past tipping points

Today's session on the Shaman's Cave discusses the ability to meet our future self. Given the news of the Amazon rainforest having tipped past salvation - we need all the help we can get. 

There is an understanding in many spiritual traditions and sciences like quantum physics that we inhabit multiple realities. On a personal and communal basis how do we make a difference and have the support we need? 

In shamanic journeying different choices offer alternative options that impact a variety of our future possibilities. Let us hold the intention of lightening up and growing less dense - together and collectively. 

Evolution is a worthwhile state of being yet it's not an easy or comfortable place to be in. Tested and challenged to stretch and expand - often when we're resistant or ill prepared. 

sandworm & rider - The Art & Soul of Dune

Like Paul Atreides, the central figure in the Dune universe created by Frank Herbert. Young, displaced, and unsure of himself - his safe Caladan home world lost, moved to the harsh alien world of Arrakis/Dune - all new and unfamiliar, betrayed and left to survive or die. 

Frank Herbert warns about society's tendencies to "give over every decision-making capacity" to a charismatic leader, a hero. Paul himself battles ceaselessly against inner motives and outer driven factors that pull and push at him constantly. 

Any of us today all too easily feel the rub and friction of ceaseless and constant change - epic proportions held over daunting obstacles. All the subtlety seems lost -  along with any clarity or comfort we strive to maintain through these quantum shifts and leaps - in a roller coaster, run amok world. 

What tools would you want for support and help right now? What could aid best in the restoration of our well being? For ourselves, for our world, for our future?

Make your list and let's get this conversation going!

dominance vs reverence

Featured today on the Shamanic Wisdom Summit of the Shift Network are father-daughter tandem Steven Newcomb and Shawna Bluestar Newcomb. 

Activist and author Steven Newcomb offers insights into historical truths gone unrecognized for centuries. He shares how the knowledge and wisdom systems of Original Nations and Peoples teach us how to harmonize ourselves with the insight that Life-is-Energy, and Love-of-Life (Aholtewakan in Lenape), is the true purpose of our existence. He shares his life's work, decoding the doctrine of dominance perpetuated by European and Christian colonizers.

Shawna Bluestar Newcomb shares how the Gift of Remembering allows us to connect with ourselves and among each other, to walk gracefully through the many lessons of our times, and to know the gift that our ancestors dreamed for us all. As we walk through a time of Great Reckoning, recent times of challenge, and events, we are given the opportunity to see what's been hidden in plain sight for too long. When we learn to sit with the uncomfortable with compassion, new awareness, a deep healing can occur.

a place of belonging

I have moved between islands and countries, counties and states a dozen times in my adult life. As often as every year or two in the past dozen years. It is always hard and so much is expended. 

Far more taxing than the physical and logistical effort is the social, emotional and mental adjustment in a new environment. Uprooted and displaced before new roots ad connections can be created once more. 

our home island mountains of Negros

As the economy changes - aggravated by this global pandemic - isolation and quarantine have revealed that many tasks can be performed remotely. Sheltering in place has given us the space to redefine ourselves and explore more geographic flexibility. 

Life has been paused from its wild and greedy rampage and destruction. Going against the status quo set up by governments and big industries, for some it's just the impetus needed to consider other options.