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Portal to Multidimensional Living

There is a world behind this world. The old cultures used to be in constant conversation with it through the sacred practices of storytelling, dreaming, ceremony, and song. They invited the Otherworld to visit them, to transmit its wisdom to them, so that they might be guided by an ancient momentum. 

But as we succumbed to the spell of rationalism, the living bridge between the worlds fell into disrepair. As fewer made the journey back and forth across the doorsill where the two worlds touch, we forgot how to find the Otherworld. 

At any given moment, we are either turning away from or coming into congruence with our kinship with mystery.

~ Toko-pa Turner 

Elf Garden – Iceland, photo by Ragnhildur Johnsdottir

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Every breath is a sacrament, an affirmation of our connection with all other living things, a renewal of our link with our ancestors and a contribution to generations yet to come. Our breath is a part of life’s breath, the ocean of air that envelopes the earth. 

~ David Suzuki

Forest, Phuket, Thailand – photo by kovalvs, bigstockphoto.com

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People who’ve had any genuine spiritual experience always know that they don’t know. They are utterly humbled before mystery. They are in awe before the abyss of it all, in wonder at eternity and depth, and a love, which is incomprehensible to the mind.

~ Richard Rohr 

Valle de Luna (Moon Valley), Chile – photo by Aliaksei Ksreidzeleu, bigstockphoto.com

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We need movements rooted in love right now, movements powered not by difference and exclusion and punishment, but by common ground, compassion, humility, healthy boundaries, patience and healing.

~ Adrienne Maree Brown

Grand Teton Sunrise – photo by 225165481, bigstockphoto.com

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If you practice compassion, whether you believe in a religion or not, you will come to realize the value of compassion for your own peace of mind. The very atmosphere of your own life becomes happier, which promotes good health, perhaps even a longer life. By developing a warm heart, we can also transform others. As we become nicer human beings, our neighbors, friends, parents, spouses, and children experience less anger. They will become more warmhearted, compassionate, and harmonious. You will see the world around you change little by little. Even a small act of compassion grants meaning and purpose to our lives.

~ H.H. the Dalai Lama

Lotus – photo by Ange DiBennedetto

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… people’s hearts must change before structures can change. This change is the basis of genuine reform and renewal. We need to understand, to really grasp on an elemental level, that the definitive revolution is the spiritual awakening of humankind.

~ Wayne Teasdale, The Mystic Heart

Monument Valley Sunrise – photo by wisanboonrawd, bigstockphoto.com

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Hold your hands out over the earth as over a flame. To all who love her, who open to her the doors of their veins, she gives of her strength, sustaining them with her own measureless tremor of dark life. Touch the earth, love the earth, honor the earth, her plains, her valleys, her hills, and her seas; rest your spirit in her solitary places. For the gifts of life are the earth’s and they are given to all, and they are the songs of birds at daybreak, Orion and the Bear, and dawn seen over ocean from the beach.

~ Henry Beston 

Orion’s Belt Panorama – Mvln, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikipedia.com

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In a real sense all life is inter-related. All persons are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be, and you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be. This is the inter-related structure of reality.

~ Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Ocean Sunrise – photo by Enguene Ga, bigstockphoto.com

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The healing of our present woundedness may lie in recognizing and reclaiming the capacity we have to heal each other, the enormous power in the simplest of human relationships: the strength of a touch, the blessing of forgiveness, the grace of someone else taking you just as you are and finding in you an unexpected goodness.

~ Rachel Naomi Remen

Tree Wisdom, Timaru, New Zealand – photo by Artazum, bigstockphoto.com 

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Given the distant common ancestry between octopuses and humans, conscious octopuses would mean that consciousness has evolved on earth twice. Godfrey-Smith believes it’s plausible that there are more than two branches of evolution where consciousness independently developed…Based on the current evidence, it seems that consciousness is not particularly unusual at all, but a fairly routine development in nature.

~ Olivia Goldhill

Octopus – photo from Wikipedia

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There is a kindness that dwells deep down in things; it presides everywhere, often in the places we least expect. The world can be harsh and negative, but if we remain generous and patient, kindness inevitably reveals itself. Something deep in the human soul seems to depend on the presence of kindness; something instinctive in us expects it, and once we sense it we are able to trust and open ourselves.

~ John O’Donohue

The Gentle Presence of Lotuses – photo by kenny001, bigstockphoto.com

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We don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of nows, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.

~ Howard Zinn

Rainforest Bridge – photo by jack-sooksan, bigstockphoto.com

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Fungi are their own kingdom of life — as animals and plants are. They include microscopic yeasts and big mushrooms, some of them psychedelic. They are in bread. They are in medicine. They clean up oil spills. Only a small fraction of fungi species have been identified.

Fungi stitch things together.

Some kinds stitch life and death together, literally. They decompose dead things — leaves, twigs, giant trunks of ancient trees — and turn them into soil so more trees and twigs and leaves can grow. I came to think of them as agents of reincarnation.

~ Somini Sengupta

Forest Mushrooms – photo by Sergey Pankin, bigstockphoto.com

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