Instructions for Living a Life

 

Pay attention.

Be astonished.

Tell about it.

by Mary Oliver

The World's Oldest Story

 

The Star Dreaming story of the Seven Sisters is one of the most widely distributed ancient stories amongst Aboriginal Australia. The storyline for this story covers more than half the width of the continent, from deep in the Central Desert out to the west coast. The storyline travels through many different language groups and different sections of the narrative are recognized in different parts of the country.

The story relates to the journey of the seven sisters that make up the star cluster known as the Pleiades, in the constellation Taurus. Mythological stories of the Pleiades also cross many other cultures outside Australia – the story also appears in ancient Greek mythology. Observed from central Australia, the Pleiades star group rises above the horizon soon after sunset and keeps a low trajectory above the horizon. Perhaps for this reason this relatively small star cluster takes on extra importance, as it appears to launch from the earth’s surface and make its journey in close proximity to the land.

In the Seven Sisters story in Aboriginal Australia, the group of stars are Napaljarri sisters from one skin group. In the Warlpiri story of this Jukurrpa, the sisters are often represented carrying the Jampijinpa man Wardilyka, who is in love with the women. Then the morning star, Jukurra-jukurra, who is a Jakamarra man and who is also in love with the seven Napaljarri sisters, is shown chasing them across the night sky. They are seen to be running away, fleeing from the man who wants to take one of the sisters for his wife. However under traditional law, the man pursuing the sisters is the wrong skin group and is forbidden to take a Napaljarri wife.

So the Seven Sisters are running away from the Jampijinpa man; they travel across the land, and then from a steep hill they launch themselves into the sky in an attempt to escape. But the Jakamarra man follows the sisters into the sky, travelling in the form of a star seen in the Orion’s Belt star cluster, which is also seen as the base of the Big Dipper. So every night the Seven Sisters launch themselves from earth into the night sky, and every night the Jampijinpa man follows after them across the sky.

The traditional custodians in Central Australia for this story, called the Napaljarri-warnu Jukurrpa, are the skin groups of Napaljarri and Nungarrayi women, and skin groups of Japaljarri and Jungarrayi men. There are some parts of the Napaljarri-warnu Jukurrpa that are deeply connected to sacred men’s ceremonies.

In part of the Star Dreaming story called Yanjirlpirri Jukurrpa, (Jukurrpa means from the Dreaming) the narrative gives an account of the journey of Japaljarri and Jungarrayi men who travelled from Kurlurngalinypa (in the north near Lajamanu) to Yanjirlypirri (west of Yuendumu) and then on to Lake Mackay on the West Australian border.

Along the way they performed Kurdiji, which are initiation ceremonies for young men. Women also danced for the Kurdiji. The central site depicted in this story is Yanjirlypirri, which means star, a site located around a low hill and a water soakage. This site is highly significant, a ceremonial place where young boys are brought from all parts of the desert, from Pitjanjatjara country in the south to Lajamanu in the north, for Law initiation ceremonies.

In Aboriginal Australia the stories associated with the stars and night skies carry meanings which probe deep into the law and culture and social structures of the people. As the artists represent these subjects they are also maintaining the stories and the keeping the meanings strong within the group.

by David Wroth in 2015 at japingkaaboriginalart.com

Awakening Consciousness

 

Awakened consciousness is not understood by sleeping minds living under collective MSM hypnosis. There are no issues or arguments that can help anyone to awaken. This language can only be understood by awakened souls amongst themselves.

Humanity has surrendered its sanity and responsibility to corrupt governments on a massive scale. Realize the far-reaching consequences of this behavior for human existence. When our sanity and responsibility is surrendered, our freedom is also surrendered, and with it, essentially, our life.

Since the declaration of the Covid pandemic, we live in a dangerous world. The satanic Luciferians and their highly paid minions will not let you go easily, they have deceived the whole world with a fake pandemic in order to fulfil their eugenic agenda; i.e. the extermination of 90% of humanity.

The Cabal hates humanity because they fear it, they know the true capabilities of humanity and that is why they are going all out to destroy us. Through toxic covid injections, toxic pills, mafia health care that thwarts healing, poisoning through fluoridated water, pre-cooked food with harmful preservatives, soft drinks with harmful sugars, chemtrails that destroy the environment, education based on lies, to name just a few facts. They want followers, not independent thinkers. They don’t want people to question anything, when we should be questioning everything!

To awaken is to be enlightened! Let the light not only enter your room, but into every cell of your body. The process is much deeper than you think. It is so profound that it will actually change the consciousness of every awakened person. In fact much has already changed! And it is this change that disturbs the unawakened.

Your patience and steadfastness in the Light will be well rewarded with welcome changes on the horizon and many wondrous changes in the distance! All the Light Beings of this Universe are encouraging us to move forward and supporting us with an unparalleled power of unconditional love.

The Earth has become a real battleground for every awakened person. Your attention is now being drawn to another manifestation of new energies that is clear evidence of the change in the energy background of the Earth.

Many of you have probably noticed how your sleep patterns have changed.

Where once most people slept through the night into the morning without waking, now many people’s sleep has become intermittent and restless. This is no accident. The point is that it is at night that the main energy work is done on you.

For on the subtle plane there is a real battle going on for every human soul. And since it is not easy to do this during the day, when there are too many distractions, at night, when a person’s soul and consciousness are separated from their physical body, they become part of the subtle world and can easily interact with its inhabitants.

Why is it so important to put on energy protection before going to bed?

Firstly, because it is the only way to protect yourself from the influence of lower astral beings and other representatives of the dark forces.

As for the messengers of the forces of light, your protection will not be an obstacle for them – on the contrary, you will become “visible” to them, which will allow them to do their energy work with you more effectively.

Why do your defenses sometimes fail and your sleep becomes a nightmare?

Incidentally, this happens even to people whose vibration level is quite high.

Most of the time this is explained by astral battles between those who are greatly hindered by your light and those who support you on the spiritual path.

At present the subtle plane of the earth has become a real battleground for every awakened person. And although these battles remain invisible to you, they are no less important for the salvation of humanity than the battle on the physical plane against the Deep State and its puppets in power.

It is believed that many of you, upon awakening, will intuitively feel who has won this night in your personal energy space and, depending on your feelings, will attempt to correct your condition on the physical plane.

This can be done in a number of ways: through cleansing, meditation, situational awareness, or ‘untangling’ knots in your relationships with loved ones, relatives and friends.

Try to pick up the clues from your nightly ‘guests’ – both the light and the dark – so that even your sleep becomes your assistant on the path to Ascension.

Next is an explanation of how the consciousness and bodies of people whose vibrations are too far out of tune interact with the high vibrational energies now coming to Earth.

This includes both inoculated and uninoculated inhabitants of planet Earth.

The inoculated may include clones, biorobots, young human souls, low vibrational beings embodied in human bodies. In other words, all those who are still fully immersed in the three-dimensional world and live exclusively according to its laws, norms and patterns.

The unconsciousness of these inhabitants of your planet is not able to restructure itself in such a short time, to lift their physical bodies to a new level of vibration. As a result, they become hostages to their old habits and perceive surges of high vibrational energies with hostility: neither their consciousness nor their physical bodies accept them.

This is largely why the behavior of such people changes so dramatically for the worse: they become more aggressive, irritable and susceptible to all kinds of fear. They habitually seek protection and salvation from the leaders of their countries, blindly believing that they are acting in their best interests. As the emotions of these people are mostly negative in nature, their subtle bodies are increasingly destroyed, causing various kinds of diseases in their physical bodies. Thus, people who cannot tolerate the vibrational frequencies of the renewed Earth will become foreign bodies in its energy space.

Such energetic disunity will inevitably lead to the removal of this category of inhabitants of your planet from the earthly plane, which is a natural and logical process that no one can influence. You just have to take a philosophical approach to it, my dears!

These are the laws of nature: every living thing thrives in conditions that are favorable to it and dies in conditions that are unnatural to it. This is exactly what is happening on Earth.

Those who have managed to remember their true origin and purpose are finding the new energies a blessing, while those who are far from it are finding them destructive.

The long awaited times have finally arrived! Although it is not yet as visible as everyone would like, everything in the Earth timeline is sealed. Many millennia have passed! Many epochs have also passed! Hundreds of successive incarnations! And you are here now to be a part of this great phenomenon, the transformation of planet Earth!

Aside from this great event, which is the most important in the galaxy, it will still stand or fall with the ascension of a portion of humanity. Glorious times lie ahead, and nothing can stop what is to come!

For this final stage of change, we have entered an unchanging timeline; the ancient prophecies of Armageddon will not come to pass! We are about to see incredible times. However, there is still one major obstacle that undoubtedly concerns the fate of humanity itself;

The most crucial moment for humanity on planet Earth is today. There will be two well-defined timelines: one will take part of humanity to the New Earth; and the other timeline will take the other part into exile.

Only one third of humanity will be able to make and complete the Ascension necessary for this transition; the other part will not. In the end we will have a new cycle and a new earth. No authority is superior to our free will and choices. Everyone will be their own judge. No one will interfere with another’s individual preferences.

Light has won where everyone creates their own reality. The destiny of humanity has been decided. Because of the separation of the wheat from the chaff, only 5-dimensional beings will go on to this New Earth. It is expected that all will be completed, cleared and settled between 2025 and 2030.

by Peter B. Meyer at finalwakeupcall.info on September 13 and 16, 2024

The New Energy

 

Going Beyond Limitation

 

According to quantum physics, our apparently substantial reality is actually comprised of conscious entities of swirling patterns of light that come into our awareness only when we recognize them as particles of matter; otherwise, there is nothing substantial about them. All of the substance is created in our human consciousness. We see only what we imagine to be real. We don’t see or realize the light essence of all subatomic entities. We perceive only what we have trained ourselves to recognize. Until recently, we haven’t had access to technology that enables us to open our awareness to the constituents of what we consider to be the real world. Let’s ponder the implications of these discoveries.

We have trained ourselves to believe that we cannot innately perceive the vibrations that our technology has opened our awareness to. By pushing the boundaries of what we believe is real, quantum science has opened to us a new understanding of the nature of reality as we know it. If our apparently substantial world is actually completely insubstantial in its essence, it exists only as a figment of our imagination. It is held as substantial reality by our conscious realization. We are its creators and modifiers. This is what esoteric spirituality has been teaching for millennia. It is only our belief that limits our awareness.

What are the origins of our beliefs? How did they come about, and how do we hold them? Their function is to limit us to a particular spectrum of vibratory energy. Why is this, and what happens under these conditions? We become entranced with this energetic spectrum, believing it to be the entirety of reality. Our technology has informed us that there is probably an infinitely possible number of realities beyond the one we recognize. When we artificially localize our awareness in our physical bodies, we do not recognize the importance of any reality beyond the empirical, even if our technology shows us glimpses of new realities. The fact remains, that we have limited awareness, and there’s a reason for this.

Because limited awareness requires us to be fixated upon the physical world as our only reality, it becomes possible for us to believe in death and termination, creating fear in ourselves. Creating the reality of fear is possible only under conditions of limitation. Having an experience of the reality of fear is actually an expansion of our consciousness. In our natural state of Being, we cannot have fear, because we realize our eternal essence. Fear is self-terminating. It denigrates and destroys all who choose to hold it. Having fear is a choice that becomes a requirement within empirical reality. Now we know what it is. We have added fear to universal consciousness. Now that we know what fear is, we can choose to eliminate our belief in its requirement.

We have been able to believe only what we have experienced as humans. Without limiting beliefs about ourselves, we can realize our presence of awareness beyond space and time. Pervading infinite consciousness, our awareness is unlimited, when we realize that it is. If we want to break out of our entrancement, we must expand our limitations and ultimately dissolve them. If we succeed in unlimiting our awareness, we have a perspective beyond spacetime. We become aware of any potential reality we choose to pay attention to and align with in resonance. This results in no change to our empirical reality, but the change lies in our expanding awareness and understanding, which changes the quality of our experience. We can live in an energetic dimension beyond the vibrations of fear. It is no longer real for us, because we know what is beyond it in our infinite essence.

Imagining forms and visions brings them into our reality, not necessarily in the forms we imagine, but in the vibratory resonance of how we feel within ourselves. We can direct our thoughts and feelings to whatever we desire. By aligning with our desired polarity and frequency, we establish our energetic signature and broadcast its vibrations into the quantum field to attract resonating energies into our experience.

In absolute confidence and knowing, we can move through life with the energetic expression of gratitude, love, compassion and joy. Anything that interrupts this state of Being is caused by a limiting belief about ourselves. We can progress by examining and resolving our limiting beliefs and opening ourselves to an unknown realm of experience that seems impossible for ego-consciousness. Instead of gradual degradation, we can develop a different kind of awareness grounded in life-enhancement. Regardless of what kind of energy we encounter, we can direct our own state of being to vibrate in resonance with our essence beyond time and space. This is the heart of our Being, and it comes into our awareness intuitively, when we align with the resonance of our heart.

We can realize that the overpowering expression within universal consciousness is life-creation-and-enhancement in unconditional love. As we learn to transcend our limitations by inviting the feelings of joy and abundance to fill our awareness, we find that life happens with ease, regardless of apparent encounters and experiences. As long as we hold our awareness on the energies of our heart, we can move through life while radiating powerful life-enhancing thoughts and feelings. These pervade the consciousness of humanity, vibrating in dissonance to negativity, destabilizing, dissolving and transforming it.

When we can live beyond our limitations, we can know our true Self. When we empower ourselves with confidence and love, we can be creative in ways that we want. we can come into realization of our infinite magnificence beyond any limiting beliefs. We can practice expressing ourselves in ways that we deeply desire for the enjoyment and enhancement of all.

from the blog of Kenneth Schmitt at consciousexpansion.org on September 14, 2024

Releasing the Material to Return to the Spiritual

 

Dear readers, welcome to our message which in reality is your message because the consciousness of the readers draws forth the message they are in alignment with. All is proceeding according to plan. High resonating frequencies of Light now flowing to earth from the sun are continuing to expose pockets of dense energy thousands of years old some of which is presently manifesting as war. If or when personal clearings become physically, emotionally, mentally, or spiritually draining and difficult, allow them to unfold rather than automatically responding with fear and resistance. Always remember that releasing of old energy is a forward step not a backward one in spite of the effects that often accompany them. Trust that your higher self is always governing the process and does not need direction as to how to do it.

Be prepared for an approaching time of chaos and fear that will especially affect those resisting change and promoting the return of obsolete concepts rather than allowing earth to evolve into a new and higher resonating world of oneness. Remember that earth and all life on her is spiritual rather than the material/physical sense of everything that most have come to accept as being the real world.

You have and utilize a material/physical vehicle on earth because it is necessary for living in the lower resonating frequencies of a three dimensional planet but you never become that body. You travel in a car, but never become the car. You are not, never have been, and never can be just material/physical, and doubting, resisting, or denying this doesn't change the fact that you are spiritual.

Present times are difficult and frightening for those who have built their foundation on three dimensional concepts they believe guarantee them safety, security, and happiness. When these concepts are questioned or changed they lash out in anger, fear, and resistance in attempts to keep the status quo constituting their security. Fear is the natural expression of a consciousness of separation and is the source of all violence, resistance, power over, war, abuse, suffering, hatred, self-righteousness, and suicide.

No one can stop the spiritual ascension process taking place at this time because the earth is not material. Earth is the manifestation of a Divine Idea in the mind of God - infinitely perfect, whole, complete, and beautiful. As with all concepts, material concepts of earth must eventually collapse because belief is all that maintains and sustains concepts. As mankind spiritually evolves and earth's collective consciousness becomes more spiritually enlightened, its creations will begin to more closely reflect reality.

Earth as a three dimensional planet has been the perfect place for souls to learn and evolve because experience is available on all levels. The first stage is the physical, where the person experiences all their pains and pleasures physically. Next the soul begins to develop on the mental level noticing beauty and thinking of people and things outside of self. Then the emotional level unfolds and the soul begins to experience and understand emotions of self and others. Most live many lifetimes from these three levels until at some point they are prepared to learn about and experience the spiritual truth about earth, him/her self, and all life.

Souls choosing to evolve through "earth school" learn from lifetimes lived as every skin color, both genders, lives short and long, some very difficult and some not - experiences only a three dimensional planet can offer. When a soul has learned everything necessary from the three dimensional level and has completed his/her contract, they no longer need to keep reincarnating on earth but can continue their evolution in the higher realms or on a more advanced planet.

The spiritual ascension of earth is the reason so many evolved souls with no further need for three dimensional lessons volunteered to incarnate once again. Most evolved souls appear to be ordinary humans living ordinary lives but in reality they are lifting earth's frequencies and seeding the collective consciousness with truth and Light simply through the presence on earth of their evolved states of consciousness. As truth and Light increases in collective consciousness, increasingly more individuals can and will access it, lifting and shifting earth's overall vibration.

Never forget that earth is a spiritual universe, every person's real identity is divine, and that every life is in and of the only life. Do not attempt to understand this with your mind because human minds are limited by personal conditioning and collective belief. God is infinite and spiritual, and thus incomprehensible to finite, limited, and conditioned minds although many have tried and many more think they have accomplished it. However, God is always revealing ITself but speaks in a small still voice that must be listened for.

Regardless of how real the material/physical world may seem even in its highest and best forms, it can only ever be the illusory dream that mankind has been dreaming for thousands of years that they themselves created out of duality, separation, and two powers. Life lived on earth is like watching a film or play. You become fully engrossed and feel the emotions of every good and bad situation and even begin to identify with the characters, but there comes a point at which the curtain comes down, the house lights turn on, and you find yourself being yourself once again. The lights of earth are turning on and the three dimensional curtain is coming down.

Spiritual evolution can never be stopped because it is not an event but is a revealing. Spiritual reality has always been fully present, but majority states of consciousness remain unable to energetically align with anything other than what they can see hear, taste, touch or smell with the physical senses. However, this is rapidly changing and many are waking up into new and higher states of awareness.

You cannot go beyond omnipresence, omniscience, omnipotence. We are the Arcturian Group.

channeled by Marilyn Raffaele on October 27, 2024 at OnenessofAll.com

Ready for Physical E.T. Contact?

 

Greetings. We are the Arcturian Council. We are pleased to connect with all of you. We are always surprised by what you are capable of there on Earth. We have noticed that you have had a spike in your overall vibration as a collective consciousness, and that spike is in fact due to how well you are handling all of the energies coming to you from above and below. When you make substantial progress like this, the extra-terrestrial beings in your skies do take notice. They are looking for those windows of opportunity to have more contact with all of you, and those of you who have been largely responsible for the spike are showing up more clearly on their radar screens.

In other words, they’re going to connect with those of you who are offering a higher vibration first. They do that, not because they’re playing favorites, but because you demonstrate that you can handle higher-frequency energies, and then they know that you can stand face to face with them and handle their energy. You are of course also getting closer and closer to first contact because of this spike, but those of you who are on the leading edge, those of you who are awake, you are the ones leading the way. You are the ones who plant the seeds, and you pave the way for a group event for humanity involving extra-terrestrials. 

Now, we know that there are many of you who haven’t had conscious contact yet and who want it, and we suggest that you relax and that you let of attachment to having that experience. Here is why – even if you continue to let go of that which is lower vibrational and access that which is higher vibrational, the principles of manifestation are still relevant here. And so, you cannot be attached to having a face to face with an e.t. if you want to manifest that experience in your reality. You have to let go and live your life at the highest vibration that you possibly can. Again, demonstrate to them your readiness for contact, but also let go of that desire and let the universe and your higher self bring you the experience in the appropriate timing for you.

It is okay to be eager and excited for your contact experiences, but if you are attached to them because you want to prove to someone else that they exist, or you want to prove to yourself that you are special enough to receive that contact, then you are only delaying the process, which is inevitable. It is inevitable that you will be standing face to face with E.T.s in this lifetime, but you want to enjoy the journey to that event. You want to relax into it, and you want to allow it to happen in the perfect timing for you as an individual and for humanity as a collective.

You can always jump to a different timeline where the timing of humanity’s contact is sooner, but you can also jump to a different timeline where the timeline for humanity’s contact is later. So live your lives, and be in a state of joy, and don’t make that joy conditional, and you will be on that timeline where this event can happen for you and for the rest of humanity. You are doing so well in so many areas of your consciousness evolution, and while your eagerness and excitement for E.T. contact is beautiful, you also must demonstrate that you can live amongst your fellow humans as one who accepts, loves, and has compassion for each and every one of them. That’s something else the E.T.s in physical form are looking for when they are considering who exactly down there on Earth is ready for physical E.T. Contact. We are the Arcturian Council, and we have enjoyed connecting with you.

channeled by Daniel Scranton at danielscranton.com

Lakhovsky's Multi-Wave Oscillator

 

Science will discover some day not only the nature of microbes,

but the radiation which they produce

and also a method of killing disease

within the human body by means of the proper radiations.

Georges Lakhovsky

The original Multi-Wave Oscillator (MWO) was designed and built by French engineer, Georges Lakhovsky from the 1920's to the 1940's. The original design in all probability came from Nikola Tesla. Tesla’s suggestions were taken up in earnest by Lakhovsky, who perceived that the twisted-filament, coil-like structures within all living cells constitute ultramicroscopic circuits "capable of oscillating electrically over a wide scale of very short wavelengths.”

He wrote: "Treatment with the multiple-wave oscillator mobilizes the body’s own self-healing reserves. Thus the range of diseases that can be treated is infinite. Degenerative conditions develop when the body’s self-healing reserves lose their power. Infections, cancers, inflammations, skeletal degeneration and organ dysfunctions then develop, but often such conditions can be reversed if these reserves are revived. Even fractures and cuts can be healed in a fraction of the normal time. Neural dysfunctions, from headaches to deafness to paralysis, can be normalized. The Multi-Wave Oscillator has been used successfully to treat arthritis. Can any such a cure-all really exist? If there is a generalized life-force enhancer, then the answer is yes, and this may be it."

Every atom in the Universe has a frequency. Whether it's a grain of sand, a piece of steel, a plant, animal or an organ in your body, each cell resonates, or vibrates, at a specific frequency or oscillation. Your body consists of a variety of atoms, which contain photons, electrons & an overall bio-electric energy that runs through it. The way you take care of your body physically, emotionally and mentally determines how many negative frequencies or toxins are being built up in it. There are four general ways imbalance in the body is created. Through toxic substances we eat, pollution we breathe, exposure to a negative energetic environment, and how we process information in our thinking & feeling.

Lakhovsky viewed disease or illness as a battle of vibrations between the cells of the body versus viruses and bacteria. If the pathogenic organisms won this vibrational contest, the cells would become energetically weakened and more susceptible to disease. According to Lakhovsky, the way to counter this vibrational attack was to introduce a broad spectrum of RF (radio frequency) harmonic energies into the system and then, through the principle of sympathetic resonance, each cell would pick out exactly the proper frequency needed to reinforce its own internal vibration and the healthy cell would be more resistant to vibrational attack from virus and bacteria.

Lakhovsky viewed the nucleus of the cell with its "filament strands" as being similar to an electronic oscillating circuit, capable of sending and receiving vibratory information. Lakhovsky believed that every cell in the body has its own rate of internal vibration. He viewed disease or illness as a battle of vibrations between the cells of the body versus viruses and bacteria. If the pathogenic organisms won this vibrational contest, the cells would become energetically weakened and more susceptible to disease.

According to Lakhovsky, the way to counter this vibrational attack was to introduce a broad spectrum of RF (radio frequency) harmonic energies into the system and then, through the principle of sympathetic resonance, each cell would pick out exactly the proper frequency needed to reinforce its own internal vibration and the healthy cell would be more resistant to vibrational attack from virus and bacteria. His method of achieving this was by means of his invention that is known today as the MultiWave Oscillator.

Cells from living organism behave themselves as small radio transmitters and receivers. When cells are irradiated with a correct polarized electromagnetic field (which has a broad range of frequencies), each cell will pick up on a frequency and assimilate the energy out of that field. This has a tremendous stimulating and harmonizing action on the cells and thus interacts with surrounding tissues and organs.

What Lakhovsky discovered was simply mind boggling: He postulated that all living cells (plants, people, bacteria, parasites, etc.) possess attributes which normally are associated with electronic circuits. These cellular attributes include resistance, capacitance, and inductance. These three electrical properties, when properly configured, will cause the recurrent generation or oscillation of high frequency sine waves when sustained by a small, steady supply of outside energy of the right frequency. This effect is known as resonance. It's easiest to compare it with a child swinging on a playground swing.

As long as the parent pushes the swing a little at the right moment (the correct 'frequency'), the child will continue to swing high and continuously. In electronics, circuits which generate these recurrent sine waves can be called electromagnetic resonators, but more commonly they are referred to as oscillators. Lakhovsky tells us that not only do all living cells produce and radiate oscillations of very high frequencies, but they also receive and respond to oscillations imposed upon them from outside sources.

This outside source of radiation or oscillations are due to cosmic rays which bombard the earth continuously. This stupendous realization, achieved during the golden years of radio, not only led to a new method of healing by the application of high frequency waves, but broadened appreciation for the newly emerging field of hidden science known as Radionics or Radiathesia.

Using newly developed voltage-sensitive nanoparticles, researchers have found that the previously unknown electric fields inside of cells are as strong, or stronger, as those produced in lightning bolts. Previously, it has only been possible to measure electric fields across cell membranes, not within the main bulk of cells, so scientists didn't even know cells had an internal electric field. Human cells have electric fields as powerful as lighting bolts.

The existence of strong electric fields across cellular membranes is accepted as a basic fact of cell biology. The fact that cells have internal electric fields as well, however, is a whole new revelation. Scientists previously did not know of the existence of internal cellular energy fields, and are just in the earliest stages of understand the phenomenon. Kopelman presented his results at the annual meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology this month. "There has been no skepticism as to the measurements," says Kopelman. "But we don't have an interpretation."

Daniel Chu of the University of Washington in Seattle agrees that Kopelman's work provides proof of concept that cells have internal electric fields. "It's bound to be important, but nobody has looked at it yet," Chu says.

The membranes of all nerve cells have a potential difference across them. The Multiwave Oscillator works by producing a broad range of high frequency pulsed signals that radiate energy into the body via two round resonators: one resonator acting as a transmitter and the other as a receiver. The resonator is constructed from a series of circular copper tubes. The copper tube rings nest one inside the other, but none touch each other. The ring assembly is held in place with silk thread in Lakhovsky's original design. Each ring has its open ended termination placed 180 degrees opposite from its adjacent ring.

The machine generates a very wide spectrum of high frequencies coupled with static high voltage charges applied to the resonators using spark gaps.. The patient sat on a wooden stool in between the two resonators and was exposed to these energies for about 15 minutes. These amplified, artificially produced multiple frequency waves sped up the recovery process by stimulating the resonance of healthy cells in the patient and in doing so, increased the immune response to the disease organisms.

The MultiWave Oscillator helps "tune up" the body so that it heals like it was young and vibrant again. Lakhovsky's central idea is this: Each ring of his special antenna system radiated at a different wavelength and frequency dependent upon its diameter. The different size rings would set up interference patterns between themselves, producing a plethora of harmonic frequencies at many different wavelengths. The patient would then be exposed to a "MultiWave Oscillating Field".

Each living cell in our bodies functions much like a tuned circuit with its DNA strand acting as a self inducting coil. Each living cell is capable of "resonating" to an external source of frequencies in the same manner as a guitar string beginning to vibrate when exposed to the standard pitch of the correct tuning fork.

These simple coils, worn continuously around certain parts of the body, would invigorate the strength of the human cells and increased the immune response which in turn took care of the offending pathogens.

The idea of "Resonance" is the key to understanding the function of Lakhovsky's Multi-Wave Oscillator. The resonant frequency of cells and organs happens to be the natural frequency of health for that individual cell. A normal cell has an electrical potential of 70 millivolts, an aged cell at 50 mV, and a cancer or ill cell is 15-20 mV.

When a cell is in electrical difficulty the mV and the sodium-potassium balance are out of alignment. The high potential brings the cells to an equal level, basically resetting them. This allows healing to occur at a higher pace without stressing the cell. And the additional energy restores cell integrity by reorienting it's molecular structure to allow for easier potential movement. Basically it bolsters the field of each cell individually so they support each other more easily.

Negativity is the natural resting state of your cells. It's related to a slight imbalance between potassium and sodium ions inside and outside the cell, and this imbalance sets the stage for your electrical capacity.

Your cell membranes practice a trick often referred to as the sodium-potassium gate. It's a very complex mechanism, but the simple explanation of these gates, and how they generate electrical charges, goes like this:

At rest, your cells have more potassium ions inside than sodium ions, and there are more sodium ions outside the cell. Potassium ions are negative, so the inside of a cell has a slightly negative charge. Sodium ions are positive, so the area immediately outside the cell membrane is positive. There isn't a strong enough charge difference to generate electricity, though, in this resting state.

When the body needs to send a message from one point to another, it opens the gate. When the membrane gate opens, sodium and potassium ions move freely into and out of the cell. Negatively charged potassium ions leave the cell, attracted to the positivity outside the membrane, and positively charged sodium ions enter it, moving toward the negative charge. The result is a switch in the concentrations of the two types of ions - and rapid switch in charge. It's kind of like switching between a 1 and 0 - this flip between positive and negative generates an electrical impulse. This impulse triggers the gate on the next cell to open, creating another charge, and so on. In this way, an electrical impulse moves from a nerve in your stubbed toe to the part of your brain that senses pain. Since everything relies on these electrical signals, any breakdown in your body's electrical system is a real problem.

Most illness is an autoimmune illness. When your immune system cannot ward off a problem in your system in time, something fails. Your only defense is your immune system. By raising the oscillating frequency of every atom in your body, we are increasing the rate at which the immune system operates as well as eliminating the negative toxins your body is trying to fight off. The quantum fluctuations (vibrations) that make up the memory of the cells of our body start creating different "memories". This type of frequency reprogramming allows the body to remember the natural effectiveness of the immune system and regenerate back 100% to its original state.

It is an interesting fact that science has reached the point where it recognizes that the cell - both plant and animal - is an electric battery. Biological cells are batteries charged by a voltage across their cell membrane. Lakhovsky believed that living cells are batteries; the nucleus holds the positive charge and the cytoplasm carries the negative. If cells were irradiated with a range of electromagnetic oscillations, they could be "recharged" and thus rejuvenated. A range of frequencies is necessary because the cell and its parts respond to different frequencies.

Exposure to the MultiWave Oscillator field induces an detoxification effect/ experience as the body attempts to shed itself of accumulated toxins. An example would be the case of a cigarette smoker starting to cough more as the lungs begin a process of self cleansing in response to repeated exposure to the MultiWave Oscillator field.

When the outside sources of oscillations are in sympathy, that is they are exactly the same frequency as that produced by the cell, the strength and vigor of that cell will be reinforced and become stronger. The cells of disease causing organisms within an infected person, produce different frequencies than that of normal, healthy cells.

The Harmonizing Principle in our body: Our body consists of a quantity of organs that in turn are made up of tissues. These tissues are in turn made up of cells. When all cells cooperate with each other by being arranged in the right order (correctly polarized), then a bundling of energy happens and the organ will function optimally and strongly. If there are cells that are not correctly arranged or in the wrong order, then these cells are working against the correctly arranged cells and as such the organ performs weaker. When the amount of cells in the wrong order is extremely large and in a state of disorder, the organ will as such perform very weakly and most probably perform in the wrong way.

For people or plants suffering from disease conditions, Lakhovsky found that if he could increase the amplitude (but not the frequency) of the oscillations of healthy cells, this increase would overwhelm and dampen the oscillations produced by the disease causing cells, thus bringing about the demise of the disease causing cells trying to set up shop in the body. If he pumped up the amplitude of the disease causing cells, their oscillations would gain the upper hand and cause the person or plant to become weaker and more ill. Lakhovsky viewed the progression of disease as essentially a battle between the resonant oscillations of host cells versus the oscillations emanating from pathogenic organisms.

Mainstream research supports the idea that "We are electrical creatures using a biochemical body to exist in an electro-chemical environment," as Van Tassel wrote. The name "Integratron" actually applies to a machine, a high-voltage electrostatic generator, that would supply the range of frequencies to recharge cell structure. Added to this are certain magnetic field principles and Nikola Tesla's technique of creating high ionization static fields.

As cells, with their varying rates of vibration, make up the human body ...it necessarily follows that the human mechanism— is a collection of living batteries. The organs of the human body each have their own rate of vibration. In the healthful body these different rates of vibration are properly synchronized or balanced. The human body is a perfect battery, susceptible to the cosmic or magnetic currents that are everywhere present in the universe.

The 70 trillion cells in your body are like little wet cell batteries that operate ideally at a voltage of around 70 millivolts. The cell membrane acts like a one-way rectifier that converts the earth's magnetic pulse into electrical potential energy, which "charge's your cells".

This energy drives cell metabolism and helps to enhance oxygenation, ATP production and overall absorption of nutrition and essential elements into the cell and removal of wastes out of the cell.

Without this energy, the cell voltage weakens and disease and illness sets in.

Each organ of the body has its own rate of vibration. The first, third and fifth notes on the musical octave ...vibrate in harmony. The first, second and third ...do not vibrate in harmony. If the string of the fifth note on the scale is out of tune, there will be inharmony ...every time this note is struck. Just so ...there is health inharmony —when any one of the organs is out of tune. As the fifth string on the piano, when out of tune must be brought up to pitch, reinstated in its proper vibration, just so ...must the physical organ —out of tune— be reinstated, brought up to the proper vibration. The vital current that carries the life principle must be restored, built up, and a proper equilibrium (vibration) ...must be reestablished.

What Lakhovsky discovered was simply mind-boggling: Lakhovsky was the first to predict the existence of the double helix we now know as DNA. He postulated that all living cells (plants, people, bacteria, parasites, etc.) possess attributes that normally are associated with oscillating electrical circuits. These cellular attributes include resistance, capacitance, and inductance. These three electrical properties, when properly configured, will cause the oscillation of high frequency sine waves when sustained by a small, steady supply of outside energy of the right frequency. This effect is known as resonance. It's easiest to compare it with a child swinging on a playground swing. As long as the parent pushes the swing a little at the right moment (the correct 'frequency'), the child will continue to swing.

In electronics, circuits that generate these recurrent sine waves can be called electromagnetic resonators, but more commonly they are referred to as oscillators. Lakhovsky tells us that not only do all living cells produce and radiate oscillations of very high frequencies, but they also receive and respond to oscillations imposed upon them from outside sources. This outside source of radiation or oscillations is due to cosmic rays that bombard the Earth continuously as well modern day sources such as TV's, radios, computers, cell phones and countless others. This incredible realization, achieved during the golden years of radio, not only led to a new method of healing by the application of high frequency waves, but broadened appreciation for the newly emerging field of hidden science known as Radionics or Radiathesia.

When these outside sources of oscillations are in sympathy, that is they are of the exact same frequency as that produced by the cell, the strength and vigor of that cell will be reinforced and become stronger. If, on the other hand, these outside frequencies are of a slightly different frequency, rather than reinforce the cell's native oscillations, they might dampen or weaken them, resulting in a loss of vigor and vitality for that cell. The cells of disease causing organisms within an infected person produce different frequencies than that of normal, healthy cells. For people or plants suffering from disease conditions, Lakhovsky found that if he could increase the amplitude (of the resonant frequency) of the oscillations of healthy cells, this increase would overwhelm and dampen the oscillations produced by the disease causing cells, thus bringing about the demise of the disease causing cells trying to set up shop in the body. If he pumped up the amplitude of the disease causing cells, their oscillations would gain the upper hand and cause the person or plant to become weaker and more ill. Lakhovsky viewed the progression of disease as essentially a battle between the resonant oscillations of host cells versus the oscillations emanating from pathogenic organisms.

Lakhovsky initially applied his theory to plants in December 1924, innoculating 10 geranium plants with a cancer that produced tumors. After 30 days, tumors had developed in all 30 cm (12") in diameter around the center of the plant and held it in place with an ebonite stake. The copper coil acted as of the plants. He took one of the 10 infected plants and simply fashioned a heavy copper wire in a one loop, open-ended coil about an antennae or a tuning coil, collecting and concentrating oscillation energy from extremely high frequency cosmic rays. The diameter of the cooper loop determined which range of frequencies would be captured. He found that the 30 cm loop captured frequencies that fell within the resonant frequency range of the plant's cells. This captured energy reinforced the resonant oscillations naturally produced by the nucleus of the germanium's cells. This allowed the plant to overwhelm the oscillations of the cancer cells and destroy the cancer. The tumors fell off in less than 3 weeks and by 2 months the plant was thriving. All of the other cancer-inoculated plants-without the antennae coil- died within 30 days. In his book, Lakhovsky shows pictures of the recovered plant after 2 months, 6 months, and 1 year. Three years later, with the original coil left in place, the plant grew into a very robust specimen.

These simple coils, worn continuously around certain parts of the body, would invigorate the strength of the human cells and increased the immune response that in turn took care of the offending pathogens. At the time, when news spread of the success achieved with these "Lakhovsky Coils", many Europeans were clamoring to get their own and often had to wait for months due to the backlog. One of the main reasons why so many people find copper wrist bracelets effective and beneficial is because the bracelet is functioning as a Lakhovsky Coil (it's also providing minute trace amounts of copper to the body, which helps too). To achieve the Lakhovsky effect, it's important that the coil (or bracelet) is "open" and made of copper. Closed rings simply don't work.

Georges Lakhovsky published the English version of The Secret of Life at the very outbreak of World War II. His work went unnoticed and little reviewed, but Lakhovsky's reputation for obtaining dramatic results with his amazing Multi-Wave Oscillator gained world wide attention, nevertheless. At the time, when news spread of the success achieved with these "Lakhovsky Coils", many Europeans were clamoring to get their own and often had to wait for months due to the backlog.

By 1941, he had made his way to New York, escaping the Nazi occupation of France. Mark Clement, in The Waves that Heal, describes how many people and organizations hoping to capitalize on his MultiWave Oscillator therapy approached Lakhovsky.

A film made by an "enterprising beautician" featured several case histories of treatment with the MultiWave Oscillator that "proved to be both interesting and convincing". Lakhovsky was also approached by several hospitals in New York hoping to test his apparatus experimentally. Remarkable results were obtained from a seven-week clinical trial performed at a major New York City hospital and that of a prominent Brooklyn urologist in the summer of 1941. Later editions of The Secret of Life detailed many of these cases.

What seemed like a promising development in the use of the MultiWave Oscillator in America quickly faded after Lakhovsky unexpectedly died in New York in 1942 at the age of 73. A car struck and killed him in a most suspicious manner. His equipment was removed from the hospital and patients were told that the therapy was no longer available. Except for this brief trial in New York, Lakhovsky's work remained completely unknown to the American public. Even the spectacular success of the New York cases were quickly forgotten; an unlikely lapse of memory in the natural scheme of things. It seems that hidden hands were at work when it came to obliterating the memory of Lakhovsky's Multi-Wave Oscillator in America.

Fortunately, a small but growing group of experimenters, and researchers is helping to revive this honest device. Thousands of people have been helped quietly and without fanfare, due to the monopoly that doctors enjoy on being able to make medical claims. Several people now offer MultiWave Oscillator's built from hard work and research into Lakhovsky's MultiWave Oscillator and their own determination to see this life saving technology survive.

In the late 1960s, impostors used the multiwave oscillator in California to treat cancer patients. If cancer patients are not treated by demonstrably effective medical methods, they run a much higher risk of dying, which is why the MWO (should it be used for cancer) should be used in combination with conventional medicine. In addition, when using the MWO for medical purposes, it is important to ensure that the application is carried out by trained personnel, as there is always a risk of an electrical accident when using high voltage.

As far as the medical effectiveness of the MWO is concerned, a clear vitalisation and harmonisation of the entire human organism can be demonstrated after regular use. This could be shown, for example, by a detoxification test, which proved that heavy metals could be eliminated from the body by the multiwave oscillator. Also with regard to cancer therapy, Lakhovsky, like many other researchers of frequency therapy, assumes that cancer can be cured by strengthening the body's own immune system. According to Lakhovsky, the development of cancer is therefore caused by the resonance vibrations of the host cells and the cancer cells, which can be brought back into balance by treatment with the multiwave oscillator.

Rife Machines and Multiwave Oscillators are claimed to complement each other based on the principle that life forms absorb energy. A Multiwave Oscillator uses this principle to strengthen cells within the body to resist disease while a Rife Machine uses this principle to destroy microorganisms with an overdose of frequency energy.

The Multi-Wave Oscillator can be used for the treatment of various disease patterns, including for example:

• Cell revitalization, for example after cancer: for this, the MVO is said to promote cell healing by increasing the oxygen supply and the nutritional value of the blood as well as that of various secretions and by accelerating the elimination of waste products in the blood.

• Activation of the body's self-healing powers and increase of the general well-being

• Anti-ageing effect, such as skin tightening and wrinkle reduction: the MWO has a reputation for restoring cells to a younger and more vibrant state.

• Pain therapy: by increasing and heating the blood flow to the corresponding pain area, toxins can be eliminated more effectively

• Detoxification and elimination of harmful substances

• Improvement of the skin's appearance, for example in the case of acne or age spots

• Infections: Through the multiwave oscillator, the cell tension can be increased in such a way that the cell can oppose the infection by using its body's own abilities to defend itself.

• Autoimmune disease: By increasing the oscillation frequency of every atom in the body, the reaction speed of the immune system also increases. Negative toxins can be eliminated.

Treatment with the MWO is completely free of side effects and can be used as a treatment method for almost any disease. In this case, the professional care of a doctor is highly recommended.

from lakhovsky.com, frequenz-therapie.com, and altered-states.net

The Event

 

As we proceed upon the timeline that we are on, possibilities open up collectively. Many are making magnificent choices. The vast majority of humanity are raising the frequency of their consciousness, whether it is apparent or not... becoming more self-responsible, becoming more aware of the action of the divine, becoming more connected to their own truth. As a result there are those who are moving into unity consciousness – higher frequencies of consciousness, aware that all of humanity is one and connected – not just with each other, but with the planet, the galaxy, and the entire universe.

There is a rise of spirituality. People are letting go of darkness. There is a grand awakening sweeping the planet. As a result people are becoming aware of their own creator nature. Miracles and wonder that were previously unattainable are now happening – small miracles that people are noticing in their lives. One might say the angels are bending nearer to the earth and blending with your energies. This is true.

And so a little doorway begins to open. And that doorway takes form in the run-up to “the event”. What is “the event”? It is a moment in time when everything changes. It is a singularity event. It is a moment where beings that exist at different frequencies will all go off on their own timeline. So it is a coming together, followed by a fracturing of timelines. That means that you will no longer have to carry with you (in the collective unconscious that operates in your consensus reality) beings that operate in a very much lower frequency. You will be free of their creations.

A certain kind of awakening will sweep the earth at the event – a moment of transcendent awareness, a moment of realization. Your mind will become connected to the collective mind. In that moment it will be possible for you to see what occurs at higher frequencies of consciousness, frequencies that are now blanketed from your view.

There is one very exciting possibility. It will be possible for each of us to manufacture our own light ships. (merkaba?) A light ship is not like a physical space ship. A light ship is an energetic object, a spiritual object. A light ship is a seventh-density Creator consciousness structure. It is produced by highly conscious beings operating according to certain well-understood principles.

It takes a team of twelve to hold an external patterning, then it takes an additional two to sit in the middle of that patterning to act as the seed and the catalyst. It also requires a planetary consciousness that is ready, that is seeded. When events have transpired and we are at that moment of the event, then your personal event could be that you move to a world on the timeline where light ships that have been seeded take form.

When light ships take form, you may enter a light ship. There is a particular mechanism and preparation that you need to go through first. If your soul is not sparked then you will not have a sufficient soul container to enter into a light ship and you will not be able to use it. If you are not ready and you encounter one, you will simply walk right through what appears to be a bubble of very bright light. If you are prepared, dependent wholly upon your soul's journey through time, you can enter a light ship and find yourself within a singularity within the heart of Oneness where your physical form is instantaneously transformed into a pattern of light.

Because you become light, you can move at the speed of light, which is to say you can move instantaneously across space and time to anywhere else in this galaxy and beyond where another light ship has been created. That is a great many beautiful, magnificent, wonderous places where beings exist at a very high frequency.

Your experience will be such that you have an eternal moment where you can take as long as you need to very carefully rework the patterning. When you step out on the other side there is a perfect body that is reformed according to a very intelligent creation between you and all of life. If you decide to visit the Pleiades you would emerge in a body that is perfectly formed – your earth body with a certain Pleiadean twist. You can spend as long as you like there to really immerse yourself in Pleiadean culture. When you are ready, you can step into a light ship on that side and return to earth, if you choose, instantaneously. When you step out of the light ship back on earth it is as if you never left. No time has passed. Space and time are entirely malleable. Space and time no longer constrain you or control you as they would if you traveled in a physical space ship across the universe.

When viewed from a perspective outside of time and space, “the event” is approaching quickly and may be considered imminent. Everything is unfolding as it should. The moment is pregnant with possibility perhaps as no time before on earth, so... prepare for everything to change in unexpected ways.

by Adamu the Pleiadean at zingdad.com on September 12, 2024

The Ontology of Ofrenda

Ritual offerings represent portals that bridge the material with the metaphysical, breaching linear ideas of space-time by creating a dialogue with manifold unseen, more-than-human sentiences. The practice of making ritual offerings is a way to mediate our relationship with the more-than-human.

Día de Muertos is a tradition celebrated throughout Mexico, typically from October 31 to November 2, that involves gathering to pay respects and honor beloved friends, family, and even more-than-human kin, who have passed away. A tradition that survived the Spanish imposition of Catholicism and colonial conquest of Mexico, it is thought that the Day of the Dead might date as far back as the Aztecs.

The tradition is deeply intertwined with the cultural practice of ofrenda, consisting of building altars made of offerings to honor the departed relatives and loved ones. Such altars or ofrendas invoke the deceased persons’ presence by displaying photos of them, alongside the images of various saints, and figures of the Virgin of Guadalupe. Strewn with candles, calaveras (candied skulls), and cempasúchil (marigolds) whose smell helps guide the dead to the ofrenda, such altars are built in homes, cemeteries, and outside of churches.

Food such as a sweet bread known as pan de muerto, fruit, and precious little alfeñiques (sugar art) that depict miniature plates of the dead’s favourite meals as well as cigarettes and alcohol for those who enjoyed it, are placed to create a welcoming atmosphere to invite the dead home and to replenish them after their long journey. Such components come together to represent the four elements, including candles (fire), papel picado (air), food (earth), and glasses of water.

Western, industrialised cultures are largely dominated by reductive materialist ontologies. For those who may feel overwhelmed by philosophy, reductive materialism is encapsulated by the idea that things can only be explained in terms of material phenomena (e.g. atoms, molecules, synapses, etc.). It is the view that the material world (matter) is the only truly real thing, and that all happenings and processes can be explained by reducing them down to their most basic scientific components.

This tradition, and the larger cultural practice of ofrenda, represent a rupture in the materialist reductionist paradigm that dominates Western culture, inviting a porousness that cracks open the divide between physical reality and invisible, immaterial worlds. To make an offering to the dead in this way is to create a portal that bridges the material with the metaphysical. It is an act that serves to breach linear, colonial ideas of space-time through using our human agency to create a dialogue with the manifold unseen, more-than-human sentiences that too govern this world.

Offerings have long been an integral part of spiritual life across cultures and time, spanning from the Hindu puja ceremony to Andea ch’alla thanksgiving rites to Balinese tradition of canang sari, with the oldest known ritual offering dating back 70,000 years. An offering is something that you give to someone, the term often used synonymously with the word “gift”.

Cross-culturally, offerings take many forms and may consist of tobacco, flowers, incense, rice, tea, ritual chants, candlelights, animal sacrifice as well as bodily sacrifice through practices such as fasting and attending sweat lodges. As anthropologist and writer, Wade Davis, has pointed out in many a talk, the term “sacrifice” derives from the Latin, sacer meaning “sacred” and facere “to make or to do.” Thus, to sacrifice or offer something is to make it sacred.

Although peoples of different cultures make offerings for different reasons, from practicing reverence for and communion with one’s ancestors, wisdom holders and deities to honoring and expressing gratitude for more-than-human presences, offerings represent a tangible reciprocal gesture between ourselves and the unseen.

To make a ritual offering is to recognize that we are entangled in a world where matter is delicately interwoven with more-than-human potencies. Instead of simply taking and consuming (as most of us are accustomed to doing in capitalist societies), the act of ofrenda represents an exchange with the Other, allowing for the expression of gratitude in a tangible way.

Harvesting serviceberries alongside birds, Potawatomi author and botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer explores the ethic of reciprocity that lies at the heart of many Indigenous cultures, reflecting upon the role gratitude plays in our exchanges with nature.

She writes, “Gratitude is so much more than a polite ‘thank you.’ It is the thread that connects us in a deep relationship, simultaneously physical and spiritual, as our bodies are fed and spirits nourished by the sense of belonging, which is the most vital of foods.”

After gratitude comes reciprocity, according to Kimmerer. Wanting to give a gift in return for nature’s generosity and the overflowing abundance of serviceberries, she questions what she could possibly offer in return. “It could be a direct response, like weeding or water or a song of thanks that sends appreciation out on the wind. Or indirect, like donating to my local land trust so that more habitat for the gift givers will be saved, or making art that invites others into the web of reciprocity.”

Often, when thinking about restoring balance in the human relationship with nature, we hone in on solutions that center measurable actions like divesting from fossil fuels and reducing carbon emissions, forgetting about the vast plurality of unseen forces that govern our world. To embrace the ontology of ofrenda is to understand that small, ritual gestures of gratitude and reciprocity can also serve to change the shape of the realities that we inhabit.

Part II

In Part I, I explore the notion of making ritual offerings, ofrenda, and how different cultures world over weave this practice as a way of extending care and reverence to more-than-human lifeforms. To offer a handful of tobacco when meeting a forest for the first time, or to leave a bundle of candles and fruit to greet the spirits of a place, even plucking a strand of one’s hair so that a place may come to know you reciprocal mutuality, is to rupture space-time as we know it, inviting a dialogue between ourselves and the living, breathing Earth that we are entangled with.

Such offerings, made to more-than-human kin, ancestors, and the Gods of place, disrupt the materialist reductionist ways of knowing that have come to dominate Western, industrialized culture writ large, representing material acts with metaphysical implications that cannot be traced neatly to linear casualties.

In this second part, I share a personal experience that I had with the Wixárika together with other examples of Indigenous practice and cosmology, pointing to ofrenda as a pathway to restore balance in a collapsing world.

In August 2022, I took a trip to the sacred territory of Wirikuta, located in San Luis Potosi, Mexico. Wirikuta is the sacred land of the Wixárika (Huichol) peoples and is the birthplace of the father sun, Tayau, in their cosmology.

I was attending and helping out with a 3-day regenerative gathering organized by my beloved kin, co-director of the Wixárika Research Center, Diana Négrin and regenerative agriculture consultant, Gerardo Ruiz Smith, who were seeking to sow seeds of agro-ecology in the sacred desert. The intention for the event was to bring Wixárika youth together with communal landowners (ejidatarios) in the village of Las Margaritas to learn about sustainable land care practices, dialogue about shared problems, and come into deeper relationship with one another.

The region is riddled with problems that go beyond the scope of what I hope to share here, but the gathering was intended to be a small drop in the ocean of seeding regenerative change in the region and dreaming future solutions that would benefit people and place.

There is something about the desert that grips you, a living hand that reaches out from between the creosote bushes and holds you firm against the naked, unfurling sky. So bone dry that at first glance the sprawling horizon appears to be lifeless, but it is merely a misunderstanding of the untrained eye, an old, colonial myth that the desert is an “empty” wasteland void of life.

In the expanse of it all, time folds into itself and the days seem to merge into a singular arc. I cannot tell you the precise sequence of events that led to the moment which I hope to reconjure, but towards the end of the gathering a group of us went out to a sacred site named el Bernalejo, the home of the sacred deer, Tamatsi Kauyumarie and one of the most important sacred regions in Wirikuta where the Wixárika leave their ceremonial offerings and hunt peyote.

In Mexico, summer is the rainy season, with the rains typically starting in May and ending in October. However, that summer was particularly dry, as it has been over the past several years due to ongoing climate change and industrialised farming practices, with it continuing to become dryer and dryer each consecutive year. The parched Earth cracking open beneath our feet, the whole desert aching to be kissed by rain.

As the small group of us climbed the stones that make up Bernalejo to leave offerings of candles, coins, and little decorated jícaras, the Wixárika Mara’akate (plural for Mara’akame meaning medicine man/shaman), chanted their prayers and through them, invoking the Gods of that place.

As a Westerner, having mere glimpses of Indigenous culture and practice, I could not understand the specifics of the prayers that were chanted, but perhaps I didn’t need to, because one could simply feel their potency. As they prayed, a gentle wind swept through the land bringing with it a flock of clouds which crowded the sky above, momentarily blotting out the sweltering desert sun overhead. At that moment, a light rain began to fall, little droplets falling upon our faces; a direct response to the Mara’akates’ prayers and our collective offerings.

Recounting her own experiences attending Wixárika ceremonies, writer Tracy Barnett, shares, “The series of ceremonies I was privileged to witness were all a part of an intricate system of practices designed by the ancestors to nurture a relationship with the forces of nature, and to maintain an equilibrium with those forces.”

Many people in the Western world may have the desire to attribute the gentle shower that graced us after our offering as a mere “coincidence”; a rare chance that occurred through sheer happenstance. The thought that an act that seeks to communicate with invisible, unseen forces could play a role in causality and change the shape of reality seems like pure fantasy to many.

Much of contemporary science and philosophy is built upon French philosopher René Descartes’ separation of the (subjective) thinking mind from the material world of “objects.” Such mind-body dualism privileges the mind over the material world, serving to reduce Nature to a mathematically determined mechanism, depriving Nature of her aliveness and agency.

The gentle shower that fell in response to a prayer is not considered as a way in which the Earth is engaging in a dialogue with us, responding to our reciprocal offerings, a gesture which speaks to the more-than-human directly, engaging her myriad ways of speaking.

Rather, a materialist understanding of the gentle rain shower that would explain away the magic of the rain as a product of water vapour rising into the atmosphere, cooling, and condensing into water droplets which later fell from the clouds as rain when the air became saturated and pressurised.

In her book For the Love of Matter, ecological philosopher Freya Matthews explains how Western materialist science has led to the de-animation of nature, “render[ing] the world a mere backdrop to questions concerning the meaning of life and the nature of the good. From the viewpoint of science, the answers to such questions must lie in the existential datum of humanity itself. Western thought had thus become humanistic, self-reflective.”

In this way, ofrenda represent doorways to eroding our self-reflective, anthropocentric conceptions of the world in which humans are understood to be the only nexus for action and change. Nature is not dead or mute; she is constantly speaking, moaning, and even crying out to us through ordinary gestures. She sings in murmurations of starlings, laughs through the salty mist of ocean spray, cries out as clouds gather overhead, saying “be careful” or “pay attention” in bright colours or spindly prickles, or a soft “hello” through a singular ray of sun that creeps in through the window. Moreover, she is beckoning for us to respond!

Similarly to the Wixárika, the Kogi, descendants of the Tairona, a pre-colonial civilisation that flourished before the arrival of the Spanish, an Indigenous group native to the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta mountains in Colombia, talk of special sites upon the Earth where they make “payments” to the land in the form of offerings.

The Kogi see their role as caretakers and guardians of the Earth, referring to themselves as the “Elder Brothers” of humanity, urging us “Younger Brothers,” to grow up. In Kogi cosmology, it is said that at the beginning of time the Earth’s ‘mother’ wove an invisible black thread linking sacred sites along the coast, which in turn, correspond to locations in the mountains. What happens at one specific site is thought to reverberate at another.

Recognising the delicate interconnections between all things, part of the Kogi’s intention behind making offerings to sacred sites relates to their responsibility as Elder Brothers to maintain balance on Earth.

In 2012, British author and documentary filmmaker, Alan Ereira, made a documentary, Aluna, together with the Kogi to send an ecological warning to us, Younger Brothers, about the ecological catastrophes we face if we don’t change our ways as a species.

Ereira had made an initial documentary about the Kogi, From the Heart of the World: the Elder Brother’s Warning, as early as 1990 when he was in Columbia searching for an unknown city deep in the jungle and learned of a nearby tribe that had existed in relative seclusion, remaining culturally intact for the past 500 years.

Wanting to know if the Kogi had a message to share with the outside world, he sent word to them. He was later invited to their village and placed before a council of elders then agreed he could make a film. In this first documentary, the Kogi have a similar message for us, Younger Brothers, emphasising that the world will come to an end if we do not dramatically change our ways.

Later, in 2008, Ereira received a message asking him to return to the Kogi village as there was grave concern that their warning had not been heeded. Instead of merely telling us about the damage being inflicted upon the Earth, the Kogi set out to viscerally show us the ways in which the Earth is interconnected. Several Kogi Mamas (spiritual leaders) set out on a journey to physically lay 400 kilometres of golden thread, linking sacred sites and illustrating how what happens in one place has a direct impact on what happens elsewhere.

One of the traditional offerings made by the Kogi was that of planting gold figurines at sacred sites. Compared to Western attitudes to gold, the Kogi saw gold as a gift from the Earth to be embellished by humans and shaped into ornate works, with the purpose of being returned to the Earth thereafter as an offering.

In a scene of the documentary, the Kogi Mamas are talking with a man who has just excavated an intricate gold object made by their ancestors from the ground. They are deeply upset by the man removing the piece from its place, explaining “These objects were left in special places. They are like people. They are part of the thread for us to connect with. They must not be moved. Did your ancestors make this? Selling this is like selling a person. Stop doing this! It’s like selling a child.”

Further they go on to describe the object as a macaw, having been left in the place where the macaws dwell. “There used to be many macaws, but because of the looting, there are almost no macaws now. The birds are disappearing.”

Recounting his own experiences with the Kogi Mamas, speaker, teacher, and author, Charles Eisenstein, describes a situation in which a Mama visited California, performing elaborate ceremonies on a particular spot of land. The Mama warned if the locals did not host ceremonies in that particular place, that there would be wildfires the following year. Needless to say the ceremonies weren’t performed, and the following two years forest fires devastated the region.

In the same piece, Eisenstein goes on to elaborate a view in which climate change and ecological crises are not only caused by the excessive consumption of fossil fuels and rising levels of greenhouse gases, but also attributed to the removal of sacred artefacts from their places. Such a view is radical by Western standards, ontologically being at odds with everything we have been taught about cause and effect, having radical implications for our approach towards activism and dealing with the ecological and social crises of our times.

“The ceremonies I speak of are in a different category from what the modern mind considers to be practical action in the world,” explains Eisenstein. In this way, ritual offerings and the ceremonies in which they are embedded can function as a form of direct action accountable to the more-than-human.

“Reality is not as we have been told. There are intelligences at work in the world beyond the human, and causal principles besides those of force. Synchronicity, morphic resonance, and autopoiesis, while not antithetical to force-based causality, can expand our horizons of possibility,” he writes. “Accordingly, it is not that a ceremony will ‘make’ different things happen in the world; it is that it tugs and molds reality into a form where different things happen.”

In making this point, it feels important to caution for a Both/Approach which benefits from the understandings of modern science, whilst also not reducing the world to them. The ethic of reciprocity woven into ofrenda represents a way of seeing and being with the world.

It transcends prescriptive actions like switching to electric vehicles, flying less, or consuming less meat (all of which we definitely should do), rather requiring an ontological shift that takes place within, allowing a way for us, borrowing Toko-pa Turner’s words, to “practice belonging ourselves back to the ecosystem,” and to make change through our embodied dialogue with it.

by Jasmine Virdi on May 26 and July 4, 2024 at foragedwisdom.substack.com