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21 Mar 2020
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Thriving in the World with COVID-19

Our world has changed almost overnight. Those of us on a spiritual path have been waiting for a game changer, but we did not see THIS coming. So many people were worried that human activities are endangering life on the planet. And then the tiniest of life forms throws a wrench in the gears of our out-of-control consumer economy that brings it to a screeching halt.

Ironic, isn’t it? What a poignant reminder of our place in the biosphere. We are a part of an intricate web of life, even when we live in big cities with all the technical contraptions that seem to separate us from nature.

Humans have co-evolved with viruses since the dawn of our species. Viruses are the fastest life forms to mutate and evolve. Our immune system had to keep up with those mutations; otherwise we would have gone extinct very quickly. Rather than looking at our relationship with viruses as a war, we can regard it as a dance of mutual evolution.

The cheetah would not be the fastest animal on land without the need to run down the gazelle. The gazelle would not be such a graceful sprinter if it did not have to escape from the cheetah. Without carnivores, the herbivores would have multiplied unchecked, until they consumed every plant on the planet and become extinct through starvation. Life on Earth requires balance.

Over the next few months, it is probable that every one of us will be exposed to the Corona virus at one point or another. Our immune system is brilliant and adaptable. Nevertheless, many are dying, while others have very mild or no symptoms at all. Who lives and who dies is not a question of luck.

It is a question of soul intent.

For many souls on the planet right now, the New Energy is too much to accommodate. The change is too big. Some have had enough of it already and prefer to watch from the comfort of the non-physical realm. Some can do their work better from there. Others are complete now with their experience on Earth and their contribution to her ascension. A number of light workers are leaving to assist departed souls in their exit from the near-earth realms. They act like traffic directors in the evacuation of a large building. Many of us are staying to be the grounding rods for the New Energy in the physical Earth. Our dreams of the world-to-come require our physical presence. This happens to be the most demanding, but also the most exciting path.

None of those choices are better or worse than others. It is simply a question of our soul’s intent. The best we can do at this time is to get very quiet and listen to the still voice inside. What is my calling? What is my soul’s specialty?

The voice of Soul is always joyful and fearless. It does not judge right or wrong. When we are clear in our alignment with Soul, we can face our path with confidence. Our intuition will guide us every step of the way, moment by moment. We will be in the right place at the right time, and we will know what to do when we have to do it.

Fear and grief are natural responses of the human mind. Surf their waves and let them pass. I recommend getting out in nature, be it a park, a garden, or up a trail. Feel the joy of Earth at this time. As traffic is slowing, planes and tankers are sitting still, factories are shutting down, Mother Earth is taking a deep breath. Spring is here, and new life is growing everywhere in the Northern hemisphere.

“What seems like the end of the world to the caterpillar, is the beginning of life for the butterfly.” –Richard Bach

We don’t need to know how to go through this global transformation anymore than a caterpillar needs to think about becoming a butterfly. Our Inner Wisdom knows. The more we trust the process, the easier it gets. So take a deep breath – frequently! – Relax and allow it to take place naturally. In the Big Picture, all is well!

About the Author, Ascension Lifestyle Contributor:

Shana Dieterle, PT, CST-D, is a licensed physical therapist and diplomate certified craniosacral therapist with nearly 40 years of experience in the fields of healthcare, wellness and spiritual growth.

She is available for phone consultations to assist you in finding what is right with you.

Feel free to call at reasonable hours!

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21 Mar 2020
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Sqrapple

“The more we allow ourselves to unfold,

the less likely we are to unravel.”

~ from Yearnings: Embracing the Sacred Messiness of Life by Irwin Kula

I’m a great fan of subtle shifts. Transposing a single letter, or altering where we choose to place our focus, can create quantum awareness: from scared to sacred, nowhere to now here. In this way, scrapple (a loaf-shaped meat stew) or scrabble (“to make great efforts to get somewhere or achieve something”) can morph into sqrapple: square apple.

We’ve created square watermelons in Japan, and square apples in South Korea. Why attempt to improve on Nature’s design? It’s part of our innate yearning to conquer space — shelf space. And while cubic fruit may be more dimensionally desirable, it lacks a certain poetic beauty that informs the original.

This seems to be our ongoing invitation and initiation: learning to hold the “both/and”, to express without excess, to midwife beauty and practicality in an 11^th-hour world.

Determining the Healing Dose

Beyond some of our more obvious paradoxes that comprise wholeness — laughing/crying, giving/receiving, birthing/dying — there is the greater stretch into “complex ambiguity”, which is akin to the homeopathic principle of poisonous allies: what’s deadly in a large dose can heal in a minute amount; the smaller the dosage, the greater the potency.

One of my favorite terms for the many ways we navigate the road Home is the cartographical “groundtruth”. I first heard it when I interviewed Planetwalker John Francis. A form of remote sensing, groundtruth refers to gathering information on location, then translating the data into meaningful results — much as we might combine our daily acts into outcomes that serve the collective. I can hear it as enlightened slang: “Dude, what’s your groundtruth?”

I also like the lyrics from an old Frank Sinatra tune, That’s Life: “I’ve been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet, a pawn and a king/I’ve been up and down and over and out, and I know one thing…” We’re all All of it, and One with the All: fractals of the OneSong, Universe, harmonious chaos, Music of the Spheres.

We are each a force of Nature, a genetic/geometric/geomantic groundtruth, traveling at undreamed of speed through unimaginable vastness in a spherical vessel. It’s challenging to choose sides on a circle, especially as it describes delicious pi, which extends into infinity. Unite the circle and the square, however, and we approach transcendence.

This moment is ripe for new forms of collaboration, such as Einstein’s “spooky action at a distance,” another way of saying quantum entanglement: linked particles (or people?) that appear to communicate faster than the speed of light, no matter how far apart we may be. This is because we ARE light, shining inside one another, especially now.

Let’s be fruitful and welcome a confluence of allies into our expanded circle of influence. That’s a square deal, all the way around.

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Amara Rose is a metaphysical “midwife” for our global rebirth. She offers personal life crafting; business guidance; branding brilliance for your website, blog, or marketing campaign; signature storytelling, and a CD/mp3 to accelerate your evolutionary journey. Learn more at LiveYourLight.com, where you can subscribe to her inspirational e-newsletter, What Shines.

09 Jan 2020
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Otherworldly Images of Andromeda Galaxy Over a Tiny Swiss Village

A view of the sky from the Zervreila Mountain Lagoon in Switzerland.

Photographer Sandro Casutt lives in a remote Swiss village with unbelievable views of the Andromeda Galaxy. The village of Vals, population 990, is a prime location for viewing the closest major galaxy to the Milky Way. Thus, Casutt, together with his brother Markus, started Cosmic Art Photography two years ago as an outlet for their love of the universe.

Owner of a tattoo parlor by day, Casutt spends his evenings hunting for the perfect sky. The resulting photographs, which are shot during different seasons, give incredible views of the Andromeda in all its glory. The galaxy, the largest of a cluster of 54 galaxies known as the Local Group, is 220,000 light years across and is expected to collide with the Milky Way in 4.5 billion years. And while the Andromeda is the closest to us, we’re still talking about 2.5 million light years away from Earth.

Casutt’s lens is able to pick up some of the one trillion stars that populate the Andromeda, as well as nebulae that cast glowing hues into the night sky. For astronomy lovers looking to venture to Vals, the brothers offer workshops throughout the year.

The Swiss village of Vals has incredible views of the Andromeda Galaxy.

The Horsehead Flame Nebula.

A view of the Andromeda Galaxy in Switzerland.

North American Nebula and Pleiades.

A View of the Andromeda Galaxy in Switzerland

Horse Head Flame Nebula

A View of the Lagoon Nebula

North American Nebula and Pleiades.

Orion the Hunter

The North American Nebula Above a Mountain

A view of the Triangulaum and the Andromeda Galaxy above a mountain.

A view of the Dark Nebula from Switzerland.

Sandro Casutt: Website | Facebook | 500px
h/t: [designyoutrust]

All images via Sandro Casutt.

By Jessica Stewart on December 26, 2016 for https://mymodernmet.com/

09 Jan 2020
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Couple Recycles Old Grain Silos Into Bed and Breakfast

Eco-farmers didn’t want to waste old grain silos so they’ve repurposed them into a charming B&B, complete with homegrown breakfast.

As grateful stewards of their new land, a couple of newbie farmers decided to waste not, want not.

Former insurance brokers-turned-eco-farmers, John and Judi Stuart wanted to do as much good as they could with the 82 acres they bought to retire on in Oregon wine country.

So they kept the old ranch house, grain silos and cherry orchard they inherited with the property and converted them into something new.

Instead of sending three giant, old hunks of metal to the dump, they decided to use the silos as the centerpiece of a farmhouse-style bed and breakfast.

The charming building was created by moving the three out-of-commission grain silos across a field and “pasting” them onto the old ranch house.

The silos have been converted into two stories of luxurious guest suites, while the ranch house serves as a lobby and social hub for guests.

The energy efficient building features concrete floors with radiant heat provided by one gas-fired 50-gallon hot water tank, while expanding foam insulation sprayed between the metal silo exterior and the interior walls creates what Judi calls “the world’s largest Thermos.”

The inn’s utility bills “are very, very, very much lower than they would have been with conventional construction,” John tells Mother Nature Network

The silos’ big windows look over a pasture full of chickens, sheep, goats, llamas and alpacas and a wetlands habitat built as a refuge for ducks, red-winged blackbirds, geese and other wildlife.

Eager to share their farm-to-table lifestyle with their guests, use almost all local ingredients including eggs, dairy, fruit and veggies from their own farm.

For a visit or more information check out their website AbbeyRoadFarm.com.

By Sarah Burrows with Return to Now

03 Jun 2019
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Meeting The Darkness: dealing with your feelings about climate change

The photographer Paul Nicklen said he wanted to show people what a starving polar bear really looked like. Sealegacy/Caters News

How do we be present to the suffering caused by climate change – and not let it overwhelm us, but rather move through it to a place of hope and empowerment?

It sometimes feels like an unrelenting onslaught. News story after news story about the horrors climate change is wreaking upon us. Floods, fires, cities filled with smoke, a melting Arctic and more and more new refugee crises. And of course most of these stories end with the virtual inevitability of worse times ahead.

What we don’t know is how much worse it will get, and when we will turn the corner towards sanity. These are the massive uncertainties that can weigh on us and cause us to disengage from that precious gift of this one life we have been given.

Uncertainty is one of the places we human beings are most uncomfortable. When faced with not knowing, we often settle on a negative outcome just to have a story to tell ourselves that will bring some comfort of certainty in our own minds. Like when your family member is late for dinner and you convince yourself they’ve had a car accident instead of the more obvious possibility that they were simply delayed. We detest uncertainty. It makes us uncomfortable. And yet learning to live with uncertainty is one of the life skills that is most called for at this time.

All of this challenging news about the state of our climate, our planet, and what it might mean for human civilization can indeed be overwhelming. Many people are now entering into a state of eco-grief. In psychological literature the term “solastalgia” has been coined to refer to the distress caused by environmental decline. It is derived from the notion of nostalgia for the comfort of home — the effects of witnessing the place you identify as home being threatened or destroyed. Therapists and clergy are now developing practices to help people cope with this new a new category of psychological stress.

And indeed there is much to grieve about. Luckily, grief is something we humans know quite a lot about. While the scale of ecological grief is new, grief itself is very well known terrain. And while climate grief is different in scale and focus than individual grief at a loss, they look quite similar in terms of process.

The key takeaway is that the difficult work of facing the reality cannot be avoided. Yes there will be denial, anger and forms of bargaining as outlined in the seminal work by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross on death and dying. But what we know most about grief is that it is a healthy, necessary and healing process to cope with loss. The extent to which one avoids or subverts grief is the extent to which one delays the potential for healing.

And so we must sit with it.

We must acknowledge our feelings about the reality of an increasingly unstable climate and the innumerable repercussions it will have on the human and nonhuman worlds. We must let ourselves meet this darkness face to face, so that we can move through it rather than be weighed down by it.

And, conversely, we must remember how much we also have to be joyful for. Those that move through grief often talk about coming out the other side to a new kind of aliveness. A deeper joy and appreciation of what is. Rooting in gratitude can create the safe container we need to let ourselves feel our grief without becoming mired in it. A daily practice of naming what you are grateful for can give us a reservoir of love and appreciation that both enhances the joy of life and gives us the strength to be present with the darkness.

So, how to deal with your feelings of climate grief?

First, offer gratitude for what you do have. The relationships in your life, the abundance around you, clean water and clean air. And we — each of us reading this on a computer or smartphone — we each have so much. We have more than most any other cohort of humans have ever had. Consider a daily gratitude practice or keeping a gratitude journal. Go for walk in nature and re-root your system by soaking in the outstanding beauty of the amazing world we now inhabit.

Second, feel your feelings. Let yourself be sad, or confused, or angry. Talk to a friend and share your feelings. Grief needs to be heard and witnessed. Watch a movie and cry your eyes out. Journal about it. Shout into the wind. Let it out. Let it come through you and be released. All of these things will help you along the difficult healing journey.

Third, get comfortable with uncertainty. Humanity is on a roller coaster the likes of which we have never seen. Change is the only certainty. Of course our wisest selves have always known that certainty and control are illusions. Now, we are invited to practice that eternal spiritual skill of living in the present and accepting the unknowable nature of the future. Surely there is a gift in that.

And lastly, know that your grief — reaching into the darkness and actually feeling it — is a natural and healthy response to life in these times. In fact is a valuable contribution to the collective emotional work that is needed now.

You are not alone with these feelings.

Part of the work of saving the world is grieving for the parts of it that we may lose or which we have already lost. Let yourself be transformed by your grief, the way compost enriches the soil, to make fertile ground for the new life — however that may look.

This is the first of a series of articles exploring Climate Hope. Please send me a message or email to let me know what you think. We’re all in this together.

About the Author: Karen Mahon in Opinion | April 18th 2019
karen@climatehope.earth

https://www.nationalobserver.com

24 Oct 2018
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Becoming Homeopathic: You Are Your Own Medicine

Just as our planet contains all of the resources we need to create and heal — awaiting only our discovery and ingenuity — we contain the ability to self-heal on an intrinsic level. This was brought home to me one day when, in the midst of a strong (and highly unusual for me) allergic reaction, I was looking for a homeopathic remedy.

To my great astonishment and amusement, one of the chief ingredients in the remedy I selected was ignatia amara. I picked another remedy off the shelf, and discovered ignatia amara listed there as well.

In fact, when I did an online search of the remedy, it seemed to describe my very nature to a “T”: “Women of sensitive nature, mild disposition, quick to perceive, rapid in execution. Rapid change of mental and physical condition, opposite to each other.” The website also stated a supreme aversion to coffee — and I can’t stand the smell of brewing coffee!

The Heart of Healing

I smiled in wonder at all this: I am my own antidote. The feeling was immensely empowering. We each, all, contain the answer to whatever toxin that’s currently affecting us, whether physical or mental, personal or global. We need not use a canon when a kiss will suffice: becoming homeopathic is about recognizing, and choosing to use, the smallest possible “dose” to activate healing.

This is how we begin crafting the new global community we’ve been inching towards for decades. It’s a spiritual emergence-y (emerge and see), as we emerge from the cocoon of complacency, the old paradigm, into a courageous new world. Courageous, from the French, means “heart”.

Now it’s about choice: how quickly and collectively we will segue from the old reptilian, limbic brain (the same impulse that drives materialism, separation, self-interest, and misuse of power) into the higher realms of consciousness, where love, wisdom and power are synthesized into service.

It’s a quantum yet infinitesimally subtle shift: from scared to sacred, density to destiny, toxic to tonic, reactive to creative. Homeopathy operates on the principle of “like cures like”, and the minusculedose: the more dilute the dosage, the more powerful the remedy. It’s the exact opposite of what you might expect to effect a healing. Not a canon, a kiss.

I invite you to become homeopathic. Discover and embrace your inner healing/wholeness that has always been there, and decide to make the subtle shift that brings you back to balance.

As for me, I’m going to live ever more deeply into my own name. Blessings!

About the author:

Amara Rose is a metaphysical “midwife” for our global rebirth. A former personal health columnist for Nation’s Business magazine, she’s written for numerous other publications, both digital and print. Subscribe to Amara’s resource-rich monthly newsletter. You can connect with her on social media at Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn.

13 Sep 2018
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Everyday Routines That Let You Connect with Nature

The majority of people from all over the globe live extremely fast these days, being torn between their jobs and their families, unable to achieve a perfect balance and harmony between the two. Connecting with nature and spending some time outdoors can actually help with it, so keep on reading to find out more about everyday routines that help you make that happen. Check them out and enjoy!

Eat fresh foods grown in your garden

One of the best ways to connect with nature and respect Mother Earth is to eat as clean as possible, which means that you should incorporate fresh fruits and vegetables into your diet. It gets even better if you have enough space in your backyard to come up with your own mini-garden where you can grow organic produce all by yourself. Apart from saving a lot of money in the long run, it’s also friendly towards your environment as organic bio-farming methods exclude all kinds of chemicals and toxic substances that may be extremely hazardous. So, get your gardening tools and take care of your own garden that will both help you connect with nature and establish healthy eating habits. It doesn’t get better than that!

Go for a bike ride every morning

Everyone knows that physical activity is of the utmost importance for all human beings, and cycling is surely one of the most beneficial workouts you can go for. Even though it can’t be described as a typical workout in the gym, it indeed has a lot of amazing health benefits that mustn’t be neglected. Apart from building the muscle in the lower part of your body, riding a bike can also promote weight loss by burning between 400 and 1000 calories per hour – depending on the intensity and the rider’s weight. Of course, it also promotes your lung health as exercising outdoors means breathing fresh air that positively affects your lungs and overall well-being. If you’re up for that, just hop on your bike and spend at least one hour cycling. Time spent in nature will improve both your physical and mental health – don’t forget that.

The ultimate surfing experience for all nature lovers out there

On the other hand, if you love intense outdoor workouts that will get your blood rushing through your veins, you should definitely give surfing a try. Yes, we agree that it isn’t really the easiest sport to learn, as it takes a lot of time, effort, and perseverance, but the truth is that once you master it, you’ll realize that the rewards are truly huge.

First of all, it will contribute to the sense of self-gratification, as you’ll prove yourself that you can achieve anything you imagine. Besides that, it’ll also improve your physical health by strengthening the muscles, improving balance, and increasing flexibility. Do we have to mention the feeling of power and invincibility you’ll experience while riding the ocean waves? Both the experienced surfers and the beginners at this activity agree that this is the best thing about surfing, so be sure to check out a cool surf shop online where you can find literally anything you need to master this sport. When that’s done, you’ll see how quickly you’ll be able to connect with nature and feel its magic!

You won’t make a mistake with yoga either

Everyone’s raving about yoga these days, and the reasons for that are more than good. First of all, this ancient Hindu practice is said to be one of the best activities that relieve stress and anxiety and help you keep your mind and feelings under control. It is essential nowadays, when people are too busy running around, having almost no time just for themselves and their needs. This is exactly when an intense burnout is highly likely to happen, so be sure to avoid that and do something good for yourself.

Apart from perfecting your posture, improving your heart health, and promoting flexibility, yoga will also help you achieve a peaceful state of mind and let go of all your worries – at least for an hour a day. All you have to do is to take your yoga mat, find a secluded place in your backyard or a nearby park, and practice your favorite asanas. As simple as that!

As you can see, connecting with nature on a daily basis is much easier than you think. Aside from embracing healthy eating habits and growing your own organic produce, you should start exercising outdoors in order to experience the real power of nature at its finest. Just give it a fair shot and you’ll see an instant improvement!

27 Jun 2018
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Renewable Y-O-U

“Renewables” sounds like a fairly recent concept. However, we’ve been using renewable energy for millennia: wind, water, fire, and animal / human labor.

Today renewable energy is about saving the environment and diminishing our dependence on fossil fuels. Coupled with conserving finite resources, we’ve also gotten smart: smartphones, smart cars, smart homes, smart health care (wearables). Yet our smart solutions are dumbing us down in one crucial respect: we’re highly connected to them, and less connected to ourselves than ever before.

We are the ultimate renewable resource — when we become conscious of this truth. It’s a quantum shift in perception that changes everything.

What “Renewable” Really Means

Becoming a renewable resource doesn’t mean ditching your phone for the plow, but becoming more mindful in every moment. Think of it this way: work is applied energy. Sustaining your own energy means working with yourself as a renewable resource.

In their new book, The Healing Self, integrative medicine and personal growth pioneer Deepak Chopra, MD, and Harvard University brain health professor Rudolph E. Tanzi, PhD, discuss how well being is an inside job that starts with awareness.

They write: “Seeking self-renewal is a conscious decision, and it’s never once and for all. Renewal at the level of the cell is a constant and virtually automatic process, and so is self-renewal. The noted spiritual teacher Jiddhu Krishnamurti once made a provocative remark about meditation. People set aside a certain period of the day to meditate, he said, but they don’t realize that real meditation is twenty-four hours a day. The same is true for healing.”

In Western culture, we typically don’t slow down long enough to give our inner life a second thought — until life itself demands it. This often manifests as illness, because that’s what it takes to get us to press “pause”.

How to Become A Renewable Resource

You don’t have to become a monk or jet off to India to sit at the feet of a sage when a health crisis hits, although these are viable personal growth paths. You do have to begin paying attention to what’s happening, ideally before the volume amplifies. This is how healing begins.

I speak from experience. In my early thirties, with a thriving remote business, piano lessons, and a 90 mph lifestyle, I ignored the symptoms proliferating in my body. Finally I hit the proverbial wall and, like a cartoon character, slid two dimensionally to the ground. The message was clear: “Time out! Get in touch with yourself at a deeper level if you want to get well.”

And I did. For the next three years, healing/wholing was my primary focus. As I began to heal physically, I simultaneously opened up spiritually. Whole/holy/heal all come from the same root word, “hale”. What I was undergoing transfigured me on a cellular level.

It was an initiation, as true healing always is.

Suffering Is Optional

Chopra and Tanzi write about the paradox of pain: how someone can be in intense physical pain yet not be “suffering”. In remembering who I am on a soul level, I began to experience a joy beyond anything I’d ever known. It was the most profound ah-ha! of my life. And while my body was still in pain, my expanding consciousness superseded it.

Of course, this unfolding made absolutely no sense to family and friends who were observing my process externally, shaking their heads.

It is only ever about you, yet far beyond the small “you” with whom you previously identified. When you step into your vastness, you become a renewable resource: embodying the light of wisdom, serving as a beacon for others on the awakening path.

Espavo defines this awareness succinctly: “Thank you for taking your power.” That’s the smart, renewable solution we all need now.

About the author:

Amara Rose is a metaphysical “midwife” for our global rebirth. A former personal health columnist for Nation’s Business magazine, she’s written for Yoga Journal, E/The Environmental Magazine, MORE, Well.org, VentureBeat.com, and numerous other publications. Subscribe to Amara’s resource-rich monthly newsletter.

04 Jan 2018
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How to Become Lighthearted (It’s Not What You Think)

In The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Czech author Milan Kundera posits that you only live once (social acronym YOLO), and this “lightness” signifies freedom — though it’s hard to hold.

But it wasn’t until I read Thomas Cowan, MD’s breakthrough book, Human Heart, Cosmic Heart, that I realized a conundrum: levity (lightness) means humor, and its counterpoint, gravity, equates to seriousness, tethering us to Earth. If gravity keeps us earthbound, it follows that humor would act as spiritual helium, helping us levitate: soar above our sorrow, at least figuratively.

Yet most people caught in a mirthful moment collapse with laughter, rather than rising into the atmosphere. And when the amusement subsides, the problems remain. What gives?

Cowan suggests far greater import to levity and gravity — one that impacts our very life force. And it’s a scathing indictment of how we live now.

Where Levity Is Lost

Referencing the work of naturalist Viktor Schauberger, Cowan writes,

“When one lives almost entirely in nature that is unspoiled by human contact, one often develops strong powers of observation. What Schauberger saw is the force of levity that lives in water. This force of levity flows upwards in vortices in the river. It is in these force ‘lines’ that healthy trout live effortless lives.

“Of course, these factors only exist when certain conditions are met. That is, the forest must be intact, there must be continuous tree covering shading the stream, there must be no dams anywhere on the stream, and the stream must be allowed to flow in its own path, not a path constructed by water ‘experts’. When all these conditions are met, once can observe the forces of levity balancing the forces of gravity, and, if in the river itself, one can experience the blissful life of the trout.

“When the forests are cut down and the streams straightened and dredged, the forces of levity are lost, and the trout has to swim for its life to maintain its position in the stream. Too exhausted to swim by muscle power upstream, it ends up with a life of continuous and useless toil. This is not unlike the plight of industrial man, swimming upstream for his entire life, getting depleted, weaker, sicker by the day.

“The important point here is that this force of levity, which allows for the effortless flow of water, is dependent on certain conditions such as temperature and flow dynamics (spiral- or vortex-based flow patterns). When these conditions are met, life is easy and health is the natural outcome. This state is the natural state of structured water. It is also the natural state of the structured water that is the basis for the flow of blood in our circulatory system.”

Out of Circulation

Cowan’s explanation unfolds layers of insight about the true cause of illness, on both a personal and planetary level. He describes my mother’s life and health to a T:

“This model allows us to see the real cause of varicose veins, congestive heart failure and poor circulation. These ailments occur when the structured layer fails to form properly. It is as if someone cut down our forest, kept us from the sun and Earth, and gave us poor quality nutrients and water.”

His analysis blew my circuits. No wonder mainstream medicine is inadequate in resolving chronic, systemic health issues: it doesn’t address the root cause.

As above, so below: roots and wings, water and sky. Life’s yin/yang is essential for our health and Gaia’s health. If our life is not flowing with natural rhythms, health deteriorates. Sequestered from the life force, we remove ourselves from circulation, like a worn-out book, and slowly decay.

A Heart of Gold

ORME is undetectable, nonreactive with other elements, non-conductive (i.e., doesn’t get hot) and lighter than its conventional counterparts.

Cowan makes the case that human beings are quantum coherent superconducting phenomena — more than the sum of our parts — and that the ORME, or cosmic form of gold, is the primary superconducting matrix [from the root word mater, or mother] without which nerve transmission and life itself would not be possible.

The Mother of All Levity

To paraphrase Abraham-Hicks, we can always choose to enter the vortex. In Dancing With Water, MJ Pangman and Melanie Evans write, “Vortices bring in raw energy for use in the creative process. They also cause individual elements to spin at velocities faster than the speed of light. These elements take on new traits referred to by some as super energy.” And ORME “borders on the etheric.” It’s a matter [= matrix = mother] of frequency.

Cowan says, “The heart of gold refers to its unique ability to carry out this transformation of an earthly element into cosmic gold, thereby providing the basis for life to exist.”

It’s what alchemists and sages down through the ages have been attempting to distill all along.

Celestial Call

At the close of 2017, Saturn moved into Capricorn, its home sign, where it will remain for the next three years. The arbiter of form invites us to take responsibility for the structure of our lives; to become their author, owning our authority.

If we wish to add more levity, joy — and possibly time — to our lives, we can infuse structured water into our body, and nature into our soul. When enough of us have done so, lightness will not only be bearable; we’ll wonder how we lived heavy-hearted for so long.

Sources:

Human Heart, Cosmic Heart, Thomas Cowan, MD https://www.amazon.com/Human-Heart-Cosmic-Understand-Cardiovascular/dp/1603586199/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1514497705&sr=1-1&keywords=human+heart+cosmic+heart+by+dr.+thomas+cowan
A New Sacred Geometry: The Art and Science of Frank Chester https://www.amazon.com/New-Sacred-Geometry-Science-Chester/dp/0988749203/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1514497857&sr=1-1&keywords=A+New+Sacred+Geometry
Dancing With Water MJ Pangman, MS & Melanie Evans https://www.amazon.com/Dancing-Water-New-Science-Second/dp/0975272632/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1514497746&sr=1-1&keywords=dancing+with+water+2nd+edition
The Chestahedron: The Wonder of Seven presentation by geometrician, artist, sculptor and teacher Frank Chester https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQMpEAsNHmY

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17 Jul 2017
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The Art of Awareness

As we move into the next phase of our global renaissance, copious creativity is the axis on which our elevation will turn. How deeply are we willing to tap our inner reservoirs? Can we expand our perception of what constitutes “art”?

José Argüelles, who adapted the evolutionary secrets of the Mayan Calendar for the Western mind, saw art as the unifying field, a path to help us move “from biospheric waste to artistic regeneration,” by attuning ourselves to a natural time frequency expressed as an equation: T(E) = Art. Energy (E) factored by time (T) equals Art. Energy is essence: a rock, a flower, a star, a human being. Time is a frequency. When we use our energy in concert with natural time cycles, we are living creativity. In other words, Time is Art…not the clock on the wall or the cash in your wallet.

Eye of the Beholder

What this means in terms of cross-cultural energy exchange opens unimagined doors. A woman traveled from Denmark to the tiny West African country The Gambia, toting numerous colorful plastic bags — prized by Gambian women as symbols of status and respect — to use as barter. (Women of The Gambia also recycle worn or ripped plastic bags into one-of-a-kind purses).

In the marketplace, she discovered a hand-carved figure of an African goddess and, through gestures, opened negotiations to purchase the stunning piece.

But the indigenous artist had no interest in money. She wanted plastic bags. The Danish visitor tried to give her all the bags she’d brought, explaining that there was a surplus of these in her country. The Gambian sculptor accepted three, and each woman felt she’d enjoyed the better bargain. Plastic bags or a unique woodcarving: equally sacred art in the eye of the beholder.

Then there is the children’s book that became a collaboration between two Jewish translators, a Protestant editor, a Muslim painter and a non-profit publisher in the deep South. It was a collective endeavor all the way, explained one rabbinical writer: “An Arabic Sufi tale (originally penned in what is now Iraq) translated by a rabbi into Hebrew in the Middle Ages and translated by us (into 21^st century language and sensibility), with a Sufi publisher and a Pakistani artist.” The subject matter — animals protesting their treatment by humans — transcended all ethnic, cultural, and religious boundaries.

The Art in our DNA

The universal urge toward the aesthetic is coded in our cells. Theologian and author Thomas Moore writes, in Care of the Soul, “Children paint every day and love to show their works on walls and refrigerator doors. But as we become adults, we abandon this important soul task of childhood.” When we relinquish this soul expression to professional artists, “we are left with mere rational reasons for our lives, feelings of emptiness and confusion, and a compulsive attachment to pseudo images, such as shallow television programs. When our own images no longer have a home, a personal museum, we drown our sense of loss in pale substitutes, trashy novels or formulaic movies.”

Because art arrests our attention, living “artfully” might require of us something as simple as pausing: taking the time to shift from acquire to inquire, to let go of buying more in favor of being more. This is what honoring our collective creative impulse can do for humanity: restore us to wholeness, holiness, health. “Whole”, “holy” and “heal” all spring from the same root. To be whole is to be balanced and harmonious in body, mind, soul and spirit.

It’s this level of awareness that will characterize the coming Psychozoic (“spirit life”) era, says Argüelles, when, having rediscovered who we are, we can create a culture based on the three virtues of true time: autonomy, equality, and loyalty to the truth in every moment. These are strikingly similar to the Three Commitments delineated by The Reconnections: stay free, stay present, follow the energy.

We already have fusion food: a culinary blending of cultures to delight the palate. Now we’re primed to feed our deeper hunger, to fuse mind and heart into healing art, and reawaken the sacred dimension in daily life.

And if we make a subtle shift — move the “h” in heart from the start of the word to the end — we create “Earth”. We live in a heart circle. Earth heart. The beat goes on.

About the Author:

Amara Rose is a metaphysical “midwife” for our global rebirth. She offers spiritual mentoring, e-courses, a CD/mp3 of the journey to awakening, and an inspirational monthly newsletter.

Learn more at LiveYourLight.com. Connect with Amara on Twitter and Facebook.