Vietnamese monk and teacher Thich Nhat Hanh coined a word that expresses the inevitable and inescapable interconnection we have with every aspect of our world: interbeing. He talks about the fact that we interare, and, with this concept and others like it, Devadana Sanctuary hopes to support your experience of interconnection and interdependence in daily life.
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Multidimensionality
A major focus of Devadana Sanctuary is to support and promote an everyday awareness of the multidimensional nature of reality. This includes holding the possibility – and, hopefully, the lived experience – that there are many dimensions of reality beyond the three-dimensional, material world that we inhabit most consciously.
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Devas
In recent decades, individuals from Western cultures-–not just shamanic cultures-–have explored the existence of nature spirits, as well as beings who embody physical qualities and forms. The Findhorn community in northern Scotland has numerous references about their experiences collaborating with what are called Devas. In Sanskrit, this word means shining ones: non-physical beings that interact consciously and actively with the physical world.
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Living as a Magician
The practice of becoming a magician who engages a collaboration between visible and invisible worlds involves a clear awareness of intentionality. When we focus our intentions on specific outcomes we wish to manifest, we magnetically “call” these outcomes to us. Once the call goes out, synchronicity, operating within multidimensional realities, brings our intention and its outcome together in time and space.
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Working with Intention
The practices found here invite you to explore a variety of activities and possibilities for living with a more active conscious awareness of the multidimensional nature of reality. For our first, I draw on something that Gandhi said most eloquently. He invited his followers to focus on the outcomes they wanted to achieve, rather than putting their energy into fighting against things they didn’t want.
Books
Nancy Napier, founder of Devadana Sanctuary, has written books that we think you may enjoy. Please click either of the below images, to learn more, buy from Amazon, by clicking the link below.
Sacred Practices for Conscious Living
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When the first edition of Sacred Practices for Conscious Living was published in 1997, the world was a different place—and author Nancy Napier was a different woman.
Now, nearly two decades later, Napier is ready to share more of her own life story while returning to the subject she was first introduced to by her grandmother. As she comes again to the topic that pervades her life story, she focuses on a number of themes. She explains that once we recognize our place within collective consciousness—and focus on compassion and mindfulness—we can begin to experience more directly the interdependence and interconnection underlying our place in the universe…
Meditations and Rituals for Conscious Living
(co-authored with Carolyn Tricomi)
Paperback
Meditations & Rituals for Conscious Living invites people to reflect on weekly meditations that allow them to deepen their understanding of themes and practices that bring spiritual experience to life. The process combines reflective meditation—returning to a theme each day for a month, with ritual—an end-of-month ceremony that gives the theme substance here and now. Each month offers a new theme with its accompanying ritual. Over the course of the year, these themes and practices provide a foundation for living each day consciously and with an open heart, creating a more alive and vital connection to the world, and to the sacred. The first week in January offers the following theme for daily reflective meditation: “Stillness is the ground of being from which all else emerges. It is within and behind every breath, every thought, every action. It is my starting point, my resting place, the home base to which I can return again and again.” The monthly themes are: January – Stillness; February – Wholeness; March – Compassion & Lovingkindness; April – Getting Grounded; May – Mindfulness; June – Gratitude & Generosity; July – Oneness; August – Intention; September – Creating Possibility & Synchronicity; October – Paradox; November – Active Surrender; December – Living Consciously.
Rituals
Please feel free to explore our rituals by selecting any of these links:
3. Honoring Those Who Have Left Their Physical Bodies
2. Honoring Everyday Helpers
1. Honoring the Spirit of Home
Meditations
Practices
Please feel free to explore our practices by selecting any of the links:
12. Practice for Blessing Water
11. Practice at the Beginning of the Day
10. Engaging and Collaborating with Living Archetypes
9. Blessings for a Troubled World
8. Gratitude Practice
7. Radiating Love
6. Nature
5. Interconnectedness
4. Multidimensionality
3. Devas
2. Living as a Magician
1. Working with Intention
Workshops
Workshops and on-line courses are in the works. We’ll put up workshop information as it becomes available. In the meantime, we hope you will enjoy the other offerings here at Devadana Sanctuary!