Spirits of the Urban Sacred

Many people aren’t aware of the subtle realms, and yet we all are affected by the subtle energies around us all the time. Living with the context of a multidimensional world offers an opportunity to pay attention to the quality of energies that touch us as we move through our everyday lives.  It also invites us to notice what qualities and energies we radiate into the world within a number of frequencies and “levels”.  I use the word “levels” to attempt to describe the fact that frequencies generate, or support, different qualities of being—an infinite variety of qualities of being, expression—of manifestation.

This week’s exploration offers an opportunity to pay particular attention to two dynamics. First is to notice how you feel in various situations, to become more aware of the impact on you of the subtle environments you move through every day.  The other is to notice the impact of what you send into the world on a daily basis. For example, if you find yourself in a bad mood, or upset about something, notice what the world around you feels like as you radiate the thoughts and feelings that resonate with frequencies of upset or negativity. View More

This week’s exploration focuses on gratitude accompanied by an ever-deepening recognition of the gifts we receive every day from the beings with whom we share this planet.  For this exploration, I invite you to remember that everything you eat was once the body of a living being.  If that feels morbid to you, please keep in mind that our beautiful planet has organized its physical being to depend on both birth and death of all life forms.  Without these dynamic processes, the creativity expressed in nature couldn’t continue to evolve, explore, or express itself in such abundance.

Many indigenous cultures automatically include deep gratitude to the beings they hunt and consume, a recognition of the profound gift that the life of the being they hunt offers to their survival and well-being. View More

Over the years, I’ve posted quite a few practices focused on water on my nancynapier.com website—practices that focus on the way that water absorbs and “remembers” the qualities of thought, emotion, and presence that touch it, on the importance of offering blessings to water whenever and wherever we encounter it.  The other day, I read the following from a Facebook post by Water Transformations:

“Did you know that the thoughts you are thinking are establishing a frequency in the water in your body? If you are thinking loving thoughts, forgiving and compassionate thoughts, your BodyWater is circulating that throughout your body. That is why, when you are feeling good inside and counting your blessings, it seems easier to stay in a good mood. Conversely, if your thoughts are angry, frustrated, or self-critical, it is challenging to shift into happier feelings.”

For this week’s exploration, I invite you to act as if this quotation speaks an important truth and then notice how your relationship to water may change, deepen, or in some other way touch you in a meaningful way.   View More

In recent explorations, I’ve invited you to attune to the fact that everything you encounter radiates a particular quality, an essence of being.  I’ve also invited you to recognize that everything you encounter is an expression of the same sacred source as you.  For this week’s exploration, I invite you to focus more specifically on the individual trees, bushes, plants, rocks, water, buildings, and whatever else you encounter along the way as you move through your daily activities.  The emphasis here is to notice that each has a unique quality.

For example, let’s say you walk by particular trees on the street you travel to and from work every day.  You may already have noticed that each tree, even if they look very much alike, has a distinct quality to it, a unique expression even though its physical form may be very much like the tree right next to it.   View More

For this week’s exploration, I invite you to focus on the spirits, the creative embodiments, the archetypes that are all around us in the subtle environment that is part of our multidimensional world.  In whatever ways you are most comfortable thinking of the Intelligences that embody particular essences and qualities, notice what it’s like to imagine that there actually are living representatives of expressions that we take for granted. For example, when you draw on compassion, kindness, or assertiveness, what is it like to consider that these qualities are the expressions of embodied presences that inhabit your world?  What would change in the quality of your everyday life if you were to imagine that you could meet a problem or challenge with the support of, say, the Spirit of Courage, or the Archetype of Strength?  What if these embodiments were available to collaborate with you? View More

Part of the emphasis here at Spirits of the Urban Sacred is to bring the presence of the Sacred more into awareness in everyday life.  It’s a matter of paying attention to this aspect of reality and this week’s exploration focuses on a recognition that the essence of the Sacred is in everything you encounter in the course of your daily life.  Everything around you is made of the same life force that moves in and through you, even though the physical forms that life force takes can be very different from yours. View More

Every living being constantly radiates its essence, its “energy signature” into the environment in every moment.  And, we are no exception.  The frequencies with which we resonate as a matter of course determine the quality of energy we radiate into the environment, and this week’s exploration invites you to pay attention to what you send out to the world, as well as to the frequencies with which you generally resonate.  The frequencies, qualities, and intentions with which you resonate not only shape your experience, they also align you with subtle beings, some of whom are collaborators, who resonate with those same frequencies. View More

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

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

David Spangler has an exercise that I really like and I’d like to share my adaptation of it for you to explore over the next week.  It involves transmitting the essence and energy of love to everything around you.  Remember that most of these explorations arise from the assumption that everything we encounter is alive and conscious, in the sense that all are expressions of the One Life that is all that is.  Saying that everything is conscious doesn’t mean everything experiences and expresses the same kind of consciousness.  Different frequencies and different qualities of essence no doubt generate different kinds of consciousness.  The underlying assumption, however, is that there is One Consciousness and that we are all participants in that One. View More

I spend a lot of time on computers and have found that my relationship with them is a dynamic and active one. It took me quite a while to recognize that my computers—both at home and at the office—are true collaborative companions along the way. For example, it dawned on me one day that something other than my conscious awareness was guiding me to resources on the computer. Between my own website’s Weekly Practices postings, the Daily Inspiration postings on the Devadana Sanctuary side of the portal, and other activities that require inspiring input, I realized that I was being guided to sources of materials that I didn’t know existed. This usually happens as I follow certain things that pop up on my computer, either through Facebook or in odd ways I can’t quite explain.

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