CONSCIOUSNESS IN NATURE 

 THE ELEMENTS & US #4

The “Wind Spirit” of the Divine animates everything; the elements, water and all Beings at differing frequencies and vibrations.

The mystery of who we are is contained
in the four winds and that without them none of creation would exist. 

We are wrapped in the embrace of the winds.

Nothing exists whose existence is external to God. The Ancestors

“Miracles happen not in opposition to nature but in opposition to what we know about nature.” Augustine of Hippo

We are not limited by the laws we have made concerning the natural world !  The Ancestors

All the Beings have their own respective consciousness and we are able to communicate with them if we slow to their pace and vibration. Even the still beings are not inanimate. 

The breath that created us is the same breath that created the worm and the stone and thus we share a oneness.      The Zohar

and the Ancestors also teach;

To experience the Still Beings we must touch them

Earth surface electrons and "grounding or earthing" may be a source of health. Studies have suggested that they can cause better sleep, increase immunity, decrease stress and that they can block electromagnetic fields from electronic devices. Maybe walking barefoot is a type of Mother Earth's reflexology. The San hunter gatherers walked, ran and hunted barefoot. The San Bushmen used to sleep on the earth around the fire at night together, embracing not only many of the elements but also each other - all for one, one for all (they"felt" each other.) We should try to emulate them as best as we can, when possible.

The Growing Beings

The Growing Beings are dependent on water as are the wild beings and us.

PO WA HA - Water, Wind Breath. The Spirit that makes the wind blow and the rivers flow. Tewa Pueblo Native Americans

To experience the Growing Beings, we must listen to them.  

Concerning plants and trees; do not overlook the splendor of starkness - the drab and leafless have their beauty and their purpose too, for they are of My breath. The Ancestors

Research has shown that plants feel and respond to sound and prayer. Prayer and the right sound increase their growth. Rock music and especially heavy metal can kill them. They, like us, also have a neurological system, though primitive. Some can even “dance.” Pea seedlings have memory - they can twine around and know up from down. If you turn them on their side they still grow up. The zone behind the root tip is critical. The root tip is the "brain", the sex organs are above ground. The “head” is below the surface. The root apex feels and finds the softest ground and can wriggle like a worm. If the root tip is excised it grows aimlessly. Plants sleep and some fold their leaves. Water wakes them up. If sleep is prevented they turn yellow, wither and die. 

Experiments were done at Findhorn in Scotland where two fields of potatoes were planted. One was given standard care and the other love, prayer and music as well. The latter grew far better and was tastier as well. How much could we benefit in health and vibration if we could all lovingly grow our own food, like at Findhorn?

Phototropism is one of the many plant tropisms or movements which respond to external stimuli. Growth towards a light source is called positive phototropism, while growth away from light is called negative phototropism (skototropism). Heliotropic flowers track the sun's motion across the sky from east to west.                                         Plants breath in carbon dioxide through the use of chlorophyll and sunlight during the day and expel oxygen. In the process they change water and carbon dioxide into sugar that they use for food. We inhale oxygen and exhale carbon dioxide through the use of iron and hemoglobin while plants, with the help of magnesium, inhale carbon dioxide and exhale oxygen. Because of climate change we need them more than ever. 

 

“Green to plant red to blood you color us with life and health.”              The Ancestors

 

The green color in plants comes from chlorophyll which is vital for photosynthesis. Nitrogen has the greatest impact on the green and is absorbed by the roots as nitrate or ammonium. Microorganisms in decaying matter in soil convert nitrogen to nitrates and make it available to the plant. Magnesium is readily available in the soil and is also essential for chlorophyll. Chlorosis (yellowing of the leaf between the veins occurs with magnesium deficiency –  not unlike anemia in humans due to iron deficiency. Iron in soil is only needed by plants in small quantities. Divine intelligence can be seen permeating everywhere in nature. 

         "We are all one, though not the same."                        

 We are all carbon based, dust to dust, ashes to ashes.

“The Zohar tells us that there is not a single blade of grass that is born of the earth that does not carry within her immense wisdom and immense heavenly power.

Humility and awe let one see most clearly and hear most truly.

Every blade of grass has an angel watching it inspiring it to grow.” 

 

Plants that have a lot of spiritual power usually also have aroma. We use them in cooking and indigenous peoples for incense. Native Americans - white sage (the other sages as well,) Southern African sangomas - Imphepho (a type of Helichrysum). Using them in cooking and placing a small amount in our water bottle can favorably change its vibration especially if used with loving intention or prayer.

“There are many paths to the mystery wisdom exuding from the growing things that surround us, from the color of the sky, and from all the still beings. It is impossible for the world to exist without fragrance, for our souls to survive without aroma. One must breathe deeply into the spirit flow. Only through the spirit self can we access the mystery which is itself spirit. The soul's senses must be fed.”  The Ancestors

If we pick or use a plant especiallyfor sacred use, we should ask permission, give gratitude and even make a small offering because …

Being of the breath of God, all creation is responsive to love, gratitude and petition. Each as it is acknowledged becomes receptive to giving and receiving. That is how we experience the other.  The Ancestors

“A river arose out of Eden forming four rivers and four winds. They joined to form a singular spirit which animates all creation.” The Zohar

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When I first meditated on this teaching from the Ancestors I wondered; where is the wisdom and love in water?  I later learned that Emoto had asked similar questions and found the answers.

He froze water after exposing it to either a love or a fear intention and then looked at the crystals under high magnification and discovered that the emotion of Fear resulted in an ugly outcome but that of love created exquisite crystals. Interestingly water from Fujiwara lake coming out of the faucet did not look too healthy either. He was concerned that if thought could affect water in this way then what could it do to our bodies which contain 70-80% water? Moreover, what about the water we drink, even the fancy designer water we buy in plastic bottles. I recommend for this reason that it's a good idea to place a sacred plant in one's water or make a blessing or prayer before drinking and for that matter before cooking or even eating food.

German scientists confirmed Emoto's work that water has memory, resonance and consciousness. 

These researchers raised the question of what might tears from different people look like if studied - tears of joy and laughter versus those of sorrow and pain.

“Water is the driving force of nature.“ Indeed, there can be no life without water. But what are the secrets hidden in this amazing part of nature? How did it come to Earth? Who brought it? Leonardo Da Vinci

It is said that men fight over oil but kill for water.

The properties of water are unique and cannot be explained entirely by the laws of physics. For example, water is the only chemical compound which can exist in three forms: liquid, solid and gaseous – at the temperatures that our planet naturally has. 

“Water trickling from the top of a hill is but a drop of the deep spring within.” The Ancestors

The Kogi tribe of Columbia that live in the mountains believe they are here to protect the planet. They say that time is running out and that the first order of our efforts to reclaim a healthy planet is attention to planet's and our lifeblood - water. They warn that the sacred threads between the glaciers and lakes that feed the rivers that then run into the ocean and connect the lagoons have been broken by their "younger brothers" (us) and need to be restored if we are to survive. This has stopped the cycle of water that has always been renewing itself - forming on top, finding the way down while feeding all the beings; (Still; Growing, Wild and Talking,) coming home to the mother ocean and then eventually reforming above. They rightly claim the rivers are running dry and the lagoons are sick and dying. Alien plants that have been planted aggravate the situation and by killing off the native species.

“Follow the river to its source, breath it into being, the moisture is of the wellspring. The moisture and the breath within - are the Creator’s giving.” The Ancestors

When I started my initiation to become a sangoma in Swaziland I wondered why my mentor and this ancient tradition focused so much attention on  water. I was told to bathe in water but first to put a sacred plant powder in it. Each plant in the powder made from roots and bark had a separate intention and the bath and the medicine were passwords expressing a request for help from the spirit world. One had to ask to receive and be very specific and the plants intention gave permission for the right action to be taken on one's behalf. I also had to steam in a mini sweat lodge with room only for myself and a pot of boiling water into which similar plants had been placed. Rituals were often accompanied by drumming and praying. It is probably even better to chant or sing.

“Every single wisdom in the world has a particular chant, a particular melody an when you chant that specific melody it will draw forth the particular wisdom to which it is attached.”  

Rev Nachmon

I was also told I would not be complete until I had been taken by a prophet to meet the water spirit (the Unzunzu) where a special ritual would be performed. Everything that I was taught and that I now practice was very mysterious but turned out to be true. The understandings that I gained subsequently helped explain a tiny part of the mystery.

God says, "I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your impurities . . .                                   Iniquities are etched into the bones. To purify one has to remove the stain.” Ezekial

Jesus said that the baptism of John was directed from heaven,  
for the remission of sins.” (Matt 21:25)  

Now-days religious Jews attend a Mikva or ritual bath where prayers are delivered probably converting the vibration of the water into a healing and cleansing medium. The Native American sweat lodge no doubt does the same with steam.

Click on the link play and meditate

VIEW: Fire and Water Meditation

For those interested in more detail

This dvd about Aluna (Conscience,) water and the Kogi elders is a bit over an hour but very worthwhile. 

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“A river arose out of Eden forming four rivers and four winds. They joined to form a singular spirit which animates all creation.” The Zohar

The Zohar says that the four sacred rivers of the planet that arose out of Eden with the Four Winds formed a singular spirit which animates all creation's Beings; 

Still Beings, Growing, Wild and Talking Beings.  

Each "Being" animated with its own vibration and frequency with Water, Wind, and the Spirit that moves through all things. 

The sacred four rivers are thought to be the Tigris, the Euphrates, the Nile and the Ganges.

PO WA HA from the Pueblo Native peoples represents the same; Water, Wind and Spirit.

Don Eduardo Calderon a shaman or curandero from Peru was called the Wizard of the Four Winds. He would salute the four winds and four directions by spraying chicha, an alcoholic beverage, in gratitude to the winds.

The Four Beings of nature and their elements are the:

Still Beings are of the earth element

Sprouting or growing beings are of the water element

Wild Beings are of the element of air

and Speaking or Talking Beings are of the element of fire

We are all connected, some of all in each. 
Are all one though not the same. The Ancestors

In the beginning all the Beings were able to communicate with one another. For the Talking Beings this meant lowering their vibration in order to communicate. We have lost this ability although some hunter gatherers and other unique persons still retain it to some extent. If approached in the right way it is possible that we could get back to being a little like we used to be. We will see that we  just need to slow to their pace and learn to                                                                     touch, listen, dance and feel with each one.

Still beings (stones and planets,) sprouting beings (grasses, trees and plants,) wild beings (animals, birds, fishes and insects) and talking beings (humans) once all communicated with one another. Now talking beings have long forgotten and have fallen into disregard and even disbelief of the oneness of all creation.                                                    

If you want to learn the language of rocks and trees you must first slow to their pace which is different from animals and wild flowers.
Although they are soundless they are not silent, so listen long and deeply in order to hear what hearing ears do not.  
All are spirit manifestations and exist in one another.              The Ancestors    

In order to better do so, we should start with relating to the basic elements (those before the periodic table was described.)             Air, Water, Fire and Earth.                                                             

We are all made of stardust and the same elements and are actualized by the breath of the Creator. We all end up the same way, dust to dust, ashes to ashes. This realization will make us more humble and will facilitate our communication with all the Beings. We depend on one another and they especially are beholden to us to survive and be happy.

 Incense and the right sound both have a very high vibration and help to activate the higher chakras through the five senses. There are dark forces both within and without of ourselves. Intrusive energies and spirits around us cannot abide this vibration and leave. We need to use the healing affects of these factors for our equanimity. Smudging can be spiritual, healing, emotionally cleansing and even antimicrobial.

Smudging can also call our spirit guides to assist us if we ask to receive. Our guides can protect us and help us dream "instructional" dreams. Smudging is likened by some to a “spiritual shower” and possibly also an air purifier. It removes emotional and spiritual negativity that accumulates in and around us. Experiments have also shown that burning medicinal herbs can clear aerial bacterial populations.                                                                                    (Journal of Ethno-pharmacology. Medicinal smoke reduces airborne bacteria. 2007.)

It is important to chant before making an incense offering, for the power of song to draw forth the soul of the plant. The Ancestors

In indigenous cultures smudging especially when associated with chanting is believed to unlock the 'spirits' of various plant allies to restore balance and harmony. Ayahuasca curanderos or ayahuasceros (shamans) continually chant sacred Icaros during their ceremonies which call forth the spirit of this vision vine of the jungle which is hugely instrumental in transporting the participants into their spirit world visions. These chants are given to the shaman during initiation, something western practitioners using the plant, who have not been fully initiated lack. The Ancestors endorse that;

“Every single wisdom in the world has a particular chant, a particular melody and when you chant that specific melody it will draw forth the particular wisdom to which it is attached.”  Nachmon of Breslav

The Ancestors 

The use of fire is essential for life and spirit.

The Native American sweat lodge includes a number of portals to spirit. Red or white hot rocks (Still Beings) taken out of the fire outside the lodge induce steam, heat, sweat and cleansing when sprinkled with water. Sacred, aromatic plants (Growing Beings) on the rocks give incense. Chants and prayers call the ancestors and other spirit helpers including the spirits of the plants. The sweat lodge is incredibly powerful spirit medicine incorporating many shamanic principles all in one container for a "calling," cleansing and healing ritual.

Click on the link, play and meditate on sky, earth and Growing Beings

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 CONSCIOUSNESS IN NATURE, THE ELEMENTS, AND US

The intention for this new blog is to help us get more intimate with Nature, so that we can get comfort from her and she can also sustain our loving support during these difficult times for the planet and ourselves.

So what is consciousness? Tesla was ahead of his time and other scientists when he said ...

This "Core" has many names.

He also stated that if we wanted to discover the secrets of the universe we should think of frequency and vibration.

Rupert Sheldrake's concept of consciousness tallies with that of indigenous wisdom, Eastern philosophy and also with that of the Ancestors. 

Consciousness is outside of the brain and it was "Consciousness" that created order after the chaos of the Big Bang billions of years ago. This resulted in the miracle of the elements, our planet, nature and the cosmos. The Four Beings evolved much later into an already conscious universe motivated by the Creator's intent.

 Materialistic, Newtonian reductionism embraced by the thinking of the bulk of scientists and neuroscientists maintains that consciousness is just the software residing in the computer of our brains.  Consciousness must therefore be limited by being confined to the brain. Order then arose mysteriously by chance and natural selection out of chaos?? Richard Dawkins who wrote The God Delusion and has a huge following states dogmatically; "consciousness is not a mystery it is matter", that religion is insanity and that anyone who believes in God is an idiot because you cannot prove His/Her existence. Einstein, however, with due humility, counters by saying;

 "Not everything that counts can be counted and not everything that can be counted counts."

He also said;

"There are two ways to live your life, one, that nothing is a miracle and the other, that everything is a miracle."

A purely materialistic viewpoint to my way of thinking leads to a meaningless, depressing, purposeless and negative idea of the miracle of our universe. The denial of life after death and negating that consciousness lives on only aggravates this state of being. Can we prove it definitively? Probably not and never will, but it surely looks convincing if we study ancient wisdoms and look at the empirical evidence. Anyone who has doubts about near death experiences  confirming this belief should read  Eben Alexander's book - Proof of Heaven - on his personal N.D.E. He is a neurosurgeon who doubted the existence of life after death prior to this event. Consciousness does not die.

Sheldrake goes on to say that consciousness embraces the idea of possibility, choice and imagination. Nothing is fixed. 

We are all vibrating particles orbiting in empty space with only the appearance of being solid. We are mostly space (and 70% water as we will discuss later) but herein lies our unique vibratory potential. We know now that D.N.A. and the brain are not fixed, they have plasticity.

Quantum physics is faced with the dilemma that particles are hard to study because they change their behavior when they are observed. Everything is conscious to some extent – even at the level of particles. 

Placebo - the power of belief to help heal and cure, also changes things. Placebo can be enhanced well beyond the usual 30% found in the randomized double blind controlled trials used in medicine. The stronger the belief, the more profound the effect, sometimes resulting in spontaneous remission of diseases that have defied even the best that modern medicine has to offer. This miracle must be happening at the level of the "particles" in D.N.A. reconstituting themselves and their vibration. 

The concept of the non-locality of consciousness is real. Stanford researchers and the C.I.A. showed that distant viewing by those who have that particular expertise can be proven. Place the viewer in a lead lined chamber and send someone unknown to the viewer to a destination that only the researchers know and the viewer will be able to describe that locale in great detail. If distant viewing can be proven then it's easy to understand the concept of distant diagnosis. One can call a psychic, shaman or a "medical intuitive" who knows nothing about you and you may well get an accurate appraisal of what is wrong. Double blind studies have also shown that distant healing or prayer works even if the patient does not know they are being healed or prayed for, i.e. no placebo response is present. 

Diagnostic information can be received and healing energy can be transmitted from a distance. These phenomena are non-local in space and time and occur outside of our brains.

Quantum physicists have been perplexed that our galaxies seem to be achieving an impossible feat. They are rotating with such speed that the gravity generated by their observable matter could not possibly hold them together. They should have torn themselves apart long ago. Scientists believe that something we cannot see is at work. This strange and unknown matter is called “dark matter” since it is not visible. What we know to be visible matter in the universe is only 5% of matter, Dark Matter is 27%. 

The Kogi believe that there is darkness in the sky that has huge sustaining power. They also believe that they are here to help save the planet which is in danger of dying. For those interested in more check out the link 

Aluna: There is no life without thought - SolTech Designswww.sustainable.soltechdesigns.com › aluna

or better still watch the movie, its well worth the time ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftFbCwJfs1I&t=71s

The Zohar speaks of the reality we can apprehend with the senses as being only one percent of the universe. Today’s astronomers agree that this is so, explaining how nature has hidden most of the matter in the universe and hidden it in a form that cannot be readily detected.      The Ancestors

The Zohar also affirms that ...

As something arose out of nothing, it is possible that without this ongoing divine consciousness and intent, 

nothing could arise out our something if this power was withdrawn.

Many spiritual traditions; the Zohar, the Oran Mor' of the Druids and Celts, and the Hindu's Nada Brahma (the universe is sound) -  believe that in the beginning the Word was really sound or song,

Researchers of cymatics, the physics of sound, such as Ernest Chladni and Hans Jenny have shown that words, vowels, sound and music generate shape. The higher the frequency the more complex the pattern.  In the beginning was the word according to the Bible but ancient wisdoms also tell us that the word was in fact sound. The Creator sang the world into being. The shape of the sound and the Breath of the Divine created the Four Beings of Nature and the elements that comprise them. This may be the basis of the sacred geometry found in nature. The words and songs or sound themselves created the patterns we see in nature, many of which are sacred and used by mystics and sages over the eons.

The Ancestors teach that;

Hurricanes, tornados, typhoons are basically circular or spiral in shape. The tornado is a spiraling vortex which can levitate. Maybe it's Gaia's kundalini energy expressing anger and trying to warning us that we have to levitate our consciousness if we are to survive. When we look for sacred geometry we should also think of spirals and circles. 

Hermes, the messenger of the gods and patron of heralds carried the Caduceus. This ancient archetype comprises two snakes, as if mating, spiraling around each other around a central staff with the wings, maybe of transcendence, above. This is not dissimilar to the yoga system of chakras and the two main channels (or nadis) spiraling around the central channel and embracing the chakras. There is only one serpent in this energy system, coiled around the central channel at the base of the spine. This potential kundalini, Shakti, feminine power is dormant, waiting to be induced to move upwards by spiritual practice. When this occurs, she ascends up the central channel aligns the chakras energetically and catalyzes spiritual transformation. We are   beings with huge spiritual potential.

The symbol of the heart chakra is a hexagon - a sacred symbol. One can also see hexagons in nature for instance in the San Pedro cactus cross sectioned below. This cactus contains the entheogen psilocybin used by shamans in South America in their healing rituals. This magical plant also changes our vibration and can have profound beneficial effects. Psilocybin is now also being used by Harvard psychologists to cure depression, anxiety and similar maladies refractory to pharmacological agents and other therapies. 

A similar hexagon can be seen in the ayahuasca vision vine of the Amazon, if one connects the dots. Ayahuasca, another powerful entheogen,  also grows in a spiral often twining itself around another vine. We also mimic these circles, spirals and hexagons among the many other signs of sacred geometry in nature to attain equanimity, such as meditating by walking a labyrinth. By looking for sacred geometry in nature we can become more intimate with what she has to offer as well as heal us.

For anyone interested I am giving a Zoom talk on this subject this coming Saturday, 10am.-12pm. California time. If you register with the School you will be sent a link the day before. The link to register is at the bottom of the flyer. Be patient if the system does not let you in the first time. It can get overloaded. Try again later.