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Random Rants on Relishing in and Relating to Reality

shadi.henau@gmail.com (Shadi Henau) — Fri, 25 Feb 2022 16:40:26 GMT

This morning I woke up to a dream of grown-up babies of all different ethnicities and skin colors being born and sitting in a circle, naked. It felt that the birth of the white/Caucasian person was particularly painful and difficult in my dream, while the other ethnicities were already sitting in the circle. I’m not sure what exactly to make of it but as the world’s current events unfold I find it powerful to see how so much of the impact on this planet and its people is directed by the hands of a few immature and greedy.

A limited number of predominantly white Caucasian humans are the heirs of a dysfunctional mindset that with their disconnection from Real Life on Earth tries to maintain a power-over structure that a majority of humans in urbanized and industrialized areas are - also through their cultural heritage - bound into. Large-scale indoctrination and mind-control are common practice now more than ever, as digital technology allows for behavioral data and population’s feedback to be more available to the entities that have an interest in using it.

It seems to me that a real birth process in the global North’s collective consciousness is taking place. The white person in my dream is trying to join the circle of Humans OF this Planet. Instead of humans on this planet. The symbolic inner colonizer is waking up to the reality that it’s not able to maintain power over its body, its world and its environment just to maintain an idea that there is not enough to survive on this planet. Life itself is the treasure. The abundant, ever-growing and hyper-diverse nature of Earth and Cosmos is the blessing. The potential to live in harmony with them and as them is where true satisfaction and purpose exists.

All the events taking place in global politics make me see even more how such a small group of people keeps trying to make the world their chess board, whatever the reason for their desire to play that game may be. And I’m also starting to see how each person on Earth has the powerful potential of choice-making to walk with integrity their own path, loose from the bonds and identity of being a part of a production and extraction-based machine. The social pressure of having to care and be a part of what the game of global industrialists play can stand in the way of that true soul desire of playing on Earth. And at the same time it’s such a powerful initiation to live on this Earth here and now, navigating the unique reality our soul has chosen to explore in this lifetime. To a certain extent we are all under the influence of the impact and choices governments and corporatocracy make. A spicy reality to navigate, and one that can offer us many learnings and blessings.

To me it really feels like a birth process is taking place. Contractions are happening. Things are feeling scary and exciting. I hope we will be able to have a birth at home, with a trained midwife and a warm bath, and not have to get to the emergency room for a potentially painful and hard delivery. The main question this brings up is: who will be the midwife?

I really believe 70 to 80% of the world’s people have an intention to live in peace with themselves, their environment and this world. To truly be in joy as a child of this planet. And we have so many wounds and conditionings that stand in the way of the manifestation and expression of the simple wisdom that living in connection offers us. The ways most humans have been taught to live, for such a long time already, is based on trauma. A friend and trauma specialist told me a few weeks ago: there’s the beautiful flowering creation of all that is, which we are and can tune in to, and then there is trauma of all sorts that impeaches us to do that. The mass global consciousness is mostly shaped by trauma, and it takes courage and willingness to take the steps to start to see the world through the lens of your own excitement. It really is like projecting and perceiving a whole different movie. I don’t mean to say don’t care about the war and poverty and discrimination and all the hardships this planet has in store. And at the same time there’s much more powerful ways of harnessing and directing all that energy that gets sucked into the collective black hole of trauma and trauma response. The game goes on and on, but we all have the power to choose in every moment how to work with the external reality. Do our own beliefs mean that we have to join the narrative that these events affect our reality, or can we use the awareness of our own beliefs to realign to different ways of responding to the world? To ways that may serve ourselves and our environment more? I know it’s a cliché by now, but can we be masterful enough to direct our own movie?

Of course we may be affected by the things that happen - it’s quite human to be empathic - and where is our excitement and where are our desires in relation to the experiences? One of Bashar’s many incredible pieces of life-giving advice is: “In every moment, act on your highest excitement to the best of your ability”.

I’ve had times in my life where this idea felt absolutely pointless, ridiculous and unreachable. I had absolutely lost any desire or confidence that life would offer me the gifts that today are so abundant. I had to walk through the deep and dark valley of forgetfulness and real desperation in order to find the courage to step into new directions. I had no idea that Bashar existed at that time, but the reality is that it’s exactly what I started doing, step by step, acting on my highest excitement to the best of my ability in every moment. It was painful at times, letting go of the old. And the magic and expansion that came in place has been mind-boggling and mind-blowing.

It may sometimes sound easy to ‘jump’ to a whole different reality and awareness all at once. And sometimes life can offer huge steps and healing/transformational experiences in a short period of time. Yet the magic of walking life with joy and creating a more juicy reality lies in every step you take. There’s a huge potential for transformation in every moment, in every tiny choice. Maybe we can’t change the world’s global politics and painful practices that so many people ascribe to, but we can choose to step in a direction that offers peace, that offers play, inspiration and joy. And our world will respond.

Training the capacity and trust to take action on your excitement is a muscle you can build, and the outside reality is like a web and mirror that reflects you and plays with you. Becoming confident that you are absolutely and fully meant to be here and now, in existence, as well as aware to how your outer reality responds to you and how you respond to it are key elements in becoming a masterful player in life. These times are particularly good practice...

Let Yourself Shine - 10 Tips to Allow the Fulness of You to Come Out and Play!

shadi.henau@gmail.com (Shadi Henau) — Sun, 08 Dec 2019 00:27:51 GMT

Tired of being consumed by modern society? Here’s ten ways to take steps into a more balanced way of living:

1) Relax in the moment

Being present and aware in this moment is the biggest and most important act of evolution we can be. A consumerist society tells us there is something lacking, and that by doing something, buying stuff and trying to aim for something else than what we have, we will make things right. Just like the distorted ways of mass religions told us to pay and pray for being forgiven to make up for non-existing sins. It is easy to get stuck in the hamster wheel of needing more, running around and doing things in order to satisfy your needs. Relaxing and being present with the moment is your strength. It is you saying: I am already fine with myself, how I feel and what I have, and I don’t need to prove or change anything about me to be a worthy and respected human being. Learn to relax, and to bathe in the knowing that you are and have enough. You will learn to receive, and in the receiving actually allow abundance to become real in THIS moment. This truly is a paradigm shift. Some people have the tendency to continue running towards something or away from something because otherwise they could experience a lack of money and their survival will be threatened. That’s where the next point comes in.

2) Give yourself space when you need something

Take your time to decide on buying, eating, drinking or consuming something. It can be fun to buy things, and the satisfaction is often short-lived. Make the distinction between consuming and investing. Will this service or product serve as an investment for your happiness and empowerment? Or is it just an impulse that will help you cover up something? May there be an uncomfortable feeling or thought driving you to buy this item? Of course there are many things we need in life, and putting yourself short of those things may not be necessary, yet it is a powerful skill to be able to discern which purchases are of true value in an environment which is constructed out of a lack paradigm, out to make us consume all the time, missing the true beauty and essence of this ever-present moment.

3) Learn to follow your bliss

This is another act of revolution that is deeply valuable. Life seems to be a hard mission in many places. Our investment in an old-fashioned paradigm that supposedly keeps us safe is often expected from our environment, an environment which is used to the status quo reality. Where would you like your energy to go to? As a sovereign being, do you allow yourself to feel deeply the value and power of YOUR time? Where our energy is focused on is what we usually create. If we deeply feel the RIGHT choice, by tuning in to what exites us most, synchronicities will manifest as we bring in the energy that is aligned with ours in this moment. It's like a magnetic effect that simply creates the same frequency energetic templates, and thus allows for space to have those connections and energies to show up in the physical reality too. Take time to choose FOR yourself, and allow yourself to take small steps to trust your gut feeling for even small things. Do not fear that you will manifest ‘bad’ things if you feel bad. The things you wish for may be slower to come into your life, as you are creating more energetic distance between how you feel when you have those things and how you are feeling now. Be bold, and choose for yourself.

4) We all have enough to thrive

It’s not because you choose for yourself that another loses. On the contrary: deep down, they will feel your authentic alignment and may be able to create their own version of that vibration for themselves, by themselves. It might feel like you are being selfish at first, but choosing for your highest excitement is an act of generosity and empowerment for yourself and the ones around you. How can someone truly benefit from your presence or from a favor they are asking you, if you are not really willing or able to truly give it to them? Similarly, if you are following your highest excitement, others may vibrationally align with what you are putting out.

5) Respect the old so you can welcome the new

There is no way you can be free from something you’re unhappy with if you are giving it your energy. I once read that in order for the wolf to save its cub from the enemy, it would have to keep the cub in its mouth and focus on its mission of saving its offspring. Had it chosen to fight the attacker, her cub would have fallen on the ground and might have been dead as a result.

The ways on which the ‘modern-day’ societies are built are simply out of alignment. They have their value, but more and more people are understanding that life itself is simply not supported by the ways consumer-based structures operate. It can be a painful and often confusing paradox to be tuned in to a deeper understanding of existence and to simultaneously be surrounded by the desperate attempts of consumer politics to keep at bay the true expression of humans, and the amazing potential we all hold as a society. Change is the only constant in life, so welcome the new ways that we are all co-creating in this time, and understand that the old systems are being transformed as more and more of us take the jump to personal empowerment. Old systems, just as old belief systems inside of our personal and/or collective consciousness, were adopted during a time when they made sense, in or before this lifetime. As we create new ways through our personal journeys, more and more alternatives become available for the population of this world at large. Like this, energetically the collective energy field of our planet becomes more ready and receptive for the embrace of what we came here to birth: a life that supports the true expression of love. Step by step, by doing the inner work and allowing the outside reality to adapt, we can feel more and more at home on this amazing planet called Earth. Then there can be only love for the ways that brought us here, because without them we wouldn't.

6) Feeling is healing

Feeling is healing, healing is dealing. That’s a quote from a book by Barbara Marciniak, and it’s always been with me since a good friend emphasized the line while we were sitting in a forest on Mount Shasta, California. By allowing our feelings to exist, we can be channels of energy that we are created to be in this body. Emotion is ‘energy in motion,’ so when you think that feeling means you are weak, be sure that that’s an old paradigm belief system trying to hold you down. Feeling means you are powered up by your life force, connected in the great web of energetic intelligence that sparks all of life. The body knows this, because it is designed to be that channel, but old paradigm programs of disempowerment will tell us that showing emotions means you are weak. Another lie that represents the distortions of modern-day society that we will let go of in the big purge, as we evolve into a more empowered life form.

It could be said that the long-time repression of feeling may spark powerful volcanic eruptions in our emotional being for a period of time, as we ‘detox’ and our power awakens. It's good to understand that this is a process that you can speed up by following your bliss and raising your vibration, but his may be hard at first as long as the emotions are very strong. Giving yourself time to process feelings without expectation or 'management', as well as allowing for fun and amazing experiences to show themselves through choosing your highest excitement work hand in hand. We recommend learning some tools for emotional processing and offering yourself the space to move thorugh them as needed.

7) Healing is access

'So what is all this healing really leading to?' - 'Do I need to be healed?' - etc. - are questions you may ask yourself. The answer is no, you don't need to. Many people think healing is something heavy, something you have to undergo for long years full of suffering until you finally reach your goal and everything is good, easy and safe. Forever... Big joke - here's why:

The universe is conspiring with us at all times, as we are a cell of it creating life through it. If we choose to believe healing is pain, then it will be that. It also seems to me that this is an old belief that stems from years of trauma and suffering in our civilization’s collective consciousness. In the new paradigm, though, we understand that everything is here to help us, and the funny thing is that love always wins. It is designed that way. In this sense, love works magnetically, and resisting its pull can ask for a great deal of energy. Healing is access to the bigger you, to the power of love that exists within you, the one who is already aligned with the cosmic oneness and their soul's reality. Healing means creating access to our spiritual nature, and there is a lot of fun and bliss involved in that, once we fully own who we are and what we came here to be. Once we accept that and lovingly own our power and potential, love can unfold itself ever more beautifully through our being, in every day. So yes, healing is fun. And it's also hard work as we move through the trauma and do the inner work necessary for the fulness of our being to embody this life again.

8) Learn to speak the language of love

Words are precious, and it is good to use them in that way. We’ve been taught to communicate and think in words only, yet love speaks in many ways. Spoken and written language are some aspects of that, but words might often take away from the deeper meaning of things. They might put an experience or feeling into a box, turning them into something defined. Although that might be useful in many ways, it’s also lovely to enjoy the ever-changing nature of existence through feeling it, and allowing the conditioned mind to not define/confine the reality you are experiencing for a moment. You may find that your body and heart are in constant communication with all that is. The conditioned mind may not be aware of this communication of love and spirit that is all the time happening; it merely knows how to play in the reality it was taught to operate in. As we become more present in our body we can experience more of the endless array of feelings and wisdom that is all around, and that can be channeled into words. But it will still be an approximation. Sometimes it can be helpful to keep some of that wisdom in the untold space, not turning it in to something mental and limited using words. Like this you can abide in that space, and then your word will be more valuable when you are using it.

9) Create abundantly

You are and always have been a creator. That’s who you are because you are a part of creation. Everything is always expanding and evolving, creating itself. Because you exist you are a part of that, so you are constantly creating with creation. Your reality is a personal creation, decided on during and before this life. Aligning your actions with your highest excitement will make the creative process more effortless, as you feel that you bring in more of your completely unique essence. Even better: you will be overflowing with inspired energy that charges you, and cannot be restrained. In that energy flow, creating HAS to be abundant, and you do it simply by showing up and being yourself exactly as you know you are. Once you are in that flow, there is no way creation can be stopped. Love always wins.

When creation becomes co-creation as we are aligning with others who are in the same flow, our creations grow exponentially: the result is more than the sum of its parts.

10) Breathe and smile

Respiration means re-spiriting yourself. Aspiring something is breathing for it, living for it. Being that what you aspire in every breath.

When life becomes hard, your breath is always there. It is the hand of spirit held out for you to grab and be guided and loved, so you can come back home inside with the spirit present. Without spiritual connection we have lost our nature, where we are coming from. Life force energy stops to flow... We embodied in flesh and bones and created a journey in density for ourselves, embodying into duality. Yet all is always one, past light and dark, so remember to breathe into that space and enjoy the ride. You’ve got this!

Remembering Ritual

Thu, 18 Jul 2019 14:54:34 GMT

About giving life to love and ending up loving life

When I first started studying with Francisco Puac - Maya cosmovision teacher and wisdom keeper at Lake Atitlan, Guatemala – I wasn’t entirely sure about what to call the Maya temples. People call them ruins, archaeological sites, ancient cities or sometimes temples. My teacher told me he prefers the name ‘ceremonial site’. Sure, these sites were cities where high numbers of people lived, and also they are massive energetic centers. Here’s why: the Maya temples were physical reflections of the extensive and expansive cosmic knowledge the Maya culture had developed. Their priests had journeyed in realms out of the physical and brought back knowledge about the architecture of the cosmos. They then translated the knowledge into a tangible structure for human awareness.

This translated itself on numerous levels: the different Mayan calendars (one of which, the ceremonial count, is 260 days long and helps to attune ritual and human consciousness to the larger cosmic cycles), the Mayan mathematical system (based on the number 20), physical architectural concepts representing the layout of the cosmic energies, as well as advanced agricultural systems. They also documented a lot of this knowledge (and myths representing it) using their evolving glyph writing, much of those scriptures burnt and decimated by the Spanish invader.

Before the domineering force of the dysfunctional patriarchal archetype decided to rule over earth, almost all the cultures on earth have been venerating a wisdom inherent to earth. A wisdom with true energetic power that was sacred and aware. The patriarchal forces somehow decided to undermine this sacred energy and cause havoc in the repression of its power. They have gone to great length in a long-standing effort to dominate a power that, if it is honored, creates harmony, balance and grounding, and it becomes a joy for the awareness to be of service to this energy. Ancient cultures were very much in tune with this, and they held sacred the so-called dark energy of the earth. The same energy that has been shamed, repressed and made bad by the church and the patriarchy for many years, leaving aimless the consciousness that is wanting to evolve together with this sacred power it is trying to dance with.

As we tune in to the power of our consciousness to serve love and evolve with it, we can start to soar. There is nothing better than that; there is nothing more fascinating and captivating than serving love. The service to love becomes an anchor for life to create through us the world we have chosen to incarnate in, but cannot see reflected yet as most people are tuned in to parasite consciousness as provided by the consumer model that creates an artificial sense of scarcity and urgency to perform or survive. Through ritual we can again connect to the true values of life such as connection, brother/sisterhood, creativity, peace, gratitude, connection and even bliss. We can connect to the rhythm and the pace of organic evolution, as deep down we have always known it to exist.

Many of the earth’s cultures have consciously lived the dual nature of spirit in body, and have understood that there only is real depth to existence when all polarities are honored and able to work together. They created ritual spaces to thank the ancient knowledge that was alive in the earth and the ether, and to communicate with them. And they created huge ceremonial centers for doing so. Look at the pyramids of the ancient Egyptians, the goddess temples of the Mediterranean legacies, the stone circles and power spots all over North Western Europe, the immense amounts of ceremonial sites all over the American continent and countless temples all around Asia. And then of course all the nature sanctuaries and native altars - known and unknown to us - all over this globe.

Ceremony has been a formal and informal part of human connection, and a big part of our identity as ‘earth beings’. Rituals are a place of remembrance and honor to who we are: part of a big breathing organism (earth) and part of a great cosmic web that always evolves. We are intimately connected with the rhythms and cycles of both earth and cosmos, and the Maya’s knew this through their astral journeys out of the body. They then created a tangible structure for tuning in to the cosmic and earthly rhythms. The Ceremonial Sites are massive places to offer rituals and honor the all-that-is that lives through us, and a reflection of that cosmic knowledge engrained in the earth. They then were super charged by many rituals and the intention they carried. This can be perceived very much when visiting the sacred sites.

Nowadays, many of the temples of the world have been forgotten. Many sacred sites are now called ‘archaeological zones’ or even ‘ruins’. They have even, in the most intense cases, become tourist attractions that mindlessly negate the true purpose and power of these places. The often needed income for the locals of these places, together with a global sense of disconnection and commercialization have turned these sites into profitable ventures. Guides will gladly explain archaeological facts and finds and entertain visitors, but the deep veneration of the wisdom, and the intimacy of the spirits of these places has been forgotten by a culture of parasite consumerism, and is now often not felt or understood.

What we aim to do during our sacred site travels, is to journey back to the place before that. We come with an intention to honor the sacred energies and embrace the gifts we may have for each other: they for us and we for them. At the temples, we create a short ritual using traditional ceremonial offerings, led by a local elder who knows the sites well. We offer our time and presence, our energy, to the sacred sites (luckily no human offerings J) where deep transformation may take place. We engage in a more in-depth interaction with the sacred sites and their spirits, and visit the place in a meditative and gentle way. For this reason, we usually go there on weekdays and arrive early, so the energy of the place can be felt properly before the arrival of more tourists. We also visit small sites and unknown places of power in different places and cultural areas of Guatemala, as an inquiry to the different ways the Maya-cosmovision and tradition have taken shape in contemporary daily life within the culture.

The ancient spirits of the land are present in any place on earth, whether in sacred sites or not. Whether in Guatemala or Zimbabwe or Russia or the Netherlands. They live and breathe the essence of a place, and wish to assist the people of that place with their transformational power. For that, they have to be remembered. Ritual and pilgrimage have been a way to do this since ancient times, and that is what we offer as a ‘contemporary travel agency’ J.

These guardian spirits I am addressing are real and they hold us sacred, they are there to help us and they love it when we thrive. They may come when we honor and appreciate them, when we recognize them and hold them sacred for their help and assistance. What this means is: these spirits are so wise that they won’t come and do anything we don’t want or we don’t ask for, because that would be violating our right to sovereign decision making. What we tend do in ritual is remembering their existence, honoring them, and receiving what they may have to give.

When we look at sacred sites as ceremonial sites, they are actually a place made for this veneration and so they become energetic centers. We are, as humans, an essential element in creating a space where love and awareness can ground on earth. We are conduits for love and we can channel intention powerfully, with the help of the guardian spirits and the ancestors. The ancient cultures knew this and like this created their temples: spaces where the divine is honored, where the greatness of life is recognized and remembered. In temples around the world, love and cosmic awareness was received, channeled, shared and activated. One can connect with the sacred sites and temples around the world and travel there, as well as connect to the inner temple of the body that carries its wisdom. One Spirit offers ceremonies and trips that facilitate both those aspects: more adventurous (outward) sacred site travels; as well as rituals holding space for reconnection to inner wisdom, power and love using ceremonial grade Cacao as a tool for journeying.

Interested in knowing more about Mayan cosmology?

Listen to an inspiring interview with Francisco Puac here

The Power of No

Sun, 30 Jun 2019 19:04:33 GMT

A relate on boundaries and how they work

I had been working with this mental idea of healthy boundaries in my own personal journey for a number of years; having gone from no boundaries whatsoever to blocking any connection completely, and everything in between. I kept trying to make sense of the concept, hoping to find a way that was healthy and most of all respecting of my inner being. I hoped that I would find a way to manage my boundaries which would work on a daily basis, a way that would hold my essence sacred and would also allow me to connect with the world in a way that makes sense. It was hard. I kept looking for that one way that would work out, and the universe kept showing me how much I wasn't getting it. I went from wanting to surrender completely to my partner's wishes thinking that's what love would do, to not wanting any eye contact with anyone, and other interesting and weird ways of trying to manage connection with others in an inquiry to make sense of this concept of personal boundaries. Many times, I felt too vulnerable to open up and had to own the fact that I needed personal space more than anything. At other times, I needed to push through what I thought were boundaries just to have life show me that I can have some fun. Sometimes I would just be open to all and get totally drained. All of these experiences were useful and valid in my inquiry, but none of them actually felt right.

It took some deep explorations and inner connection with the body’s wisdom to be able to transition out of this mental idea of boundaries (which are more like blockages) into an energetic and alive concept of boundaries. I will explain what I mean by this a little more in-depth in this blog post, and add some ideas and tips. Of course I have had my journey and you have yours, so I hope this post will be useful for you to engage in your own personal process of creating healthy, breathing boundaries, in your own unique and perfect way.

The first thing I'd share is something really important that’s often negated in spiritual new-age lineages: all these concepts of inner wisdom and energetic awareness are body-related. We are, in our wholeness, a manifestation of the all-one's deciding to journey in a body, and feelings are our soul's language in this world. Mind wisdom can be very valuable to a certain extent, especially if it allows us to reconnect with the wisdom of the body temple inside. For this reason, mentally-sourced boundaries are minimal in its power and efficiency compared to allowing the body temple to honor its own boundaries. The body knows what is needed, and has a powerful intelligence of how energy works, which nearly always precedes the mind’s capacity to interpret what is needed. Inner reconnection work may be needed to have the body temple be sensitive and confident enough to be confident in voicing and clearly speaking its wisdom, because we have been trained to be more comfortable when the mind is in charge. Letting the body speak may be uncomfortable or frightening at first, but she knows what is up in the energetic realms and is attuned to the divine mystery in a very intimate fashion.

First tip to finding your boundaries: create a connection to the body, learn to respect her and her innate wisdom, and allow the time she needs to regain trust in the mind. Don't try to get anything or need it to go anywhere. Like this, you'll create safety and comfort in the body.

Second, observe your current concept of ‘healthy boundaries’. Are you aware of whether you rigidly decide what is right and what not, and what the reason may be you choose this way over the other. May there be an unresolved issue hidden in the subconscious looking for reconciliation? Do you block certain experiences without knowing why, even though there may be a layer of excitement and growth below the pain? Do you feel drawn to a certain experience, and then block once you get close to the possibility of it becoming reality? These can be good opportunities to go past the blocks, if you're held by loving people who will respect you, your inner power and your process. There is definitely no need to blame anyone if you feel triggered, much more to share your experience and see if maybe it can get reprogrammed by you not playing out the same cards as you are used to. There might not be the need to change anything about what you do or how you see the situation, but to merely listen to what this trigger brings to you is valuable.

Second tip: create space for personal journeying with pain and triggers. Listening to what the energy has to say may be helpful, and allowing and moving through emotions related to what triggers you is usually worth your time. Trust the process.

Three: Stay healthy in the way you treat your inner world. Remember, you came into this world as a loving child that was divinely connected in any moment. The one that decided to shield itself in order to survive is an intelligent being, and they had no other choice in this messy reality of planet earth. Rushing, putting pressure on yourself or blaming yourself for doing or not doing things the way you think they need to be done is not creating safety for the divine one inside that knows how to heal when it's ready. Create a safe environment of love and nourishment for the little one to grow and regain its power and connection to magic in life. Then you can be safe, and feel clearly what is true to you. From there, healthy boundaries can start to exist again; now there are no parents to tell you what is right and what not, and you are the one that calls the shots. No-one else knows your inner worlds like you do, and no-one claims your divine right of free will. When ready, the healthy and mature person can choose to create a safe space for the wonderful and playful kid to explore the magic of this world in peace and harmony. They really need each other: the mature one to respect and honor the inner worlds by taking space and creating healthy boundaries and interactions, and the young one to come out and play within those boundaries that hold the sacredness. Boundaries aren’t forceful barriers, but a living, breathing and transforming thing that has an intelligence. And the purpose of it is to hold sacred the divine love that manifests itself inside of them safely.

Third tip: saying no to something or someone actually means saying yes to your truth. It also means that if you say yes, you actually want to be there, creating harmony and magic. It's where you can actually love yourself and another simultaneously.

Last insight on personal limits is this: try to see boundaries as an intelligent membrane or living being which has intelligence. It knows when to open, expand, change, morph, close, adapt, connect, and so on. At the edges of those limits there is a field of interconnection, of intelligent sensory awareness that feels and interacts with the world around you. They truly are like sensory antennas that live as a living extension of your body. They constantly transmit energetic information and interact with the world. And when you feel safe, you can fully listen to what they have to say and harbor safe space for love to exist within them. And you can have meaningful and transformative interactions with others where both of you thrive. You can connect with others in a sacred way, owning your desires and boundaries.

Fourth tip: listen to the signs you feel and respect them, knowing that they may change again. Trust the mystery.

Hoping you had a great read, I'm sending love for your journey and honored to be a part of it. Shadi.

Feelings are the Language of the Soul

Sun, 09 Jun 2019 11:46:43 GMT

9 tips for Highly Sentient Persons to remain connected to their essence in times of change

More and more people seem to be highly sensitive in our contemporary society. What would be the meaning of this? What could one do with this increased capacity to feel? How can you manage the reality of western society with this amazing quality that is often unseen by the mainstream?

According to Mayan cosmology - and many other esoteric lineages - we are in a time of great transition. The ‘end of the world’ was announced in myriad ways during the years leading up to 2012, and this was depicted in movies, theories, books, etc. inside and outside of the new age-scene globally.

What is the real meaning of this 2012 thing and how does this apply to being sensitive? Actually, what happened was that December 21st, 2012 wasn’t the end of the world – that’s clear – but the tipping point of two very long cycles or calendars. The Mayan calendar system was built through extensive astral traveling and ceremonial ways of connecting to cosmic awareness here on Earth, and one of the longer cycles or calendars is a cycle of 26.000 solar years. Within that 26.000 year cycle there’s also 5 times a 5.200 year cycle. Both a 5.200 year cycle and a 26.000 year cycle finished on that specific date.

For the rational mind, it’s hard to grasp this, as we may believe that such a cycle stops and the next one starts immediately. But of course, changes in these long eras are gradual. We can’t just jump from one era straight into the next; it would cause too much chaos and disharmony in our personal lives and in global societies. Instead, we are now going through a collective time of change and transition. A transition from a time of domination and abuse to a time of harmony and realization of our collective soul’s journey here on earth.

Highly Sensitive Persons are here with a unique journey, and are an intrinsic part of the collective energy finding its new way. They help creating a new and more sentient society, which through its transition will become more connected to the earth again. They are, among other things, here to help the human collective consciousness remember that we are an intimately connected part of a living being – planet earth – that has huge awareness and power.

This may not be an easy journey. Yet they are essential parts of the whole, and have a unique role in collective evolution on this planet in this time of great transition. Here are some easy ways to stay connected to true power if you feel highly sensitive – or sentient - within a society that has forgotten to feel life.

1) BREATHE

This is the number one tip for all and any . It may sound really stupid - or really deep - but being aware of your breath is the greatest tool of connection to THIS MOMENT where, from the soul’s perspective, nothing is ever wrong or even less than perfect. Breath is the essence of Spirit flowing through you, re-spiriting you in this moment. Being aware of your breath and not forcing the airflow in any way makes you be spirit, the observer of your ever-changing nature. Especially in times of distress, always come back to your breathing without engaging with it on how to breathe, be, appear, etc.

2) Feel your feet

Your feet are, just like your hands, the tools that allow you to create, move, manifest, dance, etc. within this physical reality. They are what holds you, and they give you freedom to explore this world. Feeling them on the ground is like accepting the fact that you are here because you chose to - on some level - and that you are here for a reason. That reason is to simply but fully be you, in any way you feel excitement about being you. Your unique you that has exactly the pieces of the puzzle that others you interact with need. Stand firm and breathe in the earth. She wants you, all of you!

3) Stand strong

Modern society is very much focused on competition. Competition and division go hand in hand, and it is through dividing the human collective spirit (which essentially is connected and tribal) that power over people can remain. This is not you, so giving up the battle will actually cause love to flow through you. The paradox is that in the vulnerability there lies lots of strength. Real strength, which is a manifestation of love and unity, not the old or abusive strength that holds resentment and has to protect itself for the same kind of abuse that it impacts others with. In its real sense, standing strong is being in love fully. Being in love with existence and all of its sacredness.

4) Say no

As a natural result of this previous point, it becomes second nature to feel what is right for you as a being that harnesses love. Literally, you will harness love, and abusive energies are no longer in your life, because they simply don’t feel fit. So you say no. And saying no is all about fully owning your yes for the things that are important to you, the things that do nourish and stimulate you and the love that you are. Feelings are the language of the soul…

5) Follow your excitement

Saying no is not about hurting someone, it is about you following your desire for something more aligned, something more for you. Fully. Your excitement will simply guide you and the purpose of your time here on earth will show itself as you allow yourself to be guided. Simple. And this is exactly the power that highly sensitive people hold; they have an innate capacity to deeply feel. As you own up to your power to follow your guidance, miracles will appear on a daily basis. And you can become a true example of a living lifestyle reflecting the divine in everyday life. Keep flowing with it!

6) Learn to surrender

Miracles do happen, but life on earth is a cradle of divine mess at any rate. We are here to experience, after all, and nobody said it was easy. The paradox of a dual existence and being in a physical body with its (often) limitations is challenging. And even though from a soul perspective everything is always perfect, in daily life shit gets rough and nasty most of the time. Be prepared to face the shit and to remain tuned in to the essence that you are; learn to observe first , and surrender to the knowing of all being in order.

7) Stay connected with your tribe

Highly important is to reach out to your tribe and your soul connections, and to stay connected with them. This is an act of self-care and empowerment, usually for everyone involved. A part of being vulnerable is learning to reach out, and share what is in your heart. Like this, others can create a web of support and love around you, and they will feel the same coming back to them too. What goes out must come back in one way or another. It’s OK to own that life is a cradle of mud sometimes, and to express gratitude as well as frustration (or anything in between) about your own experience.

8) Learn the tools

Learn tools to process your emotions. Learn to hold (s)pace for your transformation, and create space for yourself to deeply feel when you are going through periods of transition. If you find yourself often in cities or places where feeling may be unusual or shamed, pay extra attention to your emotional needs and own them. Sometimes even a quick escape to the bathroom can cause miracles. Also, learn to work with your shadows. Learn to look at them with love, and observe them without necessarily engaging in them. See them for what they are and learn not to shun the shadows, as they carry tremendous power that can be of use once we know how to be with it.

9) Be the journey

Sometimes lasting decisions need to be made. But the underlying current of all evolution is that it is evolving. All is change; Panta Rhei . This is inevitable, and you are that essence of evolution too! The rational part of you may be afraid of that, but the reality is that it does not know how to hold the essence of the ever-changing nature of life. Only the feeling knows how to flow with that; feelings give us energy, and guide us at the same time. They are creative energy, and the brain is a part of that creativity too. But the rational mind can’t rule the show, else it creates a world of fear and control. Fter all, the divine is out not to get you, but to create with you the most blissful and pleasurable way of life on earth. That is faith, so just simply be your unique journey with all its qualities and pitfalls, and breathe to open up and to feel it at all times. Enjoy the rollercoaster ;)

Parallel Realities in Everyday Life

Mon, 20 May 2019 16:43:15 GMT

A short guide on desire and how to act on it

I spent many years shutting myself off and staying inside physically and energetically, not acting on the thousands of desires that came through me - out of fear or pain. The day that I jumped and decided to go traveling, my whole body started to relax. As I decided to follow more and more of my desire, more and more parallel realities became available to me. A very down-to-earth example of this: I went and traveled in Spain with no idea where to go, except for a small-scale organic farm where I’d be volunteering for two weeks. There I met a travel buddy who wanted to go to an off-grid commune, where we were led effortlessly without even knowing exactly where it was. Here, lots of healing took place for me and the first layers of pain started to loosen up. This magical place was a total world of its own, one that I had never expected to encounter. But simultaneously, it already existed, and I simply jumped into it and started to blend in as another co-creator, in turn evolving together with the place until I left. The funny thing is that these parallel worlds exist all over, and they are not an airy out-there idea that we need to stress ourselves out to find. Allowing ourselves to truly be aware of our desire, which Malidoma Patrice Some so beautifully calls “a horse that wants to take you on a journey to Spirit,” gives us the possibility to start seeing these realities, and thus be able to create with them synergistically.

We are, in essence, multidimensional beings. The idea that the third dimension or material plane is not connected, sacred or divine is a projection of the repressive and abusive concept that human beings are subordinates to a God-force. As a result of this programming, the idea emerges that the physical is somehow less divine, less alive, than the spirit realms. The third dimension and the physical plane are only a small aspect of creation, and the material plane is a result of energy and spirit choosing to embody in matter. And that matters!

As a spirit being, a part of existence, we are in constant communication with spirit, with all that is. Our choices and ideas, our thoughts communicate in a constant web of intelligence of which we are transmitters and connectors. In this big switchboard we can choose to connect wires in different plugs, and make connections with other realities within this reality. This happens all the time: as we choose to meet up with one person or another, a different interaction will take place, shaping our path and reality in a different way as a result.

As we align our awareness to the innate capacity we have to manifest with our choices, we attract new realities in the third dimension, because they are simply a result of our communication and alignment with spirit (which lives in all). The truth is that parallel realities exist all over the place, all the time, and that we only have to step out of our boxed-in and rationally defined reality in order to see them and move into them. This is not an airy, out-there process of shifting, realigning, working hard and meditating on them endlessly. It is about knowing that these realities already exist in this now, in this physical world, because they exist inside of us. And they show effortlessly.

We all have experienced this in one way or another: even in a small town, or somewhere totally unexpected, the weirdest encounters or discoveries happen. All of a sudden, we might find ourselves connecting to new friends or ‘accidentally’ having a very special and resonant encounter. These are the doors of the third dimension opening themselves for a shift in resonance we have – consciously or subconsciously – communicated in the great web of interconnectedness.

Whether these kinds of experiences come to you ‘served on a plate’ or whether the mystery that works through us (cosmic interconnected beings in a body) brings you a strong charge to initiate an interaction, they are signs of the great spirit encouraging you to evolve, to love more and to embody more of the love that you are. This can be scary, as many of us were brought up in a society of division, but the jump is easy to take if you choose to act quickly on your desire. Waiting longer than 10 or 20 seconds usually makes it harder to act on your desire. Of course, acting on your desire doesn’t necessarily mean you will have it met. And also, it might happen that your day-to-day environment is not inspiring and you do not feel any desire to really connect with it, or the people around you. In that case, it might be a good idea to physically go and explore new places for a while, or to seek a community within your day-to-day reality that is more resonant.

“Desire Is A Horse That Wants To Take You On A Journey To Spirit.”

— Malidoma Patrice Somé

This brings me to another interesting concept: Spirit is actually always conspiring for us to be more of who we are in essence: the love that impermeates all of life. If resistance to our own strength and love exists, we’ll create pain in our experience. Ultimately, we are living in a free will universe and all our choices are valid.

Desire allows us to explore and nourish the wish of the soul, and behind that the intimate connection to the great force of infinite love that permeates and flourishes all of existence. If there is a burning desire, that really means something. Feelings are the language of the soul.

The reason why the desire is there or what it wants us to learn are usually unseen until it is acted upon, without expectations. Trusting the compass of beauty and energy inside is valuable, and it will lead to finding parallel realities much more blissful and free than the status quo reality we are fed by forces with a self-interest that is not in alignment to love.

The synergistic interaction of souls in the spirit of love and desire is much more powerful, and many worlds full of creative life force will be created as an effortless result of honoring desire. These parallel realities are available all over the place. We can choose to jump into new realities that feel totally amazing, and they might last for many years, or just a few moments in time. All of this is sacred, and it is our choice as creators to do what we feel fit and create our journey as we need it to be.

How Do We Give Back?

Thu, 09 May 2019 20:43:59 GMT

Find out how One Spirit supports local initiatives in Guatemala

After a very successful MAYA COSMOVISION CEREMONIAL TRIP in February and March of 2019, we decided to support the grassroots spiritual education project of local community leader and spiritual teacher Franciso Puac with a donation of 1500 US dollars. Also, many of the participants of our journey felt called to donate to this beautiful project, supporting the continuation of the Mayan cosmovision teachings with the children of San Pedro la laguna, Guatemala. Read all about it in this blog post.

Francisco, who's been guiding our past ceremonial journeys in Guatemala, is an engaged community leader with many years of experience in the field of education in the indigenous area of Western Guatemala. He was an assistant-coordinator for the national educational board of Guatemala for many years.

Francisco also runs a school where Mayan cosmology is taught to both foreign travelers as well as locals. We decided to sponsor his yearly educational project teaching children Mayan cosmology insights, its wisdom and cosmic connection.

One Spirit Journeys participants support this project through us. The One Spirit team donated 1500 USD towards this year’s Mayan cosmovision classes for the kids of San pedro la laguna.

What is Francisco's project all about?

Every year, during the months of November and December, the Guatemalan public school system is having its annual holidays. Francisco takes advantage of this time to offer a series of free Mayan Cosmovision classes for primary school kids. These classes are tailored to their ways of comprehending, and their needs in daily life.

Most importantly, the classes are taught in their own traditional Tzutujil language.

Francisco takes excerpts and quotes from the different Mayan codices and sacred texts, and makes them understandable for the kids. Also, they get to learn about the different calendar systems and how these are tied in with the local custom of fire rituals, now heavily burdened by evangelical missionaries and other church cults in Guatemala.

Francisco teaches the children the subliminal layers of significance buried in the local language, and thus helps them to attune, at an early age, to a way of seeing reality which is cosmically aligned. During this time, they also conduct ceremonies together in thankfulness to the nawales or day energies, and the spirit grandmothers and -fathers of their own culture.

Preparing for the upcoming teaching cycle, the ceremonial altar of the school will be refurbished and decorated with the symbols of the four cosmic directions as well as the 20 nawales. Also, kid-proof wooden tablet flipbooks with the nawales' symbols will be made, and school materials bought.

Why is this important?

The Guatemalan government, which is basically the Spanish colonizer's heritage, is mainly situated in Guatemala City. They have little or no feeling with the rest of the country. It's for this reason, and also because the Western Highlands were too rough to conquer, that the millennial knowledge and the tradition of Maya cosmovision have survived many years of conquest.

As of the last 60 years, another type of colonizer came in: consumerism. Assisted by the CIA and the USA's international development politics, the Guatemalan army violently repressed indigenous and other socially vulnerable groups in Guatemala for the better part of 30 years of civil conflict. They dismantled local community structure and killed nearly 200.000 over the course of what was called 'the interior armed conflict'. With the dismantling of the local community structure, a void was created that was to be filled up with the false promises of consumerist politics.

The concept of progress is a double-edged sword, especially in a place like Guatemala. Many people in Guatemala believe that, in order to function in a society drawn from the Western model, one has to be well-educated. Of course, with education come many possibilities and options for personal growth and development. And in rural Guatemala, in the first place that means learning to speak and write Spanish.

Spanish, however, is not the first language of many people in Guatemala, as there are around 35 indigenous Maya languages in Guatemala alone. Most people grow up speaking their ancestral language and - through the language which reflects a way of seeing reality - are connected to their own culture. But now, it is generally believed that learning and speaking Spanish will bring many possibilities and that the Spanish language is somehow superior. Many people thus forget their own language and end up stuck in a world which is not really theirs.

That is how development works, and conquers peoples and cultures: by dismantling or taking what is the birth right of humanity (tribe, connection, community) and then offering to fill up the void by providing stuff/services/etc...

Many local communities are aware of this and are doing their best to remain connected to their inner knowledge and their cultural heritage. By donating a percentage of our profits to Francisco Puac and his community Mayan cosmology school project, we are trying to help the local kids of San Pedro la laguna, by the Atitlan Lake, to remain connected to their ancestors' knowledge.

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How to Find Out if the Time is Now

Sun, 20 Jan 2019 21:45:16 GMT

Six powerful ways to figure out if you are ready to manifest a new life

Sometimes in life, we will go through times of great change. Times that appear when we have decided to let go of something that keeps taking up too much space in our life. In the West, many people are trained to be functional within a company, educational or legal structure, or an organization of some sort. This can be of value, if the individual performing the function is happy, inspired, and well. If this is not the case, and they – for whatever reason – decide to keep giving, working, going at it, life can get hard.

An uninspired (non-aligned) flow of energy output cannot be sustainable. This is what happens when people keep doing something that does not make them ‘light up’ or excite them. A classic example of this is burn-out. Burn-outs are great teachers; they are our higher self announcing that our time – our life - is valuable, that our own inner energy is life and that we have denied ourselves access to it.

When this happens, it may be necessary to allow open space to exist without any necessity to keep our program filled up with many things, just so we can come back to ourselves after a period of heavy external focus. Consciously or unconsciously we can create this time to relax, to come back in alignment with our highest purpose in life.

When that time-space is created (through the form of a burn-out or any other way), it may be perceived as an emptiness. Where is our purpose? What we were investing our time and energy in before is no longer an option in this time. Nonetheless, once the letting-go process has continued for a while we can rest in the space that is created. When we accept that this time, this life, is ours , and we embrace it as a blessing, we can rest and release the stress of our previous ways of relating to life, to our profession or to ourselves. Once we are aligned with our own pure energy (which is always available if we take time to allow it), the openness and freedom can bring many ideas and insights. We might find ourselves increasingly inspired and connected to a creative flow. Connection to this flow is what make an artist a true artist. And through this flow, which is innate to all beings in existence, we can become an artist in anything in life. We can become an artist of life.

Often times it is hard to keep up with the flow of ideas and inspiration when we find ourselves in this space; it may seem as if so many ideas and projects and plans and fun things can be manifested when one is in the ease and flow of life energy. It may seem as if millions of ideas and thoughts of great pleasure and potential exist, and all of them are potentially real! Where to focus our energy then? There are infinite ideas and options for life’s beauty to expand through each and every one of us, but which ideas to nourish – and why?

Because bringing a project down to Earth is not an easy task and involves a lot of hands-on work, it is important to really allow time and space to tune in to what is valuable for you in your life choices. Any kind of venture or idea usually takes around three years to get started and build a momentum. Look at this through an analogy: a cart full of stones weighs a lot. It takes a fair amount of consistent hard pushing to get it going. Those are the (at least) three early years of putting in lots of work and connecting with others involved in your idea. Once the cart has some momentum, the pushing requires less effort but still needs to be consistent. After a number of years, your venture, business, project or idea might have created so much momentum that all is in motion and the cart requires hardly any pushing. It will be moving so strongly that it might even be pulling you when you have periods of less or no energy investment. It takes a while to get there, and for that reason it is important to consider a number of things before going ahead and jumping into a project that might need a lot of investing. Investing can mean time, money, effort, or energy in general.

Here are a number of pointers to help you see which ideas are wanting to be manifested, and how to go about the early steps of bringing them to life:

1) How does your idea make you feel?

This is by far the number one factor for figuring out whether it is time to manifest an idea which will eventually lead to a different and more creative and inspired life.
Do you feel like it makes complete and utter sense for you to do this? Does it feel like you have come to this point in life especially to be able to manifest this idea or venture? Do you feel excited, joyful and blissed out about the prospect of this idea coming to life? How does it make you feel, thinking about investing your time and energy in this project? Does it make you feel valuable? Purposeful? Engaged? Focused? Important? Does it make you feel aware of your capacities and potential?

These are all very important questions which can make you feel the reality that you are in when creating this project and life for yourself, through yourself. Also, if you do not feel excited, ready, pleased, or if it simply does not make sense, you can still go ahead with your project but it might be less efficient. The outside reality usually mirrors your excitement and engagement. The time might not be now, but that doesn’t mean your idea or concept is to be discarded or graded not useful. It might just need more time or other unseen factors before it can come to fruition. Whenever you do feel the YES you will feel it clearly!

2) What will make your idea work?

Do you have the skills to make your project work? Do you feel like you have the energy and willpower to manifest the project? To manifest comes from the Latin word ‘hand’, so are you ready to really do the hands-on work in order to manifest the life you want?

Ideas are amazing, and lots of work is necessary for them to come to life. Ideas find their origins in the mental and spiritual realms, and the physical en energetic realms can be slower and heavier. For that reason, we need to be able to connect the mind structure, our feelings and emotions, our work in the third (physical matter) dimension, and our divine inspiration in order to have a flowing business, venture or project in life.

Do you feel capable and confident that you will be able to do the work and bring the idea down to Earth? Do you feel ready to invest in yourself in order to be able to drive the idea or project? All of these are interesting questions to dig into before heading out to make the jump.

3) What is your intention behind the project, or the inspiration for it?

How did this idea come to you? Do you feel a higher calling for it to be manifested? Is this idea aligned with your soul’s purpose?
The intention behind your idea is a bit like a 30-second elevator speech. It is clear, powerful, direct and to the point . Yet it is also more than just a line: it is the essence and central energy of the structure that will be your inspired idea or venture, through your own, and others’ time and energy investments.

Your intention is very important and it is worth taking time to tune in to what it needs to be, not just for yourself but for all involved in your project - now and in the future. Use it as a blessing.

4) Do you see your project as a co-creation?

Does your project feel like an individual venture, or do you look at it as an entity that connects all people engaged in it? Will your business or idea be at play energetically, within the great cosmic web of existence? Try to understand that this entity that will be your project is a living being. It is a connecting entity and it will expand and contract through many factors, not in the least your (and others’) energy input. Be aware that this entity will work your intention, and all involved will be a part of the manifestation of it. This will not just be your idea or project, but can benefit many more and allow others to thrive just the same.

5) Is your project sustainable and beneficial to yourself?

During security briefings in the airplane, parents are advised to put on their own oxygen masks before attending to their children. It’s good to understand that your project or idea will be somewhat like a baby. If you’re truly inspired and energized, this project will work, and it will have the potential to absorb and transform lots of your time and energy. You (and other partners or co-creators) will be parenting the entity that is created. Be aware that you might want to work a lot and could potentially lose center in the process. Take care of yourself first, and make sure that you are compensated adequately for your time and energy input. Make sure that the project (your baby) is well-fed, and that you get all the fun, peace and rest you need in order to be able to tend to it. Make sure your personal needs are met.

6) How will others benefit from your idea or project?

Once your needs are met, the business or idea can grow in organic ways, and through your inspired action and intention it can feed the inspiration and (emotional, material and spiritual) wealth of others. This will happen when the ball is rolling, the cart is moving along at a strong and solid pace. Then, all who are involved will benefit. You can also consciously assist others in many ways, from creating offerings of support coming out of your surplus profits, to hosting (free) workshops or community activities related to your project or business, and by just using simple common sense and good-hearted interactions with people involved in your ideas and ventures.

Our next upcoming blog in the Manifest your Dreams -series is coming up in 40 days:

7 Tips and Tricks on How to Decide when It’s Time to go All-in on your Project

Once your idea is strong, get a feel on when to jump and truly go all-in on your new life!

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Redefining Abundance

Sun, 14 Oct 2018 17:17:02 GMT

A Spiritual Guide on How to Overflow

What is this scarcity that so many people experience? Why do so many people never seem to have enough to just be? What is this anxiety that makes people work and work and so on, only to end up getting that magical pot of gold at the end of the rainbow? Where it never ends up being once we’re there…

It all seems like a long-winded competition in unsatisfying work, just to try and get to a place which cannot be reached using the means we were taught to use. There is always more to get, more to do, more to work on and more to build before we can stand still and enjoy the moment and the stuff we have. Most people are too upset by caring for or feeling overwhelmed by the material things they have, that is hard to feel the joy of using them. Most of the stuff we buy ends up in the trash after minor use only, and then it is shipped to other places in the world where people will use the second-hand items.

The beauty of abundance, or the feeling of overflowing , is always available to you when you stop com-paring with those who have more, seem more fulfilled or more confident or happy. Abundant is just who you find out to be when tuning in to your natural self; the one behind the mask of the personality. This source is always abundant , because it is the energetic essence of everything, which is where humans also originate. Just like everything else.
Because this is the energetic essence of everything and everything changes, you also have access to this eternal flow of creation and change.

We all get born in a family, a world, a universe of our own. It is a unique world and it shapes us in unique ways. It is normal to create a personality structure as we grow. We were all taught how to do this through our parents, government, media, friends, family, etc. Everyone has a personality. Some have a big one, others a small one, and most people do identify with their persona - or mask. This personality is a master creator of drama (as in theatrical drama) and often tries to make it so as if he/she/it is the only real thing that makes up ‘you’. The divided, individual and one and only you, it tries to tell you. It not only creates inside stories and belief structures, but also creates stories in the outside reality: it achieves big degrees or buys a big TV, it builds the biggest house in the street, it creates the best art, walks the biggest mountain, writes the most interesting article, and so on. Just to prove that it exists . This persona is often in the way of the true love that actually gave it life in the first place. It is a temporary mask that tries to confirm that it is the only identity that exists within you, but the bigger being behind is the one that breathes through the mask and gave it life. Many try to mask their power using their personality, only to find out that true fulfillment can never be found in the outside.

To come back to abundance: abundance is an aspect of our true self; it lies in the simple fullness and the feeling of deep belonging and connection that the true self simply is. It can see the mechanisms and structures that the personality created in order to sustain itself, and choose to not identify with them. In this state of loving awareness there is no need to fill a hole inside. Life simply is complete, as it always will be and always has been. With us being a part of that marvelous existence as we have always been and will always be. Until forever.

Even if you don’t believe that you are abundant, you can still decide to act as if you are, and in this way you’ll find out what is blocking you. Then you can actually jump the hurdles that are in your way, by doing it instead of standing in front of them, trying to figure when to jump. Like this we move the focus to what we want to be (or what we are, in that new timeline), instead of on the energetic blockages that are there only if we choose to stand still and analyze them.

For the mind and its structures, which make up the personality and much of the western societies’ structures too, it is hard to understand the magic we create when we do jump. How could I ever quit this job? How will I be able to survive then? How can I do this thing that makes me feel alive when it makes no sense at all? As we are always expanding, just like everything, our future is always uncertain. If we feel fine about what we are doing it makes sense that more of that goodness that we’re already feeling will come to us, together with money or other sorts of abundance, depending on what it is that you are least resistant to. Overflowing abundance is basically that feeling that you simply are complete, you have everything you need and more . It is like a stream of water flowing into a glass. You are the glass and you are full; and there is energy, creativity, life, inspiration, … Enough water is in the glass, and your ever changing and flowing nature requires you to give of yourself and share, or it is not real. The paradox, though, is that you simply cannot give your presence to someone else in order to make them feel the present of your presence. You might make another person dependent on your connection and take away the right they have to their own way to connection and personal power. This would not be real for them. If you do want to help another person access this love that you are connecting to, teach them how to do it for themselves.

Abundance is also not about money. It involves money, and we all agree that money is a way of valuing exchange, but it remains a third-dimensional effort to create artificial scarcity. In the beginning, money was always a material form of exchange. It always represented something that came from the Earth or a service done by another human. Money used to be about commodities, services, interactions between humans which involve other parts of the earth (animals, plants, materials, etc.); but it was actually all related to the third (physical) dimension. Now it’s gotten a bit of a strange twist to it as brokers, bankers and investors have become adept at maximizing profit, influencing all of our societies worldwide and creating a mass feeling of lack or scarcity. So we keep running, trying to get to the point where we can finally have enough and rest. But we try on the material level only, that’s the problem.

The feeling of abundance is a natural extension of a spiritual and multi-dimensional awareness of being enough. Of being real and in tune with the Mother Earth. She is the one that provides for all our material needs, so being in tune with the Earth and the Cosmos means we are complete on the spiritual and the material planes. This is our best investment.

If we start to tune in to the bigger picture, where we open up the rational to the mystical, the physical to the metaphysical, the third dimension to a multi-dimensional way of seeing, reality is less defined (to define means to make it finite). On the metaphysical plane, which coexists with the physical, life becomes malleable, playful, weird and very mysterious. Here we can see that a power much more intelligent is at work, and that we are a part of a cosmic theatre that we are setting up for ourselves to experience. Being abundant means having what we need for doing what we need to do, when we need to do it, within this cosmic theatre that we call life. Connecting with abundance will help to realize ourselves, and our potential, much faster. So trust in the flow. And as more and more people tune in to the mystery, and know that they are held on this mystical planet full of miracles, all of your environment will shift. And your collective environment in direct interaction with it.

Where do you want this path to lead? Get in touch if you feel like sharing your experiences in our upcoming Compilation of Life Lines. Have a blessed day…

The path to sacred lands goes through the valleys and over mountains

Tue, 24 Jul 2018 15:23:30 GMT

3 tips to stay connected to your heart's guidance

It had been a rough day, and I had done a lot of work doing hotel prospections for future journeys during these past days. It was high time I’d go to the beach and relax. So I found myself in a van going to the coast of Chiapas, Mexico. A lovely lady was sat just next to me as we were arriving in the small-time coastal town of Tonala. She had told me that she’s a middle school teacher at the age of 71 and still enjoying it, even though the kids were malcriados , or ‘badly raised’. We were talking about my travels and soon it became pretty clear that this wonderful old lady was a catholic, and that she would love to visit the sacred land of Jerusalem. She had never been out of Mexico, and prayed to God our lord ( mi Diosito nuestro señor, in her own words) that she would be granted the opportunity to one day set foot on the holy lands of Jerusalem.

As we continued our conversation, I started talking about my many travels and in an attempt to encourage her to travel to Jerusalem, told her some ways to fly there for cheap. It seemed to dawn on her that she would actually need to travel there, through many cities and foreign lands, in order to get to her destination. I found it so beautiful to see the analogy for a life’s journey.

As we are all on a life journey (some have an idea of where they want to go and some don’t) it might bear a significance. Many times, our intentions to go somewhere or be or get something are like setting a course, yet we don’t know what will come on our path. It is also not necessary for a journey’s destination to have to be rigid. Imagine that this lovely elderly lady would undertake the journey to Jerusalem and find that it’s a hard place, and maybe she will miss her place of origin. Maybe she would find, in going away, that the holy land has always been right there where she grew up. Or that many sacred places exist in the world and she does not have to travel far to reach them. In a similar way, maybe she might find another elderly man while she spends a couple of days in Madrid on the way to Jerusalem, and madly fall in love with this widower who loves her with grace and passion. Maybe she might want to stay with this man for the rest of her life and find the holy land in a random place in Spain where they end up living and dying together.

It is good to set a course, and follow your dreams, but also to understand that your heart is the compass that is connected to all and will show you which direction to follow. It is still possible to walk east while your heart points south, yet the more you choose to follow your heart’s direction, the easier it becomes to hold that course steadily. After a while you don’t even need to check the compass anymore and just walk towards your goal because you have become so familiar with the ways of the elements around you, and how the omens show themselves. It is like becoming so aligned with the cosmos, understanding that everything is there to show you, that you just simply go with it. It is like understanding the simple physics of oneness, and that when you choose to walk the way of the heart, that all around you aligns to show you that way, any time. Simple. Like a tracker in native cultures, simply guided by the intelligence that exists in all, and being a part of that knowledge at the same time. It is like walking a path of inner discovery that aligns in the outside world, and gives us the chance to discover more of ourselves, little by little.

The beauty of this journey is that even though you might have a set destination, you never know which blessings are coming to you on the way there. Simultaneously it is also really valuable to hold a course towards a destination and not change directions the entire time, so balance is essential. It might not be straight forward at first to learn to manage that balance, therefore we want to share some small and practical attention points for helping you to adapt to another way of walking life:

Be unafraid to move through blockages

This might sound weird, but with awareness it can be very valuable to take choices that can seem unhealthy, unfriendly, or unreliable at first glance. During the whole process of life, whatever your course may be, your greatest asset is your own awareness. A lot of us have been indoctrinated by an old structure which stems from patriarchal ways of domestication and subordination. Because of this, many of the patterns engrained in our subconscious (and also in our bodies) are reflections of this. They can go deep, and sometimes go back several generations and/or lives. For this reason, with awareness and compassion, it is very valuable to allow them to be there to be observed. It doesn’t mean we have to act on them, they can just be observed, and if we do play them out, that is also nothing to be ashamed about. Give yourself the space to experiment with the old and the new, with your discernment and awareness . Find out what is really right for you , in your choice as a free and natural, cosmically connected being.

Understand that you are here to play

Life is a cabaret… This might sound silly, and in a sense it is, but it’s healthy to remember this is all a big school, and all of us are in it. The only difference with conventional education is that it’s free. Free in the sense that we are living in a free will universe , and that what we choose to believe is true. We truly are sovereign beings which create with lots of power. Just like a child creates a sand castle, we have the power of creation to mold our reality. As we are in essence spiritual beings coming here in a limited and dense 3D mirror, the material aspects of our manifestation are end results of an energy that is flowing through us. There is no need to look outside for spiritual connection, as the third dimension cannot be the beginning of our original nature, which starts in the etheric realms. Manifestation is more about going inward and being creative than struggling to make things work in the outside reality. As Bashar says: “you will be amazed by the synchronicities that will happen.” Of course it is also valuable to create a structure for your ideas or projects to manifest in this world with its (still) relatively slow and limited ways of societal structure. That is what our rational mind excels at. Yet the more people will reconnect to their innate comsic nature, the more our societal structures will become conducive and reflective of that state. Like this we will extend the playground and the mind will find rest in a new world where we can simply be in love.

And… Everything happens in the right time

The universe is always inside of us, and we are all a divine part of it. As is all of creation. The third dimension is a small part of creation. Be assured that the cosmic intelligence is working, and that it happens in mysterious ways. We might not see the benefit of a series of events while they are happening, but when we do, we can see and trust that all is happening for a reason. Maybe, for example, we really felt like eating in a specific family-owned place, or buying something we don’t think we need because the person selling it is a single mom who needs money to get food for her kids. Maybe our presence in a place we have never thought of going will open up something in someone that otherwise might not have been opened. Like this, all that happens carries within it a certain value, and even though this can be narcissistic from a certain point of view, it also is recognizing the intrinsic value of all the parts of the whole. It the same way a street dog might come and accompany you in the night to walk to your house, giving you the safety and pleasure to watch the stars instead of the fear that someone might try and rob you. And simultaneously this dog can express its talents of guiding you home through the dark and protecting you.

As all is carried by intelligence in every moment, and we are setting a course towards somewhere we want to go, or something we want to be, all that is aligns itself to bring us the things we need in the exact right moment that benefits all of existence . This might not be as you expect it, and as linear time is just an illusion, the manifestation of our blessings will come into the linear time scale often sooner than we think. Our rational mind cannot expand to the capacity to grasp that.

Free Seaside Meditation

Wed, 04 Jul 2018 16:28:55 GMT

A relaxing Yoga Nidra meditation straight from the beach in Mexico

We're constantly visiting new places that might be interesting for our journeys here at One Spirit, and during our current prospecrion in Mexico we stumbled upon this magical and sweet virgin beach here in Chiapas, Southern Mexico called 'Boca del Cielo,' or Heaven's mouth... It certaintly did something with us, and we decided to share some of the magic through a short Yoga Nidra relaxing meditation. Yoga Nidra is a powerful and healing Yogic technique that dives into your subconscious and allows you to relax deeply.

Enjoy the meditation here

Have a lovely day!

Guatemala Ceremonial Journey Trip Report

Fri, 25 May 2018 03:59:12 GMT

The short version of a sacred experience

What a beautiful day it was, when we were gently waiting for our participants to arrive in a French coffee house on one of the old cobbled streets of Antigua Guatemala. One of the participants had already arrived and we were indulging in sweet cakes and good coffee. That’s one of the things Antigua came to stand for in the last few years: great coffee. Blessed by our sweets and heightened in spirit by our coffees we walked off to the central square and watched the fountain pour its waters while enjoying the gentle bustle of the old capital of the republic of Guatemala. Guatemala is a varied and interesting, raw and magical (although not too democratic) republic in Central America. Many colonial powers have tried their best at colonizing here, and they have succeeded in some parts, including Antigua. We walked our way to the hotel to welcome the rest of the trip participants, arriving fresh from another world. We greeted them and allowed them to have a long and healing sleep after their 16 hour flights from Europe.

The next morning we had our first breakfast together and afterwards held up two silver and blue Tuc tucs to jump in the game and get our exciting day started. They took us to the soulful farmers market at Caoba Farms, a locally run grassroots farming project, where we enjoyed an introduction to Gigi’s cacao workshop and her way of preparing the top-notch ceremonial grade chocolate she sells under the brand name Cacao Junajpu. We had a typical Guatemalan lunch and left for the Capuchinas convent and its sounding chamber, where we spontaneously lined up in a hexagram formation and did a sounding ritual. Magical.

The next morning we set off towards the West, where the mountains and the Atitlan Lake awaited. First, though, we met up with our amazing and deeply connected Maya spiritual guide, Francisco Puac, at the temples of Iximche. What a lovely day it was, sunny and bright, and we formed a small circle next to one of the pyramids where we proudly gave our first offerings to the spirits of the site and to the energies of the day. The small ceremonial site of Iximche truly is a hidden gem in Guatemala. It is often overlooked on the tourist trail because of its small size, but this old Kaqchiquel capital remains a very attractive ceremonial center for spiritual guides and diviners from the region and abroad. After our visit we enjoyed a late lunch in a typical Guatemalan family restaurant (with overly loud marimba music and confused waiters) before heading out to Panajachel, a small city on the Eastern shore of Atitlan where most of the logistics and transportation in and out of the lake area happens. After a short boat ride and conquering the 360 steps of our most magnificent home base for the coming week, hotel Lomas de Tzununa, we arrived to our comfortable rooms and their 180 degree view of the wild Atitlan Lake.

We enjoyed our first night at the lake in tranquility, and the next morning started off with the ceremonial opening of our five day workshop series with Don Francisco. It was a fascinating sequence where we learned to reattune to a cosmocentric thinking and knowledge as opposed to our standard Western anthropocentric view of existence. The afternoons were spent relaxing and discovering the rich environments of the Atitlan Lake. We visited San Juan, a small indigenous weavers’ town with lots of spirit and local grassroots engagement. We checked out the towns of San Pedro and San Marcos and went hiking and discovering the beautiful Tzununa valley and its waterfalls. The nights were spent in cozy heart sharing circles, supporting our integration process and the group energy, and sometimes we would chant or play music together. It was a short and vivid week, and a perfect preparation for what was to come: a group adventure in the North of Guatemala, where we’d visit the sacred sites and honor their sacred knowledge.

So it was that we left off to Guatemala City on Saturday. It’s a big and messy place that clearly mirrors the hurt and dysfunction of a consumerist and colonized society. We managed to have a lovely lunch on the university premises and on the way through the city made an effort to visit the National Archaeological Museum. There we had a brief outline of the anthropologic and archaeologic findings and surveys made over the years, and also learned that a lot of the more important artefacts of the Maya’s cultural and spiritual heritage are now found in big museums in different places. Nonetheless, the National Archaeological Museum was worth a short visit.

We then took the luxury night bus from the old center of Guatemala City straight into the Peten, the massive Northern department of Guatemala where lots of discovered and undiscovered temples lie. Here we were, at 5:30 AM, just off the night bus and just in time for the sunrise at the beautiful Lake Peten Itza. We then went and had breakfast, and continued our journey to Sayaxche, a small town on the Rio de la Pasion which meanders into Chiapas and down to the Mexican Gulf. We spent a lovely couple of days visiting two small and very impressive sacred sites called Aguateca and El Ceibal. Towering Ceiba trees and wild virgin forests – some of the only primary forests in Guatemala – inspired and enchanted us. We were offered a glimpse of what it must have been to live here, as we were practically alone on the sites. Mystical animals guided our visits as well as the lovely Don Julian, the owner of the lodge where we were staying. Our nights were spent in the shelter of the Posada Caribe, surrounded by the howler monkeys accompanying us with their loud and mystical sounds.

After this very sacred and beautiful experience we moved into tourist territory and discovered the more preserved and impressive-looking ceremonial sites of Tikal, Uaxactun and Yaxha. We spent a lovely three days at La Casa de Don David, on the Eastern shores of lake Peten Itza in El Remate, from where we discovered the different temples in the area. Tikal is just such a special site. We managed to get in at 6AM and do our ceremony on the central plaza’s altar at first daylight, before the arrival of the tour buses and big crowds. It was strong and beautiful, and we spent quite a lot of time discovering the different complexes and receiving the teachings about the symbology from Francisco. Tikal remains such a classic and a worth while visit for any tourist in Guatemala, whether they may have a spiritual intention in visiting the country or not.

We continued doing our lovely heart sharings in the night time and kept training ourselves to wake up around earlier and earlier, in preparation for our jungle trek to El Mirador. We enjoyed the small and beautiful temples of Uaxactun and its village’s vibe, and after a wonderful family-style lunch in a local small eatery we made it back to El Remate, and the next day left just as early for the massive temple complex of Yaxha. A total beauty, and very well preserved place next to a small lagoon in the middle of the jungle. Our ceremony was strong again and we thoroughly enjoyed the lovely views from on top of the biggest temple 216.
We then continued to the small colonial town of Flores and had a lovely night’s sleep before heading out at, yes, 5AM and set off on our two day-hike to El Mirador, the largest of all the Maya ceremonial sites. It was a little hard in the sense that the trail was dried up and slightly uneven, but we were covered by the forest canopy the whole way through. We were truly spoiled by our delightful cooking lady and her motherlike way of generously flooding our table with amazingly fresh and high-quality food. Even in the midst of the jungle. With gratitude to the mules who carried all the food as well as our day packs.

After two days we finally made it to the temple complex of El Mirador. This is one of the oldest and the biggest of all Maya cities. What a beautiful and tranquil place it is, full of wildlife and ancient knowledge of the mother forest. It is here that we did our final and first full Maya fire ceremony, on the central altar of this place. It was the final coming together of our experiences over the past three weeks, and where we truly got to integrate the things we had seen and experienced. What a joy.

Now we were ready to go home. We slowly prepared for our return and the finishing of the group journey. What a beautiful and organic process it had been. After two more days of hiking through the jungle we made it back to Flores, and then had a lovely shower and a great dinner before getting on the night bus to Guatemala City. There we arrived early morning and after courageously conquering the city’s morning traffic we made it to the warm and relaxed beach town of El Paredon. We had gone from the upper North to the lower South of Guatemala in only 48 hours, over land. What a blessing to be able to greet and bathe in the = waves of the Pacific as a simple and laid-back finish to this journey. Here we were, looking at the waves from our hammocks and enjoying a lovely afternoon before heading back to Guatemala City and spending our last night and morning together in peace and gratitude, and taking our time for goodbyes and see-you-laters… What a journey it’s been… Quite wonderful indeed.

How to Create Safe Space in Order to Create New Life

Thu, 15 Feb 2018 21:39:12 GMT

Four and a half steps to journeying into more playful ways of living

What truly is the blessing of our deeper being that wants to come out and dance the dance of existence in everyday life? How to understand that we can design our life in alignment with that cosmic tune that we can (or cannot) dance to? Is the way we choose to live life in tune with the expression of our highest good, our biggest excitement? Do we need a space to enroll in life full of miracles as living beings?

Yes! It is time.

We as humans have been creating a joyful existence for years, ages, eons, and now is the time to embody that tribal connection within current situations. Yes, we have the courage to embody these ancient expressions of humanity, a way which is simply ingrained in us, and there is no training or teaching involved as we all know in the depth of our beings what it is we need, and what it is we can do. What is necessary for us to understand that we can always voice our truth?

The life we live - most people in the industrialized societies anyway - is quite limited. We might perceive material abundance and consumerism as freedom, freedom to choose with our money what our next trip will be or which color we want our new car to be. Beautiful, but quite limited.

Now, as we are coming out of a major age of darkness, the light can only come in as slowly as our weary eyes allow it to come in for us not to be blinded. So, little by little our shadow side will unveil itself, as a person and on the whole. This we can see in the media and in all kinds of neurotic tendencies in the collective of humanity. Many people do not know how to manage new energies coming in as we have not been accustomed to them. As more of the darkness shows and we move through as a collective, more of our light will be shining and we can be in tune with them. Moreover, we also truly have the knowledge inside to manage the chaos and transition we are in. We are those new energies, and that is a blessing. At the same time, it is super helpful to have a guide or teacher to help us move through the shadows, but not for all.

Work is necessary as we are here on a soul journey to learn and express ourselves fully, but as we tune in to these 'new' energies - who we really are - it becomes more easy, effortless, to embody them. Then beauty allows itself to unfold in the eye of the creation.

As we all understand, no-one knows what is around the corner. At the same time we cannot pretend that magic doesn’t exist and that all life is already decided and just done to us. We are both the weaver, the loom and the weaving at the same time, and acknowledging that we chose that multi-dimensional journey to be just for us is a true blessing. Along with that comes the understanding that all is unique. A person next to you in the bus is another existence. Everybody has their beautiful and weird journey on this planet, and time to play has come again. The beauty of going out of your zone of comfort, out into the world, and finding new ways creates space for a new being to arise, which creates a place of peace and harmony inside from where all life can emerge. We do not need to be all the same, and there is no way we can be all the same, ever. That idea is pure illusion and conditioned mindset. Allow yourself to step out of the narrow line of held frequency that society prescribes. We are all unique and the beauty of that uniqueness is our true blessing. We do not have to be in tune with what everyone else is believing, and letting go of expectations is what can make us go free, as all we ever have been and all we ever will be. The day we create a space to be real our joy and peace can reign and be authentic. This is what is needed for us to be fully here in our personal expression of soul.

So, how to create that space to allow your soul to truly tune in to the pure expression of your soul that you came here to be?

The first step is the mindset. Understanding that there is a difference between caring for and catering to others. Between loving and needing. A lot of people have a train of thought something like this: 'I love you because you are similar to me.'

That means in order to be loved by these people you need to adapt to what they need from you. Tiring… Love simply is , unconditionally. That means I can be who I am and I will be loved, always.

If people have inner processing to do as a result of you being you, that is fine. Loving yourself can involve being ruthless. If I am being someone I am not, does that mean I am caring for someone? If I am being my true and blessed self, even though others might feel triggered by me, does that mean I do not care about them or their opinions? The ones that truly love you will stick around through rain and sunshine, and there might be a lot of them or there might be a little, but at least you have your truth, and from there you can attract your tribe. And that tribe will change again, too.

Second, take your time. Take your time to allow all the winding up of life to lose momentum. That is simply what it is, lose momentum. Into peace.

The mind cannot fake that peace, that calm state of ease and grace that comes when momentum of mind activity dies down. Try not to create more mind activity. Take time to be in that space, however long you need. Know that you are held, know that you are taken care of at all times, and that any manifestation in life is actually creation aligning to how it will most easily bring you to your highest potential and joy, and showing you the fastest route around (or through) the blocks of your resistance to get you to where you are going anyway. There is a soul journey which we will explore, and simultaneously we have a free choice to play with. Ease into it.

Third, learn to express from the Heart. Your heart is the heart of all. And it is also a personal heart, of course. Yet, our sacred fire inside (the Heart) is eternally connected to the sacred fire of our Earth, the center of our planet. That sacred fire is connected to the sun, the sacred fire of our solar system, which is connected to the sacred fires of our constellations and galaxies. All the way to the source which blazes it imploding breath of expanding and contracting force.

Allowing space and time for Heart-flow to exist is vital. We create a connection into the heart of all. We are , and thus we can easily tune into the flowing blood that exists all through existence. So enjoy that. Really take time to breath into that space to be heard and expressed. It is OK to talk to random people or ‘foreigners’ - you might have a better time than you expect. A person from abroad is a blessing, as many people in the industrialized world have no idea of what it feels like to be connected in tribe or family, and believing that we somehow know better than the rest of the world being a ‘first world’ society is simply ignorant and painful. In the same way, we can truly bless ourselves by following our heart’s need in expressing, even to unknown people in the street.

Another beautiful way to express from the heart is by creating a Heart circle. A Heart circle is a space where you sit down with your community, family members, friends, your partner, relatives or colleagues in a circle, and after agreeing that all that is said will remain in this circle and will not be shared with anyone else, you pass around a talking stick or talisman. Start by opening the circle and deciding how many rounds of talking you will do, and place the talisman in the middle. The first person who feels called to speak picks it up and everybody else listens, from the heart, as the talker expresses. It is a very healing ritual where we can truly show our courage and share our experience without any need to fix an issue or solve a problem. Just listening. We can just be, and the group listens - nobody interrupts the speaker at any time.

Four: create! Be the creator of your life. You are worth it, every minute of this short and worthy experience on Earth. There is no time to lose, and at the same time taking action to create a life in alignment with your soul’s path is a step by step process, as we all need to unlearn in order to remember, and even though we are the creators of this experience, time and willingness are needed to recreate reality as you wish. Always remember to stay in the body and create using movement, using laughter, using theater, dance and drawing, writing or the spoken word. Feel your thoughts and the vibrations of your words as you express and consciously choose to create a life that is aligned with your truth, whatever that may be. You have got it!

Find a place to dance or express your dream life with or without words, or draw a big cloud of tag words about your dream reality. Feel it, not rationally, and play. Move your body, move your senses and tune in to that juiciness of creation. It can be very helpful to set aside a time of one hour up to 90 minutes to be free to feel and move into that space of creation, and then visualize the way that all feels. Jump, shout, cry, whatever. It is good to create a soft space with many pillows if anger, grief or frustration need to be let go of in the process. Just to make sure you are physically not hurting yourself in the process of releasing :)

Another last piece of advice is to always trust the process. Not as a way to get lazy about working, but understanding that everything always works out. It already is working out right now, and will only get better in juicy ways as we allow it to be just that. Thanks!

Francisco Puac talks to One Spirit

Mon, 05 Feb 2018 00:24:31 GMT

Maya Spiritual Teacher Francisco Puac Shares His Vision on Life and Cosmic Unity in a Warm and Enriching Interview

Listen to the Interview (in Spanish) here:

https://www.onespiritworld.com/interview-francisco-puac

Good afternoon, Francisco! Here we are with Francisco Puac, Maya spiritual teacher and ceremonial guide. Francisco was born here in the San Pedro la Laguna area, at the Atitlan Lake in Guatemala. He was initiated into his grandparents' spiritual tradition. Francisco considers himself a part of the original Maya people, and runs Mayab School here in San Pedro. Francisco, could you tell me a bit about your personal history?

Thanks! I could say I can separate my personal story into different parts. The first part is that I grew up with my grandparents and my parents, and we specifically lived according to our traditional ways. We would just speak our own Mayan language, we only lived by our old ways and we had our specific Mayan spiritual practice until I was 8 years old. When I was 8, I started to go school where I learned to speak Spanish. We wouldn't live according to our old ways in school, we wouldn't speak our language and I wouldn't cultivate my spiritual connection any more, as the Guatemalan school system does not understand Mayan culture. My Mayan culture and our traditional ways would be reserved for our community only, within our family. Yet, when I learned to speak Spanish I never forgot my language. Then I learned more and more about my family's and my culture's ancestral knowledge, and as I learned to read I got my hands on some of the Maya's ancient books. I read the Popol Vuh, the Chilam Balam, the Mayan codices and other ancestral stories, but I read them in their original language. Later, I got to read the same texts in Spanish, and I could compare and understand the difference between the wording and their meaning in Spanish and in Maya languages. Afterwards I worked with a number of organizations and different government agencies about education and Mayan culture. Right now I have over fifty years of experience as a teacher of Mayan culture as well as spiritual guide, because I love my spiritual tradition. I could say that this is a small resume of what I have been doing in the field of Mayan culture.

Thank you so much! I understood that you are aiming to spread the vital knowledge of the Maya culture. What's an appropriate way to manifest that vision?

The correct and precise way to share the mission that is present in the Mayan calendar - for my life - is first of all to profoundly understand my personal mission and my personal energy, my ‘nahual’, which connects me to the cosmos. When I have properly understood my personal connection to the cosmos, then I can understand the collective thought and mission and what our collective job is here on Earth. In that way, I have gotten to know my personal path and energy, my ‘nahual’ pretty well. I am ‘Toj’, the connection to the sacred fire. I enjoy the Maya spiritual path, and I enjoy working with the Maya cosmovision. I like the Mayan calendar and I enjoy living by it every day. It makes me feel connected to my grandparents’ vision and culture. Working with my own personal energy within my culture, I feel that I am helping others to understand their own paths. I feel that I am doing my job for the collective and that gives me pleasure. That happiness creates the concept, the perception and also the illusion that I am fulfilling my mission, which is to properly teach Maya cosmovision and spirituality, the most essential part of my personal life. To share with others the wisdom of my ancestors in the best possible way. I have been teaching this message, this teaching in all of Guatemala and in many countries in Europe, America and other continents for many years now.

Thank you! There are a lot of people visiting the Atitlan Lake coming from all over the world. How do you personally feel about that?

To receive people from other places, countries and cultures is a manifestation of the cosmos’s natural diversity. Diversity is the wealth of our cosmos. Welcome all cultures! Welcome to all spiritual practices! Welcome to all the values and principles they have! Here we have our own Mayan values and principles, and we cannot impose our own values and principles onto others. Neither do we allow other cultures to impose their values or principles onto our culture. We will only value - as a part of cosmic divinity, infinity and complexity - all cultural manifestations and all people that come to visit. To share Maya wisdom with them is a joy and a privilege. To learn about their cultural background and its manifestation is a natural part of the exchange which results from them being here. It is a joy that you come to visit us, it is a joy to share with and listen to all.

Thanks. Do you feel like there is a lot of potential for healing and fulfilling your vision to share Maya knowledge here at the lake?

Yes. There is a big opportunity, big time and and space to be able to see things now with a lot of positive insight and perspective as so many people are visiting from all over the world. We understand that our culture has a lot to give and we understand the Maya people have a lot to teach now. We understand that the Maya culture is an open book of life which can be shared with all the cultures. And our practice, which we have been practicing and will continue to practice, is an open door and open heart for allowing others to learn our cosmovision, our culture and our language. As we are connected to the original knowledge of our ancestors, the Maya language and as we are able to see through their lens of Maya cosmovision, we understand that we’ve got a big potential to share this with any person who has an interest. We can share the precise, original understanding of our culture and spirituality as we understand it through our own language and cosmovision, and it creates our connection to the cosmos, in that sense. That’s what we’ve got here.

How do you perceive the state of the world in the frame set of cosmic evolution?

First of all, I believe there is a misunderstanding in the sense that diversity is not respected. I don’t agree that there is ‘one way of thinking’, one culture, one people. We can’t accept that idea. I believe we should come from a place of understanding that we’re all different, and we should value diversity. Cultural diversity, spiritual diversity, cosmic diversity, linguistic diversity and the diverse lifeforms. To understand life and understand our connection and communication with the central spirit of the cosmos. This, I believe, ought to be the staring point for creating humane interaction, global co-creation and healthy relationships in the world. Like this we can create a world in peace, a world in harmony, and a happy world where all of us have the same rights. A world where the mother Earth has her rights, the animals and plants have their rights, where the air and water have their rights. Where we as humans can share with our cosmic brothers and sisters the same right to live that we all have. This is what I believe we should work on. This philosophy can be brought to practice through government and institutional plans as well as plans on a smaller scale, so we can create peace plans . Like this we can create true development, and offer a life of happiness to all of the Earth’s population. This is what we need, because confrontation, conflict and all these problems are not humanity´s destiny. Humanity’s supreme objective is collective wealth and common happiness. We ought to be looking for those values and ought to be living examples of these values, as persons, as families, as people. The Maya people have specifically built into their values the ideas of harmony, balance, solidarity, collective wealth and above all collective happiness. This is what I feel we ought to share with the world.

What is your view on the indigenous people’s situation in Guatemala, the Amercias and the world in general?

We are encountering a problem in the world in the sense that there are misperceptions and illusionary constructions as well as political, philosophical, economic and ideological models which are not helping humanity. This is because some believe they are more than others or deem themselves superior to others, or believe that one ethnicity is worth more than another. This does not represent the cosmic emotion, the cosmic feeling or design, which is diverse and creates common well-being. For this reason, no people can be on top of another, superior to another people. The indigenous people of Guatemala, like in the rest of America and the whole world, are considered inferior peoples and cultures. The reality is that the only thing we are doing is living a cosmically connected life, an original life in tune with mother Earth’s rhythm, with the father Sun’s rhythm, with the grandmother Moon’s rhythm and with the rhythm of the cosmos. We are only dancing to the beat of the cosmic tune while respecting and loving one another. That’s what we do, and we are no more or no less than another. We are also not the same as others. We are different, but we are humans who have a right to exist, to live, and above all to live happily in this world.

And what do you feel is essential right now for the energies between peoples and countries in this world to balance out?

I believe we need to change the educational system. We need to change the ideologic system. We also need to change the political system which has governed the world. We humans have tremendous potential. All the people of the world need to understand that by changing these models we’ll have a better life altogether. Above all, to change the educational system means to teach the correct way of human life to new generations and to teach the correct way to live as cosmic beings. We have a future and we have a cosmic destiny, and our life here on Earth is only transitory. We just need more intelligent, more humane, more friendly, more constructive and more peaceful models so that we can spend the little time we have here on Earth living happily and in peace. And like this we also respect the harmony of our original cosmic energy, of our three-dimensional energy here on Earth as well as respect the energy of our future journey. Above all, it’s good to understand what we are projecting into the cosmos. Yet we cannot dance alone, so let’s dance collectively with equal rights to happiness. This is what we ought to be looking for through a more integrative, holistic, and natural education which is more respectful to all lifeforms, especially to human life. These are but a number of ideas. There are more words and ideas but this is a simple path to transforming the state of things now.

Thanks. Do you want to add anything else to the interview?

Yes. I would like to add that the mental transformation of educational centers (including the universities) of the political minds, of the same spiritual minds, is now essential. Simultaneously it is good to know that the models and structures we are now living by are only destroying us. It is a model of self-destrucion and permanent conflict. We can all understand that there are simpler, more practical, more humane ways which also cost a lot less money, and could offer a lot of peace and tranquility to this world. Like this we can create space for new generations to be more happy than we have ever been, so that they can create a much better world than the one we have now.

Thank you very much.

Thank you so much. Matiox.

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New Meditation Online

Sun, 21 Jan 2018 02:19:45 GMT

A Free Channeled Activation Meditation For You!

This week I'm posting a freshly recorded audio meditation to activate your physical and energy bodies into multi-dimensional existence.

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Wishing you a lovely day,

Shadi

Ceremonial Fire in the Mayan Land

Thu, 04 Jan 2018 20:15:01 GMT

The loving transformation of surrender

The day had started hectically, like it usually did on those mornings before the ceremonies me and my friend had been participating in. We would be too busy enjoying ourselves with laughter and chatter and preparing hot chocolate for breakfast to really have a laid-back morning. But it being Guatemala, things never really start on time anyway, meaning we’d actually arrive at the exact right time . So it was that this morning, shortly after I had taken the ‘big jump’ from Belgium to Guatemala, we unexpectedly embarked on a ceremonial journey by the shores of Lake Atitlan. The ceremony was led by a Maya shaman full of knowledge and experience. He leads ceremonies on 1 and 8 days in the Mayan calendar count - about once every week - in a generous, respectful and transformational fashion.

It was a pretty cloudy day with light sunshine coming through but with the foresight of rain later in the morning, so we got going. During the ritual preparation of the flowers (taking the petals off the stems) and the sacred fire we were chatting and getting to know each other a little, while the energy was grounding in the space and we became more accustomed to each other’s presence. As the energy focused around the fire I dropped down deep into my body and instantly felt a wave of profound sadness and bliss simultaneously come to the surface. My friend’s heart-felt presence and the shaman’s grounded and comfortable way of being helped me feel safe in the space to deeply feel and process the wave of emotion as it came through me. A deep and ancient power came to play through us, through me as a part of our group consciousness as well as a representative of our collective consciousness here on Earth. It was a deep layer of pain that moved through me, and I understood the importance for myself and the bigger whole that this needed to be felt and processed. What a blessing it was, to be a servant of a higher awareness to be remembered on the planet. Waves of release passed through me, blessing the fire and deeply respecting our ancestors’ knowing as well as feeling their presence in our circle as we connected to various altars and sacred sites in many parts of the world.

The release went on for a while and the understanding that I was remembering why I came here to Mayan lands was now seeping in, as it meant delving deep into ancient connection that we can all access. I was blessed, and I received the blessing with grace, feeling all the amazing opportunities for this lifetime as well as many connections to previous lifetimes at altars and ceremonies. The tremendously grateful welcoming by the ancestors here in Maya lands was an initiation I hadn’t expected to receive, be it on that day or at any time. The power of ceremony and humble surrender had once again rippled through all of my cells and updated my consciousness to a more alive reality. And so it was, that after an intense and unbelievably thankful fifteen or so minutes of sobbing, crying, releasing, smiling and laughing, I was touched on my shoulder by another person in the ceremony who must’ve thought I needed to ground. That was good, and she also understood that I did not need anyone to worry about me, as the power of my deep home coming was so satisfying and interesting. I gestured to her that I was definitely OK but still felt grateful for her kind way of bringing me back into my body.

The ceremony was in honor of 8 E’ - the nahual of ‘the path’. A nahual is an ‘energy signature of the day’ in the Mayan cosmology vision. There are twenty nahuales which make up the entire cycle that gets repeated over and over, each nahual carrying a distinct potential for the day. It is combined with a number between 1 and 13, so another cycle runs within the cycle of the nahuales. Each of the numbers obviously carries its own energy and potential as well, which makes for a unique vibrational makeup for every combination of number and nahual. And then there are other larger cycles which I am not going to get into in this post, as they require a lot more insight and explaining.

This specific ceremony carried a distinct energy as we were honouring and thanking mainly nahual E’, the path, and the beauty of my experience at the ceremony truly emphasized how powerful and aligned the work is we are doing here through One Spirit. It showed me how my personal path has been one of many pitfalls as well as deep healing and releasing of dysfunctional beliefs and action, ultimately and always leading to the deeper understanding that all is in divine order and that the fruits of a path walked with willingness to be of service will be harvested when the time is ripe. It was a powerful confirmation that all is truly aligned in all moments, and a deep welcoming of my intention for this initiative to be of profound and utter service to mankind and the consciousness of mother Earth. And that’s only the beginning… Hard to understand but easy to believe! Thank you for reading us, and we hope you´ll have a great time with our blog posts and free gifts.

Keith Wilson talks to One Spirit

Sat, 23 Dec 2017 17:00:41 GMT

A transformative talk with the Cacao Shaman of Lake Atitlan

As a little inspirational Cacao present we're sending out this free interview with Keith Wilson, the now famous cacao shaman of the Atitlan Lake, Guatemala. The interview is packed with information and can be seen as a summary of Keith's teachings, which have helped open many doors for many people over the past two decades. We hope you enjoy the interiew. Feel free to share, and stay posted for more free sharings and gifts coming your way.

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We're here in your workshop in San Marcos la Laguna, where the c acao is packed. It's a true medicine, and I'd love to hear some of your story, your personal experience, and how we can use the medicine out there in the world, in different ways. I personally feel that your teachings are meant to assist planet earth in her ascension to a new paradigm, a reality which inside of ourselves we are familiar with and we chose to come and experience here on earth. Does that resonate ?

Oh yes! In the late 80s and 90s I was trained in a process of inner work through having to do it myself, of how to get out of your own way so you have room inside for who you really are. So, you let the pain body and the belief systems go, so you can have a lot more fun, get your magic back, and be part of this shift. When I got to Guatemala in 2003, as a tourist, I met the Cacao Spirit and knew that I was going to be living here eventually. I bought a piece of property, and I learned more and more about cacao as people wanted to know more and more about it. I am now building my second building to store and process cacao in. It's become an international effort. Cacao has spread all over the world.

I remember, after working with it for about a year, it was obvious that this was a major medicine plant, a magic plant of world class importance. And no one else knew anything about that. So I spent three years traveling from Mexico to Panama, buying cacao in markets, visiting indigenous people and growers, visiting chocolate making factories and spending a lot of time on the web doing research. Eventually I put everything up on a website to share. I'd learned all this so that other people who wanted to use cacao in their own way, as a facilitator, wouldn't have to go through the learning curve that I went through.

So, it's been a lot of fun. I began in the house, hand grinding the cacao. It took us three hours to put five pounds through a hand-cranked mill three times. My worker would come over, we'd take our T-shirts off and work up quite a sweat. That has grown to buying cacao by the tonne. A truck can bring 12,5 tonnes (11,400 Kg) in here at one time, and we do that once or twice a year.

I never came to Guatemala expecting to become a chocolate producer, but I quickly found out, once I was introduced to real chocolate, that most of the cacao in the world is not suitable for inner work, ceremonial productivity, creativity, writing, or being productive in the workplace. It just doesn't have the right combination of stuff. Or it's got a lot of caffeine in it, which most of the hybridized cacao has. And most of the raw food cacao is all hybridized, and it's got a fair amount of caffeine in it. It's way to speedy, unless you drink two or three cups of coffee a day and you're used to it.

I couldn't go out in Guatemala and find the chocolate that I wanted. I found one place that could produce 25 pounds per month and I began buying from them, but eventually I had to go out and learn from the Cacao Spirit how to find my own. In the early years I was going out every now and then in a truck and getting three or four hundred pounds, getting turn by turn direction from the Cacao Spirit as to where to go. I'd get stuck on some 4-wheel drive rain forest road, having to walk into a little community, to find that they had the cacao. Everybody would bring it out, then weigh it and help me get my truck back on the road and turn it around, 30 people carrying it and lifting it because I wasn't able to turn. Once it got to the place where I was getting 1500 pounds at a time, I exceeded the weight limit of the truck, and now we just know who to call. The Cacao Spirit tells us which of contacts to call and then they bring it in bulk.

I have ten full time workers and 20 families doing the peeling. That's a lot of employment into the community. I am the biggest full-time private employer in this little town, with the most money going into the community. So, we like what we're doing, and we're providing very clean cacao. We are literally the only people in the world who inspect each bean by hand and by sight, twice. We throw out a lot of it. The moldy beans, the funny-looking stuff, the stuff that didn't get properly done, ... because I don't want to eat it and I don't sell anything that I don't eat. Over the years we've gotten pretty good at doing that. We've got a lot of skilled people here, and it's a joy.

And what do you think the potential is for cacao as a medicine for where we're going as a collective here on Earth?

Well, when I first asked the Cacao Spirit - which I see as this amazing medicinal plant - I asked: “what’s the big picture?” And she said: “all right, we'll take care of it.” And a week later I was doing research because she had asked me to become an expert in chocolate. So, I was on the web reading in an anthropological journal. And I found a myth, an ancient myth from Central America, that said: “when mankind gets out of harmony with the natural world, chocolate comes out of the rain forest to open people's hearts and re-establish the balance.” The ancient name for chocolate is 'Xocolatl', which literally translated, means 'heart blood'. Because indigenous languages in this part of the world are very poetic, the blood that flows through the heart is love. The scientific name of chocolate became 'Theobroma', which literally translated means 'food of the gods'. And what would the food of the gods be except love? It's the energy the universe runs on.

That heart-opening ability began in indigenous ceremonies, and I learned how to use it with Western people, in combination with the processing work that I had been taught by my teachers. We're now seeing cacao move out of the meditation, inner work, ceremonial and shamanic journeying-folks - who buy a lot of it - into the creative world, the artistic world, the writers, and into the 'productive' world. A lot of coders use it - it makes their brains work like they've never worked before. And a lot of people in business who have to come up with ideas and make decisions find that what cacao does is that it takes your rational mind and connects it to your intuitive mind. It connects your left brain to your right brain and connects your head to the knowing of your heart in a synergistic partnership where you have the input from these other levels to work with your rational mind, and make what you do a lot easier. We've had people tell us that they've taken our chocolate into their office environment, given everybody in the office a cup, and watched a place of low vibes and stress turn into a bunch of happy, connecting people who get a lot of work done, who solve problems. I've had people tell me that, regularly used in the workplace, it helps people enter the state of flow, where problems resolve themselves without a lot of input from other people. Where, whether you're meditating or whether you have an idea or a project or a business, you just know what needs to be done, and it flows from one thing to another with a completely different level of efficiency. In meditation you have less distraction, you go deeper. In inner work, you are able to follow the breadcrumb trail, follow the threads deeper within. In shamanic journeying the visions are clearer, and you know where to go.

Beautiful. A core aspect of your teaching is the hard bus, the easy bus and the magic bus concept.

The hard bus everyone knows in the world. Most cultures teach it. It's trauma, drama, pain, struggle, and suffering. It's work, effort, problems.

The easy bus is inner work. Where you do your processing, working with your shadows, working with the pain-body, working with the density, emotional release. Working with the belief systems that you were taught by a culture that was not truly yours. Working with the pain and the fear that's inside. The issues of the inner child that need to be resolved because they get played out on all levels... Now, that easy bus makes room inside for who you really are. For the enlightened belief systems you came into the world with and only began replacing when you began telepathically downloading the belief systems from parents and society. This allows you to raise your vibration, your energy frequency. And that draws to you higher and higher vibrational futures out of the quantum reality where all your futures exist right now, in parallel realities.

The magic bus is where you consciously shift to those parallel time lines that are of higher resonance. Where you have already finished your work with a given issue, it's fully integrated and you understand it. We have a video up on YouTube called 'The Art of Ascension' that explains a way to do this magic bus process. There's a number of people out there that work with this. The 'Oneness'-book channeled by Rasha calls this process 'The art of ascension'. In the 1970s the channeled being Seth said that everyone does this all the time. It's so seamless that nobody even notices they shift to a parallel universe. Seth says that everyone who goes to the ball game shifts to the parallel universe where the team they really want to win, wins. That means a lot of people want their home team to lose... Seth says that everyone who goes to a job interview and really wants the job, gets the job. It just takes place in a parallel reality. So, if you ever went to an interview and didn't get the job, you didn't really want it, or there was something better for you. In using that process of shifting to a parallel reality, I've frequently watched people drop long-standing medical problems that they may have been under treatment for for five decades. It's gone in a few seconds and it isn't back two years later. So, we put up a video on it to share.

In the ceremonies for the easy bus we do a lot of what is known as psychic surgery - the Christians call it 'grace' - where you just welcome things, belief systems, pain, fear, issues, dramas etc. out of people so they can look at them being held in their hands right in front of them. Then put them back inside and feel what it does to their energy system when it goes back in. Next time it comes out, generally even more comes with it, and then they can decide for themselves whether they wish to let it go into transmutation at another level or whether they feel like they're not done with it and they want to keep it.

Healing techniques like this are the healing of the new world, and we teach here in the ceremonies the healers that will work that way. Channeled books say: In the future the doctors will send people to you as a healer, because those doctors work in a paradigm called fixing, where something's wrong with you, and when we get rid of what’s wrong with you, when you no longer have your symptoms, you are healed.

Symptoms are the messages of the higher self, that, with the help of body consciousness, microbes that you ask to make you sick, all of that, are meant to lead you deeper. If you try to get rid of your symptoms all you get is a louder message. A number of higher beings refer to this medical system - there's a lot of it in the new age - as insanity. They say that healing is access. Healing is access to the vibrations, resonances, frequencies that you need to change the choices that you're making inside, that are giving us the messages that we’re trained not to look at. If you follow the messages, if you learn how to do that and go deeper, the symptoms stop.

There are so many people today waking up to this kind of healing. Literally they have been doing it since they were children. It's called being an empath - being super sensitive - to the negative energies of others, or ecosystems or groups. People have been absorbing that stuff, handling other people’s density for them. Feeling it when they’re in groups, feeling it from the environment, feeling it from streams and mountains and rivers and forests. We do an empath training to show those people that they've been in a training program since childhood so as to study these energies that they can move out of other people, and then off to transmutation. They've been eating them to study them and to become highly trained experts in the healing of the new world. A form of healing that supports the astonishing release process of clearing out the emotional body, the pain body, the density, the dark shadows that will continue over the next years. Eckhart Tolle says that if you don't cooperate with this process you’ll have increasing pain, chaos, violence and insanity in your personal life. He says that repeatedly. By pain he means enough pain to put you in the hospital where the scanners and the doctors will find nothing wrong with you, give you some meds to push it back down and send you home. They’ll call it psychological . There’s a whole new wave of healers who have been in training for decades, who know how to work with these energies because they’re already highly skilled. We help them step in to those abilities and figure out that they already can do it. A lot of them are too scared to look out of the closet of the consensus reality and do something that isn't considered real by the people around them. We can show them the channeled works of higher beings that tell them that is who they are and that's where they are going, but some will not look out of that closet, their safe little place, until people they love around them are in that kind of chaos and insanity. And then they'll go “Oh yeah, I'm supposed to open something and help these people.” If you don't do it now, you'll wait another year or two, and have another opportunity to do so. If you don't catch this wave of light, there will be another.

All the higher beings say that this is the lifetime like none other. This lifetime is designed so that you can have more fun and more adventure than you have ever had in any lifetime, ever. Bashar calls it the rubber band effect. You pull a rubber band back: the farther you pull it back, the faster and the farther it flies when you finally let it go. We – according to some of the extraterrestrials – have chosen to be in a reality where we have pulled ourselves back into extreme density, farther than most civilizations out there. Some ET’s say they know of 73 million civilizations out there in the dimensions. So, we have chosen to pull ourselves way, way back, into the density, so that when we finally let go, we are going to have a fun ride.

Now, I think many people would consider that the rubber band was released on December 21st, 2012. And we are now in an acceleration that will, over the next couple of decades, produce hundreds and hundreds of millions of illuminated people on this planet. Some of the extraterrestrials say they are expecting, at our current rate of development, to have full public contact some time between 2025 and 2033, where they will be meeting publicly with members of congress. We are not ready for that now. Being at one step up in the density evolution, in the enlightenment process, their energy would trigger a lot of stuff in a lot of people. You know, back in the 1970s I had a lot of friends going to India to sit in the shakti of the gurus. To sit in the spiritual energies which made things happen. The ETs say, if they appeared before congress, so much stuff would start coming up in the congresses and the parliaments of the world, that those people would not be able to deal with it. If more stuff comes up than you can handle its called psychosis. And if a lot of officials started to go psychotic, they'd get quite fearful and they'd want to press the nuke buttons on the ETs. So, as Bashar jokes: “Why should we land in an insane asylum where most of the inmates have guns?” So they're going to wait until there are very different kinds of people in the congresses and parliaments of the world. By their dates that seems to be somewhere between 2025 and 2033. So, welcome to the new world. Bashar says that by about 2050 we will be ready to choose which galactic alliance we would like to join as a planet full of people.

So, it's on the way. I'm playing a part in that, hundreds of millions of people are playing a part in that, and one of the things that I was lead into was helping the medicine plant called cacao, called chocolate to move into the Western world in a new way.

Aho! Thank you so much!

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Links to teaching materials:

https://ceremonialcacao.blogspot.com

The Art of Ascension (for many this is so simple it is rather advanced)

Go to Glow Meditation

MP3 Trainings and meditations

Empath Training

The Ego and The Messenger

Sat, 09 Dec 2017 22:25:49 GMT

A guide to transcending limiting beliefs and enjoying life more fully as an empath

A day will come when time is valued as a resource for inner work and creating awareness. The day that happens, people will more easily learn to listen and turn their attention inside to hear the messages from their subconscious being or the higher knowing that has always been in tune with all of existence and that has been taught to shut up.

The day we come into this world as a newborn, life in a human body starts. A great mission, a beautiful unique path of self-discovery awaits. We choose to forget, because we've been thrown into this world in a family, a setting, a unit in existence which welcomes us, and we need to adapt in order to be a part of it. As a child we're an unwritten piece of paper, and every choice, conscious or unconscious, shapes our reality. That's how we have an experience, and yet also we already come into the world with a set of values and principles which we chose to explore in this lifetime. We are free to align with our highest excitement and fully discover our purpose here on Earth, or stay focused on what we were taught by the consensus reality: a 'piece' of life which might be serving others more than ourselves.

A way to look at this is by seeing through the veils of consumerism and understand that the masses are simply trained to be slaves, and that it might be of higher interest to everything for you to break free. Now that can be a challenge, because breaking free means being different than the consensus reality, and that scares other people. They will see you as a messenger from another place, almost like the way symptoms are looked at in society. You will show them that something is 'wrong'. As we all know, Western society likes to push down symptoms by medicating them in order to be free from the pain, the messages. So it is that many, many 'messengers', people who have chosen the brave path of being that blessing to a world in despair, are now put away in mental hospitals, labeled as insane or psychotic. We need these people, just like we need people with so many different 'conditions' to show us the full contrast and variety of possibilities in human existence. A true community is a place where difference is celebrated and has the capacity to enhance the infinite possibilities of existence through interaction. And lots of people with different 'psychological illnesses,' conditions, dis-ease, etc. are here because they need to be here now, when Western mainstream society is waking up en masse. These people chose to be the healers of the new world, a world which for some is still dormant below the surface, but as more and more people wake up and look inside, these healers will be ready - at exactly the right time - to assist whoever they came here to assist in their process.

We need to look at completely different options for our civilization here on Earth, most of these things are way out of the box, and more and more messengers will come, in new bodies, in new families, in new lives, to show how it's done. To show how to tune in to a new way of being which they have always been familiar with, and owning their desire to do so exactly in that way they were meant to do it will open the doors to more illuminated people coming in as new people on earth, but also as opening the doors to different realities inside of others who are already here on earth.

We as a society have exploited our chances. We have come to a point of standstill in the progress and development we so desire, because we're still trying to work on the same level. It's not working any more, not just on this level. More and more people choose to jump into the different realms and are starting to create faith again, after the traumatizing years of indoctrination of the divine being something outside of ourselves, and the messengers can not be 'drugged down' anymore. Not the symptoms inside of our bodies (which are there to lead us inside and open the doors for us), nor the huge array of psychics, sensitives, trainers, body workers, visionaries, etc. Yes, they are 'different', because they are meant to be. We all have our unique path in this world, and times are calling for us to wake up! The stubborn ego that is trying to cling onto its card house sanctuary is trying to keep it up, but the winds of change are blowing, and as more and more people step out of their door and into the different realms, into the world, they can see that all it's ever been is just a mass co-creation of division and separation. I am in you and you are in me.

The great next step is to abandon that card house and all of its patriarchal belief systems that have created the mass illusion, only to step out into the darkness where, through integration of our shadows, lies our expansion as a person - and as a whole. And yes, it's scary, but paradox is a great teacher, and as we move through more of this darkness and bring the light of our awareness into that, we may start to understand why we put those beliefs there, and choose to tune in to another belief structure which is more in alignment with our divine nature.

If you are finding it hard to do that, know that you're not alone. Know that, yes, there are many, many people out there walking a similar (but different) path, in all parts of society, in all walks of life. Ultimately, you have to do it alone, but in doing so you attract many other people in tune with who you chose to be - effortlessly - as a reflection of the inner work you're doing. Yes, shadow work can be hard, but going inside creates space for who you really are, and that is a special choice to make.

People around you might not understand, and see you as a traitor. Just like they might look at someone walking away from the football stadium after having supported the same old team for ages, when that game of 'us against them' simply doesn't work anymore... May you be blessed on your journey!

The paradox is that going into the dark shadow and making place for your true power is often seen as a threat to people who have been trained to stay small, because in doing so you create more space for your personal power, and power is often perceived as freightening. You don't have to play that game, because it is a two-sided coin. What I mean by that is the following: you might be doing the exact same thing to others who are on a personal path of exploration, others who walk away from your perceived safe area, which means one less on your side. Oops... See if at all you create judgment about the path someone else is on, whatever that may be. You don't know what they need, but you might see them again in a different setting some time.

I don't mean you have to cater and adapt to everything and everybody, you always have a choice of what's right and what's not for you, but notice how if you push something or someone down out of fear that they'll leave your camp, you're tuning in to the exact vibration that's trying to keep you small. "Don't go out there, Forrest!" It's the same dynamic playing out, and getting over it can be an astonishing revolution in your own evolution. It might just give you the permission to truly thrive, to just be yourself, because you can accept everyone as just themselves and nothing else, whichever path they are on and exactly how they are meant to be. Now co-creation can start.

That is what I mean by community being a place where every single one can truly be seen as who they are, and be an equal part of the community energy field, bringing their blessings to it just by being.

We seem to be a long way off of that in mainstream society, because so many of us are waiting for the permission to step out and be ourselves, by the collective. Who is finally going to give you permission to step out and be yourself? There's no one else that can do it. It's a self-created cycle, and stepping out of it is so simply fulfilling that no-one can do anything to bring you down, because you are carrying within your own power of love, and that resonates within the heart of all. Try it - it's only hard if you still feel the need to conform to the ideas of an old structure that was never really yours. Feel that lightness of existence coming back to you when walking through the streets of love, where nothing can really touch you unless you somehow want it to. And there's no better or worse than anyone here, because that again is an ego structure. We're all simply different. Everybody is simply different, and still we're all made of the same elements. Nothing new there...

Chocolate as a Spirit Teacher

Fri, 24 Nov 2017 16:36:16 GMT

How Cacao and sitting in ceremony helped me open up to my depth of emotion

As I arrived at the ceremony my heart felt a little unstable. I felt a real excitement, and at the same time a slightly confronting nervousness, all brought together by an underlying sense of trust and comfort which made me stay with myself. I just observed, and did not feel the need to socialize. The group was simply waiting and some people talked or made jokes, but most of us just basked in the unknowing peace that we’re coming into ceremony, soon with a cup of hot Cacao in our hands, celebrating existence in all its ways. Many of us knew what it was about by now – or at least they had an idea – but not me. This was the first time I was here on the 'Cacao porch' in San Marcos la Laguna, Guatemala, and I silently sat in a corner of the porch full of expectation and generous surrender to what the afternoon might bring. It was about 12:30, and more people kept coming in, and somehow managed to find their spot on the now crowded and messy porch which was circled by small benches also full of people. We were about ready, as ready as we could be…

During the very entertaining intro we had already set intentions and started drinking chocolate, and the effect came on quick! For me anyway: after about ten minutes into the ceremony a deep hurt came to the light and I went into a soothing release of long-held sadness. Life was good. Letting sadness out can be such a journey, as together with the release of one feeling often come accompanied a whole array of undefineable and deeply unrecognized emotions. A true roller coaster of attunement to a more spacious and playful reality. As one feeling is experienced, more depth of emotion can be accessed and can be released, and everybody benefits. The group, the Earth, all of our relations. Emotion is power, raw strength that is often repressed in society, but allowing that pure essence to come through is an undefinable experience which happens in co-creation with everyone present in the space, as well as many relations outside of the direct environment. It opens space for reconnection with ancient knowledge which is so natural, but we chose to forget. And forgetting can be painful, so opening that space for reconnection is such a gift for all that we are. As we open doors for new energies to come in, we attune each other in mysterious ways. It is a true gift to go through these old layers of pain and forgetfulness.

Over the following months I went to numerous Cacao ceremonies and started to understand at a deeper level the power of emotion. Growing up in a very mentally-oriented society and not really having cultivated very much my creative aspects as a child, it was a true gift to be able to reconnect to an essential part of myself long forgotten and misunderstood, or maybe even neglected. Cacao is a true heart opener and it showed me the strength of love, a power very different from what I had previously believed love was. An effortless, infinite force which knows no enemy, because it is simply not physically possible for anything to work against something so heart-centered and powerful. A great deal of trying to understand went into one specific ceremony where my hands kept buzzing with radiant blessings, opening and closing as my breath went in and out. The moment I tried to understand it, the energy stopped and my hands would remain still. And every moment when I wanted, I could go back into surrender, meaning not understanding, and that love power would blow out of my hands and heart again.

Sometimes I would go through a number of different intense emotional releases in one ceremony, shifting through the whole array of feeling in order to reconnect to my inner strength, which gave me such an amount of insight into life's secrets and I did finally feel that all of existence is perfect and nothing else.

The insights and healing come when the time is there, and when the body and the awareness are ready to shift. There is no set time for this to happen, it does when it does. And ultimately we do it all together. All of us beings here on Earth are intimately connected in the powerful web of existence that is Oneness, and finding the time and space - and willingness - to go inside and be a tool of the divine is just an unbelievably beautiful and rewarding experience. Such a paradox: as we 'selfishly' create space to 'selflessly' process we can process feeling and create more love all around and inside.

We are all one, and every single one opening their heart for more goodness to come in (and yes, sometimes that means some rubbish has to go out) means more goodness can come in for everyone. That’s how beautiful it is: every one wins! And so we create a new reality which is more enjoyable and more together, as we were meant to experience here on Earth. And so we create, with or without Cacao.

Of course emotional release is just another stage in human and personal evolution, and an interesting one too. Once we become aware that there is a subconscious tendency for us to want to see our hurt for it to move out, we can choose to own our feelings and process them consciously. We then step out of blaming and we can go inside, where we learn to hold space for our own emotional release, or go to a held space like the Cacao ceremonies I am talking about. For me personally, the safety of a held space is very powerful because we evolve in a group, and it slowly taught me to hold space for myself when I needed to release something. Then, after releasing it, once the energy has moved, life force flows again and I can see life in a harmonious and pleasant way. Often, only after the emotional release the insight comes, or simultaneously. That’s why it’s so good to just go in to it, not knowing what is there to be felt or seen. It is the only way, really, and life will keep showing us the most direct route to reconnection to self. Surrender is the way to get there. Surrender as in: no clue whatsoever what is going to happen. Surrendering expecting something to happen does not do anything, because it’s not surrender. There’s still an expected outcome. It might not be an easy task, to surrender. I’d highly recommend not to give it too much thought… ;)

So far for a short introduction on how I experienced the Cacao medicine (which was intentionally selected, processed and prepared - so very different from regular eating chocolate) and the possibilities it carries for human evolution. We create access to an ancient knowing which has been inside of us since forever. The act of digging deep is powerful, and there is no right or wrong way, but for me the path of connecting with Cacao as a plant teacher has been very rewarding, and enjoyable.

Find out more about Cacao as a Spirit Teacher through Keith Wilson (a.k.a. the Cacao Shaman) and his partner Barbara's blog page https://ceremonialcacao.blogspot.com or through www.keithscacao.com

Do you have an interesting chocolate experience you wish to share??

How Does Your Peace Fit the Puzzle?

Sat, 11 Nov 2017 17:51:51 GMT

A short guide on releasing spiritual narcissism

I used to try so hard to get everything ‘right’ in my reality. I would feel as if I weren’t trying hard enough all the time, or wasn’t worthy enough to be what I felt I needed to be. It’s a very narcissistic thing, actually. It’s being so precarious about your state of being that it would cause a whole lot of needs in order to feel OK with yourself, in order to feel like you are not being devoured by the need to be complete, or better said con-plete . Because that’s a con, trying to be complete. It implies that you are not complete at this moment and that is simply never true. It just calls for more things to be seen that are confirming your incompleteness.

A vicious circle it is, and a big one too. It does not seem like one, because the belief that you have to care for yourself (a very beautiful belief), when pulled into this cycle of incompleteness is a call, a spell for more to be healed, while it seems like we’re actually doing ourself the favor of ‘taking care of ourself’. This is what I refer to as ‘the healing trip’. And what a trip it is… It took me a whole lot of seeking to learn to see it - and still sometimes it takes the best of me - but the process is one of falling and getting back up, and blaming oneself does not help much. On the other hand, if we can come from a place of already being whole in our choices, those choices will call in a result in tune with that energy, and so we can become the creators of a more conductive reality which also calls in abundance. We can now start to share our blessings instead of seeking to fill the hole in our wholeness. That in turn lights up more people, effortlessly and gracefully, and so we all receive! It is a more abundant and masterful way of living, and we can allow ourselves to make choices in line with what we feel is right for ourself, and in line with our overflowing and creative self. We are all creators in our essence. We are all already masterful at creating, as is all of creation, and do not need training to be a creator. It is, however, very desirable for ourselves and the collective to be clear on what exactly we create.

The beauty of ‘healing’ and restructuring the mind to be aligned and feeling connected is that it is an effortless process. I can not choose to let go of a problem if I am coming from a place of worry, because it means I’m already believing that I’m not enough. It’s just me creating work for myself because that’s what I was trained to do. I need to be able to ‘solve the puzzle’ so I can be finished with this process, you see? It’s not now . I need to understand , to be in control. It’s not really surrendering. The truth of the matter is that I am always in control, on another level than my intellectual brain. I try to identify, hold on, and as a result I am not allowing the greatness to exist, because the smallness of my rational mind is simply not capable, is not designed, to make sense of that. It is the little me wanting to be big. My rational mind, though, is a tool for execution of tasks in the world of duality, which is the world it knows best. Higher self is the observer and lives in non-duality. They go hand in hand, but the ego has taken over control quite a lot on the global level and figures itself way bigger and way more capable than what it actually is. As long as we realize that we are more than just a separated person who is not really connected to anything but themselves we can start to play. This is a much more enjoyable reality and we need to move through the trauma of living in separation for so long to really start to want to co-create again. It might take a while, or it might not. The ego might cause a fight - look at the world right now - or we can look inside and become aware of our thoughts and how identifying with them does create our reality. We can also understand that rebelling against our thoughts is again just trying to make sense of things on a level which is not capable of understanding. When we surrender , whether it is through understanding, letting go and being aware, or through repeated drama and pain to the point of surrender, we can become a true vehicle for healing and manifest our soul’s purpose. The magic can start to take place. It is just out of control, and yet we’re fully in control! It does not contradict the strength and beauty of an organized mind in consciously creating and structuring life, but it shows the way to the true healer inside, and it is done through enjoyment and fun, excitement and play. The ways of the One are intangible, and if the spiritual ego needs to create hard work around it, you’re again creating dysfunction and not allowing the greatness of Your being to exist.

Basically, I have nothing for you in this blog. It’s all You! That’s how lovely a teaching can be and how amazing your true power is.

Do you think society is ready to hear all this? What would happen if the Power of the People started sipping through, creating a powerful web of synchronicity and awareness? We are already in a web of collective power which continues to grow, and so it becomes easier for more people to tap into it. And that is how we do it, all together. That is how we already created the new world for all to exist in, to be real and prosperous, and whole and free. Do you think you are free?

How to Jump the Sinking Ship of a Time Long Gone

Mon, 30 Oct 2017 00:32:45 GMT

A short guide for tuning in to You while the ship slowly sinks...

One time I sailed from Panama to Jamaica. It was after having spent about a year by the magical Atitlan Lake in Guatemala, and because I had sailed across the Atlantic from Spain to Ecuador a couple of years earlier, I wanted to make the journey complete and sail back to Europe as well.
It did not work out just as smoothly as I had expected…

I hitch-hiked down to Panama from Guatemala and spent about a week on different boats that
were going through the Panama canal, on the Pacific side. After going through the canal and
spending some time in a marina on the Caribbean side, me and my friends got sent away as we
were not officially crewing on any of the boats. I needed to move on, I felt, and after consulting the
pendulum I decided to take a bus to the ferocious port city of Colón and then on to Portobelo. When
I arrived at the Colón bus terminal, the old repainted US school bus to Portobelo was just leaving.
They waived me over to jump on and one spot was left on the bus, right next to the only other
gringo. I sat down next to him. The man told me he came from Sweden and he was paying a
delivery captain called James to take his sailboat (definitely not a yacht…) back over to Europe. As
faith wanted it, they were looking for a crew member, as the owner himself was not going. What a
blessing, I thought. I said yes, and a couple of days later we set off towards Jamaica.
We would be under way for about 5 to 6 days.

James turned out to be a chronic drinker, emotionally abusive and hurt(ful) old man. He would
blame me for anything that went wrong and I did not know how to handle the situation well, as my
previous sailing experience had been one of companionship, mutual respect and cooperation (and
a lot of waiting). James shut down as soon as I started talking about virtually anything and
bragged a lot, but obviously had very low self-esteem. I just allowed and accepted the situation for
a couple of days, him being the captain and the person with more experience at sea, until at a
specific point he told me about something I didn’t do the way he wanted it to be done in a very
disrespectful way. I needed to speak up. He calmed down as I got my point across. I kept
journaling everything I was experiencing and eventually James started to listen to me and respect
my points of view, and, yes, even my feelings which at that point I did not fear to share anymore.
We were on a sinking ship, though, and more and more things started to go “wrong”. The currents
got too strong for the old boat to be able to tack into, as it could not get close to the wind, and
when we got to the North side of Jamaica the wind died down and a line got stuck in the propeller.
We were pretty much done for at that point, and after ten days of sailing we had the island in sight
but were not nearly there yet. We were afloat and were unable to get the line out of the propeller
from up on deck. The seas were calm as the morning came but James would not allow me to go
into the water to cut the line loose. So we waited... Eventually the wind picked up slightly, but not
nearly enough to get us going in the right angle, to Montego Bay where we had decided to attempt
calling at. The seas got slightly more rough and our situation started to look pointless, so I decided
to go down and try to cut the line loose. It was a terrible but adventurous job, and had the seas
been any more rough I would have hurt myself. Somehow we managed to get most of the line
out of the propeller, just about enough for the thing to create some momentum. So we got going,
slowly slowly, and when the winds did pick up we finally made it to Montego Bay...

The day after we arrived I decided to jump ship. Crossing the Atlantic with this man, even though
we somehow learned to respect each other, seemed pointless. I had intended to go ahead and join him
for the full passage, but my endurance had to make place for self-respect.

There comes a time when you need to leave a sinking ship, when it becomes a wise idea to jump
ship. In the case of Western “modern” civilization we are nearing that point. I cannot really judge for
other places much, but a lot of cultures adopted some of the “Western” ideas of progress and
consumerism. I strongly feel that we do not need to invest more energy into something which is
clearly not working. The Earth has had enough.

It is an interesting path, growing up in an industrialized society, with all its material benefits and
relatively “good” education in many places, training us to use the mind and be an intelligent and
disciplined player in the machine of consumerism and performance. What brought our societies to
this point is another story, but in terms of creating a humane and respectful society we have a lot
of work to do. And the first step in creating that society is by understanding that it needs to radically
change, and that it can only be done by starting with ourselves.
Also, it’s not really just a sinking ship, because of course within the world there is also another
endless array of realities, ships which are not sinking where you already are a part of as well. It is a
matter of seeing another reality and tuning in to it, like you would use a dial on a radio transmitter.
Learning to manage your frequency is a powerful act. When you make the jump to another tuning,
another frequency, beliefs or programs that are not in tune with this new frequency will be seen.
Why? Because most of us were programmed to all be on the same frequency, to not venture out
there too much because we might get lost, we might never be the same again. This is often other
people’s resistance to change projected onto another person. So in order to remain on the same
frequency (and not stand out too much) we managed to create or adopt a whole bunch of belief
systems that keep us there. Now let us talk about reprogramming…

Eventually they are just ideas, beliefs, which can be let go of. You do not have to take those beliefs
as an absolute truth just because everybody else believed them when you were a child, or still
does right now. Our essence is ever changing, and we are in constant evolution as human beings.
It is no more than normal that you already are a master in changing your ideas and beliefs into what
feels right. And it is an interesting transition to recreate your life in tune with your highest
excitement and your highest potential. I do not mean to let go of any structure in life completely, but
tuning in to your bliss will bring more sincronicity into your life and things will flow more easily, because
it’s just simply who you are here to be. And the more people that embody their divine essence
with grace, the easier it becomes for yet more people to do the same.
In that sense, we are all in the same boat...

Also, evolution and expansion will never stop, because the universe is always expanding and each
of us is an essential part of existence. Without any of us creation would not be complete.
It might be an intense journey for some to see the fears and resistances to change, as
we can now observe in many events all over the planet. But we are at the point of seeing it for
what it is, a co-created grid that used to keep us enslaved. Feeling and seeing this enables us to jump into
the abyss of the unknown, where the new me, you, us - the new planet we all came here to birth is
waiting. It is not a given, but the more we believe it is difficult, the more difficult it gets. So connect
with your tribe and join in for the new times of co-creation and realignment of head, heart, body and
soul through your life on Earth. Creating a new reality is something real and happening right now.
The harder governments and concerns try to keep us down, the more signs our Earth and our bodies
will give, so feel free to jump into the unknown, it might not be as hard as you believed it would be.
Feel the possibility of tuning into another life. Know that you can be anything you desire and that it’s OK if
others judge you, because it might just be hard for them to let go.

We were holding on to a
system which did not work anymore, because it is what we were expected to do. And letting go of
it would mean a whole lot of trouble, we were told. Walking out of the grid meant chaos, even treason,
and threateneds the commitment of others to being a part of that old paradigm, whether they saw it or
not. Shifting means redefining all of reality and who we thought we were. It means holding space
for the new Earth to arise and it means embodying your desire to be real, whether others judge you
or treat you as an outlaw or not. It means choosing for you, and in that powerful act learning to
reconnect to your power to build bridges between the old sinking ship and the new world we came
here to create, so even more people can jump before the ship finally goes under.

Feel free to comment below, we would love to hear what you have to say...
Thank you for your time and we hope to hear from you soon!

Spiritual Superheroes and Seeking

Mon, 16 Oct 2017 08:53:36 GMT

How to stay centered on your path when connecting with a teacher

I was living a very unfulfilled life for a long time, and I would not even have known how to get out of it. The pain I was creating for myself was slowly increasing and I did not know how to move through it or what to do with it in general. The path of my life eventually showed me that moving abroad and traveling would bring me lots of insights as well as treasures. Where it led me was also inside, though. The pain was ment to point my attention inwards. A common misunderstanding is that taking care of yourself in the first place means not caring about others, and this reluctance to truly honor myself also kept me in a cycle of having to spend more time and make more intense choices to truly be able to listen. And so it is that it took me lots of time being on some kind of excursion of different paths of healing, spirituality, teachings, etc looking for a solution to my problems, a so-called Healing Trip. Quite an intense journey, that was. Beware for the healing excursion, as it can be a looong journey to try and get somewhere that is truly inside. Having said that, it might be a necessary trip for many of us in order to be able to find ourselves, and having a teacher can be of major importance. Yet it can also become a dysfunction until we get to a standstill.

Of course we do not have to get anywhere, but we always have a choice to live our lives more in alignment with our true purpose. That just feels right, and also comes with the maturity to work with the pain and excitement that come along with making that choice in every moment. We can enjoy life and give all of ourselves just because we are, and knowing that makes time and space for more of that alignment and purpose to come through, sharing our blessings and enjoyment just because there is so much of it. For me it took me a while to get to know myself on a deeper level and to regain knowledge and – most importantly – tools to be more in alignment and stay connected to my inner teacher. And there really is no-one else who can do it for us anyway. So knowing this is a key point in attracting a good (external) teacher who can mirror this personal power and wisdom to us. And that creates healthy boundaries too, because helplessly seeking for a solution also creates space for spiritual superheroes to come and save you, and that can be a trip in and of itself.

The helpless seeker and the unknowing superhero go hand in hand, and they need each other to exist. And for some people in some situations they truly are the beautiful 'perfect match' for each other, but be aware if superheroes come into your life and show you how to live it, because maybe you do not need to be saved in the first place. Maybe a 'helpless victim' in a spiritual crisis is another human calling for attention and support in waking up and being real. Someone who just needs a friend or healer with experience in assisting them and calling for their strength and wholeness to come through.

Knowing this as a 'spiritual seeker' is super important in order to remain true to yourself, and a genuine teacher will reflect this back to you and make sure you are in your full personal power of will when making decisions. They will also, in my opinion, open your mind to taking steps out of your zone of comfort. This is what it takes to grow, and knowing the other side of a specific situation or dynamic you are in is immensely valuable in order to make free choices. So next time you are in a crisis situation and a savior comes in to rescue you, take a breath and remember there was never anything wrong with anyone , but we are all just playing a big game in a cosmic hologram called here and now, and if you want to go into the story of being saved by an amazing spiritual Super Woman or Wonderman – this time not just on TV, but real-life!!! – feel free...

Yet, being aware of your power of choice in the situation and that we are all already whole might truly transform the dynamic between seeker and superhero.

A recognizable situation? Feel free to comment on this post below...