The Enchanted Dream
August 30, 2009
Back in May my wife and I organised an amazing residential course for people who love to explore the magical and the miraculous.
During one of the days we sensed that there was something to do about the enchanted dreams and desires that we hold inside us. That perhaps we could take that sense of longing for a magical life and imbue it into our everyday experiences.
One of our group is trained as an architect. He is gifted in being able to touch the unseen realms and translate his inspirations into beautiful art. This is what he drew as we explored enchanted reality during the day.
Jesper draws his vision of an enchanted realm
Later that evening, as we admired the drawing, we got a stronger sense, a deeper connection of what the magical is really about. And then we got ready for a Cosmic Ball party in which all of us dressed up in fine costume and spoke about what we wanted to get a greater experience of in our life – declaring what we are here for – and realising what we are willing to give of ourselves to all life.
Celebrating the magical and the enchanted - Buckland Hall, Wales
As I look at these photos now, I know that we entered into the magical nature of life and that we brought that magical realm alive. It exists in the cells of our bodies, in the air that we breathe, and in what we see in each other. It is real and here and no longer something that is thought of as unattainable.
Truly we are living the enchanted dream! Truly we are the enchanted!!
Imagining the Wonderful
August 30, 2009
A lot of thoughts and feelings buzzed through me as I examined the photos that my good friend Susan had sent.
Susan is in her 60′s and is exploring her own creative story of what life is about. Her work with clay is daring and original, yet what I find most wonderful is her interpretation and imagination that turns the mundane into the magical.
The photo below shows her most recent project, entitled ‘The Inner Planetary Incubation/Feeding/Imagineering System’.
The Inner Planetary System
Here is her description of how it came about …
“The (back) wall had a lot of pipes and meters and did not say anything except utilitarian. Last summer I looked at it and decided that something needed to be done.
The energy as Erik and I worked on it was magical. We worked on it at night when it was cooler, and we dipped in and out of the pool to cool down and have think time.
It felt like one of the GREAT vacations that one takes. Friends would stop by and give input. Some I took, others I smiled at and put on the back burner. Wonderful food. It was VERY much the way I see the new world working. Lots of ease, grace and a ton of joy, plus lots of new ways of looking at things!”
And here is her story of what it’s all about …
“All of the Galaxies send some of their babies to planet earth to experience this planet and the good things that we have here. Things like love, caring, emotions, imagination, colors, skipping, singing, chocolate. What are some other things that you think that they might enjoy learning while they are here? (This is really important because it will make their time on planet earth even better.) I can program it into the robots to give it to the cosmic babies.
The robots take care of them until they are ready to go out into the world. There are families that will take them in and treat them like their own children and share more of our ways with them. These cosmic children then send messages back to their own planet about life on planet earth. And the cosmic children share things from their planets with their earth families.
At the station there are many robots that each have a different job.
One of the Robots
One weighs them. One is in charge of the food, for each cosmic baby needs it’s own diet so that it will be able to adjust to planet earth’s food (each planet has it’s own type of food and their bodies are not used to our food).
Another robot teaches them to laugh (this is an earth thing), while another teaches them to cry (another earth thing).
One robot teaches them how to choose what they want to do or not do (only on this planet do we get to learn about what we want and do not want).
There is even one that teaches them about wearing bows in their hair if they want to do that or how to hit a base ball. There are sooooooooooooooo many things a baby MUST learn for this planet.
As you can tell there is a lot to being on planet earth, but it is the most colorful place to live and the most fun!”
So I replied to her, with my suggestions about what the robots could also be programmed to teach the Cosmic babies …
- Curiosity and Exploration – finding out how things work, taking them apart and putting them back together in new ways
- Magical Eyes – the ability to look with wonder, awe and delight at anything and find the beauty in it
- Delight through Connection – feeling a connection with everything, and changing everything through the delight that they have for all of it
Also, the babies can be taught to be whoever they want to be and they can learn how to make the (seemingly) impossible become possible. That should keep them busy!!!
A few final words from Susan about the experience.
“For me the best part of it was in the doing/playing with it. There were no rules. It was done with ease and grace and laughter and lots of good food. Some wine (not much) but not whining. Lots of think time – most of that while in the pool staring at it. People stopped by to add an idea here and there. Sometimes they would get sucked into the joy of the whole thing. This is the way I see the new world being. Creating with such ease.”
We all have the potential for changing the ordinary into the magical. It requires only a starting point, a storyline, a sense of exploration and boundless fun. So there are two questions that I ask you, as the reader.
- What would you give the Cosmic babies?
- What project are you inspired to embark on now?
You can add your suggestions below.
Thinking the Miraculous
August 28, 2009
I co-led a telecall recently with my wife about the subject of the miraculous. We looked at it from two different viewpoints because we hold unique understandings about what the miraculous is and how people can experience the miraculous as their everyday life.
My wife, says that it hinges upon belief. That if you believe in something so strongly then you can effect a miraculous shift. And that shift can be in a person or even in the matrix of consciousness itself, depending on the level of intentionality and the degree to which you work.
From my perspective though, belief is an entrapment. Belief is not ownership or source-creational. It takes a paradigm shift to move from intellectual thinking to a full physical embodiment of our being, in which we know how to operate beyond (human) conscious awareness.
To be our fullest expression, to live a multi-dimensional experience, requires our energetic involvement with the essence of life. For in that space of unlimited possibility and unfettered thinking, the concepts that we thought were important don’t exist.
Abundance, for example, can only be talked about and measured in terms of ‘the abundance of experience’. Similarly, miracles and the miraculous, don’t have the same context for us to play with anymore.
An example, you ask. Give me an example of how you can live a miraculous life as an everyday experience.
To start with, we have to ask what is a miracle: what seems to be miraculous in one era or in one civilisation may not be so in another. Consider organ transplants, splitting the atom, journeying to the moon, plastic surgery, artificial limbs, robotic devices, etc.
Maybe it’s not so much the evidence or proof that we require, to show us that we have a power over our physicality. Maybe we need to enquire about the nature of human experience. That we encourage an amazing and bizarre sense of what’s possible. That we are more open to information coming from our multi-dimensional selves that we never fully tuned into and accepted before.
The miraculous (of supernatural agency fame) exists to point us in the direction of asking questions about what’s possible – and then going ahead to achieve the impossible. The miraculous exists to coax us beyond the frontiers of limited understanding, to discover unlimited possibilities of how life can be lived.
For me, we achieve the miraculous by taking away the thoughts and concepts that no longer serve us, in order to encourage our exploration of what interests us most.
Below is an audio excerpt from the teleclass, where a friend takes a step into the miraculous.
What is the miraculous for you? Would it be the shift from head-based intellectual thinking (and emotional based responses) to a full bodied physical relationship with everything? Where ONE collective thought can true up the world that we live in.
A Sense of Vision
August 10, 2009
I’m keenly interested in using my eyes in a variety of different ways. This interest has been developing over a number of years. And recently I’ve wanted to improve my eyesight so that I don’t need glasses anymore.
I’m following two (free) email courses that provide some useful information.
* Better Vision by Martin Sussman – http://www.bettervision.com/eyesightmiracles/
* Rebuild Your Vision by Orlin Sorensen – http://www.rebuildyourvision.com/
There are others ways though in which I’m developing a keener sense of vision.
1. I’m starting to picture the energy beingness of a person, rather than just see their usual facial and body characteristics. That requires me to imagine that (beyond their body outline) there is more of them just waiting to be interacted with and brought to fullest potential.
When you speak about energy beingness, the living force of consciousness and intelligence, then its as if a miraculous connection is made between it and the physical body that it inhabits. From then on, not only does that person feel seen but they can also sense what you see in them.
Engage with the energy beingness and people become more alive. Watch the fire build in them when they come into a more public spotlight – they shine, radiate and seem to have an inner glow. So it’s not the personality that’s important – it’s the presence of the being.
2. I’m also exploring the inner worlds of people, because I know that who people are being is much less than what they are willing to own or allow to be seen. When people explore their inner worlds they will often wonder how they can live that in full real-world terms. So I then ask them to explore their vision of who they can become.
This is connected with example 1 in that when people are given (or create) the opportunity to live their dreams, then they don’t want to go back and do what they did before, and be who they were before. People discover that they have potential to be amazing and spectacular, which in turn becomes opportunities for further growth and development.
3. Another way of looking at vision is to recognise that we are able to see more detail that we ever thought possible. It’s becoming more clear that we create our reality by what we interact with through our seeing. Certainly we are able to use our eyes to envision more dimensionality in our surroundings, and our capacity to build upon non-visual data is immense. Witness our ability to generate emotion by what we think we see (video below).
We are extraordinarily talented and what we can do is miraculous, unimaginable and unbounded. If you wonder what can be done with sand and a sense of vision, then watch this video. Your sense of vision may never be the same again.
The Angel of …
August 9, 2009
This is additional to yesterday’s story, about my friends’ difficulty with form-filling.
One of those friends delights in singing angel music for other people, at special gatherings or events. She has an innocence and an angelic quality in her being that is quite special.
Since she can sing the angel of … well anything really … my wife suggested to her that whenever she goes to fill in a form, that she invokes the Angel of Form-Filling. As she produces the sound she will be calmed and able to complete the paperwork.
“Of course,” my wife pointed out to her, “you are really all the Angels – it’s all you anyway.” Having said that though there are many people who find it easier to communicate with what they claim is another intelligence. It may just be story that there is an Angel of Form-Filling, but what a delightful way of making a seemingly challenging job so much fun.
And yet what a difference it makes when we consciously own who we know ourselves to be in the vastest sense: a being who can do, who can be, anything.
Energy Management
August 8, 2009
A couple of friends stayed with me for a couple of days and both expressed a horror of having to fill in forms. One said that she was overwhelmed by the thought of having to deal with paperwork and that it throws her into chaos.
My advice was that they look at this in terms of energy management. The process of dealing with paperwork is no more difficult that dealing with any other aspect of modern life. Of course, we want to complete the job in the shortest time possible but there is a simple way to ensure that the most disliked jobs are included in the energy flow of our daily routines.
For my friends I suggested the following -
- they realise that everything they do is energetically based
- they take charge of the situation rather than be overwhelmed by it
- they engage with paperwork as an exploration activity rather than a mental difficulty
- that they consciously engage with the organisation behind the paperwork, e.g. HM Revenue for tax returns, so that they can choose to work with the potential of the organisation.
When we work with potential of an organisation we consciously interact with its energy form and its own desire for change. By treating an organisation as a sentient being it can tell us the reason why it was created, how it is energetically being run, what its long-term future is, and what current shifts need to take place to bring that organisation to the next levels of its own growth.
With that level of understanding and perspective, form filling is no longer an activity that must be done: it becomes a way of understanding why we do what we do, realising that there are better ways for us to interact with everything.
My final remark was that energy confusion occurs when we activate a mental belief that we can’t do something or that we dislike doing it. Energetically we are competent to do any activity and we have choice in how to go about it. So the suggestion that worked best for my friends was when I said that they should no longer deal with forms as objects – they should treat forms as sentient beings.
The act of giving sentiency to inanimate objects, actually allows us to be more fully competent and in our natural energy flow. It stops us from thinking and allows us to interact with a greater level of intelligence than we might consider possible.
Don’t believe me? Then try this. When you have trouble with any piece of machinery or come across any situation that you feel is beyond you then, instead of allowing yourself to be annoyed or overwhelmed, you ask to be put in touch with the intelligence that can tell you more about the problem or situation.
You allow yourself to know what to do and how to be – and then you orient to what needs to be done. Your energy orientation is such that you now engage with all parts of your life rather than construct problems for yourself.