Loving the Weather!

It was a drizzly grey late spring morning when I opened the door and poked my nose out. At this time of year the vegetable and flower gardens are always calling. It smelled amazing, awake, and alive and the decision to put boots on and go out made it self. Moments later, as I stood over one of the garden rockeries admiring my handiwork a shift in perspective came through. For years I have worked with these same perennials, shifting the Lily collection from one spot to another, the delphiniums, liatris, daffodils, and tulips, everybody in that rockery has more than once grown legs and transplanted themselves.

And then I knew. I felt how they had taught me, it wasn’t my doing, I had simply acted as their legs. It was the plants, the trees, the weeds and grasses, the dirt and air and water that has been teaching me since the first time I conceived of planting a garden. For forty years the plant kingdom has taken me under its wing and supported my fledgling attempts at working with them. They have taught me where to place each of them in relationship with the others, who is needy and who needs to be ravaged. My mind is rarely involved, though I have a library of gardening books. They teach me through my body, my senses, and mostly they teach through our mutual love affair.

Now with beginners’ eyes I view the scene, the same garden rockeries, the same trees, sky, air, rain, and nothing is the same. The shapes and colors, the smells, everything shone. My heart began beating that gratitude song until it poured out my mouth. Thank you to the nasturtiums and pansies, thank you gladiolas and dahlias, thank you to the peach tree. Thank you Life for the Grace called rain showering down upon me today.


In this part of the world the weather is the first thing we talk about when we get together. These days I hear a lot of complaining, it’s too cold, wet, hot, dry, flooding, windy. Behind those complaints I feel the fear and realize the weather is the recipient of that projected fear. If we subscribe to the idea of Oneness with All of Life we’ve forgotten that we are the weather. We want control but we don’t want responsibility. We’ll believe conspiracy theories about the bad guys using weather conditions as a weapon before we’ll accept responsibility for the weather we’re experiencing. We’ll believe that the Earth Herself wants to destroy us without spending a moment to consider the idea, the possibility that we have a part in creating the very weather we’re complaining about.

Why the Resistance to Meditation?

Every spiritual teacher, from the IChing to living masters whose wisdom I have imbibed have counseled meditation. Those words always felt like an admonishment. When I began meditating on a daily basis it was with the help of the Vessels of Peace meditation circle. Over the years a meditative practice developed that I depended on. What I didn’t understand and questioned was the resistance to meditating that would show up, sometimes for months at a time, when it was time to meditate.

A string of events has brought what feels like an answer to my inquiry about some of the resistance. As I stood in a circle of locals gathered in front of the village store, I realized something had shifted in me. When a moment of silence descended on the conversation I remained silent and comfortable. For most of my life when a silence would open up, whether between two or twenty people, I would step into clown or entertainer mode to hide/deal with my anxiety. That ordinary moment became extraordinary, if only for me, when I noticed how comfortable I was with that silence.

This year I have been examining the discomfort and fear about being in silence myself, as well as in the company of quiet people. Today a window into the past opened as I wondered that took me back to childhood…where else? I was coming into the house after school. It was quiet, eerily so, and that quiet often meant an angry explosion was fermenting. I went into an eight year olds idea of crisis management and started being silly trying to get Mom to laugh. It worked once and a belief and habit for life was formed. That wasn’t the end or beginning of the forming of fear around silence, not by a long shot. I heard those lethal words, “be quiet”, ”sit still”, “shut up”, “children are meant to be seen and not heard”, and more all echoing down the timeline at once until I was the adult and they were coming out of my mouth. I remembered feeling sullen silence used as a weapon, a bad vibe between Mom and Dad. It is no wonder I felt I was being admonished when I was counseled to sit in silence and meditate. That statement was a trigger and the child in me would feel she was being told to go sit in the corner and be quiet and think about what she’d done. Silence as a punishment.

Last evening, after many concentrated hours of light body work I found myself energetically depleted. Options passed through my mind, go for a walk, take a hot tub, curl up with a book. It was my body that took me to my meditation spot. I followed, resistance free and loving it and returned with a sense of having been nourished and loved in the only way that truly serves, by myself the Mother.

May your New Moon intentions ride the waves of manifestation through this moon cycle!

Sounding Out the Love

Aaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Module Two of the Kundalini Trance Dance facilitator training was a magnificent experience and I'd like to share some joy.

Let me start with the fact that this work is helping bring about what I consider to be an extraordinary transformation in my life. For now, the best way I have to put this statement into other descriptive words is to say that I have gone from knowing with my mind and heart the truth that I am/we are light beings, to being able to feel into that subtle light body to activate, cleanse and nourish it.

My journey home takes me through the Little River ferry terminal to catch a boat to Powell River. It is always the first place that I have time to catch my breath after leaving the Haven and my thoughts turn to the daily breathing exercises that are recommended we use to keep us vibrationally sweet. Like other trips home I knew that these would be opportune moments for the practice. It was blowing a gale outside so there was no going to the beach this time. I put Goddess Alchemy Project on low, closed my eyes and starting grounding down to connect.

As I opened and began breathing Shakti Ma up I could feel my perineum sipping the electro-magnetic energy, could feel the light thrilling up feet and legs to pool in my pelvis empowering the cleansing sounds of light being pulled through the four layers of my auric body. Again I found something special about doing this practice alone for the first time in a week. With the accompanying sounds of rain lashing and winds shaking the little vehicle, I took the deepest most aware dive into light body, like the last time, only more. I could feel every ray of light that encapsulates this physical body, could distinctly feel the subtle movement of light streaming through central pranic tube, ida and pingala pathways and through each chakra and tube torus. Combined with the sense of connection to Shakti below and Shiva above, it was breathtaking, an ecstatic state in seconds, much less time than it takes to read or write this. I hung out at heart in the light, feeling akin to a child at play in a summer rain, splashing light and sounding out the love.

For years I've sensed that humanity needed spiritual food. Now I know that we literally need to feed our spirit bodies with light. It feels exquisite and perfect this Divine plan that gave us physical bodies designed to "plug into" our energetic environment, like a plug into a power outlet. Perhaps a billboard campaign selling humanity to itself by describing how these wondrous vessels come factory equipped with a bank of batteries and complete circuitry to run not only Solar power but Earth energy through our systems as well.

I need to share about another joyous aspect of these Awakenings and training periods that also really came home this time. Through each of your eyes I experienced myself held, respected, accepted and undeniably unconditionally loved. The feeling of sisterhood and sense of belonging that was seeded and nurtured has grown into a full blown garden in which I refresh myself regularly. A lifetime, many lifetimes of yearning for I knew not what is now known. I am blessed beyond my wildest dreams. You have all held space for me to flower as the purring slobbering love muffin I really am and I thank you and love you from one end of my sweaty self to the other.

Sounding Out the Love Part 2

The wonder of this work really shows up when I’m in a sweat, whether literal or metaphor. Instead of falling back into old coping mechanisms when I am triggered by a circumstance or person I now have the tools to step out of the story and finally put an end to the behaviors that before kept me looping and stuck in the stories.

I received counsel during the interview with Leyolah and Luna Astraea at the end of this training that I knew immediately was a gift of Divine proportions. It was really simple as most truths tend to be. I was counseled that it was past time to mature away from the old need/loop to be liked. I laughed. I was delighted at how easy it was to hear this perfect and true counsel. We three laughed and agreed that this counsel applies to most of us some of the time.
First thing the morning after the interview an examination of the need to be liked was triggered and I had fodder to either process or loop in. Thanks to the fact that I was fresh and clear from the weeks work I knew immediately which childhood story had come up. Now instead of wallowing in the story what happened can be described as a surrendering to it. Instead of becoming the story I witnessed it. Rather than feeling put upon and out of sorts because I had been triggered I sensed joy at the journey of discovery that was opening up for me. I asked a question. “What’s with this need to be liked and where was it born?”

I witnessed that my choices in childhood around what I liked and disliked had been compromised at best, denied completely at worst. I witnessed my opinion not mattering and the resulting loss of trust in self. I witnessed taking up the spear of judgment and criticism that was used against me. It was when I witnessed myself hating that I felt I had uncovered the heart of the answer to the question. Intuitively I sensed that loving self or another completely and unconditionally isn’t possible when there is a hidden kernel of un-owned hatred anywhere in our being. A part of me was out of integrity with who I am as love and until I owned the lack of integrity neediness would show up as a symptom.
Standing into, by witnessing the hate that I had generated wouldn’t have been possible until now. Sharing this process without the back story hasn’t been possible until now.

I have enjoyed this dance with the shadows and light. I am delighted to find that the light and dark are merging, not into hazy grey but an illuminated silver.

A Blog Update

It's been some time since I've posted regularly, partly because I haven't been able to post pictures and partly because my attention was drawn other places. Since returning from a trip to visit with the Grandchildren in Vernon and their high speed internet connection, I am able to post pictures, wonder of wonders and here I am again.

A full year of working with Kundalini Trance dance has me as deeply committed to the work as I am to breathing itself. I'm heading out April 27th to begin another eight day retreat to be followed immediately by the first seven days of hours of training as a facilitator of the Kundalini Trance Dance. The easyness with which I write those words now speaks to the months of processing the decision to honor the calling.

While I travel to Gabriola Island from April 27th until May 15th Court has decided to head out on a couple of short motorcycle journeys to Vancouver Island to visit friends. He's finally got his 1973 650 Triumph Bonneville running like new and wants to take her around and show her off a bit. I'll have to take and post a picture of them together.

There is more news to share, a new cat member in our tribe. I'm going to give Shorty, aka Sir Bumalot a proper introduction and moment in the limelight (with pictures) with his own posting in the near future. Until then:

Blessed be!

A Root Chakra Journey: Getting Real About Oneness

Looking back I see that the first months of dancing and feeling into my base or root chakra I barely felt the connection to the Earth energy that we were being invited to experience. I could see the facilitators’ intent reaching down to the to Earth, I could see/feel her pulling that Divine Feminine life force into her own body; when I imitated her movements I knew I was experiencing only a small part of what I witnessed. My body desperately craved more. I knew that if I kept moving and calling and breathing I would connect deeper until the experience was authentically mine, not the mime.

With hindsight I see too much head and not enough groundedness: so much denial of self, a refusal to witness and accept my own need to feel/be part of a tribe. I can hear myself saying over the years that I needed to be a contributing member of humanity. What I remained clueless to was that my humanity was a nebulous over there, anywhere but here where I am humanity. This masked the pain of feeling ostracized by tribe and was felt/expressed as an unrelenting desire to be seen, to be heard, to be special. That need couldn’t be met. I couldn’t hear or see me for me either.

The first time I witnessed my resistance to tribe or community was October 2008 when our facilitator expressed her joy at having the dance tribe gathered again after a hiatus. I could feel her genuine joy against which I found I felt not a drop. That got my attention as it coincided with a discovery that I had been disrespecting and disenfranchising myself from the political sectors of society.

The memory that came up dancing root chakra first day of the retreat was the story Mom told of how when the nurse brought me to her in the hospital she denied that I was her newborn baby because I was too beautiful. Whether I felt the abandonment as a newborn or not, every time I heard the story during my childhood I felt abandoned by the story, not loved and special as Mom intended I feel. Mine are all the classic reasons for avoiding the tribe, fear, distrust, anger/rage, betrayal, this lifetime, other life times. Too, I see now that I lived many classic symptoms of an under active/over active root chakra, with poverty consciousness at the top of the list.

I did not sleep well the first time I participated in a Kundalini Trancen Dance. After three nights of not sleeping well at the retreat, I knew I needed to ask Leyolah for help. I also shared about the newly awakened pain in my left hip (feminine side), a pain that had also come up the first time I danced, a pain I thought I had danced through.

As she laid her hand on my hip she suggested that I needed to focus on grounding myself well and thoroughly before going to bed. As she spoke the words I felt their truth. She instructed me to find the ecstasy in my legs. As she said that I realized that it was true that the goose bumps that for me often signal the ecstatic state never covered my legs, only my torso, arms, neck and head. As I retrieve this memory by writing these words I remember the need to focus on bringing the ecstasy down into my legs these next weeks and months. (I felt goose bumps down my legs at the height of our dance last night. (Dec.8, 2008) Yes, yes, yes!)

During the sixth day of the retreat, when my room mate was pulling out early, the old feelings of not being worthy and being abandoned and betrayed came up full tilt boogie. In the context of the retreat I was able to witness yet experience the grief and anger without getting enmeshed in the old story. I am not a five year old girl, I choose to be the grown woman experiencing another grown woman making a choice that went against the grain of the group. I was able to confirm my initial congratulations to her about her courage to face and make her difficult decision. I did not in the least loop back into my old story of abandonment and was grateful for the validation of my good health as it were, by the whole experience.

I found my little girl, rather she showed up one day this week as I was distilling my experiences with root chakra. In feeling into her, around five years of age, I remembered the anguish and loneliness of not feeling supported, nurtured, loved. I remembered the feeling of not belonging where I was, of being called a bad girl when I knew I was a good girl. I remembered pining for my real family to show up. I remembered meeting my first girl friend the first day of school. I felt I had found a family member. At six years of age, we walked to school together, holding hands, promising we’d marry twin brothers so we could stay close. We named our children. I remembered her death three months later. I remembered being beaten and told to forget about her when I expressed my grief. I had to stop being a good girl to forget her, which I did. I began cracking into pieces.



No matter how clear in my head I was or am about my Oneness with all of Life, as long as the sludge of unresolved “scar tissue” resided at my energetic root chakra I was unable to fold all of humanity into my heart or to use Leyolahs’ words “ecstatically embody the fullness of our Oneness”. Without owning tribe I remained always outside Oneness, separated as it were by divisions within self and unable to truly ground myself. As I explored root I found I had really let parts of myself take up space outside me, forming a mini tribe of parts and components of myself to take up the space left void and empty without an authentic love connection to tribe. No wonder no joy.

Separation beliefs begin in our core/root chakra. For years I didn’t make the connection between using politics, politicians, doctors, lawyers, teachers and such, all part of our/my larger community/tribe as scapegoats in the blame game and the separation ideology I knew needed undoing. My attitudes and beliefs toward sections of my culture have come up to be peeled away steadily this year. It began with committing to meeting with women in sacred ways regularly, which led to the Kundalini dance circle. The dance cycles have insured that the layers of the onion in my being called social conditioning keep coming up to be seen for what is real and released if need be.

My original attraction to the dance came with an unparalleled conviction that I needed the grounding that this work offered as a counter weight for the heady, third eye meditation service with the Vessels of Peace. For me, after years of building an energetic sludge to the dynamic life giving Divine Feminine energies by disrespecting my physical ancestors feminine legacy, it feels perfect to dedicate myself to clearing those blocks/bricks through the cleansing connecting breathes between Mama Gaia and my root chakra. I am made whole and complete in this practice.



If we as subtle activists are to fulfill our creative potential as activists, a journey through our subtle or chakric body can serve to build parameters within which to better utilize the potential of that subtle activity.

Reflections from THE AWAKENING RETREAT Nov. 2008

I thought I was going to dance when I left home ten days ago to attend Leyolah Antara's "Awakening Retreat". Now I can say that I returned last night from a journey to answers to my question of how I can bring Heaven down to Earth.




I've long dreamed of peace of Earth. Most wishes I've sent to the universe have had peace at their core. I've cultivated peace in my own life that it may ripple outward. I felt that I needed to dig deeper still into myself to find a way to bring this wishful dream of peace more down to the Earth. I know now that when I was strongly called to attend the retreat, it was the answer to how to deepen my peace. What appeared on the surface of things to be a my free will decision to go dance for eight days was as much or more my answering a call that sounds from Leyolahs' Heart to serve humanity at this time in our awakening. Twenty two women and two men were there answering the call that rings out from Leyolah's heart to be in a "timeless" service to all of Life, from the horrific or mundane to the ecstatic Self of humanity.





Leyolah lives her teachings. She embodies the Divine Feminine of a Thousand Names. She is a model of how we can, through our very bodies, raise the vibration rate of a humanity in dire need of these tools. Through dance movement, breathing, our voices and meditations we were slowly, gently, but ever so inexorably inspired to experience our ecstatic potent selves. She and her facilitators loved us and loved and loved us...until we loved ourselves.

My eternal thanks to Davina for enticing me to dance through her beautiful embodiment of this work and for introducing me to her teacher. More eternal gratitude to Leyolah for being who she is, for diving into her visions of humanity and having the amazing courage to live her dreams and share them with us.


Here is one last picture of the tribe...can you see the outline of a heart that the bodies formed?

I will share more when the words have sorted themselves out. In the meantime for more info about Leyolah and her work:

http://www.kundalini-dance.com/


P.S.
Happy Birthday Dad! I burnt the onions this sacred day in your honour. Thank you, I love you.

Vessels of Peace News - August 1, 2008

Divine Silence


"I honor and receive the inner stillness of Sige, Divine Silence."




Dear Vessels of Peace Community,

Welcome again, on this auspicious new moon, which is additionally energized by the solar eclipse today. Every new moon is about birthing, a time for planning and seeding your intentions. The dark side of the moon offers a nurturing environment where our intentions can establish roots before beginning to sprout. If you don't have a list of intentions for your life, you can make one now, and as each new moon comes around, you can modify and re-dedicate them.

This fits in beautifully with our intention this month to honor our inner stillness. Sige provides a nurturing environment to look at our intentions, so please enjoy the short Sige meditation below.

We are continuing to expand our coverage of other women's groups that may interest you, offering new ways for you to connect with other women in your work, so please peruse that section called “What Else is Happening in the World of Women?” We are weaving our web of love and peace as we connect around the world. Every person makes a difference!

Be a part of weaving that web! Who else do you know that would like to be a part of this weaving to create a better humanity and planet? Please help us get the word out by passing this newsletter on to your friends. Learn more about Vessels of Peace at http://www.vesselsofpeace.com.

In this issue you will find:

• Two Minute Meditation: Sige, Divine Silence guides us into our inner silence
• Why are we engaged in the service of meditation?
• What else is happening in the world of women?



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TWO MINUTE MEDITATION…SIGE



"I honor and receive the inner stillness of Sige, Divine Silence."
Sige is the Goddess without words for She was here before words. She is the silence that was here before the Beginning. Sige is like the inside of the cocoon wherein lie all the mysteries of the butterfly. Allow yourself to go into that space -- the space between the stars and the planets -- the place that opens itself to movement. She is The Holding -- The Vessel. She is Inner Peace. Allow Sige's blessing to soak into your heart:


"May you be still, and know that you are Divine."**
** This blessing was taken from the book The 11 Intentions. Visit our website for more information on the book. http://www.vesselsofpeace.com


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WHY ARE WE ENGAGED IN THE WORK OF MEDITATION?

The Core Circle and Anne Cressy (meditation facilitator) recently explored why we engage in our Sunday night Prayer Shawl Weaving meditations, and it feels important to share these insights with you.

Some key words and phrases that came forth from our hearts were: Service ... privilege … commitment … collective practice … subtle activism … the power of the circle to cause transformation … making a difference … how the "small" impacts the destiny of this earth … guardians of peace consciousness … power and beauty … a sense of love and peace.

Each of these words and phrases could be explored in depth and we may do that in future issues, but for now I’d like to share these thoughts: -- Sige asks us to engage in silence, stillness and inner peace. -- As Vessels of Peace we are engaged in service to “humanity, divinity and the earth.” -- Engaging in ANYTHING is how we become effective. This engagement can be subtle (like meditation) or active (like doing something actively in the community). -- Engaging with a circle of women is a powerful way to transform the world.

How are you engaging in your service to humanity, the earth and the Divine Feminine? Could meditation be one of those ways?

If so, please join us any Sunday evening at 8 pm Eastern Time as we weave our web of connection, creating peace. Details below.


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SHARING FROM A RECENT MEDITATION EXPERIENCE.....by Oia


I was clearly guided to carry the Darshan of Peace to Hawaii, where I encountered Grandmother Spider, a large black and yellow presence, in the center of a sparkling new web which had caught many droplets of dew looking like so many diamonds attached to the webbing. She spoke these words to me: "Weave anew. Weave EMPOWERMENT for all creation. Trust the wisdom of the old ways; trust the pure golden light of the new."

I came out of the meditation reflecting on these words from the Buddhist Prayer for Peace: May the frightened cease to be afraid, and may those bound be free. May the powerless find power, and may people think of befriending one another.


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DETAILS of the meditation calls:

Prayer Shawl Weavings: Co-Creating the Web of Connection with Gaia, with Grandmother Spider as guide and guardian

EVERY Sunday for a year (we began March 23, 2008).
At 5pm PT/ 6pm MT/ 7pm CT/ 8pm ET for 45 minutes.
No reservations necessary.
Call-in number: 1-712-775-7000, pin: 408488#


The calls are recorded and you may listen to the latest one at 1-641-715-3409; access code 408488#. Background and more details on the Prayer Shawl Weavings meditation series may be found on our website, http://www.vesselsofpeace.com.


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COMING UP: SPECIAL MEDITATION WITH THE GRANDMOTHERS

On Sunday, August 17, our meditation will include a special “Grandmothers Empowerment” facilitated by our special guest Sharon McErlane, founder of "The Grandmothers." Learn more at www.grandmothersspeak.com.

Recently our meditation facilitator, Anne Cressy, experienced the Empowerment and wrote this:

“As I imaged the shawl of empowerment floating into place over my head, the tears of grief that this has taken so long and joy that I have arrived started slowly trickling in. Along with this paradoxical set of emotions washing over me came the voice of my guide Grandmother Spider telling me she’s been waiting for my permission…and she wrapped me in an eight legged hug. I am enfolded in Her love and grinning ear to ear. When Sharon began singing the Grandmothers’ love for me, their promise to always be there rang sweet and strong through her words. As a grandmother I knew immediately the deep truth of their words… I too know only pleasure that my grandchildren need me…I too would answer their calls anytime, anywhere.” ~~~Anne Cressy


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WHAT ELSE IS HAPPENING IN THE WORLD OF WOMEN?

SanctaDivina, A Transdenominational Global Community, is committed to “mastery of self and service to all,” through working virtually or living in community. They provide rejuvenation of the whole person, body, mind and spirit through physical, mental, social and spiritual wellness. To learn more or to read their newsletter please visit www.sanctadivina.org.

The Grandmothers Speak written by Sharon McErlane is a monthly newsletter with a powerful message each month. In August The Grandmothers said: " ... life on earth has had to 'make do' without a mother for thousands of years and therefore knows very little about the Divine Feminine. And due to this absence, humanity has been forced to rely entirely on the Masculine Principal of energy. The energy of yang cannot by itself supply all that humanity needs ... For too many years humanity has had no Mother." Learn more at www.grandmothersspeak.com.

Gather the Women (GTW) had a wonderful meeting in St. Cloud, MN in July. GTW invites you to gather virtually or in person with other women as we build awareness of what is being asked of women at this time on the planet. Visit www.gatherthewomen.org.

Evolutionary Women’s Retreat, August 15-17 in Baltimore, MD, "Freedom to be all that I am." "Women all over the world are awakening to the desire to participate in what is emerging. In this weekend, we will look deeply into ourselves to free the qualities within us that are our unique contributions at this critical time. In a supportive and resonant environment of women, we will honor and expand our highest creative expressions to serve ourselves, our communities and the whole. www.evoloutionarywomen.org.

Standing Women are standing so that the world's children and grandchildren and future generations will have a safe and healthy world. www.standingwomen.org.

Healing Waters with Dr. Mr.Masaru Emoto This Sunday, August 3, is an important day for the waters of Mother Earth. Dr. Emoto will be at Lake Baikal in Russia for a worldwide ceremony to heal the waters of the earth. Learn more at www.masaru- emoto.net/english/baikal.html.


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FROM THE VESSELS OF PEACE CORE CIRCLE

BE a Vessel of Peace and help us co-create a better world with oneness. Please invite others to learn more about Vessels of Peace. Thank you for supporting the work of the Divine Feminine. With gratitude for the privilege of serving, we send blessings of peace.



The Vessels of Peace Core Circle,
Christina Brewer, Laurel Boyd, Oia Richmond, Karen Latvala


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The Path of Healing the Heart of Our H-EART-H Begins Within

Our Prayer Shawl Weavings meditation this full moon evening of April has taught me, more precisely, deepened my feeling of how the path toward healing the Heart of our Earth begins within.

We’ve received guidance from Spider Woman to focus on communion, communication and community between North America and Africa. The silent meditation began with a gossamer thread leaving one continent to the land on the other.It struck me as simpler to nudge the two continents together with my minds eye, to lay the way they once lay cradled together. When the shores touched I felt the good and strong medicine of the African continent being drained away into the other continent. I felt that we need to acknowledge, honor and consciously incorporate that medicine into our daily lives as part of the healing process on the African continent itself. We can give back and close the door that was ripped opened and has continued to bleed the African magic. (Many expansionist countries (too many to name) in the last centuries appeared to be only draining Africa’s physical resources…my feeling in this meditation is that we were ignorant/skeptical of the real power that we were draining away.)

Spider walked into my vision of the cradled continents and led me onto the African continent. She introduced me to one of the many small creatures that represent an embodiment of the Divine for the First Peoples from around the world, this one the Preying Mantis of the Bushmen of the Kalahari. Spider Woman showed them sitting together at a council fire, sharing boney stories. Spider Woman and Preying Mantis gave me a feeling that they are waiting for us, holding space for mankind that we may pick up and carry ourselves as who We really are, magnificent and powerful Creators.

Then I saw people walking. I saw the lines of light we create and leave behind ourselves. I saw those lines of light creating webs. I saw that we can intend to heal a weaving around the world with every foot step we take. I felt that we need only be mindful of this ability for it to be effective.

So be it.

An Invitation to Our PRAYER SHAWL WEAVINGS: Co-Creating the Web of Connection With Gaia

Ongoing Sunday Evening Teleconference Meditations
Sunday evenings starting on March 23, 2008
5pm PT/ 6pm MT/ 7pm CT/ 8pm ET

Phone number: 1-712-775-7000. Pin: 408488#
Call duration: 45 minutes. No reservations necessary.

Missed a meditation? Listen to the last recording at
1-641-715-3409; access code 408488#

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The Prayer Shawl Weavings meditation series is so named to honor and incorporate the sacred energy that was accrued through joining together in silent meditation during the 40 weeks of Doulas for Peace meditations in 2007. As our service as Doulas concluded, a call to continue to serve as guardians to the peace we had facilitated was felt in many Vessels of Peace hearts.

With the spring equinox, full moon, and Easter energies supporting us, you are invited to join in the emergence of a new circle of service -- a year-long meditation series beginning on Sunday, March 23, 2008.

It is our intention to be guided by the ways of the first peoples of our sacred home, this planet earth. We begin with the North American continent and its traditions of guidance from Spider Women and of calling in the power of the Four Directions. We start in the east, the place of illumination, spring time and creativity, and as the seasons turn, so will our circle to reflect the energy and teaching of each of the sacred directions.

Spider woman invites you to weave your own journey web. Open yourself to Her inspiration. Draw, write, collage, use found objects - whatever speaks to you. By honoring our own journey we support and honor the emerging consciousness of all humanity. One way to weave your journey web is to draw a web on paper . A 'web map' is a simple, visual way for us to depict the many 'nuggets of wisdom' coming through these calls, whether in meditation or during the sharing of stories and experiences. Each piece of wisdom recorded on our web map or in some other way becomes a precious jewel collected in our personal knowledge web. They are the jewels of our personal and collective talents, gifts, awarenesses, etc., that we have to share with one another. Watching them appear week upon week, is self-affirming, sustaining and supporting. The recording of them also allows us to guard, nurture, and enhance them. Using a creative process can assist us in understanding, and most importantly, grounding Spider Woman's feminine energy, the power of the small, in our lives. Read more »

One part of the Vessels of Peace mission states, "Our purpose is service to Divinity, Humanity, Earth." You are invited to gather in this new circle of service, co-creating the web of connection with Gaia. Please join as many of the calls as you are guided. We also encourage you to invite others to join with us as well. These ongoing Sunday evening teleconference meditations provide all of us with a sustained collective practice to deepen our capacity to hold sacred space as our service to "Divinity, Humanity, Earth."


If you have questions or comments, please contact us at info@vesselsofpeace.com

Blessing of Peace from the Vessels of Peace Core Circle
Nadya Richmond, Karen Latvala, Christina Brewer, Laurel Boyd
and Prayer Shawl Weavings Meditation Series Coordinator
Anne Cressy

http://vesselsofpeace.com/shawl.html

Our Lady of Enlacement

After recognizing Spider Woman’s offer to act as guide and guardian to this years Vessels of Peace circle of service She began showing up almost everyday. I found a book called in part “Mending the Web”. I saw a spider, the size of a quarter walk across our altar at a woman’s Cedar Circle gathering. Little tiny spiders began dropping out of nowhere to dangle in my view scape even landing on my hand as I typed. Today after following an impulse to do a follow up phone call to an individual I had done an energy treatment for there was a spider sitting on the wall when I put the phone back into it’s cradle. Each and every time She shows up a sense of how sacred each and every tiny moment is comes to me and I am reminded to thank Spider Woman for the guidance.

A little poem called “Our Lady of Enlacement” by Susa Silvermarie was one of the jewels that turned up in the book “Mending the Web” that captures the essence of our awe inspiring guardian.



Our Lady of Enlacement


Every morning

you remake the net

so we can rise and

find the threads in place.

Lady of Enlacement,

without you our stories

could not entwine.

It’s you who web us.

You who sing us into weft.

Nothing can fall

From your cloth.

Susa Silvermarie 2006

For Newcomers to the Dreamspell - A Cosmic Burrito from Tito

For newcomers to the Dreamspell matrix: wavespell, hunh? Well a wavespell is a thirteen day cycle guiding us through the creative process, from the attraction of an idea to its fruition and completion. here is a general breakdown of the steps…

Magnetic-1 attraction of an idea
Lunar-2 challenges
Electric-3 activation, bonding
Self-existing-4 shape & form
Overtone-5 empowerment
Rhythmic-6 balance
Resonant-7 attunement
Galactic-8 integrity
Solar-9 intention and realization
Planetary-10 manifestation & perfection
Spectral-11 release
Crystal-12 cooperation & dedication
Cosmic-13 transcendence and presence

So, each day of the wavespell moves us through this process of creation. And each of the tribes allows us to perceive the steps of creation through its own unique lens.

So, the first tribe of each wavespell resonates through the entire cycle and gently influences the progression with its own style of archetypal groovyness!Following that, the next thirteen days will be empowered by the accomplishing, healing nature of the archetype of the Blue Hand.

Here is the burrito...
If you have ever felt it a good time to get something done, today is the day to initiate this process. hand teaches us to approach situations with knowing, and trusting that the knowledge that we have is appropriate for what we endeavor into. Hand exudes a drive, and a sense of accomplishment, in whatever we dive into!

Trust that opposed thumb and four fingers working together to manifest a really cool whatever you are working on. Mix that with the power of attraction that the 1st tone of the wavespell, 'magnetic' and you get a burrito that once wrapped into a tortilla of consciousness gives us...

Today, be prepared to be a magnet for new ideas or ones that may need a little dusting off. You may be revisiting some really creative notions you thought up before, but all they need is a little dusting and a minor injection of inspiration. If a new idea arises, write that sucker down, for your muse doesn't have a really good memory because to be connected to the wellspring of inspiration, is to be present. Get privy to what you can do to heal yourself, for you are so much
more effective for others if you have your own ducks all in a row! Use the power of one, your own power of one to know yourself that much more deeply today, all the inspiration you will ever need always comes from within!

In lak'ech!
Monkey Scribe
Consciousburrito@yahoogroups.com

A NEW LIGHT by LLEWELYN VAUGHAN LEE

A short excerpt from an awesome link...
http://www.workingwithoneness.org/feminine.html

"What life knows about itself reaches far beyond the limits of our current understanding and the scope of our present sciences. When we bring the light of our consciousness into dialogue with the world’s light, we will open ourselves to new realms of knowledge and understanding, to a whole new science of life and light as yet undreamed of, to a whole new range of human possibilities. When we open ourselves fully to life as it really is, we will begin to experience again that life is alive, and that it can communicate with us directly and interact with us in many different dimensions -- not just the physical dimension we now take to be the world, but also the symbolic realms, and the realm of pure consciousness and light, dimensions of magic and wonder and awe that have not been manifest in our world for a long time. When we once again allow life to express its profound intelligence, its playfulness and humor, its delight and its passion, we will find ourselves present in a world that is more dynamic and fluid and full of possibilities in each moment than we could ever believe possible within our current images of life.

JOY
The changes taking place now will bring a new light into the world, a light that is joyful and alive -- and that will challenge us in ways that even the critical challenges of our present world do not. At every step we will encounter resistance, both within ourselves and within the world. For light is demanding. It forces us to face things as they really are. We might well prefer to stay in the shadows of all our desires and fears and inadequacies and all the dramas and conflicts they engender, where we do not have to recognize our real nature or the real nature of life. That recognition -- that within our own consciousness we carry the light of life itself, that life itself is a living being that is coming alive now in a new way and needs us to help it, that the shape of the world to come rests upon the attention and participation we bring to it: that we are the guardians of life of earth -- confers upon us a greater responsibility than we have ever known.

But it is also a tremendous joy. This act of co-creation, this dialogue of our light with the light at the core of creation, is a living, creative relationship that is full of joy. Life as it really is may be demanding, but it is always joyous, because this is the nature of creation: an explosion of love that is continually coming into physical form. Being present in life as it really is means to reclaim joy as a central ingredient to life, an energy and quality of praise that is life’s celebration of its Creator.

The light awakening within life will awaken us to this joy. This is one of its purposes. The interaction of our light with the light of life will remind us of what we have forgotten, that we are here to remember and praise God who has created this wonderful and terrible world, and that our song of praise is central to life. Our prayer and praise are always life’s prayer and praise. We are a central part of the creation worshipping the Creator, of this bond between the Beloved and what He has formed through His love. Without this note of praise and prayer, how can life evolve? The joy we will find in our real, co-creative relationship to life will attune us once again to that note of praise. Then life can reveal its secrets to us; it can show us again how to live."

A Boney Medicine Story: A Vessel of Peace Journey

Have you ever wondered how to bring up and process the life issues that you sense are stopping you from being all that you really are? Me too! It took years to notice, but there has always been a tried and true method for bringing up “stuff”. It is as simple as stepping off into the unknown, be it on a physical journey or through a commitment to a task never done before. In the past I would wonder about the sometimes uncontrollable fears that would come up when I willingly stepped into an unknown. Today I’ve learned to bless that fear as a sign of processing work on my inner horizon.

When fear started showing up around facilitating a women’s circle I took it personally forgetting to bless the fear. Before long I felt overwhelmed with unease, self criticism and a raft of other life reducing old coping mechanisms. A feeling of being flakey that has haunted my days off and on since I can remember, and her sister, a sense of not enoughness were back with a vengeance. It wasn’t until a feeling of anger, focused toward another entered the picture that I remembered to bless my fear and look deeper inside. This is what I found:

It is about love. It is about loving me. I need to love me, it’s not about anybody else. It’s about the walls I’ve built, I can feel/see/hear/smell them. The walls began as childhood coping mechanisms; they’re now in my way. Remove the brick called Grandma doesn’t love me, I can see better now. Remove the brick called Mother doesn’t love me, remove the sister brick admit they loved me, feel that love. A few days go by while I grieve and glory in the feelings of love I’ve long denied. For the first time in this life I declare to the universe that I do need women in my life. I need women in my life. I need women. I need honest women, who care for people. I need devout women who care for their spiritual path and also want to share their dedication. I need joy and laughter, light hearted clean fun. I am willing to offer my best to a friendship with a woman and so I need the best in return. I need talented, courageous women in my life that I may be challenged to be all that I can be. I need these women as they need me. We are truly supportive of ourselves first, and each other on the next breathe.

The next day I hear of another women’s circle, a Red Cedar circle that is coming together to meet weekly. I know many of these women; we’ve never seen each other in this Light. We share our teachings, our love. We love each other. I cry at the sound of a young woman singing her heart out about the walls that stop love from reaching it’s destination. My heart is full to the brim before I remember the message I sent the universe about needing women.

The next evening again, I feel an urge to listen to the last recorded Doulas meditation. It is the call where we acted as both birthers and the birthed. I take notes and study the format, closing my eyes to join the silent meditation. Love rolls over me in long waves like the tears rolling down my cheeks. Grandmother, Mother, Sister love fill my being until I explode.



And then They were there… They’ve been calling me, reaching for me, supporting me all the days of my life. Since I was unconscious of their presence and love I wasn’t able to walk completely in my own shoes. I was a ghost of myself. I’ve had it backwards, our ancestors are not the ghosts. Without them, without respect and acknowledgement of my matriarchal lineage I am a ghost of myself. This Doulas series opened me, helped me make the space, gestate and process that this re-birthing could occur.



Tears wash my face releasing years of feeling flakey and not enough. Inside me now I can feel my power and esteem backed by generations of women, mothers, grandmothers, aunties and sisters. These women dreamed of me, dreamed for me, made me possible. I have been a caricature of myself without acknowledging, honouring and thanking the courageous matrilineal heritage that is mine. These are my foremothers and I am blessed to be able to invite them to take up permanent residence in my heart.


I have long sensed an emotional immaturity lurking and ready to spring at the most inconvenient times. I have felt pride about that which is not mine to feel prideful, and have not felt pride around that which I might. I’ve felt this imbalance in my spirit body, with my left side, the feminine side energetically feeling pulled out of shape. I realize now that it was a hollowness that was pulling my energetic body out of shape. That shapelessness creates the feelings of not enough and flakiness. We are bags of flesh without the bones of our ancestors to hinge our musculature upon.

I found the bones of my matriarchal lineage and invited them home. As I write this I remember a conversation I had with Spirit Bear months ago. She had gifted me a bear bone, placing it in my back, telling me it would dissolve when I no longer needed it. I didn’t know I needed it then, now I know/feel I don’t need it any longer. Thank you, thank you great Spirit Bear.

Next I’m walking Peace, Om Shanti, Salaam, Shalom and a vision of the boney exoskeleton of Spider Woman has me laughing with her. Since she appeared months ago offering herself as guide and guardian to the creation of a new circle of service, she has led me to reclamation of this feminine power, the bones of my female ancestors. This boney miracle is one of her gifts/teachings. Thank you thank you Spider Woman

Magdalene Grids

This article does an excellent job of putting words to the surge in Divine Feminine energy we're experiencing.

Magdalene Grids
The Awakening of the Planetary Kundalini

Like many of us who have learned to follow the inner promptings of Spirit, we don't always know where we're going until we look back at where we've been. This is the case with me as well in following the promptings of Spirit in regards to the earth work around the planet the last 10 years. While it felt like I was a leaf being blown around in a storm, circling the globe 11 times in less than 10 years, as I look back, I see a pattern that was present, a guiding intelligence and hand at work weaving a theme throughout all of the journeys seemingly unrelated, and yet with hindsight, all a part of a bigger tapestry.

That tapestry has been the reawakening of what has been called the Feminine Grid, or Magdalene Grid (Feminine counter part to the Christ Grid) on the planet. As Life is fond of doing, once I have an AH HA moment, confirmation comes in another form. The following such confirmation came from a magazine in the UK called Paradigm Shift. It was an article which confirmed that the last 8 years have been a shift from dismantling the old power structures energetically in the grids in the form of abuse of Patriarchial authority and power, to one of aligning with, empowering and awakening the Feminine presence of the planet through the work with Nature and the Feminine power points in the planet.

An excerpt from that article is listed below:
Title: The Awakening of the Planetary Heart by Celia Fenn.
"As you moved into density, you created from within this energy of duality and conflict and experiences such as "evil" and darkness, war, sickness and lack came into manifestation. These were all the creations of your imbalances and your duality consciousness.

"And then, as the conflicts intensified, the Masculine and Feminine energies came into conflict, and they sought domination and control over each other. Many religions and philosophies were drawn into this conflict, and they lost their way on the Path of Light and became vehicles for this conflict....

"Then a thousand years ago, this conflict was ended uneasily when the imbalanced masculine energy achieved 'victory' over the feminine energies. The Feminine Grid which carried the Feminine frequency of the God Source energy was 'switched off' We have called this Feminine grid the "Magdalena Grid" in honor of the Feminine Christ Conscisouness that was carried by the Magdalene....The Feminine or Magdalene grid is now re-activated and running on "full power" once again, so the Sacred Heart of the Planet awakens and the Twin Flame energy of Consciousness is once again fully present for those who choose to awaken at this time."

Drunvalo Melchizedek has shared his personal experience of this planetary journey in his new book, just out in January, Serpent of Light, in which he traces this shift back to Atlantis 13,000 years ago. In his book he likens this time of the shifting to the Feminine on the planet to a kundalini awakening of the Feminine "serpent" deep within Mother Earth herself.

The current shift of political and economic power from the western Patriarchial powers which have been in control for over 2,000 years, to the eastern cultures can be seen as a part of this planetary awakening of Feminine energies.

In her book, A Call to Power: The Grandmothers Speak, author Sharon McErlane shares her experiences of a council of interdimensional beings, calling themselves the Grandmothers, who contacted her in 1996 revealing to her that they had come to help restore the balance of Yin to the planet, to avert the destruction that the adherence to the path of Yang energy had all but guaranteed. Their messages have been documented in Sharon's book and are ongoing with groups forming all over the world to hold this Yin energy consciously for the planet. As the Grandmothers have said, "It is through the women that Yin will be restored" as they are the repositories of that Yin energy.

On another front entirely the emergence of this honoring of the Feminine after so many thousands of years of suppression, comes in the form of the paths which are beginning to honor sex as an alchemical act, not a debased and animal energy of lust as it has been so often perverted. The Magdalene energy is one of reminding the planet of the sacredness of sex, not just sex as a physical act of procreation, but as an alchemical act of co-creation. Alchemical union of Divine Masculine and Divine Feminine polarities for creation on all levels, is an integral part of creation itself, EVERYWHERE as a LIFE energy--Kundalini itself. With the renewed interest in Tantra in the west, there is a new potential for this historically peverted and debased energy, the energy of life and creation itself.

So powerful has this understanding of the sacred and alchemical use of sex been, that historically it has been a highly guarded knowledge, hidden in mystery schools and secret societies. With this re-emergence of the Magdalene consciousness into the Feminine grids of the planet, this sacred use of the co-creative principle of sex is coming to the fore.

Apart from sex as a physical act, the alchemical use is an expression of the co-creative power of male and female energies coming together consciously to use that energy in a spirit of love and service and and offer it to the earth. In fact, the physical act of sex is not necessary, instead it is the conscious honoring of the sacred Feminine and Sacred Masculine as represented by the two physically present. When holding that focus consciously, it restores that lost awareness to the planetary grids again.

It is just such a paradigm which Jesus and Magdalene anchored 2000 years ago, and which the Church tried to cover by demoting Magdalene from a Priestess to a prostitute, so that this knowledge of this sacred use of the sex energy would not get into the hands of the public. With this knowledge, we have an ability to awaken in through the conscious awareness of the true power of this energy the true consciousness supressed within the earth's grids and power points.
Given the history of perversion, suppression and abuse of the Feminine and consequently sex (with women being the child bearers they have been historically debased through their association with the sex act) restoring the sacred expression of this energy can be a tremendous service to the planet.

Through the sacred and alchemical use of sex energy so long suppressed within the Magdalene power points of the planet, there lies a potential to to awaken that energy to its true use and alchemical purpose. In fact, because that grid was so closely tied to the spiritual use of sex, it was historically suppressed and perverted by the Church in order to control those grids.

THIS IS THE TIME OF THE AWAKENING OF THIS FEMININE PRINCIPLE and the TRUE knowledge of the RIGHT use of sexual energy and power and bringing that into the GRIDS and sacred energy points of the planet is a part of that awakening.

Sex and kundaliini energy are inseparable. So the rising of this Feminine Kundalini energy is also giving humanity an opportunity to take a new look at an old subject and find the lost sacredness of a co-creative union.
an excerpt from Christian Hummel's Feb. 2008 newsletter

A Cosmic Burrito from Gaia

To further open your Eyes of Soul:

Close your physical eyes to connect with the light of your inner SELF. Find the Three Fold Flame in your heart, your ATMA of Wisdom, Power and Love, and gently breathe into it to gradually expand its glow.

As the glow expands, it enters and opens your High Heart, which is just above your physical heart.

FEEL your High Heart. With a calm, steady breath join you High Heart with your Third Eye in the center of your forehead, by further increasing the glow of your ATMA.

FEEL the peaceful emotions within your High Heart expand into your Third EYE, your “Eyes of Soul,” as you activate your higher brainwaves. It is these higher brainwaves that can maintain a calm mind and peaceful emotions.

Now, OPEN your Third Eye and “blink” a few times to clear its multidimensional vision. With this multidimensional vision, see both your inner and outer worlds, overlaid one upon the other. Realize how the two vibrational realities co-exist in the same space/time. In one world your “problems” are being enacted to coerce you into change. In the other world, your “problems” are illusions trying to CATCH your attention.

Through you Third Eye/Eyes of Soul, see your challenges as illusions that YOU have created to awaken your SELF from a long slumber. Now, see the planetary problems as illusions that the Collective Consciousness has created to initiate a Planetary Awakening.

Release the CHARGE of ALL these challenges by thanking them for the education that they have offered.

First, bless your personal tribulations Good-Bye. Give them each a final hug as you forgive them, and forgive yourself for having them. Then, forgive humanity for the conflicts that the Collective Consciousness has created.

Bathe your person problems in Compassion and Acceptance, and allow your Soul to “find the solutions.” Remember, what is impossible for your ego, is simple for your Soul. Then, bathe the entire planet in the same Compassionate Acceptance.

Know that problems, actually the illusion of problems, are a component of the 3D Matrix. ACCEPT, and be COMPASSIONATE for your earth vessel self so that you may understand, love and forgive the vehicle for any difficulties it has caused you. Realize that this vessel has afforded you the great honor of being incarnated on my planet during this marvelous time of transformation.

ACCEPT and be COMPASSIONATE for the Collective Consciousness, and all the discord that “others” have caused you. UNDERSTAND that “problems” are an integral component of the 3D Game. With this awareness, you can more easily neutralize your emotional reactions with your Divine Love and Forgiveness. You, and the Collective Consciousness of Earth, have created, precipitated, perpetuated, or allowed conflict from your child/ego selves. The solutions will be found by your adult/Soul SELVES.

Even though the 3D Matrix is based on growth through resolution of conflict, YOU have grown beyond the need for that type of learning. YOU are ready to learn through REMEMBRANCE; remembrance of who you are, and who you have always been, as well as remembrance of your true HOME, which YOU have never left.

With this remembrance, you are ready to blend the two worlds by downloading your higher frequency fifth dimensional HOME into the lower frequency reality of the third dimension. With your Eyes of Soul, see the higher frequency world in gold, silver, aquamarine, magenta, red-gold, and indigo-violet, and the lower frequency world in red, orange, yellow, green and blue.
Blend the two realities by integrating the higher vibrations with the lower ones. In this manner, the higher vibrations are TEMPORARILY lowered, but the lower vibrations are PERMANENTLY raised. Your two worlds have now become ONE, just as you and Planet Earth have become ONE.

Thank you for your service. Every time you heal your self with your SELF, you heal my planet as well. Most of all dear ones, remember that YOU are changing, and YOU no longer need to learn through conflict. You are ready to learn and grow through Divine REMEMBRANCE.

Awaken to your true SELF, Beloveds, and I, GAIA, shall awaken with you.
Buddha was asked, “Are you human or Divine.”
He replied,
“I am AWAKE,”

AWAKEN NOW!
The dream is over.
The flower is blooming and the new day is here—INSIDE of YOU.
Therefore, open your heart, my dear
The anchor within it weighs heavy
With the barnacles of many
Ages of submersion
To sail into the heart of the ONE,
The anchor must be raised
Know that as the anchor
Rises to the surface,
All the secrets that have been
Locked deep inside will be pulled
Into the Light of Day
Can you Love yourself?
Can you Accept yourself?
You have hidden your true self
In order to maintain the
Illusion of who you wanted to be
To raise the anchor in your heart
Means to know who you ARE
You are prepared for misery
Are you prepared for Joy?
You are prepared for heartache
Are you prepared for Happiness?
You are prepared for darkness
Are you prepared for the Light?
What if you opened
The rusty old chest that you had
Kept secret all your life
And found that it was filled with Gold?
Can you face NOT that which is wrong,
But instead that which is already Perfect?
You have met your Demon
It is time NOW to meet your Angels
In this moment
You are perfect
And live in the lap of Love
You do not need to DO
You only need to ACCEPT
Allow my words to float
Deep into your heart
I love you unconditionally
And desire to
Share my Soul with you.
Only LOVE is real.
The rest is ALL illusion!
In loving support,

Your partner, Gaia

from Suzan Caroll at

www.multidimensions.com.

Women Healing the Earth

I want to share with you, this link to an audio clip titled Women and Healing the Earth, that I received recently. It’s an excerpt from a talk given by the well-respected Sufi teacher and author Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee:

http://www.goldensufi.org/MP3/australia_NZ_2007/Women_and_HealingtheEarth.mp3

This man speaks with an emotion that equals my own...an amazing listen. Enjoy!

Don't Buy Into the Global Warming Trap

This is long, but every word ran with truth for me...confirming much of what I've seen in meditation. I've accompanied this piece with a discrete picture of naked people on Wreck Beach in Vancouver...it felt a perfect way to express some of the joy I've experienced thanks to Turtle Mother.

Global Warming-The 9th Dimensional Pleiadian Collective

Greetings dears.

We are very happy to have the opportunity to speak with you again. “Global Warming” has been discussed for approximately the past 25 to 30 years because you have seen a shift in your weather patterns, a shift in the temperature of your global climate. But to tell you that this is caused solely by man’s use of carbon dioxide is erroneous. It is a fallacy. “Global Warming” is one of the largest illusions, one of the largest lies, that is being perpetrated at this time.

For those of you who are new to our communications, let us start at the beginning. Earth is beginning her transition from the third into the fourth and eventually the fifth dimension. The fourth dimension is more of a transitory space for Earth and humans to adjust to the new higher frequencies. It is not unusual for a planet to ascend. Just as humans realize they’ve learned about all they can from an experience and must move forward, so do celestial bodies. But what is unique is that the celestial body Earth will be making that transition along with her inhabitants. As we always like to say, we don’t know exactly how this will play itself out because it’s never been done before. You are taking your emotional body from the third to the fourth dimension, bringing with you all unresolved issues to clear and process. We are very excited to see how you do with the challenge.

Climate changes are not all that uncommon with the transition of a planet. As it transitions, it receives instructions from its central star. Each star is like a metronome, keeping the rhythm and pace for celestial bodies as they move through grand cycles of development. But the Sun herself is going through many changes, preparing to shift her frequency as well. And with the chaotic flow of new frequencies entering and old patterns passing, there is a disbursement of energy. As more energy is disbursed from the Sun, more heat is directed to Earth, which in turn affects her balance. Along with this comes increased overall temperature. It is a signal to mother Earth that it is time to move forward.

While we tell you that many of the changes are caused by the increased solar activity, please note it is not the only cause. There have been numerous experiments by your governments which have caused major imbalances and created dramatic displays of nature’s force as Mother Earth attempted to re-established balance. From our higher perspective, we see these experiments too as part of the learning process which allows Earth and her inhabitants the opportunity to grow. With the ever changing and shifting of your foundation, comes the ability for you to release the old and build anew.

As we have spoken to you before there are other beings who are manipulating many of the global events to meet their own agenda. We are speaking of the Anunnaki. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the Anunnaki let us say that they too are playing their part in Earth’s ascension process. They have donned the role of the darkest of dark and you have agreed to assist them on their journey back to source. It is not our intention to create fear in you. We only wish to awaken you to the game in which you are playing, unaware of its existence. For once you know the game and understand the rules, you can have a bit of fun.

As with all games played by the Anunnaki there is a thin line being walked. While they highlight “Global Warming”, they also highlight the need for you to be more mindful of your connection to the Earth. Knowing this, they play upon solutions that do not reconnect you to the planet energetically. Their solutions play on your fear and provide you with a false sense of action. A perfect example of this would be compact fluorescent light bulbs. Fluorescent lighting is very hard on the human body. It impacts your higher brain functions. The disruptive wave of the light is not in harmony with the frequencies of your bodies and creates disruption in your central nervous system and blocks proper neural functions. While presenting you with a “solution” to “Global Warming” they are able to further their own agenda and disrupt your connection to source and planet.

You currently exist in a perceived world of lack, and it is a mindset that is being perpetuated. We want to make you aware of this. We want to get you familiar with these patterns that are blatantly presented to you, to the point where they are becoming transparent. The ultimate goal here of global warming and the notion of eliminating CO2 levels is to expand your nuclear programs, to build more nuclear reactors which will be touted as an alternative energy source. This is the agenda that is going to be pushed. We want to make you aware of that as well because nuclear reaction is not the answer.

Every world that has ever utilized this technology has found that it is destructive. The use of this technology, this knowledge, in the 3rd dimension is not healthy, not in harmony with the human species.

Nuclear power will be pushed because it is a strong energy source, one that the Anunnaki have been able to refine (such as it can be). They still have not learned to live in balance with a celestial body. This is a lesson you, humanity, will teach them. Remember what you learn here in this process of clearing and ascension will be etched in the history books of the universe so others may learn from your experience. As we have said before much of this universe in not a “free will” zone and with the end of this grand cycle and the mastery of balancing duality in 3d, many worlds will learn and grow in ways that are not normally available to them because they are “closed” systems.

These master lessons are transmitted holographically.

The Anunnaki work with nuclear reaction to generate enough energy to create energetic portals. This allows them the ability to access other worlds and to communicate with other systems. Remember, they have become so entrenched in the dark energy of separation that they cannot access information as you can when you open to light and love. They only have access therefore to lower level information. Levels of information are restricted by emotional bodies. The frequency of the emotional body can unlock the “vaults” as it were to the Hall of Records. The accessible information is appropriate to their spiritual development.

Think of it this way. They are not tall enough to reach the books on the top shelf and there is no ladder. They must grow first, and then they may get it off the shelf. It is all part of the universal game. Rules and regulations are set up for each “playing arena” and certain skills must be acquired before you get to move on to an advanced game. It is all illusion and all set up to learn about variations of experience, to learn of self.

It is important at this time that you begin to look at your connection to all living things and how you utilize the natural resources of the planet. Are your habits in harmony with Mother Earth? Consumption of natural resources is not the cause of a toxic world. The toxicity is created when you are not consuming in balance with other living creatures.

We tell you from our multidimensional perspective that there are unlimited resources of abundance. But your current perception of reality says there is limitation and lack. As you begin to enter into the multidimensional perspective you will begin to see that the most toxic “chemicals” you subject the Earth to are your emotions. The war you create is absolutely devastating. The more anger, fear, and hatred, the more limitation and lack you create. That is far more damaging to the Earth than any chemical you could pump into the air.

As you question the best method to heal your planet, know that perceiving your world as toxic and working externally keeps you in the 3rd dimensional mindset. Until you begin to see the situation from a multidimensional perspective, you will remain on the treadmill forever striving for a goal that is unachievable. And it is unachievable until you can shift your perspective and see that the Earth is a reflection of you and you begin to heal yourself. When you understand that Earth is simply a reflection of your inner emotional state as a group, as a mass consciousness, you can change the toxicity of the Earth by changing the toxicity of your own body. Currently, there are many beings on your planet who are quite ill and Earth is a reflection of that. You are holographic in nature. What happens to the microcosm happens to the macrocosm. Or simply put – as above, so below.

It is also important that you begin to see your world as flourishing. She is teeming with new life and opportunity. It is vital that you see her as healthy and in a state of growth rather than something that is ill that must be fixed. This notion of illness can be very detrimental to the psyche of the planet. The more you think of Earth as a toxic world, the more toxic a world you will create. You create that which you are focused on.For those of you who stubbornly defend what you are being sold, let us suggest this. Investigate what other scientists are finding. Research the story you are being told and see who prospers from your deception. We tell you, you are being controlled and manipulated as a group. You plainly see what is happening with your Earth, but because you have yet to fully embrace your power as a species and have forgotten your ability to create, you look to traditional answers and for someone to solve the problem for you .

You think you are just one being and how can your opinion matter? Well it matters. It matters a great deal. Once you understand that it is you who have created a toxic world from your inner emotions you can heal it by working internally. If 144,000 out of the 6 billion of you can see this and make a change, you can create a new template for others to follow and will begin to see a change in the planet.

Yes, each of you matters a great deal…

Many well wishes, dears.

http://www.higherfrequencies.net/global_warming.html

Saturday, Self Existing 14 - Blue Galactic Monkey

I harmonize in order to play,
Modeling illusion.
I seal the process of magic
With the galactic tone of integrity.
I am guided by the power of vision.
I am a galactic activation portal…enter me.

Todays Cosmic Burrito from Tito

'everybody's got something to hide 'cept for me and my monkey!!!'
-the Beatles

I recommend for you today dear one, to build a very steady and stable
relationship with your inner tickle feather, hilariatron, bag O'trix,
and other related devices. the MAGIC of monkey is to devise, create,
execute, and see through the illusions of life. Yes, its all smoke and
mirrors, just like the Toltecs say, and we as humans, and especially
today, have the opportunity to get to know it really well.
Yes, today is about the INTEGRITY of PLAYFULNESS. If you are going to
play, do it right and have as much fun as possible and make it as
contagious as possible as well! The key to really good ILLUSIONS, is
the HARMONY that you bring to making it seem as real as possible. But
then again, I just said nothing is really real. If you can get that,
you totally get today's gold star!

Do something silly today that you wouldn't usually do...

In Lak'ech,
Monkey scribbler

Consciousburrito@yahoogroups.com

Tuesday, Self Existing 10 - Blue Self-Existing Hand

I define in order to know,
Measuring healing.
I seal the store of accomplishment
With the self existing tone of form.
I am guided by the power of abundance.
I am a galactic activation portal...enter me.

One of my old stories.

As a mature looking and acting sixteen year old runaway named Niki (after a favorite heroic dog character in a book) I volunteered at a drop in centre near McGill University in the city of Montreal. One afternoon while on duty with a more experienced young man, a slightly older than us man came in, freaking out on acid. He was threatening violence, very obviously having a bad trip.

When the young man started to talk the “client” down, his obvious fear of the threat of violence served to escalate the violence. I started talking to the fellow, refusing to be frightened by the threats. He threatened more, I ignored his threats. When he asked me why I ignored his threats, why I wasn’t afraid of him I told him I knew he didn’t really want to hurt me. He wanted to know how I knew he wouldn’t hurt me. I told him I didn’t know how I knew, I just knew.

He got seriously in my face in an effort to prove me wrong and frighten me. I didn’t budge. I asked why he was so angry. He wanted to know how come I knew he was angry. I stated the obvious…he was acting very angry.

Through the course of the afternoon the focus of the acid trip went from violence to caring, from freaking out, to understanding and compassion. The appropriate words for the situation came to me, I simply got out of the way. He spoke for hours about a violent childhood, I told him about mine. When the peak of the acid trip had finally run it’s course, the bad acid tripper left the drop in centre in control of himself. I would not have even remembered the incident except for the fact that this person remembered me and wanted to thank me.

Several months later, I was in bed in my room with a fever when the acid trip man found me. He said he’d been looking for me for quite some time. He had money for me, his way of thanking me for walking him through the acid trip. He said the money came from a store that he’d robbed. There was almost two hundred dollars, a lot of money for a girl with none. The acid trip man now robber finally realized how sick I was and put me in a cab destined for the hospital.

Time after remarkable time, paranormal events worked themselves into everyday reality. Other times, there was nothing more mundane than everyday reality.