CHAPTER 1
Earth Place
This book has been written in response to many calls from friends and others, to share what has been a rather fascinating and inspiring journey delving into the spiritual and physical landscape of earth.
This book is for those people who are curious about the mystery of earth's multi dimensional nature. It's a book for those who have a deep reverence for Mother Earth and all life.
When you explore life according to the natural laws of cycles, seasons and elements, rise and fall of life, ebb and flow of tides, the night sky and the transit of stars above, a deep fascination and appreciation starts to claim your heart and soul.
You learn about your own nature through these connections.
We have a unique opportunity and choice to connect with this great planet, and to be involved in the experience of her multi faceted nature and expression. The cities, people, animal life, unique ecosystems, the sea and the land, all offer insight into our place here on earth.
Along the way we realize our inter connectedness to all kingdoms: human, animal, plant, mineral. We have choices to love and care for this planet, and trust in an earthly evolution, its sacred and timeless mystery.
Having spent many years pondering the mystery of the earth physically and spiritually, I began to feel more connected to earth and the sanctuary she offers to each of us. This instilled in me a desire to understand the life at my disposal a little more.
It is fairly natural to see that inter connectedness between all things when acceptance and grace slip in.
The love and trust of animals both domestic and wild amazes me, their evolution tied into ours. Their complete acceptance, loyalty and trust in human company even in the most trying situations. Bless them.
I have tried to include interesting ideas, approaches, various healing techniques, energy practices and meditations, to take you the reader on a progressive and indeed fascinating path.
The practices, whilst very simple, will benefit you in many ways, if you put your total awareness into them. Be patient and work through the heart. The reason practice is simple, is because it's the only way to have right contact with the soul.
It looks like we live in a 3D world but honestly there is so much more to it. There are many ways to observe life. When you look into a body of energy or even a forest of energy you see light and energy frequencies all form disappears. A holographic nature appears, light fields, tunnels, whorls and movement that tantalizes the curiosity.
If you want quiet dignity and knowing, and want to walk hand in hand with spirit then give up what and who you think you are and opt for the inner journey into your truth.
• Walk through time in the forest and by the sea.
• Talk to the earth and its creatures.
• Explore her spiritual mystery.
• Commune with the elements.
• Know the cycles.
• Learn to find ways to be inspired.
• Learn to dance with life.
You start to align with a natural movement and flow within the heart. A natural spontaneity kicks in and you become more at one with the inner part of you.
Too often we exclude feminine practices in our life, when we should notice them more:
• Ritual 'to bind back'.
• Ceremony 'to celebrate'.
• Meditation 'to deepen'.
• Communing 'to know'.
• Creating 'who am I'.
Mother Earth can offer so much to us in establishing a deeper earth-soul connection. At our finger tips is the magic, the mystery, the knowledge and creative wisdom that sits within waiting to be illuminated. Through persistence and quiet practice you get in touch with an appreciation of life.
Grace is sweeping the earth, in cycles, ushering in a new force of love, prompting those in honest service to follow through in trust and love.
The magic and the benefits that result when you travel the land will take you through into a greater vision and awareness. The path is not easy, and mastery of life is an interesting subject. We all have our own evolution. Along the path we are faced with our own reflection, over and over it seems, until you find yourself at the door of choice. At some point you have to ask yourself "do I stay and step up?" or "do I remain blissfully shallow forever?"
There is a lot of fear and manipulation in the world. It is up to those people who are creative, wise and mindful, the teachers, the healers, elders and leaders, to work with integrity and vision. To push forward with the practices that support the truth of our language, poetry, music, the arts, earth keeping, healing and brotherhood of man. We need to maintain a reverence for all life on this planet.
Be the love, and cherish your place in this world. Know your earthly soul. Take care of your earth place.
CHAPTER 2
Earth Soul Treaty
"The way of truth, peace & love"
e have a soul agreement with Mother Earth at birth which is to establish a solidarity and treaty between earth, the soul and all living things.
We are part of a circle of life within creation - human family, animals, trees, plants and all that exists throughout the natural earth and her starry alignments.
Being present in all our life experiences, to assume obligations through soul treaty, to accept responsibility and liability for the life we live on earth, we then begin to fulfill part of this soul agreement.
Just as you have obligations to family and friends as part of this soul covenant, you also have agreement with Mother Earth to protect her ecosystems and nurture the natural environment.
The indigenous people are the voice of the land, and their land and its nature is the voice of its people.
Treaty is the agreement you make to live in accord with the law of nature, a conscious decision to your evolution on earth. You agree to assist maintaining the environment, ecosystems and biodiversity of earth, to work alongside humanity and to support all living forms on earth. You 'take up' your soul belonging and identity with Mother Earth.
Your intuition and soul direct a part of you which is willing to weave deeper connections into the fabric of a mysterious earth and its cosmic beginnings. You start to become an earth keeper, healer or if you are chosen, a Shaman.
You learn to breathe in and out with nature, you witness when the land or sea call and you understand your earth place. You find your soul place in the land, a specific area that calls to you. See Chapter on Sacred Heritage.
A natural force or pull eases you through showing the true way of movement and innocence. When we are in true and silent states we are connected to that cosmic frequency within our heart. The soul drives us and shows us the path to greater connection and potential when we sit quietly witnessing.
Reverence
Your reverence sustains the earth and you are sustained by that same connection. Your bond to earth strengthens as you become more resolved to be the light of the soul.
The energy of sacred treaty naturally weaves the earth connection within the bones and memory of your very existence. You accept your existence as part of the fabric of an interweaving of life energy at different and perfect levels of vibration.
There is ultimate joy in witnessing this great law of the universe in its quiet action and natural flow. We are all part of the one life.
Practice:
Find a beautiful place in nature where you can sit down.
• Take a few breaths in and relax.
• Remember that you are an earth soul child of the universe.
• Feel the beauty and wonder in your heart and soul.
• Imagine you are filled with a beautiful sparkling color representing joy and wonder.
• Take your shoes off and put your feet on to the earth.
• Really get the feel of the earth under your feet.
• Now really get a feel of the earth, feel that earth.
• What is she like, does she move? Does she speak?
• How does she speak to you? Color? Vibration? Words?
• Ask for earth to connect with your soul.
• Ask to learn a quiet commitment to love and nurturing of the earth.
• Meditate on your connection to Mother Earth.
Now if you do this regularly, earth will start to resonate more and more with you as she drops and layers etheric strands of connection into your heart, soul and bones. A certain knowing, feeling and vibrancy will start to occur. It will change with seasons and cycles. So get to know your earth with a little quiet practice.
Be at peace within, allow yourself to know the silence for in the silence life itself will show you the path
CHAPTER 3
The Spirit Within
"The soul and intuition"
Engaging the Spirit within
As we keep fine tuning our energy through quiet practice such as meditation, we start to sense a dimension and frequency within that is like a pure energy existing beyond the parameters of the physical experience.
We begin to sense another reality that is more than the physical existence and yet we can use that other reality to explore the experience of the body. We experience and begin to see into something that has greater dimensions and possibilities.
When we connect with the energy or the spirit within through earth ritual and meditation we eventually start to work with that whole new or realized state of being. We have a new awareness of a different intangible nature. This is brought through into your life here and now offering up new potential I believe.
So you have a choice to consciously develop your inner sensitive nature and create solvency through all dimensions that bind you to light. This of course reflects through in to the physical nature.
Observation
Through quiet observation you start to see through the illusion. This can be isolating as a lot just don't quite get where you are always. You find yourself straddling the world that you physically exist in and the new awareness of a reality that opens up before you.
Understanding
Through healing and understanding you learn to accept the past and you are more congruent with the psycho-spiritual nature of being in this world. You start to move through the dross, shedding this for higher light frequencies of love, you deepen. Integration occurs between mind and heart, masculine and feminine. You allow the truth that sits within your heart to express itself now more naturally.
Some dross/shadow seems to remain however, seemingly to anchor you here, and it then remains for you to love and accept that shadowy part of you. The little bit of the shadowy self needs to be loved and hugged occasionally, when it shows up. You need to laugh a bit at it too.
The spirit within begins to evolve through meditation and right soul contact. It starts from a central stillness, awareness of light and softness at your centre. Once that light and intelligence is connected to, it spreads and evolves throughout every cell of your body. You start to have a new radiance within.
The fires of illumination open up the spirit pathways within.
The 'fire of transcendence' through revelation.
The 'fire of radiance' through divine love.
The 'fire of magnetism' through fusion with the higher self.
The 'fire of passion' through the death of the old.
The 'fire of the three fold flame' which binds you back to your divinity.
Gentleness
Through gentleness you easily forgive, through love you accept yourself and others, you move about the earth in more peace. This energy is like a sweet breeze that flows through heart and soul, ushering in the divine feminine. When you persist in creating peaceful states it finds its way into the hearts of others, and great healing often occurs.
Pathway of Progress
Rites of passage.
• Meditation & Ritual.
• Personal witnessing of the different tests.
• Living along side others.
• Compassion.
• Community.
• Contribution.
• Binding back to your true nature.
Great Spirit flows through our lives lovingly, effortlessly and peacefully. Notice that flow and go with it!
Adversity
Learn to love in the face of adversity, making your moves to reconcile and reclaim the spirit within. We learn to resolve within by developing peaceful, loving and creative solutions. It doesn't really hurt that much in the end as you claim your inner solvency.
Joy
You find your joy when you start to completely open up to the wonder around you through the life experience. When you watch the rain falling on a lake, you see a baby take its first steps, or you are inspired by a great art work, you open up in wonder and awe.
As an example, I sat in the forest for many days agreeing to become undone. Through many days of retreat I found a place within my soul that provided me with the pure poetry of experience and a new radiant love of the world around me. A brilliant light came forth and dazzled my very being. I sat in awe and joy for weeks.
The life force is always there and the celestial will lead you on.
It is worth having a ritual of forest walking, meditation and sojourns in nature. Walking the forest will eventually create overlays of the feminine celestial frequencies within your body. In connecting like this you create a weave of energy from deep within your soul into the outer extremities of you.
The trees and the forest pathways offer sanctuary, the natural landscape, the forest creatures and the energy of earth come forward to guide you and resonate with your very being.
Our place in the universe
In the scheme of things you have to accept your humanity along with your vulnerability, and face up to your inner truth in order to move forward and grow.
The celestial beckons us on however, and when faced with difficulties we are given great hope. We are all on the path of evolution and being an aspirant is free.
The soul quietly witnesses and pushes your evolution forward anyway.
So trust and believe in yourself and move along. Be diligent and persevere.
Let go of the trappings of the mind and the old habits and dynamics of behavior.
We must have courage and allow the spirit within to emerge and reveal our true nature and our place in a divine plan.
I open my heart, mind and soul to Great Spirit and the Cosmic law within: my path is revealed through innocence, love and wonder.
CHAPTER 4
Inviting Mother Earth in
Spiritual prayer.
I ask to have the purest sense of my earthly connection. I wish to live in accordance with love and peace, to contribute in the nurturing of this earth. I with to be in touch with the natural cycles, the elements and the laws of connection to all life within and without. Let my life be love and peace."
When you explore the forests, the country, the sea shores and water ways, you get a feel for changes in energies, positive and negative. You start to feel through your own senses a level of connection that reaches beyond the world around you. The earth celestial energy flows in and around you, buffering you along the way.
The journey of connecting
On your journey to reacquaint yourself with the earth soul connection, make it a habit to stop, feel and notice.
Stop now and notice where you are, how you feel about where you are, the nature of the very place you stand on. What does the land say to you, what does the wind say to you, what does the ocean say? Now feel into the energy around you at this very spot.
Allow the earth to speak to you.
Intuitively notice your earth place and practice working on your connection.
When you travel around the land and the sea you become aware of energies that resonate with you and tug at your senses creating great vision and wonder. It can seem like you are in another world as you sojourn into paradise. The feminine softness is mysterious at its best, so appreciate the experiences as they unfold.
I believe that when you seek a conscious connection with Mother Earth her etheric layers drop in around you. She eventually connects to you on deep physical, spiritual and profound levels. You become more in tune with her.
As our connection evolves, more understanding and insight is put at our disposal consciously and unconsciously. You are able to see beyond the physical plane, into the fractal nature of the physical and beyond. You learn to ride with the cycles and the seasons. You understand the chi or life force that flows through the land and you know the rise and fall of chi.
We shift our focus and heart as we evolve.
It follows that you become more intuitive and in harmony with your life. You start to expand beyond the small ego framework of what is so, a different perspective of reality occurs. You begin to empower yourself beyond this world.
We have been taught unfortunately, to become cynical and untrusting. Even to the point of abusing our body's natural alignment or harmony, both psychically and physically. Our connection to Mother Earth suffers and we suffer.
Mother Earth offers us many things: we learn by nature to accept and adapt, transform and renew, gather and share, create and birth. We learn to interpret our place in the fractal experience of a creative life on earth.
