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  • Patience, Pachacuti, and Paradigm-Shifting

    Greetings!

    "Mesmerize visitors with your metaphorical garden!"-- Rob Brezhny

    Every few days I harvest some onions, a handful of chard, or a few squash blossoms from my garden. It is an honor to receive such bounty from the earth and my tending. Yet I'm impatient: corn has barely sprouted, tomatoes and eggplant are agonizingly slow to ripen, and it is not hot enough for bean flowers to transform into beans.

    This impatience with flowering and fruiting in the physical garden mirrors an impatience in our metaphorical gardens of shifting consciousness. We are given gifts of insight, and it takes months and months to embody them. We make a plan for feeding our spirit daily, follow it for a week, then slack off. We figure out a way to harmonize a difficult relationship, then do not honor our intentions.

    We know everything has to take root; needs fertilizing with practice; grows slowly. The flowering may take months, the fruiting and ripening may take years. So why is it so hard to be patient?

    Pachacuti, The Great Turning

    We are challenged in this "time of meeting ourselves again." In the Andes these years leading up to 2012 are called "Pachacuti;" Joanna Macy terms it "the great turning." Beset by horrendous disaster the world over, a feeling of everything speeding up, and by economic stress and social dislocation, we want to meet our challenges with equanimity. We want to be open-hearted. We want to create and live by positive visions that help us manifest a harmonious world. When we see ourselves backsliding, unable to maintain even "simple" changes in our personal lives, we wonder how we will manage the bigger changes.

    Working for Change, Shifting Consciousness

    Making change for most of us involves an idea of the change, its implementation, repeated practice, and eventual embodiment---when the change has entered our bones, rooted in our beings, and become automatic.

    Change on the inner leads to change on the outer. While we know everything is interrelated, it helps me to divide the kinds of change I work for into three arenas. This helps me focus better on discovering the underlying patterns that get in my way:

    Personal change: Whether it is meaningful work, relationship, or habit we are trying to shift, the personal parts involve transmuting the inner toxic thoughts and stories that keep us stuck. If I can find a specific belief that gets in my way, I can use any number of methods to deconstruct and let go of the belief (see links for more).

    World change: We all have issues we care about, from whales to peak oil to water scarcity, from women's rights to economic empowerment of disadvantaged peoples. But if I believe, for example, that we cannot change corporations, or that we humans do not have a right to natural resources, I'll be unable to confront the issue of water scarcity. Again, identifying and changing underlying belief is key to empowering ourselves to make change. These underlying beliefs are shadows that hover in our minds, feeding doubt, frustration, and powerlessness. When we bring the shadows to light, we begin to bring forth equanimity and clarity of vision.

    Mystical change: Knowing that what happens in parallel realities and non-ordinary dimensions affects this world, some of us spend time repairing the web of light that surrounds us, coming into balance ourselves, transfiguring, and visioning a different world. If we do not believe in the power of intention, or if we believe we cannot really affect the physical world through the other dimensions, we will sabotage our own efforts. When we shift our limiting beliefs, we will discover the mystery that guides us into paradigm-shifting moments like the one that follows.

    A Spontaneous Paradigm-Shifting Idea

    One of our readers recently attended the Chevron Oil Annual Shareholders meeting. Indigenous representatives from Ecuador, Burma, and Nigeria came to address shareholder resolutions regarding human rights and pollution. In the Equadorian Amazon, a vast, polluted extraction area is under litigation: a company now owned by Chevron (Texaco) produced oil there, and up to $16 billion is at stake for remediation costs.

    The corporate response was to present a story denying any responsibility for pollution of the Amazon; the Chairman promised repeatedly to fight the court case to the end, and to prevail.

    When it was our reader's turn to address the meeting, she said, "Years ago I helped build the Chevron campus. How nice it is to see how beautifully it turned out. I am glad that Chairman O'Reilly is concerned about Chevron's footprint, as I am also. My question: is Chevron setting aside the $16 billion for clean up in case the Equador verdict is against the company? Do you think that Chevron's denial of any responsibility might be affecting the company's image and reputation negatively?" And then (she swears she had no idea this was going to come out of her mouth and believes it was spirit talking through her): "I wondered if it might be STRATEGIC to go ahead and DO the remediation work, even if you do not think "we" are responsible, as a good faith gesture to the Earth!"

    She reports, "It felt like the whole room full of people got spun, stunned, like it was such a re-frame their jaws dropped. Some people actually clapped. It was quite remarkable. I of course was shaking with emotion, rather in shock that I had said that, and thrilled, too. Quite a few people came up at the end of the meeting and thanked me for my words. One woman said she had felt tears welling up..."

    The tone and style of her words---acknowledgment, praise, and stating common ground before raising her questions---model a way of creating space for possibilities and shifts. This story is a good example of a paradigm shift: a change from one way of thinking to another. By focusing on strategy, vision, and the larger good, our reader offered Chevron a way out of stuckness and defendedness. When we tap into the collective unconscious, and the multi-dimensional world of spirit like this, we can potentially leap out of old ways of thinking entirely.

    An invitation: Send your paradigm-shifting, inspiring stories to us. We'd like to include your experiences in the newsletter!

    No Matter What

    So: we may feel impatient. But, like the waxing and waning of the moon and the seasons, our lives and energies follow larger rhythms. Trusting in those rhythms and our open-hearted intentions, like waiting for the beans in the garden, will keep us moving towards the world we want to create for all those who follow us. As my Q'ero teacher says, over and over, "We keep doing our work no matter what."

    May the long, full light of solstice days fill your heart with joy and patience,

    Meg Beeler/Earth Caretakers
  • Immerse Yourself in the Mystical
  • Join us for three days on the Andean mystical (left side) path. We'll play & explore together ancient alchemical methods of transforming energy, heart, and mind at beautiful Hidden lake Retreat near Portland, July 4-6.

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  • Cutting Through the Illusion of Our Stories
  • This process, which you can do on your own, works! Says Eckhart Tolle, "The root cause of suffering is identification with our thoughts, the 'stories' that are continuously running through our minds. The Work [of Byron Katie] acts like a razor-sharp sword that cuts through that illusion and enables you to know for yourself the timeless essence of your being. 
Joy, peace, and love emanate from it as your natural state."

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  • Transmuting Energetic Toxins
  • An exploration of working in parallel realities with Medicine for the Earth practices to transmute toxins, and a bit about the quantum concepts that validate these methods.

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  • Perceiving No Separation
  • "It was as if they were all connected through the heart with each other, as if they existed in a higher, more expansive, and freer dimension of our being. I had never before experienced being around other human beings who had a palpable spiritual vibration that was effortlessly radiating through their hearts. These Burmese Buddhist monks were tapped into and embodying nothing other than love... We can only recognize what is symbolically being revealed to us if we realize that the people in Burma, both the monks and the military thugs, are not separate from ourselves."

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  • Catch Up on Consciousness
  • You can find last month's newsletter on "Using Visualization and Energy to Shift Consciousness" and read other, previous versions of Shifting Consciousness News here.

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  • Earth Caretaker Services
  • Shamanic Counseling, Energy Healing, Ceremony, and Soul Retrieval:

    Explore what this season of transformation may bring to you, and step into your radiance, wisdom, and wholeness with an Earth Caretakers session. Send an email or call our office at 1-707-939-7961 to make your appointment. A recent client wrote, "I really, really, appreciate your gentle, thoughtful, loving, knowledgeable kindness and guidance during this entire process. It has been life-changing for me."

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    About Earth Caretakers

    Earth Caretakers is an organization dedicated to renewing and reweaving our interconnections with stars, trees, and stones; with cross-cultural wisdom and prophesy; and with our own bodies, souls, and spirits. Founded by Meg Beeler, MAT, Earth Caretakers sponsors participatory, experiential, earth-honoring and rites-of-passage ceremonies. We draw on ancestral wisdom to empower visioning and dreaming a future of balance, reciprocity, and harmony.

    Visit our website for information on upcoming events, workshops, and shamanic healing. Find inspiration, articles, and previous issues of the Shifting Consciousness News.

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