought we could rely on are going to be smashed in front of our eyes. Many of us will start to realize how they made no sense. But the outcome will be an understanding how we create everything and create it together, through being part of a ‘collective consciousness’.
Mother Earth is both part of and affected by our collective consciousness (and we are in turn affected by her). Even those who may have honored her are going to realize the un-thought of ways in they contributed to harm. In the end, it is all about the self and a mirroring of what needs to be brought closer to source.
A New Reality Emerging
Yes, there is going to be a new reality that we eventually shift into. We are being called to change. We are being called, not to wait for the change to be brought from outside of us, but to bring it from within. This is an amazing time where we can free ourselves from dependencies, become our own master and guru, become freer, more connected to the planet, to love self and others, and to realize what true abundance really is.
Many of us have been learning about manifestation but approaching it in a way which brings internal conflict between two sets of energies. We have been trying to be part of the new energy while clinging to the old.
Think of it as the world is echoing a giant call for change against a collective consciousness that fears it and wants to stay the same. We have an overpowering fear of changing beliefs and lifestyles. As a result it is only natural that this could manifest through an expression of a conflict in energy. The energy has to express itself in some way. However the energy manifests, we can let the world and its symbols speak to us about how to bring everything back into balance. The more we understand this, the more we will know that in whatever happens we are safe.
Issues With ‘Power’
Many of us are beginning to awaken to our issues with power (both the leadership kind and the type we see as fuel) and our passivity in resolving these issues. Not that this is something to judge, but a reflection of both our current level of awareness as well as what we are manifesting with our energies. Our dependency upon self-defeating power sources is symbolic ofย where we have given our power away to external sources of authoritative power and control which may be toxic to ourselves and to our planet.
Anything we, as individuals, can do to get off the grid and locate alternative forms of power that leave us less dependent on systems that abuse power helps us to progress as a collective. The less dependent we are on having to rely on something outside of ourselves, the better off we will feel and the less defeatist and helpless we will be. Otherwise, we will continue to see change and the collapse of certain structures and ways living and perceive this as something to fear. We need to understand that if this happens, such a collapse is not ‘positive’ or ‘negative’ but reveals how we have given our power away and become too dependent, unable to live in balance or understand how to honor energy (symbolically or literally with our body and that of the planet).
Yang Energy
On the night of April 26th, 2011 I had a dream. In this dream, I was in the living room of a house not my own and looking out a huge window. There was wind rushing all around. It was as if I was in the eye of a tornado. While wondering within myself why there was so much wind, an angel appeared. He had only one thing to say; ‘The world has become too yang, too focused on conquest and producing.’ Then he disappeared.
The angel hadn’t made such a declaration in a judgmental way. He simply answered my question as if making an unbiased statement about energy in general. Upon awakening, I had to look up the words yin and yang to see what both really referred to. I would simultaneously learn about the tornadoes moving through the states. But, I did notice something that made me see nature and her activity in a way I never had before.
‘Yin’ represents the water element and ‘yang’ represents the fire element. Yin is the receptive, nurturing, intuitive and resting energy, while yang is about action, conquest, drive and creativity. If we look at the major disasters that have happened in the world, they have been very ‘Yang’.
Yang energy can also represent how we feel energetically sped up at a collective level. We are racing to accomplish many things, engaged in over-activity and over-doing, and becoming very scattered and ungrounded. And, if we look at the rest of what is conveyed through nature, something is out of balance. What is happening in the main ‘body’ of the collective seems to be projected onto the body of the planet: over-active energy field, anxiety, stress, burn out, exhaustion, conflict, etc. All of these are the result of too much yang energy.
The Need for Balance
We can allow ourselves to balance these overly yang energies through bringing in more awareness when we are out of balance. When overly yang, we can focus on bringing in what is yin. We can allow ourselves to rest and integrate new energies coming in instead of being ‘go, go, go’ all the time. The ‘go, go, go’ needs to be considered part of an old way of living that we can leave behind with an old polluted world and its polluted ways of thinking and being. The new way of living will be one of Peace. Even if we end up manifesting an external collapse of everything we cling to in order to bring it about.
If we can allow ourselves to step outside of our personal level of experience in order to see a bigger picture (or if we should burn out, forcing us to re-evaluate), we may notice that western society is not very tolerant of rest. If we look at how the collective majority behaves in society, we are very yang. “Rest” is almost a dirty word. There simply is no time or patience for it. One has to be out conquering the world, producing something, making money, working, doing, having, wanting and everything else and these are all termed “success”. When one cannot or does not wish to keep up with this programming (based in illusion), the “failure” label starts to be applied. Other words like “lazy”, “floundering,” etc.
Breaking Free of Illusions and Conditioning
If we can break from our illusions concerning what mankind has been taught to idolize or obey without question, we can then become more aware of how many of us within the Western world have fallen into a mode of receiving worth through being a “human doing” rather than a “human being”. Many of us may even suffer from stress related conditions and exhaustion, which if severe enough is something that can force us to rest–and become more yin in order to recharge. Energy is received through rest and becoming more yin. Energy is given through expressing it outward and becoming more yang.
Dealing with Exhaustion
Exhaustion results when, like a battery, we are low on energy from giving too much of it away without taking enough time to be still and to recharge. This “giving away of energy” can be caused by too much thinking, worry, physical labor, strain, efforts etc. Once exhausted, an individual can end up misdiagnosed as ‘depressed’; as if needing to go inward at times is a sort of disorder. Perhaps a few of those who are diagnosed as such are not even depressed. Possibly they instinctively feel and know something is missing from their lives; lives spent in external striving toward what may never really allow many of us feel complete. Yet, the world keeps telling us to go, go, go , do do, do, have have, have till some of us may feel the futility of it all, feeling our life has become hollow or amiss.
Yin = The Divine Feminine
The best thing we can do right now to help balance out Earth’s energies is to learn about the yin side of energy and balance it with the yang. This does not mean yang is ‘wrong’ or ‘bad’. It simply means that we have become out of balance. If Mother Nature should need to come in for us, she will lovingly restore that balance if she has to, but our energy is creating it, the same way it is creating it within our bodies. When a body burns out from overusing yang forces, it then needs to go into a yin state of relaxation to recharge and replenish so it can be yang once more. Those who have more energy replenishes if this happens, and other ways of living and being will likely fair better than those who do not.
I think we could begin to see situations that will cause crises, disease, power outages, damages to things, etc., in order to force us respect a balance of energy. There are so many energies manifesting right now to make this happen, including a collective awakening as I spoke of before; a call for love and for change, accompanied by a fear of change and a deep rooted belief that nothing is ever enough, including ourselves.
Try Not to Believe in Doomsday Messaging
Try not to fall into doomsday messaging that preaches its God’s wrath or some Illuminati force out to destroy us. Again, we are collectively creating our reality. We are here to learn that we are ‘enough.’ If there a punishment coming, it is false ideas within ourselves that we need to be punished. Try to see everything that happens as simply cause and effect. There is simply inner conflict within us which is creating an external manifestation of this conflict in the outer world.
Talk of Revolutions
There will be talk of revolutions against our governments, but we are asked to look within. Change will come through individuals withdrawing their energies from what is chaotic and enslaving within the world rather than through fighting these energies. Those who preach revolution or denial preach helplessness. In truth we all have untapped power. We can all change the world through how we live and what we practice. We are not as helpless as disempowering figures would have us think.
Let Go of the Fear of Lack and Loss
See it in such a way that there exists a mass collective fear of lack and of loss. This fear is creating physical manifestations within our world due to so many people worrying about abundance and over-striving to create it. Start to seek abundance from within. If we can objectively look at the world from a detached perspective we may be able to see that a collective majority seems to be chasing abundance so very hard as if there isn’t enough of it. However, the best way to overcome such fears is to face them. Those who go within right now and know how to find true abundance and how to receive it through a united effort with others and with Earth, rather than through making it an individual conquering process, will better face some of these anxieties.
A Vision During The Gulf Oil Spill
During the gulf oil spill I had a vision. I was in a white room with many others who were present as well. We were all dressed in white robes, sitting crossed legged on the floor. We all had our left hand out, which above it levitated a tennis ball sized ‘Earth.’ Every one of us in the room had our own Earth, yet we were all in the room together acting as a collective force. In this vision there was a feeling of excitement, like we were joyfully creating everything that was happening on the Earth. There was a feeling that we had an impact.
Be Like a Double-Terminated Crystal
Iโve also had visions of crystals within people of different colors. Some contained crystals that pointed only upwards and some seem to contain crystals which pointed upward and downward (double terminated). My assumption was that these crystals and their pointed directions represent our connections to heaven and earth. The people with crystals only pointed upward were not connected to the earth.
I have also had visions of a huge dark and cloudy crystal upon the Earth which is only pointed in one direction, to heaven. It felt like this crystal represented the dominant collective consciousnesses. It felt very polluted and blocked from channeling the Earth’s energies upward in order to heal and clear itself. So, the feeling was that we need to open that connection from the Earth, which we are lacking, and which is affecting the both our own health and that of the planet.
The message was that for those thinking in terms of “ascension” there needs to be a simultaneous focus on being grounded, seeing ourselves as one with Earth. Energy needs to be double-terminated–reciprocal and able to move in two directions, i.e. energy coming up from the ground, through us to spirit, and from spirit back down towards the ground.
The Call
Some people are going to hear a call from within themselves in their own timing and our own way.ย Such a call will awaken people to our collective dependencies and the illusions that we have bought into. We may wish to look at everything we buy and create–to ask why we created or bought it, and what truth or reality it serves. Are we acting upon our own truth? Or a truth that someone else or society has given us? What are our true needs opposed to what are our lifestyles and addictions to the material world telling us to need? It’s about being able to stand outside ourselves and see the beauty of the now moment and how little it requires to be beautiful.
We may wish to learn about Buddha, the message of Christ, or of other ascended masters. We may connect with our innate wisdom apart from everything our guru’s may have to say.ย We may wish to learn Mother Nature’s language and begin to have a dialogue with Her. What does she need right now? What do we need right now? What is the truth? Without forcing anything or needing to judge what comes up, we can see the dream and what is being created within it.
We may wish to be free of systems of ownership, of copyrights, trademarks, money and other things, realizing that we do not truly own anything, even ideas that we try to sell. We may find ourselves becoming more sharing or even going back to some type of barter and trade. Events, power outages, or disasters could happen in the future which trigger this to happen. We may begin to see ourselves as part of a collective or community rather than as individuals fighting to make it in the world alone, or in competition with others. There will be some who choose a different path and this is okay, too. When I see the future, I see a divergence, like reality goes in two different directions before the divergent streams return to the same pool.
