Cooperation is the Pathway that Bears Fruit – Ven. Dyani Ywahoo

[This message of wisdom appeared in my email in-box yesterday and struck me so -- that I knew that it needed to be shared. This is a letter from Dyani Ywahoo, a Cherokee teacher, visionary and author. She speaks of how our current society is in a state of inflammation and the great potential for collaboration and community and wisdom in understanding the potential for energy or luminosity to bring us to greater oneness.]

May 12, 2013
Dear Sunray Community and Friends,

Greetings to each of you as we are blessed with the energy of Spring’s renewal and the uncovering of the planet Saturn’s lessons. The seeds, the causes, we as human beings have created individually and collectively, ripen those thoughts and activities, which have proven over time to be without balance: literally dissolve. And communities awaken to realize that cooperation is the pathway that bears fruit.

In the international realm, we’ve seen agreements rescinded so that those who have planted seeds for their future have found their nest eggs carried away. In a sense, this is the expression of our individual and collective oversight of nurturing the home community fire and planting seeds of abundance within our local communities.   So Saturn is also a harsh teacher that points out the illusory nature of fractional banking and the forgetfulness of our inter-relationships as families, neighbors, and communities. The influence of Uranus shakes away and reveals potential from the stones of limited view.

Native American Elders have spoken of the importance of saving seeds and replanting them for locally grown and harvested healthy food.  Let us remember that our thoughts are also seeds which become the harvest of our days, best to plant seeds of good cause.

There is a spiritual connection of humans with the land and the caretaking of the best seeds from the previous harvest with the cycle of appreciation. There are some people who sense the vitality in the seeds that have been handled with care and passed down through time, bringing forth a healthy harvest and increased vitality in the food itself.  We often think of the pollution is in the air and water. The most intense pollution is that of forgetting our relationship with the natural world.  Looking at the short-term gain depletes the wealth of communities and the vitality of the food stuff when it is shipped long distances.  It has been said by many wise indigenous people that the earth can sustain us when we work in harmony with her cycles.  Our consciousness is also fertilizer for abundance in crops and the balance of the environment.

Consider the fact that in earlier times communities celebrated the planting cycle. Our consciousness interacts with the field of energy potential and contributes to abundance and the well being of the environment.  To some this may seem old- fashioned and in the advanced studies of consciousness and matter, it is apparent that our consciousness may even transform and purify water that has been made unhealthy by pollutants, as demonstrated by the work of Dr Emoto.

We can think of the environment as separate and that is to ignore that we inhale and exhale the breath of the trees and the plankton of the seas.  Studies conducted at Princeton University (Global Consciousness Project) and Arizona University (Center for Consciousness) clearly show that the human family is inter- connected in the a field of energy potential.   We, as humans, sense change before it appears and most importantly, have the capacity to energize results that are wisdom and life force enhancing.

In experiments measuring the healing time rates of surgical patients, it has been shown that those patients for whom someone has made prayers had a quicker return to health.  These tests did not inform the patients that someone was praying for them.

Through interacting with the electro-magnetic field of consciousness, people benefit from the positive thought.  We understand the effect of the full moon upon the consciousness of the people and the tides of the earth.  These are indicators of how we are inter-related with the elements and how our thought contributes to outcome.  It is clear that when one is fearful, even the breath is inhibited, separating one from the full potential of breath rejuvenation or renewal.

The Lakota phrase beginning and ending prayers acknowledging “all my relations” is a reminder to each of us that there are profound inter-connections of human beings with one another, the environment and more.

Poetically, this field of energy potential can be expressed as luminosity. The luminosity is there, it’s here, it’s everywhere and our well-being as individuals and groups is connected to our realization of luminosity as energy potential, that not only drives photosynthesis or chemical reactions within our body actually gives rise to all appearances.

Understanding this field of potential empowers the human family to actualize healthy cooperation and outcomes.  So while there may be talk of limitation and rumors of war and inhumane activity of one human upon others, there exists a profound potential within us all to energize healthy communities.

We observe small cycles and larger cycles of earth tides, the planetary wobble and the galactic dance.  These cycles are pathways through which enhanced energy flows touch us all.  The spiraling energies of nebula, galaxies, and clouds also resonate with the spiraling energy of each individual’s circulation system. The direct perception of the mystic is now documented by science and is expressed in our lives as magnetism.  We energize what we put our attention to. Let us be attentive to the dynamic arising energies of growth and change, which are made manifest through the recognition that we are all relatives. May kindness infuse our thoughts and activity.

We understand how food sustains us and more people recognize the efficacy of herbs such as turmeric, basil, ginger to ease inflammation and those with a mystical view would say that inflammation can also be unresolved anger or fear that disturbs the natural flow of the body and the sacred herbs relax the energy pathways so a harmonious state is revealed. Our society in a sense is in a state of inflammation. Stagnation, imbalance caused by withholding energy or storing energy in unequal ways. Withholding love, speaking harshly of others, can appear as a war cry. Recalling that we are all arising from the field of potential, however we choose to name it, is our growing edge as the human family.

We are being illumined with great bursts of energy coming from the galactic center, energizing our multi-dimensional remembrance that we are one in the dance of life.

Sincerely,

Venerable Dhyani Ywahoo

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New Message from Mother – #26. On Grief & Joy & Seeds

MessagesMotherCvr[I am continuing to receive Messages occasionally. It has been some months since I've received one but this one came in about ten days ago and I posted it on the Messages from Mother.... Earth Mother website early last week. Here is part of it, and you can follow the link to read the rest of the Message.]

 

Oh, my loves, my loves, yes, it has been some time since I’ve given you a message and yes, it’s now time for another one.

This time, I think you are ready to learn about sorrow and grief, and then joy. Yes, grief and joy.

Oh, I love you so much… so, so much. And it hurts me to see so many of you walking around with such sadness in you. So many of you. Most of you. And this sadness is making you sick. Either sick in your heart or even in your body. It is a heaviness that is festering in you that you don’t need to hold onto so much. Not at all.

Yes, I know there is so much to feel sorrow about. There is so much to be angry about. Even rageful sometimes. It does make sense to me. On so many levels it makes sense to me. The two-leggeds running your chemical companies continue to spew out chemicals. And so many of you have not yet learned how it is not necessary to buy these chemicals to kill my beloved six-leggeds or flowers that most of you call “weeds.”

I understand why a good number of you who do know it is not right to use these chemicals carry this anger and sadness. There are those two-leggeds who continue to think drilling or mining is the right way to go—which it is not at all. And this makes for such sorrow especially when there are oil spills and my rivers and streams and bays and even the entire Gulf of Mexico are covered with all those fossilized liquids that I stored under those rocks layers so long ago. Those fossilized things were supposed to stay under the rock layers.

Yes, I can completely see that this would make so many of you so angry and sad, and rightly so. I’m not so happy about it either.

Sigh.

But all of this sadness. It is a collective heavy energy that is not serving me. Nor the dolphins or whales who are so, so sensitive. It is not serving all the healing work that we need across all of me, all of my lands and waters. I know I’ve talked about this before but it bears repeating.

If I could gather all of you up into a huge yoga class, an absolutely huge yoga class where you could all learn breathing techniques, I would have you all learn something called “Mother’s Letting Go to God and Me” breathing prayers. Not sure where you all could gather for such an event. I guess it could be simulcast into football and soccer stadiums around the world. Maybe that would work.

Read more.

http://messagesfrommother.org/2013/05/06/on-grief-and-joy-and-seeds/

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An Interview with Mare – Thank you, Larry Matthews… ;~)

I had the wonderful honor of being interviewed by Larry Matthews, a prolific author and former radio newscaster on 5/2/13

If anyone wants to learn more about ‘worm herding’, plus both of my books, have a listen. It was a fun interview. ;~) click here. (Search for ‘Mare Cromwell’ – only 14.5 mins long.)

To learn more about Larry and his books, go to: http://www.larrymatthews.net/ I have not read any of Larry’s books but they look interesting.

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Sacred Activism – Andrew Harvey

[In perusing the websites of some people whom I deeply admire this evening, I stopped at Andrew Harvey's website. As soon as I started reading some of it, I knew this needed to be shared more. His words are inspiring and I aspire to this way of living. Sacred Activism. Read on. For the Earth and the Healing... ]

From Andrew Harvey’s Website

Vision – Andrew Harvey

(Andrew Harvey is an internationally renowned mystical scholar, Rumi translator, spiritual teacher, poet, novelist, and architect of Sacred Activism.)

The journey of my work and of my inner understanding has led me to the vision that will now occupy the rest of my life: That of Sacred Activism. I have founded the Institute for Sacred ActivismTM SM to implement this vision and we are in the process of co-creating a global curriculum which will be disseminated in various forms through the mass media. I invite you to join me in creating a new world founded in universal compassion and sacred passion for all life.

Everyone whose eyes are open knows the world is in a terrifying crisis. As many of us as possible need to undergo a massive transformation of consciousness and to find the sacred passion to act from this consciousness in every arena and on every level of reality. It is my deepest belief that only Sacred Activism – the fusion of the deepest mystical knowledge, peace, strength, and stamina with calm focused and radical action – can possibly be of use now. A mysticism that is only private and self-absorbed leaves the evils of the world in tact and does little to halt the suicidal juggernaut of history; an activism that is not purified by profound spiritual and psychological self-awareness and rooted in divine truth, wisdom, and compassion will only perpetuate the problem it is trying to solve, whatever it’s righteous intentions…

Read more.

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“… just looking and listening is the real work…” – Mary Oliver

Seagull (c) Tim Dicke

Seagull (c) Tim Dicke

And I am thinking:

maybe just looking and listening

is the real work.

Maybe the world, without us,

is the real poem.

                             ~ Mary Oliver

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On Being a Spiritual Writer with No Book Sales – Tonight. Plus Musings on the “Sinner” Thing.

So… tonight I had a book event. In Leesburg, Virginia. At a rather swanky French restaurant. It was very quiet. No one came.

But that’s okay. Sometimes I think I’m meant to have a very quiet night. And I had put it out to Spirit that I was on retreat this week. So I suppose it should not come as a surprise that all the people who were supposed to be at my book event, retreated home, instead of coming out to my event.

I was going to talk more about my first book tonight too. Maybe I was not ready to discuss that. It’s been about five years since I cracked it open. It was published over 12.5 years ago. Seems like a lifetime ago. Kinda.

Authors don’t always share about the quiet nights when we’re out plugging our book/s and we come home with as many as we left the house with. That’s okay. Not always fun to talk about that.

Though, tonight I gifted the restaurant which hosted me with a copy of the God book (If I gave you God’s phone number….) and the Messages from Mother…. Earth Mother book. They gave me a really lovely dinner of roasted beets and goat cheese with balsamic dressing. And a dish of paté with crouton bread slices with teeny little pickles perfectly sliced and arranged in an arc of three on the plate, dotted with capers. And a mound of gritty looking mustard that I did not touch—it looked odd to me, almost like fox feces with lots of seeds. For real. Plus I don’t like paté with mustard, gritty or not.

The restaurant would not let me pay for dinner. So I exchanged with the books.

That was how this whole book event in this restaurant evolved. A book exchange. In Dec, I had a book signing down the street and popped into the restaurant for a bowl of soup afterwards. And ended up bartering dinner for a copy of the God book. Bartering is the absolute best. The owner loved the book and offered to do an Author Event at her restaurant. She had never done one before… so it was all an experiment.

I love experiments. I also love good food. Please, if you are ever in Leesburg, Virginia, go patronize this restaurant. The Eiffel Tower Café. Tell them that I sent you.

So… before signing off on this blog piece… I need to add that the chef  there had a bunch of questions about the God book and why I did it. It was a quiet evening for them so he came out and chatted with me briefly. I told him about my depression in my mid-30’s. And how I got this goofy idea about calling God on the phone and it would not leave me alone, so I got a tape recorder and started interviewing people… and seven years later, put a book out. (That sounds so easy… it was not so easy, trust me… ;~)

This chef wanted to talk with me about being a sinner. And how blessed he’s been in his life and he’s trying to serve the Lord but he’s a sinner. I listened a little bit and then responded that I’ve really gotten away from believing in the sinner path. It just brings up so much guilt and how does having so much guilt get one closer to God? It only encourages one to carry heavier energy instead of more joy, in my opinion. (I could probably be more humble about this opinion, maybe?)

I did not exactly word it that way… but close to that. And I was not mean about what I was saying, nor angry. Just sort of gently matter-of-fact. I told him that I thought he was probably already doing a very amazing job of serving the Lord with his life and work. Maybe he can just focus on paying-it-forward if he feels that blessed.

Not sure exactly how he took it… about my not believing in being a sinner anymore. As I drove home, I wondered if I might have offended him. Or was too out-of-the-box for him. Or blasphemous. Maybe all of the above.

Oh, well.

I really don’t believe in the “sinner” set of thinking. I believe we’re all flawed, meant to be flawed, quite lovable in our flaw-nicity, and let’s just dance as well as we can in cultivating our internal God-Spaces as we heal ourselves and our flaws to the best of our abilities. That’s what it is all about to me.

But this is not Christian Bible-based thinking.

What can I say? I’ve never been good at conforming.

And I’m happier shedding the “sinner” thing. Have been for a while. Still working on shedding guilt though… for upsetting someone… for creating some waves… for… whatever feeds the guilt in my life. Sigh. This is a journey.

So, quiet night. Digesting paté and beet salad still.

Tomorrow, I will get up and will soak up the perfume of the lilacs in the neighbor’s yard and be grateful for the hills here, the exercise, the sun and the beautiful trees that whisper good morning to me each day. And Earth Mother. And Creator/Allah/Great Mystery…

And I’ll give the good ‘ole book promotion, another try. Another place. Another plug.

What an adventure. ;~)

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She’s arriving… by Sukhvinder Sircar

from Facebook

from Facebook

[this was circulating Facebook last night and spoke to me so, so deeply that I had to capture it to share further and farther. Yes... here's to all women and men, too, arriving... with love and blessings, mare]

She’s arriving into present time. This is the gift of her deep work. She has been healing her pain, embracing her shadows, claiming her body & womb temple, releasing her shame, clearing the victim/oppressor, facing her fears, walking out of dishonouring spaces & so much more.

She’s a warrior. She stands steady, anchored inside herself. She’s let go her history. Her cellular memories are cleaned out, and she’s no longer trapped in the past. As she connects to her divine longing & her passion, she deepens her surrender. Her future is exciting. She’s becoming relaxed about where her life is heading.

She’s free & uncluttered, & she’s traveling light. Her energy is no longer sucked into the past, or running away into the future. She feels powerful & abundant.

She’s fully present. She’s amazed at how relaxed and alert she can be at the same time.

She could easily pass through the eye of a needle.

Sukhvinder Sircar

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