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Category Archives: Consciousness & evolution
Developing conscious awareness and encouraging self-evolution through meditation and other practices.
The feminine has landed…so how do we induce her to stay?
…As the feminine learns to dare to take down her blockade and end her long denial of her own natural receptivity (having fully reactivated the divine integrity that keeps her perpetually intact from within), the male learns how much more fulfilling it is to give (not force) and how to enjoy holding something like a tender embrace (not an imprisonment or statement of ownership) once again. And as the feminine deigns to come into this arrangement, wanting to stay, to receive, to be offered the structures in which she can be her most playful and unlimited self, we all get to experience wholeness…together. Continue reading →
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Tagged ayurveda, divine guidance, doshas, eighth wave, Eve, feminism, heal the world, healing the masculine, healing women, kundalini, living goddess, male and female realtionship, mid-life thriving, ninth wave, pitta, pudendal nerve, receptivity, return of the goddess, root chakra, sacred feminine, shakti, trust, unity consciousness, vata, vulnerability, wholeness, woman wisdom, women and shame, yin-yang
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Who we are in the backwash
Sometimes its as though the flow of universe pulls back abruptly, like when a river or beach is suddenly left bereft of water and we get to see all the unsightly debris of life strewn on the bottom. These moment of so-called flatness, the aftermath of something else more lively, times when there is no wind left to propel our boat, periods when we might doubt our very purpose or our point (though really we are the point) present as a golden opportunity for self-realisation and growth. Like a life-review…a pit stop…time to reappraise. When we work with these times (rather than covering our eyes, going into fear, trying to fill the void with even more cycles of busyness), we get closer to experiencing a place recognisable more by its inherent stillness than by its sense of movement…and in that place, we find ourselves. Continue reading →
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Tagged anticlimax, authenticity, being true to yourself, ecology, feeling good, feeling good about your life, Life choices, life review, living in ease, metaphor for life, peace of mind, shedding the meaningless trappings of life, solar wind, Stillness, taking care of our oceans, taking responsibility for choices, taking stock of life, when life goes quiet, who am I?, wind out of our sails, zen
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A sweeter way to be
Discovering this incredible, natural food source ethically and sustainably harvested in the jungles of Africa by people whose practices are gentle and whose lives have been tranformed (a food which felt like it was transforming my health) prompted me to consider many layers of broader relevance. I considered how we look forward to the future and what practices we use, for instance how we marry the best of traditional and modern methods (not always bowing to the latter…), how we take the quality of life of those producing the product into account and how their personal attributes (especially where this involves handling living things) feeds into the quality and the vibration of that product. Above all, there is something to be learned about how the sweetest and most nutritious things tend to come out of practices that involve the least interference, and bully tactics, of man. This approach to “harvesting” anything feeds into its energetic imprint when it reaches our cells as we eat it; you can literally taste the difference. When we snatch and grab at what we think is ours, the food tells a very different story… Continue reading →
Posted in Animal welfare, Consciousness & evolution, Conservation, Health & wellbeing, Life choices, Lifestyle, Menu, Nature, Personal Development, Recovery chronic illness, Shopping, Vegetarianism
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Tagged bees, collaboration, ecology, good sugars, healthy food, honey, how the way we produce food affects its health benefits, organic food, sustainable farming methods, the future of food production, the way we produce food, traditional bee keeping, tropical forest honey, vata dosha, vata-pacifying diet, vegan, vibration of food
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Growing up
The astonishing aroma from these giant trees, straight after the storms, acted like an acute sensory hit or an activation of sorts and it turned out they had a great deal to tell me… Continue reading →
Posted in Consciousness & evolution, Health & wellbeing, History, Menu, Personal Development, Spirituality
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Tagged Ayureveda, chakras, coming of age, doshas, earth's resources, giant redwood, giant sequoias, grounding, maturity, oneness, thriving as spiritual humans, tree wisdom, trees, unity consciousness, weathering the storm, Wellingtonia Avenue, what trees teach us, working together
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Lining up with the eclipse
In this next phase, we get to strike the match of ourselves, those of us who have been busy atuning to the Ninth Wave and its rhythms…and we get to see our space light up again with the many-flames of all those who are doing likewise, now far easier to spot in the dark, like fireflies dancing in the night…. (read more in Lining-up with the Eclipse). Continue reading →
Walls of honey
In my last blog, I shared a story about the two thousand-year old fortress walls that I noticed were alive with loudly humming bees flitting in and out of a small hole in the mortar; how I took this as a sign of hope. It became, for me, a metaphor made manifest of how something built to be hard, rigid and intractable had been broken open by something small, soft, honeyed…and it was like imagining egg yoke running over from the edges of the most surprising kind of shell, broken open before my very eyes. It encompassed the feeling of the kind of surprise we are set to experience as our world…the world we think we know so very well, that many of us have become so jaded and derogatory about…breaks open to reveal an inner softness; its own honeyed centre waiting to pour out like the sustenance we are all waiting for… Continue reading →
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Tagged a more expansive approach to diagnosis, beehive, bees, choosing our reality, choosing outcome, concept of the future, east and west hemispheres, futurist vision, healing the world, healthy relationships, how to navigate a diagnosis of illness, left and right brain hemispheres, Nine Waves of Creation, power of intention, quantum healing, quantum reality, spontaneous remission, the ninth wave, what will the ninth wave "look like", yin-yang
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Living from the centre
There is a place that I go…that I’ve worked with…for well over a decade now; you could call it my spiritual hub, somewhere I walk to process things through, even when I don’t know that I’m processing them or needing to work anything out. It doesn’t really matter to my readers where the place is; it could be anywhere and you probably have one similar of your own, somewhere that draws you to it, repeatedly, though you hardly know why. Long before I came to understand how I work with this particular landscape, as an externalised “model” of some inner landscape that I am also walking through, I came to this place and found a special solace from being there, like it helped me unravel parts of myself that might otherwise have remained in an unfathomable tangle. Through my feet, its features helped me untangle and make simpler what was otherwise unfathomably complex; layer upon layer, through many years’ walks that became littered with symbolism, adding a richness of association that was built upon each time I went there (which was often)…read on… Continue reading →
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Tagged ancient landscape, Carl Johan Calleman, Consciousness, east and west hemispheres, finding wholeness, hemsipheres, holding centre, left and right brain hemispheres, Nine Waves of Creation, place in the middle, sacred feminine, shamonic experience, symbolic journey, the ninth wave, unity consciousness, void, working with symbols in the landscape
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Our multi-dimensional brains
Our multi-dimensional memory storage facility, which is like a collection of geometrical “boxes” that defy space and time (thus, not even, strictly, “local” to the inside of our heads)…haven’t I been speculating and blogging about this very thing lately (The … Continue reading →
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Tagged Blue Brain Project, brain, Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, geometrical structures, holographic reality, memory, memory formation, memory storage, multi-dimensional experience, neuroscience, new research, what is memory
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Like a bee from a jar
Having just finished reading “Set Free: A Life Changing Journey from Banking to Buddhism in Bhutan”, I realise suddenly that finding others people’s stories like this is terribly important to me and I am actively looking for more like this. Perhaps it is a sign that I am ready to join up with other people, even if only so far as noticing similar patterns in our experiences and smiling quietly to see those patterns in motion. Crossing paths with others operating from a dramatically reformatted and yet remarkably similar place to your own can be such encouragement. There is a powerful point of creative evolution, a sort of concentrated forward momentum, to be found in the meeting place between your two sets of experiences and the many ways that they are found to correspond; like the essence of oneness in action.
This book corresponded with my own experiences of a “tear it up and start again” life very powerfully and the real gift is that its author was prepared to overcome her initial misgivings to share what she did. I experience the same wobble and doubts about sharing my own story every time I write a blog…yet it feels to me that sharing the journey of awakening could be the most important thing that I am doing with my life (apart from taking the journey itself…). As above, I really hope that increasing numbers of people are prepared to hold their spiritual journeys somewhat less close to the chest in order to put these experiences out there since I suspect the time has come when we really need the encouragement of each other. We long to sense that we are not alone on these very intense personal journeys and to notice the patterns; for in those patterns, and the making conscious of them, we give even more wind to our collective sails…(extract from “Like a bee from the jar”). #SetFree #SpiritualAwakening
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Tagged Bhutan, Buddhism, complete chnage of lifestyle, east and west, eighth wave, Emma Slade, harmony, left and right hemispheres, living to a new paradigm, Nine Waves of Creation, ninth wave, Om Mani Padme Hum, PTSD, rebirth, recovery, sacred feminine, Set Free, spiritual awakening, spiritual breakthrough, the end of banking?, unity consciousness, when life breaks down...
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Don’t feel you have to ditch your story (unless you really want to)
Don’t throw your story away unless you want to…its about to become useful (those theories that you must put your story down are such old hat)! Like a kaleidoscope creates a new pattern every time we shake it, when we operate from the void of all creation, new patterns emerge in every moment and, from them, we derive meaning and insight. The story we have chosen to preserve about ourselves includes bits and pieces of all those preferences we have expressed across the years…books and films we dived into, nuggets of things that attracted our attention, places we travelled, small details, conversations, hardships that helped make us who we now realise we are, personal traits that bobbed up time and time again until we knew they were important…all held waiting for us to thread onto a new strand of understanding at some unforeseen moment in the future, only to fall off the thread and be recycled for another day just as quickly (nothing need be turned to concrete anymore and our story is retained as a much more fluid thing than we remember it ever being before). Continue reading →
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Tagged achieving Oneness, awareness, Consciousness, Do you need to loose your story?, evolution, making use of your story, ninth wave, quantum living, the point of creation, void of creation, vortex, wholeness, yin-yang
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