Feeding Our Visions
"Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, if you listen carefully, you can hear her breathing." -- Arundhati Roy
Our beliefs have the power to change the flow of events in the universe-literally to interrupt and redirect time, matter, and space, and the events that occur within them." -- Gregg Braden
"Now we of the human race are undergoing an evolutionary jump of consciousness together with Gaia, Mother Earth...The pervading vibration of life manifests in us as interconnected human consciousness. In this time of massive transformation, the ancient spiritual practices based on a non-dualistic, direct experience of the world, can be used for encompassing Vibration, Space and Time. This activates the healing frequencies and stimulates enfolding of consciousness. As we are now going through rapid and profound changes, this knowledge is needed to allow people to harmonize their lives with the cosmic order." -- Elena Loboda
The golden, shining world--a place of deep peace and acceptance--is expanding and growing each time I see it. The filaments that connect us heart to heart appear bigger and stronger than ever before in my meditations. And in ordinary reality, it is easier and easier for groups of people to experience their energetic connections.
From what other seers and mystics are writing, these experiences are consistent with worldwide, big shifts. Right now. We have gone through a portal.
What Now?
Even when we don't see or feel something like a golden world, a shift, or a portal in our meditations, such visions can be inspiring. What if they are possible? What if they are happening? What if setting intention spreads virally, affecting the consciousness of the whole world?
The question is always "How can we feed and nourish the vision? How can we be a part of it?"
In the world we are entering (the visionary world), each one of us is a creator. Each one of us weaves a piece of the whole web.
This has always been true, of course. Yet the dominant mode of thinking around the world, for 2000 years, has been authoritarian: the Prophet-the Church-the President-the Father-the Priest or Minister-the General-should tell us what to do. Should make our decisions. Should keep us safe.
Questions and Answers
So, stepping aside from external authority and into our own authority, we ask (again) "How can we feed and nourish the vision? How can we be a part of a consciousness that nurtures sustainability, connection, peace, and reciprocity?"
One "answer" is to keep moving our attention away from old stories and into our expansive hearts. I've written at length [see archives] about three essential processes in shifting consciousness:
� Releasing, moving, and shifting out of our heaviness
� Identifying impeding beliefs and habits
� Learning to feed the light and connect with the divine
Each of us is always somewhere along the path of releasing and filling, growing and shifting, for these are life-long processes, and there's always more!
Another "answer" means rethinking who and what we listen to, read, and find inspiration from. I seek people and books who help me nourish my visions. I look for experiences and tools that help me explore our luminous becoming. I gravitate towards those who re-mind me to perceive the divine potential in all beings, all events, and all circumstances. I mention this not because I've found "The Way," but because reading someone else's focus can help to crystallize our own. Where and from whom do you find inspiration for your visions for the earth?
A third "answer" involves learning from wisdom traditions. For example, Buddhist teachings have explored deeply how to understand human suffering and how to bring peace to our hearts and to the world. There's no need for us to reinvent the wheel or think we have to figure it out for ourselves! Australian Aboriginals use "song lines," chanting them to nourish connection, vision, and the web of life as they recreate the world with each song. Shipibo peoples in the upper Amazon embody creation stories, intentions, and pathways to the stars on their embroidery and weavings, pottery, and clothing. As we make new pathways, and dream sustainable ways of living, we can draw from collective human fields of consciousness that keep what is deeply known alive.
An essential complement to our personal process of shifting is how we engage with our communities in everyday interactions, friendships, ceremonies, and support systems to create, nourish, and grow our visionary worlds together. As we enter our own power and authority fully, we need a collective, radiant community to nourish us. Not as a parental authority patting us on the head, saying "good girl, good boy" but as peers: listening, cheering, taking to heart, connecting. We are not alone.
Fields
Tapping into fields of consciousness gives us great potential for leaps of awareness and access to energy beyond our own. I want to share two quotes from "Come Together: The Mystery of Collective Intelligence" by Craig Hamilton.[1]
"In the group, I experienced a kind of consciousness that was almost a singularity, like a dropping of personalities and a joining together where there was no sense of conflict. Nobody was in opposition and everybody was just helping each other. It became obvious that we...were responding to something much deeper, much more real in each other that was collective, something that we shared...a sense that there was just one body in the room." [Jane Metcalf]
"When someone else spoke, it felt as if I was speaking. And when I did speak, it was almost egoless, like it wasn't really me. It was as if something larger than me was speaking through me. The atmosphere in the room felt like we were in a river...And in that space we started to create. We started to say things that we had never thought before and started to let ourselves be influenced in ways and think in ways that we had never thought before." [Beth Jandernoa]
Collective wisdom works in mysterious ways, ways that excite me tremendously with their potential for changing us, changing our perceptions, and enabling us to leap together into shifted consciousness. I'll be sharing much more about this in the coming months!
[1] Published in What Is Enlightenment?, May-July 2004. For the full article, see the website.
