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Portal to Multidimensional Living

Practice for Protecting Nature

I (Nancy) moved from the Berkshires to New York City in fall of 1983. For the two years that I lived in the 1800’s house on 11 acres in Sheffield, Massachusetts, I was called to a pine woods each day for meditation. The woods stood on the other side of the marshy swamp that was between the house and the woods. There was one small path I was able to take across the swamp each day and, on that first day, I discovered that the pine woods didn’t like humans. I don’t know what happened there, but there was a definite quality of hostility and a sense of “don’t come near us.” It took time to befriend the woods and we ended up having a rich two years together.

The day before I moved permanently to New York City, the woods asked one last favor of me. I was asked to encircle the woods with lines of white light, to help protect it from whatever humans or human activity might be around. I did so in a meditation, imagining that the woods became enfolded in many white lines of light. I had no idea if this was effective, but it was what I could do. View More

​Honoring the Spirit of Home

Even as each landscape has an enfolding and embodying Landscape Deva, a Spirit of the land, so each home has an enfolding and embodying Spirit of Home. The following ritual offers one way to honor this Spirit each day.

Here’s an audio version of the written information below, if you prefer to listen to it.
As you listen, please press pause when you need additional time to explore this ritual.
And, please remember never to listen to these recordings when driving or using machinery.

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​Honoring Everyday Helpers

In the Findhorn community, in Scotland, there is a pratice of taking the time to clean and honor the contribution of all the tools used in everyday living. For example, rakes, shovels, silverware and other utensils are blessed and thanked as they are cleaned and put away at the end of the day.

Here’s an audio version of the written information below, if you prefer to listen to it.
As you listen, please press pause when you need additional time to take in the ritual.
And, please remember never to listen to these recordings when driving or using machinery.

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Ritual for Honoring Those Who Have Left Their Physical Bodies

This ritual may apply to any life form that has left its physical body, its physical life and expression. It’s a simple ritual and I encourage you to adapt it to your own beliefs, your own sensibilities, and to the possibilities inherent in any given situation.

For this ritual, you will need a candle and whatever other objects reflect, for you, a quality of acknowledging and honoring the value and meaning of the life you are honoring.

Here’s an audio version of the written information below, if you prefer to listen to it.
As you listen, please press pause when you need additional time to take in the ritual.
And, please remember never to listen to these recordings when driving or using machinery.

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Attuning to Synchronicity

Here’s an audio version of the written information and meditation below if you prefer to listen to it.
As you listen, please press pause when you need additional time to do the meditation.
And, please remember never to listen to recorded meditations when driving or using machinery.

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One of the ways that the non-visible realms connect with us more overtly and obviously is through the ongoing dance of synchronicity. Carl Jung, the Swiss psychologist, defined synchronicity as “meaningful coincidence”. There’s not necessarily a causal relationship between you and what emerges around you, but there is a meaningful relationship. The key thing is that each of us experiences the particular meaning that is alive and relevant to us in any given moment.
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​Offering Blessings and Gratitude

Here’s another variation on the theme of the prior Earth Meditation. It’s all too easy to get caught up in everyday demands and obligations, and to forget the power of gratitude and offering blessings to the life all around us. This Earth Meditation offers an opportunity to deepen into a relationship of dynamic gratitude with visible and non-visible worlds.

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Practice for Blessing Water

This ritual is drawn from a book I read last year, called Devas y Naturaleza Mágica: Il despertar planetario de nueva conciencia ecológica, by Miyo. Loosely translated, the title means Devas and Nature Magic: Planetary Awakening to A New Ecological Consciousness. The author, Miyo, actually Emilio Fiel, is a Spaniard who takes people on journeys to explore their relationship with nature in ways more familiar to indigenous cultures than to those raised in European-based cultures. You can explore more about Miyo at http://www.emiliofiel.com/

Miyo invites us to do the following:
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Engaging and Collaborating with Living Archetypes

How do you imagine your life would be affected if you were to begin to actively engage the presence and support of living Archetypes, embodiments of different qualities of being, expression and action in the world? For example, what do you imagine might happen if you were to attune to the Spirit of Affection—a living Archetype of the essence and qualities of affection expressed through words, actions, feelings—and allow it to express in and through you as you engage others? What if these living Archetypes were actually embodiments of a kind of consciousness that we might think of as invisible Presences with whom we can interact and collaborate to enhance our quality of life and activities?
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Blessings for a Troubled World

Sometimes, we feel powerless in a world that has so much suffering and distress, and the following can be a way to offer healing to the world around you from right where you are in this moment. It has to do with moving through your world offering the living presence of your heart to all you meet, including yourself. Here are some examples of possible intentions and blessings you can offer from your heart space as you move through your daily activities:​

I choose love.
I am loving awareness. (From Ram Dass)
The Light in me recognizes the Light in you.
I affirm our kinship. (Offered to whatever life form you may encounter along the way.)
You are my kin. May you be well.
May you be free from suffering. (From Buddhist Lovingkindness practices.)
May you live in wholeness.

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Gratitude Practice

One of the most powerful practices we can do on a daily basis is to express gratitude for the things all around us that we may take for granted – to bring into conscious awareness a recognition that we are supported by so many sources for everything we have and everything we do.  Following up on my August post under Ponderings, I wanted to expand on a gratitude practice, and offer possible ways to invite it to deepen.
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Radiating Love

A practice that can become a way of life is to take just a moment to radiate love to any element of nature you may encounter along the way.  For example, if you have plants in your home, notice your experience when you take the time to radiate love to them each time you see them, or at least once in any given day.  Also notice your experience when you thank any crystals you may have in your home, and radiate love to them, as well.  When you bring flowers into your home, offer them your love and gratitude, as well, for the beauty they bring into your environment.  The same goes for any animals, fish, reptiles, birds or other creatures with whom you share your home or who you might encounter along the way on any given day.
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Nature

We hold the assumption that everything around us –Nature itself and everything that exists in it — is conscious and available for creative collaboration in every moment.  This assumption and awareness encompass the following elements:
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