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Portal to Multidimensional Living

Exploration #4

Every space you enter has its own, unique “spirit” or quality and a powerful way to enrich your experience of the sacred in urban settings (or anywhere, for that matter) is to develop your ability to attune to the spirit of a place.  For this week’s exploration, I invite you to focus on your felt-sense of the spaces and places around you.

There are a couple reasons to develop this practice, if you haven’t already.   View More

…just as working through painful personal memories can bring therapeutic release for the individual, [Christopher] Bache argues that so might conscious engagement of collective trauma (by an individual in a very expanded state of consciousness) bring healing to the species mind…Slightly modifying [Rupert] Sheldrake’s theory, however, Bache maintains that the species mind, as one layer of a vast cosmic intelligence he calls “Sacred Mind,” contains within it not just the species memory but also inherent creative capacities of enormous scope.
 
~ David Nicol
 
Japanese Bamboo Fountain, Ryoan-ji Temple, Kyoto, Japan – photo by Nataliya Hora, bigstockphoto.com

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In a healthy society, caring for the soul of the world is primarily the work of true elders. These are the community members who have the greatest capacity to recognize and comprehend the needs and desires of the world, and to respond wisely. They are the ones who can best guide us by virtue of their capacity to be guided by the world. By listening to the soul of the world, true elders acquire the wisdom, scope, and perspective to assess the relationship between humanity and the larger web of life we’re part of-and to guide us in keeping that relationship in balance.
 
~ Geneen Marie Haugen
 
Sol Duc Rainforest, Oregon – photo from bigstockphoto.com

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Many earlier peoples saw in…natural phenomena a world beyond ephemeral appearance, an abiding world, a world imaged forth in the wonders of the sun and clouds by day and the stars and planets by night, a world that enfolded the human in some profound manner. This other world was guardian, teacher, healer-the source from which humans were born, nourished, protected, guided, and the destiny to which we returned.
 
~ Thomas Berry
 
Yosemite in Snow – photo from bigstockphoto.com

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When we walk on the earth with reverence, beauty will decide to trust us. The rushed heart and arrogant mind lack the gentleness and patience to enter that embrace.
 
~ John O’Donohue
 
Giant Redwoods, Muir Woods, San Francisco, CA – photo from bigstockphoto.com

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From my perspective, I absolutely believe in a greater spiritual power, far greater than I am, from which I have derived strength in moments of sadness or fear. That’s what I believe, and it was very, very strong in the forest.
 
~ Jane Goodall
 
Mt. Kilimanjaro – photo by Michal Bednarek, bigstockphoto.com

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Exploration #3

Over a number of years now, I’ve engaged in practices that help to develop a more heart-centered awareness, a shift from always being in the head/mental brain to the perception and intelligence that lives in the heart.  For this week’s exploration, I invite you to play with these two “brains” and to notice the quality of your experience when you focus your awareness in your heart brain rather than your head brain. View More

We live in a world where everything is connected. We can no longer think in terms of us and them when it comes to the consequences of the way we live. Today it’s all about WE.
 
~ Gregg Braden
 
Winter Landscape, Ontario Canada – photo from bigstockphoto.com
 
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It is true that many of the old ways have been lost.
But, just as the rains restore the earth after a drought,
so the power of the Great Mystery will restore the way
and give new life.
We ask that this happen not just for the Red People,
but for all people,
that they all might live.
In ignorance and carelessness they
have walked on Ina Maka, Our Mother.
They did not understand that they are part of all beings,
the Four-legged, the Winged, Grandfather Rock,
the Tree People, and our Star Brothers.
Now our Mother and all our Relations are crying out.
They cry for the help of all people.
 
~ Black Elk
 
Grand Canyon Sunset – photo by R. Wallace, bigstockphoto.com

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Relationships are all there is. Everything in the universe only exists because it is in relationship to everything else. Nothing exists in isolation. We have to stop pretending we are individuals that can go it alone.
 
~ Margaret J. Wheatley
 
Winter Morning – photo from bigstockphoto.com

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Are we prepared to embrace a new story of life and civilization, one that is radically different to our present story of a consumer-driven culture based upon exploitation and the myth of continual economic progress? Many people today long for such a new story, one that recognizes the Earth as a single interconnected living whole to which we belong. This is a story that nourishes our deeper selves with a sense of connection to the sacred and to the wonder and joy of life that is our heritage.
 
~ Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
 
Pinnacles, Nambung National Park, Western Australia – photo from bigstockphoto.com

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There are theoretical descriptions showing how tasks can be accomplished by entangled groups without the members of the group communicating with each other in any conventional way…Some even propose that the entire universe is a single, self-entangled object.
 
~ Dean Radin
 
Milky Way in Granitoe, Ukraine – photo by Den Belitsky, bigstockphoto.com

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Everything you see has its roots In the unseen world.
The forms may change
Yet the essence remains the same.
Every wondrous sight will vanish, Every sweet word will fade,
But do not be disheartened,
The Source they come from is Eternal, Growing, branching out,
Giving new life and new joy. Why do you weep?
That Source is within you
And this whole world Is springing up from it.
The Source is full, Its waters are ever-flowing;
Do not grieve,
Drink your fill!
Don’t think it will ever run dry,
This is the endless Ocean.
 
~ Rumi
 
Beach at Sunset – photo from bigstockphoto.com

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