Earth Spirit Dreaming: Shamanic Ecotherapy Practices - Elizabeth E. Meacham 2020
Incorporating Revelation into the “Everyday”
Spirit-Connecting: Working with Light and Vibrational Reality
Spirit-Connecting Practices
The information and experience of heightened spiritual awareness can feel far away, and maybe not even true, in my “everyday” life. Doubt and questioning is normal when opening to magic. This gets better over time, and the veils are thinner with every month and year that I practice. These realities are blended, though blocks from certain kinds of current consensual dreams create thick and heavy resistance to shifting my thought forms and belief structures. The old thought forms are seductive. My body is naturalized to them and quickly returns to ruts of thinking and sensation. It is the work of a lifetime, and requires near-constant vigilance, to dream a healing dream. I often fall out of synch with this commitment and guide myself back again and again. I set reminders and consistent daily practices to bring me back.
Keeping the commitment to sacred Earth spiritual practice is challenging. We don’t have the institutions or community structures to support these habits and rituals. Building my own community helps me hold these intentions and continue this work. Through founding an institute to cultivate ecological consciousness and community, I am now often surrounded by people who are committed to a similar journey. Together, we create the time, space and rituals to support one another in shifting our collective consciousness. Together is the operative word for shifting our consciousness and dreaming new dreams for the Earth. Everything is connected and so must we be to heal and create new stories. The new story for the planet is about community, can only happen in community and rebuilds our communities.
As I now work regularly with light in my meditations and spiritual practices, I am increasingly sensitive to vibrations in every encounter and situation. I notice that I often shift rapidly from a loving space through anger, annoyance, frustration, worry or fear. When I do this, as Joseph teaches, the thought forms and beliefs that exist in our collective consciousness around negative, dark, dense emotions rush in all around me, expanding these heavy states. I lose faith in these moments, and I feel lost. I lose the ability to feel the music of the Divine in my heart-mind.
I find that the habits of mind and body that keep my vibrations dense were, and are, deeply entrenched. If I am not aware at every moment, I will fall into these habitual patterns. Staying in a vibration of light, peace and joy is the hardest thing I have ever done, requires constant mindfulness and is the primary work of my lifetime.
My current practice is to attempt to channel healing light into the world in all that I do. To do this, mindfulness and meditation become essential. I must watch, feel and know my thoughts as often as I can as each one is creative and weaves into the fabric of the stories that are our collective dream. This is easier with time, though “life” often seems to get in the way. Sometimes, the best that I can do is to wake up every morning sending light to everything in my life, and to all of the world, to remind me of what I am doing here. Questions, concerns, fears, quandaries, hopes, dreams, entanglements, illness all get the treatment with love and light that I will teach you here. I used to find the greeting “with love and light” so trite, and now I truly and deeply understand what this means, through the guidance of spirit helpers. Working with light to shift our reality and change the world does not mean that we push our difficult feelings away or shut ourselves down to them. The ability to open our hearts to all feelings is essential to the path of awakening. Working with light, we learn to hold our grief, our pain, our fear, our love, our joy, our hope, and all other emotions, in our own arms with love.