My dear friend and Incan shaman, Kucho, has been in town for the past week. Tuesday night he conducted a beautiful, loving, gratitude-filled and blessing equinox ceremony surrounded by the mountains, trees and river of the Ogden canyon. Last night he offered a second equinox/sunset ceremony on Antelope Island in the Great Salt Lake. It was a very special location and a very special ceremony.

Kucho loves the lake and the island in particular. He said that it is a very powerful place that feels like Lake Titicaca in Peru. That’s quite a compliment given how much he loves Titicaca. I love to hike on the island, and have felt its mystical draw each time I have been there. The irony is that most people who live here think of the lake as dead, smelly, lifeless, and never would think to go there. What a difference it makes to see it through ones spiritual vision.

That is the blessing that Kucho always offers. He sees people and places through his heart and his spiritual eyes. Then he lovingly and patiently reveals the beauty, magic and harmony he sees to the rest of us.

Kucho reminds us that this is a time of dramatic change–not a time to be feared, but a new beginning to be welcomed. The hidden mysteries are opening to us. Spirit us awakening to those who are placing their attention there rather than on the material. Mother Earth is embracing us. Our Father is embracing us.

We can all come to see with spiritual eyes as Kucho does. We can all see spirit, beauty and harmony in everything and everyone. We can all add to that harmony. Open, open, open.

The essence of all spirituality is this: Complete and utter abandonment to the Will of God.

We must offer ourselves to God like a clean, smooth canvas and not worry ourselves about what God may choose to paint on it, but at each moment, feel only the stroke of His brush…It is the same with a piece of stone. Each blow from the hammer of the sculptor’s chisel makes it feel—if it could—as if it were being destroyed. As blow after blow descends, the stone knows nothing of how the sculptor is shaping it. All it feels is a chisel chopping away at it, cutting it and mutilating it. For example, let’s take a piece of stone destined to be carved into a crucifix or a statue. We might ask it: “What do you think is happening to you?” And it might answer: “Don’t ask me. All I know is that I must stay immobile in the hands of the sculptor…I have no idea what he is doing, nor do I know what he will make of me. But, I know his work is the best possible. It is perfect so I welcome each blow of his chisel as the best thing that could happen to me, although, if I’m to be truthful, I feel that every one of these blows is ruining me, destroying me, and disfiguring me…”

Leave to God what is His business and carry on peacefully with your work. Be quite sure that whatever happens to your spiritual life or to your activities in the world is always for the best. Let God act, and abandon yourself to Him. Let the chisel and the brush do their work, even though the brush covers the canvas with a muddle of colors, and the chisel cuts painfully, blow after blow.

(Jean Pierre de Caussade from The Inner Treasure by Jonathan Star)

A man walking along a high road sees a great river, its near bank dangerous and frightening, its far bank safe. He collects sticks and foliage, makes a raft, paddles across the river, and reaches the other shore.

Now suppose that, after he reaches the other shore, he takes the raft and puts it on his head and walks with it on his head wherever he goes. Would he be using the raft in an appropriate way?

No; a reasonable man will realize that the raft has been very useful to him in crossing the river and arriving safely on the other shore, but once he has arrived, it is proper to leave the raft behind and walk on without it. This is using the raft appropriately.
In the same way, all truths should be used to cross over; they should not be held on to once you have arrived. You should let go of even the most profound insight or the most wholesome teaching; all the more so, unwholesome teachings.

The Buddha, from The Essence of Wisdom: Words from the Masters to Illuminate the Spiritual Path by Stephen Mitchell

I will quarantee you that you will see and experience changes beyond your ability to imagine or anticipate in the next few years–unbelievable changes. The changes I’m talking about will affect the political, social, economic, and even the physical world around you. There will be no way to maintain your previous familiar life-style. And, of course, there is no way to strategize and prepare for unimaginable change. Depending on how you approach these changes, you will either be frightened and anxious, or calm and perhaps even excited: the changes will seem catastrophic or magical accordingly.

There is only one way to prepare for unimaginable changes, and that is to learn to flow. Flowing, is going with what is. In order to flow, you must first accept that you don’t know how things are, how they should be, or how they will be. You must accept that they will be just as they are, just as they arise. You will have to let go of any attachment to things being as they have been, or for that matter being any particular way at all. You will have to let go of any resistance to what actually is.

Then free of judgments, free of resistence, free of knowing, harmonize with and respond to whatever is–flow. It would be wise to begin this practice now.

A good friend sent me an newsletter yesterday she thought I would appreciate. The gist of the message was that we are currently on a bridge that stretches between the reality that we have known and lived in and the one that is arising. Isn’t that exactly how it feels–on every level?

I feel completely removed from the constructed world that bustles around me. I feel it fading further and further away each day. At the same time, while I can feel the new world drawing me toward it and into it, it still feels just out of reach.

All I can see to do is to move forward step by step across that transparent, etherial bridge…and trust.

“Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows by itself.”

Basho

I am forwarding this information to you just as it was forwarded to me. I hope you’ll join your energy to support this transforming event. Kathleen’s linked meditation offers a wonderful guide for this event…and any other moment.

Steve

 

Worldwide Solar Eclipse Meditation: Balancing the Feminine/Masculine
Visioning a World of Love and Peace

 

Hear our call!

There is a miraculous moment coming towards us, an opening so great that it has the potential to completely transform the crisis we face as a human family.

On July 21st 7:35pm PST in the United States

and July 22nd in Asia at 2:35am GMT the sun will be eclipsed by the moon for over six minutes.

This will be the longest solar eclipse of the 21st Century.

Given that the moon is the embodiment of the feminine, during this once in a century solar eclipse, her energies will be exalted, bringing her into equal partnership and balance with the solar, which represents the masculine. Through this remarkable integration, a new balance of the Divine Feminine and Sacred Masculine will radiate to the entire world.

This is an extraordinary moment for humanity to collectively co-create through meditation, intention, and visioning, a world of love, peace, harmony and equality for all.

Some astrologers say this solar eclipse is a time of shadows being lit up, untruths brought to the surface and accelerated awakening coming to fruition.

In addition, at this propitious time, the Black Madonna, the symbol for the oppressed, is also reemerging.

The solar eclipse has the potential to foster the liberation of all voices; voices of women, voices of indigenous brothers and sisters, and voices of all oppressed peoples. It is an auspicious time for these voices of wisdom and truth to be fully heard.

Please join us during this sacred eclipse to:

MEDITATE, PRAY, VISION, AND CO-CREATE THE NEW WORLD OF LOVE, HARMONY, EQUALITY, AND PEACE.

Please pass this message on to everyone who will resonate with this experience so that hundreds of us can become thousands and thousands become millions and we all can meditate together calling for the voice of the Divine Feminine to flow, thrive, and break through, in perfect balance with the Sacred Masculine at this propitious moment on our planet.

Join us!

For more information please go to my website www.SoaringInLight.com where there are links to the guided meditation on Youtube

Or go directly to Youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90p9CdDE8Ok

With love and blessings,

Kathleen McIntire

 

Can you feel the change accellerating? Mother Earth is opening her arms to us as never before. A new wave of consciousness is washing over us. And, we are changing too. It is necessary to shift your attention from the distractions and demands of the outside world to fully experience these changes. You have to move from your mind to your heart. From there you can sense the flood of new energy flowing into our world.

I haven’t written a blog in some time. In my last blog I said I wanted to watch what was happening in the world and examine who I was becomming. I have gotten lots of help. For one thing, my computer crashed and it took several weeks to correctly diagnose and repair it. Instead of being a bad thing, that has helped me to shift my attention. I have been more focused on experiencing the marvel and the magic. I also took a trip to visit family in the foothills and mountains of northern Georgia and North Carolina. I spent the entire time surrounded by green fields and mountains, streams, and lakes–the Mother. It was delightfully different than I expected.

Before I left on my trip, a friend felt urged to tell me about the book Serpent of Light by Drunvalo Melchizedek. I took it with me and read it. Wow!  That book led me to another of his books called Living in the Heart. Double wow! Both books have had an incredible impact on me (I’ll address that in a later blog).

What I have observed is that everything is changing at an exponential rate, and so am I. Coincidentally (ha ha), my wife, Jackie, was looking at something on my Facebook site and saw my bio there. She noted that none of what I had written there was at all relevant to who I am now: It was all about the past (schooling, profession, businesses, old books I’ve written, etc.). She urged me to change the way I present myself to more accurately reflect who I am now.

As usual, she was right, but I thought it would be quite an undertaking to make those changes. However, I sat down the other morning and it just flowed. As I wrote the new profile, I could feel my heart open. I felt a weight lifting from my shoulders. I felt a new congruency in the outside world. I highly recommend this practice.

I would like to introduce myself to you now:

I am aware that a new day is dawning on this planet and throughout all of creation. Day by day I realize that I know less and less. I try to empty myself of all beliefs, judgements, and prejudices that separtate me, and surrender to Being. I try to align and harmonize myself with Mother Earth, Father Sun, and all of our brothers and sisters on this earth and throughout all of existence.

I encourage others to release their limiting attachments and beliefs, and to live more simply, harmoniously, open-heartedly, and more aligned with Mother Earth and Spirit.

Isn’t that refreshingly simple? It sure feels better to me.

It’s a new day, and I’m a new man. I’m just watching and learning what that means.

These changes that are occurring are affecting you, too. They aren’t just changing the world we live in: They are changing us.  It isn’t the outside changes we make (new light bulbs) that will have the greatest effect, but rather the changes that take place inside us (a new sense of connection). Who are you becomming? Notice that.

I just returned from celebrating the equinox in the desert outside Moab, Utah with my Incan shaman friend Kucho and my local shaman friend Nick Stark. We kept all-night vigils beside a beautiful, roaring cedar fire, surrounded by redrock cliffs, snow-covered mountains, and the powerful plants of the desert. We put the sun to bed, watched the sky fill to overflowing with stars, marveled at the close-enough-to-touch quarter-moonrise, and greeted the rising sun. We witnessed nature and Spirit at their most magical.

The first night we conducted a very special equinox ceremony, connecting with other celebrants all over the world. Kucho reminded us that this particular equinox was a very special time, a significant part of the powerful change  that is now under way. We could feel that power. We felt a very strong connection with our brothers and sisters in the stars and with our creator. We felt our vibrations being lifted, and knew that we were leaving our old selves behind and leaving the ceremony as new men. We sent that powerful, loving energy we felt out to those we love and to all our brothers and sisters on this earth.

We spent the next night preparing and offering a pago (gift) to Mother Earth. We left a gift of thanks and our blessing in that sacred place. We left our gratitude planted there.

It was an incredible, life-changing experience. I have had several magical moments in my life, but I am usually alone when I experience them. One of the things that made this event so special was that I was able to share it with my two dear friends; that we could create that magic and share that magic together.

That magic is always waiting for us if we will only take the time and make the effort to invite it and then be present for it. How very fortunate we are.