It’s clear that we have to hold each other up. We have to imagine and create the future we want in all its detail. And we have to find ways of experiencing our connections and feeling supported by them every day. Every hour.

Last month I wrote about those interconnections and shared a practice to connect with the mycelium under your feet. If you tried it and forgot about it, go back. If you didn’t try it, go there now. 

Below you’ll find another practice to integrate into what you do daily. Let me know how it works for you!

My Encounters with the Universe: A Story of Two Worlds

          I began trying to understand the universe when I was five years old. “God is omnipotent, omnipresent, and infinite,” said my mother.

          I tried to imagine God being everywhere and in everything. I tried to imagine going on forever—what did infinity look like? My young self kept thinking about infinity while I climbed trees, caught polliwogs in the creek, and hiked in the hills with the older kids. 

          I am still curious. To keep my heart soaring and my courage strong in the face of life's difficulties, I have spent my life seeking portals into these mysteries. 

          Some portals appeared during spiritual practice: meditation, shamanic journeying, and Qi gong. Some portal openings came from physical endeavors: backpacking, growing my food organically, and working as a potter with clay from the earth. And some portals I found in the wisdom of indigenous cultures.

          Eventually I was taught an ancient Andean way of healing with the universe. By connecting your own heart energy with the energy of Earth and Cosmos, you experience yourself as an integral part of the energetic flow between all living things. This helps you expand beyond your small self and engage with the support that surrounds you.

          A few days after my first experience of this healing, I found myself traveling to the stars! At 3AM, from a wooden bench under a vast sky in the Southern hemisphere, my astral body floated up into blue-black space; my heart expanded into the cosmos. I began to experience the infinity I had imagined for so long.

          In that moment, I knew this world of stars and universes would be endlessly interesting: my life’s trajectory changed. Thus began my ongoing journey with the Q’ero nation and other Quechua-speaking people of the Andes. I vowed I would return again and again to learn from this culture in which talking to the stars is a normal part of life.

          As I learned more about the breathing, conscious universe, my excitement grew. I discovered that like us, the universe is made of the elements in stardust. Like us, the universe is alive, aware, and interconnected with all its parts—you, me, and the multiverses that surround us. Feeling our way into these interconnections feeds our opportunity and potential for “dreaming a new dream” for the planet. 

          But my ordinary life—loneliness, isolation, despair, and sense of being stuck—was holding me back. I could not dream a new dream when I was relying on the same assumptions, thought patterns, habits, and stories that had defined my life. None of us can. 

          I wrote Weave the Heart of the Universe Into Your Life to share the paradigm-shifting, transformational ways of seeing and being that had been passed on to me. The book translates the perceptions and practices I have learned into a meaningful flow for you while staying true to the heart of that indigenous wisdom. 

          The heart of the universe is energy, light, vibration, and power. To connect with the cosmic heart is to experience all of creation through your human heart, to put yourself in dialogue and communication with the earth and the cosmos.

          This learning is experiential. When you work with indigenous people who simply live—who do not put many words around what they experience in their hearts and their bones—you do the same. If you want meaning and mental understanding, you largely have to figure it out for yourself. 

          Learning to focus your attention and move your energy, release what does not serve you, and fill, instead, with the living energies of the earth and the cosmos can change your life. Experiencing your own connection with the living universe helps you shift your perception, your energy, and the stories you tell yourself. 

We can change humanity’s trajectory.

We can dream a different world together. 

We can become homo luminous.

A Daily Process for Protection and Connection

     With some very new and challenging energy work I’ve been doing—inviting quanta into my body and field—I’ve been more than usually concerned with safety and protection. Most of us have regular practices for clearing and setting protections (if you don’t, talk to me!), but sometimes more is needed. 

     The burdens of grief alone, from constant shootings, wars, and natural disasters, bring us all to our knees.  The process that follows—a sequence of steps to protect, clear, and shine—was given to me recently. It’s a process you can modify for yourself, incorporating whatever ways you have to keep yourself rooted and aligned!

Breathe deeply several times, bringing your awareness inside.

Align yourself.

Root yourself, and listen to what you hear from the earth, the tree roots, and the mycelium.

Spin from the inside out to clear anything that doesn’t belong.

Focus on the love and light coming from your heart. 

Shine. Shine brighter. Keep shining.

Experience yourself as one of the jewels in Indra’s Net.

      If you are looking for soul and spirit healing, moving away from stress and anxiety, or finding your life purpose, make an appointment! You will receive inspiring guidance using shamanic and energy healing. I will help you explore the mystical, find your wholeness, and learn to interpret and integrate your shifts of consciousness. 

        We can meet in person in Sonoma—in my sacred medicine wheel or healing space— or remotely on Zoom.

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