The Creation of Spiritual Place
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
7:30-9:30 PM
Free & Open to the Public
Multnomah Curves
3839 SW Multnomah Blvd.
Portland, OR
Why do we consider some places spiritual?
Is it the air, the location, the history?
Can we create our own spiritual place?
In this evening workshop, working with Mother Earth, we will investigate the energy and significance of the places we feel are spiritual, learning about their deep essence.
We will consider specific locations such as Machu Picchu, Chaco Canyon, and the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. We will also learn about creating our own spiritual place.
Bring your questions about any location you are interested in knowing more about. Also, Come for joy, insight, discussion, and the support of a sharing community.
Blueprint for Action
Opening the Akashic Records of Mother Earth & Planet Earth, I asked the following question and received this answer.
Q. What can I do to improve the conditions of my physical environment?
A. In short, first align your being and then allow your actions to flow from the balanced center of your alignment. Here are the steps.
1. Align your Being: This is 99% of what you do to be most effective in your action within the physical environment. It is also the step most humans neglect. Instead you jump immediately into pity, blame or fear. The most positive choice is to move into action/doing by connecting to the deep potential and possibility of our planet. Here’s how to align and connect: “
* Transform Pity into Potential: When you see an environmental situation you don’t like most of you gasp with the feeling, “Oh no, that poor planet! How awful!” This is expressing pity. Feeling pity cuts you off from the deep possibility available in every situation. Learn to look at all situations around you recognizing the possibility available. Envision and feel the situation transforming into a deeper, fuller expression of its deepest being. It is not necessary to see actual outcomes. You provide even more possibility by feeling the situation expressing its deepest potential than by seeing how it might look actually expressed. Now pity has become potential. “
* Transform Blame into Acceptance: When you see an environmental situation you don’t like, do you respond with “Look what those people did to my planet?” Blame locks everyone in the past, a place where power-over conflict becomes the only path to resolution. If you want to change a situation, you need to move into the present, the only place where the potential of the situation comes to fruition. Acceptance doesn’t mean that you agree with the actions or beliefs of “those people”. Acceptance is neutral evaluation. Most importantly with acceptance you move from the past stuck in blame in to the present where choice is available. “
* Transform Fear into Choice: The fear of “will it always be this bad” locks you into a future separated from all possibility. Look in your heart and feel within yourself the endless possibility available to you. Know that every environmental situation that you fear will never change is filled with the some endless possibility you have. Stuck in fear, you limit the expression and development of this possibility. Instead say, “I feel fear about this situation.” Feel how the issue unlocks from the future and moves into your present moment as you bring your feeling from the future to the present. Without fear or pity or blame, the situation is fully present to possibility and you stand in your powerful place of choice, free of judgment of yourself or others.
2. Determine Your Action: To find the perfect action now, connect with the magic of deep possibility. Feel in your heart your connection will all that is. Feel the expansive movement of endless possibility within you and within the situation. Feel how all choice is in total alignment with you and you are in total alignment with endless possibility. From the balanced light in your heart ask, “What is it for me to do in this environmental situation?” Through your heart, listen for the answer. Wait for the answer to come to you. It is being sent to you from the universe and will come if you stand ready to receive. Don’t be surprised if the answer is about continuing to connect and align your being rather than specific action. The world is overly full with folks acting without being. If you dare to receive fully and without reservation or judgment, the universe will respond, taking you ever higher into deep universal potential and the Earth’s deepest love.
Planet Earth’s History
Opening the Akashic Records of Mother Earth & Planet Earth, I asked for a message and received this reply.
Today Mother Earth speaks about Planet Earth. Planet Earth has been “alive” for trillions and trillions of years – way beyond any humanly recordable history. In this time, Planet Earth has had many, many forms because Planet Earth takes form and loses form just like humans do. Also Planet Earth has experienced many types of form from that which you call pure light energy to forms even more consolidated than her current one. Planet Earth has also experienced many different types of forms living on her expressing a variety of soul intents. Planet Earth and Mother Earth are not separate entities: Mother Earth is soul energy that currently holds the physical form humans call Planet Earth.
Planet Earth’s current intention is to support the highest development of the current forms on her. Highest is not meant to imply best or better. Both Planet Earth and Mother Earth see that whatever humanity’s actions are, these action are expressions of pure divine energy and as such are always part of the Highest.
The current memory of humanity does not include a conscious record of all of Planet Earth’s history. Planet Earth has had many forms, has been blown up many times, and has consciously let go of form time and time again. Planet Earth’s life is not about avoiding loss of form. Her life is about experiencing the fullness of life here and now.
Planet Earth’s life span is so vast that current humanity represents but a minute particle within her overall timeline. For many humans, what look like irreversible scars (pollutions, deforestation, global warming, etc.) are for Planet Earth and Mother Earth mere moments along the path to expressing and experiencing the joy of physical form.
These “scars” are like your skinned knees and broken arms. But because the rhythm of Planet Earth’s existence is much longer and much slower compared to humanity’s sense of time, humans overreact, assume damage and in this reactive process loose their own awareness of their unbreakable divine connection. These are not “scars” but expressions of the inherent perfection of each moment. Mother Earth and Planet Earth hold the energy of their physical forms with unbreakable divine connection as example to humanity, as representations of possibility available each and every moment in all of your lives. Planet Earth and Mother Earth are always 100% aware of and acting from the joy of this connection. There is nothing anyone or anything can do that can sever this divine connection or avert their attention. Cover the planet in cigarette butts and neither Mother Earth nor Planet Earth will feel less, damaged or mistreated. Instead they feel your disconnection when you react in anger or pain to what you perceive as harm or injury.
Instead Mother Earth and Planet Earth challenge us to live our lives from full awareness of divine connection. They both believe that humanity stands at the cusp of realizing this simple yet powerful understanding: ALL is good! ALL is joy! ALL is amazing possibility!
Claim Your Connection: A Message From Mother Earth
Opening the Akashic Records of Mother Earth & Planet Earth, I asked for a message and this was her reply. Here “I” is Mother Earth.
Today I want to speak of connection. I feel all of humanity searching for connection. Wherever you may be in your journey, all humans seek to uncover and learn who they are and why they are here. I, too, have this search, this need for understanding. Like you, I take form and lose form in a constant dance with matter and spirit that improves both my ability to understand our universe and my ability to be at ease with my inability to comprehend the entirety of our Eternal Source – that which you call God or Great Spirit.
One of my most important comprehensions is that it is impossible to lose or severe connection with Eternal Source. Nothing destroys this connection – not pollution, not jealousy, not imperialism, not murder, not hate. Our connection with the universe transcends any attempts, intentional or unintentional, to pull away, to deny or to ruin. When you feel disconnected, unable or unwilling to connect, what you are experiencing is simply a lack of awareness. You can not destroy connection, you are only more or less aware of connection.
As Mother Earth, my major soul intention is to serve as a conduit of connection for all forms born within my field of energy. It is not difficult to begin to feel your connection by experiencing the flow of divine spark within the baby bird, the first flower bloom in Spring, the sunrise seen from a mountain top, or the first breath of a new born baby. The challenge is to see the face of connection within a random act of violence, polluted rivers, or intentional mass destruction. Yet in either case, connection is present and withstands all destructive impulses. What you call “good” is not the only container for the sacred and divine. To be aware that connection exists EVERYWHERE, you are not asked to do that which you do not like. You are asked to begin to allow for the possibility that universal connection is not a black/white issue but one of many shades, textures, and blends of color, sound, touch, smell, and taste. You learn that connection exists always, is unbreakable, and yet can never be understood entirely.
Another comprehension for humanity is that you express your deepest potential – the power of who you are – through your connection with the universe. Like a pipeline or channel, the energy of the universe flows to you through your connection. Every breath inhaled and exhaled, connects you with the pure energy of universal joy. Every thought, every feeling, every action rides the ebb and flow of this in and out breath. Each breath contains the miracle of potential of each Now. Breathe in the abundance and possibility of All That Is. Exhale your unique and powerful contribution to Eternal Source, expanding the possibility of the universe. Breathe in wonder, awe, and joy. Breathe out the flow like a river carrying you to your next perfect moment. Breathe in support, exhale blocks and limits. The universe wants nothing less than your pure joyful success. Where is it within you? Where is your opportunity to experience your fullness?
Now we come full circle to your connection, unbreakable and ultimately undeniable. Through this connection you bring to you the flow of universal power. All That Is waits for your call, your awareness, your receiving. What will you do, now that you know you can’t fail? Embrace you life! Through your connection, the universe stands ready to support you. What are you waiting for?
Step Past Your Resistance
Let us start today by discussing resistance. This is a natural feeling within all beings as it is the natural reaction to the natural flow of life. Life has its own rhythm, balance and flow. As humans interact with Life, your own natural rhythms, balances and flows sometimes bump, sometimes flow, sometimes collide with Life. In the collision human beings most often interpret the collision as a sign that something is off, wrong, out of kilter with either Life, others, or themselves.
As humans become more conscious of this process, you think, “OK, I’ll live my life in such a way that collision doesn’t happen.” This is a reaction that chooses resistance. The logic is that by resisting or avoiding collision, life will flow more smoothly, be more comforting, more pleasing. The result is living life by avoiding Life. This creates dependence on resistance and avoidance as they become habit, a way of life. For most of you this dependence has permeated your being so deeply and so profoundly, that it is very difficult to see or feel that not only did you choose to live life in resistance, but that you have the opportunity make a choice NOW to live differently.
Let’s start back at the beginning: Life has its own rhythm, flow and balance. Humans each have their own individual rhythm, flow and balance. Living life is about humans interacting, integrating, and colliding with Life’s flow. This interaction is made up of every type of action and experience you can think of including peace, satisfaction, passion, joy, upsets, disappointments and collisions. There is no point resisting even a part of what Life has to offer because Life will be what Life is, fully and completely. Your resistance to even a part of Life sets up resistance to all of Life and, even more importantly, interferes with your ability to be fully and completely who you are.
The powerful, empowering choice is fullness, wholeness, totality. Choosing only comfort, only the tolerable, the safe never guarantees there won’t be collisions. It only guarantees that the feelings and the results of the collision and resistance will have to go underground or find a different path to get your attention. Since external conflict is always a result of inner turmoil, you can see first hand how resistance channels collisions into other venues hoping to catch your attention.
Joy in life comes from embracing Life’s totality, the good, the bad, the ugly, the challenge, and the safety. Step up for yourself, past your resistance, and claim the wholeness of your life!
