Earth Dreaming, World Awakening

We live in a time of change and great challenge, a time between dreams and paradigms, a time of contestation and emergence. The ground where we stand is not the same, it holds the quality of the abyss; each dreamer perceives only a portion of what is emerging. But this shifting ground is also a time of opportunity, a phase of creative intersection with what is possible for the sacred human. We each hold within us a visionary depth, a prophetic capacity, within which our unrealized spiritual potential can spontaneously foster a new wholeness. What inhibits us is our fears, alienation, skepticism, and denials that we can, as conscious and dedicated agents, actualize our deep spiritual capacities. In a time of great change and contestation, it is inevitable that the harsh or destructive aspects stand forth as illustrating our lack of care or concern, our indifference toward the well-being of the earth and all its inhabitants. And yet, if we have any hope of attaining to the sacred human, it is visions that heal that are most needed, visions of hope whose actualization is possible and necessary for the health of all.

Are these healing visions based in individual capacity or is it possible that our visionary ability, our creative intentions, require the creativity of others? We are not each an island, but we do inhabit unique ecologies of mind and spirit. What we shape and what shapes us is not only the immediate, shared mentalities of local island culture but also the deep surrounding currents of our time as they circulate through the global ocean of cross-cultural intersections, spiritual alternatives, and scientific challenges. Our creativity as individuals is inseparable from these currents and from the influences of others as they impact our thinking, imagining, and dreaming. The transformation is not just personal, but also deeply shared and global; our creativity emerges from our individual ability to participate in shared dreaming and to offer our psychic support for those themes and concerns that best reflect the ideals we hope to realize. While our dreams are shared, they are not simply determined by a collective mentality, but emerge through the interactive media of dreaming and visionary perception as they contribute to collective transformation.

If we envision the collective as a psychonoetic field, that is as constituted by psychic and emotional capacities infused with reflective thought, then such a field must be highly dynamic as we ourselves our engaged in constant processes of feeling and reflection. In so far as this field is dynamic, its psychonoetic contents are interactive, that is, my thoughts and feelings impinge on and are impinged on by the thoughts and feelings of others. If I read a book that is 300 years old, written by an esoteric master, through a careful, attentive reading I may find psychonoetic resonance with specific ideas or beliefs in the book. Those ideas or beliefs are then taken in, processed, and reconstituted through a visionary process, one that is also influenced by the current dreaming and envisioning of others in my own time. This reconstitution is not only done in a waking state, but also in imaginative day dreaming, in night dreams, and in the spontaneous processes of syntegration – that is, on the boundary and through the abyssal ground – where psychic influences are not limited to individual mentality. The shared psychonoetic field is alive with the currents of past and present and may well include within it, future influences that exceed the normative boundaries of the current temporal order.

If we unbind the present, liberating psychic energies through a process of gradual awakening to deep potential, then the temporal order can shift, can realign and open to a vast horizon of shared perceptions. It is in this unbound present that we encounter the Dreaming Earth, the living consciousness of our shared planetary being, the living Heliocosm of which we are all part. In the limited mentality of a dreaming individual, often only the surface of the dream appears, like a mirror image reflecting the dreamer, but in the shared mentality of the full psychonoetic field, the dream explodes into the “jewel net” of unlimited multiple dreamers and visionaries. And every jewel offers a unique reflection of the whole, both as a mirror and as a kaleidoscope of reflected possibility. In this gallery of visionary images, the Dreaming Earth, like the image of earth seen from the moon, is a rich psychonoetic syntegration, suggesting all manner of possible futures and outcomes. The beauty and vibrancy of the image, the earth as a single planetary being, filled with life and luxurious with diversity and ecological distinctiveness, is a beckoning promise for all dreamers. But the reality of the positive dream can only manifest if there is a convergence of dreaming intent.

The dynamic processes of atemporal dreaming must be anchored in the stability of committed actions meant to realize the dream potential and embody the dream in waking manifestations. As we all dream this dream of our future earth differently, the convergence is not simply imitation or a recursive reduction. Each visionary has the opportunity to contribute to the dreaming processes, adding the quantum of his or her own visionary perceptions to the actualization of the whole. We may hear the music of the spheres, the vibrant melodies of Earth awakening as we, the dreamers awaken with Her. Our own awakenings to this visionary call are crucial in determining the form and contents of the shared reality, the conscious enactment of the dance, the partnered relationships that can hold the necessary energies of a full realization of that potential. No one person can hold this energy because it is not meant for one, but for many, if not all – thus, many or all must hold the energies together. This holding arises through our willing consent to shared global awakening, to be responsible creators whose ethical and spiritual concerns rise above pragmatism, party affiliations, and individual desires. The burden of this awakening is the “energy of openness” – a capacity to resist closure and subcollective identity that might result in only partial realization of depth.

It is a time for a redefinition of the sacred human, a reconstitution of what the human mentality can fully become, through an awakened illumination on a global scale.

To hold this openness requires discipline and not simply “letting go” that only seeks to attain an individual realization. In the shared tasks of psychonoetic dreaming, we can each offer the unique gifts of our individual understanding but those gifts are contributory to the greater gift of world integration. The dreaming earth is now is a stage of profound pregnancy, she is bursting with the life potential of a stimulated consciousness whose climactic birth-giving ecstasy will be the simultaneous awakening (or rebirth) of all her embodied children. The vision is one of lucid, shared psychonoetic awakening, where the field is no longer a subconscious influence but a conscious matrix of shared mentalities. It is a time for a redefinition of the sacred human, a reconstitution of what the human mentality can fully become, as an awakened illumination on a global scale. We have to imagine that Earth Dreaming is in a fore stage, a time of ferment, in which dreams collide, intersect, counter influence, transmogrify, and splinter into a thousand diversities only to be gathered in the dreams of others.

In this vital, alchemical process, the Earth Consciousness is dawning through the intersected mentalities of all living beings – human, animal, plant or mineral – in order to reach a new stage of planetary evolution. And we are the dreamers of the dream, the mediums through which the realization of the imaginal becomes actual. If we cannot imagine it, cannot accept it, cannot embody it, then resistance will become the wall against which the ocean of consciousness crashes. Do we embrace the change and take on the necessary responsibility to form the conduits for the change or do we resist and block the possible inflow? Every person is a potential medium for this change and the Earth Dream is active in the psyche of each person to the degree by which they embrace the potential for the sacred human. This for me is the crux of the matter, how we each embody the sacred human as a medium for spiritual transformation on a global scale. In this sense, we are tasked with the challenge of formulating the sacred human as a viable image of our deepest capacities. And this image is archetypal for each person, as a formative aspiration whose power is also reflection of the Awakened Earth.

What then, is the sacred human? This question is a spiritual challenge to each individual; it is not simply a summary of ideas or beliefs. Thus more precisely, what is the sacred human for you? How might you live your life as emblematic of the ideal that best expresses what we as human beings might become? In the dreaming of the earth consciousness, our individual answers to this question, are best expressed in how we live and act. Our ideas, as abstract notions, may be lucid and valuable but how we live within the Earth Dream is what will produce the fruit of our beliefs. Do we live with love and heart-centered concern for the well-being of others? Can we make sacrifices to improve the quality of life for all? Can we give up attachments in order to provide abundance for others? Can we accept the limitations of shared life and not lose our individual value? Can we dream the creative dream and make it real while honoring the dreams of others? Can we hold the creative energy necessary for the transformation or will we be only dreamers who never awaken? These are only a few of the questions that are integral to any concept of the sacred human. The sacred human, as I see it, is a dreaming being, a creative, imaginative, visionary individual whose practical skills are well developed and whose moral sense of concern for others is a leading aspect of that creativity. The sacred human is “sacred” because there is a heart-centered perception that is fully awakened to the lunar-solar consciousness that pervades and stimulates our growth.

As we reflect on the sacred human, we have models of spirituality across a multitude of traditions to help inform our ideals. However, we are not constrained to that which has been and that which is becoming may well surpass what tradition has held as irrefutable. I do not see the sacred human as a fixed image in the eye of God; instead I see the evolutionary potential of both God and the sacred human as a part of a process of a rich, shared, co-evolution whose goals will no longer be determined by traditional beliefs or exclusivity in conception. The future before us is rich beyond imagining, it cannot be constrained to what has been – but it can honor what is valuable and good in the formation of the sacred human over a thousand or ten thousand generations. The roots of the sacred human are in the past; the tree and branch is in the present; and the fruit in is the future – what is blossoming now is the flower, nourished by the root and branch. The sap of this Tree is the vital force and energy that permeated the Earth Consciousness, seeking to nourish the sacred in all possible forms so that it might live and be fruitful. Our role as dreamers is to access the vision and make it real, to embody the perfume of the flower, to create an atmosphere of joy, love, and shared health for the good of all.

In the processes of co-evolution, there is emergence, recapitulation, and refinement. This is a non-lineal process, one consisting of cycles that overlap and contribute to a deepening maturation. What is realized is reincorporated; what is limited is refined and given new possible expressions; what once failed, might succeed in a more benevolent context. What was destructive, violent, and atrocious must be abandoned. What denied and repressed the rights of others reflects the shadow of the dream, when conquest was the medium of a mentality that no longer serves the possibility of shared awakening. War is not part of the dream, but it is part of our history and collective action. An Awakened Earth mentality cannot thrive on war or violence because these are forces of repression and denial; fear, hostility, and suspicion are the storms we brew for the purpose of domination. The dream of world peace is inseparable from the Earth Awakening, and the enactment of that dream requires more than tolerance. Each dreamer is an ambassador of the ideal, to promote peace by living in peace means embodying the dream in real life relations with others. The stranger and the “other” are all part of the dream; in awakening, repression cannot be the means for the realization of the shared vision. Forgiveness balanced with honest reconciliation, a genuine realization of wrong-doing overcome by dialogue and deep regret for the harm done to others, is a basis for this awakened transformation.

There is a deep cry in the Earth Dreaming, a cry for honesty and shame at violations committed in thoughtless greed or in trampling the fruitfulness of earth or the rights of others. Indifference and excuses are not part of the dream, those only create resistance. To embrace the Earth Dream is to honor the diversity of every natural and cultural ecology that is fruitful and generative and to strive to maintain each unique diversity as a way of honoring the rich potential of what is already part of the Earth Awakened. Every loss diminished us all, every healthy ecology saved enriches us. The sacred human in the context of the living Earth is one whose wisdom is guided by a celebration of plurality, who nurtures life in all its diversity and beauty. The Awakened Earth is a bounty whose nature is full to overflowing with all creatures honored, all life protected, all beings balanced, with a recognition of limits and actions based in compassion. The dream is the ideal, the actuality will be earned through conscientious relations whose co-evolutionary potential will form and reform according to circumstances. As agents, we are only partially aware, far from the realization of our full spiritual capacities whose impact on the whole has yet to be fully imagined.

It is not only the current problems and challenges we face, but also the profound discovery of our potential as creators in a universe of mystery not yet grasped or comprehended. We do not know the full scope of our deep spiritual capacities in the Earth Awakened; it is not a rationalized extension of what-is but a leap to a new being-with whose capacity is greater than the imaginal. In the visionary depths of the Abyss lies the unformed potential for knowledge and expression far exceeding our current abilities or awareness. In science, art, literature, in psychology and philosophy, in spiritual teachings and revelations, lies the red gold, the dawning aurora of the psychonoetic field extending through and beyond Earth Awakened into the living cosmos. The ur-forms of the sacred human, now unfolding, have only begun to express the variety and diversity of our possible spiritual accomplishments. Our psychonoetic capacities, like the mind’s ability to facilitate healing or to receive subtle psychic impressions, to commune across distances or to create geometries of artistic and mathematical brilliance, are only tentative signs of the Earth Dream awakening. As the dream unfolds, many abilities now dormant will become active and expressive.

What might the conscious collective mentality, a shared global consciousness, inspire in all areas of creative expression? Will human psychic ability expand into commonplace interactions through paranormal perceptions, such that the “normal” becomes what is only now “supernatural”? Will our expansive development reach other mentalities still hidden from our current knowledge? Will the domains of earth ecology, their multiple inhabitants, have speech and teach us what is now known only in monologue? Will we ground our visions in the fluid energies of embodied living or will we only create fantasies that never give birth? The unknown potential is stirred in the dreams of a water filled world, luminous with life and vitality, not stained or impure by human indifference but reconstituted through a shared vision in which health and well-being take precedence over aggression, lazy indifference, and rational denials. Together, we can recreate and refine what we have allowed to evolve chaotically because there was no guiding dream and old dreams cannot hold the energies for the reconstruction of the future. The dream itself, of the Awakened Earth, is based in a multitude of psychic influences that merge into a dynamic interconnectedness forming the tentative structures for new emergence. Can we find the courage and humility necessary to hold the dream for its full enactment?

Another aspect of the Dreaming Earth is the ways in which our future envisioning challenges us to grow beyond the habitual limitations we set on our own actions and thoughts. In dreaming potential into form, the dreamer must hold openness and also a still point of depth that remains undefined. The Abyssal ground, as the ontological source of our inspirations, does not seek closure in form but expressiveness through an abundance of manifestations. The dreamer’s task is thus to remain a center of elaborations, with continuity, but also, with a self-transcending acceptance that allows for the birth of novelty and discovery. We are not seeking “the answer” – such seeking reflects an older and less fluid mentality – but the possibilities that will allow for integration on a global scale across multiple time and cultures. There is no “one answer” just as there is no “one way” to this integration. The still point that remains undefined is a “god-point” or a touch of “infinity” in the heart of every creature. Out of this mystery, comes a realization that what is created or formed or discovered and amplified, is not the answer but only a possibility for development. We can build on our discoveries, we can merge our disciplinary insights into paradigms of wholeness that will then be transformed and surpassed.

In the dynamics of cosmic creation, both in the long term evolutions of stellar matter and energy as well as in the lesser evolutions of measurable temporal, cultural understanding, the process is self-surpassing. And dreaming is the medium through which what is coming-to-be manifests in the minds of those embodied in temporal order. As dreamers engage the deep dreaming, the “big” dreams, the revelatory intuitions of what may become, the prophetic self is stimulated to construct forms and structures that will hold the dream contents for possible enactment. Sometimes, that holding is an act of mental clarity – that is, what we see in the revelatory dream, vision, or intuition, must be held in mind, nurtured, sustained as a possible template for actions, remembered and not forgotten. Every forgotten big dream is a lost possibility; every remembered big dream, held with positive regard, is a source of possible growth. And we grow beyond our dreams, as we embody the possible, thereby creating in the process a new ground for revelation. The cycles of revelation, informing the prophetic self, take us through the labyrinth of our collective life as well as into intersections with the dreams of others. As we embrace the dream and actualize it, we surpass our own limits and we meet our co-dreamers, those seeking a similarity in prophetic insight.

What the prophetic self seeks is… not a dominant worldview but a shared vision of diverse, cooperative communities whose ethical perspective promotes life and creativity without resort to threat or violence. The prophetic dreamer is the one who can envision how this transformation can be attained.

The prophetic self is an emergent identity. Where the core of self awareness is shaped by the psychonoetic history of each individual, the prophetic self accesses the emergent horizon of the possible. Every individual can carry the dream of Earth Awakening through the development of the prophetic self. And this is a moral development because at the very root of the process is a profound concern for the propagation of life and an honoring of its diversity, value, and contribution to the health of the whole. The moral concern is expressed through the protection and fostering of life. Such a prophetic self is not aligned with exclusivity or a denial of alternative prophetic visions; the emergent prophetic self is not a “prophet” of religious dogma, but a visionary self working in concert with others to sustain creative dialogues that will foster cooperation and a just way of life for every creature. The prophetic self is an awakening consciousness within each person able to dream the possible as a source for creative actualization.

This does not mean that all prophetic dreams are positive or ideal – in fact, many prophetic dreams are negative, frightening, and carry disturbing collective energies. The deep prophetic self accesses what must be transformed; it is confronted by the turbulence and trauma of old dreams of power, domination, and control. The dream of the Awakened Earth requires courage and inner determination to seek new resolution of the contested dreams of the past that will not accept compromise nor deny the value of alternative visions that do not claim sovereignty or mandate conformity. The collapse of visionary authority as an exclusive domain for a global worldview is the very terrain of recreation for the prophetic self. What we seek is not a dominant worldview but a shared vision of diverse, cooperative communities whose ethical perspective promotes life and creativity without resort to threat or violence. The prophetic dreamer is the one who can envision how this transformation can be attained; what must be given up, renounced, or reconstructed are attitudes of denial or dismissal of the healing dreams of others. If we want to embrace the Earth Awakened, then we need new dreams and visions to show us the way.

Finally, we need to think about the consequences of a failed dream. This is why I emphasize action over interpretation. We can envision two aspects of the dream that are interactive and provide perspective on how the dream can be enacted. One aspect is what I would call “participatory knowing” – that is the dream itself is a kind of knowing based on the dreamer’s ability to recognize her or him self as the agent that holds the dream (whatever its “sources” may be). This kind of knowing requires memory and lucidity in dream recall, an ability to hold the emergent insight. A dream or vision to be enacted must be remembered, with detail and clarity; memory must be cultivated to reproduce the psychic content as exactly as possible, sustaining the dream event. The self as “participatory” in the dream is a self awakened to the dream, able to hold the dream, and to represent it for conscious reflection. The “I” of the dreamer is not always the “I” of the dream, but the awakened dreamer can hold the distinctiveness of the dream as a source of reflection for exploring the difference between the “I” that dreams and the “I” that remembers and reflects.

In turn, this leads to the second aspect, which I call “reflective knowing” – that is, an ability to regard the dream, its psychonoetic contents, as a source of insight for possible action. I do not regard “reflection” as necessarily a form of interpretation. The dream is more than a text, more than an account for analysis, and much more than a medium to be shaped by an ideology or psychological theory. The dream is a living expression of the psychonoetic field, far more than a text. Reflections on the dream, holding it within the mind’s “I” allows the richness of its contents to act psychically on the dreamer in ways that are often unpredictable and not necessarily rational or pragmatic. Carrying the dream means remembering and allow the dream to inform our reflections upon it; it means allowing the dream to be remembered in a waking context other than in therapy or in writing thoughts in a dream journal. Participatory knowing is a knowing of the dream in the waking context of everyday life – as I drive to work or walk in the city or talk with a friend, the dream comes back to me, it impinges into a context that also invokes the dream content. Participatory knowing is to take note of this dream presence, of a dream or visionary image or of a feeling or mood, that can then be a source of reflection. Thus the two aspects work together through participation in the dream in waking states and in using that participatory knowing as a source for reflection and insights.

From this synthesis of participatory reflection, comes action. If the dreamer stops with only knowing, the dream remains as potential unrealized. By “action” I do not mean any specific type of action, but refer to the creative challenge of discovering a method for action. Perhaps the action is more mental or emotional than physical; perhaps it is a smile rather than a frown, a state of receptivity rather than defensive closure, a condition of inner reflection rather than a habitual response to stimulation from others. Perhaps it is a drawing, a song, a walk by the sea or a discussion long held at bay. What does the dream suggest? What does reflection on the dream, in participatory knowing, indicate as a possible strategy for action? In Earth Dreaming, our participatory knowing, arising out of visionary intuitions, comes home to each person as what he or she carries of that dream. The challenge is to live with the dream and, though reflection, to find strategies for enactment. The dream of Earth Awakening is not a passive dream but a creative context for embodiment through celebratory action, through meaningful intentions, to give form and birth to a cooperative building of a visionary future.

The failure of the dream, its lack of embodiment in practice, the inability to create a context that supports emergence, means a failed possibility. This does not mean all dreams need to be enacted, but rather that we must choose wisely the dream we do seek to enact. Dreaming is a vast process, impinging on all aspects of human life. Among this plethora of dreaming activity, it is the “big dreams” that call to us, stir us, even frighten us, that require enactment. The big dream of Earth Awakening, is a shared dream, an event of cosmological proportion, whose enactment covers an extensive panorama of embodied practices. The basis for that action is love, respect, creative and critical reflection, and a willingness to adapt in concert with positive and compassionate values. Our evolution as a species depends on our dreaming capacities; our failed dreams are what will mark us in terms of our limitations. To succeed as dreamers and as participants in a creative Earth Dreaming and Earth Awakening, will require enduring commitment to enactment, reflection, and participatory knowing. Not only through dreams and visions, but also through a lucid clarity of mind and purpose in carrying out the shaping of the world. Our success then, depends on our cooperation in the dreaming and waking context. Our challenge is to wake up and not deny the role of dreams and visions in the process.

by Lee Irwin at ReVisionPublishing.org, Fall 2019/Winter 2020

Strumming the Strings of Hope

What are the images of hope that flit and dance through our psyches? For me, hope often feel like the children’s party game – pin the tail on the donkey - groping in the dark, the tail is our frustration, our loneliness, and our dreams of a tolerable future, and the elusive donkey is the future.

It is the past that keeps stirring up those hopes, because petitions for a better future are woven from past experience. But, as if abiding in another universe, the future has no tail, missing or otherwise. It is always arriving, but never arrives. It is the living face of infinite possibility, which we can never actually manage to see, let alone capture. There is only the eternal present.

Thank goodness for that. Thank heavens that we can’t grab hold of the future and put it in the pen where we keep our dreams and our hopes. Even when we include the needs and wellbeing of others in our hopes and prayers, the future doesn’t show up, should those prayers be answered. Only the present can receive the gifts of time: whether we are hoping that a gleaming red bicycle will be standing beside the illuminated tree on Christmas morning or hoping that peace and fairness will appear in the stockings of all the sad beings with whom we share this beautiful planet. The future, and the hopes we charge it with fulfilling, can never be confined within the lives we have been given to live. As we sail along on the ocean of time, through the vast reaches of the space that shows up wherever we look, it is not given us to ever reach home port and settle in there for good.

Even if it was ever the nature of life in this world, we cannot now sit back and say, “Make that a double and pour one for everyone.” Such a juncture of well-being cannot be found in the sands of time, where the future of our world may or may not be written.

So where do we place our hopes that a kinder and gentler life may be restored for all those beings who are separated from their families, who are forced to spend their short lives standing in their own feces in crowded pens, or for the whales running aground, desperate to escape the lightning strikes of sonic agony in their majestic heads?

Whither has flown the Master’s care for the swallows of the air and the lilies of the field? Whither the sparkling streams and burgeoning harvests flowing in harmony with the natural world?

Lamenting the damage that has already been inflicted cannot be our song of hope, though coming to terms with failed hopes and dreams can start us on new paths, with new lessons learned. We are the corporate farms devoted to mono-agriculture, the distribution systems that ladle off the cream for those who control them, the legislatures and administrations whose office holders—as soon as they have unpacked their bags—quickly close the curtains on all who wander in pain on the sidewalks below. What will penetrate the walls around our dormant hearts?

For those in the middle and upper classes, ours cannot be to hope for a bigger share [yet for some who lack enough for basic survival, this might be their hope—to have enough to survive]; not unless we can trust ourselves to devote our accumulations to those we love and also to those we do not love. Even then, heeding the siren call of Scrooge McDuck diving into vats of shining gold coins; the rich and comfortable so easily forget what it was like, as a child, to dive off a floating raft moored out from shore above a sandy bottom, where the water was so clear that it was as if the future was swimming alongside us. Well, that was my experience at least, growing up on the West end of Montreal Island, swimming in the waters of the Saint Lawrence River before lamprey eels and clouds of algae made chlorinated pools the only option.

Perhaps hope is not about calling out into the night for Lassie to come back so we can get some sleep. Perhaps hope is not even that sheep who have gone astray can find their way back to the protection of a shepherd who cares for them? What if we are that shepherd and have forgotten our promise to be good stewards? Once depression, exhaustion and demoralization have taken over our mind and hearts, who’s to say what we will still remember?

Perhaps hope is like the gentle rain falling on the meadows beneath. Perhaps we never really know what we are hoping for until we find it; and only then can we see our true reflection in the pools of water left behind.

Hope was not the quality celebrated in the Merchant of Venice. It was mercy (falling like gentle rain upon the place beneath), whose praises Portia sings. As I remember it, hope doesn’t play much of a role in Shakespeare’s play. Portia seems to have a vision of what it means to become a better person, but her victory is to outwit, not redeem, the coiled serpent of vengeance.

Our society is extracting its pound of flesh from countless beings whose lives are already miserable. There is no Portia in the wings to argue that the contract between human stewards and the animals whose lives we have been given to protect, permits not one drop of blood to be shed. Abuse of animals is so embedded in our way of life that it takes a Temple Grandin to even improve the conditions in which we wield our knives.

Hope must be born afresh in each human heart.

If we do manage to feel a little hope wafting into the secret chambers of our hearts, can we spare a little for these beings who cannot speak for themselves? Even in this time of darkness, in which individuals feel so helpless, can we spare a dream or two for the lambs who have never gamboled through fields of waving grasses, and for the fathers who do not know how to ease the pain of their children, many of whom are silently suffering in deep unhappiness?

I am safe at home with plenty to eat and central heating at the touch of a thermostat. But I too am one of those fathers who has been separated from his child. My son, Jon, took his own life on Easter weekend of 2019, at the age of 27. And to this day, I don’t know how I could have helped him want to live.

Personal responsibility, even guilt, continues to lap against the shores of my being. But, like all of us, my son and I were citizens of this world. Our chief difference was that I was able to find hope for the future in friendship, and in ancient traditions that have fathomed the nature of what it means to be born a human being. I tried to share some of that understanding, which I personally find so nourishing, with him. But he told me that it didn’t have anything to do with the world in which he had to find a place. In fact, he said it made it worse. 

Hope is deeply personal and radically situational. Hope must be born afresh in each human heart. So how can we create a world where that is possible? It seems that those who access hope in their own hearts are also doing what they can to create conditions that inspire hope in others. Even those of us who are not natural leaders can let their personal losses be a window into the pain that afflicts so many all around us. I can no longer change what has happened but I can refuse to be broken by the terrible “what if’s” that visit all survivors—whether it is the death of someone we loved and for whom we were responsible, or as stewards of our beautiful world. I believe that in our private losses we can find the forgiveness, self-respect and courage we need if we are to accept the truth of the impermanence that shadows us from birth to death. In this understanding we learn to care what happens to ourselves, to others and to our planet. 

I am beginning to see that there are very few places where the young can find joy, hope, confidence, or witness fairness being given its rightful place in the public sphere.

We will always have one another, if we let ourselves lean on the innate generosity of the human spirit.

Emily Dickinson’s famously pronounced that “Hope, is the thing with feathers”. And we can certainly find a spirit of freedom, balance, and hope for our lives in the image of a bird.

In Buddhism—whose hopeful vision my son said just made his life more impossible, creating expectations that he could not realize and which did not support him in his own challenges—there is the image of a bird having two wings: compassion and wisdom. It is not hard to see that with either wisdom or compassion alone we will be unable to fly. But it took me years to realize that it is not just the absence of either understanding (wisdom) or caring (compassion) that can prevent the bird from flying. There must also be a bird that wants to fly.

I wish my son had wanted to fly. For that, he would have needed to find someone—other than me—to teach him how to fly and to inspire him with confidence that he could open the window and see a world out there that was worth flying into.

In Buddhism, we hear that we are living in a time of increasing darkness, called the Kaliyuga. Since the historical Buddha spoke of this time, it must have already been visible 2,500 years ago. Or at least its footfall was already sounding outside the door of time.

But now, the Kaliyuga is not just a philosophical theory about the rise and fall of civilizations, not just a message about the erosion of the capacity for hope in human societies. The jackboots are marching outside our doors, carrying the darkness of the past to the very threshold of the future. And those of us who are unwilling to join that march, just don’t know what to do.

Do we turn inward, meditating and chanting our way to ease and inner peace? Do we turn outwards and feed the homeless, care for the sick? Can hope be found in a grateful heart and quiet mind; in a life of service? Can we allow ourselves to hear the cries for help without being deafened by them; can we allow ourselves to feel all that pain when we don’t know how to heal it?

One thing seems clear: we need to restore balance between our minds and hearts. I think that’s the deep meaning in the phrase: “Wisdom and compassion are like the two wings of a bird.” With wisdom that sees the emptiness (the dream-like nature) of everything we call “real,” we will not be able to act as if it matters what we do. With compassion for all the pain that we can never ultimately heal, our hearts will be so exhausted that they will eventually shut down. But together, understanding and caring can support one another; and on a good day we will find ourselves rising above the meadows and hills with our hearts full of hope.

We will always have one another, if we let ourselves lean on the innate generosity of the human spirit. More than we can realize, when we are in the crocodile jaws of depression, when we are hypnotized by the conflicting choruses of dueling certainties, we can remember that nothing is ever solved using the same tools that created our problems. This is not just a mathematical proposition—even though it was the mathematicians Einstein and Gödel who made this a catch phrase for our time. It is the glad news that carries the warm breath of hope. Nothing prevents us from looking with fresh eyes at the abiding beauty of this world.

The eternal lapping on the shores of this present moment, whispering that we are free to change our path, is the starting point and touchstone of our lives. When we greet the future with an open heart, we can feel the breath of hope arriving across the threshold into this living present. Then we may remember that the future is the infinite realm in which resides all that is and all that ever can be.

by Michael Gray at ReVisionPublishing.org, Summer/Fall 2020

Arcturian Message to Humanity 20230416

This shared post by channeled teachers of Light is dedicated to the promotion of truth and Light at this powerful evolutionary time. Mankind has journeyed through lifetimes in which false concepts, beliefs, and fears were blindly accepted as the truth and in our ignorance, we gave away our power. The Arcturians, one group of many highly evolved beings from other galaxies, wish to present their messages of love and guidance in order to assist the people of Earth in letting go of the false fears that were given to and accepted by mankind. They stand ready to offer spiritual and technical assistance when and if desired. Free will does not allow them to step in unless asked. It is time to embrace the truth of who we are and why we are here. The answers are now pouring in from multiple Sources of Light. Events of great energy and change began manifesting in 2012 and will continue. It is crucial that mankind become informed and thus be prepared as changes occur. There is absolutely no reason to fear. This is a graduation.

We are the Arcturian Group – April 16, 2023 - from OnenessofAll.com

In spite of outer appearances, a great deal of clarity continues to unfold in the minds and hearts of many. Every day "ordinary" people living "ordinary" lives are waking up to the fact that the world is much more than what they were taught and have believed. Incoming high frequency Light energies are guiding those receptive toward honest and ego-less examinations of personal and universally accepted world beliefs. This in turn is allowing them for the first time to recognize that much of what the world has taken for granted as true and right, is not.

As increasingly more individuals awaken to a consciousness of oneness, the universal collective automatically begins to resonate at a higher level which in turn then allows those receptive to more easily access ideas of truth. Increasingly more people are beginning to recognize the error underlying rules, laws, teachings, etc. that are based in separation and have ruled world consciousness for eons. This is causing panic to those who thrive and have benefited from concepts of separation causing them to increasingly promote activities and information that cause fear.

Belief in separation from God, people, animals, plants, and all seen and unseen life is a state of hypnotism. Earth is a spiritual universe peopled with sons and daughters of God, but when interpreted through minds conditioned with beliefs of duality, two powers, and separation it manifests experiences of good and evil both of which represent concepts.

Earth is the perfect expression of a Divine idea in the Mind of God just as every individual is, but when earth is interpreted through three dimensional consciousness it is seen and experienced by most through a state of universal illusion.

Often an evolved student of truth comfortable in their spirituality finds everything changing and nothing feels the same. "Tried and true" techniques for centering no longer seem to work. Guides do not seem to be responding as readily. Meditation may feel different - empty. Familiar spiritual practices are recognized as being based in separation and the clearing of old energy seems to have become one's primary spiritual practice.

This is not failure but rather indicates graduation to a new state of consciousness, one no longer in alignment with what previously worked so well. Spiritual evolution is a journey through many lifetimes and states of consciousness that usually begin with idolatry, then atheism, then to organized religions of both East and West, then to metaphysics, and finally to mysticism - each lasting a few or many lifetimes.

Metaphysics is a facet of almost every spiritual journey but like those that came before it is based in the need to fix, heal, or change a bad picture into a good one in the belief that you are separate and must do a certain chant, carry this or that crystal, use this oil, or engage in some ceremony in order to become closer to God.

These things cannot give you what you seek because they are outside of you. They can and do assist because their energy can resonate with and awaken these same energies already present within you. Many students of truth get stuck in the metaphysical phase of awakening because the techniques often work and provide a sense of spiritual completion.

There comes a point at which all serious seekers of truth must leave behind those practices believed necessary for contacting God and actually accept the reality of oneness. Many study and understand that the real self, soul, is God Consciousness individualized, but their ego self convinces them to set this information aside in the belief that living truth was and is OK for "saints" but is impractical and unattainable for everyday folks.

Many of you are spiritually prepared to move into and live the mystical level which is not as a monk in a robe meditating 24/7 but rather is living an ordinary life from the consciousness of oneness. It can be done, many have done it, and many others are now practicing. One of the reasons you wanted to be on earth at this time is that the high frequency energies present as part of earth's ascension process offer an opportunity for individuals to spiritually ascend while remaining in physical body.

Many of you have attained a state of consciousness prepared to move beyond ego and allow the Divine consciousness you know you are to live IT's life in, as, and through you. It is letting go of continually attempting to fix, change, heal, clear, or remove personal or global appearances through a state of consciousness that realizes anything requiring fixing or healing is not reality/God ordained or sustained but is rather a manifestation of the belief in separation from God.

It is having the courage to surrender into what you ALREADY ARE and allowing IT to be your supplier, guide, protector, and teacher. You cannot and will never hear the ever present still small voice within you if you are plugged in to media, technology, or outer activity 24/7.

Ego (that sense of self that feels separate from God) will always be there to tell you what to do, when, and how to do it in a voice that overrides the silent voice within. This is why it is important to have quiet time/mediation each day until it becomes your state of consciousness regardless of where you are or what you are doing.

Spiritual evolution is a process, it is not easy to shift from the familiar guidance of ego, to listening and trusting within. You have lived as a human experiencing both good and bad through hundreds of lifetimes in which the ego was a necessary component of survival. Ego served well in earlier states of awareness and continues to serve today on earth but the three dimensional ego continually seeks to be the primary force guiding and keeping you well through solutions, ideas, spiritual practices etc. that worked well in earlier states of consciousness.

Spiritual evolution can be delayed, ignored, denied, and resisted but never stopped because reality is One God expressing ITself as infinite form and variety. Period. Nothing else is. You who have worked hard, studied, practiced, and sought God through practices, beliefs, and religions over lifetimes have evolved and are now ready to move into mysticism - the realization and acceptance of your ONEness, that you are Divine Consciousness individualized.

Begin to listen for the still small voice within rather than constantly questioning and seeking outside of yourself. Your Guides are always present to assist, but seeking their input in every situation rather than doing your own spiritual work is actually a form of looking outside of Self. You have done the work and are ready to trust, rest in, and rely on the Reality of your own Divine Consciousness, your Higher Self, the you that has never left ONEness and already embodies infinite knowledge, harmony, abundance, protection, creativity, peace, health, etc.

Because God is the only reality, nothing in the physical realm holds power in and of itself. Words spoken or actions taken do not in and of themselves just happen. An arm by itself cannot just suddenly punch or pet. Everything is governed by consciousness because Consciousness is all that is.

We are not telling you to throw out your medication, stop eating, or attempt to live absolute truth before you have attained that state of consciousness because doing so would be nothing more than an ego activity. We are saying that many of you are ready, more than ready to begin practicing and living from the level of truth you have sought and attained, while detaching from the tools you gave power to - religions, traditions, rites and rituals, laws, societal beliefs etc etc.

Living ONEness is not ignoring, resisting, or denying appearances, but rather is; "Yes, I see you, feel you, acknowledge you, and like or don't like you, but I know that God is omnipresent, therefore can only manifest ITself relegating appearances of duality, separation, and two powers as being nothing more than manifestations of collective and personal beliefs in separation." Then go about doing what needs to be done, you have done the work and eventually this truth becomes your state of consciousness.

Begin to seriously believe, act, and live from your highest level of awareness because like it or not, you are and always have been Divine Consciousness individualized.

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The Polymath

A polymath ("having learned much") is one who has accumulated significant knowledge spanning many disciplines, subject matters, languages, and philosophies. From ancient times to today, polymaths are known to adeptly integrate their vast knowledge and learned philosophy toward identifying simple solutions that solve the most complex and seemingly 'impossible' problems. Polymaths throughout history have oft turned to geometry as a Universal language and, therefore, the basis of all learning, thus seeing beyond the narrow Aristotelian definition of mathematics as merely 'the science of quantity'. They realized that geometry possesses a certain dimensionless quality that transcends units of measure within the elegant simplicity of ratio-informing philosophy.

From Pythagoras to Plato and from Leonardo Da Vinci to Benjamin Franklin, polymathic solutions, discoveries, and inventions have formed the foundational curriculum of human learning and awareness, crossing science, art, philosophy, new governance models, and spirituality. A critical aspect of this method of learning is to continually subject oneself to entirely new ways of perceiving complexity altogether. This approach requires empathy and the ability to perceive as another perceives. It further requires synchronization between the left brain (logos) and the right brain (pathos), an ability well-known to polymaths.

Anciently, philosophers were so named as a result of their polymathic endeavors and achievements. 'Philosopher' was an almost mythical status achieved as a result of a lifetime of both traditional and esoteric pursuits, learnings, and diverse perspectives. Philosophers born of polymathic pursuit have always been the lightning rod catalyst of the various Ages of Enlightenment throughout history. And yet, today's educational system seems to have lost its way, abandoning its polymathic roots in favor of fragmented specialized learning. The accumulation of unintended consequences of decades of specialized solutions continues to have a deleterious impact on a world population ill-equipped to adequately address these ever-evolving and unpredictable challenges. In fact, it is becoming increasingly evident that more societal specialization is only resulting in even more complexity, not less.

However, there is hope for a new approach. A ratio-based geometric unification exists for all learning and problem-solving, and this knowledge can be collaboratively applied to address today's increasing complexity and the most vexing challenges facing humanity. This broader approach will usher in an Aquarian Enlightenment of greater empathy and deeper learning while fostering greater collaboration at this critical juncture in the human story.

Unifying the various scientific disciplines under one consistent theory is neither an impossible endeavor nor the Holy Grail, as it is often referred to. Since the dawn of history, scientists, philosophers, and sages have always pursued knowledge with an holistic instinct, believing staunchly in its universality and interconnectedness; it cannot nor should it be fragmented. Unfortunately, for about 100 years or more, the academic mentality has oriented toward extreme fragmentation and specialization of the scientific fields. This methodology has served humanity for some time; however, its narrow-mindedness and destructive side effects have become increasingly obvious, if not alarming.

In the books Polymath and Philomath, the authors try to bridge the virtual gaps that plagued the scientific process by utilizing the most fundamental branches of mathematics. Through the unification of numbers and geometry, they strip disciplines like physics and the fundamental constants, music, geometry, prime number theory, as well as enigmatic concepts like the wave-particle duality, down to their quintessential essences, showing them all to be interconnected, emerging from few basic and simple geo-numerical laws that underlie the entire fabric of space and time.

The whole process of unification is similar to an alchemical transformation where both sides of the brain become harmonious and hypersensitive to all subtle thoughts and observations, and where consciousness becomes more self-aware, attaining higher levels of understanding, morality, as well as respect towards oneself and the world.These books are just a small attempt by two knowledge seekers and numbers lovers (Philomath) who see in this new approach, or better put, old approach to knowledge, a much-needed new renaissance for both the academic and the corporate sector alike, ushering a new era that will steer our civilization away from its self-destructive path, toward a better life for humanity, and for many generations to come.

from the book summaries of Polymath and Philomath at Amazon.com

Message From the Future?

At about 3:00 a.m. on December 26, 1980, Sergeant Jim Penniston and a team of other servicemen at RAF Woodbridge ventured into the Rendlesham Forest to investigate strange lights that had been witnessed descending into the trees. In an interview years later, Penniston would recall the event, which is now known as the Rendlesham Forest Incident.

At the time, he had expected the situation to be routine – a downed aircraft of some sort, nothing extraordinary. But what he found instead was an unidentified craft unlike any he had seen before. A bright light glowed, eventually subsiding to reveal a black, triangular object with a metallic, though seemingly glassy, surface. It glimmered with strange red and blue lights.

Penniston could see no landing gear, no exhaust, no windows. He did, however, notice some symbols, and for a moment he thought, hopefully, that he would find what he’d expected – an insignia referring to some top-secret U.S. government test craft, or perhaps a failed NASA experiment. But upon closer inspection, the symbols appeared more like hieroglyphs, cryptic designs that he could not understand.

As he would later share in the 2014 book Encounter in Rendlesham Forest. the sound in the area deadened. When at first they could hear the trees and animals within the forest, near the mysterious craft they could hear nothing. Static electricity tingled their skin and raised their hair. Time itself felt like it slowed down. Penniston described it as a “dragging of time.” After the ordeal was finished, the servicemen noticed their watches were incorrect, and what had felt like only a few minutes had actually been a few hours.

“During the night I was often wakening with thoughts, or rather images, of visions of ones and zeros running through my mind, my mind’s eye…” – Jim Penniston, Encounter in Rendlesham Forest

Before he and the others returned to report their findings, Jim Penniston did something that would change the course of his future forever – he placed his hand upon the mysterious glyphs on the surface of the craft. When he did so, he became engulfed in a bright white light, and lost all sense of sight and sound.

When he “awoke” from this trance-like state, he found himself standing near the craft. It began to glow once again, then ascended above the trees and vanished in an instant.

The following day, Penniston began to see them: images in his mind of thousands of ones and zeros. He didn’t know what to make of them, but he wrote them down in his notebook, along with drawings of the strange glyphs.

As soon as he finished writing them down, the images of the ones and zeros vanished from his mind. He put the notebook away, out of sight, and forgot about them.

It wasn’t until the year 2010, after being contacted to share his story on the popular History Channel program Ancient Aliens, that Penniston revealed the existence of his notebook filled with the cryptic ones and zeros.

Along with the help of Linda Moulton Howe and other experts, he discovered that the ones and zeros were actually binary code, and when translated contained the following message:

Exploration of Humanity 666 8100
52.0942532N 13.131269W
Continuous For Planetary ADVAN???
Fourth Coordinate Continuout UQS CbPR BEFORE
16.763177N 89.117768W
34.800272N 111.843567W
29.977836N 31.131649E
14.701505S 75.167043W
36.256845N 117.100632E
37.110195N 25.372281E
Eyes of Your Eyes
Origin 52.0942532N 13.131269W
Origin Year 8100

What he saw astounded him: had he been granted an otherworldly message in binary code? It consisted of what seemed to be coordinates to locations around the world: Caracol, Belize; Sedona, Arizona; the Great Pyramid of Giza; the Nazca Lines in Peru; Tai Shan Qu, China; the Portara at the Temple of Apollo in Nexos, Greece; and a purported location of the mysterious phantom island, Hy-Brasil.

Penniston, as well as others who have analyzed the strange message, does not believe that the craft he saw at Rendlesham Forest was extraterrestrial in nature.

Instead, looking closely at the contents of the message, a bizarre possibility unravels: is it a message from the future?

The Rendlesham Forest Incident Information Portal contains images of Penniston’s drawings, as well as scans of the 16 or so pages upon which he wrote the cryptic binary message.

It also posits that the binary message itself is actually the product of human time travelers from the year 8100 (hence “Origin Year 8100”). These same time travelers, whatever their purpose (“Exploration of Humanity,” perhaps?), are also responsible for most UFO sightings, and are in fact the ones leaving mysterious crop circles around the planet.

It is suggested that these crop circles are actually markers for fellow time travelers to assist them in navigating multiple timelines.

The coordinates in the message may be the locations of hidden portals on Earth that would allow for travel to other worlds. Or, perhaps, they mark the locations where the time travelers have traveled before. But this is just speculation.

by Rob Schwarz at strangerdimensions.com on September 7, 2015

The Sage

I carry the dust of a journey
that cannot be shaken away
It lives deep within me
for I breathed it every day

You and I are yesterday's answers
the earth of the past come to flesh
Eroded by time's rivers
to the shapes we now possess

Come share of my breath and my substance
and mingle our streams and our times
In bright infinite moments
our reasons are lost in our rhymes

by Greg Lake

You cannot shake away what has been incarnated in yourself through what you lived in your life, what you have breathed every day.

If in the past we had uncertainties about our futures, they were questions without answers at that moment, that were answered with what happened to us along the time of our life. Again it says that what we lived in our past is now incarnated in our flesh: the river of time moved that material and converted it in what we are now. Our body has the mark of what happened to our spirit.

If we come together, we will mix the rivers of spirits of each one and that meeting will be bright and forever will stay in our future, as all our past is in our present flesh, There is no reasoning to move, there is a river of spirit that carries also our reasoning. The only way to know if these rivers of spirit will join is to watch in the eyes of the other: eyes to eyes, naked, forever. There is no oblivion, no memory.

 

A2M Therapy for Rapid Healing

Alpha 2 Macroglobulin injection therapy is a treatment made up of concentrated platelets that are derived from a patient’s own blood. In Alpha 2 Macroglobulin injection therapy, a small sample of the patient’s blood is drawn from the forearm and spun at high speed in a centrifuge to separate out and concentrate the platelets. The desired end result of Alpha 2 Macroglobulin injection therapy is a functional repair of an injured tendon, muscle, or joint cartilage, allowing it to bear greater mechanical stress during activity without pain.

This therapy is typically used in conjunction with other conservative treatments, such as physical therapy, to heal torn tendons, tendonitis, muscle injuries, arthritis-related pain, and joint injuries. It’s commonly used to heal conditions such as: Elbow tendonitis, Patellar tendonitis, Rotator cuff tears, Achilles tendonitis, Plantar fasciitis, Acute muscle tears, and more.

How does Alpha 2 Macroglobulin Injection Therapy heals injuries? Platelets are one of the main cell lines in our blood, the other two being white and red blood cells manufactured in the bone marrow. After an injury, its platelets form a clot to stop bleeding and release certain growth factors that activate the healing mechanism of the body. Platelets contain alpha granules, which hold cytokines, growth factors, and bioactive proteins essential for tissue repair and healing. All of the chemical messengers contained within platelets appear to exert bioregulatory actions, which affect soft tissue and cartilage repair, inflammation, bone healing, wound healing, and postoperative blood loss. These platelets have also been shown to have antibacterial and antifungal properties.

Alpha 2 Macroglobulin injection therapy is often injected into areas where it is difficult for blood to naturally go, thus promoting soft tissue and bone healing in difficult to heal areas.

An Alpha 2 Macroglobulin injection contains 2 to 14 times the concentration of platelets found in normal blood and it appears that these platelets release protein and other particles that help the body to start a process of self-healing without triggering a clotting response. The procedure can be done in a doctor’s office in 30 to 60 minutes and some athletes have reported being back to their game as quickly as two days after the procedure, although 3 to 10 days of downtime and 6 weeks away from rigorous training is more common.

Patients should keep in mind that all Alpha 2 Macroglobulin injection therapy and Alpha 2 Macroglobulin treatments are not the same. Most authorities agree Alpha 2 Macroglobulin injection should be guided by ultrasound or x-ray to ensure accurate delivery of the medication.

from drshiple.com – The Center for Sports Medicine and Wellness

Our Higher-Dimensional Essence

We are entering an era of knowing, an era of fulfillment in every way. Arising from the consciousness of our heart, we are being attracted to intuitive knowing beyond our thinking and ego-consciousness. It is our heart-felt essence of being, and it is the same presence of awareness as every conscious being. We, however, have been trained to believe that we don’t have this kind of reality. Ours has been dualistically polarized in the empirical spectrum of energetics.

Ego-consciousness does not know where our consciousness arises from or even how we know what we are. These things can be known intuitively, and this knowing is beyond time/space. When we resolve our belief in personal limitations, we realize that we are part of infinite awareness of Being with the ability to create experiences of whatever we desire with our mental and emotional expressions. In fact, that is what we’re doing right now, whether we realize it or not. This is an ability that is beyond realization. It is our essence. It is what awareness and realization come from. Our essence is the essence of creation.

Because we have not known or have not been open to knowing or desiring to know these things, we have been creating our experiences randomly, without the higher guidance that is present within. Our minds and emotions have been reacting to qualities of experiences, and in the process, creating more of the same vibratory quality.

The realm of duality, which every human participates in, is a realm created by human consciousness in telepathic unity. Without our recognition and energetic alignment, we could not participate in it, and it could not exist for us. With our realization, which we can direct, we can change human experience. Using our powers of visualization and emotional projection, we can change the vibrations in our own state of being and project our energetics into the quantum field of consciousness that envelops us for manifestation into our experiences and the experiences of our race.

By becoming more aligned with the energies in the heart of our Being, we can relax into a life of love and joy. We can always know everything relevant about every situation we’re involved in, and we can participate with compassion and life-enhancement, creating joy everywhere in our presence. We are evolving into complete fulfillment of our lives and awareness of our infinite potential.

by Kenneth Schmitt at consciousexpansion.org on March 20, 2023

George Harrison on What Lies Beyond