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Creating a Circle of Life
The Circle is a sacred place, a refuge for all beings to survive times of adverse environmental and social conditions, where men and women and children of a relict species survive, to live beyond dogma and all structure of power.
The Circle involves a return to the openness and fluidity of Original Heart, entering into a fluid relation with the moment by moment manifestation of life, returning to the natural flow and rhythm of the Earth. The prayer is living this spiritual purpose day and night in the loving experience, with each breath, each step, toward a blended acknowledgement. The ceremony is the Circle of woman and men of heart, caring for the same purpose and intent.
A spiritual life with the Earth is a life lived in Original Heart within a blended heart to heart relation with our Mother Earth, reclaiming a fluid openness, a knowing beyond cognition, an atmosphere without boundaries, an expansion beyond progress and space, a love within an empowered intent.
Living in Earth dwellings is a vital support for the intent of this path. Simple dwellings built with natural materials, covered in a blanket of Earth allowing you to live and practice Original Heart surrounded by the Earth’s absorbing depth and nurturing power.
As our planet enters the sixth extinction event in its life and humanity continues to fall deeper into madness, times such as these require special acts or gestures of the heart to oppose and survive the senseless insane acts of our species. Gestures that are inherent to the blessing and grace within all life as prayers for a kinder, nurturing future. Creating a Circle of life is such a gesture.
In Rachel’s book Distance Becomes Sky, she writes a story reflecting the challenges humans will face in the coming years.
“Understanding is a bridge, what happens when you go across to the other side. A story is one way to cross that bridge and inhabit a world of possibility. In a story woven of voices of animals, people, and the land, exiles from an imploding Orwellian culture encounter the relict natural world, themselves, and each other, and enter an older way of being, blended in openness. An exploration of the way home. A story of sacred Earth.”
To Live Again with our Earth Mother
We are now within the sixth extinction on Earth. All the warning signs are present; we have all heard them and even experienced them first hand. A number of scientists (Paul Beckwith and Guy McPherson) feel we may have entered the period of abrupt climate change similar to other extinction events in our Earth’s history. We are in a very intense time of change, a powerful time where the holding patterns of our world culture begins to crack away, leaving a space that only a blended way of living with the Earth can fill. Knowing that our time is running short, leaves you in the open desert of your heart with a harsh quiet before the storm but it is good to remember that there is a primordial intent to the universe, the Earth, and to all life, the radiance exists for a reason.
We are here now on this planet with a living presence beyond all time and remembering. A sphere of potential wedded to the Sun, bringing life into being just like in the visions of radiance where a sphere of light in your heart brings stability of original heart and the embrace of essence. Both spheres teach by their presence, permeated with a primal joy and wisdom to those whose hearts can open, blend, and wait for the divine intent to unfold. The Earth and the spheres of radiance are aspects of this primordial intent, showing a way to live in harmony with a calmness of being that is open and allowing. Such an intention of creation is honored by living within the flow of the natural world, allowing the heartbeat of our Mother to once again beat within our hearts.
Knowing in your heart that the universe is alive with a great love and grace can hearten and inspire you to return to the intent of essence. You are not alone in a vacuous void of emptiness but alive within a wholeness of primordial intent spelled out in the radiance of living light that brings all phenomena into being.
The teachings of light and joy in the vision of Earth and the visions of radiance were followed by peoples of the Earth throughout the ages and on all continents. The Sun illuminates the dome of our Earth as a teaching of openness and inner knowing that reflects itself within our hearts, within the very soul of our being. To be alive in this wholeness we are then one in brilliance, home in lights joy and beauty, abiding as a primordial intent in the blue blackness of essence and its absolute potential at the heart of all existence.
At this time of great change and the collapse of our present world order, we may find that our only way to continue our spiritual journey is to return to our primal roots, to the allowing, nurturing heart of our Mother. In Rachel’s book, Distance Becomes Sky, she writes a moving story of people returning to an indigenous way of being in the aftermath of nuclear war and devastating Earth changes. Her book shows that it is still possible to create an Earth refuge built around the simple and dynamic teachings the natural world offers and return to the way of Earth as our species and many others fall into extinction. It would be a place to let go, opening your heart to blend with grace, leaving behind the tunnel vision reflections of a crumbling aberrant society. A place where Earth people can return to a blended way of being, regaining the nurturing flexibility that lives within an indigenous heart beating with the rhythm of our Mother. Living in earth berm shelters can be very helpful and supportive in many ways. For spiritual growth, an earth berm shelter is like a womb, a safe place to help you let go of the concepts, anxieties and doctrines, allowing original heart to take root and grow stable. Physically this type of earth dwelling is cool in summer and warm in winter, insulating and sheltering, providing a stable environment for change. Earth dwellings such as this, can be made stronger and more permanent using earth plasters and sealers, adding a door and glassed in the copula with better air flow, all to bridge the divide between our present culture and the movement back to the Earth.
It takes time to blend back into a fluid way of being, bringing our needs down to nothing, as you live within our Mother’s womb. An Earth refuge can give you time for your spiritual journey to unfold, like sitting beside a river over many years, watching the water continuously moving and changing, yet the presence of ‘river’ remains, embracing your open heart with its primal wisdom, and slowly wearing away the rough edges of your being.
Living with our Earth Mother is an aspect of the primordial intent arising as a way of being, the way we were meant to live and follow our spiritual journeys to fruition. At this time of great change, rekindle your heart to beat in rhythm with our Mother, this vision born of light, this great love formed of transcendent openness of original heart and the elemental visionary message of primordial purity.
