consciousness shifts

Passing some grand old maples one day, it occurred to me that one of the many reasons why going into nature uplifts our spirits is that nature points to a way to live our lives: Showing us how to live in joy, how to live without self-criticism, how to live in the moment, how to live in faith and hope.  Everywhere in nature we see an essential, authentic magnificent expression of itself.  Everywhere, we have examples of life demonstrating life in faith. Each part from the microscopic to macroscopic responds to what is present, no more and no less.

For example, it would be humorous to imagine a tree worrying about its appearance, or whether it will get enough, or holding itself back from sun, water, and the nourishment from wind, sun and love. Or wondering what is the right thing to do. In fact, the opposite is true, the trees declare, in this emerging Spring, Look at me, See how grand I am, See how Wide my canopy is, Look how wild and free I am. The trees are reaching for the sun, training their branches to move into every glimpse of daylight making sometimes the most unusual twists and turns as they grow.  We see them standing at the top of the hill expressing their innate sense of beauty and grandeur.

No, a tree does not worry about not having enough. It trusts, knowing that it has all that it needs in this very moment.  And the next moment will bring more of what it needs to allow it to respond to life. And this intrinsic truth is also true for us: each moment brings us all that we need.  Even if there may be much we could worry about, or the answers to our questions seem unimaginable, untenable, ungraspable,  in truth, at each crossroad, we are given what we need for that moment.  At every stage we find the strength, the courage, the inner guidance to steer us to our destiny.  This promise is given to us, is reflected in nature, is demonstrated over and over in our courageous lives.  It is not the worst-case scenario that drops us to oblivion, it is our worry over its possibility.

Listening, as I have learned to do in the company of trees has taught me to be present in each moment to hear the inner guidance, to trust the inner voice that leads us to better possibilities than we could imagine for ourselves.

This time of unfoldment is unprecedented for most of the world.  Fighting it makes the process more uncomfortable; allowing for it to unfold like a flower of many, many petals will bring wonder and delight.

Blessings

 

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The winds of change blow in with the Northeast wind today.  I feel the excitement of change, and of opportunity.  This moment comes to me as the ethereal changeover from summer to autumn brings swirling leaves, soaring raptors, and new Autumn smells on the wind.  I want to be out in this energy and see where it blows me.

I feel a sense of momentousness in the elder trees as I walk in the woods these days.  There is much they would share.  They have a message for us.  

To that end, I will share here a message that was given to me from a friend.  It was a spontaneous vision that came to her.  I respect her work and will pass on her words.  When she connected to this vision, she connected to what she refers to as "Cosmic Great Beings."

There are energies channeling through the Great Beings Heart into our dimension that are a powerful force of energy that is being received by every Great Tree Being on the planet.  This light energy feeds them sustenance and gives keys or codes for drawing in more energy.  This energy aids them in their work in their specific bioregion and plane.

We can connect to this light energy and field by connecting to our hearts.  When we connect to our hearts, we will find that each Great Tree Being is tuned into this field as well. We are connected to each of them through the unified field.  Here, we are of service.  Here, we become aware of the oneness of human existence, Oneness with all of the planet.

And to bring the knowledge of Oneness to human existence is a great purpose of our co-creation with the Great Tree Beings; another purpose is to aid in human comprehension of the power of the forces of creation; and how the knowledge of Oneness activates energy in our own fields. This energy increases our ability to generate abundance with the elemental realm for the greening of the planet.

(I get the sense in listening to her say this that our difficulty in comprehending, until now, our connection and our oneness with all of life has interfered with our ability to connect to, comprehend and appreciate the power of Creation within and without.)

We who read this blog, or who find in their hearts a calling to listen to the whispers of the earth are invited to consciously and with intention join the Great Beings efforts for life-giving balance, join them to amplify and accelerate the energies that restore the resonance of the various bio-fields of the regions of the earth. This intentional focus can be extended to the life of the oceans, great bodies of lakes.

I share this message with gratitude.  I am grateful for the gift of the message, the gift of the unified field to which we all can connect in our hearts; I am grateful for all of you who contribute with your vision of a unified and vibrant planet. This gift extends to all far more than we yet comprehend.

Blessings

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IMG_7460Walking as I do at night, my senses notice changes in sound and light more keenly. I notice, for example, the stages of the moon, its waxing and waning, its ascent and descent in the sky. Descending the hill prior to the new moon, as I will and did a few nights ago, requires a different kind of negotiation as the dark appears deeper in the apparent absence of the moon.  It requires more frequent stops to check overhead, to see variations in light patterns as it filters through the branches. It requires use of peripheral vision.  I also notice that my hearing increases. I hear the jumping of a frog off the trail as easily as the deer loping away - both can startle me equally. I hear the treetops gathering the wind in for conversation.

If I am too tired, or simply not trusting in my negotiating skills that night, I use my headlamp to avoid "losing my way." Actually, "losing" oneself is usually a gift of discovery.  But I have gotten off-trail un-announced often enough leading me to surprising turns that I don't assume I will always "know" the way, or greet it happily late at night.  Especially, in the dark of the moon, when the Way can feel unclear, un-illuminated; when my belief in my senses is dampened. Best to check often for other signs and patterns.

It was just such an occasion when I began to notice the patterns of the branches overhead. I glanced up while continuing to walk forward, and was awed by the beauty of the moving branches. It was me, of course, who was moving my feet, but it felt, in the growing dark, that the branches were the ones moving-traversing above me in a dance of light and dark, making new patterns in my brain as the black and white high contrast cards held up for infants.

While noticing these patterns one evening, it suddenly dawned on me that the branch designs could be, and probably were purposeful. They were purposeful in design and objective.  And being such they were effecting a new pattern of energy beneath their creation. These patterns were expressing a change of energy.  An example of this would be in the study of feng shui or bagua.  Well, the feng shui of the forest is a work in progress- with endless subtle adjustments during the period of growth and death.  It is Life and focused energy in motion, increasing our experience of Life in a forest. We might not intellectually know what is changed, or how we are effected.  But we leave the forest different than when we entered.

This past week, I witnessed another example of focused energy in motion, when, at the water's edge, 3 bald eagles circled overhead in an unseen air current. They circled higher and higher in their dance of wind, interweaving and moving to a choreography I did not know. I felt wonder. And like the open mind of the baby, received gifts, my conscious awareness changed. What formulas did that dance instill in my mind, so deeply opened by wonder?  Or for that matter, did the clouds above the eagle, as they shifted and changed, open in me? I don't know, nor do we need to.  We respond, listening to our inner dance and feel a shift.  It could be a shift of energy and consciousness, or a inner inspiration from Spirit,  Understood by the heart and soul.

There have been studies performed on the effects of intention on water as it froze into ice crystals showing beautiful designs effected by various intentions.  The questions above feel like a quest for the effects on consciousness in reverse.  What are the effects of focused attention on we humans from precise creative streams of attention? I choose to receive them with open heart like water particles.  I walk today attentive to the patterns surrounding me, opening to their blessings.  Yes, please let me hear your intentioned creations this day.

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A note on the above writing:  This writing is a collaboration of many conversations and writings and to them I give credit and thanks, as well as to the forest and spirit that inspires it.