The Last Quarter Inch

Posted on August 17, 2011 by admin

The last quarter inch. We have to do it. All of us, not just those that are awake. We all have to stop playing the character we’ve been playing and find the self within that blesses all. That’s the only way through the eye of the needle, and we have to do it as one global people.

We are being wedged. We want the world’s governments to do it, but they are gridlocked. We want our financial systems and banks to do it, but they are bankrupt. We look everywhere outside for salvation, but wherever we look, the way is blocked. We are kicking and screaming, and behaving badly as we are forced back onto the ground of our being, our stories broken into dusty fragments and scattered to the winds. From this ground of being, we look with new eyes and have the grace to see others as they are, and to offer sustenance to those in need.

I’ve thought a lot about new structures for a new age. New economies, new agriculture, new medicine. How new sustainable structures could be built and function. We will need much creativity and cooperation to put new structures in place. Yet all of that outer work is the easy part and will flow naturally and with unprecedented speed once the real transformative action has taken place within ourselves.

Fortunately, a person doesn’t need to consciously understand anything about the nature of these changes and why they are happening. We are all being wedged through the chute and each person must decide what to abandon: the inner truth in the ground of their being, or their stories. In the past, individual people or individual groups of people have been forced to make this decision. Now it’s all of us. The higher vibrations now surrounding our planet are supporting us in making a soul-born choice. And we will all jump the last quarter inch together.

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Nurturing the flower, receiving the pattern

Posted on May 28, 2011 by admin

Flower essences. Each gifting us with its unique healing pattern. I am taking plants that I’ve raised from seed, moving them from my greenhouse, and anchoring them into rich fertile soil. I have 3 raised beds ready to receive them. I ask each plant to tell me which bed it wants to settle in. Once I know the bed, I can sense where in the bed it wants to be. With the plant container in my right hand, I can sense an attraction between the plant and a spot in the bed. It feels like a magnet subtly being drawn toward another magnet. I place the plant in that spot, then continue with the others for that bed until the bed is dotted with plants in their containers. Then I ask them if everyone is happy. Usually most are, but one or two are not. I switch them around until each one is content and feels supported by its immediate neighbors. Then I plant.

As I plant, I can feel each one release its rootedness energy into the soil. Such a blessed relief to more from the more artificial environment of crowded containers on a greenhouse shelf to the more expansive and less artificial environment of soil in a raised bed. They can finally allow themselves to sink down and get to business. The business of expanding root, growing leaves and stalks, and receiving water and nutrients. The factory that is the plant has plenty to do. Each day I watch over them. Do they have enough water? Do they need more fertilizer or compost tea? Are insects disturbing them move than the normal give and take that belongs in the garden? If there is some imbalance, perhaps I can assist them with a homeopathic remedy.

They are aware of my thoughts, my caring. There is an understood compact between us. A compact that includes the reason we are doing all of this. At the right time, at the height of their powers, they will transfer the healing pattern they hold into a blossom. I will ask them to transfer it fully into the flower so that I may harvest the petals. Then I will ask the petals to release the healing pattern fully into sunlit water. I will take the resulting elixir, preserve it with brandy, and stabilize the healing pattern with tensor energy and a crystal. This becomes the mother essence from which I can create small bottles of Celestial Gardens Balance Drops. A healing pattern transferred into water and bottled into medicine to heal us.

This is a gift from Nature to us, designed especially for the human body and mind. I’m filled with gratitude for this gift and for the gift of being allowed to be a part of this celestial grounding process.

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Manifesto

Posted on May 19, 2011 by admin

“I will waste my heart on fear no more” … John O’Donohue

I’m not afraid of the water. I’m not afraid of the air. I’m not afraid to eat the vegetables I will grow this summer. I’m not afraid of the Sun. I’m not afraid of economic collapse. I’m not afraid of government shut-downs. I will waste my heart on fear no more.

You who have eyes to see, see how the water is more sparkling and fresh than ever. I want to jump into the water from a high rock above and plunge into its depth, my hair streaming behind me. And then, once the inertia of the plunge is spent, release all effort and allow the buoyancy of my body to bring me to the surface. Fill my lungs with fresh pure air, supplying joy and sustenance through my blood stream to all my cells.

This is the right of all who live on this planet. Clean clear water, fresh pure air, and empowering Sun. and so it is and so it will be as we claim it as our birthright, put aside fear, and accept no substitutes. No trading off for job security. No trading off for material so-called “wealth” which is really the impoverishment of a chained life. No trading off for the so-called “welfare of all” as in “we can’t grow enough organic food to feed everyone”. We refuse to trade off pure nourishment for any so-called reason that can be given. This is where we take our stand and demand clean pure light-filled water, air, sunlight, and food for ourselves and our planet.

This manifesto is not a call for political action, although it will result in action that will bring change to our governments. It’s not a call for economic action, although our economies will be changed. It’s a call for each person to stand firmly grounded on our earth and declare that our planet will henceforth operate as it was designed. For each person to declare that he or she will accept no substitute designs or plans, regardless of what beguiling enticements may be offered. Enticements that appear to offer safety, but really only offer a walled-off life shielded from the full experience of being human on this planet.

And then, as we take out stand, here we are. A changed life, a changed government, a changed economy. Our precious earth vibrant with life. Rolling green hills, sparkling water, fresh air. Vegetables and fruit full of vitamins, minerals and flavor. We stand on the earth in our bare feet, our toes buried in the soil and give thanks for such bounty and the magnificence of our life here on this loveliest of planets.

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Magic and Science

Posted on May 13, 2011 by admin

Magic and science. In the movie Thor, the thunder god Thor tells his earthling heroine that on earth, magic and science are viewed as separate, but he comes from a world where they are one and the same.

To me, magic is science that we don’t understand yet. The alchemy of homeopathy and the alchemy of flower essences are two magical sciences that have been given to me for my special study and consideration. I have no desire to study these two healing arts using the techniques of conventional science. I’m convinced that the active principles of these medicines cannot be found through the controlled double-blind tests that conventional science loves and demands. Instead I study them through special techniques of attention and listening. And I study them through my connection to the world’s greatest authority on how things work. I study them through my connection to Nature.

When I say Nature, please don’t think trees and flowers. Think form and organization. Our souls are human, but the form of our body vehicle is a creation of Nature. Everything we experience through our senses is Nature. Nature left to itself will always create in balance. Nature doesn’t have free will, it has no choice but to create in balance. We humans have free will, so we can take the building blocks Nature has created – building blocks like Carbon, Oxygen, and Hydrogen – and make garbage bags that don’t decompose. This free will of ours is a great gift, and a defining characteristic of what it means to be human. We need Nature’s expertise in balance to guide our free will so we can continue to evolve without imploding ourselves.

I’ve told you all this about Nature so that you may understand who it is that I’m connecting with when I study homeopathic medicines and flower essences. The source of each of these medicines is a physical substance found in Nature. A plant, animal or mineral that is a substance in form. The medicine created from the substance is also in form, but not form as we often understand it. It’s not physical in the sense we typically think of because most of us can’t perceive it with our senses. All we perceive is the water or lactose pellets that are the carrier for the medicine.

So if a medicine is in form, but we can’t see it, what kind of form is it in? It’s in the form of energy, a type of encapsulated energy, held within the water or pellet carrier, and released to the person, animal, or plant when it’s given to them as medicine. If the medicine releases an energy the recipient can use, a healing response is evoked. Otherwise the plant, animal or person will just ignore the extraneous energy and it will not affect them. There are no side effects with these medicines.

So how is the original substance – the plant, animal or mineral used to make the medicine – how is the energy gathered from it and made into medicine? Aha, now we come to one of the questions which is the subject of my investigation. This is an area where my knowledge is continually growing. At this point, I know more than I’m currently able to put into words. Since I’m an enrollee in the school of Nature, I’m continually learning more and expanding my understanding. I can tell you that my continuing education is mostly experiential, and that Nature clearly wants me to learn by doing. As I learn, I’m using what I’m learning. In my garden, with my clients, in my writing, and down to the core of who I am and what I’m being in this lifetime.

To learn more about Nature Intelligence, see “What is Nature Intelligence” by Machaelle Small Wright.

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Fertilizer Tale

Posted on May 7, 2011 by admin

Before the planting season begins, I connect with Nature and ask, “Of all the fertilizers stocked by our local organic supply store, which ones should I buy?” This year I was guided to buy 7 new fertilizers: Foothill Fertilizer Mix (formulated for the Sierra Foothills where I live), Greensand, Kelp Meal, Fert-all with Zinc plus, Eden’s Organics 4-10-7, Bone Meal, and Tomato, Vegetable and Herb Fertilizer 5-7-3. OK, so far so good.

Now that we’re preparing vegetable beds and clearing out water wells for our trees, I’m starting to get an idea of where these are to be used. The Foothill Fertilizer Mix is going into all the vegetable beds. I found this out by asking Nature bed-by-bed. The Tomato, Vegetable and Herb Fertilizer, not surprisingly, is going into the two tomato beds. The squash and bean beds are also getting Greensand.

If you’re wondering how I know which vegetables to plant and which beds to put them it, the answer is easy: I asked Nature. That is, I asked Nature after telling Nature how many people I wanted to feed and how much produce I wanted to put up to eat later. It’s our job to specify the purpose of our project, whether it’s a garden, a business, or any other enterprise.

Today when I asked about fertilizer for our trees and grapes, I got some unexpected answers. When you work this way, expect unexpected answers. For example, our male pineapple guava trees need Kelp Meal, but our female pineapple guava trees don’t need fertilizer. One of our pear trees, a sickly looking one, needs Kelp Meal and Eden’s Organics 4-10-7, while the other pear tree needs nothing. Our young grapes need Eden’s Organics 4-10-7 while our established grapes need nothing. I could go on through the whole list, but you get the idea. There’s no way I could have figured this out by myself. It’s a great relief to have someone to ask who knows the answers. Thanks, Nature!

Please note: Most of the processes I use for working with Nature in the garden can be found in the Perelandra Garden Workbooks by Machaelle Small Wright. I’m not doing anything unusual, I’m following the straight-forward steps in these books.

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Raising Chicks

Posted on May 6, 2011 by admin

Rocky with chicks

I love having chickens, and raising them the natural way. I
want them to have the experience of hatching out from under a mother hen and
being raised by her care.

This year, the weather got warm in March and fooled our plum
tree into blossoming, only to lose its setting fruit during subsequent freezes.
One of our chickens got broody at the same time, but abandoned the nest when
the weather turned cold again.

I was just starting to seriously think about buying baby
chicks when the same hen finally started setting in earnest again. We
encouraged her by putting old eggs in the nest – not the ones we actually want
hatched. We call this particular hen Rocky because she’s a bantam Barred Rock.
She hatched and raised 10 babies last year, and she’s a great mother. Of these
10, we only have 3 today: our rooster and 2 hens. That’s because the other 7
were all males, and we only need one rooster.

This year, during our planning to raise a new clutch of
chicks, I told Nature that we needed all or nearly all females. It’s up to us
as humans to tell Nature the parameters of our project, what we want it to
accomplish. Nature will steer us so that we proceed in a way that’s balanced
for ourselves and the planet.

Yesterday we moved this broody hen and her nest to the quiet
space where she’ll sit for 21 days until the birth of the chicks. We had 12
eggs we’d saved from the previous few days to put under her. I reminded Nature
that we needed mostly females and asked for assistance in knowing which eggs to
choose. Using kinesiology, I eliminated 3 that tested strongly as male. Then I
choose 8 of the remaining 9 for our batch.

Will my testing turn out to be accurate, and will the chicks
be all or mostly all females? I don’t know. I’m not presenting myself as an
expert. I do know that my inner desire at times affects my testing, and that it’s
not perfect. But I feel happy today because I’m confident that I’m executing this
chick project in a complete and finished way, and that the result will be a
learning process for me.

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Anchoring Dreams

Posted on April 5, 2011 by admin

Anchoring Dreams

Moldavite and petrified bamboo in my pocket,
Mimzy crystal around my neck
Bringing together heaven and earth at the confluence.
Perfect balance.

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Luminosity

Posted on March 18, 2011 by admin

Sitting in the hot springs pool, a supernal light shines through all – infusing luminosity into each palm frond, each blade of grass, even into the tiny calcified nodules that have been deposited  from the mineral waters onto the edges of the pool. Each grayish-white little nodule is perfect and distinct. I think “I want my writing to be clear so I can communicate about homeopathy and partnering with Nature.” I’m no poet – I can’t communicate the beauty, intensity and spaciousness of this moment.

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Change and Changelessness

Posted on March 16, 2011 by admin

Spaceship clouds every day but one. Dreams of the Clintons, and perhaps the Obamas too. Secretary Gates stands like a sentinel. Nuclear reactor meltdown in Japan. Things are moving fast, changing our planet. While I sit in the changelessness of Nature’s sanctuary here in Death Valley.

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A Serendipitous Book

Posted on March 15, 2011 by admin

Military planes, their strident sounds renting the air as I prepare to write in my journal. Might trying to make right. The tangible reality of these springs will remain when war has passed away.

Two days ago I was stung by a wasp – a sting that has not completely yielded to remedies. Apis has helped the most, yet I felt ill most of yesterday, and today the area around the sting is still swollen and inflamed. Yesterday I also began to read “The Shamanic Way of the Bee” by Simon Buxton. Is it a coincidence that I should begin this book under the influence of a sting? I no longer believe in that kind of coincidence. My life is too blessed with the magic of serendipity. The book and the sting are clearly an initiation preceding some sort of shift or change – I know not what. Except that it seems probably connected to the bee hives that will be coming onto our land which are in turn connected to the flower essence plants I will be planting upon my return.

From p. 45 of the book: “We who hold the deeper communion with the hive are the original acupuncturists, holders of an autochthonous system of healing, using the bee sting the way the acupuncturist’s needle is used today.”

And from p. 66: “The flower is the lover of the bee and he comes to her lusty and pollen-coated. She receives him as a bride with open arms; it is a rich and fragrant lovemaking. What the bee profits from the most is that it derives its sustenance from the very parts of the plant that are pervaded by the plant’s sexual energy. The bee sucks and collects this nourishment, pollen and nectar – sucks and collects from the parts of the plant that are steeped in sexual power, its reproductive organs – and thus the bee brings this sexual power from the visible face of spirit to the hive.

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