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A Hathor Planetary Message (Sep 2010) |
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The Art of Jumping Time Lines
Although it may seem paradoxical to some, your timeline—your life—is only one of many simultaneous possibilities. And it is quite possible, indeed it is your birthright, to alter your timeline and the potentials of your life.
Your culture, for various reasons, has hypnotized you into believing that you are limited to one timeline. In this message we shall endeavor to discuss our understanding of timelines and how you can change them.
Whenever there is an increase of chaotic events, there is a convergence of multiple timelines. Due to the fact that your planet has entered a Chaotic Node and is experiencing ever-increasing levels of chaos, there is also an increase in what we call time nodes.
Time nodes occur when two or more timelines converge. As a result of their close proximity oscillation effects sometimes occur when the realities of one timeline bleed through, or are psychically perceived by those on a neighboring timeline. Strong timelines can also literally affect the possibilities and/or probabilities of other timelines within a time node. In other words, creative and novel effects often occur within timelines when they enter a time node (proximity to other timelines).
These are evolutionary jumpstarts that hold tremendous possibility for accelerated evolution if you understand how to utilize them. As a result of the volatile nature of events on your planet, there are multiple time nodes emerging. This is a very complicated and complex affair, and we shall endeavor to break it down into its smallest segments, for we believe that this information has vital significance for those of you engaged in the ascension process, and for its sheer survival value. Let us turn our attention to the larger picture first and then to the individual strategies we suggest.
Background
Your planet is poised on the brink of utter transformation. The form of this transformation has multiple expressions, and it is you—the collective—that will affect these outcomes to a greater or lesser degree.
Some of these outcomes, these possibilities, fulfill the prophecies of planetary destruction and purification. Other timelines, other expressions, reveal a different outcome. A sudden unexpected shift in human consciousness could bring the Controllers, who have so negatively affected your destiny, to their knees. And there are hundreds of other possible timelines between these two polarities. There are vested interests in your society who wish you to remain hypnotized, which wish for you to continue in the delusion that you are limited to one timeline, one experience of life as they so deem it.
But you have, within your nature, the ability to change timelines and probabilities at the last moment of any event—whether it be personal or collective. We do not say this to be “positive.” We say this as a matter of fact concerning your evolutionary potential. Whether you will collectively reach this potential or not remains to be seen, but the path of an Initiate is to reach upward for the highest potential, regardless of what may or may not be happening around him or her. Thus, in this message we shall discuss what you can do, and how you do it.
From our perspective, your collective destiny is the summation of individual choices that you, as persons, make. This is combined with evolutionary and terrestrial forces that are far beyond your and your fellow humans’ abilities to control. This collection of forces also involves cosmic patterns of energy and intentionality from areas of the cosmos beyond your local solar system, for you are a part of a complex cosmic matrix that is your universe.
If we were to use a metaphor, we would say that you, as humanity, are on a great ocean vessel. But many of you are asleep, and there is someone at the helm directing this vessel that should not be there. For many historical and trans-historical reasons, which we won’t go into here, various beings have commandeered your ship.
But, ah, how the tides are turning. More and more of you are waking up, though some, still half-asleep, stagger across the deck as they watch the tempestuous storm of their world changing before them. The Controllers know that many of you are waking up—too many for their comfort.
It is, indeed, an interesting time to be alive!
The current ecological situation in the Gulf is one example of multiple timelines. In spite of your media’s grand attempt to dismiss the situation, many are sensing how dire the situation is, and indeed, there are complications in the Gulf region that are beneath the surface, both literally and figuratively.
In our previous message we addressed several possible timelines for this event. Which of these possible timelines will unfold into your three-dimensional reality is not written in mud or concrete, but is a changeable event or outcome. In this message we wish to discuss how you, the individual, can jump a timeline into a different destiny at a moment’s notice. This can be extrapolated to your civilization also jumping timelines, but that is a topic for another time.
For the moment we wish to turn our attention to you, the individual human and how you can jump from a disastrous timeline—from an outcome you do not wish—to something more benevolent, life-friendly, and full of evolutionary potential.
For the record, there are technological means to jump timelines, but our information here deals with human consciousness, and how you, through the power of your own awareness and intention, can jump timelines. For this endeavor, you already possess two of the greatest treasures in your very own nature—your sovereign will (to make choices) and your capacity to feel. These two, when combined properly will allow you to jump timelines as you so desire, as co-creators of your reality rather than being mere pawns on a chessboard.
The Fundamental Principle
The fundamental principle, for jumping timelines, involves the coordination of a few significant fields of intentionality.
1) You identify the timeline you wish to move into.
2) You shift your vibrational state to match the timeline.
3) You lock in the vibrational state so it does not waver.
4) You take an action that is an expression of the new timeline.
5) Persevere.
In this fifth stage, you must hold the vibrational state of the new timeline you have chosen, making choices coherent with the new timeline and persevering with this despite sensory information to the contrary.
This last phase of perseverance is important, because your current timeline is an accumulation of your beliefs and intentions. Depending upon the strength of these beliefs and intentions, you may have to accumulate a vast amount of energy in order to overcome the set pattern of your life.
The information we are sharing can be used to address any timeline or expression in your life, down to the most mundane situation. In this message however, we will be addressing this methodology for jumping timelines in regards to the ascension process and how you can move into timelines different than the timeline of the culture you are currently residing in.
This is, for some, a revolutionary idea; but for us it is simply a truth about your nature. You are creator gods and goddesses, and this information we are sharing is simply your birthright. We offer it to you at this time with the anticipation and hope that many of you will jump timelines and tilt the keel of the ship you are upon and take the vessel into safe and prosperous waters.
Enough of the metaphors now, let us get to the nuts and bolts of how you jump timelines.
Ascension
The ascension process, from our perspective, involves the energizing of your second body, your KA, and its elevation in vibration so that it emits more light, eventually becoming the SAHU, the Immortal Energy Body. There are many ways to raise the vibration of one’s KA. Most of your spiritual traditions have their own methods for raising your vibration, unfortunately, many of them are also riddled with dogma, taboos, and quite honestly, interference patterns from thought-forms placed by those who did not and do not desire your freedom, but who profit by your imprisonment.
And, yes, it is sad to say that some of your spiritual traditions—and especially your religions—are insidious traps, and if you are to rise upward in the ascension of your own being, you must separate truth from falsehood. Only you can undertake this task, for it is one of the necessities of mastery. This is a line in the sand of consciousness itself for those who have chosen the ascension of their own being. They become masters of truth and do not step aside from ferreting out falsehood from reality. They are not slaves to dogma. They bow to no one but their own divinity.
From an energetic standpoint, the ascension process begins when your life force, called Sekhem by the ancient Egyptians, begins its ascent up the Djed, or sacred pathway of the chakras. This is ascension in its simplest form. It is the expansion of consciousness and awareness. As your life force enters your higher brain centers and as your KA body becomes energized, you enter another phase of ascension. At this phase, you begin to metabolize light itself. By light we refer to spiritual light, a light that exists in the spiritual realms. This light feeds the KA body and increases its vibration. When the KA body reaches a certain amplitude, or strength of vibration, without wavering, it ignites with a type of etheric fire, turning it into the SAHU, or Immortal Energy Body. This could be viewed as one of the final stages of this particular form of ascension. But what we wish to make very clear is that any movement upward in consciousness and movement of life force up the djed, regardless of the method used, is part of the ascension process.
We wish now to discuss some basic concepts and training strategies that will impart a basic method for jumping timelines. We will then turn our attention to how you can create a new probability for yourself, even in the midst of what appears to be great difficulty. And most importantly, we will explore a significant evolutionary opportunity that exists within your current time node.
One of the first tasks facing you if you are to jump into a different timeline is the transcendence of fear. Most humans fear the unknown, but there is a much more insidious element involved here. The Controllers, those who wish to control your destiny and profit by it, are masters of the projection of fear and they are using vast resources of mind control and hypnosis through the media to convince the masses that there is much to fear. And while there is, quite frankly, some truth to there being reasons for fear, the higher truth is not being revealed.
The higher truth, as we view it, is your capacity to change your reality, your innate ability to use the two treasures of your sovereign will and your capacity to feel as a means to navigate into new timelines. Let us be specific here.
As we mentioned earlier, the type of ascension we are speaking about begins with the simple movement of your life force up the djed, or spine, into your higher brain centers. As this takes place, the energy wheels within your KA body, called chakras, become activated in new ways. This opens windows of new possibilities, and new insights, new forms of inspiration and creativity blossom. But if consciousness is locked into fear, it becomes imprisoned by the lower centers, the impulses for survival, sex, and power.
For various historical and trans-historical reasons, as we alluded to earlier, there has been and continues to be, a collusion to keep humanity locked into the lower centers, to perpetuate fear as a means to control destiny. Thus for any master who chooses the upward path, one of the first hurdles to pass through is the Valley of Fear—the projected thought forms of one’s culture. You must then pass through the portals of limitation that would confine you, to recognize the lies that have been perpetuated, even by some of your most sacred religions.
But let us say that you have the courage and fortitude to undertake such a passage, and let us say, for the sake of example, that the timeline you wish to live in is one of benevolence: loving kindness. Here is how you would do this, remembering that the same principal applies to any timeline you wish to create for yourself.
Preparation and Training
The first step is to identify the timeline you wish to create, that you wish to live in. In this case it is a timeline of loving kindness. The second step is to move into the vibrational state that matches the timeline. In this case, it is the feeling state of loving kindness, so you would, yourself, reside in this state as much as you are capable of. By this we mean you would exhibit loving kindness to others and to yourself.
The third step is locking in the vibrational field, so it does not waver. This is an important aspect of jumping timelines because the old vibrational state has a life of its own. Just because you have chosen to create a new timeline and have stepped into a vibrational state that matches the timeline, is not a guarantee that the timeline will manifest or continue. You must lock the vibrational field in place, for this is what sustains your access to the new timeline.
The first two steps involve your sovereign will. You choose a timeline you want to experience. You choose a vibrational state that matches the timeline. And in the third step—locking in the vibrational state—you use the second treasure of your nature: your capacity to feel.
By feeling the vibrational state you wish to be in, you amplify it; you strengthen it. And if you also include a coherent emotional state such as appreciation or gratitude for the vibrational reality, you will hasten its birth.
This simple act of appreciating, or feeling gratitude, for the new timeline catalyzes its reality in ways that boggle the mind. So it is that the two treasures of your nature are joined together in these three steps. The next step requires your sovereign will again. You must persevere, to hold the vision of the new timeline and the vibrational state, regardless of what your senses are telling you. This is the passage where many fail.
The manifesting of a new timeline into your three-dimensional reality requires accumulated energy. If you persist in holding the vision of the new timeline, with the vibrational field (or feeling of it), along with gratitude for it already existing, you will accumulate energy.
The task here is to be true to your vision while paying attention to what the current reality is showing you. It is not about pretending. It is about facing reality as it presents itself to you while simultaneously holding a higher vision. In other words, you deal with the reality of your life while simultaneously holding the vision of a different life. This is the art.
Using our example, if you desire to create a life with more loving kindness, you would move into that vibrational state by exhibiting loving kindness to others. If you were able to also feel gratitude for this vibrational state, it would accelerate the creation of the new timeline.
In reality, there will be a period when you will recognize that not everyone is capable of loving kindness, nor of receiving it for that matter. Your vision will then be refined by the realities of life, and this maturation of your consciousness will take place naturally, as you deal with the realities of your current timeline along with the emergence of your new timeline.
One result from this way of proceeding is that you will become a master of loving kindness and a master in dealing with those who cannot express such vibrational states. Eventually you will experience a life of more loving kindness, where more people express that quality to you and you to them. And when you encounter someone unable to express this quality, you will be more able to deal with him or her without losing this quality in yourself.
Thus would you seed the new timeline and new reality for yourself.
Let us now return to the collective timeline.
As we said earlier time nodes are juncture points where multiple timelines converge, and you can jump from one to the other if you understand how it is done. We just explained the basic principal as it applies to individual timelines. Now let’s discuss how you can jump to a different timeline than that of any given collective.
As paradoxical as it may seem it is quite possible to live a separate timeline, having a different experience of life than those around you.
Let us say that again another way. It is possible to live in heaven while others are living in torment. At the deepest levels of consciousness it is simply a matter of choice.
We do recognize that you have been, and are continuing to be, manipulated by forces that desire to keep you imprisoned. But our choice in this communication is to give you keys to jump out of that imprisonment, not dwelling on the history of it, or the identities of those involved. For, in truth, the true Controllers are unseen by you. They are the Puppet Masters.
As chaotic events escalate you will have many opportunities to jump timelines. Our suggestion is to remember the steps we discussed earlier. You might experiment with this method by choosing to conduct an experiment. Choose something that you would like to unfold as a reality in your life and using the steps we discussed, see what you can create.
Physical and Spiritual Survival
Our essential reason for imparting this message involves something of greater consequence than creating personal desires. This “something” literally has to do with your survival, both physically and spiritually.
As chaotic events escalate, your powers of intuition will be more important to you than ever before.
Some people call them “hunches.” Without knowing how you know, you suddenly know what to do in a situation.
This is how intuition works. In these moments of intuition you are at a juncture point—a time node—where you can jump into a different timeline and a different outcome.
This increase of intuitive receptivity is one of the hallmarks of personal ascension, or the movement upward in consciousness. A more developed intuition has obvious physical survival benefits.
A moment ago we said something that may be paradoxical to some individuals. We said that the ability to jump timelines had both physical and spiritual survival benefits.
What we meant here is that the ability to jump a timeline into a different outcome can result in physical survival in certain situations. By spiritual survival, we mean that there are threats to your spiritual awakening. If you lose track of your own truth, if you lose the two treasures that you possess in your nature—your sovereign will and your capacity to feel—then you are spiritually in danger. Do not lose sight of these treasures in yourself. As chaotic events increase, and they shall—for this is the birthing of a new world—the Controllers will increase their efforts. Be leery of mind-control and of any thought form that limits your sovereign will and your ability to feel, regardless of its origins—even if it comes from one of your “sacred” religions.
Any thought form, no matter how dressed up in sacred garb or political correctness that would limit your sovereign will to choose or your capacity to feel should be avoided. This is a vital necessity for those of you who wish to survive this passage spiritually intact.
The Convergence of Timelines and the Alteration of Probabilities
Let us now turn our attention to the primary reason for this communication. Everything we have said up to this point is background and suggestions for the training of your own consciousness to jump timelines.
But now we turn our attention to two highly significant timelines that exist independently of your creation. They are of a different order of existence. They are not created out of your personal choice. And they exist in diametric opposition to each other.
You exist, as we have said on numerous occasions, in multiple timelines and probabilities simultaneously. One of the timelines you and humanity are living in at this moment is a fulfilling of the prophecies of doom and planetary destruction. This is a very real timeline. But, this is only one possible timeline. You are at a convergence point, a time node, where it is possible to jump from the doomsday probabilities into a new type of Earth and a new order of existence.
This timeline, which we call the New Earth, is a very different dimension of experience than your current reality. In this timeline, Earth is deeply honored and held in gratitude by the bulk of humanity, which understands and appreciates the truth that all life is interconnected.
Here, Earth is not ravaged and exploited for the sake of profit—at the detriment of her very ecosystem. Technologies have been transformed through the elevation of human consciousness. Gone are the life-threatening technologies and life damaging mindsets of your current era. Wars are a thing of the past. The Controllers who exerted negative forces upon your destiny through their manipulation of religion, economics and international affairs have relinquished their power. Life itself is held as sacred, and a new understanding of the sacredness of matter is embraced by humanity. There is no war between Heaven and Earth in this new world.
There are more things that we could say about this timeline, but you have a sense, we hope, of the difference between this timeline and the other that ultimately leads to doom and destruction.
There is one more thing we wish to say about this timeline of the New Earth. It is an attribute that we particularly appreciate. In this new timeline, the veils between the worlds are thin, and there is greater interaction between humans and intergalactic beings—such as ourselves—and with what you might call the devic and spirit worlds.
It is here that we must say it is not our intention to sway you, for we believe in non-intervention. We will not interfere with your free will. However, we are free to point out to you what we see.
In ancient Egypt there was a goddess called Maat, who held a set of scales, and upon death the heart of an Initiate would be placed upon the scales, and a feather would be placed on the other side. If the heart was as light as a feather the Initiate would be given entrance to the heavenly worlds—meaning higher states of consciousness. But if the heart was laden with negativity, regret, and sorrow, the Initiate would have to return to the lower worlds.
In a very real way humanity is at its meeting point with Maat. Every person who believes in the timeline of doom, destruction and horror will add to its reality. Everyone who holds as real the timeline of the New Earth will add to its reality.
You are not powerless in this situation. You hold in your very nature the power of radical change for yourself and the planet—especially for humanity. If you feel a resonance with this timeline of the New Earth, and if you choose to live in this new order of being, you will be adding your weight, so to speak, and helping to tip the scales.
We wish to say something we said earlier, for it is of vital importance. It is possible to live in heaven while those around you live in torment. This has little to do with your location in time and space, but more to do with your vibrational state.
If you feel the truth of what we are saying and choose to align with this New Earth, we welcome you to a new timeline and a new destiny.
Our suggestion is to go over the steps of how to jump timelines we gave earlier, and to begin the grand experiment. Enter the timeline of the New Earth and prepare yourself for the miraculous.
Finally—let the Earth speak to you. Let her caress you and transfer to you her deepest knowledge and wisdom. She shall be a great ally in the coming changes.
We shall give further information about jumping timelines and the New Earth in future communications. But for now, we hope you have a basic understanding of how to proceed.
As always, even in the midst of such great difficulties as you now face, we hold a higher vision for you, the human family. We see your hidden greatness, even though you may not see it yourself. We hold a light in this hour of darkness. It is just a reminder of the great light you hold within yourself. It is time to free this light within you. Future generations will be blessed by your ascent. May it be so.
The Hathors
August 3, 2010
Tom’s Thoughts and Observations
Several things caught my eye in this communication. First of all they used a term, trans-historical, which I had never heard before. When I asked them about this, they said it described a way of looking at certain types of intergalactic influences that transcend linear time. Thus, the influences they were speaking about were generated outside of time, as we understand it, but then showed up in our time line from pre-history until the present moment. I don’t completely understand all of what they are saying here. I am just passing it on.
Since they emphasized the significance of time nodes so many times and belabored the point of how to jump from one timeline to another, I asked them what the duration was for this current time node. According to them, this time node is highly significant because it contains multiple convergences of possible/probable timelines that will affect our planet and our destiny as a species. Two of the timelines they specifically mentioned were a timeline that fulfills the prophecies of planetary purification and destruction running along with a timeline that leads to a new more benevolent future, a timeline they referred to as the New Earth.
So when did this time node begin and when will it end? According to them, this particular time node of polar opposite destinies emerged into our 3D reality in July of this year and will continue in various permutations through July of 2013.
Please note, they are not saying that the New Earth timeline came into existence during this time node. In point of fact, according to them, this benevolent timeline has been going on for quite some time. But the polar opposite timelines of planetary destruction versus planetary renewal are now moving very close to each other (the time node aspect). Thus, if one knows how to jump timelines, it is much easier to do when the timeline you desire is so close to the one you are on.
The significance of this time node is that humanity is at a choice point regarding which timeline it will experience as a collective reality. And according to the Hathors, the reality that will prevail is being anchored through the choices we are now making, both as individuals and as a collective.
In this message, the Hathors have imparted a basic method for jumping timelines, which, as they indicated, is primarily information for those of us who choose to live in a different and more benevolent reality than the increasingly surrealistic and life-negative reality that humanity is currently living in.
The Training and Preparation section of their message can certainly be used as a method for personal manifesting. Indeed, those who are experienced with these types of matters would most likely consider this information to be Manifesting 101. But the simplicity of the method belies its profundity. The Hathors are masters at simplification of complex concepts and techniques, and this one is no different. However, their reason for sharing this basic method is not for manifesting desires, though it will work for this purpose; it is rather to present a method that will allow us to radically shift planetary realities— if not for the greater collective of our human family, then at least for ourselves.
I loved the metaphor they chose to describe our current situation—as a ship at sea. Indeed, our situation reminds me of what happened on the Titanic as it was sinking. The ship had hit an iceberg and the lower levels of the vessel were filling with water. At first they tried to hide the danger from those on the upper decks. And so the party went on, complete with orchestra, until the end was obvious.
In the manipulated media-hype of our consumer obsessed culture, few are pointing out that our ship, the S.S. Western Civilization, is severely listing to one side, or that it is sitting dangerously low in the water.
The Hathors believe that if enough people jump timelines, leaving the prophetic timeline of planetary destruction behind, and instead, enter the more benevolent and life-affirming reality of what they call the New Earth, many of the disastrous prophecies regarding our planet will not come to pass.
But they are also clear that even if the collective does not shift into a higher destiny, something remarkable will happen for those of us who have the courage to live a different reality than the one that is being impressed upon us by our current culture. “It is possible to live in heaven while those around you live in torment.”
There is something else in this latest message that I consider to be of vital importance—especially for those of us who are actually going to attempt jumping timelines. And this “something” has to do with our human capacity for delusional or “magical thinking.” In case you aren’t aware of that term, magical thinking is a thinking disorder in which the person believes that just by thinking something, it is real or can be made real without any effort on his or her part.
There is, in my opinion, a highly toxic element in New Age thinking that encourages denial as a means to cope with certain difficulties in life (i.e., magical thinking). And to be sure, the current and escalating insanity of our world is increasingly difficult for many of us to cope with. But if someone reading this thinks that denial is an acceptable means to deal with the realities of our current timeline, I wish to point out that the Hathors are saying something quite to the contrary.
Part of the art of jumping timelines is to hold the vision and vibrational signature of the timeline we wish to experience. But at the same time, we need to pay attention to the actual realities of the timeline we are on. This is living between the worlds, and this is the type of mastery the Hathors are calling us to.
I suspect that many of us who choose to jump timelines (myself included) will encounter a learning curve, where we fall short of being able to leap to the new timeline and/or fail to sustain it. This is completely normal when learning a new skill, and yes, this is essentially a new skill—albeit a profound one. So my advice to all of us neophyte timeline-jumpers is to be gentle with ourselves, leave self-judgment behind, and enter into this type of learning experience with a good sense of humor. After all, the whole thing is, from at least one perspective, a grand cosmic joke.
How we navigate the realities of a transforming (some would say dying) civilization, while keeping our hearts and minds on the timeline we wish to live in, will undoubtedly become an art form.
And so… to my fellow Artists of the Living Mystery, to those of you who are enamored with the vision, and who have the courage to jump, I raise my cup to you.
I salute you and the great undertaking we are about to engage, which is nothing short of the ascent upward into our own highest qualities as spiritual beings living a human experience.
Blessings to you and your loved ones,
Tom Kenyon
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The Golden Spiral of Traditional Food (Aug 2010) |
By Steve Gagnè
The chart displayed is a representation of dietary proportions roughly based on the well known mathematical model called “The Golden Rectangle".
This fascinating geometric as been called by many other names in different parts of the world and different historical epochs. The spiral has often been termed the “universal master form,” and has long been revered as a sacred symbol of life, death, and transformation.
Found abundantly throughout nature in both the plant and animal realms, manifestations of the spiral with its logarithmic progressions have been represented in the arts and sciences of every culture, from the most primitive to the most advanced.
It is in the logarithmic spiral that we find a consistent thread of knowledge linking the beliefs and lifestyles of the great ancient civilizations through art, architecture, astronomy, engineering – and even agriculture, pastoralism and food production.
Whether in India, China, the Middle East, the Far East, Africa, North or South America, the study of traditional foods reveals a dietary pattern based on a remarkable consistent wisdom of sensibility, practicality and proportion.
On the surface, these traditions are characterized by obvious cultural diversity; thus one part of the world may include cereals of a particular species, while elsewhere another species takes precedence. The same holds true for vegetables, animal products, beans, seeds and nuts, dairy products etc. Yet there is an underlying consistency – one is tempted to say uniformity – in the basic proportions of food groups each culture has used to feed its people.
There are, of course, broad differences based on climate and terrain. Coastal peoples naturally consumed more fish and seafood than the inland people, who consumed more fowl and mammal products. Yet as fundamentally agricultural people, both groups consumed animal products overall in a roughly equivalent proportion to all other foods.
While ruling classes often exercised the exclusive rights of the wealthy to adjust these proportions for their personal use, the general proportions were maintained among traditional people just as they are today. Some non-agricultural people represent exceptions to the principles due to environmental factors or simply because of the fact that they do not practice agriculture. However, even among many hunter-gatherers these proportions of higher quantities of plant foods with smaller portions of animal products are the norm.
Golden Ration, Golden Age
It is my experience that a diet of traditionally grown foods, eating in accordance with the principles of the golden spiral, holds the key to health where so many other approaches fail. The culture bearers of antiquity were able to create a golden age, a state that is possible only when all aspects of life are in harmony. I believe we can achieve optimal health, a clean environment, and a new level of cultural expression by consciously implementing these principles one again.

Careful investigation of the spiralic nature of the traditional dietary pattern leads to a startling profound truth at its center: Light is the source of inspiration. This is simply a poetic way of stating that the source of all is the powerful force of creation itself - what some refer to as “God” or by many other names.
This omnipresent, omniscient force charges and generates the process and flow of energy through each stage of the spiral, supplying the raw materials for human sustenance and nourishment. These materials are comprised of macro-nutrients, vitamins, phytonutrients , carotenoids, and all other known and unknown ingredients inherent in our daily food.
More than these ingredients, every food also carries specific energetic properties exclusive to its makeup and origin. These energetic have the ability to alter our health in profound ways.
The Spiral of Nourishment
Section 1: Air
When we were born, the first breath, a simple inhalation of air, is the beginning of an incredible journey in self-discovery that is individually unique.
Throughout our lives, air will serve as our most abundant resource for nourishment. Oxygen from the air will spark the fires of metabolism, helping us to regulate all micro-and macro-cellular functions in the physical body. Although we experience variations in our respiratory quotients, the air we breathe will supply the greatest proportions of nourishment as energy to support life.
The constant exchange of oxygen with carbon dioxide through the respiratory system plays an integral role in the body’s ability to process all other forms of nourishments. Air is the one form of nourishment that is consumed while you are both asleep and awake. Other forms of nutrition listed in the chart have a proportionally equal influence on oxygen’s effectiveness – right down to the cellular level.
Section 2: Water
Water comprises more of our daily diet than we realize. Fruits and vegetables are mostly water. Grains, beans, soups and boiled or steamed foods are prepared with water. About 75 percent of the human body is water. If we were measured all that we consume at the end of the day, water would come in as the second larges quantity after air.
We require large amounts of water daily for cooling the body and cleaning the blood cells, and organs of toxins and wastes. Water is also essential in maintaining and regulating healthy bowel functioning and peristalsis.
While pure water is the ideal beverage and the one that hydrates our body cells most efficiently, our ancestors also consumed other liquids such as herbal teas, wine, beer, and water-based herbal remedies.
Section 3: Carbohydrates
The ideal carbohydrates are those consumed by traditional people: whole grain, whole grain products (bread, pasta, etc) pseudo-cereals (quinoa, amaranth, teff) and starchy vegetables (roots and tubers, sweet potato, yam, yucca, squashes and others) These foods, partly because of their versatility should make up the largest portion of the diet.
This section also includes supplementary carbohydrates (all fruits and sweeteners.) Some typical sweeteners are grain malts, honey, maple syrup, sugar cane etc. Supplementary carbohydrates were consumed in smaller quantities in traditional diets.
Among the carbohydrates, revered above all other foods, appear the “sacred gifts of the gods:” the grains and pseudo-cereals. Ancient peoples believed these staples held the genetic memory of human origin and the spiritual essence of man and woman.
Section 4: Vegetables
Vegetables include all edible land and water plants. Roots, seeds, leaves, stalks, buds, and marine – and fresh water algae are some of the plant forms consumed around the world. Although many vegetables can be considered additional sources of carbohydrates, I have placed them in a separate section, because of their dietary importance in the fist lives of our ancestors.
Vegetable contains a wide spectrum of nutrients and act as neutralizing agents when eaten in proper combination with other foods. For most people, vegetables are sorely lacking, exceptions being those instances where people practice certain ethnic traditions or dietary programs specifically based on ample quantities of a variety of fresh vegetables.
Section 5: Protein
Progressing from greatest quantity to smallest, protein sources follow wild and domesticated plants as the next category in the spiral. This includes a broad range of traditional foods, eggs, wild game, fowl, waterfowl, cattle, lamb, goat, pig, organ meats, dairy products, shellfish, fish, beans, seeds and nuts are some of the many types of protein consumed historically throughout the world.
Section 6: Fats and Oils
Fats and oils have a long journey in dietary tradition, consumed either as part of other foods or as a base use to prepared particular foods. Olives, avocados and nuts are whole-plant sources of fat; salmon, eggs, and beef are examples of animal sources. Some traditional standalone fats include animal derived butter, ghee and lard; and the plant oils from olives, sesame seeds, hazelnuts, palm kernels and coconut.
Section 7: Essential and Supportive Supplements
This section of the dietary spiral includes herbs, spices, salt, minerals and natural medicinal foods such as bee pollen, specialized fungi and micro algae. This can also include high quality sources of non-synthetic whole food supplements. Supplements have several functions. They can enhance digestion, aid assimilation, improve flavor, raise or lower blood pressure, increase kidney or live efficiency and strengthen the immune system. Peppercorns and certain spices posses’ anti0viral, anti-bacterial and anti-fungal properties.
Additional Considerations
The area of each section represents roughly the proportion that type of food amounted to in our agricultural ancestor’s daily diets. These proportions hold true for many generations back into perpetuity.
Each section of the chart is proportionally dependent on every other section for proper metabolic balance and health maintenance. While the charts divide different foods into sections or categories, bear in mind that in the context of nature and tradition, this represents a single continuum. You will find most foods and food groups overlapping with the preceding and/or following categories. For example, “beans and nuts” embrace nutritional combinations of fats, proteins, and carbohydrates in varying amounts.
The sections are also designed for easy recognition of the food sources most commonly accepted as fitting in the section. For example, beans (legumes) are only about 25 percent protein, yet they are most commonly thought of as a protein source and have therefore been placed in the protein category.
As another example, cheeses are high in both protein and fat and could logically be described to either category. Yet, like beans, cheese is more commonly thought of as a protein food, so it is grouped in that section. Leafy green plants, which also provide some protein, are grouped in their own section, as explained above.
Plant protein has an incomplete amino acid profile, while animal proteins contain all essential amino acids necessary for the body’s growth and cell repair.
Plant oils have a different effect in the body than animal fats, and each type of fat has its own unique effect as well. In fact, the body responds uniquely and distinctly to each different food.
Steve Gagnê is a natural and nutrition counselor who began researching and teaching food energies in 1972. He teaches throughout the United States and Europe and continues to study traditional cultures and their dietary practices in remote parts of the world. Steve is the author of Food Energies: The Spiritual Emotional and Nutritional Power of what We Eat. He lives in Colorado. His website is www.stevegagne.com
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Pole Shift Prophecy (Jul 2010) |
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Edgar Cayce
For forty-three years of his adult life, Edgar Cayce, America’s “Sleeping Prophet,” demonstrated the uncanny ability to put himself into a self-induced altered state by lying down on a couch. closing his eyes and folding his hands over his stomach. He was able to place his mind in contact with time and space. From this state, he could respond to questions on topics as diverse as health, ancient civilizations and personal spirituality. His response to these questions came to be called “readings” and contain insights so valuable that even to this day archeologists, theologians and physicians alike - no to mention hundreds of thousands of individuals – marvel at their startling insights and accurate revelations.
Edgar Cayce predicted the Earth’s poles would begin to shift in the years 2000 and 2001.He said that this pole shift would signify the beginning of a new age, higher level of consciousness, and celestial awareness to the extent that the people of the Earth would become aware of “the people of the universe.” The magnetic poles of the Earth have changed often in Earth’s history. And there are many indications that the planet is preparing for another shift.
The evidence is in every clay pot that was ever fired. During high temperature baking, iron minerals in clay records record the exact state of Earth’s magnetic field at that precise moment. By examining pots from prehistoric to modern times, geologist John Shaw of the University of Liverpool in England has discovered how the magnetic field has weakened. “When we plot the results from the ceramics,” he says, “ we see a rapid fall as we come closer to present day. The rate of change is higher over the last 300 years than it has been for any time in the past 5.000 years. It’s going from a strong field down to a weak field, and it’s doing it very quickly.”
No one is sure what will happen. The field could weaken such that the poles suddenly flip polarity – that is – compasses begin to point to the south magnetic pole. Ancient lava flows from the Hawaiian Islands reveal both the strength of the field when the lava cooled and its north-south orientation. “When we go back about 700,000 years,” geologist Mike fuller of the University of Hawaii,” we find an incredible phenomenon. Suddenly the rocks are magnetized backwards. Instead of them being magnetized to the north like today’s field, they are magnetized to the south.”
Reversals are unpredictable. They come at irregular intervals averaging about 300,000 years. The last one was 780,000 years ago, making us long overdue. Scientist Gary Glatzmaier of the university of California Santa Cruz has observed such reversal as they occur in computer simulation. These virtual events show striking similarities to the current behavior of earth’s magnetic field and suggest we are about to experience another reversal.
Reversals take a few hundred to a few thousand years to complete. “During that time it just gets more complicated,” said Glatzmaier. “Magnetic lines of force near Earth’s surface become twisted and tangled, and magnetic poles pop up in unaccustomed places. A south magnetic pole might emerge over Africa, for instance, or a north pole over Tahiti.
What are the influences of magnetic field changes upon us? After all, we are electromagnetic beings. Changes in the magnetic field will affect us in some manner. Of course, since the last magnetic field shifted over 780,000 years ago, none of us really knows what happened to humans. Dr. Valerie Hunt developed a special constructed room in which she can change the magnetic field. In her book “Infinite Mind”, she reports that when “the magnetism was decreased, gross in coordination occurred. The entire neurological integrating mechanism was thrown off. Subjects could not balance their bodies and they had difficulties touching finger to nose or performing simple coordinated movements. They lost kinesthetic awareness.”
Of course, Dr. Hunt was creating the change quickly. The real magnetic shift will be happening over long periods of time, allowing humans to adapt their bodies to a new environment. Humans and many animals are sensitive to magnetic fields because their brains contain iron oxide crystals (Magnetite) that align with magnetic north, like a compass needle. This is how some animals can migrate long distances during all type of weather and not get lost.
But the greatest danger of a magnetic pole shift is the breakdown of the magnetic shield that protects us from solar radiation. Long ago Mars lost its magnetic shield and subsequently its atmosphere. However, neither Cayce’s readings nor Nostradamus visions see the end of humanity on Earth for some time yet. And there is evidence that the shield is not likely to disappear but simply to have weak spots, even holes that may allow more than normal radiation to penetrate to the surface in a few places.
Scientists have presented detailed information about this on the PBS NOVA program Magnetic Storm originally aired November 18. 2003, but often re-aired. A DVD of this program is available at http:/shop.wgbh.org.
The best part of the Cayce prophecy is the beginning of the New Age. Of course, when we view the evening news, it appears that the world is far from an age of enlightenment and the brother/sisterhood of all humankind. Yet some believe that the magnetic shift may have an unexpected positive effect on human brains, freeing them from Earth’s powerful fields. Certainly Cayce’s view implies such a positive outcome.
Earth Changes
Today, many groups continue to predict major cataclysms and the approach of inevitable change. Ironically, oftentimes these groups have failed to realize that change is all about us. There are wars and rumor of wars broadcast around the globe in the blink of an eye. We hear of floods and famine and hate crimes as they occur. A day does not pass by when we don’t see renewed evidence of gang wars or drugs or our inhumanity to one another. Unfortunately, much of this information has become so commonplace that we simply shrug our shoulders, change the channel, and turn the page. In many places, the world has become more fractured than ever before, as politics, race, sexuality, culture and religion divide us. Countless thousands of individuals have been killed, are dying, or have simply given up. And yet – despite of all these things, some individuals continue to wait for the Big One as evidence of changing times.
It is time to wake up and realize that the changing times are happening RIGHT NOW. Our world, our civilization, and our individual lives are all undergoing dramatic personal and collective change. Yet, this is sometimes hard for us to recognize because the changes have not been one single event. They have rather been a process. Cayce’s predictions for the future are not really about earth changes, or polar shifts, instead they are about the fact that a new world is being born. The changing events in our lives and in our surroundings are to enable us to remember why we are here.
Coming Together as a Global Family
It is true that the geological condition of the planet make some earth changes inevitable. There will be continued earthquakes. But potentially even more influential changes come from worldwide political turmoil, economical challenges, wars, and more upheavals that are not necessarily geological in nature. The purpose of the changes we are experiencing is not for the changes themselves, but rather it is so that we will undergo personal and global transformation. Only this way may we ushering the dawn of the New Aquarian Age.
From Cayce’s perspective, the future offers not destruction and hopelessness, but the change to transform the world as we work together, building hope and community for all of humankind. Today, wherever we find ourselves, there is a great need to come together as one global family. That is our collective destiny. That is the potential we share as spiritual beings manifesting here on earth at this time.
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Ascending to the Fifth Dimension (Jun 2010) |

A Message from Adama of the Lemurian
Council of Twelve Elders of Telos
Introduction and Welcome from Adama
It is with great love and much support from the many realms of the Light of Telos and beyond that the third volume of the Telos series is presented to you at this time of great Earth changes. I am sure you have already noticed that those changes have already begun for the cleansing and transformation of your planet into Her glorious destiny. Allow this purification of the Earth, because it is most necessary for the “Mother” to renew Her body that has been so desecrated.
The material presented here is designed to continue to stretch your heart and mind to another new level of Christhood and mastery. If you are choosing to move along Earth’s destiny and evolve your consciousness to be able to live in a world of pure love and light, it is now more imperative than ever before that you awaken the perceptions of your true destiny and make it a priority and the most important goal of your life. You must gain the full understanding of what it means to become an ascended being and the state of consciousness and responsibilities that come with it. You have played the separation and karma game for too long. Too many of you still hold much illusion regarding the level of consciousness you must embrace to fully become your divinity incarnate, and to fulfill your heart’s longings for this sublime alchemy of the soul that Ascension brings.
Our beloved Aurelia could not channel this material until she was able to gain and accomplish, in the Garden of her own Heart, a great part of the understanding of the level of love and Surrender that are required to enter into the world of ‘Oneness’. She agreed to expose in this book some of the dialogues she has had with us, about her own difficulties and frustrations she experienced in reaching the level she has now achieved. She agreed to do this to expose her own travails for your benefit. It is meant to show you that what one can attain, everyone else can also.
Who Is Adama?
Adama is the High Priest of the Lemurian Council of Twelve Elders of Telos, a city of Light in Inner Earth beneath Mt. Shasta. He, along with the thousands of survivors of the Lemurian continent, which sank into the Pacific Ocean 12,000 years ago, is presently in the forefront of assisting humanity to reclaim their divinity and spiritual freedom. He is the New Consciousness Teacher and Mentor for humanity in transformation to higher consciousness, lovingly offering guidance with the aim of creating an illuminating bridge of Love and communication between our two civilizations. He emphasized that it is the bridge of Love and receptivity of the reciprocal of Hearts that will eventually bring him to us in amore tangible way.
- Robert Faucett & Catherine Hooi of Telos-Astralia as presented in the Telos Books.
Awakening to a Fifth Dimensional Consciousness
I greet you again from my heart, and ask you to join in consciousness from a gathering with the Council of Elders of Telos. It is in this way that the knowledge gathered from our experience, and the frequency of the wisdom gained by all of our souls, is passed along to the greater society in our Lemurian culture. We gather like this in a regular basis and conduct classes as such, although we prefer to call them “sharings.”
We wish to speak for you today of the protocols of the Fifth Dimensional vibration that you now wish to understand in order to be able to access if for yourself in your daily reality. The question has been asked: “What do we need to do to ascend to the Fifth Dimension?” Understand that yes, there are preparations in consciousness and purifications that must take place. But basically, in the new reality that is now being established on the surface of your planet, the Fifth Dimension is not a place that you will go to, but rather a state of beingness you will attain, that will gradually establish the Fifth Dimension in your present realm.
The Fifth Dimension is a vibration, or rather a marriage of vibrations that are represented in the energies of love, trust, compassion, faith, grace and gratitude, representing a frequency of the purest form.
The structure and organization of our societies in the Fifth Dimension flow organically from an integration of these energies by the individuals who reside here. Our Lemurian community in Telos mirrors our Fifth Dimensional experience as an outpouring of our combined manifestations and embodiment of these qualities in a heartfelt communion with all that surrounds us.
We did not emerge from the womb with this mastery and awareness present in our consciousness, and neither did you. Even the new generations of children who are arriving every day in your transitioning dimension are not fully in their mastery, although they are more awake that you were when you came. It is through the joy and the journey of this experience of Earth that we evolve. It is through the grace of this planet that evolution is and has been part of the experience of every soul who has incarnated here. The grace of your present time is that now you may fully waken to your mastery, and regain this consciousness for the remainder of your soul’s evolution, whether you choose to ascend and in this incarnation or choose to continue to experience cycles of incarnations here or elsewhere.
We wish to share with you practices that have been the core of our spiritual evolution. We still follow these practices to this day, and we share them with our children. They exist as a foundation for our constantly ever-expanding journey through and to Creator Source. They are centered on the principle that we are responsible for our own energy. Before the unity consciousness of the Fifth Dimensional vibration can be fully integrated globally, this work must be done on an individual basis with each one of you. This is the journey that each individual must walk to the end, and that no one can do this for you.
Most important of these practices is the offering of compassion and non-violent communication in thoughts, words, deeds and feelings. Indeed, self-compassion forms the cornerstone of the spiritual awakening that is necessary if one is to recognize and integrate the Fifth Dimensional vibration. This vibration already exists around you at all times. As the frequency of the planet becomes more and more refined, it is a responsibility of our human experience, no matter what dimension we reside in, for each one to purify and refine their own vibration.
We do this for the evolution of our Divine Essence, and we do this for the greatest good of all kingdoms who reside on and within this glorious planet that we call “Mother”. This is a solemn and divine responsibility does not rest lightly on your shoulders, and yet, confers on you the grace of that is unparalleled in the history of the Earth. You now must walk as masters and mentors yourself, even if your human form may not seem to mesh well with your remembrances of other times and places where timelessness and infinite possibilities abounded.
We say to you with all of the truth that our heart can share that now, this present moment in Earth history, is a time of infinite possibility. This is a magical time of creation from the highest divine source to the densest of your physical reality. We know and feel your heart greet ours in the truth, although your minds still struggle the full scope of what we are telling you. Your minds still demand rituals and rules, and proof this is irrefutable, before you will step one foot upon the new path. So we will work today with practices that, if you will allow them, can bring you back to the frequency of faith and trust, not doubt and denial.
Many masters have shared these truths throughout the eons of evolution that this planet has already experienced. But it is in your experience in this lifetime that is most important. Today, you have an opportunity to hear these words again with more evolved ears, and to recognize them on a deeper heart level than has ever been available before in your physical dimension. Today, you have the opportunity to work with the support of all of creation to bring this truth, this is why you are here, and this is why you were given the opportunity to incarnate at this time.
As your respected Native Elders have told you: “You Are the One You Have Been Waiting For.”
We will begin with exercises may already be familiar to you. If you have experiences them in the past, we say now is the time to experience them again with a fresh perspective. If they are already a part of your daily practices, we also say that now is the time to experience them with a fresh perspective in your dimension is in fact quite simple. The subtleties that you will witness, however, are enormous. Within each level of vibration that you can access and integrate, the activity becomes simpler, but the results become much more expansive.
We will explore practices that awaken all of us the divinity we are meant to express, and dismantle the illusions that veil the original mind and freeze the heart. We will restore to you methods for re-awakening your consciousness that lead to inner freedom and an understanding of the true power of love. Level One of this practice involves the evolution of the Self.
For more information about this message please contact Catherine Hooi at Telos
Australia on 07 4273 1188 or Robert Faucett on 02 4919 1023.
Visit www.telos-australia.com au
Printed with permission New Dawn Magazine Australia
www.newdawnmagazine.com

About Mount Shasta
The Magic Mountain
. Shasta is
a most majestic mountain that anchors the northern end of the Sierra Nevada Mountain range. It is located in Siskiyou County in Northern California, approximately 33 miles from the Oregon border. Mt. Shasta is the cone of an extinct volcano rising to a height of over 14.162 feet above sea level, and is the largest volcanic peak in the continental United States.
For those gifted with clairvoyant abilities, Mt Shasta is embraced in a gigantic, etheric purple pyramid whose capstone extends far beyond this planet in space, and connects us intergalactically to the Confederation of Planets for this sector of the Milky Way Galaxy. This awesome pyramid also includes an inverted version of itself that extends down to the very core of the Earth. Mt. Shasta represents the entry point of the Light Grids of this planet. It is the location where most of the energy arrives initially from the galactic and universal core before it is disseminated to other mountains and into the rest of the grids. Most mountaintops, especially tall mountains, are Beacons of light feeding the light-grids of this planet.
Prior to the sinking of their continent, fully aware of the eventual destiny of their beloved land, the ancient Lemurians, using their mastery of energy, crystals, sound and vibrations, hollowed out a vast underground city with the intention of preserving their culture, their treasures and their records of ancient Earth’s history. This section of history has been lost to humanity since the sinking of Atlantis.
Lemuria was once a vast continent, larger than North America, connected to parts of California, Oregon, Nevada and Washington states. This large continent disappeared overnight into the Pacific Ocean over 12,000 years ago during a vast cataclysm. All inhabitants of the Earth at that time considered Lemuria their motherland and there was much grieving of the Earth when it was lost.
At that time, approximately 25.000 Lemurians were able to migrate into the interior of Mt. Shasta, the most important of their various administrative center prior to the sinking of the Motherland. And beloveds, you who are reading this now know in your hearts that your former brothers and sisters of Lemuria never left you. They are still here in physical, immortalized bodies, totally unlimited and living in a 5th dimensional reality.-
- Excerpted with permission from Telos Volume 1 – Revelations of the New Lemuria.
Artwork by Marlena Druhan Donato www.marlena.embarqspace.com
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Plant Spirit Shamanism (May 2010) |
Making Healing Allies in Nature
Since the beginning of human experiences, plants have played a role in the evolution of our species, not only in the provision of food and medicine but in our deepest spiritual experience and the development of consciousness.
Their form, beauty, enchanting scents, their healing and emotional qualities, have all provided a gateway to the Great Mystery of Nature, which our Celtic forebears called "The visible face of Spirit."
Though our lands are not longer forested as they were, we try to recreate a sense of their beauty and tranquility in our gardens, parks, and the green spaces in our cities, giving us at least a taste of Nature with which we can sustain ourselves against the soulless backdrop of the steel and concrete jungle that are our homes today.
For many people, plants are still the messengers of divinity, harmony and beauty. They are also the source of our health and well-being, not just as medicine but also in their ability to relax, refresh and excite us.
Some deep part of us knows that the healing power of plants is inherent in what they are as much as what they do. Flowers have a role to play, for example, in all of our most primal celebrations of life and death – birth and birthdays, coming-of-age, marriage, illnesses, funerals and deaths. They are there at the first "I love you", and they are there for our endings too. Even after death our connection to the natural world continues and our spiritual destination in many religions myths is some form of paradise, which is often symbolized as the "Heavenly Garden," or the Garden of Eden.
Archeology shows that plant spirit shamanism has been part of our healing experience for thousands of years, predating other practices by millennia and going back to a time when healers worked in harmony with Nature.
Plant Shamanism is – and always has been – a person-centered approach and incorporates in a holistic way, practices such as herbalism, energy work, aromatherapy, and counseling to provide a unique blend of therapies that is most needed by each individual client, based on the healer's attunement to a state of balance or otherwise of that client's soul. But it is also fundamentally spirit-centered, and all traditional healers – from the Curanderos of the Amazon to the 'folk magicians of Ireland – regard plants as sentient, aware, intelligent, alive and as 'doctors' in their own right.
Plant shamanism involves practices for meeting these spirits, such as shamanic journeying, soul retrieval, rituals using flowers and fragrances, offering to Nature, flora baths for protection, and the use of visionary plants to find purpose, clarity and new directions in life. All of these, to the shaman, are implied by the term 'healing'.
Ways of Healing
As a young boy, I was apprenticed to a Welsh sin eater – a 'cunning man,' as they were called in Wales, who used plants and flowers in the healing work. One of the methods was to bury the name of a patient, etched on a piece of bone, in a corner of his garden, next to a patch of sunflowers. Each day he would say his prayers over the flower, consulting with them on the condition of his patient, then squeeze a few petals so their aroma would be released. As the scent drifted upwards, he said, a little more of his patient's illness was carried away until he or she was healed.
This may seem like a strange approach in our culture today, but when I grew up and went traveling I found the same essential methods used in Haiti, Peru, Africa, Greece, America, Turkey.... So it is not an eccentricity or even unique to Wales.
The world over, in fact, wherever shamans work with plant spirits rather than extracts and compounds as Western doctors do, it is understood that plants are alive, aware and willing to teach their healing secrets. Plant spirit shamanism is therefore learned ally - by getting out into the fields and making contact with natural forces, not by reading about plants in some dusty library.
The sin eater communicated with plants in this way and knew several magical uses for them that they had told him of. For example, the sunflower's, he used were actually marigolds, but he called them sunflowers, because they are "bright as the sun" and warmed the soul with protection. It is interesting then, that we find the same belief in Andean Peru, where rosa sisa (African marigold) are also used for protection. Here, they are often planted by the door of a house so if someone should pass by and give the 'evil eye', the flowers will catch these negative energies and protect the soul of the houses from diseases. The petals turned black when this happens, but revert to their bright color when the energy is discharged through their roots to the soil.
The sin eater I knew had never visited Peru and yet the message from the plant was the same: marigolds - sun flowers' – protect.
Working with Plants
The key thing with plant spirits shamanism is to establish a connection with the plant. Once that is done, the plant spirits themselves teach you everything you need to know and reveal the many ways of using them in healing, most of which are very unlike the Western medical notion of ingesting them in a tablet or even herbal form.
In Haiti, Peru, Brazil, Indonesia, and even in our own Celtic past, there is a practice, for example, of taking floral baths, where flowers and herbs are added to blessed water. The sick person then bathes to wash away his ailments. These baths are not restricted to physical healing, but can be used to draw good fortune and change your luck (which is regarded as real and tangible force), making you more open to the receipt of money, love and spiritual power.
Other ways of working with plants include the making of pockets, power pouches, containing herbs that remove negative energies, while returning life force to the patient as the pouch is brushed over his/her body. The packet has similarities to the Amazonian chacapa, a bundle of dried leaves which has medicinal powers to rebalance the patient's energy field, and is rubbed over the body in the same way.
The segure of the Andes, a bottle which contains a mixture of plants and herbs in Holy water and perfume uses the same principles of spiritual connection with the plants. Here the shapes, colors or qualities of the plants invoke various powers that the client wishes to draw into his life. Round, golden, seeds attract money, for example, while cactus spines embody protection. The seguro, according to the Andean shamans, becomes a "friend" you can consult with. Every time you speak out your problems to this friend, they are removed, while the powers of the plants draw good energy in.
One rule that comes consistently in this work is that we must treat our plant allies with respect. In Haiti, healers literally pay the plants for their work by dropping coins at the base of the tree they 're collecting leaves from. They are then 'fed' and there is a fair exchange: we charge the plants with energy so they have the power to heal us.
We must also treat plants kindly. Research shows that they have feelings, intelligence, language – even the ability to count and make music! – and they can sense our intentions and respond to our actions. If we treat them with love, they flourish and grow. If not, then their spirits die and we do not have the healers we need.

Getting Out of Our Minds
One of the biggest challenges for the Western mind is learning how to work with plant spirits is our cultural fascination with science and measurement. This socialization into 'scientific thinking' is hard to overcome because as part of it, we have been taught to stifle our dreaming and imaginative selves. Luckily, however, there are also plants, which have a spiritual intention to re-establish our connection with the spirit-universe and open us up to the true nature of reality.
One of these is guayusa. In the Amazon it is known as "the night watchman's plant" because of its ability to bring lucid dreams and dissolve the boundaries between wakefulness and sleep. Thus, the night watchman can take guayusa and nap, while remaining alert to the sounds and sights around him as he watches over the tribe.
The shamans say that in every country we have plants to cater for our own needs; thus in Europe, it may be difficult to find guayusa, but a tea made of vervain, valerian and chamomile will achieve similar effects.
Another way of getting 'out of our minds' is through a special state of trance consciousness known as shamanic journeying.
To take any shamanic journey, find a time and a place where you can be alone and undisturbed for 20 minutes or so. Then dim the lights or cover your eyes, lie down and make yourself comfortable. Most journeys are taken to the sound of drumming, which encourages 'dreaming' patterns to emerge in the brain, taking the shaman deeper into a more holistic experience of the world in its fullness. You can drum yourself, have a friend drum for you, or use a drumming tape to guide your journey.
Expressing your intention and keeping this in focus is again important, Intention is the energy that guides the journey and enables you to engage with the mind of the universe so it can work with you.
You can try this yourself by setting your intention to meet with a plant ally - the consciousness of a plant that will guide you into the world of the collective plant mind. You do not need to have a specific plant in mind. Stay open instead - to whatever comes.
As soon as the drumming begins, imagine yourself entering a place, which connects you to the earth in a way that is meaningful to you, and then allow your imagination to take you where you will. All you need to do is to receive. When your plant ally appears to you spend some time in conversation with him or her (in the imaginative world, most plants take a human form). Enquire about its healing gifts and the way these properties manifest in the plants themselves, Ask how you can work with this ally and the plants that embody him or her.
Visit your ally often in this way and you will learn more about the world of the plants, the nature of reality and indeed, about yourself, as part of this vast and beautiful universe.
Ross Heaven is the director of the Four Gates Foundation and the author of 10 books of the psychology of empowerment, shamanism, plant medicines, healing and love and relationships, including Plant Spirit Shamanism: Traditional Techniques for Healing the Soul. Ross also teaches Plant Spirit Shamanism workshops and medicine retreats in France, Ireland and the Amazon Rainforest. Details of these are available at www.thefourgates.com or email
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