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igns how to look and listen how to be in the space where dreams are woven into consciousness we may speak about the need for a new story one that is not based upon exploitation and greed but recognizes the interdependent oneness of the living world but real stories arise from the inner worlds only then do they carry the numinous power that can change a civilization myths are not rational but belong to a deeper dimension of our psyche we can see the emotive power of the false stories that surround us whether the recent myth of endless economic growth that is the foundation of our consumer world or the more recent distortions of social media that grip our collective consciousness we are living these pathological stories without fully recognizing how much we respond to their emotive and psychic power the cold facts about climate change and loss of species have not changed our behavior while conspiracy theories and stories of stolen elections have seized our beliefs is our collective consciousness only open to dark myths such as the kraken a tentacled creature of norse mythology that arises from the deep swallowing ships 3 now as we stand at this crossroads do we have to wait for our present society to fall apart are we caught in too many patterns of social and economic divisiveness where do we find the hidden gateway into the garden a place where we are no longer exiles in our own land living by the sweat of our brow but can hear and then live the songlines of the land where dreaming nourishes our daily life our ancestors are still all around us in our dna in the land in the spirits still present behind the veils of our rational self in the millennia of our human history it is only a few years since most of us divorced ourselves from these companions and decided to walk alone unaccompanied no longer understanding our primal relationship to the earth and her ways no longer speaking the same language singing her songs and those few who carried that remembrance experienced the suffering and pain of that separation as they struggled to stay true to the songs dreams and ceremonies in a world increasingly covered with enforced forgetfulness is it enough just to acknowledge that our ancestors lived in an animate world that is still around us even if invisible to our eyes intangible to our other senses they lived in a world of kinship on many levels not masters not the dominant species but part of a living tapestry just one species among many in which the hunter asked the spirit of the animal for permission to hunt and the gatherer for the plant s blessing to harvest here there was no hierarchy but an interdependent world both physical and spirit all part of one community that could communicate through dance and dream song and prayer if we are to become partners with the earth living our shared journey we have to once again speak the same language listen with our senses attuned not just to the physical world but also to its inner dimension for them dreaming and waking were not separate but part of a multilayered texture of existence where dreams could guide the hunt and the spirits of animals and plants were welcomed and sometimes they ventured deeper into the spirit world through visions and had access to a wisdom that could help their whole community for example the lakota medicine man black elk who walked this land less than a century ago had a seminal vision when he was nine years old that took him to where the horses were singing and the thunder beings spoke to him of the destiny of his people how his nation s hoop was broken the spirits called upon him to help restore his people through an awareness of all of life s sacred nature and its inherent unity and while i stood there i saw more than i can tell and i understood more than i saw for i was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit and the shape of all shapes as they must all live together like one being 4 our present world is divisive our consciousness fractured our collective values produce greed and endless desires science and its foster child materialism have become a broken mythology evident in the ecocide it has created where are the visions to guide us the spirits to sustain us the singing horses to accompany us are we still hoping to find an answer in technology in its soulless succession of ones and zeros or can we begin to remember the lands we have left the spirit filled world we have abandoned my own garden on a hillside beside the bay is a place where the worlds come together colors and fragrances lavender buddleia bushes whose honey scented flowers are so often full of bees chamomile yellow and white jasmine a cascade of evening sweetness and the soft magic of the spirits that are welcomed at home like the quail with her babies in the early summer hiding between the plants this is how the land was always alive seen and unseen movement and stillness and we were a part of it all our senses attuned in ways long lost and now as the earth is calling out to us to remember her sacred ways there is the possibility to return to walk as our ancestors walked to be a part of the world coming alive after a long winter after storms and snow after a landscape so barren it pains the eyes here where the land sings where the worlds meet is a way to be that resonates with both the soil and the soul making a garden sing for the unseen to be present is a simple act of welcoming the worlds our ancestors knew the spirits of the land as well as the beings of light i have found it is simplest through an openness of heart and a deep knowing that we are surrounded nourished and met in ways beyond our rational minds a multidimensional kinship the colors of the flowers then reveal a vibrancy beyond the physical and even the stones in the garden feel awake 5 this is a simple celebration of the wonder that was always around us and a nourishment we need for our shared journey together into an uncertain future it is hard to see how the coming decades will unfold if the year of the pandemic has taught us anything it is how unpredictable the present moment is how fragile our present systems we do not know how much of our present way of life will be lost as the wildfires rage and the seas rise will we retreat into the bunkers of materialism or step into a different way to live with the land but this moment is also an opportunity to return to an essential awareness that belonged to our ancestors which although we have dismissed and forgotten it is not so far away on any journey it is necessary to decide what to take both for traveling and the new life that awaits this deep ecology of consciousness that embraces a fully animate world can sustain us giving us access to the wisdom of the earth a knowing we need for the turbulence of this transition without this quality of consciousness there is the danger we will just remain in the barren wasteland created by our rational mind will not fully wake up from the nightmare that is poisoning the planet maybe the land and its spirits can welcome us awake help us to fully see hear and inwardly sense the garden we never really left endnotes while the creation stories of north america s indigenous peoples teach that they have always been here that they were created here science based theories tell different stories of how the first peoples arrived to north america for more than half a century the prevailing theory was that thirteen thousand years ago the clovis culture arrived when small bands of stone age hunters walked across a land bridge between eastern siberia and western alaska eventually making their way down an ice free inland corridor into the heart of north america a subsequent theory is that fifteen thousand years ago the earliest inhabitants arrived by boat traveling down the pacific shoreline while a recently emerging theory is that humans may have arrived earlier at least twenty thousand years ago when the bering strait was high and dry kami are the spirits phenomena or holy powers that belong to nature and are manifestations of musubi the interconnecting energy of the universe they are revered in shinto the earliest religion of japan there are of course many other inhabitants of the unseen worlds from angelic beings to darker elemental forces for example the celtic tradition refers to the three realms annwn the world below abred the middle world of nature and human affairs and gwynfed the white life the upper world or heavens nature spirits or devas which inhabited much of our pre industrial world belong to the middle world while angels beings of light belong to the upper world conspiracy theorists supporting trump have spoken about unleashing the kraken this is part of a much longer and very powerful vision in which the thunder beings spoke to him spirits revered like human grandfathers his vision continues and i saw that the sacred hoop of my people was one of many hoops that made one circle wide as daylight and as starlight and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all the children of one mother and one father and i saw that it was holy the whole vision is recorded by john g neihardt in black elk speaks sacred landscapes have this quality for example the mountains that are the heart of the world of the kogis in colombia or mountains and lakes in tibet imbued with sacred meaning where protector deities are often painted on the rocks some of the land around glastonbury in england has a similar ancient earth magic posted in uncategorized leave a comment we shall overcome love will rise again posted on may 24 2021 by awakinoak by nimo patel daniel nahmod https www emptyhandsmusic org we shall overcome this week we are featuring the inspirational hip hop artist nimo patel who has spent many years at the mahatma gandhi ashram in ahmedabad gujarat patel has done humanitarian work for underprivileged children in india and created empty hands music to spread goodness in the world through selfless service music and love i think on our spiritual path what s very interesting is we start off as children and then we get conditioned and rewired from a sense of purity and a sense of awareness and a sense of awe and a sense of just being to then conditioned to judge to plan to strategize to hoard to protect to do all these things and then what s interesting is when we start hearing all these spiritual teachings of the world it s about going back to being children oh no simplify oh stop judging oh just do what your heart says oh wait that s what we used to do when we were kids nimo patel nimesh nimo patel s awakincall conversation titled rap star to service rockstar highlights his journey letting go of fame and money to service underprivileged children in india and wherever he goes we encouraged you to also listen to it posted in artivism awakin oakland gift economy kindness meditation music nonviolence peace army soulforce wednesdaysontuesdays tagged daniel nahmod nimo patel leave a comment when savoring a pleasant moment is a radical act posted on may 10 2021 by awakinoak by ari honarvar may 9 2020 as we grapple with the first global pandemic lockdown of our lifetime our daily routines have been upended and it s difficult to keep up with new changes many of us are overwhelmed by the precarious nature of our health our loved ones well being and our financial security but in the midst of uncertainty and fear inspiring videos are emerging from the countries most affected by coronavirus iranian doctors and nurses dancing in hospitals and italian residents singing from their balconies this footage not only uplifts the spirit of those in close proximity it also brightens the mood of people watching from around the world one thing i ve learned from spending much of my own childhood in times of war and political upheaval is the importance of cultivating joy during crises while it is critical to be informed about the trajectory of the new coronavirus via reliable sources to practice physical distancing and to care for our most vulnerable populations it s also time to infect each other with love and fortifying stories this is actually really hard to do because we humans are naturally inclined to focus on bad news ari honarvar s painting during the eight year iran iraq war which killed over a million people life was far from joyful we iranians had become accustomed to daily funerals food rations political oppression and an ongoing threat of bombs and missiles on top of that consuming alcohol dancing and playing non sanctioned music had suddenly become illegal under the post revolution laws but even with these external challenges i observed a few adults ability to become scrappy and use all available resources for the essential task of nurturing joy stability and a sense of humor faced with food rationing they experimented with new recipes faced with wartime blackouts they told stories and recited poems as the threat of bombing loomed they told jokes and made everyone laugh until our eyes watered sure this made us all feel better in the moment but what research is discovering is that joy and laughter are essential for building the superpower of resilience and even boosting our immunity and overall health psychologist and trauma expert peter levine says joy is an experience of expansion whereas fear is one of deep contraction cultivating joy is an important component of resilience as it increases our capacity to face difficulties imagine if every time you stretched a rubber band it would become more resilient so rather than wearing out it would increase its capacity able to take more stretches without breaking he says so even when there are obstacles which cause contraction that expansion afforded to us by joy comes to our rescue the more we increase this capacity the less overwhelming emotions will be levine says for instance trauma stretches us beyond our capacity to deal with a certain challenging situation and we become overwhelmed with sensations and emotions the problem isn t that the sensations and emotions are too strong but that our capacity to hold and process them is maxed out when we continue to cultivate joy we gain the ability to feel the overwhelm without becoming overwhelmed ourselves continue reading posted in fearlessness natural philosophy nonviolence peace army satyagraha soulforce wednesdaysontuesdays wisdom tagged ari honarvar leave a comment thirsty for wonder posted on may 3 2021 by awakinoak by mirabai starr contemplative life flows in a circular pattern awe provokes introspection which invokes awe maybe you re making dinner and you step outside to snip chives from the kitchen garden just as the harvest moon is rising over the easter slopes she is full and golden like one of those pregnant women who radiate from within suddenly you cannot bear the beauty scissors suspended in your hand tears pooling at the corners of your eyes you nearly quit breathing your 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