|  |  | Welcome to Visions of Reality NewsFeaturing Barbara Rose Arts | | | | | As the turning of the year draws the gifts of the past into the heart of the present, I am mindful of the space in between. The space where magic may make its presence felt if only we might pause for a while in our rush to embrace the new; a space to appreciate all that has gone before. In that pausing a greater cycle emerges, one that finds beauty in the missing, love in the embracing and purpose in the unfolding. The theme of this month’s Musing, ‘From Source to Sea’, emerges from this ‘space in between’. It includes the full spectrum of life experience from a bigger picture perspective, wherein cycles within cycles reach their conclusion, only to emerge at another turn of the spiral, changed, yet irrevocably the same. With a little imagination you can see this journey in its entirety, presents as a continuum; a stream of consciousness in which individual stories, cycles great and small, and lives, play out within it. Three windows into this multi-layered way of being are offered:- | An adventure… an illustrated poem whose origin is Absolute Zero, whose completion is everything, and whose Spirit is adventure. Read… s l o w l y . . . one verse at a time, and take time to allow its wisdom to unfold inside you.
From sea to source: takes the spirit of adventure, source of all, from beginning to end, and grounds it in daily life. You can read this a bit quicker!
Nature’s symbol: the sacred geometry of change. Expresses the spirit of adventure as a spiral of integration, where its dynamic force is seen to be, not only evident in nature but expressive of our feeling nature. You might need your intellectual hat on for some of this!
| I have a feeling the themes we have aired here will chart a course throughout the remainder of this year… we shall see! | |  | | An adventure…
Picture a scene… before the onset of time… when the inky blackness of an indigo sky is devoid of stars. Where space is like an island yet to experience the ocean of which it is so much a part… where a beginning is yet to greet its end…
Picture an existence in which nothing is known, the fabric of this nothingness impregnated with all that can ever be learned and the essence of its Being-ness is to reveal that which is always intended.
Create a setting where eternal darkness is all there ever is, where light has yet to bear its shadow, silence its sound, and stillness, it’s activity.
Paint a reality in which the only redeemer is one that can’t be saved, the only metronome is one that can’t be set and the only heart is one that will never feel…
Into this picture see a tear fall from an eye that does not cry… witness a spark pierce the dark… birthed through a Source that may not be named…
Watch in wonder as water and fire begin their eternal dance… Marvel at its miracle… Ride the spiral… as the matrix of creation stirs into life…
Now bear witness to the echoes of a story… For, as seeds of an adventure, long ago forgotten, awaken… its magic is revealed once more…* Walk the Rainbow. p.18 |  |
| From sea to sourceIn 1999 I did my first (and only) long distance walk. Right on my doorstep (well almost) we walked the river Ribble from sea to source, a distance of 76 miles, in relative comfort. Hosted by our local residential adult college, Alston Hall, we were transported every day to the point at which we finished the day before, fed with 1st class food three times a day, and soothed by a comfortable warm bed every night. A most agreeable, and sociable, way to conduct our adventure. Our journey began in Lancashire, at the Ribble estuary close to where it courts the Irish sea, then followed its meandering course through fields laden with wild-flower meadows, sheep, cows, and far too many stiles!, until we reached its source above Horton in Ribblesdale, in North Yorkshire. For the most part the walking was on flat ground - another big tick for me! - until at the last day we climbed about 2000' to reach the source. Another big bonus - the weather was kind for the whole week, quite a rarity in north west England. Having reached the summit we looked around for what we had envisioned would be a dramatic outpouring of water. Nah... we were told to adjust our lofty vision and turn our attention towards the ground... And there it was... a mere, yet persistent, trickle (photo above), bubbling up from who knows where, that was rapidly making our feet soggy... A most memorable experience and one that, after 22 years, has served as inspiration for the next phase of my garden transformation... (and my own, I might add). In this, all has come full circle and a perfect testament to its completion lies in the naming of my new creation:
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| W a l k t h e R a i n b o w An adventure in wholeness... where magic is revealed once more... | |  | Nature’s Symbol Spiral | Kingdoms in parallel | Kingdoms as co-creative force* *Walk the Rainbow. p104 | The spiral is in intimate relation with the circle/sphere, not only in its construction but also through its innate quality of love as an outpouring of Spirit in its Will to exist. Spirals are dynamic in nature and expand or contract according to the laws of divine proportion. Spirit is expressed by means of the golden ratio (phi) which nature approximates by means of the Fibonacci sequence – 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, etc. – a series of numbers that, when plotted on a graph, translates to a spiral. An Italian mathematician, Fibonacci, discovered through his observations that seeds, plants and even breeding rabbits followed a simple numerical sequence during their process of growth or reproduction. He recognised that all physical life evolved according to a certain formula: take the past, add it to the present and it creates the future (apply this to the numbers in the sequence above and you’ll soon see how it works), a perfect recipe for life, eh? The most obvious examples are nautilus shells, pine cones, ammonites and sunflowers, but look also to your physical body and notice the perfect relationship between the phalanges of your fingers, hand and elbow, leg and foot, etc. Aside from this, the spiral is the universal expression of our feeling nature, bringing the universal love of God to the realm of matter through interpersonal relationships and our inseparable bond with the kingdom of nature. No man is an island; the spiral is nature’s gift to remind us of this. The symbols above reflect all we have been discussing. A double spiral arranged as a mirror image of one spiral to the other, independent yet inextricably linked, alike but not, shows mankind’s intimate relationship with the kingdom of nature and how the evolutionary journey of the two kingdoms run parallel to each other. An amazing transformation happens when we interlink them. As the two merge into one, a highly symbolic ‘yoni’ is revealed, indicative of the creative womb of the universe where man is seen to be a co-creative builder in matter in harmony with nature. In these three symbols, we have both a single Fibonacci spiral (fundamental to the creative, cyclic flow of Spirit as it integrates with matter) and an illustration of how sacred geometry is divinity in action. | Spiral as a force of natureThis short video, the ‘source’ in my new creation, shows how the spiral directs the flow of water. Look closely as it bubbles away, appearing from out of nowhere, and you’ll see what I mean… |
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| | Spiral as agent of loveHaving a profound connection with the heart, the spiral is the art of liberation, inseparable from the all-inclusive Love of the Divine. Letting go and allowing whatever ‘is’ to be ‘just as it is’ removes all obstacles to its presence and suddenly you are Source as it flows through and within you. However you are feeling right now, whatever is occurring in your life, surrender to its gift... Allow its magnificence to fill your being until naught but it remains. Then celebrate the magic of existence as it radiates through you to enrich the lives of those who sleep… those whose forms are unlike yours… and others whose purpose is to serve the one whose heart lies right beneath your feet… |
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