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 Portals of Possibility: More on Receptivity            10.14          
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Portals of Possibility: More on Receptivity   

 

Developing your receptivity is such an important way to open the portals that I want to talk more about it!  Just as you can enhance your receptivity by developing the qualities of listening and witnessing (see 9.14 newsletter), you can shift your receptivity in the ways you dream, use language, and trust your insights. 

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Saying "I am another yourself" feeds your awareness and vibration differently than saying "I am alone in the universe."  


 

The way you use language can shift your receptivity. The words you speak alter your perception.


 

When you learn a friend has cancer, if you say "I see you in your radiance during this challenge" rather than "Oh, that is so terrible," you are feeding hope rather than fear.

 

Every thought you have and every sentence you utter takes you closer to your vision or away from it. Becoming more and more conscious of your thoughts and language helps move you towards wider and heart-felt perception.

 

You can also fill the day with blessings to change the energy, feeling, intent, and perception with which you meet your life. As Pierre Pradervand suggests,

 

"Spontaneous blessing is a flowing fountain that, like a mountain stream, cascades and sings. It expresses perpetual morning--defined as freshness, openness, gratitude, inspiration, newness, alertness, expectation of good, wakefulness, fresh beginning, purity, threshold, (re)birth, joy, innocence, and wonder."  

  

Trusting and Dreaming

Sometimes the insights you are given as a result of your receptivity do not fit into any pattern of understanding known to you. When this happens, having trust--that meaning will be revealed, that you are not crazy, that your inner experience is reliable, and that you do have inner authority to interpret the world--is crucial. As David Sparenberg expresses this,

 

"That foundational necessity is this: We are each in need of relearning, and ever so deeply, to trust--trust the vulnerability of the heart, trust the creative guidance and visionary wisdom of the soul, trust spirit, trust Earth and, in the maelstrom of crisis and insecurity, to trust one another."

 

An experience I had many years ago illustrates this process of trusting insight and dream without fully understanding the meaning. 

 

In a dream I was walking along the Milky Way. There were others beside and near me, yet I did not know them. The starry path was beautiful. I understood that I was to keep walking along this path, and I had no idea where I was going.

 

On waking, I knew this to be a potent, powerful, portent dream. I understood that I was to "walk the Milky Way path" in my everyday life, even as I had no clue what that meant.

 

Some years later, I happened to read that Mayan people refer to the Milky Way path as Saq'Be'. This felt like a clue: people before me had recognized this path. Then I began to discover that ancient wisdom keepers from around the world spoke of their "star ancestors" and "coming from the stars." This was another clue, realizing that other cultures perceive and hold a very different ancestral reality. Receptivity and trust carried me forward.

 

I continued to pay attention and be receptive to any bit of information I read or heard about star beings and the star path. My intent was to learn what I could: I wanted to know what my dream meant! I liked imagining and thinking about coming from the stars, but did not speak of this to anyone. I assumed and feared that my Milky Way path would be discounted and made fun of.

 

After some years I was told to make offerings to the "star beings." My guides said these offerings should be despachos (a traditional Andean ceremony). I was shown what to put in them and where to create them: on the mountains around the San Francisco Bay where I live, and in the Himalayas where I was about to travel. I was encouraged to invite others to participate in these ceremonies. All this clear guidance helped me continue to be receptive, listen, and witness the unfolding. I began to make the offerings on the mountains with groups of people. Some of you long-time readers will remember hearing about these offerings.

 

Learning the Milky Way path became a constant teaching about trusting and dreaming for me. I had to overcome my boulders of belief, my hesitancy and uncertainty. I had to keep putting aside habits of self-doubt and self-protection. I had to shift from thinking "I don't know what I am doing" to allowing myself to experience the beauty of the offerings. Each offering I created, along with people's enthusiasm to join me, encouraged the next. When I understood enough to write about the 13 or so star despachos I had made, people around the world were encouraged to make their own. This process continues.  

 

In trusting this path, my long training in and practice of reciprocity fed my intent. My perception--of our connections to the stars, of what is possible, of how the energy in the universe can feed our creativity-expanded as I continued to open the portals of perception with intent, alignment, reciprocity, and receptivity.

 

You too can develop such trust in your meandering path! As you continue to develop receptivity, feeding the energy of beauty and hope, magic and possibility, and the mythic and spiritual aspects of experience, each step you take, however small, moves you towards dreaming the possible into being.

Blessings on your dreams,
Meg Beeler/Earth Caretakers

 

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