Today I found this blog that I had kept from a previous website. I didn't realise I had it. So I have put it up here for any of you who would like to browse my past wisdom and trauma. There are some tidbits in it that might amuse or enlighten you. Or not.
Sparrowhawk-Therapist, Author, Shaman.2011
Hello Travellers. Its me again. Boy is life hotting up. Thank you for giving me this opportunity to share my ravings. I could keep them to myself but you just never know when someone just might find the contents of my life of value in theirs. After all connection is what its all about. So lets connect!Last month I got a big stirring up and after a lot of soul searching etc. that you all know about, the tohu (signs) came through clearly. It wasn't for me to up stakes and go where I was more needed but to stay here and continue my work. Thank all of you who contributed to the conversation in so many ways and from so many different places. Thank you for your deep sharing of your own journeys. The offers for dinner have been stored away for the future so don't be surprised if you get a phone call one of these days.But I didn't starve. (Not that I expected to. That was metaphorical). But I did find a flow of creativity. Over my lifetime I have come to know that there is a purpose for everything. Its just a matter of finding it and following. In fact things started to shift almost immediately. I saw that I needed to lighten the load, clear out the excess baggage and prepare for the new. The new cannot come in unless we prepare a place for it at our table. I burnt 5 file boxes and 4 folders full of past paperwork and old journals (I still have a filing cabinet to go), sold a caravan, put my crash helmet and bike gear in trade me and started to feel great.. In fact I was really just on the lip of climbing over the rim of that pit when the next set of trainings arrived for me. Its about them that this newsletter is about.<br /><br />Its been a year of sickness too, but the last bout didn't include fever so I could keep going. This time I was needed to take deep internal notice of the alternate realities and worlds that sometimes call me and I couldn't do that and work (or anything else. They get very insistent when they need to be heard, these allies of mine).<br /><br />A shaman is a walker between the worlds. When it first started happening to me formally, I was reasonable unimpressed, preferring to be seen as a 'serious' transpersonal psychologist with shamanic leanings, rather than a serious shaman with psychological leanings, if you see what I mean. Not to mention that I was terrified. In the middle of a three week bout of grief over loss of love and community, as I had only been here a year, I was initiated as a shaman (whilst in the bath) with a visit from a Greyseal. Shocked right out of my depression, I determined that OK,ok, I was a shaman but what did that mean? If I didn't tell no one would know. And that's just the way I would have preferred it. So began the path of the reluctant shaman being dragged kicking and screaming out of the shamanic closet. Of course it didn't stay buried. "They" took great delight in outing me wherever possible. But I resisted....oh yes I did! I didn't go quietly. (And I still do resist, which is why I get resistant clients that also need to listen to where they are being guided and go where they least want to. That was a revelation that came a few days ago as to why my practice had been acting the way it had. It was mirroring me again. After all, I tell everyone else that resistance is a sign your on the edge of a big life changer (which is never as bad as we think its going to be). You teach what you most need to learn.<br /><br />Not long after my initiation, I started getting 'downloads' of information at night instead of sleep. For years I spent most nights in alpha, like it or not. I was given the short shamanic course, a three year Psychosynthesis Course, and eventually two books over time. The next thing that happened was due to getting a horrible virus about 2001. Put me out for 3 weeks. Splitting headache and sick stomach that went on and on with this fever. Many a shaman has been made through a fever. In fact that is the root of the whole native American Sweat Lodge deal and the Irish people have a similar one. Induce a fever-slip between the worlds- and never be the same again.<br /><br />In the middle of my 2001 fever, laying on my couch, I was visited by a Maori woman chanting strongly. She drew a symbol on my belly and round my head. The next day my recovery began. At the time she had told me her name was Tawira. Now that's what it sounded like to my Aussie ear, though it has since been suggested that it was probably Tawera. The initiation in the bath was enough like a visualization that I could fob it off with my cynic from time to time. Tawera was of a different order. Hallucination? Ah, there's a get-out. But I was better. Humm! Except that she came again in between sleep and wake some weeks later and asked me to marry her. Now that freaked me out! I have been gay for decades, but the concept of commitment to anyone but the woman I loved was strange and scarey. If I agreed, would I loose my physical love?? Could I ever get out of it, this marriage between the worlds? What if I defaulted? You get the picture. So I refused. What I turned down was the sacred union on this land, to this land and its people. The sacred marriage was a common rite in Celtic tradition. Its what gave someone the blessing of the land for a good harvest. The blessing of the Goddess. What fool I was, but I was not ready. She never came again.<br /><br />Until a few days ago. I called her.<br /><br />The virus I have had this week has been a doozy. In and out of mild temperature states. Lucid dreams-not making lots of sense but very real and chaotic. I had one about being in a boat in an underground cavern with the outlet blocked by a rock wall with a locked doorway in it. I realised I had to unlock the door to allow the flow but spent all night fading in and out of the task. I wasn't ready. The feeling reminded me so much of that fever that Tawera arrived in the middle off that I wondered. I called her and an old Kuia came. It was Tawera. I said, "you've aged", and she said " so have you' Right! I asked if she would heal me again and she said yes... for a cost. If she did, I was to agree that my DNA would stay in this land after my death. Guess what? Yep. scared again. After my recent thinking that I was perhaps to be sent back to Oz, what if I let her down ...again. But I realized that it was about commitment. That she wasn't asking me never to leave the country but to make sure my DNA stayed here and co-mingled with the land. To marry it. <br /><br />Of course I agreed. Well, you would wouldn't you?<br /><br />Next day they changed my antibiotics (helps when you get the right medication<span class="moz-smiley-s5"></span>). They were a type that cuts bits out of the DNA of the bacteria and causes it to collapse. Poof! No more bacteria. Fever went on though.<br /><br />I faded out and saw a rosette representing the new antibiotic and in the middle of it was the words "I am". I guess healing comes when you commit to who you are. Then straight away a Maori warrior with a Taiaha pranced forward as part of a formal Marae welcome and placed a dart before me in challenge. Now before I go on (Not much longer I promise, but you can stop reading any time your bored). As I said, before I go on there is something you need to know. I am dead against strip mining other peoples culture and becoming pseudo anything. I have a shamanic and indigenous heritage that it would take more than this lifetime to resurrect out of the grave assigned to it. I love and respect other peoples paths and ways but I don't have to become one because I'm not one., Sharing mutual understanding ..sure. When indigenous people come to me offering gifts I am not so ungracious as to say "Nah! No way!" I have been initiated into the Peruvian Munay Ki, I have been taught by a Waitaha mentor and had a mantle placed around my shoulders to work with Pakeha to ground them in the land. But I am always a little hesitant about what this means and not wanting to stepping over a line in the sand and being misunderstood by either side. So the Warriors challenge was asking me to step forward and pick it up. For those of you that don't know about Marae protocol, this is a good time to find out. Briefly, when the visitors (manahiri) come to a Marae, they have to show to the tangata to whenua (locals) that they are friendly or they wont be let in (of course). So they get challenged and must meet that challenge with their own warriors. If they do the protocol properly then they get to come in and party. If they do it wrong, all hell breaks loose. I was scared again. Sometimes I feel like a spiritual doormouse.<br /><br />But I was beginning to get that they wanted me to rise to the challenge they have been setting me, for years I suppose, so I picked up the dart and was told that the first challenge was to accept the challenge. Deh! Now I said that quick but think about it. Its so profound it hurts. Unless we accept life's challenges there <b><i>is</i></b> no learning thereafter. Thank you, thank you. Honore ki te Atu o te whenua. Honour to the spirits of this Land. Nothing begins until we step up to the plate.<br /><br />The next Dart was layed down for me. It was set down in the middle of the previous rosette with 'I am' inscribed within it. The lesson was that the DNA holds all the knowledge of our experience. If we do not have the courage to have the experiences, the DNA is not enriched, even if those experiences are not pleasant. This virus had not been a easy trip, but what I was being updated with was worth a fever blister or two. We build the strength of our immune system by coming up against things that make it stronger. While hygiene is good, sterility is not always the most appropriate way to conduct life. Coddled kids got all the colds. When knowledge is coupled with experience it becomes wisdom and makes us strong.<br /><br />The final dart was placed. It was set down in the middle of a spiral carved by the taiaha. The message was that if the dart remained in the centre and was never taken up as a challenge, life could never have happened. The Big Bang would have been a non-event. We could never have happened. If everything stays potential at the centre of our lives but is never opened up to the experience of all, our personal life never happens. We can stand still forever, but its not a life. We carve life by taking the dart and drawing the journey that we send it on. It isn't about getting it right. Its about getting on with it! We have done whatever we have done to ourselves, each other and the planet. Now we get on and learn from that and keep drawing, keep picking up the challenges, keep learning, keep experiencing. We keep life going because that's what its here for.<br /><br />The final bit was whether I should tell you all this or whether I was being an egotistical drama queen with elevated ideas of my own importance. Not to mention being an Australian cockney. But I guess that was the doormouse again, so here it is. Blessed Be. Jay Sparrowhawk Loudmouth Ray.
This months newsletter is as much therapy for me as it is hopefully wisdom for you. I used to say to my Psychosynthesis trainees "you cant take anyone anywhere you haven't been yourself". On that basis I have been doing a good deal of soul searching and self examination of where I find myself. What has brought this about is the partial collapse of my practice. Its still functional, but not enough to keep the wolf far away from the door. So I have been going through a process of 'what I am doing to manifest this'. As I am doing it anyway, you might as well benefit. Self disclosure has always been good for the soul. These are some of my findings:<br /><br />Firstly when I reach the end of my self recrimination for 'causing' this situation in my life, it came to me that in the world outside the human experience, all things go through a season change. Whether it is summer to winter, rainfall to drought, pestilence and predation, those affected have to change the steps to their dance to survive in order to be in life with the new. The seed that finds itself without water cant go 'Oh why have I manifested this?" but must find a way to survive long enough for the season to change again or to adapt itself and learn from that. A seed contains within it a signature to its personality and value however and cannot in its current incarnation become something or other else. It cant, for instance, make itself into a bird and fly to where water is. It must do the best it can with where it is at without resigning itself to disaster. In other words it must learn what it can to include in its genetic make up and to allow it to adapt. So based on that piece of wisdom from nature, I got off my own case for awhile and started to look at what was going on around me.<br /><i><b>Reality check:</b></i><br />The economy is stink for many people and the government isn't helping.<br />The Earth is demanding a reshuffle and is throwing her weight behind it with volcanoes, earthquake, storms.<br />Human society can no longer rely on oil to make our manufacturing industry and so our current jobs flourish.<br />The structure we are used to is crumbling fast.<br /><i><b>Therefore:</b></i> People are pulling back, holding on, battening down in many ways.<br /><i><b>However: </b></i><br />The change that we are having was always coming.<br />Crisis always comes before a new structure can be put in place containing the new learning we have had.<br />Many new ideas are spreading through the world that will revolutionize our way of life given time.<br />The world is heading for a cleaner more honest lifestyle.<br />The animal and plant world will love us for reconnecting with their needs.<br />That reconnection will spread to our own relationships and change the way we hold each other into one of co-operation and community-working together not competing.<br /><i><b>In the meantime:</b></i><br />Like the seed, I must learn about whats happening inside me but also around me in order to adapt. At the age of 64 (birthday tomorrow so maybe this soul searching has something to do with that<span class="moz-smiley-s1"></span>) I cannot now retrain to become an environmental engineer, nor would I want to. The pattern of my being speaks of my place in the greater scheme of things. I cannot go against that for economic reasons. I do however have to acknowledge that for some reason people are not wanting what I have to offer at the moment. So what have I to offer that is of any use to anyone??? Only my honesty. My emotional honesty. It is at the core of what I have taught and the basis of my therapy work as a psychosynthesis and as a shaman. But most of us have been trained to NOT be emotionally honest. Instead, we tell people what they want to hear for securities sake. We have been encouraged to shut down our truth (the truth about ourselves I'm talking about here, not what we think others should be). And we spend huge amounts of energy maintaining that facade for fear that if the truth is revealed, our world will come tumbling down around our ears. And it may! But if that is the case it was on shaky foundations anyway if it is based on self dishonesty. Its only by being true to ourselves, allowing it to crumble or dismantling it ourselves, that we can start from the clean foundation of ourselves and build a life we can be real in: a life we can LIVE in. We need to send each other honest feedback and receive that in order to have accurate information on which to base our decisions. No "yeah/no" will do. <br /><br />And here's my problem. I want to tell you all the truth but fear tells me that if I do you will turn away. Fear tell me that I have to be 'positive' because that's what people need right now from me.They don't want to know that my practice does not have enough people in it right now to survive, or buy my food etc. But if I hide my situation from you I am living in duality with myself. That way leads me to not be honest with you. And I need my clients (and all of you) to know that whilst I need their money, I also am not willing to compromise on my integrity and will never do it just so I can pay the bills. <br /><br />I try to see why I have not got the new influx of clients that always sustains me and allows me to sustain them. Is it because people don't want to look at the hard stuff right now in particular? Its too scary. And to come to Jay Ray means facing stuff that we are trying so hard not to look at for fear of the consequences?<br />Like the environment however, playing ostrich doesn't work long term. Sooner or later the crumbling earthquakes come, ready or not. We cant just put a positive spin on it and pretend that it wont happen because it will and it is. Having said that, its not about resigning to despair either. Like the seed we have to look within ourselves to see where the truth is and build on that. We must deal with the lessons of the past in order to not create the same again, personally or globally. <br /><br />In the process of this self exploration, I started to wonder if indeed Dunedin has too many practitioners per head of willing population and that my particular brand of fire-eating/breathing was not what Dunediners want. And maybe that's true. I don't know yet where the way through all this is leading for me. I have thought about moving to Wellington where there are not enough therapists, I hear, to service the population, and people have to wait for ages to get in to see someone at all. I have thought of going back to Australia, where this type of self development has been well accepted since the 80's. Larger catchment areas provide more life-giving water to the little seed. But I love Dunedin, and I love NZ. Whilst I am willing to go wherever the Universe wants me and finds me a worthy purpose, as I was when I came here, I find it heart rending to consider leaving my turangawaiwai. So at this stage the internal jury is out. I have no idea where to go from here. I watch for the toru (signs) from my Higher Self and wait. I still have a practice and will keep it as long as there are people that find my work worthwhile. Conversely, if there are people in it that don't then they need to go whether it means my practice folds or not. <br /><br />But I must eat. I am looking for jobs to supplement it but that is a process in itself. I came up with the idea of sitting in Centre City with a sign saying "Wise Woman who will listen to your problems and give wise counsel". Whilst it was a viable business when I did something similar in Sydney, I wonder how well people here would take to sitting down in public and sharing their pain.<span class="moz-smiley-s1"></span><br /><br />So I ask myself once again, "What do I have to offer?" And still I come back to the phrase "Emotional Honesty". Being it, teaching it, helping others to find it. But people have to want it. If they don't, I am in the wrong place. It takes courage, as much from me as from those who come to enter into the partnership of growth with me in therapy. So it is,' putting my money where my mouth is' as they say, that I share my story with you in the hope that the more I model it, the more value that will be to others, and the more they will find a desire to work with me. If in that process, my honesty leads to the recognition that I cannot be of service to the people of Dunedin, then I will have to have the courage to go..<br /><br />Why am I saying all this??? Not for your sympathy. Not for your charity. Not to make anyone feel bad (but if you do, don't forget to look at what's going on inside to make you take on my stuff <span class="moz-smiley-s3"></span>. But because I don't want to lower my eyes from you when you say "Hows it going Jay?" and tell you that it 'great'. God only enters into equal partnerships so the 'Book of Runes' says, and I want that in my relationships with you. I am ready for whatever happens next. I am feeling the deep need to trust and stay centred in the NOW. Ultimately, if my Higher Self still wants me on the job, something will shift. If its got something else in mind, no doubt it will arrive when its ready.<br /><br />I do hope that this self exposure helps some of you in your own courageous journey of self honesty. If not then thanks for listening.Blessings as always. Jay Ray!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5816314954522750495-5582989279816949647?l=www-spiritflight.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>www.spiritflight.co.nzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/161460372149705210312011-07-28T15:29:44.903+12:00<b>The History of Worth and Why we Don't Believe We Have It.</b><br />Hello Everyone. Hope you are thriving during these times of change.<br />I have been working a lot recently with the concept of 'worth'. Its another of those words that are bandied about and used for just about everything. What it boils down to when someone asks 'whats it worth' is that they are asking the cost. We have come to believe that worth is about money exchange and status which is defined by money and goods accumulated. That, then, starts to translate into what we see as self-worth and most people don't feel like they have enough of it.<br />I have always been a student of history and believe that we cannot divorce ourselves from our own and our peoples past. We don't have to be a victim of it, but we do have to acknowledge and learn from it's part in shaping our parents who shaped us, before we could shape ourselves. <br /><br />As most of us have some part of ourselves that goes back to early Britain, it's as well to look at what happened back then that still affects our own idea and sense of worth. And what happened there did in fact become a world wide trend, either in association with it, or independent of it. Britain, being a fertile island separated from the turmoil of Europe, became a sort after haven and a prize worth having. This started right back with the arrival of the Celts, followed by the Ango-Saxon hordes, the Romans, and the Normans, with a few interventions from the Vikings who made a mess but didn't really settle there en masse. So each wave of invasion created a 'foreign' authority layer that enslaved the locals. Then subsequent invasions continued to put pressure on from the top creating layer and layers of disenfranchised (slaves) people. Hence was the beginning of hierarchy in Britain. Those at the bottom where deprived of their material worth as well as their self worth as they felt they no longer were able to provide for their families or make decisions for themselves but were dependent on the next layer up for everything because they were required to give up everything to them and then ask for it back. Based on that, our forebears lost their sense of self being worth anything in the society that was inflicted on them by might.<br /><br />And this is pretty much the way our society still operates. We still believe that if we are of the ruling elite we will regain our worth. But there are 99.5% of the population (everyone except you, actually) competing for your place at the top of (or wherever you have been able to get yourself to) the pyramid. This means you can never sleep on the job of becoming 'upwardly mobile' if you buy into this way of being. And we all do on some level. We even manage to turn our spirituality into a one-up-person-ship process with some being more evolved that others and issuing dictum's as to what we need to DO to become elevated. (Remember I am including myself in this <span class="moz-smiley-s3"></span>). Hence we all have low self esteem on some level and my practice is full of people seeking a way out of this catch 22 that is literally killing them. And I mean literally. Overwork, worry about what others think or might think if we did this or that, depression about where we are at in our lives, continual encouragement from advertising to purchase and consume and own more things that we are told are 'essential' to our rising out of our current emotional state.<br /><br />But what we have forgotten with all the invasions (the final one being the invasion of the corporate moguls) is that, even on a scientific basis, we are all part of the raw material of life. Not one part of the Whole can be lost. We are part of it all no matter what shape or species we are currently in the shape of. After all, when we die, the matter that was us just becomes something else; compost, food for the next generation of something. As such we all have what I call 'intrinsic worth' just because we exist. And there isn't anything you can DO to increase or decrease that worth. It just is. Oh Yes, you can earn a million, that's fun if you want to put your time and energy into it. You can be an artist, a parent, a scientist, a beneficiary. Its not going to change your intrinsic worth one iota. You are part of the matter of Everything and that's that. So everything from then on is your choice to spend you time here on because it doesn't really matter. Your worth is already assured. We are just living out a nightmare created by others long ago and perpetuated because nobody stops to think about it. "Do what you will" the magical moto goes, because ultimately we all return to the pot of matter as we arrived in it. And I can hear some of you say, "if we did everything we want life would be chaos". Would it? If we all understood our worth was unassailable, I suggest that we wouldn't feel bad, therefore would not need to get angry. As a result we would have no reason not to be in accord with the Whole. Think about it. When we are OK we can afford to be generous, and we usually are. If we don't, its because we are afraid that by being so we will lose. But lose what?? Our status in society...and around we go again. I could go on about this for pages, but I hope this taste will be enough to set you thinking. YOU ARE WORTH IT!<span class="moz-smiley-s1"></span><br />If you doubt that, come and some sessions with me and we'll see what we can do to change your mind.<br />Blessings Jay Sparrowhawk Ray<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5816314954522750495-3516694624636122416?l=www-spiritflight.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>www.spiritflight.co.nzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/161460372149705210312011-07-28T15:34:49.152+12:00Well Ken Ring was right. Christchurch, Twizal both got Earthquakes on the weekend. So it just shows that ancient science was perhaps as accurate as modern science is. At least now he can continue his good work freer of the criticisms of the doubters. Far from begin the gullible type myself, I have observed time and again how reluctant we in the West are to accept anything that doesn't fit in with our 'accepted' parameters. A friend recently said, "I get so sick of the Naysayers" and I have to agree. I read an article today poking fun at the Mayans and saying they were stupid and got it all wrong because the catastrophes are happening now rather than 2012. Duh! It was researchers in the West that came up with the 2012 date of alignment with the Mayan calendar, not the Mayans and yes, I think they did get it wrong-by about 2 years. But it wasn't a bad shot. Ken got it wrong by about 12 hours. That's an even better shot. Everyone gets it a bit wrong sometimes but that doesn't mean they don't know what they are talking about. Exact science is also limited. We fool ourselves if we think we can 'get it right' when we are living in a fluid world in a fluid Universe. But we can 'sense' things and be in the right ball park enough to be able to have the information we need to preserve ourselves and our species if we get over 'knowing it all' in our heads. <br /><br />Like everyone else I know, shit has been coming up for me this last few weeks. Mini-quakes filtering up from the depth of my consciousness that I thought had long since gone. But they were ready to be stirred up along with the other seismic activity to be worked at again and have another sliver shaved off the issue and hopefully dealt with. And I have realised that I must deal with it because to not do so would be to become ineffective in my work of assisting others to do the same with their own stuff. There is no more time to take 5 year sabbaticals from life. We all need each other to be there for each other: warts and all. Its not about anyone being perfect (although God knows- I think a part of me would prefer it if I were), its about being willing. Its about mustering up as much self honesty as we can find in each situation to own our own stuff and hand back whats not ours. That takes courage, but right now is not the time to self flagellate or to go hide under a rock, both of which I have been known to resort to occasionally. Imperfect beings that we are, we need each others strengths and skills, every one of us. <br /><br />And we all have things to offer. Whether its a listening ear, the ability to physically get stuck in, the knowledge of the Universe, or a good way with kids, we are needed and must value ourselves for that if we are going participate in the shift of the ages. If we are going to survive and thrive where the earth is taking us (wherever the hell that might be). There is a tool in Psychosynthesis called Unconditional Love and Forgiveness. Rather than it being about forgiving and forgetting, its about accepting the truth, learning from and then moving on from while sending Universal Love to the situation or person. Its something we must learn to do daily because its a bit like learning to walk, we'll be doing it everyday for a long time. It is needed wherever things have turned out differently to what we had expected and hoped for. It occurs when our boundaries have been violated and when we have violated someone else's. It occurs when people have disappointed us and let us done and we have done the same. Its not about suppressing anything. We must accept where we're at with it, learn from it and choose again based on the new information we now have. I recommend it as a tool worth carrying around with you as we move through these times where people and ourselves included are dealing with so much more than we usually have to and slip out of their center into the shit. But lets pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, learn, grow and move on through the next challenge until we find the safe harbour somewhere up ahead. It wont happen yet because we are only entering the tunnel of change. But it will happen. <br /><br />I wish you all the strengths and courage, hoesty and willingness you will need to walk your own path through these times. Jay!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5816314954522750495-8292513323377036620?l=www-spiritflight.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>www.spiritflight.co.nzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/161460372149705210312011-07-28T15:36:59.721+12:00Hello Everyone and welcome to the next stage of transformation. Some time ago I mentioned that astrologers felt that the 2012 phenomena had been miscalculated based on a mistake that occurred at the crossover from Julian to Gregorian calendars, and that as a result, the phenomena actually occurred last year on the 21st Dec solstice. That seems to be truely born out by world events. Almost immediately we had the floods around the world and across the ditch which are continuing to cause evacuations as of yesterday in the far north of Queensland. We have had democracy being fought for strongly throughout anywhere there has existed a autocratic government, (and starting to reach China) and now we have our own dear Christchurch 'suffering the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune'. But everywhere there is the growth of co-operation and good will-the hallmark of the new paradigm. So despite the trauma and horror that seems inevitable as part of walking through what is required for both the Earth and the Human Race to change, there are signs of health hidden within the rubble. My love and heart felt empathy go out to all of you that are currently being acutely affected by these changes. Do not give up hope. Look again and see where the Universe is pointing you and follow your heart not your head and it WILL come good. It is definitely time for us to follow our inner knowing as all old ways of going about things will not work from here on in. What we think we know is less important than what we feel from here on in. The good news is that the worse case scenario depicted in the movie 2012 hasn't happened. We are moving on to a new plane of existence and that's exciting. Trust yourselves, Love yourselves and watch the changes occur. There will not be another generation with ring side seats for 26,000 years. Bless you all that you will be in the right place at the right time to receive you Good! Sparrowhawk<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5816314954522750495-6603753444641410993?l=www-spiritflight.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>www.spiritflight.co.nzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/161460372149705210312011-07-28T15:39:46.103+12:00<div class="moz-text-html" lang="x-western"><div class="moz-text-html" lang="x-western"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 107.55pt;"><span class="yiv1303421321apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Happy New Year Everyone. First of all I want to thank you all for being who you are. The fact that you are interested in your souls journey, and want to make a difference is what this new time is all about. So pat yourselves on the back for a start!<br />Many of you know that I am an initiator of the Munay Ki, a Peruvian series of rites that are handed down to us by the Qu'ero people of Peru, and designed to prepare people for the times we are now in. Along with the Mayan and other peoples from Meso America, they knew about these times 3000 odd years ago and provide us now with the information about them and the way to walk through them. Because this is a 26,000 year galactic cycle that we are privileged enough to be part of right now. <br />What it is about is that at the centre of our Galaxy, The Milky Way, as with most other galaxies, there is a massive ultra-powerful black hole, out of which stars and planets are born. Just near the black hole is a huge bulge, like a pregnant belly, where all these stars cluster and begin their journey, moving away from the centre as a result of the expansion of the Universe. The Mayans refer to this as the Mother, the centre of our galaxy, and the black hole as the birth canal. Every 26,000 years our solar system and Sun lines up with this energy flow on the 21st December solstice. Those that have attempted to marry up our Gregorian Calender with the Mayan one, set that date at the solstice of 2012 and as you probably know there has been lots of excitement and fear around that time. Now it seems that the calendar 'liners-uppers' where out by about 2 years. It was really 21st Dec 2010. The astrologers are saying it, the Mayans always said it was more likely to be in 2011 and the **Pueblo people say that it was always set to occur along with an eclipse which occurred on the 21st of last month. Follow that up with the devastation that is 'flooding' the globe and I think we can safely say we are in it. But as *Edgar Winter says below, we didn't die, not masses of us anyway and certainly not yet<span class="moz-smiley-s1"></span>. But something else is happening that is really exciting me. Goodwill. ***People are out there helping each other. Politicians are getting their acts together and being real and caring for a change. Love is being sent and spirits are up more often than they are down. I feel the energy has already changed and will continue to do so. If it takes disasters to do that they are well worth it. We just have to make those co-operative attitudes stick around for the long term. It is a year of new beginnings to follow the endings we have to have.<br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 107.55pt;"><span class="yiv1303421321apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">For me personally my little disasters are making me sit up too, but so far they are no where near what you will read below. <br />As some of you know, I had to put my dog down on the 2nd Jan after her 17th birthday on the 1st. Our cat has had to go in for major surgery 2 days later, and my relatives were on red alert in Brisbane waiting for the call to evacuate. It hasn't been pleasant but it is getting me off my bum. The overall message to me is 'get on with it Jay", so here is my programme for the year:<br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 107.55pt;"><span class="yiv1303421321apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><u><b>Talks:</b></u><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 107.55pt;"><span class="yiv1303421321apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I will be running a series of 8 talks starting Friday 4th February 7.30 until 9.30 at a cost of $10 per person. Registration will be required. <br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 107.55pt;"><span class="yiv1303421321apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The First talk will be on "Trust v Fear- How to handle the world to come".</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 107.55pt;"><span class="yiv1303421321apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Second- "The Past and the Future are in the Present- Its what you do now that counts'.<br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 107.55pt;"><span class="yiv1303421321apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Third- "What you see is the Physical, What you ARE is light- How do we live with that?"<br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 107.55pt;"><span class="yiv1303421321apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Fourth- "Healing Starts Within -What your Doctor cant tell you".</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 107.55pt;">Programme for the next four talks will be in the February Newsletter.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 107.55pt;"><u><b>Munay Ki initiations:</b></u><br />1) I will also be offering another series of Munay Ki initiation training workshops on May 1st, 7th, 14th,21st,28th.<br />There are 8 rites and a further 9th rite when initiates are ready for it. These rites condition our energy field to cope with the changes in the worlds energy field that we are now undergoing. They give us assistance in healing ourselves and others, connecting to all life, and assisting in taking on the guardianship of the Earth with all other beings. They connect us the our ancestors, past lives, the animal kingdom, lineages of healers, Daykeepers of the sacred sights, other Planetary Beings, and the One itself. Cost of course will be $600 and a deposit of $150 is required at acceptance into course. Cost will include information handouts and audio on CD. The final rite is given separately in a one-on-one session of 90 minutes at a cost of $80 and includes a gem quality 'pi' stone which is the key to your multidimensional matrix, (which cannot be given until all 9 rites have been received) and a CD of the rites themselves. Participation in these workshops require an interview with me to assess candidates suitability for the initiations. This is not a place to start self development, but an acceleration of growth already commenced, therefore candidates need to have done work on themselves in some form to be eligible. There is no cost for this interview which will generally take about 30 mins.<br />2) I also offer initiation one-on-one over a period of approximately 3 months to those who wish to work more deeply on their own issues along with the Munay Ki training. This is recommended for those who have not looked into their own issues and cleared their energy field by resolving past trauma. Cost of session work is $80 per 90 minute session on a weekly or fortnightly basis.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 107.55pt;"><u><b>Psychosynthesis Training:</b></u><br />As many of you will remember, I ran the Focus Psychosynthesis Training Course in Dunedin for 7 years offering a practitioner training. Whilst I no longer offer the full training, I am offering the first module of a new course for people wishing to gain tools in the their own psycho/spiritual healing using Psychosynthesis techniques and philosophies. This course is 12 weeks long with a one day workshop at the beginning and another at the end of that term. It will commence with a workshop "In the Beginning was the Belief" on Saturday June 11th followed by classes every thursday night from 6.30 to 9.30 commencing June 16th until Aug 31st. The final workshop is on Sat 3rd Sept and is called "The Power of Choice". Cost is $840.00 including a copy of my book "The Way Through-A Guide to Psychosynthesis in Everyday Life" which will be the text for the course. $200 deposit on acceptance into course.<br />This course is done in a small intimate group of usually no more than 6 students and also requires a free entrance interview for appropriateness for the individual students needs.The module offered is the first of three possible modules extending on from it, should the students desire to continue further studies.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 107.55pt;">N.B. For both Munay Ki and Psychosynthesis Courses, individual payment plans may be available. All number are kept small to increase participation so if you are interested now is the time to inquire in case the places fill up quickly. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 107.55pt;"><u><b>Quantum Shamanic Training:</b></u><br />I am also taking on students in shamanic studies on a one-on-one basis. This is an intensive open ended training which includes self exploration work, teaching of principles and techniques, connecting with your ancestors and working with them, learning from the animal realm, communication with the Earth herself, walking between the worlds, journeying and much more. N.B. This is not Native American based shamanism. All peoples have had their own wisdom keepers. They live within our DNA and that wisdom can be accessed by us all if we understand how. This is an opportunity to link into your own no matter what your heritage is spiritually or genetically. In saying that, I honour our indigenous relatives who have held the knowledge in their own culture while we lost knowledge of ours. But we need to access ours too and stand beside them adding our wisdom to theirs. We are the missing link. They await our own shift in consciousness so the peoples of the world can become spiritually complete. Costs are the same as individual sessions below. Personal commitment to this work is required. Without it we would get no where. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 107.55pt;"><u><b>Sessions</b></u></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 107.55pt;">I am always available for individual session work with clients. Sessions are 90 minute long at a cost of $80 and require a minimum commitment of 3 months initial work on a weekly basis. There are no issues too great or small that you cannot grow from. I have had 27 years working as a therapist and 15 years as a practicing Celtic shaman. My work now also incorporates aspects of quantum mechanic and the way it facilitates a deeper understanding of the way our inner world works. If you are experiencing depression, anxiety, floods of emotion, are confused, frustrated or just plain curious about your path in life, come and see me.<br />I also have a Diploma in Clinical Hypnotherapy and Psychology, a certificate in Human Sexual Behaviour and Psycho-pharmacology, as well as my Psychosynthesis.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 107.55pt;"><u><b>Books</b></u><br />Both "Reweaving the Web- A Shamanic Journey of Connection" ($35) and "The Way Through- A Guide to Psychosynthesis in Everyday Life" ($45)are available from me at $5 discount or they can be purchased at the UBS at full price. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 107.55pt;"><u><b>Contact details:<br /></b></u>Email: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:sparrowhawk@spiritflight.co.nz">sparrowhawk@spiritflight.co.nz</a>, Phone: 03 4780977 or 021379104<u><b><br /></b></u>Website: spiritflight.co.nz</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 107.55pt;"><i>Well that's it! See you in the near future. I look forward to it. Jay Sparrowhawk Ray</i><u><b><br />................................................................................................................................................................................................................................<br /></b></u></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 107.55pt;"><span class="yiv1303421321apple-style-span"><b><u><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">*1) Good News / Bad News</span></u></b></span><span class="yiv1303421321apple-converted-space"><b><u><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">!!</span></u></b></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> From Edgar Winters. Astrologer<br /></span><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><br /><span class="yiv1303421321apple-style-span">THE GOOD NEWS! The world will not end on Dec 21, 2012.</span><br /><br /><span class="yiv1303421321apple-style-span">THE BAD NEWS: The date has been moved up to Dec 21, 2010.</span></span></b><span class="yiv1303421321apple-style-span"><b><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> :) </span></b></span><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><br /><br /><span class="yiv1303421321apple-style-span">An astrologer, Victoria Peltz just wrote an article explaining that we are –</span><span class="yiv1303421321apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="yiv1303421321apple-style-span">or may be - two years off in our calendar because of the confusion back in</span><span class="yiv1303421321apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="yiv1303421321apple-style-span">the 16th century between the Gregorian and Julian calendar. In other words</span><span class="yiv1303421321apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="yiv1303421321apple-style-span">when we interpreted the end of the age in the Mayan calendar as 2012, it</span><span class="yiv1303421321apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="yiv1303421321apple-style-span">should have been 2010. </span></span></b><span class="yiv1303421321apple-style-span"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">“ Now what is so interesting about that is when I</span></b></span><span class="yiv1303421321apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></b></span><span class="yiv1303421321apple-style-span"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">heard of the 2012 end of the world scenario, I immediately did a chart for</span></b></span><span class="yiv1303421321apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></b></span><span class="yiv1303421321apple-style-span"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Dec 21, 2012 and saw nothing. BUT, if I do a chart for Dec 21, 2010, I see a</span></b></span><span class="yiv1303421321apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></b></span><span class="yiv1303421321apple-style-span"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">spectacular, powerful eclipse lasting over one hour. Also, in July 2010, we</span></b></span><span class="yiv1303421321apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></b></span><span class="yiv1303421321apple-style-span"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">have a cardinal T-Square with Saturn, Uranus and Pluto in the sky that can</span></b></span><span class="yiv1303421321apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></b></span><span class="yiv1303421321apple-style-span"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">be seen as a herald or portent of things to come.”</span></b></span><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><br /><br /><span class="yiv1303421321apple-style-span"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% yellow;">People have been predicting the end of the world approximately every couple</span></span><span class="yiv1303421321apple-converted-space"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% yellow;"> </span></span><span class="yiv1303421321apple-style-span"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% yellow;">of centuries since 2800 BC when it was written on a clay table in Assyria.</span></span><span class="yiv1303421321apple-converted-space"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% yellow;"> </span></span><span class="yiv1303421321apple-style-span"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% yellow;">And the Mayan elders have been trying to tell everyone that the end of a</span></span><span class="yiv1303421321apple-converted-space"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% yellow;"> </span></span><span class="yiv1303421321apple-style-span"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% yellow;">cycle on their calendar is not the end of the world.</span></span><span class="yiv1303421321apple-converted-space"> </span><br /><br /><br /><span class="yiv1303421321apple-style-span">Dec 21, 2012 is actually Dec 21, 2010</span><br /><br /><span class="yiv1303421321apple-style-span">2010 is a WHOPPER! And is more the REAL 2012. The alignments of December 21,</span><span class="yiv1303421321apple-converted-space"> </span><br /><span class="yiv1303421321apple-style-span">2012 is nowhere near the power of December 21, 2010</span><br /><br /><span class="yiv1303421321apple-style-span">More and more astrologers say this year is THE ONE. They were 2 years off !</span><br /><br /><span class="yiv1303421321apple-style-span">It will happen at WORLD POINT 0 degrees Cancer, and have an effect the world</span><span class="yiv1303421321apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="yiv1303421321apple-style-span">over, it will also conjunct Hades.</span><br /><br /><span class="yiv1303421321apple-style-span">ECLIPSE SMACK DAB ON WINTER SOLSTICE DAY.</span><br /><br /><span class="yiv1303421321apple-style-span">On 21st December 2010 coincides with a total lunar eclipse. This is the only</span><span class="yiv1303421321apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="yiv1303421321apple-style-span">lunar eclipse that will occur over this period of 36 years or so during</span><span class="yiv1303421321apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="yiv1303421321apple-style-span">which the winter solstice sunrise is directly aligned to the Galactic</span><span class="yiv1303421321apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="yiv1303421321apple-style-span">Centre. The Mayans, among other cultures, have identified this dark rift in</span><span class="yiv1303421321apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="yiv1303421321apple-style-span">the Milky Way galaxy (between Sagittarius & Scorpio) as the cosmic source of</span><span class="yiv1303421321apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="yiv1303421321apple-style-span">all creation (and destruction) and they have specifically tied their</span><span class="yiv1303421321apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="yiv1303421321apple-style-span">mythological and calendrical traditions to its winter solstice alignment. It</span><span class="yiv1303421321apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="yiv1303421321apple-style-span">is the place to which the Mayan shamans have always ventured on their</span><span class="yiv1303421321apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="yiv1303421321apple-style-span">visionary journeys in order to gain wisdom and understanding. On Winter</span><span class="yiv1303421321apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="yiv1303421321apple-style-span">Solstice this year, thanks to the lunar eclipse, and for the only time</span><span class="yiv1303421321apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="yiv1303421321apple-style-span">during this period of solar alignment, the Moon, Earth, Solstice Sun and</span><span class="yiv1303421321apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="yiv1303421321apple-style-span">Galactic Centre will all be in perfect alignment.</span><br /><br /></span></b><span class="yiv1303421321apple-style-span"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">“<span style="color: black;">So far everywhere I have been reading online everyone is saying it is what</span></span></b></span><span class="yiv1303421321apple-converted-space"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></b></span><span class="yiv1303421321apple-style-span"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">the 2012 should look like!!! BUT 12-21-2010 that looks like it instead...</span></b></span><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> <span class="yiv1303421321apple-style-span">All the astrologers say 2010 is a heck of a lot more crazy than 2012. Yeah</span><span class="yiv1303421321apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="yiv1303421321apple-style-span">its a countdown all </span></span></b><span class="yiv1303421321apple-style-span"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">right<span style="color: #1f497d;"> </span>!</span></b></span><span class="yiv1303421321apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 107.55pt;"><span class="yiv1303421321apple-style-span"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">(Editor feels that the 6 months effect of this Eclipse is potent and since Jan opened up just after that eclipse with devastating world floods and landslides floods, so more stuff , whatever, is still to come.)</span></b></span><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><br /><br /><span class="yiv1303421321apple-style-span">Also, this somehow adds up with the 2012 Movie, "We didn’t get the Date</span><span class="yiv1303421321apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="yiv1303421321apple-style-span">right", the Movie is about the 2012 Theme but is taking place in 2010 or</span><span class="yiv1303421321apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="yiv1303421321apple-style-span">2011 as I remember right from the movie.</span> <span class="yiv1303421321apple-style-span">Of course they can be off. There are astrologers desperate to find stunning</span><span class="yiv1303421321apple-converted-space"> </span><br /><span class="yiv1303421321apple-style-span">alignments in 2012 but cant. All the whoppers are in 2010.</span><br /><br /><span class="yiv1303421321apple-style-span">Also of interest…On December 21st 2010, the Solstice occurs on the same day as a Total Lunar</span><span class="yiv1303421321apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="yiv1303421321apple-style-span">Eclipse which takes place (astrologically) within 2 degrees of the Galactic</span><span class="yiv1303421321apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="yiv1303421321apple-style-span">Centre. That's a pretty big coincidence considering that an alignment with</span><span class="yiv1303421321apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="yiv1303421321apple-style-span">this area is central to the 2012 'belief'. Furthermore the total phase of</span><span class="yiv1303421321apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="yiv1303421321apple-style-span">the eclipse will last for the mystical number of 72 minutes. It will be</span><span class="yiv1303421321apple-converted-space"> </span><br /><span class="yiv1303421321apple-style-span">visible over the America's and particularly the west coast of America,</span><span class="yiv1303421321apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="yiv1303421321apple-style-span">Central America and South America - home to the Maya!</span></span></b><span class="yiv1303421321apple-style-span"><b><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 107.55pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">(Editor It would be interesting to see if the I month per I minute takes effect in mystical language and the next 6 years are in crisis)</span></b></div><br /><div class="moz-text-html" lang="x-western"><span style="color: #3e506d; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">**2) "This was the first time in almost 500 years that a full lunar eclipse fell on the Winter Solstice. The significance of this event was not lost on Mayan scholars who researched the dates of the Gregorian Calendar and the Mayan Baktuns. They suggested that 12.21.10 was in fact year Zero rather than 12.21.12. Their interpretations suggest the "end times" presented in the Mayan calendars happened during a lunar eclipse. The next time there's a lunar eclipse on the Winter Solstice is 36 years from now.<br /><br />A message from a <i>Red Shouldered Hawk</i> which presented itself on the morning of the eclipse, was re-stated during the actual ceremony when another hawk flew over the gathering. The Pueblo people call the Red Shouldered Hawk the Red Eagle of Transformation. They say the hawk brings Visionary Power and Guardianship of the Sacred. Hawk asks us to see the bigger vision amid the smaller details."</span><span style="color: #ffffcc; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="color: navy;">Jo Mooy</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><i><span style="color: navy;"><b> Spiritual Connections Newsletter</b></span></i></span></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 107.55pt;"><small><small><small><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt;">***<small><small>3)</small></small></span><small><small><small><small><small><small><small><small><small><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt;"> <small><small>Weather Events</small></small></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt;"></span></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small><b><u><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt;"></span></u></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 107.55pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt;"><small><small>The huge amount of co-operation this is taking is awesome Read on at:</small></small></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 107.55pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt;"></span><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.smh.com.au/environment/weather/tens-of-thousands-roll-up-their-sleeves-to-help-make-it-better-20110115-19rv7.html">http://www.smh.com.au/environment/weather/tens-of-thousands-roll-up-their-sleeves-to-help-make-it-better-20110115-19rv7.html</a></div><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate">http://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate</a> <br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 107.55pt;">4) From around the world:</div><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.smh.com.au/environment/weather/climate-chaos-across-world-as-la-nina-makes-her-mark-20110114-19qfs.html">http://www.smh.com.au/environment/weather/climate-chaos-across-world-as-la-nina-makes-her-mark-20110114-19qfs.html</a> </div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5816314954522750495-4151098525956812029?l=www-spiritflight.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>www.spiritflight.co.nzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/161460372149705210312011-07-28T15:46:50.776+12:00<div class="style40">The Economic Crisis – Your Best Investment Advice </div><div class="style44"><b>"How Economics Work</b></div><div class="style44">One morning, a Russian man wandered into a hotel in a village and announced he was interested in a room for the evening, and left a $100 deposit, but said he wanted to check out other lodging first. The hotel owner pocketed the money, and remembered he owed the cook $100 and paid him straight away. Meanwhile the cook owed money to the butcher and gave him the $100. The butcher owed money to his girlfriend, and paid her. The woman then ran to the hotel and paid off her outstanding bill with the $100. A few minutes later the Russian man came back to the hotel and said that he had changed his mind, and the hotel manager refunded his money. Meanwhile, everybody in town was paid off. This is how economics is supposed to work.</div><div class="style44"><b>The best way to rob a bank is to open one.</b></div><div class="style44">During the worst of the financial crisis, US banks dumped their unproductive assets onto the Federal Reserve in exchange for newly printed cash. Banks then loaned this newly printed money to the government by purchasing US Treasuries. The Federal Reserve created more than a trillion dollars, and dropped its discount rate to almost zero, allowing banks to borrow money very cheaply, and make fortunes! But what happened to you and I?</div><div class="style44"><b>Your Best Investment Advice</b></div>What is a spiritually conscious person to do? In finances the term ROI is used to mean Return On Investment. Shamans believe in a different kind of ROI, which is <b>Return On Illumination</b>. As you become enlightened, the less you are at the mercy of greed and fear, the two forces that drive the world financial markets. You experience freedom, and from this place of freedom you are able to make wise decisions about your life and destiny. For the shaman, the more you clear your old stories and imprints and shift your karmic and generational patterns the more light that fills your luminous energy field (LEF)." Alberto Villaldo<br /><br />I thought this was great when I read it. I also thought that the word 'enlightenment' needed an update. You see at its most esoteric, it means having the experience that we are all just particles of light. This is probably the deepest truth of all. This has traditionally been available to very small sections of the public who have been willing or able to dedicate their entire lives to meditation and the search for truth. As such, most of us have seen it as a distant dream or not even a reality. But there is a lot of different stages of enlightenment that we often discount.<br /><br />For instance, the moment we get that "aha" experience of understanding something, we have touched enlightenment. All of us have that, and the more we seek understanding, the more of it happens. Understanding about anything leads to understanding of the nature of reality if we keep at it. The moment when someone says something to you and you 'get it' is a form of enlightenment, no matter what the topic. <br /><br />Ignorance is the opposite of enlightenment. The less we inform ourselves, the less enlightened we will be, because in the end, quantum physics shows that 'light' <i>is</i> 'information'. The more informed we become, the more enlightened we are capable of being. But that means we have to not make valued judgments about the information we receive. Rejecting some information because we don't like it leads to bias. We must become an <i>observer</i> of information. Once there is enough information received, it starts to form up into a pattern that shows us a whole correlation of truths and that is when we get the 'aha'. The 'aha' is a felt sense rather than a thought and points the direction that our souls energy field is most compatible with. The more' aha's' you get the deeper your understanding of life and yourself because you see more and more patterns. They are indeed everywhere. At some point, they start to make 'mega' patterns. That is when we become aware of the big universal picture.<br /><br />Still, as they say, a journey of a 1000 miles begins with the first step, and for me that points to the openness to and seeking out of information: about ourselves and everything else. Thanks Wikileaks<span class="moz-smiley-s1"></span><br /><br />Of course there is a next step, and that is what each of us choose to do with the information we receive. As we approach a very important astrological year ahead the most I could wish you all blessed with is enlightened (informed) paths forward towards your individual potentials for your way forward is always towards your potential.<br /><br />Bless you all. Jay (Sparrowhawk) Ray<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5816314954522750495-5029835468070309667?l=www-spiritflight.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>www.spiritflight.co.nzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/161460372149705210312011-07-28T15:48:46.235+12:00Welcome to the 7th and last day of the Mayan calendar. Each day last one of our years, so that the 7th day last from now until the 28th October 2011. So as of tomorrow, 3rd Nov 2010 we are in the final run up to whatever it is that The Mayan calendar has in store for us at 2012. Below are some qoute from Carl Calleman, one of the authorities on the Mayan Calender.<br /> From my point of view, the last 12 months since last November have been a mixed bag. Coinciding with the final bout of so called 'darkness', We have seen conservative politics crunching down on the weakest members of our society and making the rich richer. This was not just a NZ phenomena either. I have seen people having to work 7 days to make ends meet with these new 'fiscal' policies, getting no where fast. Obama the great hope has been stymied at every turn and lost his mojo it seems. But consensus politics have flourished worldwide as people begin to see that their interests are best served by a variety of attitudes in government. <br />I have seen many deaths as people not committed to the journey take this opportunity to exit, and I honour them for their choices. It has not been an easy ride. Health crisis have abounded even amongst those of us that are committed to finding out whats on the other side of this mystery. There have been huge turmoil from the earth herself with Earthquakes rocking our shores and many others, and Volcanoes venting their spleen world wide. Wikipedia documents the extent of this if any one is curious as to what this has looked like overall. But to some extent much of it has been inconvenient froth and bubble, scaring the living daylights out of us, but shaking up mainly material and economic issues rather than damaging us physically overall: minimal casualties physically in Christchurch, mainly airlines disrupted as a result of Eyjafjallajökull eruption, and the Chilean miners eventually got out.<br />Personally every time I thought the roller coaster was going to hit bottom, its scooted round it and headed on up, giving me cause for pause but little other inconvenience. So I have come to the conclusion that the last cycle was there to test our resolve and show us that fear ain't all its cracked up to be and that good can prevail. Having said that I also know that those of us that have needed the mother of all crises have had them, but I see a few of them walking around sad but wiser as a result of the impact of change.<br /><br />See, the things is, we cant stop change. We either go with it willingly and learn from it or we get dragged along kicking and screaming, feel like a victim of it and turn around and create the whole shebang all over again. No matter what choices we make they are ours and we get the consequences either way. If we are wise, we learn and move forward. If not ....well...So the sixth day was the 'well..' factor for some: the time to pay the piper, bless her/him. But the seventh day is a time of relief, of the big deep breath', of the opportunity to 'grock' the past and celebrate our survival to choose again. So it is my deepest wish that in this time you are able to see the past kindly and bless it for its lessons and take those lessons and make them a path on which you travel forward towards the light.<br /><br />I am available for sessions of a psych/spiritual nature, shamanic work, and Munay Ki initiation work from the Qu'ero of the Andes, to prepare you and to initiate you into the era that awaits us. Be aware that there is work to be done in the process of conscious evolution, and that some of that will be confrontational, emotional, and hard won truths. But when we do the work, we are always rewarded. Not sure if I will get another newsletter out for December, so if I dont, have a good break from work, but not from yourself. Blessings Jay!<br />Contact me for appointments on: <br /><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:sparrowhawk@spiritflight.co.nz">sparrowhawk@spiritflight.co.nz</a><br />021379104<br />03 4780977 <br /><br /><br /><br /><blockquote type="cite">Just looked upon at face value it would then seem as what we are to align with and celebrate on the weekend of November 6-7 (which follows upon the shift) is a world where the feminine, the intuitive mind and the eastern hemisphere comes to dominate since they would all be linked to this enlightenment of the right brain half. Yet, as we can see from the figure this is not exactly the case since the world was for about 5100 years dominated by the consciousness of the sixth wave where the light fell on the left brain half and so as a result favored the rational mind, male dominance and the West and this is sort part of the platform that we are all already standing on. Hence as the seventh day of the galactic Underworld is activated we will actually finally come to a point when it is time to celebrate the end to male, western and rational dominance and we will be able to create a balance between the different aspects of the human mind associated with the left and right brain halves.</blockquote><blockquote type="cite">As it turns out during this weekend Don Alejandro and the Buddhist spiritual leader Reverend Seiyu Kiriyama will be performing a Buddhist-Mayan fire ceremony, which we may all look upon as a balancing of the energies of the West and the East: (See <a href="http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/render?llr=nijx7ecab&v=001qNpDsySIaELSry7Iq3WMUnzM7ePRoOFH47LwPjtI-YKsoVSJPrkekIP9VgxnawmwgbsEaJrlEjTgsB9djg3Q1lPXFLlKK2y9vJzW4i16qUyrWjdQ_eWrHXCHPOIS5gpmTwWLr4gaNq0%3D" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/czeUhz</a>).</blockquote><br /><blockquote type="cite">This does not preclude that to attain such a balance within ourselves and between the genders externally we will need to do some serious spiritual inner work, and forgiveness processes in order to leave the past dominance paradigm behind. In order to support you in this a facebook page (<a href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=116031818451125&ref=ts" target="_blank">http://on.fb.me/baXtyB</a>) and a rudimentary <a href="http://www.treeoflifecelebration.com/" target="_blank">www.treeoflifecelebration.com</a> website have been created. Increasingly we will now find that we will all need to co-create the upcoming shifts and that they will not happen automatically. Increasingly also I believe that we will be required to take the transformative processes and ceremonies home and not just look for it to happen in the external world. </blockquote><br /><blockquote type="cite"><strong>The Sixth Night (2110), one last period of Dark in the cycle follows. In the plant's life the flowers wilt and die setting the stage for fruit development or of seedpods that will dry. This is what happened to the Maya civilization right on queue. Throughout human history there have been conflicts and revolts during this period, the most recent of these having been the Viet Nam War.</strong> <strong>The Seventh Day (2011) is once again a period of Light, a time of readiness for something new and different, a time of ascension or going from one level to the next higher level. The plant spreads the seeds or drops the fruit to begin again a thousand times over. In human history it was during these repeating sections that Consciousness developed Homo Sapiens, agriculture and domesticated herds, signed treaties to establish the sovereignty of nations and their people, and put up the Internet thereby creating a planetary consciousness in 1992.</strong><br /><strong>This pattern of Creation, an action plan, can be seen happening everywhere in the universe--from subatomic particles to galaxies over and over. "As above, so below." Notice that we go from a Light section to another new Light section. In other words, after the seventh day, there is no seventh night ? we begin the next cycle with another day. So, you see the deck is stacked. Creation is on our side and always has been.</strong><br /></blockquote><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5816314954522750495-2238553220036659123?l=www-spiritflight.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>www.spiritflight.co.nzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/161460372149705210312011-07-28T17:08:32.422+12:00<strong>Hi Everyone. It has been an interesting time since the last Newsletter. My most recent book, "The Way Through" was shortlisted for the Ashton Wylie Book Award for Body Mind and Spirit, so I was away up to Auckland to participate in the Oscar like presentation that keeps everyone on their toes until the last moment. I was up against some really well known New Zealand authors this time, one who had already won the most prestigious Montana Book Award, so I felt honoured to have made it onto the shortlist. I did not get the first prize with the money, but nevertheless am grateful for the fact that both my books have been seen to be worthy of shortlisting in this award which is the most generous award in NZ. That said, I am pleased to be back into the day to day life of Dunedin. <br /></strong><br /><strong>I have often struggled to define my work in short sentences, so I was thrilled to read the article that I share with you below from Alberto Villaldo, the main initiator in the West of the Inca tradition of the Munay Ki of which I am a part . My other modality, the most elegant 'psychology of soul' that has been my profession for the last 25 odd years is a therapy for the future. Its basis is the process by which we define the opposites in our psyche that cause us to be in inner and outer conflict, and work towards finding what I call the AND, or the synthesis that defines a new way to perceive life and deal with the growth challenges that are always present as part of our ongoing development. This process awakens awareness of parts of us that we have overlooked as we have plummeted backwards and forwards in the ever futile process of the 'either/or' decisions and thinking. By opening ourselves up to the possibility of 'more', we encourage our physiological brains to expand into excepting a greater awareness of feedback around us and the possibility of a third, or other option.<br /></strong><br /><strong>This dance of opposites is what the population at large have been trained into. It helps us see both sides but unfortunately does not assist us seeing <i>beyond</i> them. It has long been my contention that to continue the evolutionary process of the human species, going beyond where we currently are, is essential. So clients come to me caught between the either/or of the conflict inside them that creates the outer reality of their lives through the choices they have made. As we live in linear time, the consequences of those decisions arrive after the choices have been made, and it is when the crisis of those consequences hit that people usually seek my help with them. Training them to find the AND and expand their range of abilities and focus helps them to see options that are new and a different way of seeing their issues. The new choices they then make will manifest in the future sometimes quickly, sometimes more slowly, depending on the degree of change that needs to take place in their lives to clear a space for the new to take up residence.<br /></strong><br /><strong>This process has the potential to completely change the way these people think and view life. It is a joy to behold when that occurs. What the article below points out so well, is that this process actually brings about physiological changes in the brains of those that 'get it'. They permanently develop their pre-frontal cortex and expand the abilities of their brain to create new neural nets. It takes a little while of this work for that to occur. Indeed the training of a lifetime is not achieved in one session. However, once the point where the expansion has taken place, the client can never totally revert simply because their brain has now changed, not just their mind. <br /></strong><br /><strong>For me, this work is not only about individuals. As we are all part of the human collective, what changes one, eventually changes all as that development permeates the collective unconscious. As such, all who engage in the work of self change are in the business of the evolution of the species. If any of yo would like to know more about my work on this level, please feel free to contact me. My sessions are 90 minutes long because of the depth to which we sometimes need to go, and are $80 for that time. I have a few spaces currently available for that work, or the Munay Ki initiation. Please feel free to pass this Newsletter on to anyone you feel would benefit from it. <br /></strong><br /><strong>Talking about passing things on. Debbie Pratt of Evolve Trust has asked me to pass on a link to their Newsletter also. Many of you may already be on it but for those that are not, click on: <br /></strong><br /><strong><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.evolve-hdt.org/">http://www.evolve-hdt.org/</a><br /></strong><br /><strong>OK, that's it for this month. Good things are happening. Beliefs are formulating that will change the species. Some of them are found in the writings above and below this line. Take Care of Yourselves, Love Yourselves, And use Everything that comes to you to you advantage. There is learning everywhere. Blessings Jay Sparrowhawk Ray<br />The New Brain</strong> <br /><div class="style44"><strong>(An excerpt from Alberto’s new book <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Power-Your-Brain-Neuroscience-Enlightenment/dp/140192817X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1283264633&sr=1-1" target="_blank">Power Up Your Brain, The Neuroscience of Enlightenment</a></i>, with David Perlmutter MD) </strong></div><div class="style44">In the 17th century, James Ussher, Anglican Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, published a treatise that identified the date on which God created the world: the evening preceding Sunday, October 23, 4004 b.c.e. on the Julian calendar. Although his chronology was based on the patriarchal lineages described in Genesis and inaccurate from a scientific perspective, the Archbishop was not totally wrong. Today, while we dismiss the good Archbishop’s claim as a flight of religious fancy, he did approximate the date on which the gifts of the prefrontal cortex of the brain were becoming available for large sections of humanity at the dawn of civilization and the invention of writing</div><div class="style44">But this self-awareness didn’t happen overnight; rather, it took countless generations for the prefrontal cortex to become functional enough to warrant a circuitry connection with the older parts of the brain. In fact, fossil evidence of the earliest changes in this part of the brain dates back 2.5 million years ago, during the Pliocene epoch, when an early hominid called <em>Australopithecus africanus </em>lived. The enlarged cranium of <em>A. africanus—</em>a member of the “Great Apes” family, which includes humans<em>—</em>was more like that of modern humans than his immediate predecessors. </div><div class="style44">This means that the artists of the Altamira cave and the hunters of the Pleistocene epoch who lived 20- 50,000 years ago had the same brain structures we have today. Yet most members of the species lacked the nutritional support and mind-body disciplines that would allow them to experience artistic creativity and scientific discovery. This is why only a few isolated individuals awakened to the potential of the prefrontal cortex. Indeed, the gifted crafted their great works of art during secretive ceremonies deep inside caves. </div><div class="style44">With the end of the last Ice Age 10,000 years ago, when abundant and brain-rich food supplies became available, the prefrontal cortex began to stir. During the late Neolithic period, starting around 7,000 years ago, our ancestors initiated horticulture, which ended the need to follow and harvest food from a nomadic herd. They domesticated cattle and sowed grain crops and ground the grain into cereal. They developed a curiosity for science, exploration, and perhaps even love. And they conceived of transoceanic travel; for example, Micronesian navigators built sailing canoes in which they navigated the open ocean for hundreds of miles, using only the stars for reference and arriving at islands that were not visible from their point of departure. It was around this time in history that writing and city-states emerged in many geographically disconnected societies around the globe.</div><div class="style44">At that time, as civilization emerged in the Fertile Crescent in western Asia and the sprawling city of Mohenjo-Daro rose along the Sarasvati River in what is now Pakistan, the dietary staples of the political and religious leaders came from the Himalayan rivers and the Mediterranean Sea. These were fish and mollusks rich in docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), a brain food that has become increasingly scarce in the human diet of today. DHA provided the neuronutrient boost that brought the previously installed prefrontal cortex’s software online.<strong> : </strong>Is it not possible that the benefits of a DHA-rich diet explain why a great Master—Jesus of Nazareth—chose simple fishermen as candidates wise enough to be his apostles, his “fishers of men”</div><div class="style44">However, while the prefrontal software was already installed in all humans of the time, the masses, though capable of tapping into the wisdom of this brain, were still struggling between two mind-sets—the old and the new. </div><div class="style44">The Old Mind-Set versus the New Mind-Set </div><div class="style44">To truly understand the conflict inside the human mind, let’s compare the power of the prefrontal cortex, or new, higher brain, with the prowess of the old brain. The old brain perceives the world as a frightening place, filled with rivals competing for the same scarce resources. To this brain, what matters most is survival, and it is always ready to fight or to flee. Considering that the old brain developed in mammals at a time when large, stomping dinosaurs still roamed, it is no wonder that these survival mechanisms were firmly embedded in the core of those small, fuzzy creatures that we developed from. </div><div class="style44">The old brain in humans gave rise to the belief that the spirit world is populated with fierce gods who demand sacrifice and that the physical world is prey to invisible forces that are to be appeased. In many mythologies, the earth was populated by titans, giants with extraordinary powers, who had to be defeated. The early Greeks, for example, identified 12 Titans who ruled the earth during the legendary Golden Age. In the King James Bible, God tells Moses of “a land of giants [who] dwelled therein in old time.”1 In Greek mythology, the Titans were a race of older gods whom the Olympians banished to the darkest depths of the underworld in the War of the Titans.</div><div class="style44">The old brain seeks magical and religious explanations for natural phenomena, be they the formation of mountain ranges or the course of rivers or the tempest of storms. Legends of the Inka tell of the four original beings who could move mountains and establish the course of rivers with their bare hands. Zeus, the king of the sky, wielded a thunderbolt that he periodically used to wreak havoc on the earth.</div><div class="style44">With such mythic precedent, the old brain righteously claims, “My god is stronger than your god,” and believes that only those of “our faith” have been chosen for salvation, while everyone else is a pagan or a heathen destined for a hellish experience in the afterlife.</div><div class="style44">The new brain, however, understands that we do not have to live in a continuous state of threat. It knows that we are not struggling to survive in a hostile world haunted by death. It comprehends, rather, that we are all interconnected, that we can practice compassion by “turning the other cheek” and “loving our neighbors as we love ourselves,” and that physical “death” is really an opportunity to return to a heavenly realm—a precept that lies at the core of the three Abrahamic religions, Judaism, Islam, and Christianity. </div><div class="style44">But even this mind-set is a matter of consciousness. At first, only those living in monastic communities and among religious orders attained this insight of the ways of wisdom. Meanwhile, the older mind-set in the majority of the populace continued to be tempted by the ways of fear. This mind-set continued to seek wealth and justify greed, while the newer, higher mind-set called out to the ways of love and artistic expression. These two, seemingly opposite callings have plagued humanity for millennia—and continue to do so. The disparity will only be resolved when we can turn on the truly beneficial neural programs inherent in the prefrontal cortex.</div><div class="style44">It is clear that our reasoning abilities, rooted in the more evolved brain, are not enough to prevent our suffering or give us the opportunity to create a more habitable, peaceful, and sustainable world. Indeed, if reason had ever prevailed over passion, the story of humanity would not be written in blood. </div><div class="style44">At this point in history, our species is in need of the next great opportunity offered by our prefrontal cortex, which will allow us to entertain the ancient notion of a web of life in which all creatures, and even inanimate matter, are interconnected as part of a field of information and energy. To experience enlightenment and learn to interact with this cosmic web, we must begin by healing that part of our bodies that allows us to dream a new world into being: our prefrontal cortex. </div><div class="style44">Mitochondria and the Feminine Life Force</div><div class="style44">Intricately linked to the ability of the prefrontal cortex to come fully online are the mitochondria—the powerhouses of your cells and the feminine life force referred to by shamans. Mitochondria are the conductors of the genetic orchestra that regulate how every cell ages, divides, and dies. They wave the baton that helps dictate which genes are switched on and which are switched off in every one of our cells. And they provide the fuel for establishing new neural networks. And all of the mitochondrial DNA in your body is inherited solely from your mother’s lineage. That means that the source of energy that sustains your life, is derived exclusively from the women in your family tree—your matrilineage.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5816314954522750495-5073106082490569670?l=www-spiritflight.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>www.spiritflight.co.nzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/161460372149705210312011-07-28T17:10:29.480+12:00My apologies for not keeping up to date with these Newsletters. There are no excuses. I just haven't been in that space. We are approaching 2012 on the fast track it seems, and peoples 'stuff' is coming up to meet them everywhere. It's a great time for getting sorted both internally and in your outer world. In fact one cannot occur without the other. They are twins that always move in sync in our lives because the inner world IS the blueprint for what we create in the outer reality. However the element of time occurs in this reality, whereby that which we change in the blueprint takes some time to manifest in the outer world. This is a fail-safe for us. I am sure if you look back into your less enlightened past, you can pick out choices that you made that you are really glad you got the chance to change and adjust before they manifested. I know that's the case for me. <br /> The other thing that slows down the process of creating the world we would prefer is that the internal trauma and unfinished business blocks the energy, forming a filter that the energy must move through before it can become a reality for you. This is why, when we become involved in our own self development, undealt with issues come up to be cleared and learned from, just so the energetic pathway can be cleared for take off. <br /><br />The third inhibition to our conscious manifestation process (after all we are manifesting all the time unconsciously anyway) is the conflicting beliefs that we hold. As we feed energy into them they cancel each other out and we wonder why what we want never occurs. From our mother we inherit a belief, perhaps, that women are victims and from our father that 'we can do anything'. With great enthusiasm we approach our desires only to find that our energy and confidence disappears the closer we get the their eventuality. Such a bugger that. <span class="moz-smiley-s3" title=";-)"></span> <br />So therapy (of the deep and meaningful kind) can help to get those patterns out into the air so that you can see them, and as a very wise client once said "you cant change what you cant see but once you can see it you can change it" (or something similar). And now is a great time to get that sorted because as we are moving forward, time itself is moving faster and things are manifesting and or coming to a crisis quicker, ready or not. We don't want some of the beliefs we currently hold to manifest without time to understand where they come from. And we don't want our personal world to fall apart as we prevaricate. But it IS time to pay the piper. <br /><br />This could not be more clear as we look on the larger world stage. BP has lost much of its wealth and prestige in the Deep Horizon debacle. The U.S. and other Western Governmental policies of permitting big business to go unsupervised have turned round and smacked them in the face and ricocheted around the globe in the financial crash. Accross the Ditch, Kevin Rudd's PM-ship came to a swift unceremonious end because he didn't listen to the environmental needs of his people, and I don't expect his predecessor has got her head around the problem yet either. I am sure you can all find your own examples of those on the world stage being brought up short over the last few years. <br /><br />Many people ask me if we can turn it around. Is there a hope that the human species might survive its own consequences? And the short answer to that is "I don't know". What I do know is that the main game is The Evolution of Consciousness. In our personal lives we cannot turn back the clock. We need to accept and forgive the choices we made in the ignorance of earlier years. Only then can we learn the lessons of those experiences and use that wisdom to make new choices today, to manifest in the not too distant future. When we do that the over-all quality of the Field of Consciousness that we live in, and are created by, changes too. It grows as we do. Of that I am sure. So what we can do is seek that growth within us, and as each of us contributes our own learned wisdom to the Whole, then we are doing what we came here for now. If that is enough to change the Big Picture for us, then its enough. If its not, then the Big Picture will change to exclude us, but Consciousness will carry our wisdom within it to impart to those of the future. Just as if we don't do the work, it will carry our ignorance forward. <br /><br />Really, it isn't any different to life as it has always been on a small scale. The wisdom we learn we can impart to those that follow if they are willing to listen, and when the time comes, we move on. Our role as the person we were ends and we become whatever we become next. The wisdom or ignorance lives on. Consciousness of which we are a part lives on. And as part of that, we too live on. Its time to ask ourselves what we want to bequeath too future and what we are willing to do to ensure that occurs. But remember, its inside you that manifests the outer world. Are you brave enough to look within??? <br /><br />Blessings Sparrowhawk Jay Ray 021379104, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.spiritflight.co.nz/">www.spiritflight.co.nz</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5816314954522750495-4262648809245537496?l=www-spiritflight.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>www.spiritflight.co.nzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/161460372149705210312011-07-28T17:12:44.240+12:00Hello Everyone.<br />"As many of us have discovered, moments of <b>spiritual depth and insight</b> strike us like lightning bolts on a dark night. They illuminate a profound horizon of potential in front of us, as well as what we must do to live up to what we've seen. Depth of this kind is essential for spiritual progress. But it is not enough. We also need to walk the path we find, with consistency."<br /><br />I found this quote today in a email sent to me from EnlightenmentNext magazine. I thought it was a good topic for my newsletter. I have always taught students to stay away from what I called 'psychic whizz bangery'. It is so easy to get caught up with the pursuit of phenomena and mistake it for true personal evolution. I have seen many people have abilities to see auras, channel, do psychcometry, astral travel and so on and on. But it does not necessarily equate to their ability to evolve, manage their psychological and emotional lives, grow their understanding of the way the Universe works, and move towards their potential. So called 'psychic' skills are no different to any other skill. We can be a magnificent artist, and lousy at personal relationships. We can easily experience non-ordinary states but be unable to control our anger.<br /><br />Psychic skills are just part of the overall creative possibilities of the human species. What is more important is taking the experiences we have in life and understanding the messages that we are being sent that is behind them all. We are part of the greatest learning experience ever conducted, and its happening in all our lives all the time. We don't have to look for psychic 'buzzes'. That is no different from alcoholic or any other type of adrenalin stimulation. It's always fantastic when we have an experience that shows us that there is 'more'. Once we get that, our job is to take that knowledge and apply it to our lives so that we grow to a new level of understanding. That's called 'grounding it'. If information isn't grounded into our understanding of life it is merely window dressing. In my practice, I always create sacred space, for my client and I to work in, at the beginning of each session. That takes it out of the mundane and focuses us on the greater possibilities. At the end, I open that space to allow the experiences we had within it to be free to flow out into our everyday lives. If we don't take that knowledge and apply it to our current reality, there's not much point in doing any of it. What happens in our heads, stays in our heads unless our body actions it and our feelings experience it in the context of life. <br /><br />And isn't that the hard bit? We need to " walk the path we find, with consistency". We need to 'make it so': weaving it into the fabric of our work, friendships, domestic lives etc. When we do, we find the whole picture shifts a bit. Our perspective of what we are seeing and experiencing becomes a little wider. Our capacity for understanding becomes greater. It doesn't matter how long this process takes. After all we have Eternity. It does matter 'that' we do it. It's easy to panic at the moment, as we transit through the enormous changes that the Earth and Solar system are going through . We get into a goal oriented mindspace that makes us believe we have got to achieve perfection in the next 10 minutes or it will be too late. Movies like 2012, albeit that some of what they base it on is accurate to a degree, doesn't help either. Ends are transitions into beginnings. Looking at a section of a circle, it appears that there is a finite place that it starts and completes, but widen our vision to take in the fact that it is a section of a much larger event and we see that there is, in truth, no beginning or end. That's called living in a paradox. Just because we cant see the whole doesnt mean there isn't one. <br /><br />We must seek the greater vision, the higher perspective, and we MUST, bring it down to Earth and make it part of breakfast<span class="moz-smiley-s1"></span>. That's <i>how</i> you live in a paradox. This part of the way we live our lives is coming to an end but its only part of the eternal cycle. Nothing to worry about. But plenty to learn from and change our lives with. Childhood came to an end but we recovered. And yet, the child lives on in us still. The acorn is always part of the oak tree. So, honour your growth by making it part of your lives no matter what a challenge that might be. Seek the larger view of what's happening for yourself and for our species, and to quote the runes, 'look for signs of Spring".<br /><br />I am available for personal session work in self growth, personal development, problem solving, shamanic journeying, ancestor work, Psychosynthesis, energy balancing and Munay-ki initiations via this email address. My books 'The Way Through- A Guide to Psychosynthesis in Everyday Life', and "Reweaving The Web- A Shamanic Journey of Connection" can be purchased from me directly, from UBS bookstore, or from my website: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.spiritflight.co.nz/">www.spiritflight.co.nz</a><br /><br />Go well. Blessings Sparrowhawk (Jay Ray)<br /><br />s<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5816314954522750495-5338697711742134341?l=www-spiritflight.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>www.spiritflight.co.nzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/161460372149705210312011-07-28T17:14:06.873+12:00<div id="title"> <h1><small><small><small><small>Part 1:</small></small></small></small></h1><h1><small><small><small><small>Easter and I find myself beside the Waitaki, sacred river of the Waitaha people again. Its such a place of contrasts from arid brush through to lush wetland and this crystal blue river solidly flowing through it. The place I am is called Fisherman's Bend, and I am reminded of another time I parked up here. It seems that this place stimulates deep insight in me. Last time was in 2004/5 and in those days before I returned to my work, I was taking time to collect myself from intense years teaching Psychosynthesis. During that time I wrote an online journal for three years (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.spiritflight.co.nz/sparrowhawk_personal_journal_2005.htm">http://www.spiritflight.co.nz/sparrowhawk_personal_journal_2005.htm</a>), and on this occasion, by this awa tapu, I wrote an entry that people still email me and thank me for<big> </big><small>(12 March 2005).</small></small></small></small></small></h1><h1><small><small>So it is not surprising that last night I dreamed. There was a talking possum who befriended me. Not telepathically talking, as occurs in vision, but verbally. He had a very agile mouth that struck me in the dream and could not be mistaken for anything else but verbal communication. A very wise and intelligent companion he was, and I regret that the topic of our conversation escapes me. I am sure it would have been profound. The dream moves into a Mormon Church set in Brisbane, where I was once a member long ago. As is the case in Mormon Churches, the ley ministry conducts the services and teaches the members, and I was asked to speak and teach, which I was willing to do with my small possum friend on my shoulder. He was about the size of a rat, but definitely a possum. This caused politeness, followed by blatant horror. To begin with I tried to play him down and even hide him behind me until I realised he was getting squashed. Then as things heated up I defended him and protected him from children that were interested in and yet wanted to fight him. At that point I awoke.</small></small><br /></h1><br />What was this about?? It was so clear that I knew it was a dream of significance. Interesting that it was a possum: beloved of Australian's where I was brought up. Abhorred by New Zealander's where I currently live. Interesting also that I found myself defending it inside an institution of religion, also from my past. As I looked deeper I could see that I am not unlike the little fellow. Hailing from Australia with a lot to say, which is, I hope, often wise. I also recognise that at times I try to hide myself so as not to rub the locals up the wrong way<span class="moz-smiley-s3"></span>. Was this a clue?? Looking at the Church scenario beside a very shamanic talking possum, I had to wonder if this was about the establishments rejection of deeper realities. I certainly come up against a part of me that has tried so often to be 'acceptable' to the societal norms in order to do what I came for, only to find rejection of the fundamental aspects that make my work affective. It seems always that as we challenge the established order, we face that rejection, simply because it is entrenched and people hold onto what they know for fear of the unknown source of all things. I have worked with, and moved on from, much of that as I transitioned from Psychsynthesis therapist to Shaman. My book, "Reweaving the Web' pushed me in the deep end but I was ready.<br /><br />So whats it about?? Looking deeper still I realised that the possum was real. It sat on my shoulder and talked to anyone who would listen. It was too alive and 'there' for the church members. They ran. When I looked at the Church what I saw was a building with people talking <b><big>about</big></b> spirituality, not <b><big>to</big></b> it. The whole institutional process showed up as being an illusion. When confronted with a real power being, they ran. Yet my possum was right there on my shoulder, living with me, conversing with me, loving me. Nothing illusionary about him (in the dream). <br /><br />So what is real??? The Waitaki river is and it is at great risk. So many want to carve it up and when you carve something up, each person gets smaller and smaller portions until it ceases to exist.<br />Yet this river is alive and speaking to us, calling us out of our institutionalized mind, inviting us to listen directly to spirit. All the boards and commissions and councils are talking about the river, not to it. Think of what it is like to be in a room full of people talking about us, not to us. It strikes me that this is the way we distance ourselves from the truth in many situations. But we only drown in our own illusion. So I feel that the message for me is a reminder that truth is found in direct contact and will brook no intermediaries. The essence of shamanic thought is that everything is alive, conscious and intelligent. If you want to find the answer to questions, speak to the being, person, problem or issue itself and trust that an answer is only time away.<br /><br />For me, I know that being amongst the bigger beings of the wilder land takes me out of societies illusion and places me in direct contact with what is real. I need to do this more often. I recommend it. The river is a wise being. We are blessed by it. But so is the sky, the earth, the trees, the cat next door, the bellbird, the front door, the pillow, the packet of cheese........all alive, conscious and intelligent. It cannot be otherwise. What we are made from, we are.<br /><br />Hope you had a good Easter break. See you soon. Blessings Sparrowhawk.<br /><br /><b><big>Part 2:</big></b><br />When I was a practicing astrologer, I took great comfort that this time was built into our system like a fail-safe for humanity. Now it is here as we enter this next phase. This article below outlines why things are about to change. Don't fear the change. Celebrate it. It might be a rocky road but its one we all need to travel to be renewed. Blessings.<br /><h1><span class="fn">Pluto in Capricorn to 2023</span> <div class="n2">Earth Transformed</div></h1><div id="byline">By <a href="http://astrology.about.com/bio/Molly-Hall-24644.htm" rel="author">Molly Hall</a>, About.com Guide</div></div>The transit of Pluto through Capricorn is such a long one, that it's hard to fathom what life will be like in 2023, when it ends. Capricorn is a cardinal earth sign, making it the master of the physical realm, the lasting structure-builder of the Zodiac. It's a sign of breadth and depth, whose efforts tend to be big in scale. Capricorn is a sign that digs in, to be an active part of the backbone of society.<br />Enter <a href="http://astrology.about.com/od/advancedastrology/p/Pluto.htm">Pluto</a> (which moved into Capricorn in November 2008), whose planetary purpose is to destroy that which no longer fits with the evolutionary plan. Pluto is set to transform the very structure of society, and how we live on our planet.<br />Will we see clean energy, a re-seeded and de-toxified Earth? Will the economic system be reformed, so that all of the planet shares in its abundance? And will the sickness and corruption of our government institutions be transmuted into a higher ideal? It all depends on what we do with Pluto's profound provocations to change our ways.<br />Pluto's trials serve to shatter structures that have become prisons to growth, even though we cling to the familiar as it crumbles. Just when we think we've hit a bottom, Pluto sends us hurling down further into what seems like a bottom-less pit. Pluto transits take out the light at the end of the tunnel. And that's when the miracle happens, and you realize you're stronger than you thought you were. And when true faith takes root in your character.<br />Right now, Pluto's drama is playing out in the realm of finances, government and the environment. We're seeing desperate, compulsive and obsessive behavior come into the light, as more suffer from a system that's been revealed as unsound. Pluto's probing uncovers distorted thinking, and power being wielded destructively. The truth comes out, and in the financial world, we see a value-system that is poisoned by greed. It's based on a sick psychological foundation, one not in harmony with the cycles of life. Pluto has a way of using extremes to bring a point home. With the bailout, we see the truth made clear -- we have a hopelessly corrupt government, in cahoots with the banking interests. <br />As 'trust' in the market is lost, the whole system spirals out of control. Banks don't lend the taxpayer money they were extended, and citizens are re-thinking their budgetary priorities. They're not shopping 'til they drop anymore. The values are changing, and investors are desperately looking to funnel their assets into whatever is perceived to have <i>timeless value,</i> like gold. <br />And this is a challenge to every household, as we try to adjust to the changes in the economy. There's taboo where you find Pluto, and Jessica Murray has written about America's loaded relationship with money. The issue of debt is fraught with dark emotions like shame, guilt and a sense of not being 'in control' of life. What's happening, with new rules and regulations skewed toward corporations, mirrors what happened in pre-Colonial America, the last time Pluto was in Capricorn. Pluto's dark powers of control, through money, is a theme that each of us will wrestle with, in some form or another. The specter of <i>debtor's prisons</i> has risen in the news here and there, but it's not likely to go that far. There's a potential for profound healing of our relationship with money, and a release from the prison of burdening debt.<br />Since Capricorn deals with power hierarchies, it's not just the average citizen that will feel the burn. We're apt to see the mighty fall during this transit. The monied elite are in Pluto's hot seat, with an investigative eye on what's hopelessly unsustainable. For example, the formerly hidden truths about the Federal Reserve, are coming to light. Since they charge interest on the money they print for the U.S. government, each dollar issued by this private bank adds to the national debt. Simple truths like this are being uncloaked in the mainstream, and that could ultimately lead to reform of the whole system. It's Pluto's time to <i>follow the money</i> with the promise that by exposing the hidden hands, any inherently destructive power structures can be dismantled.<br />Since Capricorn is a sign of enmeshed authority, we could be shocked by the fall or exposure of rotten-to-the-core leaders. Capricorn is the sign of the mentor and the archetypal patriarch...the Grand Poohbah. We will see the end of blind faith in paternal leaders to shape our world, especially ones with a <i>do as I say, not as I do</i> attitude. The true imbalances of a patriarchal system will be outed, and what has been hidden, exposed.<br />The scourge of unregulated corporate power goes to the extreme, and Pluto's lessons on this are designed to be undeniable. This transit enables us to see the dark truths about corporate greed, and the destructive force that puts profit before people (and in fact, all life on Earth). The part we each play to create a sick or healthy society, by how we spend our money, is brought home in a big way.<br />Though Pluto can take us to a hopeless place, there's always a rebirth on the other side. It's a planet that transforms whatever life energy it touches. And it does that by shattering the outer structure, so that the core gems can be ferreted out. That nucleus of what's real and true, becomes the foundation for the new.<br />This is just the beginning of a transit that many believe will be a rebirth for the planet. Pluto strips away what's false or superficial, so that the authentic can come to life. If there's greenwashing going on, we'll find out. We can speculate on what will happen, but Pluto's nature is to push us past the comfort zone, and into the primal untapped places within. The Earth is the ultimate change-agent in this scenario, and may surprise us all with her lessons. The end result will be a return to earth wisdom, where we all become <i>back to the landers</i>. And each of us has a role to play in re-creating society, and coming back into a give & take harmony with the Earth as the living entity that sustains us.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5816314954522750495-1845807764925776625?l=www-spiritflight.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>www.spiritflight.co.nzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/161460372149705210312011-07-28T17:17:01.519+12:00Well, here I am at last. My apologies for missing a month but time has got away from me. In fact that's the topic of this missal. Time among other things. As you know, due to both the major earthquakes in the last few years, the axis of the earth has shifted, causing the length of the day to shorten. Though the scientists say that its infinitesimal, it still is recorded by our bodies. The cells are amazing electromagnetic transmitters and receivers of information and are continually updating our whole system first energetically and then physically to any changes in our environment. We need to have this information in order for our cells to provide the appropriate energetic/endocrine etc care for our bodies. Electromagnetic information in the body is recorded as feeling. In fact feelings (emotions,senses, intuitions etc) are the language in which our cells communicate between themselves and with our system as a whole. The brain receives them and attempts to interpret them. As long as we don't have conflicting beliefs that interfere with the correct interpretation of the feelings, we will make the appropriate choices, and the integrity of our system will be maintained. If on the other hand,(as we all do) we have been trained to heed something other than our feelings (such as other peoples opinions, societies priorities, or past experiences) we may not heed the feelings and the end result is degeneration rather than regeneration of our entire system.At this point we are living a lot less in a 24 hour clock time than we did 50 years ago. The watches still say the same, but there is less actual time in that period than there was even a month ago. Any wonder so many people feel that time is flying by. It is. Its a hard thing to get our heads around but time just isn't the fixed thing that we have lead ourselves to believe. Trying to get the same (and more because our lifestyle demands it) into the shorter day doesn't actually work so we are all often behind the 8 ball. <br /><br />Not to mention the fact that we are in times of huge seismic upheaval, we need to be aware that our systems are attempting to readjust to a shortened time/space continuum, as well as masses of electromagnetic disturbance from the Earth itself. Its unfortunate that the human race has become so myopic that we have a tendency to ignore planetary and galactic influences as realities in our lives unless they are right on top of us like the recent tsunami that sent some of us to higher ground. But the truth is that any change anywhere has some affect on everything, because we are an integrated system, existing in a unified field. The old idea that if a butterfly flaps its wings can it cause a hurricane somewhere else? Well no, not quite, but when the hurricane happens it will affect the electromagnetic energy of the butterfly, and the closer to the centre of the activity the more is felt. So if you have been feeling strange, had headaches, tension, anxiety, or strange aches and pains, upset stomachs etc, in the last couple of weeks, don't immediately dismiss the idea that it is being caused by larger influences than what you eat for tea. <br /><br />Whats more, because the earth has been building up to this long before the centre in Hawaii recorded the data, we may well have been feeling it some time before the pressure was released in Chile. People have been asking me why they feel tired. This may well be the reason. We have had earthquakes in Haiti, Chile, Samoa, Venezuela, Turkey to name but a few. In fact there have been 15 big ones so far this year alone. (I'm not talking about the little tremors that NZ has all the time). So why wouldn't we be feeling it right here on the Pacific Rim particularly? Not only that, but we are also approaching the Mayan calendars recorded 25,000 line up with the Galactic center that issues huge amounts of energy that ripples down through the whole galaxy, not to mention that our solar system is right on the edge of moving out of our home galaxy, the Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy into the Milky way proper, where the energy is far stronger. <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.viewzone.com/milkyway.html">http://www.viewzone.com/milkyway.html</a> <br /><br />Put that lot together and we can clearly see that if you are not feeling it we are either numb or a miracle. These are times like no others. These are times of BIG GALACTIC changes. In fact, much of what the earth is experiencing has its genesis elsewhere in the galaxies. The stresses that she is suffering are the pull of huge beings. In fact all the other planets are going through huge changes too. <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.enterprisemission.com/">http://www.enterprisemission.com/</a> <br />If the moon affects the tides and the sun the seasons, are we so blind as to think that we are not affected by all this too? And this is not to say that all the human induced stuff like running out of fossil fuels, bank crashes and climate change are not also affecting us, because they are. <br /><br />What can you do to stay centred?? Well, realising all this gives you a head start. Then sorting out whats going on for you personally and the sorts of things that it is bring up psychologically (fear, anger) physically and energetically (see above). Once we can confirm that its macrocosmic, not the result of late nights or financial worries, we can process our psychological stuff (or see a therapist), get some energy balancing, EFT, Nurolink, acupuncture, homeopath, shamanic sessions, Reiki, what ever feels right for you. If it is lifestyle, then change it. We cant afford to waste our energy on things that can be changed when we are faced with changes that are affecting us on a much larger scale. We live in interesting times. Go well and take good care of yourself by listening to your feelings. Blessings Sparrowhawk (Jay Ray) <br /><br />Copies of my books "The Way Through" and "Reweaving the Web" available from me or <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.spiritflight.co.nz/">www.spiritflight.co.nz</a>. <br />Sessions are available individually for 90minutes at a cost of $80 per session as of April 1st ($75.00 currently) <br />There are still a possible place or two available in the upcoming three month Psychosynthesis Course starting in July but be quick. <br />Munay Ki initiations available one-on-one. Same cost as sessions above. <br />> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.spiritflight.co.nz/sparrowhawk_munay_ki.htm">http://www.spiritflight.co.nz/sparrowhawk_munay_ki.htm</a> <br /><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.thefourwinds.com/">www.thefourwinds.com</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5816314954522750495-2204941751724256280?l=www-spiritflight.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>www.spiritflight.co.nzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/161460372149705210312011-07-28T18:39:08.232+12:00<span style="font-size: medium;">Do you ever do self growth exercises at workshops and stick the written outcomes on the fridge for further reference then forget about them for a few years??? I do. Strangely though, when I do eventually look at them again, I often find that subconsciously I have worked on these issue and gained ground. This happened recently and I though I would share a few comments with you. They might apply to someone out there. It was an exploration of the 'Four Directions":<br /><br /><i><b>AIR</b></i><br />"Concentrated thoughts about what I am not clog up the channel of creative flow. I must cease to dwell on what is wrong with me and my life and at the same time cease to attempt to grope for thoughts about what is right to counteract that. Instead I will be open to what is, and allow what needs to occur to flow through me If I give myself every opportunity to allow spirit to flow through me, it will."<br /><br /><i><b>EARTH<br /></b></i>Everyone that lives has limitations through being physical. One set of limitations is no more perfect than any other. There is no 'right' set of parameters to define a human life. Those limitations define you but only in each moment. The parameters of the past do not need to define you now. Live more fully in this moment and savour it. The opportunities it presents are only available in each <i><b>now</b></i> and are gone as soon as it is.<br /><br /><i><b>WATER<br /></b></i>Do not become hooked onto the rocks of trauma. Feelings must flow on, ever moving, ever fresh. Flow over, around and through the trauma into the next new experience with the new set of feelings associated with it. Don't suffer over the past and miss the present.<br /><br /><i><b>SPIRIT SPEAKS<br /></b></i>" I can take it all from you. I am the refiners fire. Spirit is beyond "Times Tide". When you step into spirit, the river of past memory need hold no sway over you. Then I can unlock the kernel of potential in each of your moments, for you to savour and appreciate life fully."<br /><br /><br />Humm! Advice I still need to heed and probably always will. Blessings Sparrowhawk</span><br /><br /> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5816314954522750495-2421737556491603580?l=www-spiritflight.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>www.spiritflight.co.nzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/161460372149705210312011-07-28T18:37:37.114+12:00<div class="moz-text-html" lang="x-western"> Hi Everyone. We are on the threshold of the Night of the 6th day of the Mayan Calendar which arrives on the 7th November through until November 2010, when the morning of the 7th and last day occurs. I thought it might be a good idea to find some references for you to have a look at. It might give you a perspective on what to expect. They are listed below.<br /><br />My take on this is as follows. A plant flowers (morning of the 6th day we are now exiting). There is beauty and abundance of growth for those plants that survive the huge process of coming out of the seed and becoming plants. For some that haven't accessed the nourishment they needed, they wither and die, or struggle on but produce little in terms of flowering. On the human level, those that have taken care of themselves and their consciousness, probably are coming out of a period where things have been good: relationships have flourished, projects of long standing have prospered, health has stabilized. For those that have not done what they could to provide themselves with inner growth in the years before, they probably experienced the collapse of plans, etc. That time is approaching the end. The next cycle is a cycle of 'night' energy. This means in the plant world, the flowers wither and die on the stem. They have to, to allow the seed within to grow, for it is the seed that provides ongoing new life, and are actually the fruit itself. Some seed falls and becomes new growth in the next session. Some provides nourishment by being eaten (us, birds, insects etc). This metaphor can now be applied to ourselves to get a bit of a picture of what is to come over the next year. That which has lived out its use in our lives, will need to be let go of , to make way for a new beginning (which will not arrive until the morning of the 7th day next year). Ways of being that might have served us in the past, will not do so in the future. This could apply to ways of working, ways of thinking, ways of earning a living, pet beliefs about life, or just about anything that has reached the end of its shelf life. This could be hard if we have an investment in holding on to these things/people/events. The best we can do is recognise that holding on will only make us miserable, but change nothing. Acceptance and becoming aware of the new seeds stirring within us is the way to handle this: graciously! It is a time of waiting for the seeds to grow. Its not a time for impatiently 'making' things happen. Its no good 'tugging on the shoots'. Nurturing, loving patience will win the day. It is possible that some whose work is done will leave this life, making way for those in whom the new is bestowed. On a world stage, we are probably in for a rough ride as outlined in the articles and websites below. We cannot really go back to economic growth, because we do not have the planetary resources to do so, so despite the positive spin from the political spin-doctors, and media, it ain't gonna happen. Co-operation with each other and a sense of community is what will get us through all that. Grow veggies and share them. Help neighbours do what they cant. Stand by each other.That sort of thing. What we are able to shed, will provide a clear view of the possibility hidden within. And when the new day dawns, we will see what we will see before us.<br /><br />Now, "The Way Through" my latest book is at the printers as we speak. It looks great and I am really pleased to have put out there a means by which people can get the groundwork for self development, and personal change (as long as they put it into action that is). For those of you that have pre-committed to purchase, it will onlt be a little while now. For those of you that have been putting it off, now is your last chance to commit to get the discount. The book will retail at $45. Pre-order discount gets it to you for $36 plus post and packaging for those of you that don't live locally enough to arrange pick-up. So contact me on <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:sparrowhawk@spiritflight.co.nz">sparrowhawk@spiritflight.co.nz</a> straight away and register your binding intention to buy this great book. Further information and to view the cover, see <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.spiritflight.co.nz/the_way_through/index.htm">http://www.spiritflight.co.nz/the_way_through/index.htm</a><br /><br />Also, I will be running the first module of the Psychosynthesis Self Development course next June- Sept 12 weekly classes of 3 hours and 2 one-day workshops for $650. This will cover what is essentially Part 1 of the book. I am taking registrations now, and it is filling nicely. Don't wait as I will only be taking a small group as always. Payment can be arranged over time leading up to course commencement if necessary.<br />I am also offering Munay Ki initiations on a one-on-one bases from Carnegie Cottage now. Please give me a call on 021379104 if this interests you. Munay Ki workshop series of three will commence March 2010.<br />Bless you all. Sparrowhawk<br /><br />References for 6th night of Mayan Calendar:<br /><br /><br />1) The Sixth Night (Nov. 8, 2009 – Nov. 2, 2010), one last period of Dark in the cycle follows. In the plant’s life the flowers wilt and die setting the stage for fruit development or of seedpods that will dry. This is what happened to the Maya civilization right on queue. Throughout human history there have been conflicts and revolts during this period, the most recent of these having been the Viet Nam War.<br /><br />2) <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.calleman.com/content/articles/RebirthCelebration.htm">http://www.calleman.com/content/articles/RebirthCelebration.htm</a><br /><br /><strong>3) 6th Night of the Mayan Calendar begins on November 8, 2009</strong><br />From this perspective, where <strong>we are approaching the end of cyclical changes and the highest quantum state of the universe, it is also logical that the economic meltdown that we are now in is not merely a “recession” or a “depression”, such as we know to have been precipitated in the past by NIGHTS in the calendar. The decline is instead the beginning of the end to the cycles of the economy.</strong> Yet, since we know from the study of the Mayan calendar that the time periods when the economy shrinks are the NIGHTS we can make some predictions as to how this end of the economic cycles is going to play out. The first pulse of bringing the growth economy down thus came with the fifth NIGHT and led to a rapid decrease in growth, a fall in stock values, and increases of lay-offs and foreclosures. We are currently in a period in between such NIGHTS, the sixth DAY (see Figure 2), when the same processes are continuing more slowly and may even temporarily be slightly reversed. <strong>Around the time that the Sixth NIGHT begins on November 8, 2009 we may however expect that the meltdown intensifies and the US dollar collapses and with it the established monetary system in the world. </strong>Many things may trigger such an event, but it is important to understand that whatever triggers it, and this may be some kind of political event, it is the energy of this NIGHT that will bring it about. This incidentally, is also why it is so important what will be made of the rebirth energy of the second half of the sixth DAY.<br /><strong>We can only imagine what such a collapse will mean, but I feel it is clear to everyone that the consequences for our every day lives will be very far-reaching.</strong> Because of the hardships many may come to lose faith in this Creation or think that we are being punished. I look upon it differently: The consciousness of the Galactic Underworld is already preplanned to set in a protective mechanism for the planet by first stopping the growth, which is what any cancer doctor would do before any healing could take place.2 As the reader may now realize we have come to a point where the discussion of the end date of the Mayan calendar is a critical issue since how we relate to the future will directly depend on it. This is neither academic hairsplitting nor irresponsible New Age fantasies. Those that advocate the evidence-based Mayan end date of October 28, 2011 may in fact <strong>advice people to prepare themselves for this further economic meltdown beforehand in the sixth NIGHT.</strong> Those that talk about December 21, 2012 are however, consistently with their logic, likely to continue to make projections on this fantasy screen in the future. What these people in effect are saying to people is “Do not prepare yourself for the New World now! Wait until the shift comes December 21, 2012!” since they do not recognize any quantum shifts before this point in time. To know the exact end date is then a matter of paramount importance to people, because it is their only way of knowing what quantum shift they are experiencing in the present moment. While many people advocating the December 21, 2012 date are simply jumping on a bandwagon to create some visibility for themselves (and sell various products) I feel it is time that they consider what kind of responsibility this implies also for other people. It is probably not an accident that the first major Hollywood movie, surely planned to confuse people about the Mayan calendar and tout the December 21, 2012 date is scheduled to be released in November of 2009 as the sixth NIGHT begins. The ruling media will then use the December 21 2012 date to manipulate the truth and of course there are always some that are willing to play along. It is quite easy to see in whose interest it is that the Mayan calendar in this way is projected to a time in the future when all alignment with it will be too late.<br />As the established international monetary system collapses in the sixth NIGHT things can go essentially in either of two directions. It will go either in the direction of a grass roots organization of a new economy without banks, interests or growth serving to create a world without dominance. A collapse of the international monetary system, especially if it is linked to a moratorium of all debts, holds the potential of paving the way to a world that is truly egalitarian, based on willful cooperation and where greed will not destroy the world. This of course precludes the existence of a banking and monetary system organized in the interest of a minority and driven by the craving for abstract values rather than human needs.<br />I think however that it would be naïve to think that such an implementation of a New World according to the cosmic plan would happen without resistance. Some want to hold onto power over others. To many more the downfall of the established order of dominance would be shocking because it would ruin their experience of security in a world that they have become accustomed to. The bankers, governments, medias and ruling establishments world wide will then naturally seek to set up a new single global currency and remain in control, which they are very well prepared for. This especially the case if people are unaware of the evidence-based Mayan calendar and are able to see this difficult period as part of a process designed to lead to a new world. I am however convinced that the upcoming Universal Underworld will bring a new unity consciousness carrying a bliss of just being and love and compassion for all things just the way they are. Thus, things may not become “better” in the sense they were spoken of in the old economy, but life will be more enjoyable because of a new level of consciousness in which things are perceived in another way. Thus, in the years ahead we are in for a confusing mixture of seemingly conflicting developments. A critical aspect of preparation for this is the knowledge that the evidence-based Mayan calendar ends October 28, 2011, which at least gives people a benchmark for the rhythms with which things will evolve even though it will take a certain time for things to settle also after this.<br />The vision that is emerging for the time ahead is thus neither that “the world is going to an end,” nor that “we will all be happily flying” at a certain preset date in the future. Instead, we see a fairly complex scenario based on the best evidence that we have for an understanding of the future. It has much in common with the difficult birth scenario for the “New Jerusalem” as this is presented in the Book of Revelation. As this book points out this is however not a world for everyone and it is a scenario that almost certainly will require spiritual strength and integrity to endure. I do not want to add any religious overtones to this discussion, but it seems clear that everyone who is aspiring to enter this new world must sincerely seek the truth and avoid simplistic explanations.<br />Even if the Mayan calendar thus is universal and fundamentally connected to the Book of Revelation it is nonetheless important to know how the contemporary Maya see their end date. Naturally, some of them are happy that their calendar has received worldwide attention and may just believe what the archeologists have been telling them, which is December 21, 2012 (The actual Long Count upon which this date is based went out of use among the Maya a long time ago and so this date has been forwarded to them by modern archeologists). But more authoritative sources such as Don Alejandro Oxlaj of the Council of Elders are not just jumping on the bandwagon. As anyone who has seen the interview I made with him two years ago (available on DVD from Mayan Majix) he rejects the December 21, 2012 date as a miscalculation (Something that at the time was actually a surprise to me). He also carries the prophecy of the Thirteen Baktuns and 13 Ahau, consistent with the October 28, 2011 date (which is 13 Ahau). Unlike myself he however does not specify an end date, even though we do agree that the last katun shift (beginning of the last 7200 day prophetic period) took place in 1992. Around this katun shift at February 10, 1992 we can also very clearly see that major events, a quantum shift, shaping the whole world took place: The end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union (December 25, 1991), the institution of the European Union, (February 7, 1992) and the launching of the World Wide Web (August 1991). By the time of the katun shift advocated by the December 21, 2012 people (John Jenkins says April 1993 in the “Doomsday” documentary on History Channel) the new world was thus already established. Also in the future the people embracing this end date will thus always be in the backwater of what is really happening in the world. This demonstrates the utmost importance of the end date and that those who want to be consciously part of the coming quantum shifts ahead and surf on the waves of creation that these generate will miss that opportunity if they reject the evidence based Mayan calendar with its end date of October 28, 2011. If you ignore the evidence and listen to the December 21, 2012 “alignment”3 prophets this is likely to have very serious direct consequences for your own life and how you approach the future. With the acceleration of time in the Galactic Underworld the difference of 420 days between the two end dates is literally as big as that between day and night.<br /><br />4) <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.mayanmajix.com/art024p.html">http://www.mayanmajix.com/art024p.html</a><br /></div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5816314954522750495-3166682576351952817?l=www-spiritflight.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>www.spiritflight.co.nzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/161460372149705210312011-07-28T18:33:27.867+12:00A friend and student put me on to this website. It sounds like a book worth reading. Much of what you will read below isn't new, but <i>it is</i> from a <i>scientific</i> perspective. The mythologies of many people have told the same story both symbolically as well as more detailed in quasi-historic fact. There is correlations all over the place. For instance, the author talks about changes in hormonal structure that caused degeneration after the tropical 'Garden of Eden' type setting was no longer available. This correlates with stories about the way in which the Atlantians split the brain into two hemispheres, creating male and female with only half the functioning each so that they would 'need' each other and therefore become more manipulatable. The story goes that this was the time that sex was introduced as we know it today (before that it was by choice and in the control of those involved whether they conceived or not) and the on-tap sexuality of the human species was born along with the monthly menses instead of the 6 monthly (or whatever) 'season' that other animals enjoy. As a result our attention becomes dominated by our sexual (hormonal) urges at an early age, shortening the amount of time for brain development.. This the author says it is becoming earlier and earlier, leaving us with less developmental time more and more. It is a documented fact that the human female <i>did</i> change from seasonal to monthly cycles that <i>did </i>affect the availability of sexual activity between the sexes which <i>does</i> indeed stop the right brain developmental function in favour of the left as we become fixated on 'other' rather than the developmental musings of 'self' that we enjoy in our right brain orientated childhood. Which is indeed becoming shorter and shorter as a result of the sexualisation of just about everything. Tie this all in with the Garden of Eden/Adam and Eve mythology and you have a picture forming that ratifies this mans work. Then we can go on about the possibility of Extra-terrestrial intervention into the gene pool of the human species. Lots of work was done in lots of books by Von Daniken in the 70's onwards with such books as 'Chariots of the Gods' and many more. He refers to the biblical reference to the Sons of Heaven, lying with the Daughters of Earth creating a race of giants among other things, but definitely bringing about changes in our genetic structure. He also sites archaeological evidence that is held away from the publics view in most museums because it does not fit in with the currently accepted Darwin's Theory of evolution, which in itself has been distorted hugely by those that followed him. Then there is the Nazga Lines, chalk white horses, Stone Henge, pyramids and on and on. Many believe the Atlantians and Lemurians were of this extraterrestrial stock. Lots to think about if we can get out of our logical damaged left brain long enough to entertain the possibilities. Then there are the prophecies of just about all the indigenous people that speak of the return of a golden age after huge destruction when we will be restored to our former glory. If science is finding all the first bit has merit (at last), I cant wait until they get to the prophecies. But by then I guess we will all know the truth.They spent huge amounts of money slagging off Von Daniken at the time he was putting forward his theories, which to me only proves logic is flawed. It only can see the past not the potential. Thank god (goddess, whatever) we have spiritual and creative development that assists the right brain as much as it can. But in the end its up to each of us what we do with it. Do we follow the left brain logic slavishly like the rest of the world? Or do we <i>think </i>for our <i>Self</i>?<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5816314954522750495-1681494506422500555?l=www-spiritflight.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>www.spiritflight.co.nzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/161460372149705210312011-07-28T18:31:48.315+12:00<div class="moz-text-html" lang="x-western"> <h2 class="cN-headingPage prepend-5 span-11 last"> Positive statements make low self-esteem even worse </h2><div class="cT-storyDetails cfix"> <h5>Rob Stein<cite> June 24, 2009</cite></h5></div>DESPITE WHAT all those self-help books say, repeating positive statements apparently does not help people with low self-esteem feel better about themselves. In fact, it tends to make them feel worse, according to research.<br />Joanne Wood of the University of Waterloo in Ontario and two colleagues conducted experiments in which they asked students to repeat statements to themselves such as "I am a loveable person" - then measured how it affected their mood.<br />"From at least as far back as Norman Vincent Peale's <i>The Power of Positive Thinking</i> (1952), the media have advocated saying favourable things to oneself," the researchers wrote in a recent issue of <i>Psychological Science</i>. "At this moment, thousands of people across North America are probably silently repeating positive statements to themselves."<br />But in one of their studies involving 32 male and 36 female psychology students, the researchers found that repeating the phrase did not improve the mood of those who had low self-esteem, as measured by a standard test. They ended up feeling worse, and the gap between those with high and low self-esteem widened. The findings did not change even if participants were instructed to focus on how the statement might be true about them, as they were in a second study.<br />The study results "suggest that for certain people, positive self-statements may not only be ineffective, but actually detrimental", researchers wrote.<br /><b>The Washington Post</b><br /><b> From Sparrowhawk:<br /> I have long taught that enforced PMA (positive mental attitude) is no substitute for understanding and accepting the truth within us and changing the patterns that manifest as dysfunctional behaviour, ill-advised choices, and uncomfortable consequences. Indeed mental manipulation of this sort serves only to assist us to deny the feedback that is right before our eyes in our feelings, and encourages us to ignore the shadow side that holds so much understanding and healing for us if we will but venture there. It has been very convenient for society as a w/hole to encourage us in this misinformation, resulting in our chanting " my marriage is great" instead of choosing a new partner, repeating 'money is coming to me' as we cower at the thought of changing our poorly paid job. Staying put, when we need to move, and moving when we need to stick with it, is no solution to what ails us and affirmations won't change that. Indeed, Sondra Ray of the Loving Relationship Training back in the 80's used to say that "Love brings out its opposite". Just like a hose in a blocked drain, before anything can permanently change, the dysfunctional must be flushed out, and new choices must be made. Magic wands work in the hands of magicians. We all need to be that in our own lives. Not by self delusion but by self acceptance: by courage to explore what doesn't work in us, finding its roots in our upbringing, and then following through with new choices. This formula will work with new consequences hot on the heels of your new decisions. A new life is created by your own new awareness and understanding of what works (or hasn't) for you. Magic! Denial is magic too. Black magic~! It surrounds issues in mists and it clouds that which needs to be brought out into the clear light of day. It manifests from our unconscious exactly what will disempower us most. And who is doing it? Well, you are, of course! No blame here. Blame is as useless as balls on a cow, to misquote a well used Kiwi-ism. Whose responsibility is it? Yours. Whose fault is it? No one's! While you are busy apportioning blame and guilt-tripping others you are making yourself into a victim. What you could be doing instead is seeing how it came about and making some changes to what you use your adult power to create for yourself from here on in. Having said that, there's a need to get anger out of your system first. Have the rage, and the rave (to yourself, out load) but then move on to making new choices, armed with the knowledge of what needs did not get met for you in the old ones. Childhood is a powerless time. We dont have the physical size, dexerity, or mental aptitude to make choices for ourselves. We spend years relying on people that can only guess at what we need and view us through the eyes of their own dysfunctional childhoods. All we can do about that is learn how to do it differently for ourselves based on what they couldn't do. But to do that, we have to go looking. We have to turn over the rocks of our childhoods. We have to be prepared to see the yukky stuff that made us who we are so that we can make us who we can become. Papering it over with affirmations and false optimism ain't gonna do that, my friends. Courage and hard inner work will, though. And maybe not as much as you imagine. It's amazing how quickly things shift once you shine the clarity of adult power on them. But we do have to make a commitment to the greatest work of all - self-discovery! And it's life long. You don't need a quick fix. You need a life long commitment to evolution of the species. Starting with yourself. That's not about wallpapering over the nasty bits with pretty statements. That's about following the path of honest self-appraisal. By the way, most affirmations are said to try and counteract our inner fears. The more we affirm its Ok, the more we fear that maybe it ain't! Better to follow the fear to where it began and empower ourselves with the skill and knowledge we need to cope with any outcome.<br />Well thats me for this month. If you need sessions, I might be able to fit you in somewhere, but know that its not something in which I will wave a magic wand and hey presto! all better. And one won't do it. It requires commitment to your journey and gaining the skills that will stand by you for a lifetime. That takes time and patience to turn over the rocks of the past so that they can reveal the pounamu inside, week by week. You are a taonga (treasure) waiting to emerge. How long that takes depends on what's inside, and what needs to get shifted to reveal it. Travel well. Blessings Sparrowhawk </b><br /></div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5816314954522750495-3181880244233971972?l=www-spiritflight.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>www.spiritflight.co.nzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/161460372149705210312011-07-28T18:30:06.959+12:00<div class="moz-text-flowed" lang="x-western" style="font-family: -moz-fixed; font-size: 13px;"> <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;">Hello. Not sure why I have had difficulty coming up with inspiration for this newsletter, but I have. Maybe its because I have had lots of things that could easily be seen as mishaps occur this month, and I would be lying if I didn't admit that its been hard to see them as anything else. However, the beauty of being on a spiritual path of self discovery is that I don't believe it any more. There are always reasons why things crap out, if we take the time to examine what we have been up to. What we experience is the consequences of the choices we took earlier, and now, down the track, we are living them. I can trace my car difficulties right down to when I made decisions to get the gear box fixed 8 months ago, and the choice to opt for a reconditioned one rather than to have the existing one rebuilt down to one word--fear! I was afraid it would take to long and I wouldn't be able to get to work. I was afraid about the price of fuel and the climate change caused by the fumes. Now I have been without a vehicle for about two weeks one way or another and the rebuilt gearbox would have originally only take 10 days. Still everything is as it should be and I now have a new car, and the nice men at Southern Honda are trying to get my money back from the reconditioned gear box that wasn't up to scratch. I am having a great experience of community, and have learned yet again that decisions made out of concern and fear are never good ones. Expensive lesson this was. Another interesting experience associated with this scenario is that in order to buy my new car I have had to get a loan at 12% from the company that froze my assets to stop themselves from going broke last year. So they have my money and are lending it back to me at interest. Crazy? Yes. But the interesting thing is that two years ago when those debentures came to maturity I had every intention of cashing them in but decided that I better leave it where it was or I might spend it. Might has well have done so hey? Fear again. Now I'm not telling you all this just to cathart my woes. Oh no. Theres a moral, and that is that at the moment there is enormous amounts of fear floating around the collective unconscious and its sooooo easy to get infected with some part of it. There is bound to a bit tailor made to fit your own childhood trauma or family beliefs about how bad things are or how careful we have to be. And once the fear gets you, you can be encouraged to make all kinds of reactive decisions that you will regret (or learn from) later. Whenever we turn to the contents of our heads for advice we get lost in what others think or have thought. We get caught up in the mythology of the times. But surely fear is an emotion, I hear you frown. Yes it is. A natural indicator that shows us that we are about to do something we have never done before and step into the unknown where we can grow, and learn new skills. Once the mind gets a hold on it though, it turns it into a three ring circus where the caution of others that has embedded itself in your brain is telling you to be careful to stay safe rather than to feel the fear and do it anyway. We listen to the parents in our heads rather than the excitement in our hearts and rather than moving forward into the new, we take a safe option that is not on the path of growth for us and we go round in circles for another decade or two. Humm! Well how do we know that following the fear is the right thing to do not a warning to stay well away??? We know because warnings are not fears. They are 'knowings'. They give us tingles of intuition that says don't go there. It's prickly, but its not fear. Next, when fear is beckoning us to greener pastures, there is always a tinge of excitement with it. It's scary but it's good. The other old cautious warning about the bad things that could happen is plain old scare mongering from the head, replaying all the stuff we have had drummed into us from society that is designed to keep us mediocre. Don't listen to it. It's just trying to turn your good fear against you and keep you small. There isn't anything really to be afraid of except not growing. After all, thats why we're here. The only sign of life is growth.<br />So what should I have done??? Who knows?! That road was not the one I walked down. I played it safe. Threw good money after bad, and listened to my head. The interesting thing about all this is that its easier to see in hindsight. I do know that listening to our hunches will take us where we need to go to get the lessons we need to have. Maybe mine was that in order to get a new car I had to loose money and have a gearbox seize on me in the pouring rain at the lights at the junction of three inner city streets in peak hour traffic. But I had a handsome man and a gorgeous woman tow me back home! In the end, I guess none of it really matters anyway. We end up wherever we need to be, as long as we keep looking at the lessons life chucks at us. In these times of mass hysteria, stay centered in your heart and you cant go wrong.<br /><br />So.... still time to book into the Munay Ki series of workshops that start on the 13th/14th June, but thats really and truly it for this year. All other courses are booked up (except a possible weekend workshop and talk in Geraldine). Still I can do private sessions for you if that feels appropriate, whether your needs are philosophical discourses, shamanic journeying, psychosynthesis guiding, or healing. I still have plenty of copies of 'Reweaving the Web' available and can always print off more <span class="moz-smiley-s1">:-) </span>. "The Way Through"- my psychosynthesis workbook containing the wisdom of the ages within it's covers can still be ordered on my pre-release order list for discount and is still on track for a November release. And if you see a little yellow honda logo flashing around town with a grinning shaman at the wheel, its probably me. Cheers Dears. Sparrowhawk<br /><br /></span> </div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5816314954522750495-3151169249243193811?l=www-spiritflight.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>www.spiritflight.co.nzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/161460372149705210312011-07-28T18:27:10.057+12:00<blockquote type="cite"> Hello Everyone. I hope you are getting the benefit out of the current<br />Mayan calendar year which began on November 2008 and will continue until<br />November 2009. Its a time of flowering and abundance. A time of things<br />coming to fruition, but of course you must have planted the seed for<br />that to occur.So often we believe that all we have to do is wish for it<br />and desire it and it 'should' happen. Of course the process of<br />manifestation is a bit more complex than that. As we are currently<br />living by the laws of the 3rd dimension, we have to take a 3D approach<br />to bringing things into being. I touched on this in my last newsletter.<br />First we must feel the desire. The feelings alert us to a need in us and<br />needs are no bad thing.We all have them all of the time, like fuel<br />needing to be shoveled into a boiler to keep it alight.Needs have gained<br />a bad reputation especially in the New Age of self responsibility where<br />we believe we shouldn't have any or it reflects badly on us.The truth is<br />its not needs that are the problem. Its not meeting them! Then we become<br />'needy' and thats an ongoing condition of powerlessness. The more we<br />don't meet our needs the more needy we become as we begin to believe we<br />are incapable of meeting them.The more needs we leave unmet, the bigger<br />the pile becomes and the more difficult it seems to come back into a<br />place of satiation and joy. And we have all been there I know! Still all<br />we have to do is start at the top of the pile with the most urgent needs<br />and meet them one at a time and bit by bit the pile will get lower and<br />lower. If we are consistent with this we have every opportunity to come<br />into balance eventually. That is not a place of 'no needs'. It is a<br />place of clarity where the upcoming needs can be recognized by the<br />feelings, elucidated by the mind and met by the body: truly a 3D<br />approach. So the path by which we must approach manifestation is to<br />locate the desire inside our feelings. Without that, nothing will occur.<br />We need the energy of the feelings to 'fuel' the movement towards<br />manifestation. Feelings and emotion all have a bodily component to them'<br />an energetic 'buzz' as it were. Take some time next time you are having<br />an emotion to feel the buzz. It doesn't matter if it is a so called<br />negative feeling or a great one, it will still have the buzz at the back<br />of it that powers all things.Then ask yourself, what need is at the<br />bottom of this feeling? What are you being told to provide for your<br />self?? Now is the tricky bit because most of us go into the 'I cant'<br />thinking pattern that we have developed out of the powerlessness of the<br />huge pile of unmet needs facing us. However, if we stay with the feeling<br />and go beneath it we will find the need and along with it the desire to<br />have it fulfilled. Now you can go to the next step. Having located the<br />energy for its completion, you are then able to shape it into a thought.<br />"I needs a new car" isn't a manifestation in and of itself. If you have<br />located the need and the desire contained in the feelings, you have some<br />juice behind it. Without that juice thoughts are dead, dry things. Now<br />having shaped the need and desire into a clear understanding of whats<br />required, you can break it down with the use of your good mind into bit<br />sized choices that the body can enact and thus bring about the<br />manifestation of the fulfillment of the need. In actual fact this<br />process can sometimes be so swift that we dont see the component parts<br />to it. It looks like we thought about it and there it was. But you<br />needed to be in the right place at the right time to see the opportunity<br />that the body can now act on and that was a product of the previous<br />steps. So we decide to look in the paper for a car, we drive towards the<br />car yard and low and behold, round the corner from our home, our<br />neighbour has her car out on the street with a 'For Sale' sign on it and<br />you have always loved that car!!!<br /><br />One of the other things I wanted to talk about this month was the<br />correlation between spirituality and therapy. Most people have a knee<br />jerk reaction against therapy. They immediately associate it with mental<br />disease and write it off . And its true that many forms of therapy today<br />are little more than advice giving and of course, if advice worked for<br />us we would all be perfect because we have all had loads of it since<br />childhood onwards. But we all need ways of clearing the decks so that<br />spirit can come through clearly in our lives rather than being filtered<br />through the many undealt with needs and issues hidden in our psyche. The<br />more we get the static off the line the more clearly we see our<br />evolutionary path of growth before us and the way that our own path<br />dovetails into the evolution of the whole species and indeed all of<br />creation. So many people look for phenomena to take the ouch out of<br />their lives. We want to know that there is something more. But phenomena<br />is just that. No different from a lighting flash or thunder clap, just<br />coming from a different dimension of reality. In some it can cause a<br />adrenalin buzz which makes us feel good for a while as the endorphins<br />flash through our system, only to leave us addicted to wanting more, or<br />flat from the mundanity of our everyday lives once it has passed. More<br />important is to have spirit with you working in your life as it is. It<br />teaches us how to live fully within the bounds of our current<br />three-dimensional reality and guides us gently, within our increasing<br />understanding, to the ability to experience life anew. As we master<br />that, so we become ready for the next great experience of dimensional<br />shift. But to master that we need to look deeply into our lives:<br />clearing away the debris of the beliefs that we have come to hold about<br />the way life is based on our childhood responses to powerlessness. We<br />need to rigorously observe our inner world, finding those issues and<br />needs that are still undealt with, not because we have any disease, but<br />from the pure love of knowledge about ourselves holding the desire to<br />extract wisdom from our lives, and move forward along our own path or<br />growth towards our potential. As we take ourselves forward with new ways<br />of being, so we affect the whole, contributing to the evolution towards<br />the next school of learning that awaits us once we have learned what we<br />need to in this one.<br /><br />I have written a new book, which offers tools to this end. Based on the<br />Psychosynthesis model, which is the only true spiritual psychology in<br />existence, "The Way Through-A Guide to Psychosynthesis in Everyday Life"<br />gives you over 80 experiential exercises to do, many diagrams to help<br />you understand visually, and experience from my own practice in<br />Psychosynthesis as a therapist, trainer, and practitioner for the best<br />part of the last three decades.This book will be available later on this<br />year, and I am opening a pre-order list now. For those that place a<br />pre-publication order with me, there is a 20% discount from the retail<br />price. No money need be paid until the book is released, but the<br />pre-order needs to be honoured once the time arrives <span class="moz-smiley-s1">:-) </span> Shortly there<br />will be a new page on my website containing sample chapters. In the<br />meantime, if you have bought and enjoyed my previous book "Reweaving the<br />Web-A Shamanic Journey of Connection", which is available from me at<br />any time for $35, you will know there will be a great deal of wisdom for<br />you in the pages of this new book, which has been my vocation and<br />avocation for so long. To place an order, please email me with your<br />name, address, phone contact, and email address. Once your name is<br />received you are assured of a copy at discount price.<br /><br />The Munay Ki workshop series that is currently underway is bringing<br />accelerated growth to its participants I am told, and am so grateful to<br />be able to offer this wonderful fast track to our growth. However, it is<br />the next step of growth, not the first step, and those that undertake it<br />needs to have spent some time on the process of self observation before<br />embarking on it. If you fit that description, then the Munay Ki can give<br />you the energetic burst to take you onto a new level with your journey<br />towards the 5th dimension of reality we are all headed towards. I am<br />willing to offer a new series in June/July/Early August if there are 5<br />people who wish to become initiates of this wonderful Andean gift from<br />the Qu'ero people. There will be no more initiations in Dunedin this<br />year after that, and there are only 3.5 years to go before 2012 so don't<br />leave it too long to get this chance of accelerated growth. People need<br />to register their interest in this opportunity with me as soon as<br />possible so that I can schedule it in before the beginning of May.<br />Well My Friends, that's all for this month. Happy manifesting, and<br />remember the highest good of all. After all, what's the good of a new car<br />if that's all there is. Blessings Sparrowhawk<br /><br /><br /></blockquote><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5816314954522750495-1771268328613976349?l=www-spiritflight.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>www.spiritflight.co.nzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/161460372149705210312011-07-28T18:25:03.186+12:00<span style="font-size: small;">During this month I have seen Kiwi's rally to the poor buggers across the ditch, dodging fires. Thank you. New Zealanders were the first to donate, and Otago was very generous. For those of you that have never seen fires like that, I can assure you its no fun. In 1994 when the fires were hitting the Blue Mountains where I lived, I vowed I could not spend another summer there. For a whole week, we lived with fires about a kilometer away, just waiting for the winds to change and blow them all over the settled areas, all of which are on top of a ridge. The fires can and have streaked up from the valleys and whipped out whole townships. With our ears glued to the radio, we were all ready to take off God-knows-where, with our documents, change of cloths, duvets, food and water in the back of my station wagon- all ready to go. The heat was so intense, I shaved my head. (Not for the first time I have to admit. I was having hot flushes every 30 minutes at the time too, which didn't help). The sirens on the fire engines where constant. I can't hear a siren now without it creating a slight wince inside me. The sun was covered by a continual caul of smoke, (similar to what we saw here last week, but much more so), and the smell of it in the air was stifling. At that time Sydney was going up in smoke too, and I had close friends who kept in contact by phone. "Are you all right?" "Yea, are you?" "Where is the fire now, whats happening??" And on it went.The day it rained we were out on my veranda in tee-shirts " Thank you. Thank You. Thank You!" Well its raining here in Dunedin as I write this and I couldn't be more pleased. Lets hope they are getting it there too, and that their tee-shirts are wet also.<br /><br />I have been thinking a lot lately about the concept of positive thought. It has become almost passe to talk about being positive because thought manifests our reality. I have come across people that have become so paranoid about themselves if they have a negative thought that their anxiety levels soar. Likewise I have known people who peer into every occurrence to see if they can see what the outcome will be and whether that choice will lead to a positive outcome or not. End result is often that they don't choose anything, for fear of the negative.(Actually they choose not to choose). Of course, thats the most negative outcome of all: paralysis. And depression isn't far behind. The New Age has been rife with affirmations. In fact if you drop a not-so-positive statement anywhere, its not uncommon to be hauled over the coals by a better operator and more righteous follower. Whats more, it is taken as a given that words are an accurate guide of ones thoughts. In Australia, rough-house lot that we are, it is quite common for someone to refer to you as "a silly old bastard". But before you haul off and hit them, (not a positive look in itself), you have to listen to the tone in their voice, look at the twinkle (or not) in their eye, and see what their body language is doing. The intention behind all that could mean "Hey mate, I really love you and you make me laugh". A more appropriate response might be a wink or a hug. If thoughts are all that create, then I think we are all in trouble. I have studied this a great deal, and indeed, some say I have a 'thing' about it. It all comes down to the definition of belief. If belief is indeed only conceptual, the the proponents of PMA (positive mental attitude) would be right. But unless there is 'feeling' behind the words they are empty vessels. It is the feeling behind being called a silly bastard that makes the difference between a friend and a critic. Indeed it goes a bit further still. Based on what we feel, our thoughts can form up in one direction or another, and that in turn directs our actions. When these three aspects of us come together THEN we have a shaped reality. A quick word for this is 'intention'. It is intention that create for us, not just thought on its own.<br />This whole split-off way of being started with a bloke called Descartes. He believed 'I think therefore I am". Everyone believed him and as a result we all followed like sheep down a road of separation that has lead to the rationalistic, reductionistic world view that has created much of the problem we now face. We have to begin to put things back together again, realising that cutting up a body to find out how it works is as sensible as fighting for peace. We are more than the sum of our parts. So it is with the idea that positive thought alone creates. Belief creates, powered by intention, which fuels our feelings, drives our thoughts and results in our actions. Then when we look around, we have a reality and ask ourselves how did that happen. So My Friends, if you want to change your reality, you need to go deeper than watching every thought you have and every word that comes out of your mouth.You need to go behind the obvious and connect to what you feel about things.Then you can trace that back to what needs to change that is creating those feelings in you. You sort it, and you begin to think differently. Bingo! you make different choices and the whole picture shifts. In this way you are connected to the whole of you not just the thinking process. Indigenous people were much better at this than we were because they missed out on Descartes. Luck people. My own shamanic path honours the four directions of the compass that are representative of body, mind, emotions and spirit.....together. To be whole, they must be in balance. If we lead with just one of them, things become lopsided. Indeed, it is my experience that PMA can be an excuse for NOT looking at those issues we see as negative in us. As a result they don't get dealt with. We may say piles of affirmations to change that, but what is undealt with are lessons not yet learned. They don't go away until we 'get it'. Oh yes. Affirmations do work. But you have to keep it up or the feeling sneaks out and grabs you again when you least expect it and your back to square one.....saying a million and one positive statements to try to create differently. However, follow the negative feeling to its source, learn from it, accept it, love it and move on from it when the time is right, and the wound is healed. No more negative feeling to spoil your party. So Mates, if you hear me saying a negative statement, it could be that you need to listen for the feeling underneath. I could be telling you I love you in a Ozzie sort of a way. Or I could be allowing myself the privilege of working through my own stuff by going into it for a while so that I can get to the bottom of it and move on. We need to let ourselves do that. We need to let others do that too, and not have unrealistic expectations on them. The moving on bit is the final important piece in the jigsaw, and you can't do that until ALL of yourself is ready to. One thing is for sure, the magic that creates our reality is a connected affair, not a hierarchy with the thoughts on the top. So don't stress. It will all work itself out if you give yourselves half a chance and have the courage to go where the feelings take you.<br /><br />For me, its been an interesting month getting back into the swing of things for the year. As a result I have a shaft of events coming up that might interest some of you.I have articles galore in Soul Cuisine magazine over the next few issues. Pick up a copy at a health food store near you or your favourite spiritual centre. Carnegie Cottage usually has some as does "Spirit and Soul" in South Dunedin. On Sunday March 1st, I will be giving a talk for the Spiritualist Centre at the Wellspring Centre in Oamaru. The topic for that talk will be 'Connection' which will incorporate the Munay Ki with our need to connect to the Web of Life: the One that we are all part of. On Friday 6th March, I will be holding a free public talk on the Munay Ki, the gift that has been given to the West by the Qu'ero people of the Andes to prepare our DNA and light-bodies for the coming Earth and Social changes that are associated with the Mayan Calender's setting of 2012 for the end of this era of planetary development.Call me for a venue but probably it will be Carnegie Cottage.<br />Following that on from that I will be running the first of three Munay Ki initiation workshops in the first of this years series. There are still two places available in that series. Dates are March 14th and 15th, April 4th and 5th, and May 2nd and 3rd. There will be three rites given at each workshop making up the total 9 Qu'ero rites. They are the Healers Rites, the Bands of Power for our protection through these times, the Archetypes that go into each chakra. Then in Munay Ki 2 in April, the rites gifted will be The Seers Rite, The Day Keepers Rite and The Wisdom Keepers Rite. Finally in May the Earth Keepers Rite, the Star Keepers Rite which seals you for the 2012 transition and the Creator Rite, the final powerful rite that initiates you as co- creator with the Universe itself. Depending on response, this may be the only Munay Ki workshop I offer in Dunedin this year. However, if there are enough interested in going the distance into the next dimension, I will be happy to offer another series later on.<br />April 26th I am giving a talk at the Mentor Centre, if you would like to come along. My book will be available for purchase at all these events.<br />In July, I am planning a week of activities in the Nelson region including a public talk, a weekend workshop on the 11th and 12th, and some book promotion. Finally the Shamanic Training Course that I have been asked about is still in the offering. It will most likely take the form of 7 weekend workshops: 4 this year and 3 early next year. If anyone is interested, contact me asap for the Munay Ki, and if you are thinking about the shamanic workshop series, call me for a chat about the possibilities.It is forming up around peoples needs.<br />Well thats a lot. Hope some of you can find what you want in there. If not, I am available for one-on-one sessions for self growth and spiritual development and just about most things that ail you <span class="moz-smiley-s1">:-) </span>.Email me. Blessings to you all. Sparrowhawk </span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5816314954522750495-9207106599306224177?l=www-spiritflight.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>www.spiritflight.co.nzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/161460372149705210312011-07-28T18:46:21.915+12:00<div align="center"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><i>December 2008 Newsletter</i></b></span></div>As I don't do Christmas as such, this is the solstice edition for my newsletter. As is my wont this time each year I have been looking back over the year that was, and what a year it was indeed!Its hard to comprehend that so much could have changed. I had no intentions of coming out of retirement for Mark 3 of my work, but then a shaman never really retires, we just go into hibernation for a time. Even though I had removed myself from working publicly, I was still writing two books, producing radio programmes on Psychosynthesis, and learning. However I really had myself convinced that selling vegetables was going to be where it was at for a retired shaman/therapist for the foreseeable future. Munay Ki changed all that. Within 48 hours a new leg of my path had revealed itself to me, and it is rolling out rapidly, as we speak. That was in February. I have now had the great privilege of passing on the Munay Ki rites to others over a three weekend period and have been awed by the power and beauty of them as they drew unconditional love like a mantel around us all. My own powerful experience of giving the rites was as amazing as was the experiences of the initiates themselves.What was so incredible was the knowledge that our ancestors were there supporting us as we received this wonderful gift from the Q'ero people. If you want to look at more information about the rites go to <<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.munay-ki.org/">www.munay-ki.org</a>><br />The next intake of Munay Ki students for me will be on the Sat and Sunday, 14th -15th of March 2009 for Munay Ki 1. The next two workshops in the series will follow on April 4th and 5th, and May 2nd and 3rd, each at a cost of $250 per workshop. I have an early bird discounted price of $200 for those that book before February 2009 but I will only be taking a maximum of 5 people at a time, and two places are already gone, so don't wait until the last minute to book in if you want the rites.<br />For many years my ancestors have called to me, and informed my path. It wasn't until I took on a Maori language course this year, however, that I found myself asked to stand up as they do and recite my linage. That was a turning point in my relationship with them. It was as if they were just waiting for me to own them personally to be able to begin the dialogue directly that they have been having with me ever since. It was great to have them there at the rites, and to honour the linage that they pass down to me through my own DNA also.The energy was sooo strong. Many people were able to see the Q'ero linage in the room as well, which was beautiful. They are amazing people.<br />Really its all about preparing ourselves for the new world that is coming fast towards us. Who would have thought that the economic system that has been touted as being the saviour of us all would come crumbling down around us over night?It shows how quickly attitudes can change. I hold out great hope that it is only the beginning of even greater changes to come: changes that will bring us back in line with the Great Waka of the Earth that we are traveling towards enlightenment on the body of. Changes that will in fact allow us to slow down and look around at our community and our loved ones as well as all the other beings that need our attention on this wonderful planet. Its as if we have been rushing headlong towards some precipice and have suddenly been pulled up short, just before the cliff edge. Some feel that the momentum will still carry us to our destruction, but I believe there is a new brand of human waiting in the wings to put to good use all that they have learned from us about what to do and not to do to keep this wonderful experiment that is this reality alive and well.This human that Alberto Villoldo calls 'homo luminous' is not far away. All we have to do to become that is replace competition with co-operation and blame with unconditional love and we're almost there. 2009 is the year of love. Its the year when we all get to put our priorities right, and learn that there are more important things in life than some of the things that have filled our vision. Its time to envision a world that is going there together, wherever that is. And really, if we go together ion love, does it really matter???<br />I have a little audio clip for you again this month. Think of it as your Solstice pressie. It can be accessed at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.spiritflight.co.nz/audio1/The%20Great%20Principles-Comp.wav">http://www.spiritflight.co.nz/audio1/The%20Great%20Principles-Comp.wav</a><br />Enjoy the Now because its All we have. Blessings Sparrowhawk. Hope to see many of you in the new Year.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5816314954522750495-8088870021682946303?l=www-spiritflight.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>www.spiritflight.co.nzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/161460372149705210312011-07-28T18:17:28.179+12:00<div align="left"><b><i><span style="font-size: medium;">Personal Journal for 2006<br /></span></i></b><br /><i>( To make it easier for those of you that decide to follow my progress, I am writing this journal with the most recent posts at the top so you don't have to troll down for pages to get to the latest. However, if you want to read the thread of my journey, I suggest that you start at the bottom and work up).</i><a href="http://www.blogger.com/sparrowhawk_personal_journal_2005.htm"><b><i><br /></i></b></a></div><div align="left"><i><u>May 7th 2006</u></i></div><div align="left">How can I express my sadness? I WANT to believe there are kind men working towards peace. I <i>know</i> that there are some in my life. I know that there are a lot more out there somewhere. But what I see and read belies this. I see, in main, male politicians taking us to the brink of nuclear destruction, male soldiers going off to kill each other, male religious leaders suppressing women's rights, male hoons roaring around wasting precious resources like petrol, ripping up fields, and smashing things. I see mainly male criminals filling our jails, raping our women, beating their wives and molesting their children. I see boys in punch-ups, drunk on the streets. I am crying inside. PLEASE, please do something to stop it. Please men, open your hearts to all that is around you. See the pleading in our eyes not as weakness, but as your only hope. Take your sons aside and teach them how to love the life that is so precious to us all. And look again at what is really important in your own lives. </div><div align="left">Women are not without blame. We turn blind eyes to what is before us. We <i>do </i>stop ourselves from speaking out in fear for our own lives. We buy the produce, marry the rapist, blame the girl-child. We curry favour for a nice dress, and a good home quietly never asking where the money comes from. We do that. We do it from thousands of years of fear, but like all victims, we perpetuate the problem by resigning ourselves to it. We must stop and say NO MORE. We must decide what is an acceptable standard in our world and refuse anything less.</div><div align="left">But what I want to say is that all that I have written does not make me a man-hater. It makes me a woman who welcomes any indication from the male population that things are changing so that I can live in peace beside and with them. I am sick of living with 5000 year old fear. I want us to get over it and get on with the new. And if that's not possible, for the whole experiment that is the human race to start afresh. But surely there is a way before it gets to that. Please tell me there is. It would be such a waste.</div><div align="left"><br /></div><div align="left"><i><u>May 6th 2006</u></i></div><div align="left">There have been several things coming up for me lately. Where to begin. I was walking on the sand flats where I live when a young guy in a beaten up old car started roaring towards me doing wheelies and donuts in the sand. It always make me so angry to see that. There is no thought given to the life that exists under those wheels, or the sound that it makes when you want some peace. The sand becomes compacted and devoid of life after awhile and the grease slicks turn nature into a raceway. Then I got to thinking that I will be really glad when peak oil puts paid to lots of the 'boy toys' of this world. 4 wheel drives, boy racers, dirt bikes, speed boats and noisy dirty ports (like the one opposite the flats). </div><div align="left">Then it occurred to me that it's not all bad. Petrol has enabled a great deal. Cars have been beneficial to me. So my train of thought went on to the subject that what makes things bad is abuse. When anything is abused, it becomes destructive. Medicine can heal and kill. I can enjoy a beer, but if I allow it to take me over, it destroys my life. Money is the same. It's not the root of all evil. The way people become addicted to it is the problem. Even good things can destroy us. Love for instance, when it becomes an obsession, destroys both the one who is loved and the one giving it. And things become abusive when we no longer have any control over the way we use them. And <i>that's</i> called addiction. If only we could see where the addictions are in all our lives. We all have them. That's where we need to start to work on ourselves, addressing the imbalance and bringing whatever it is we are addicted to back on to a functional level in our lives. </div><div align="left">This is true on the global level as well as the personal. That's always the case. But unless we address our personal addictions we will never redesign a world that is not based on the fulfillment of them. At the moments that is the way it has become...a massive shop for the 'hits' that we all need daily. I have a suspicion that once we attempt to address what's going on underneath the addictions, we will see that we all feel lonely. We have forgotten that we are all here together. We have forgotten that the same substance makes us all. When we remember that, we will cease to feel like needy children. We will begin to pull together for a better world. That's my hope anyway.<br /><br /><i><u>April 1st 2006</u></i></div><div align="left">If someone said to you at the beginning of your life, "just stand here and hold this or the world will end", I wonder what your reaction would be? Would you stand there dutifully wondering if you had been sold a bag of straw and someone was laughing their heads off as you stood there holding this? Or would you do it for a while and then see all the other wonderful things you could be doing instead... like having a career, making money, being famous, having a great relationship? Would you get tempted to put it down and move out of that space into some other? Would you get really angry at whatever it was that asked you to stand there and hold that? Maybe you would be tempted to put it down and move just to see if the world really would come to an end. You may do so and find nothing dramatic happened and as a result believed that you had been 'had'.</div><div align="left">But what if gradually, without you noticing, while you were off having the great relationship or the fabulous career, the world was indeed slipping silently into oblivion because you abandoned your post? What if, even after your death the slide was still continuing, that could have been avoided had you have maintained the place you were asked to, and held onto what you had been given? You would never know maybe that it could have been different. That you had that power.</div><div align="left">Well you have been asked to stand in a place. That place is your life, your existence. And you have been asked to hold something...your 'Self'. And if you don't, the world is just that little bit worse off for not having had you do so. If enough of us forget who we are and are coaxed away from our life's purpose, I suspect the world will end. Conversely, if enough people find themselves, maybe it won't. But we will never know either way. What would you rather do with your allotted time here? Me? I'll choose to hold the space as best I can. It's the least I can do. </div><div align="left"><i><u> February 23 2006</u></i><br /><br />I don't know what has caused the distance of time between this entry and the last I made in Sept last year. It felt like I had nothing to say. It wasn't due to the lack of process. Maybe it was the lack of desire to share it. Certainly I went through a time of not feeling like anyone was truly interested and though the stats said differently, I wondered if anyone was reading all this. Was I doing it for the phantom reader or for myself?? I guess, if I am honest, (and there is no point in being otherwise) it was for both. Was that OK? I feel now that it is important for me to take the opportunity to say what's in my heart, whether anyone's listening or not. If I was the last person left alive on the Planet it would still be important to me to send my feelings and thoughts out in the ethers. It's what humans do!<br /><br />Tonight I watched the final episode of "The State of the Planet", a David Attenborough documentary www.bbc.co.uk/sm on the threat to the biodiversity of the Planet caused by human activities. I can almost hear you groan "not more of the same old fear mongering stuff!" In one way that's true. We never like it when confronted with the consequences of our own actions and the responsibility inherent within that, do we? I know it gives me pause. What came out of this for me, along with more grief, was the stark realization of the deep causes of this issue. It was so stark that it made me wince.<br /><br />What I saw was that, despite all the good work in reconciling human behavior with the needs of an ailing natural world we have tried to divorce ourselves from, more is needed. We can change the human energy consumption over to renewable fuel. We can institute more sustainable forms of food growth. We can vote for Green politics, becoming conservationist in our attitudes towards endangered species. All of this is good, but its not enough.<br /><br />How I came to this conclusion was David's final scenes, where he showed Easter Island as an example of what can happen when humans 'over-graze' their habitat. He talked about the cutting down of the last trees making it impossible for the Easter Islanders to build canoes in which to go fishing. This was supported by the archeological records of the miden showing how the Islanders diet changed, to the exclusion of fish, mammals and vegetation that would no longer grow through lack of rain, (always a side affect of treelessness). What David didn't say, that I happen to be aware of, is how the Easter Islanders supplemented their diet in the event of this shortage: they turned to cannibalism!<br /><br />It occurred to me then, that no matter what we do, unless we self-regulate our species growth, nothing else will work. Try as we may, if more and more people continue to reproduce 2 or 3 offspring, in less than 100 years, the planet will have double the amount of people. Already it cannot support it's currant rate of growth. The programme clearly stated this. More people require more resources which requires more land to be devoted to our needs. This leaves less and less land, as the population continues to grow, for the growing of food, let alone the retention of other species and life forms. In not that many years the largest resource on the planet will be other human beings. Will it take that long for the message to sink in that they are the only thing left in enough abundance to eat? I think not. Easter Island tells us more about human nature than David's documentary was game to say. It boils down to this (excuse the pun). We must self-regulate to save the human race as much as to save the other species we currently live amongst.<br /><br />For many years now I have been teaching myself the ways of indigenous people, in search of my own indigenous nature. This search has revealed that there was a time when it was held to be honorable to know when it was time to die for the good of the community. Nomadic tribes people relied for their survival on their ability to move with the weather, and the herds. When elders reached the stage that they could no longer contribute, and began to weigh heavy on the tribes survival, they chose of their own accord to walk out into the desert and die. It was done with courage and dignity. They were honoured for it. When people were too sick to carry on, or were mortally wounded, they wanted to be left behind, where their flesh and bones could nurture the natural world that they knew fed them and from which they also came. The Waitaha people of New Zealand knew how to use herbs to prevent pregnancy when drought or travel made it impossible to feed a larger population. I know that the indigenous people of Mexico used the yam in the same way. Our dolphin relatives still know how to be sexually active but reproductively controlled.<br /><br />We of later generations have lost this ability to self-regulate as we have listen to social mores that have told us that reproduction was the only way to be a 'man' or a 'woman'. We have believed that our honour and self-esteem depended on, and came only from, reproduction, not from appropriate regulation of our patterns. We have in even more recent times come to see death as the enemy to be conquered without concern for what happens if we do indeed defeat it. What, to some extent, was stimulated by compassion initially, has become empty achievement. Or was it more a desire to defeat death through fear of final judgments of unattainable heaven, or all to easily reached hell? Ultimately, what 'natural' death did naturally, we have ended up doing unnaturally through war, and violence. But not very well. We still cannot bring balance to our race whilst we revere life but not respect death.<br /><br />So here it is. As I see it, there are only two real solutions to the problems that face our species as we run out of everything the planet has to offer. We must allow natural attrition to prune our numbers as it always used to. And we must 'chose' to limit our population growth.<br /><br />Woh! Now I have hit the two most controversial issues of the human race, bound to bring reactions from most of us. But it comes down to this: are we willing to make personal sacrifices for the survival of the species, or will we insist on our rights until the very last of the species is consuming each other for lack of anything else to eat? What will the last human eat when the second last one has gone?? Will that be a relative of yours? What are you willing to do now so that does not occur?<br /><br />What am I willing to do??? Well reproduction is not my issue having never had children and being way too old to do so now, but death is. Am I willing to go with dignity when the time comes without recourse to miles of resources to give me a few extra years of dubious health? I don't know but I hope so. I would feel much better about myself knowing that I went with timely dignity. I have certainly had my share of medical resources to keep me alive to date. I hope I have repaid that in some way as I have offered all I am to my community, both human and otherwise. When I have no more to give and when what I take reaches the point that it is damaging those that come after me, let me take my leave. A few generations of self-limiting reproduction from the young and fertile and the choice of a sane and honorable death from the old and infirm could turn this world about.....and upset economic growth! I state my case!<br /><br /><br /><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5816314954522750495-3119325596954735340?l=www-spiritflight.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>www.spiritflight.co.nzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/161460372149705210312011-07-28T18:14:48.764+12:00<i><b><u>30 Sept 2005</u></b></i><br />There is so much going on in the world at the moment. I am sure, like me, you are having trouble keeping up with it all. Hurricanes and fires devastating the United State. Typhoons hitting Japan, and China. Then there is the dire outlook for Global Warming (or should we say 'overheating' which connotes a less 'cozy' image of what's truly happening). Our food is being irradiated, chemically interfered with, as well as genetically engineered. On top of that war comes up to meet us everywhere. Recently a friend said that she had spoken to 6 women friends in 48 hours. All had expressed a deep free-floating sadness. They were surprised to find they were not alone. How could they be?? If we are not aware of what's happening, we must have been hiding under a rock for decades! Even if we are not activists and environmentalists, there is still enough coming at us from everywhere to make peace a fleeting experience before the news and the morning coffee, if it exists there. What to do?? Well I have been giving a lot of thought to that recently. Having been a long term activist and an even longer proponent of assisting people to change their lives, it has come as a great shock to me to realise that at this point, I can do nothing!<br />It feels that the time for doing no more and being still is upon us! There comes a time when all decisions have been taken, that there is no more that can be done until the consequences that accrue from those choices make themselves apparent. "Straining at a knat" was an expression my mother used to use. It meant continuing to put effort into something that no longer required it, or required less than that which was being used. It seems like there is a lot we could do, but in actual fact, it is quite possible that the best thing we could all do about now is put our own house in order. It's like a farmer that plants all her seeds in the appropriate season, but continues to do so when the time for planting gives way to the new seasons need to nourish the fledgling plants. Our actions need to be appropriate to the times.<br />No matter how we look at it, cheap oil is going to run out, the ice caps are going to melt. Its merely at matter of when. What we have to look at now is how we are going to cope with that. Have we got the emotional strength and courage to face the times ahead? Are we willing to embrace new ways of living in the world that will be very different to what we have become accustomed? Are we willing to let go of expectations we have come to see as normal, and replace them with no expectations at all? Are we capable of living with uncertainty? If we are not, I suspect the times ahead could be fraught with anxiety and anger. Now is the time to build 'emotional muscle': to strengthen our inner resolve and learn to listen to our instincts. For it is they that guide us through times of chaos. The mind knows what has worked in the past. It has no idea what will work from here on in. But our instinctual feeling are always there, beneath the layer of mind that controls our everyday life. What happens when a car comes screaming out of a side street. If you try to stop and think about it your done! Making the call to either accelerate out of it or brake has to be done in a split second. If we don't trust that, we are a statistic. Life is something that goes on while we are making plans!<br />So right now my instincts are telling me to withdraw from all the effort that I have been putting into my attempts to change things. I am being told to go within. I am being told to scale down even further, slow down more, trust myself. This is tantamount to telling me to move as far away from the corporate mall-styled environment we currently live within as I can get. To need as little of it as I can manage. Am I sounding like a modern day Noah? Well maybe I am! But I see nothing wrong with having a life raft handy. The less we have tied up in the financial world the less we have to lose when our dependence on global goods and services as a people flounder. As it will flounder sometime in the future based on common sense. When the expenditure exceeds the possibility of income, the shortfall is a collapse. This is as true environmentally as it is financially. How well are you placed to survive the collapse of either in your personal life? Now's the time to do something about it. Globally we have gone too far to turn back. It's down to personal contingency plans.<br />When someone stopped a cop in New Orleans recently to ask for help during Hurricane Katrina, the cops response was, "Get away. It's each man for himself now!" But that's not necessarily how it needs to be. There is a way that we can help each other survive. It's called community, not policy. Do you know your neighbours? Would they help you in a fix? Would you help them? If not, then maybe its a good idea to start by saying 'Hi'. Getting a heart connection with those around you before it does get down to 'Everyone for themselves'. It is something everyone can do. Who knows? It might be the thing that saves you! Certainly it's more likely to occur if people care about each other. That doesn't cost a cent!<br /><i><b><u>4 Aug 2005</u></b></i><br />Its been a long time since I felt inspired to write here. Maybe too long. Its not that things haven't been occurring to me, that's for sure. I have been doing quite a bit of work on my two books. Pete has been working with Kerry to show the movie <a href="http://www.endofsuburbia.com/">The End of Suburbia</a> to our local community. It was spectacular to see 40 people turn out and care about each other and themselves enough to participate. We had good home made food and lots of discussion after talks as well. I got to speak to my favourite issue...creating local facilities by consciously choosing to spend our money closer to home. Its so important. When the oil prices hit our pockets even more deeply by the end of the year and forever after, and the cost of imported goods makes them unavailable to most of us, we are really going to need local operatives to supply our needs. But that takes time. People don't build businesses over night. If we want them <i><b>then</b></i>, we must support them <i><b>now</b></i>, against the super corporate businesses and supermarkets, even though it might be more expensive to do so. I guess I see it as "spend locally now, or go without tomorrow!" No point in waiting until its too late. And that's the point that got me on this computer today. I just heard three of my neighbours chatting outside. (I wasn't eavesdropping, they were loud and my caravan is close to the street). "Did you go to the film the other day?"....."No, don't know about all this oil stuff."......"No, me either. Don't worry about it 'til it happens I say!"...."Yeah, me too!"<br />I'll bet there are a lot of people thinking like that. What comes up for me is this: when its too late to take responsibility for themselves and their own well-being, are they going to want those that have done so to extend that care to them? What about their own loved ones? Will they be happy to see them go without? It's typical of how our society has trained us to think...separately. Economic rationalism has destroyed community thinking. It's everyone for themselves. Well it isn't going to work that way from here on in. If we don't have a good community that has pulled together and who we have committed to, we are going to be running around looking for one "when the time comes". But whether those communities will be willing to stand beside people that wouldn't stand beside them, and themselves, when they had a chance, is a moot point. Maybe some people will get lucky and those that have what it takes to survive will take them in. Some won't. That will be hard for all. I guess how I feel is that taking responsibility for ourselves is more than just making sure we have money to pay our bills. It's about the heartfelt caring what happens to us all, and the willingness to be part of ensuring that we <b><i>all </i></b>survive. At least as many as possible. But that takes work from us all, not just the few.<br />So for those of you that are reading this and think Peak Oil is another Y2K and it won't happen, best you read a bit more of the facts that are out there instead of the sports section. Look at the oil stock prices rise, estimate your ability to survive if there is no work and money's not worth a hill of beans (in fact, the hill of beans <i><b>will</b></i> be worth a lot more). What will your life be like then? If it doesn't stack up, then make some changes and make 'um fast. What you need more than money is water, food growing, alternative electricity, no debt and people around you that love and respect you, and are willing to do what you can't as you do what they can't. Pulling together it's called. That always has been worth more than money can buy. Now even more so. Are you going to part of the 'new way' or are you going to be one of those who looks for someone to blame when it's too late, because you "waited until it happened"?<br /><u><b><i>28 May 2005</i></b></u><br />Its not a new thought to me, but its come up again. "Things" are such a bizarre concept. Our whole life is dedicated to accumulation of them. We don't need them, but we have been taught that we do, so we work really hard to get more and more of them. When we don't have any more room for them, we have a big clear out. Ten the things that we don't want anymore go to places like second hand shops and the tip. Now we have some space, we go out and buy more things and keep working yet again so that we can do that. They fill up our homes and our cars and our wardrobes. In fact it appears that is what we have houses for....a place to put more 'things'. But then we also need sheds and garages and basements and attics. It feels like the world is drowning in things. Globalization and the market economy is all about making more and more things and getting more and more money to buy more and more things. Why? I question this all the time. What is it all for? I can see that any 'thing' makes us one iota happier, healthier or more peaceful and content. In fact most of the wars seem to be about who owns what. I don't get it any more. It feels like we are all in the grip of some kind of circular insanity. The only way to end the madness is to stop buying and making more. After all, all that we have got will last us a few millennia at least. If I never bought another piece of clothing, i could probably be warm and covered for the rest of my natural life.Humm!<br /><u><b><i>25 May 2005</i></b></u><br />I feel great changes happening. I have no idea what or why, nor whether it is personal or global, but its there. A feeling that something is coming together. There has been a lot of good activity around me recently. People beginning to change their priorities, or at least I am seeing those that are. In the midst of all this chaos, I am excited by the possibilities. Is it something in me that has shifted, or something shifting on a larger energetic scale or both? My experience tells me that nothing shifts in isolation. As above, so below! As within, so without. I don't know about timescales, but I have a feeling it will all be alright in the long run. Its true that when a logjam occurs in a river, debris builds up around the blockage. Little blockages attach themselves to the larger one. Then when the big log shifts, all the little ones get swept away with it. It seems to be like that in life. Once we have accepted and made the decisions that have keep us bound, the energy flows and flows. We play creative catch-up in our lives until we are where we need to be in order to meet our next challenge of growth. Its such an elegant system, mirrored all throughout the natural world. To be part of that is such a privilege.<br /><u><b><i>22 May 2005</i></b></u><br />I have just read the Peak Oil Newsletter. It contained a great explanation , of what I saw in the movie "In a Land of Plenty" from a New Zealand point of view, last nigh": the real effects of economic rationalism all on real people. This economy is tied into oil and energy. "Whoever controls the energy, controls the world" has been the US theory since the end of the war. The only snag in that is that if the 'source' of the easily available energy is gone, so has the power and control. Chaos reigns. This Society may have been living on borrowed time, but we have all got used to life as it has been for the last few centuries. We cannot envision that it will ever be any different. But we must!!! Our whole system only stays in place because money allows it to and money depends on oil now, not on work that people do as it used to. The article explained really well the way that the whole economy is founded on 'speculation': the 'possibility' that more will be made/invented and marketed. When that speculation crumbles so does everything else. Including Law and Order as we now know it. However, the human race existed long before the word 'economy' or oil'. It can again survive past this point, but not in the way we have got used to.<br />Last night I suggested (strongly) to the group who watched the movie with me, that there were things that we could do that would begin to detach us from the sinking ship so that when it goes down (as it must, because its all based on speculation), we will have a softer landing. Because the whole false economy is based on our continued consumption (buying more and more, which has to be made and made, which uses up more and more of the resources of the planet that is running out of just about everything including clean air), some of the things we can do is to consume differently. So here are a few ideas that I have coming up.<br /><br />* <b>Use less.</b>....check that we really need whatever it is we are about to buy and that its not something to make us feel or look good psychologically, because it wont do that actually. Its just what advertising wants us to believe. A new cell phone wont make us more powerful and bigger cars won't make us more sexy.<br />* <b>Co-operate instead of compete</b>....the whole economy thrives only by taking the power away from the masses and placing it in the hands of the few who invented the whole idea in the first place. They do that by setting us against one another. Can you imagine 6 million Jews being told to take a suitcase and get on a train enmasse by authorities and doing it if they had been united, sharing information and feeling powerful in themselves??? Hell no! But that's what happened Germany in WW11. If they had been strong and pulling together, I don't believe the Nazi could have destroyed them. They would not have been on tat train the took them to the gas chamber. And there may have been a much shorter WW11. But we are all the same. We have believed what we are told rather than looking with our own eyes, staying united, and doing what we need to do instead. So helping each other rather than helping the system is a skill for survival of great worth.<br /><b>* Have independent sources for our own needs to be met where possible.</b>... The more we can provide for ourselves outside the economy of big business, the less we are affected by what happens to Big Business. So if we can gain the skills we need to survive (like fishing, making things-from cloths to diesel engines), and put more and more energy into that, than competing in the system for money, the better off we will be. There is a great book by Tom Brown Jn called "The Tracker". It talks a lot about all this. But also learning how to be inventive because that's how our forefathers were and we will need to be again. We need to get our own creativity working rather than rely on a store that wont always be there. If you can grow it or make it, start doing it now. Get the skills. Don't wait until later when your need will be greater and your survival depends on it and you haven't got a clue.<br /><b>* Buy locally..</b>.....The more we put our business into the hands of our neighbors, the more they will put theirs with us. What's the point of paying for something to be shipped from China when someone close could make you one? Less fuel, less air pollution, less money in the hands of the corporations that run all this, and good relationships with the people that are going to help you survive.... together. If we encourage our neighbours into being creative by buying from them, when the oil crash comes, we will have local makes of things we need. If we rely on Big Business, we will be out of luck and out whatever it is we needed. Check the labels before you buy. If you can get something made close to home buy that instead of the imported or transported alternative. If there's no label (and this is why the Govt. doesn't want to make labeling compulsory) don't buy it!! The further it has to come the less likely it is that it will be on the shelves later.<br /><b>* Get used to eating local produce in season.</b>..Mangos from Oz may be nice, but they will not be around once the economy crashes because they have to be shipped and no one will have the oil or the money. If the local cabbage is growing, eat it. If its not in season, eat something else that is available locally until it is. That will mean your diet will have to change but you will be a whole lot healthier (though a little bored to begin with) because they have to pump all sorts of crap into food to keep it during travel.<br /><b>* Prepare yourself mentally</b> for a different sort of world and lifestyle up ahead. Those people who continue to be uninformed are in denial. And that's just what they want us to be. The more informed we are the less we are going to keep buying there propaganda or their products. The reality hits those that believe the rhetoric the hardest. Loggers that are running out of forest to log, farmers who have ruined the topsoil by cutting down all the trees, creating draught, people who neglect their friends and partners for work who wake up one morning and find themselves alone. They all have one thing in common. They refused to see the writing on the wall, and are screaming and blaming after its too late. No Govt. funds are going to replace forests or topsoil or relationships once they have gone. So if we continue to train ourselves for jobs and lifestyles that have a short lifespan, we are going to be in trouble. Economists are going to be well out of a job in a few decades, as will miners, loggers and sheep farmers.<br /><b>* Find good people to support and be supported by throughout the process.</b> "The divide and separate" policy has broken the back of our communities and neighborhoods. Where people used to get together to bring the hay in, or support the sick, or help with the kids, now we buy childcare so that we can go work for the corporations, hire contractors to get the hay in, and build houses, and put the sick in hospital and the old in homes. All so that we can carry out 'business as usual'. Time to build relationships with Friends or Whanau. The future will not be a good place for the isolated person. It might be good to be away from the cities. They are going to go crazy. But its not a time to be without those you care about.<br /><b>* Live in the NOW</b> but watch for signs of change. Whilst we all still live in this society the way it is, and have to make decisions to some extent based on what's here, we need to be aware of the signs that we are being shown personally and globally. We are living in a time of radical change. The sand is shifting under our feet. We need to be very present and aware of all that is going on around us and in us so that we make appropriate decisions with our life direction. We cannot rely on the current way, but the new way is not yet here. We must be alert as we would have to be if we were living in a forest. We need to develop our ability to listen to our own instincts...and use it. Following others wont work unless those others are going where you need to. In which case, you will already know the way.<br /><br /><b><i><u>30 April 2005</u></i></b><br />"Have you heard about Peak Oil?" she says. Inevitably the answer is "No''. Why don't they know? Why is it that something so big that it is going to change the face of human society world-wide is so obtuse?? It seems to me that the power-brokers that don't want us to know that life is not going to be just ''business as usual'' have done a good job of hiding the truth. They were able to deny ''Global Warming" until recently too. When its too late to stop the earth from ''adjusting'' herself. They are hiding the fact that oil has all but finished. The half that is left is too expensive to extract. Cheap oil that has meant modern society and has driven the economy for decades is over!!! When I speak about it, people make remarks about car pooling and bicycles. They don't get it. They were never supposed to. Its not just their cars that are going to go. As I sit here in my caravan and gaze around most of what I see was made out of, with the help of or transported by, guess what?? OIL. The food on the supermarket shelves is put there by oil. The bags we carry it home in are made from oil byproducts as are all plastic goods. The electricity is maintained by oil, the coal is moved by oil, the world runs on oil. Synthetic materials in cloths are made from oil. Its the best case of ''putting all your eggs in one basket'' that ever was. Well, the baskets almost empty. The hen has stopped laying and all that we find are what she laid last season.<br />So what's going to happen? Firstly, costs are going to skyrocket as the transportation costs of goods, particularly food, go through the roof. Then there will be shortages as it becomes too expense to keep manufacturing certain things that we have come to expect. Food that we have stopped growing locally because of globalization will disappear. Cloths that we have stopped making will disappear for the same reasons. Replacement parts will become a thing of the past and EVERYONE will be recycling because that's the only way to get anything. Next, those that are already on welfare and those that number among the working poor, will find themselves severely without. Those with high mortgages to maintain who are right now only just making it, won't be anymore. The well-healed will still be able to afford the little that is available for a while, but as their wealth has depended on commerce and industry, and there will be little of that without oil, their wealth will not last long nor be worth much as money loses its value. Value will shift to those people with skills. Particularly food growing skills and cloths-makers. In fact, crafts-persons of all sorts.<br />What happens to those who are addicted to substances no longer available? What happens to those with lots of kids to feed? What happens to those who require medication to stay alive (medicine, and the medical profession in general, are no where without drugs and high tech equipment. Ask the Iraqis.) What about the old? Chaos. For a time the world will be in chaos. Many will not survive. In the inner cities, violence will break out as people's frustrations reach boiling point. As those that are not opposed to taking, will take. Best not live in one of those places. You can't grow food in concrete and the supermarkets will be empty.<br />But there will come a time, maybe long after I have gone, when the world will become a more peaceful place. The lighting will be soft and the noise level low. The people will have learned that we survive only through co-operation and community. Through treating the Earth with respect and each other the same way. We will have gained back many skills we discarded for plastic, and our young will work alongside the old for the good of all. Where the Spirit of Place is honoured, as is the wisdom of all things. That will be a world worth changing for.<br />So what can we do?? Well, we can get 'mentally prepared' as a friends 15 year old son so wisely said the other day. We can readjust our priorities to something real that reflects what is really happening in the world. Rather than planning on long distance travel, we can look at forming closer bonds with those around us, so that when the time comes to rely on others they are there and care. We can begin to use our money to purchase things that are going to benefit us in a world where self-sufficiency will be paramount. Have we got enough land to grow food on?? Have we got seeds to plant?? How about water tanks? Composting toilets would be a help. Are the cloths we have in the wardrobe going to keep us warm without heating or are they just for show?? Have we got enough food in the cupboards to keep us going in the meantime? Something to cook it on??<br />We can up-skill and I don't mean do a polytech course in management. We need skills that will help us in a world without corporations. Electrical engineers familiar with alternative energy sources will be in great demand. People that can do things with hammers, pipe, and yes, NO.8 wire even. We need to know how to save seed and planting times. Recognizing wild foods would be very handy, as well as fishing. We may do well to know how to spin and weave and make felt out of the abundant sheep around, not to meantion skinning possums. Hey how about cooking, milking, making fire?? All of this could come in handy. Banking won't help much.<br /> In the meantime, we can turn off the TV and start educating ourselves. "They'' are not going to tell us what we need to know because if they did we would all stop buying what they are marketing. We can use the net to source information, and alternative skills. Most of all we need to talk about it and to each other. We need to share information. Those that are informed are better prepared. If you are aware of what's happening, you can cope. If you are unaware, you are a victim. We need each other like never before. If we turn against each other in this time, we will not survive. We will survive and prosper eventually if we empower ourselves as well as our neighbour. We pull together or we pull ourselves apart.<br />How does all this make me feel? Excited and afraid. Sad and angry. We need a new world. What we will have to go through to get it does not turn me on. But I am grateful that I have enough knowledge not to wake up one morning to the biggest shock in millennia.<br /><i><b><u>6 April 2005</u></b></i><br />She groans and moans and splits apart. She blusters and shakes. She is shaking us like a dog shakes its fleas. She is no victim. If we would learn to work with her rather than 'work her' our survival may well have been assured. Now we are in her hands as she heals what we refuse to. I welcome the return of her power. That which brings death, also brings renewed life. Maybe I will become the compost upon which the next generation will thrive, the soil through which the planet will regenerate. Blessed Earth. We have too long ceased to know you as you truly are. You have become a resource for our misguided dreams. Thank you for rising up again and reminding us who you really are. Maybe now we will rediscover who we are. We are in for a big surprise. Bless you Mother. You love us more than we love ourselves.<br /><u><b><i>12 March 2005</i></b></u><br />I'm sitting here on the banks of the Aviemore Dam, a salmon pink sunset creeping over the horizon. It's been an amazing day. Something that keeps coming up for me since my self-imposed period of non-doing, is that I notice more and more the frenetic pace of those around me. Working, hard work, long work, annoying work, work that takes over as many hours of the day as is practicable, seems to have great status. People boast about how hard they are working and how tired they are and how much more they have to do. They sigh and they wipe their brow with pride, telling me what a bugger of a week it's been and that they still have more to do on the weekend. They quickly get in that they must, however, find some time to mow the lawn and go for a quick jog because they need some time out, too. I have been feeling more and more breathless as they share their daily lives with me and I sometimes suggest some time off. To that they reply that it's scheduled down the track, when they intend to take a break, and landscape the crib!!!!! Exhausted, I crawl back into my caravan and try to get bored or guilty at contemplating my navel. I used to get a similar response from people when I used to ask them in my practice, what they felt. They usually answered that they felt it was time to do or change something and looked quite bemused when I exclaimed that they were telling me their thoughts not their feelings. Feelings have sensations attached, I would say. But they couldn't get it. Not till I trained them, over many months, how to recognize a feeling. Now I see this same bemusement when I suggest that people stop doing things. What? Are recreational things not resting? Not stopping? No, they are doing something else. It may well be enjoyable but if done at the same frenetic pace there is little difference in the action taken.<br />I have questioned myself time and again. Am I projecting onto others because I, myself, have nothing to do? Sometimes I still question that. Am I somehow letting down the team, the community, by refusing to be gainfully employed in some worthwhile activity? Isn't not wanting to do things depression? Well ...no. I have chosen to do nothing to allow what comes up to come up, and what is surfacing is the feeling that the world is spinning around me at a rate of knots, seemingly going nowhere. Well, that's interesting. Going nowhere fast.<br /> I lay on a log on Katiki Beach earlier today, and stared at the sky. I put a lump of sand on the back of each hand and held them out, laughing that I was practicing flying. I started to wonder why I needed to justify what I was doing and I realized that I needed a purpose to do what I was doing. Then it hit me. That was what I saw happening with all my friends. They were soooo purposeful. Everything in their lives had to have a purpose or it was invalid. Recreation had to be fixing the holiday home or the garden. Playing sport was allowed, as it added to fitness and skills and could be competed against, thereby creating the purpose of winning. Nothing seems to be done for no reason at all anymore. I started to think of the concept of purposelessness. Not doing anything, or doing something for no reason whatsoever. I looked at my dog and saw her digging around me....for nothing. Just the hell of it. I watched the clouds skim across the sky and then stop. Why? No reason. I thought about my old dad, and how he talked about sitting on farm gates and whistling when he was young, and I realized that all time has to be accounted for these days.<br />Then another realization hit me. Nothing in the world has a purpose. It just is. Now this paradox is going to totally confuse my students. I talk all the time about the Higher Self representing our purpose here in this life. But when I talk about our life purpose, it is more the essence of who we are than a justification for being that. Our purpose can just as easily be doing nothing as doing something. All other purposes are merely ways of appearing valid......to others. So the concept of there being no purpose is not at odds with that at all, although I am sure the dichotomy will confuse some no end. At this point I just cracked up laughing. All these people, world- wide, frantically doing things that amount to nothing for fear of doing nothing and being judged for it. That's a scream. It's also incredibly sad. Maybe the old zen saying "Before enlightenment draw water and chop wood. After enlightenment draw water and chop wood" could be changed to "Before enlightenment draw water and chop wood. After enlightenment do whatever you like because it doesn't matter anyway".<br /><u><b><i>1 March 2005</i></b></u><br />Process has been hitting me hard and fast this year. For that matter, for the last couple of years. Taking time out from work and earning is something that we don't often give ourselves. Most people would say they can't. Most of us could, if we were willing to change our priorities. Selling the house allows me to sit with myself for a few years. The fallout from that however, is that there is nothing to distract us/me from our/my internal process when we do take that time out. I suspect that's why most of us don't do it. Looking at and feeling the pain that we are in and actually be willing to learn from it and grow is not for the faint-hearted. For me, I don't want to live with it inside a moment longer than I have to. Mum said it was better out than in and I agree with her. Getting it out requires observing the pain however, and that's what puts people off. So I have been being with the stuff that I used my work to avoid and its been coming up thick and fast, but I have had the time to deal with it and heal it and I have been doing that. Many fears have been faced and moved on from. Many changes are still to come. But the theme of the need to 'live differently' continues to repeat itself. Last weekend I went with 9 others to the Psychosynthesis Conference down here in Dunedin. We lived, ate, processed, talked, played, together for 3 days, in a forest round a central fire. We did rituals, drummed, gave talks for each others as well as planned the activities for the year ahead. When I eventually left to drive home, I felt that I was entering an alien environment. The traffic, noise and people: the pollution of the city, small as it is, all left me feeling that I would rather live in the forest with my friends. I felt grief that the weekend was over, but it brought home to me, how very much it feels right for me to live in a community of like-minded others in a natural environment. I suspect that is true for all of us if we were but able to experience it. Most of us never have or ever will. So the urban/suburban chaos that we think is life remains our only known option. If we would but stop what we are doing for a while. If we would question our commitment to self-destructive avoidance of what is real in our lives, maybe we would find a place inside that say 'No More'. A place that starts us looking for alternative ways that may be just out of our current field of vision. Maybe, just maybe, we would see what we never dreamed was possible: a new way. And if we kept looking in that direction, perhaps we would see that its more than just a dream. Its a possibility. We can do whatever we set our path towards. All we have to do to begin is stop doing what we are doing long enough to see those possibilities and begin choosing them instead.<br /><u><b><i>23rd Jan 2005</i></b></u><br />This website fills the gap as I battle with the concept of redundancy. The conflict that is not wanting to do anything and not wanting to do nothing is ironic. I am more than happy to leave the Psychosynthesis work to others. It has been the way that I have been able to do my bit for healing Self and Others. Without it I wonder whether there is something else I can do, need to do and on what level. There comes a time in everyone's life when they must pass the mantle to the next generation. I am willing to do that, but I question if there is a place still for me in this civilization of ours between now and when I leave. The concept of gracious retirement does not go down too well with me. I was never going to do it. I was going to work till I dropped. I didn't count on my<a href="http://www.blogger.com/Articles/psychosynthesis_higher_self_feelings.htm"> Higher Self </a> wanting something different. I didn't count on me wanting something different. But what is it I want? I don't know and HS isn't saying. Yet anyway. I await ungraciously the next chapter to unfold. I will learn. I hope its not the hard way. Tsunami's notwithstanding, the world has changed. I guess we all wait to find out <i>how</i>. Maybe we all are having our job descriptions reordered. Transition is always the hardest time. The light at the end of the tunnel may or may not be just around the corner. But moving forward is all I can do. I guess that's the same for us all.<br /><b><i><u>4th Jan 2005</u></i></b><br />I had a wonderful Xmas up at Lake Ohau. We were miles from anything except mountains, lakes, rivers and friends. So far away that we didn't know about the Tsunami until 2 days later. It's amazing how world events just change things. Not only the physical things they touch, but the concepts we hold. Concepts like safety. There had not been a quake or tidal wave in that area since the 1800's. The ice caps have not melted for millennia, but now the grass can seen in Greenland. Does it change my life? I still get up and eat breakfast. But now I get up and eat breakfast with the sure knowledge that each breakfast cannot be taken for granted. Just because it hasn't happened, is no guarantee that it won't. There is something sane about being aware. Not worried. Aware. Worry is when we fear the consequences of the future. We paralyze ourselves. 'Aware' is when we know the possibilities, and live on in the present moment. Worry destroys the future either way. Awareness lives with all of it, good and not so good . Out of that comes all other possibilities. An <i> AND</i> can arise out of awareness. Of course the other option is called denial. "It'll never happen here!" Or "I don't want to know what's going on because there's nothing I can do". That's the flip side of worry. Sort of "Ignore it and it will go away", as opposed to "Worry about it enough and it will never happen".<br />Awareness give us options that the other two methods don't. We can have what we have now as well as do what must be done when the time comes. The Tsunami has taken me into a place of acceptance. I know what's going on in the world. I have done what I could to help. Now it's out of my hands. Maybe it always was. But I did what I had to do. I always will, as soon as I am aware of what that is. Now what I have to do is accept that the choices are made. The die is cast. The time for the consequences is here. I have always said that we can make a new choice not to step out in front of a bus, right up to the time when the bus hits us. After that, that choice is no more. We have new choices before us. How to live with a broken body for instance. Or what to come back as, next time. There are some things in the world that have now reached the consequences stage. Wisdom is in knowing when to let go, and without regret, make a new choice from the current circumstances. I await the new information that will show me my next choice. Bless you all for 2005. May wisdom always accompany you on your journey, no matter what the choices are that you are called to make. No matter where those choices take you. We sit in the Divine Unknown. Its always the safest place to be.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5816314954522750495-3874600257511808672?l=www-spiritflight.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>www.spiritflight.co.nzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/161460372149705210312011-07-28T18:11:40.731+12:00<br /><i><b><u>15th Dec 2004</u></b></i><br /><span style="font-size: small;">Honesty is so important. Self honesty first. Its impossible to be honest with others until we are able to be honest with ourselves. A wise man told me recently that he could only deal to what he could see. What we cannot see in the past we cannot hold ourselves accountable for making different choices around. Its the truth. How can we? We see much in hindsight. The trick is to gain enough awareness to see it when it is there with us. But life is a journey of a thousand twists and turns. What is not visible from one perspective, becomes clear as crystal from another vantage point. I reach for higher ground, where the air is clear and I can see for miles. I am not there yet, but that's my journey.</span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">Forgiveness is the process of letting go of the expectations we hold on ourselves and others. That's what we call it in the Psychosynthesis tradition. Its seems that it is the rope that ties us to the low-ground. We cannot scale the heights until we can see and cut that tie which binds us. My journey is taking me through my expectations and how they are obscuring my vision. How they are making me work harder to climb the next step up the path. How they tire me out and zap my energy. Its amazing how easy love is once expectations have been removed. It just flows back in once the circulation is no longer cut off by the rope of expectation. So simple....when you see it!!!</span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><u><b><i>28th Nov 2004</i></b></u></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">What pain we cause each other in the course of relationship. We all of us carry such hurt around in our hearts related to the beliefs we hold about the way we must be together. As we go about innocently damaging others with those beliefs and being damaged, so we learn to recoil from each other, flinch away from the pain-causing-love, which isn't love at all but possession. We want to possess that which we lack and we believe that others can fill the void, should fill the void. But they don't and they can't and we hurt. And we hurt them. And so the circle goes around and around until we die of broken hearts. Sometimes I wonder if it will ever end, this cycle of destruction. One goes through ones daily life with the illusion that it's sorted, or at least good enough, only to be confronted yet again with that which we deny, hide, bury, until eventually we have the courage to face it, let go of it, heal it and move on to a new way. But it takes, oh such a long time. It is oh such a long journey. Will I have the courage it takes? Will I be honest enough, clear enough, respectful enough? Can I find a win/win or will I be left with yet more pain to deal with in some other Now, some other day, some other lifetime? All I can do, all any of us can do, is have the Will to move forward into the face of what must be, knowing that, when all is counted, good will counts. In the end, growth brings its own relief.....until next time.</span><br /><u><b><i>11th Nov 2004</i></b></u><br /><span style="font-size: small;">Yesterday several things happened that I see as important for me. I went to the library and found footage on the Maori Land March. The power of it was huge. The fact that old people walked with sticks all the way from the top down to Wellington was amazing in itself, but what hit me most was the spiritual power of the people. What they portrayed was the connection to the spirit of the land: the afterbirth buried in the land to denote 'home' for that being, the fact that the name for land, 'whenua', is the same as the name for the afterbirth. The significance that that holds was not lost on me: that which nurtures! Since I have been here in New Zealand, I have heard a lot about Maori rights. I have followed the struggle between the indigenous people and the 'Pakeha' that feel so threatened by any mention of land rights as do all white settlers in any colonial countries. The fear that we will be forced off the land as they were, lives deep inside. It's real too, when we see what has happened when African nationals have taken back their land. The fear's real at least. What struck me watching this film was how little we are able to understand what indigenous people are on about. The spiritual is so far from our minds that all issues are seen in shades of ownership . Who owns which bit of land now, and how little can we get away with compensating the First Peoples for their trouble (which includes broken faith, destroyed lives, death and disease, and a dilution of their culture). All we see as a race is land value in terms of money, and we are angry, now that we have taught the Tangata Whenua to think that way too. I don't see it as any great benefit, that in order to deal with us, they have had to ditch spirit as a value, and adopt money. But that's the currency we speak. Stalemate. What I saw in that old 1975 film was 'fire in the belly'. That fire lit the one in mine. I left feeling that I would rather deal with people in the currency of spirit than deal with the current world government/corporations that have no soul in them at all. I would rather deal with the Tangata Whenua than our current 'representative of the people' who sell us down the river every day.</span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">Another thing that interested me is how many Kiwi's follow, and are interested in, Native American spirituality but know nothing of the spirituality of the indigenous people of this land, and care less. Does that mean its safe to look at the culture of people who are not likely to want compensation for their pains from our tax money? Its like the old saying they used to have in England when I was growing up: "Black people are fine as long as my daughter doesn't want to marry one." I think we need to look carefully at what our own indigenous people have to teach us rather than what we are erroneously teaching them. </span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">Later that night I watched 'Whale Rider' again at the birthday request of a friend. Once again, the power of what's offered if we can but see it, hit me. What came through for me was that the indigenous people, all over the world, Maori, Native American, Meso-American, have the spirit we have lost still intact in their genes if we can get to it before our corporate colonial culture destroys what's left of it. It's the only thing that is going to spark the indigenous nature that attaches to our own nurture, inside our own gene's. They still have the path back to connection with ALL. Now. Not for much longer. We need a new way to negotiate. We need a currency of spirit. If we are not too arrogant to turn to the Tangata Whenua of all lands with our heart rather than our pocket, I have a feeling wonderful things can happen on this small blue planet. At the end of the movie, a neighbour rang to tell us an Aurora was happening in the Western Sky. What a spectacle from up on the top of High Cliff! It looked like spirit flooding the sky. It felt that way too. I stopped analyzing the phenomena in terms of 'solar flares'. For me it was an omen. Just like Paikia in the movie, we women need to lead our men away from the power-over world of their creation. We are the holders of spirit. The womb/doorway through which spirit enters this world . Spirit is the power of our own freedom.....and theirs. We need to be the ones that show the way into these <a href="http://www.blogger.com/declaration_towards_peace.htm"> peaceful</a> spirit-filled negotiations with Spirit Peoples of the world...........before they lose any more of their way too. And before we are totally stranded. </span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">Hidden deep in the mythology of the Celtic/Anglo people there is a story that tells us how to do it. The Holy Grail story of the Arthurian Legend has a central theme which, when 'unchristianized', shows us how the world can be saved. The Grail, or cup, is a symbol for the Female Principle, which all indigenous people honoured at their centre (despite later changes to that, brought about by contact with Europeans). The story goes that lands in Arthur's kingdom were wracked with drought and war. Arthur himself was dying in spirit from the control of Mordred, his evil son, from turning from the Goddess to patriarchal Christian religion. The scared object, the Grail, had been stolen. The Female/Spiritual essence had been lost. Later the Grail became the cup of Christ as the Christian power brokers attempted to control the pagan beliefs of the people. This obscured the message. It was meant to. It became a pilgrimage for Chris rather than a search for the lost connection to spirit. They are not the same. Religion is the patriarchal compensation for spirit. There is seldom any found in them. If we strip that off, we can see stark similarities between what's happening in the world today as what was predicted in the legend. The land laid waste. Crops dying in the fields. War everywhere. Evil men powerful and good men powerless. The end not far away. Contained within this story is the way out of this mess. It is also strongly paralleled in <a href="http://www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/eduweb/engl392/492/williams.html"> Witi Ihimaera</a> wonderful story which inspired the film <a href="http://www.whaleriderthemovie.com/"> 'Whale Rider'. </a> The way is for the men to find again the female principle of unconditional love and connection to all inside of them. Then the land will blossom again. The Earth will regenerate with the creative life force. We will live again and the death force will take again its natural balanced place in the scheme of things. This is from our <i>own</i> indigenous roots. Let's listen to that as well as the way shown by other indigenous peoples that we started to destroy <i>after</i> we finished destroying our own.</span><br /><i><b><u>9th Oct 2004</u></b></i><br />Well so much for weekly updates. Still I'm here. Right now there is the most glorious sunset out of my caravan window, the weather is balmy, which is unusual for Dunedin but beautiful when it turns it on. Mum's still hanging in there. In fact she recovered. That's amazing for someone heading for 94 in a wheel chair. She has done this time and again since she was about 78. Deaths door opens and she decides that there needs to be a bit more to hang on for. It brings up in me the question of when is enough enough? Like my own moving away from the course that was my life's work. I could have carried on. I could have scaled down, taken on help, had a year off. But it was only prolonging what I knew needed to happen. I knew it was time to pass the baton to someone else if they wanted it. And if they didn't, it was still time for my journey to take another road. God, I hope I can be that clear when the time comes to exit the body. I'm not saying it was easy. It still isn't, although I am beginning to get a sense of what the next stage of life is about for me. Living in a body that wants out won't be easy for any of us. Leaving it could well be equally as fraught with confusion. We don't live in a world that prepare us for oldness. Anyway, Mum reluctantly continues to choose to battle the inevitable. I suspect she will do that until there is no other choice but crisis. So often that's what we do. We hold on and on in the hope that the inevitable changes that are due will never get here. But they always do. No matter what they are. So my time to move out of full time facilitation and therapy work came. I'm not sure how I did it but I honoured it. I left of my own free will and choice. I left with my power intact. A victim of nothing. Gracefully even. Not bad for a change. I didn't have to crack up, burn out (totally) or get any sicker than I got, to get the message. We are strange beings, humans. Anyway, things are happening. People are reading this website and contacting me from all over the world. (Thank you). My book is now 9.5 chapters long and growing. Watch this space. And the radio programme that Carolyn Vincent of Hills AM and I started this year, talking about Psychosynthesis Principles seems to be going down well. Along with the sunset, Mum's and the Sun's, life ain't too bad for me.<br /><b><i><u>21st Sept 2004</u></i></b><br /><span style="font-size: small;">My mothers dying. She has reached a stage where she can no longer get to the toilet by herself and they have to strap her into her wheelchair because she keeps pitching forward. She has no interest in anything else except her bowels and bladder and getting someone to get her to the toilet before she 'embarrasses' herself. She is 93years and 4 months old. Probably she will die in a few weeks as she and dad had a pact that she would go 15 minutes after him so that they wouldn't be apart. She didn't, but I have a feeling that she will die close to the age that he died at 93 and 5 months. That will be her way of honoring the deal. Some people might think that's sweet. I think its sad... for many reasons least of which being that they didn't get on that well and were together for 70 odd years. Chalk and cheese. Neither got what they wanted out of life in the act of compromising themselves to fulfill deals done. We die as we live. I was so angry when dad died that it changed my life. I began the road I am on now. I got rid of commitments and am trying my best to make sure that the only deals I make in the future are between me and my Higher Self. To honour my own life I must not live for others. With, but not for. That has been huge. I am somewhat intrepidly awaiting the internal changes that must be my lessons from Mums passing. I haven't even finished with Dad's teachings to me yet. Maybe I never will. We can never tell the way the death of a family member or close friend is going to affect us. I had done so much work on my relationship with Dad, I was sure that grieving him would not bring too many surprises. Was I wrong! I felt compete with my relationship with him but he was the passive parent. Mum is another matter. There seems still a lot of unfinished business there between us. No doubt 'what' and 'how much' will come in her leaving.</span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">In her youth she was a </span>'stunner' for her day with a Marilyn Munroe figure.<span style="font-size: small;"> How did she get to be the way she is today? That's the other thing that comes up in me. Where she is, I will be going if I live that long. However long we live there must come a time when the wheels fall of the trolley and we have to live with a broken axle for awhile. Not much fun. I don't envy her, her 93 years. Which brings up for me, am I willing to live my life to the end with dignity and growth, no matter how it unfolds? God, I hope so. I want the learning. I don't want the pain. What's new? Then there is the other side. Am I willing to leave when the time is right and not hang on for just another breath of this life no matter what the quality or the consequences? Once again I can only hope that </span><span style="font-size: small;">I will have been able to live wisely enough to die that way too. A good death that fulfils the potential of the life it served in its completion. </span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">Don't hold on My Darling. Let go. There is always more somewhere and if our business is not finished, we will meet again. You can count on it!</span><br /><u><b><i>13th Sept 2004</i></b></u><br />Three years and 2 days after Sept 11th. 2001. The world changed on that day, or so it seems to me. My world certainly did. For years I have been working away at the concept that if enough of us do our own internal work, regain our own personal power, then the *hundredth monkey principle will kick in and critical mass will occur changing things for the better. 9/11 felt like critical mass in the wrong direction for me. I immediately began direct action, maybe even a bit frenetically. I had to do something more than what I had been doing even though that had been not insignificant. The Peace marches and the GE marches were fabulous. People came out of their complacence en masse world-wide. It was the best turnout since the Vietnam war moratorium. But nobody listened. Bush didn't listen. Blair didn't listen. Helen would like not to have listened. But many people were listening. ***Michael More was listening. **Starhawk was listening. I was listening. So I do believe 9/11 was critical mass. It polarized the people between good and worst. It was a Big Wakeup. Back in the 60's we hippies were busy preparing for today, but no one was listening then either. Not many people today would say that the world was fine and progressing as so many believed when we were heading for the hills and designing alternative power systems. They would have to be blind or blind drunk. Now the corporate bosses who run the world want to privatize the water. What next will they want to take over and make money out of? Air? It seems that a lot of people felt like I did/do after 9/11. Time to get up of the couch. Time to make it count for the Planet and the generations to come. Last ditch stand. Change or perish. Its so hard. I am so tired. But its not over yet. Strange thing is that I have always felt that I would be alive in this body to see that change take place for the better, no matter what it took to get us there. Am I right? Is the ****Great Turning just around the corner and this is the 'darkest hour before the dawn'? Or is that just the wishful thinking of a tired activist-since-birth? I hope not!<br /><div style="line-height: 100%;">* Ken Keyes</div><div style="line-height: 100%;">** <a href="mailto:**Starhawk-subscribe@lists.riseup.net">Starhawk-subscribe@lists.riseup.net</a>.</div><div style="line-height: 100%;">*** "Fahrenheit 911"</div><div style="line-height: 100%;">**** Joanna Macy</div><u><i><b>4th Sept 2004</b></i></u><br />So I guess that is what it is doing with this website. It's amazing really. I started looking at the FrontPage Software days ago and found it all really confusing. That was when I was energetically blocked up more. Then something started to shift. "Maybe the Sun came out" the Cynic in me says with a sly grin. I Continued <a href="http://www.blogger.com/Articles/psychosynthesis_being_willing.htm">'being with'</a> it more likely. Anyway, one day there I started to look at it during the daytime when I wasn't half dead and "Lo", it was so simple that the pages literally fell into place. That's the difference between 'trying' to do something through the morass of psychological junk and doing something from a clear space of creative flow. One works and the other one is just a struggle. It occurred to me that when we concentrate on struggling (and it has almost become politically correct to be a "battler") then all our energy goes into struggle and nothing else. We only see the struggle. There may be all kinds of easy things happening around us that we could click into but we won't see them for the struggle we have made our main viewing platform. The belief that we are "lazy" if we "take the easy way out" is all to prevalent. And of course there is a social spin-off for that. If we traded in our belief in the desirableness of "hard done by" we might just decide we preferred our life simple and free rather than loaded up with the obligation to buy back at double the cost the things that we have just produced for our employers. We might just decide to do it the easy way and have it for ourselves instead. It would certainly spoil someone's party. Not ours though. Our fun would just begin. But there's a catch. Making such independent choices requires us to be personally responsible for ourselves rather than following leads. And how scary is that! <i><b>Very</b></i>, let me tell you! But I'm sick of the same old same old. I'm sick of all the work going into making problems rather than creating solutions. "If we always do what we've always done, then we always get what we've always got". But between "what we've done" and "what we're going to do" requires us to stop doing what we have been doing, if you see what I mean. Getting off the treadmill. Even a car has to stop before it can turn around. One way to make sure we never change directions is to make sure we are too busy to "stop". Then we just go where the road goes, even though it may be miles away from where we originally dreamed we wanted to end up. Once I stopped struggling with the idea that right at this moment I needed to do nothing, and did it, then something new had the space to fall into place: This website for a start. And doing nothing turned into doing something that my Higher Self wanted me to do rather than what Society's Achiever thought I aught to do.<br />The good thing about a pause, is that it's time to take a breath (a good thing for an asthmatic to do ).The time to look around and take stock of where I am and how I got to be here. I'm well pleased with what I see in my own personal life, hard as it has been to stop the momentum my life had generated. What I see in the Global situation however, terrifies me and sent me into <a href="http://www.blogger.com/Articles/psychosynthesis_depression_emotions.htm">depression</a> for a while. The thing that blocked me up was my "Atlas" sub. It takes it all on it's own shoulders rather than waiting to be shown what my souls journey is through this labyrinth. I guess the point of <a href="http://www.blogger.com/Articles/psychosynthesis_being_willing.htm">change </a>came when I realized that I had let it take over. I could stop feeling responsible for the whole world and just see what HS wanted me to do. What a relief! So far so good. I'll keep you posted...........<br /><b><u><i>1 Sept 2004</i></u></b><br />First day of Spring! I have begun. Until now it hasn't felt right to do anything, but now things may be shifting. Or maybe I am forcing it because of boredom. Time will tell. This new burst of energy will grow if it is real. If it is just a subpersonality, then it will wane again. I will then know I need more time. It's only by trying things on can I ever find out if it's right or not for me. Whether it's the path my Higher Self wants me to travel down. Its strange to find myself living in a small space after a huge house. It took me so long to reach the stage where I had what most people see as security. To me it became an albatross around my neck. An emotional albatross. Ownership requires energy. Once you have, you have to maintain and defend, clean and enlarge, beautify. It consumes the creative energy. It felt that there were more important things to do. Now I can't find them. The most important thing for me to do seems to be nothing....and it's so hard to do. Society has got our <a href="http://www.blogger.com/Articles/psychosynthesis_conversations_on_the_will.htm">Achievers </a>by the nose. Getting them to listen to whatever it wants. I know that the only way I can thrive is to have the direction of my Achiever subpersonality connected to my Higher Self. That way I know that it will follow the group good, not the desires of a <a href="http://www.blogger.com/Articles/psychosynthesis_we_live_in_intersting_times.htm">Society </a>that sees growth as an addiction and counts the consequences as nothing. It seems that the way it does that is by encouraging us all to believe that the more we own the happier we will be. The problem is that it doesn't work. The more I own, the harder I have to work and the less satisfied I become. Then I have to work harder to buy more in the search for happiness and in the end I am too old to enjoy it, if I could. But I can't because that's not happiness. Happiness is the freedom to create for me and those around me, whatever feels good. I haven't got time to do that though when I am chasing the dollar.<br />Dilemma! We all have to live. To do that it has been set up so that we have to work in the system which leaves us no time to be creative. If we had the time, it's possible that our creativity would feed us, but we don't so we can't use our creativity. We must just 'earn a living' as prescribed for us. Catch 22!<br />Like all tangles though, there is an end to it somewhere. However, it seems to me that we won't find it if we don't create the time to look. So I did. Here I am. The creativity <i><b>WILL</b></i> flow. I know it. But I must be patient and not allow time or money to weigh heavily on this process. It will unfold as it is meant to...<br /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5816314954522750495-8320348526403750871?l=www-spiritflight.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>www.spiritflight.co.nzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/161460372149705210312011-07-28T18:02:29.559+12:00<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-c5CVyf4G4Eo/TjD6baHYZDI/AAAAAAAAAA4/sheCJebLnZg/s1600/New+Reweaving+Cover+09.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-c5CVyf4G4Eo/TjD6baHYZDI/AAAAAAAAAA4/sheCJebLnZg/s320/New+Reweaving+Cover+09.jpg" width="241" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">“Reweaving the Web” is a book whose time has come: a time “<a href="http://www.blogger.com/page-edit.g?blogID=5816314954522750495#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference" style="font-family: Symbol;">*</span></a>when wrong comes up to face us everywhere, never to leave us till we take the longest stride of soul we ever took”. Our journey into separation has left us so isolated from the real energetic source of life, that we have almost forgotten where life comes from. Now, of all times, it is essential that we ask that question and begin to make the choices that will change the direction we are headed. We need to come back into the flow of energy that is the Web of Life, recognising that the only thing we do by separating off from it is slowly energetically starve ourselves. Most of us have come to believe that sustenance comes only through money. We don’t see that the non-human world lives without it. How? The birds, trees, wild beings of all sorts thrive without ever earning a cent. It has become our obsession. We turn away from what creates us in the mistaken belief that we ‘buy’ our lives. Is there another way of living, not in poverty but in rich energetic abundance that will ultimately provide all our needs? The answer is a resounding ‘yes’. Connecting back to the energetic Web of Life is like plugging ourselves back into an energetic wall socket that we continually overlook, hoping that we will generate enough power on our own while running down our batteries all the time. “Reweaving the Web- A Journey of Shamanic Connection” is about the Web, what it is and how to consciously connect our selves into it in our daily lives. After all, we do have a tentative connection or we wouldn’t exist! Now we need to redirect our focus so that we all thrive not merely survive-together not only separately. The beauty of this is that as we consciously reconnect, allowing our selves to be regenerated, so the web itself grows and shines even more brightly. We are fed and we feed, until we and the web become more and more luminescent. It becomes a ‘positive feedback loop” and we are co-creators with the Web itself. The possibilities are the spiritual (and physical) evolution of all species, including our own, as we become new luminescent beings.</span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">This book is a result of my own life journey. It began with an experience in a turnip field in my native Suffolk, where my ancestors claimed me, and I them, for the first time. This experience took me on my own shamanic journey of discovery which culminated in Dunedin in 2005 with a course I was asked to run. Out from this, and much more, the book poured. I have worked for many years in the field of Psychosynthesis, and shamanism enhancing the compatibility of the two. I am pleased to offer part of my life’s work to you in “Reweaving the Web- A Shamanic Journey of Connection”. If you are willing to work with the concepts and the journeys contained within it, the potential for your own reconnection can be opened up”.</span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CBH0mCeWaSk/TjD7O3qJEFI/AAAAAAAAABE/o36ZVOAWBF4/s1600/DSCF0407.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CBH0mCeWaSk/TjD7O3qJEFI/AAAAAAAAABE/o36ZVOAWBF4/s320/DSCF0407.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">"Reweaving" came 3rd in the Ashton Wylie Book Awards for Body Mind and Spirit in Auckland NZ in 2009 and can be purchased <a href="http://www.spiritflight.co.nz/books_index.htm">here</a>.</span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/reweaving_the_web_form.htm"><br /></a></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5816314954522750495-5291605654540411769?l=www-spiritflight.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>www.spiritflight.co.nzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/161460372149705210312011-07-28T17:45:35.624+12:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oEJnEgi9wP4/TjD2WQtKZfI/AAAAAAAAAA0/JixO_7qf2IA/s1600/Boudica.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="215" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oEJnEgi9wP4/TjD2WQtKZfI/AAAAAAAAAA0/JixO_7qf2IA/s320/Boudica.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <b><i>Statue of my ancestor. </i></b><br /><b><i>After the war, my dad had the privilege of putting the right horses hoof back on.</i></b><br /><br />Let me introduce myself. Sparrowhawk is my name. I have been working shamanically for 20 or so years, also teaching Psychosynthesis and running a practice in Dunedin New Zealand. My family come from the East Anglian area, though I was born in London. On a trip back to England in my 20's ( I am now 61) I had the experience of standing in someones turnip field exalting in the joy of being back in Suffolk, when it occured (rather more strongly than that) to me that I was standing on the land that contained the DNA of my ancestors: that I and the land were one. That changed my life and began my journey along the path of the celtic shaman, always bring me back to the knowledge that the ancestors live and speak through us. Boudicca began to become part of the issue somewhere in the following years. I don't know why or when. I named my dog for her because I wanted her to grow 'strong and wise and free". In the years that followed, Boudicca grew in my awareness, as did the conviction that the connection between the land and the ancestors is what roots us all into our own truth. Gradually it became clear that she literally came from the same place as my family (who can be traced back so far I cant read the writing anymore). It had never occurred to me that they were part of her tribal land (as are millions of us no doubt). Recently I began studying the Maori traditions. They are wedded to their own ancestors in all they do. Being asked to stand an state my own antecedents brought me to the question of Boudicca once again and I found I had to acknowledge her from my own truth, nervous as I was that I was being a wanker. Still it felt right. Ever since that acknowledgment of her as my ancestor, her presence has intensified.<br /> In fact a friend from England, who I had met on holiday last year sent me a copy of "Dreaming the Eagle". Devouring it, and the ones that followed, I found tears in my eyes as I felt Manda had captured the essence of the journey I have been on: that the time is now that the linage of the warrior queen must shine through and ground us to the task we have of completing the battle against the colonization and capitalistic extremes that Rome began and others have emulated. Here we are now, knowing the outcome circa 2008 of what Boudicca fought for in 61AD: enslavement to the system that is not ours. In NZ they refer to it as Pakeha (white persons) culture. But this corporate culture is not ours. It is all we have known since Rome won, but its not who we really are. It is up to us to dig beneath this false culture and find out who we are from who we were: from our ancestors. Thank you Manda, for the truth with which you wrote that series. I endorse it thoroughly.<br />My own book, <a href="http://www.spiritflight.co.nz/reweaving/index.htm">"Reweaving the Web-A Shamanic Journey of Connection"</a> -a simple look at how we can begin to weave ourselves back into the energetic web of life and how important that is, especially now- can be viewed on and purchased from, my website <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.spiritflight.co.nz/">www.spiritflight.co.nz</a>. As yet it is not available in bookshops outside Dunedin as I have self published and am now learning how to self promote. I'll get there no doubt.<br />Right now when the world as we have come to view it is disintegrating before our eyes, I think it is as well to remember what our priories are in order to stay sane, and to draw of the strength within wherever it comes from. I know that the place much of mine comes from is my ancestors, and one in particular. Blessed be!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5816314954522750495-501273868335488029?l=www-spiritflight.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>www.spiritflight.co.nzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/1614603721
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