But when I saw the
awesome beauty and experienced the primal, regenerative
energy of the Earth's immense volcanic biology here, I spontaneously
got on my knees. I can only compare it to the power I felt
standing on the
Cauldera of Kilawea on
Hawaii watching the lava flow under my feet as it traveled
and cooled in a giant hiss into the sea.
Shamans and other
light-workers use the four elements as the matrix for transformation.
Wow! Did I get a lesson in the mystery of Purification found
in the energy of the cold north. Talk about instant karma!
Purifying IS the function of this place. Mt. Shasta is like
one of the Earth's livers. It cleanses the system. The water
is so clean you can drink it as it trickles out of the mountain
and the air feels like food. Everything has been regenerated
and washed clean.
Because humans are
one of the Earth's animals, we are subject to the ebb and
flow of Her particular environments, whether or not we remember
this. So of course, I began to purify spontaneously. I felt
physically excellent and mentally clear, but emotionally,
I began to recapitulate some of my most painful memories.
(In western mystery tradition, water represents emotions.)
These are things I didn't want to think about or feel. Oh
yeah, I ALREADY DEALT with my divorce and my miscarriages;
my feelings of failure, and being a sensitive freak; my
fear of the future and my desire, but against my puny will,
the mountain flushed these things up and out of me.
Ok, so that was my
personal process, besides the fact that I lost my camera
(oh a blow to the ego and ammo to reinforce the self hate
tapes). But something else happened when I was at Mt. Shasta.
I met the people at AAUM who facilitated the healing retreat
and who work with the ascension part of our evolution.
This is what is up
- we are evolving BECAUSE THE PLANET IS EVOLVING. Any assumption
that the Earth is under our human control or that we are
anything other than a product of the dirt, bones, air and
water of this planet is a Judeo Christian belief inherited
culturally that infects us unaware like virus.
Ascension is the process
of "speeding up" our vibrational pattern, in conjunction
with and in response to the Earth doing the very same thing.
(For the metaphysical nitty-gritty, check out Operation
Terra.)
What we are experiencing
at the end of the last two thousand years is the process
of purification. This is when the inauthentic, the toxic
and the outdated gets in your face for analysis and reevaluation
before release or transformation. Kind of like a boil, you
have to experience the crap again before you can let it
go. This is what happened to me at Mt. Shasta. This is what
our country collectively experienced during our elections.
And, this is what the world is experiencing globally as
the comfortable old ways increasingly DO NOT WORK.
We need the purification
process, unpleasant as it can be, in order grow to contain
a new, higher frequency.
Quantum physics explains
how all matter is actually energy that vibrates at a different
speed than other non-corporeal phenomena. Check out the
site of my favorite quantum physicist and philosopher David
Bohm.
So these are a few
of the symptoms many are experiencing during this process
of planetary evolution and human ascension. Check it out
and then check out AAUM for a more in depth exploration.
- Processes
are accelerated. Everything seems to be going faster,
(look at the exponential advancement of technology) including
our personal drama.
- Our foundations
are crumbling or being forced to reorganize.
- We are experiencing
increased and strange sensitivities and illnesses, including
allergies, cancers, and autoimmune issues.
- We are being forced
to face the resurfacing of old demons - memories, lovers,
money issues, etc.
- We are experiencing
altered sleep patterns, including increased dream activity
and the personal need to sleep more, or less.
Of course this kind
of thing is happening both personally and collectively.
Some ways to handle the transition include:
- Stay grounded in
the physical, i.e., eat, drink, sleep, have regular loving
sex, go outside a lot. Actually breathe the stuff that's
green.
- Allow yourself
to change - don't sweat the small stuff. Learn to "flow".
- Listen to your
intuition. The rules have changed so use ALL the senses.
- Ditto dreams.
- Use humor, gratitude
and compassion when you are feeling scared or annoyed
because it will keep you from screwing yourself up.
- Do not succumb
to fear. Repeat. Do not succumb to fear.
- Know that your
Soul "chose" to be here during this unique and
important time in Earth's history, and that you have something
to contribute.
Blessing and love
in this historic time of transition.
Blessed Be.
-E.Sikie
During
last October's full moon, my friend Aphrodite dragged me by
the hand to a healer's conference in Mt. Shasta. It's funny
how we resist the very thing we need. And boy, did I whine!
"I can't go because of money, of time, of the inconvenience...,"
and my now famous and laughable temper tantrum of the xenophobe,
"If I get abducted by aliens, I'm never gonna talk to
you again."