i got trained to facilitate the "Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream" symposium for the Pachamama Alliance a year and a half ago. the symposium is an incredible body of work, and it was a wonderful experience to be trained, filled with hope, bright possibilities, eager awareness blossoming in the water fall of a new tool to use in the ongoing quest to Wake People Up. so many good and wonderful things there, so much honest, earnest dedication to the earth and to change in the good way.
and yet, something about it didn't fulfill me.
changing the situation that we're in collectively is not about finding new "green" ways to live the paradigm that has so divided the spirit of the world, so strangled the mother home. we cannot hybrid-car and solar-panel and energy-efficient-lightbulb our way out of the the animal holocaust, or the melting ice caps, or the perverse and pervasive war mentality fueled by political and religious ideologies that say "do as i say or die". or even just "die, regardless of what you do".
that's not a mind issue. that's a frequency filter issue.
form follows energy. the being is not the origin of impulse, it is a transducer of impulse. it takes the impulse of the universal continuum, translates it through the particular energetic grid of itself, and motivates action according to that relationship. we each hold the whole spectrum of creation within us, and yet are each specifically and differently calibrated to channel it in specific and different ways. intellectually, we know this. energetically, i don't think that's widely or deeply understood.
what that means is that no one is separated from source. that's not possible. if one is breathing, source is flowing through. if you've ever seen a dead body, you realize that it's dead because source and spirit are not there anymore. the body doesn't work without them as fuel and fire. but what can feel like separation from source is actually a state of corruption in the transducer. the filter is fucked up, so the signals are moving through it in a compromised way, causing compromised energetic impulse and action in the being. that can be fixed! but not through the mind alone. the mind is one ally in the work. the whole self needs to be involved in the process, or what hasn't been accounted for will pull the being back out of alignment. like if you get chiropractic work and not massage : the bones will move to where they're supposed to be, but then the muscles will pull them out again because they haven't been realigned to the original blueprint. they're still over there in compensation mode. isolation approach doesn't work.
so something like the symposium is a wonderful attempt at solving the problem at the level that it was created. it is a mind approach to a frequency filter issue. it doesn't touch the core. it goes deeper than most mind approaches go, because it gets into the emotions, but that's still not the root. people come to the symposium, get all fired up to Change the World, go off on it for a few weeks or months and then go back to doing what they were doing, perhaps a little more greenly, a little more intentionally, but still, mostly back to where they came from. that's the average.
so how do we affect the transducer? in ceremony. ceremony and ritual* work at recalibrating the frequency of the individual and the collective through accessing more of the being in transcendent (non-ordinary) states of consciousness. in this state, and through this mode, alterations in the fundamental organization of the being can occur. it is precisely the transcendent nature of ritual that has made it the medicine of choice all over the world for thousands of years, until the perversion of the dogmatic western mind outlawed it and killed people for it.
a good friend of mine wrote a poem called "the sacred function of words" in which there is a line about holding the wound in place through unconscious speech. something i've marveled at over these last few weeks is the way that my mind will inflict and re-inflict a wound ad infinitum. it blows me away! why does that glitch happen? how do i smooth the field so that the mind flows? how am i energetically corrupted that that can be such a powerful process, so relatively intractable? big questions, good questions, and the mental understanding is one aspect of the answer. the innerstanding resides in my attention to my instinct, to my own comprehensive intelligence and it's process and perspective. when i perceive through and move from my whole intelligence, my experience is completely different. there are subtleties and there is depth the likes of which rival the ocean for richness, complexity, awe-inspiring beauty, wonder.
existing in
the light of this intelligence
i am the aeon
the eternal child of creation born with all the wisdom of the ages.
i am original medicine
the joyous art work of the one
birthed into the earth to worship
to guide
to grow and learn
for the universe
for i am the universe
transcendent
brilliant
invisible
i am the scope and depth of consciousness
because i am simply and completely
fully
present
as the magic of my whole being
ritual, ceremony and exstatic processes and practices allow the self to fully open. they allow the whole self to be present in the same dimension. the full intelligent mechanism of a sensual (and by that i mean sensorily attuned, feeling and experiencing) being is an awesome body of wisdom. each of these senses is a different intelligence, and when they are activated, aligned and integrated, the being is a channel for pure source energy to easily flow through. we have somehow been fractured, because the source energy is not freely and easily flowing through us as individuals, or as a collective. everyone has it flowing through some channels and not others. most people yet do not have it flowing through fully. and the collective? well, we don't need to go into that. we all know. the people who do have it flowing are our exalted guides and wisdom beings. it's interesting, no? when someone is fully activated, they shine so bright it is astonishing, entrancing, inspiring, nourishing. people want to follow them and learn from them and become them. most people don't realize that they can become that themselves.
each one of us has that capacity. so how do we activate the reality?
that's my quest. to find out and to share it. and... i'm diving deeper
more soon...
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