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Greetings upon my return from the lush and abundant lands of Hawai’i! In this time of spring rebirth and renewal it’s quite a gift to spend time in deep connection with such verdant lands. Its admittedly quite a bit easier to engage the healing forces of nature (Ñust`as) when in deep connection with such lush growth than in the depths of winter in colder climes.
However, the beauty of the Andean nature connection practices that we teach about and share in the Eagle Condor Healing Intensive is that you can align with the healing forces of nature and grow your connection more deeply to pachamama and all of her wisdom at any moment of the year, anywhere on the planet!
And if I learned anything these past 2 weeks during my 4th level Healing Intensive with Elizabeth Jenkins, who has been a potent force in the retrieval of essential feminine wisdom teachings from the High Andes, it’s to remember how much agency we each have in every moment to change our reality, deepen in compassion, open our connection to loving and healing energies in nature, and become all of who we are destined to be. All it requires is that we be courageous enough to expand our awareness beyond our currently held perspectives.
In multiple prophecies sourcing from the Andes it is spoken of how humanity has the opportunity right now to make a collective shift to a place of what we in the West might term, “Unity Consciousness.” The term is not important. There are many terms in many cultures that speak to the same thing. It’s simply important that we recognize that the prophecies and teachings that have remained relatively hidden for many hundreds of years are now coming more into the light. The time is now for humanity to make an essential leap in consciousness in order to continue living on this beautiful green and blue gem.
This shift is a collective shift, but it starts within. It starts with simple daily steps within. In my experience and level of clarity on this path thus far, it takes each person committing to living life from a place and space of compassionate love above all else. It takes a full and complete commitment to transmuting the victim/perpetrator paradox within...without judgment for the fact that one has been living within that construct for perhaps forever. It takes surrendering to the truths that mystics and teachers of various lineage traditions the world over have always spoken of…the truths of who we really are.
The pathways to arrive in this place within oneself are there and have always been there. They are hidden in plain sight in so many ways. Most obviously, from what I can see, in nature, which is of course not outside of us at all, but which we are essentially woven into in all ways. In some ways it starts with a realization that we are not actually separate from the Mother that feeds, clothes, houses and nourishes us in every way. Every living being (and everything is actually alive) is in a deep, felt and known way our brother or our sister (if we want to stick to gender), or simply our “best mate”, our compadre, our friend.
When we choose to align with prophecy and wisdom teachings of this sort we don’t witness the world from a place of good/bad or right/wrong. We don’t judge, but we are discerning. We are sovereign in our own self, and yet we are also cells in the larger body of Gaia or Pachamama Consciousness, doing our essential part of whatever it is that the larger organized consciousness is asking of us. This seeming paradox of complete sovereignty and complete surrender, existing within ourselves at the same time, is not at all in conflict, and in fact is essential…
We are worker bees, in service to the Queen. We are a part of a collective experience of life, death and everything in-between. When there is chaos, conflict, discordance, or anything else that is causing suffering, we simply work with the practices in this tradition, which are simple and anyone can learn, to “eat” the heavy discordant energy, as if it was the most delicious snack. This is akin to how the earth might “eat” our table scraps and kitchen waste in a compost pile, to make a nourishing soil from which more life can be birthed and grow.
This path, in my experience, asks for complete and total personal responsibility, for how we think, act, speak, walk, and show up in every way. And yet it’s not a “heavy” path of self judgment or criticism for when one falls back into the collective unconsciousness that is the source of the suffering, which we all do in small ways many many times a day…
If/when we notice that, which happens all the time each day, we simply bring ourselves back to a place of inner peace and harmony with easy practices that anyone can learn. It eventually starts to become more and more normal and a bit easier to breath and exhale with the in-breath and the out-breath of the consciousness of pachamama, whereupon we find ourselves fully back in the flow, the mystery, the unity...without a thought or word of inner conflict or discordance...simply one with the dance again.
As we walk along this pathway, we most likely will experience profound loss, profound love, and everything in between. But heck, doesn’t that just describe the human experience? Here is where the wisdom teachings from the Andes can be of great service. They show us how to align more deeply with the healing forces of nature so that along this pathway that we each must walk anyway, we are able to source strength, courage, and a deeper capacity to surrender to a wisdom that lies beyond us. And in that, there is grace. Ineffable grace.
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