Shifting Magnetisms

We've heard alot in the past year about the end of time.  Indeed, the past year saw the rise and forward thrust of the Occupy movement, which gave voice to concerns which have been fermenting for decades.  Studies of the earths changes, climate shift, and our human role in it have been prominent in popular discourse since the 1980's at least.  A topic that often comes up in these conversations, and what I would like to focus attention on today, is the shifting of the earths magnetic poles.

According to some very good science the earths magnetic poles shift their charge from north to south and back again at regular, though unpredictable intervals. While the actual moment of shift may itself take only a moment, a weakening of the earths outer magnetic field occurs for 60-80 thousand years prior to a shift and then re-establishes itself within just a few thousand years of the tip of the scales. The last shift geologists speak of with confidence happened 780,000 years ago.  

nasa.gov - link to full article

My simplified understanding of process of pole reversal is that as the overall magnetic field of the earth weakens the outer charge begins to fall in on itself, mixing with the charge of the inner core.  A period of discoherence then ensues during which time the magnetic field is dispersed in pockets around the surface of the earth.  The physical placement of the poles begin to separate and multiple locations emerge.  Eventually the inner and outer charges of the earth trade places, and the magnetic poles realign themselves at opposite ends of the planet.  For a fantastic computer simulation of this process please see Projects in Scientific Computing.  

One thing that is interesting about the current changing of the poles is the hot spot at the Southern tip.  See this image from 2005 for a visual description Hot Spot.  For some reason the magnetic field is increasing in strength at the south pole, and in my survey of literature on the topic no reason is given.  I do know that in Polarity Therapy, the healing modality which I am trained in and had a practice in for six years, the southern pole of the human body is the one in which grounding of magnetic charges occurs.  As therapists, when we open and ground the south pole of the client, alignment within the energy fields happens in a fashion which is less likely to reactivate the trauma history.  I find this to be an interesting correlation, though not conclusive.  

"Polarity Therapy is truly a complimentary science. It recognises that energy has to move from a positive to a negative pole, through a neutral field - a concept which was applied by Dr Stone to the human constitution.

This scientific 'law' is fundamental to the movement of energy throughout the Universe and the Earth around us: it manifests in our physical body as energetic currents, which Dr Stone referred to as the 'Wireless Anatomy of Man'." polarity.tk 

Below is a chart, written and drawn by Dr. Randolph Stone, the founder of Polarity Therapy.  It depicts the electromagnetic energy forces which comprise the human.  Notice here the holographic similarity between microcosm and macrocosm, and how the ultrasonic core balances the outer toroidal shape just as the inner magnetic pulse of the earth balances the outer polarity of north and south. 

There is alot of apocalyptic hype about the shifting of the poles and how this dovetails with changes in the long count on the mayan calendar.  The conflation of magnetic shifts, the mayan calendar, and very real climate changes caused by human displacement of fossil fuels puts these elements into a conversation with each other that can lead to dire predictions.  

Because I grew up in California, where every other person talks to angels, sings with whales, and uses crystals for divination, I have a healthy skepticism for drastic spiritual pronouncements.   What I can testify to, based on my own observations, is that there are profound shifts happening both geologically over immense periods of linear time and immediately in the way we experience ourselves, and this necessitates a healthy attention...  a grounded attention which is filled with a sense of gratitude that changes are possible, and perhaps even initiated by physical forces to which we are simply responding. If these changes happen now, when we most need to realign our hearts with the resources of our planet and with each other, this is good timing.
  
Following is a video based on the teachings of Don Alejandro, a leader of the Maya of Guatemala.

If our elders who remember our distant past say that the sun will go dark for 30 hours then I will keep that in the back of my mind, I will tell my children and my friends, and if it does happen, then I will recognise it in the moment and respond with an appropriate quietness.  

Like the ayahuasca ceremony, we wait through the long night, attending to the love within us, and in the morning receive the sun into ourselves.  It is the same with the peyote ceremony of the North American brothers and sisters, who walk out of the darkness to receive the morning sun, who sing to the divine mother and the cleansing of her waters as the long awaited light returns.  Death, rebirth, and seasonality do happen along axis lines and points, and we have been here to say hello to each cycle but for a moment.   

For more information on polarity therapy and how it functions please see this informative article by my friend and colleague Graham Whiteman: The Polarity Principle of Unity

Full academic references for pole reversal discussions can be found at Valet et. al (2005) Nature 435, p. 802-805 and Knudsen et. al (2008) Earth and Planetary Science Letters 272, 1-2, p. 319-329 

Icaros

If I were to distill the last year and a half into one thought, one waveform which is shaping me, moulding the soles of my feet, it is this: Rhythm is Everything.  

There is a resonance which underlies the breath of life.  It is form and formless, cohering into nexuses of energy which then generate movement, or sound.  There is pattern to the coherence which expresses itself through all life.  

The ways in which we observe the pattern occur through the lenses available to each of our brain-bodies, resulting in the 10,000 things of zen philosophies or the multitude of manifest forms in Western esoteric traditions.  Some paint, some sing, some dance - some speak, some play, some teach - some _____.  The main point is that observation-expression is always undeniably creative.  This is what is called living the creative life, and it is available to all of us.  

Harmonic Resonance by Farb

Each nexus of waveforms that is every living thing draws initial resonance into itself, where it meets and is shaped by the histories and pathways of the life.  The resulting interference results in geometries of sound movement which are at once universal, in their impulse and connectivity, and unique, in their blueprinting and expression.  Levels of density express at differentiated frequencies, creating magnetism.  This magnetism draws likeness unto itself, forming groups.  Exchange within the groups further shapes and evolves frequencies and fields emerge.  Fields are stable over time yet continually evolving, allowing each living thing to rest within the shared patterns of the earth while continuing to individually draw down resonance.  Thus shared paths emerge.  In time, we view these as linear progression.  In space, as place.  In the mind, as thought trains or loops.  In the heart, as emotion.  Tides, flows, spirals, skate back over themselves deepening grooves which at once densify into codeable transmissible energies while always and constantly continuing to shift at subtle interfaces.  The basis of all expression is rhythm.  Rhythm is the horse upon which resonance comes to life.  

Untitled by Justin Totemical

When I was in Ecuador sound opened to me!  I have always been a dancer, sensing, feeling, moving rhythms through my bones.  I became big ears in Ecuador.  I learned to sing.

One night in ceremony my ears extended, they opened and spiralled out, and every sound was available overlapping in harmony.  Insect, upward thrust of plants, gentle mist, breeze, clods of dirt, logs heating and waiting to be burned, rise and fall of bodies breath, huff and heave of animal, hair follicles growing, spheres and angels.  A burning desire opened in me - to know the frequency which is this Hannah with fewer and fewer lenses - to observe in simplicity and detail the tone and lenses of all living things.  

Mevlevi Taksim by Sinan Dogan

The fire of our heart is fanned by the rhythm of our movement.  As its resonance becomes clear the flames grow high.  The songs of the shaman clear the fields, open the lenses of our histories.  As they sing the flames of the fire brighten.  The flames lick the frequency.  Hearts blend.  

Guacamayito by Mira Jempe and Janicka

There, as we built the lodge, hard work, we listened to alot of music!  Pure joy! Beautiful sharing of forms.  And the music provided a thrust which offset the silence, thus making the peace recognisable.  

We Have Arrived by Matt Kirk

Do you hear/see/sense rhythm in your dreams?  Whose dreams are these anyway? 

                                                                                                                          

"Forget everything which did not teach you how to dance." Rumi                   

"Tie yourself to herds of mating camels." Hafiz                                                 

Ayahuasca Vision by Skyer

"Pick up a musical instrument." Rumi                                         

Dates for your Diary

Involvement in the worlds dramas is something each of us must choose and decide upon: which causes to support, which people to interact with and commit to, how much time and effort to place in any particular location, in what ways to share our talents and reinforce what we believe in. With the revolution for a new humanity underway, we must each of us now consider these questions fully.  

Christopher M. Bach, an author who writes about near death and psychedelic experience, speaks extensively of relationships between the individual and the species mind. "Each one of us carries within us the collective diseases of our time.  If our society is ill, each of us has a share in its illness. If our society is racist, sexist, violent, or consumed by greed, these diseases live in our collective soul. The cells of these cancers are distributed among all of us because our lives are the tissues that make up the psychic organs of the species-mind...The species-mind both defines the edge of learning for each generation and integrates the learning of its individual members at a centralized level of awareness...At the death-rebirth level, personal pain can blend with collective pain so deeply that they cease to register as separate phenomena and are instead experienced as but different localized expressions of a single movement...The larger story is humanity's collective evolution and divinity's progressive involution into spacetime." From "Dark night, Early Dawn" 2000.  We are one, we are publicly cleansing our collective pollution and pain, we are opening to solutions for this moment, together.


Below are some VERY IMPORTANT links and videos for you.  Dates for massive coordinated action in the near future aim to foreground love and local involvement in the movement, to pull our energy out of the banking institutions, and to begin new lifeways.  

Shut the Banks Down: First Wave Nov 5th  

Shut the Banks Down: Second Wave Dec 5th  

Stop Oil Consumption Nov 22nd    And Beyond - Get Involved -

The sheikh of our dervish group in London consistently reminds us that we do need to play our part in the drama of life, but that we must also remember the drama is already played out.  I translate this to the mantra, show up and trust.  Please, consider what your role is in creation of New Earth, what you must show up to.  Then, show up in every way that your heart implores, stay strong, and trust.  We are one big evolving heart, beating in tune to the involuting heart of all that is.  So bang on the drum!!  

In the words of a dear dear friend, "the infinite is in love with displays of time." The majestic flowering of human consciousness, that joy we are now birthing, is present, here, in you, in me, in glorious displays of action!


Directory to join Your Local Occupation

Stillness

Wow things are moving fast!  Momentum is building in peoples hearts, and in order to keep it going, to actually build our new communities, we must anchor our commitment to New Earth and prepare for the long haul.  One of the ways we can do this is by going into stillness.


Our bodies are electromagnetic, they exist through the interference patterns of waves of energy.  These waves take many forms, and there are multiple maps across healing systems which are all correct.  In Chinese medicine we have the meridians, in Quantum Healing and Reiki (and other energetic perspectives) we have the astral fields, in Polarity Therapy we have the elementals/chakras/east west currents/long lines/fire spirals/star patterns/and multiple geometric relationships, in western biology we have piezioelectrical currents in the muscles and nervous system responses which respond to nuerotransmitters from our brains.

painting by Alex Grey

In order to purge and heal our systems, both social and personal, we need to allow space in.  Our bodies are running massive amounts of energy through them and without space, time and repetition they will not hold up to the changes.  There are many ways to let spirit in so that she can do her work.  If you meditate, try resting in the interior spaces for several hours or more.  If you do not, now would be a good time to seek out a practice.  Mantras can be helpful to those who are new to meditation and anything can be a mantra.  Think of the most beautiful thought, distill it into a few short words, check that it expands your heart to think it, and repeat it continuously.  Hold a crystal or multiple crystals in your hands, rest them on your belly or heart, put them in the bath with you, and release to the re-patterning.


The way the nervous system works is to create grooves which information runs through.  These grooves too often become hard wired through traumatic experience....we come up on a situation, we respond in flight/flight/freeze, and we are protected.  The body learns this as effectiveness and repeats the pattern under additional stresses thus deepening the groove.  As you relax into stillness your trauma grooves will likely come into activation.  If you listen you will notice the activation as trembling, tingling sensations, icy-hot flushes, itching that grows and expands, or dull aches which move through. Hang out with these, observe and do not judge, they are coming to activation in order to clear.  As we allow them space to express they can let go.  New information then comes in. Sensations of overall warmth, light coming through the top of the head, the heart glowing, and even specific release from old pains will begin to materialize.  You may even see visions!   

painting by Alex Grey

Marianna Sheldrake writes, "All the the energy sources that man has ingeniously 'invented' have only been manipulations of the existing energy of the Universe.  Super energy is the basis for all spiritual healing."  Lao Tzu speaks, "If you want to awaken all of humanity, then awaken all of yourself.  If you want to eliminate all the suffering in the world then eliminate all that is dark and negative in yourself.  Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation."  This is your light body, this is our light body.  Our healing is not about blissing out and forgetting our earth, our fellow humanity.  It is about deep and lasting structures of joy!  Blog it. Post it. Dance it. But most importantly, rest with it.  As we speak, work, heal, and create, make sure to allow time to connect your light body to the universal grid in every way that you can. The biggest breakers and waves begin as a tiny impulse in the heart of the ocean, they are born of stillness.  Selam~

Medicine

Healing and Medicine. Hand in Hand. Sun and Moon. Water and Earth. Fire and Wind. Symbiosis.  


Elementally, medicine is the ether, the space which balances, the precision of metal, the place behind all psychic constructs where form and formless meet.  At least, that is my experience of medicine in the most ancient profound sense.  We all recognize that drugs and surgery, allopathic bandaids, do not work at healing and as such, cannot be considered true medicine.  For two centuries, maybe three, they have provided benefit, but at a cost to the next several centuries which is astronomical. Tell me, do you really want to give your infant water saturated with antidepressants, birth control, and resistant strains of bacteria? Are hysterectomies really the answer to menopause?  While pig valves in the heart and organ transplants have saved us much grief and provided opportunity for longer or more intense soul growths among the population, we have by and large utilized our capacity for ingenious technology in seeking ways to mask and numb ourselves.  Where is the healing in that?

As a female shaman, or healer, or artist, or writer, I try to seek out the root of problems in consciousness, or issues, to unfurl them from darkness and lay them upon a quality of light for exposure and witness. This differs from methods which cure by confrontation.  The warrior ways are also effective, and sometimes I employ them, but in general I prefer coaxing, journeying, or deep hanging out, so that depths may empty of themselves and create individually perfect paths toward wholeness.  Paths which lead into a presence of being co-created and co-embodied in the moment.  Shamanistic or energetic methods may not keep one from death, they may not bypass grief or discomfort, but they will provide a watershed of healing at the soul level.  And this, this is why we are here on the planet!  

Our medicines, they can work in concert with the 'modern' systems of science, especially in the next 50 years or so while we collectively shift our major thought patterns about healing.  For example, energetic modalities do wonders to heal the trauma from surgeries, and are already prescribed widely across South America following face lifts!  Plant medicine holds us in her own ways.  And loving kindness is in high demand :)  At physical, subtle, causal, divine levels, there are medicines here for us to receive in the now, medicines which will shape our futures and our bodies toward harmony.  

Each shaman, lightworker, bodyworker, will have their personal set of methods, won by deep personal questing and burning in the fires of purification.  The resonance of healings any one of us can share is equal to the persons we will encounter who require our healing.  For me, I am committed to truth, to the breaking up of anything in the way of a powerful and beautiful life.  Nourishment shall come from light, from source, and all possible obstacles shall be cleared while the one who needs healing is held, held in a deep embrace.  The web and matrix of interconnection is so deft, so subtle and precise that as we just get out of the way resonances naturally flow and meet up. 

Let us open our arms!

Manifesting Dreams

Oh the dreams and visions that are in the heart!  Centers and gardens, communities and platforms for peace, dances, children, ancestors and loves, work, direction, passion, stillness, fire!  Stepping down the inspiration of spirit from the crown into physical reality is a journey!  In Advaita Vedanta this is seen as a process of moving into form from divine levels of reality - through causal and subtle levels - into physical realities.  In Polarity Cosmology the process moves from etheric realities of the spirit into far reaching visions of the third eye - visions are made physical at the lightest levels of density on the breath of the spoken word - they marinate and then sprout in the centers of the heart - become actionable will in the fire center - are moved on, flowing forth through emotional commitment - then finally shape takes form as dense matter on the Earth.  

As an artist, I love these processes!!  And I am moving into the caduceus of manifestation in this instant.  I am speaking to you of my visions, as they have now grown sprouts, and are becoming actionable, full of emotional current.  Specific to this fortnight are the dances! =)  

In my most recent night of visioning with Ayahuasca I was taught to dance.  I was shown specific movements by a person who was all in gold, who shimmered with light and gold, and whose garments had a trim of black.  In the morning, I danced a bit of the dance.  I have spoken of it to a few people, and next week I will enter into the active rehearsal process, shaping and growing the movement or matrix which will form the structure of my first vision-based solo piece.  In the process of speaking, a student of mine from a continent and years away showed up in my life, fresh into her newly discovered passion for historical costume design :)  She spoke to me of how to research my vision, and the fire center set to work in a sleepless night of google image passion =)  What I found brought me to humble servitude....

First, I began with Golden Dancers: 

She is from Thailand.  The hat and shapes are very close, but not quite perfect to my vision.














Then, I found her:


She is from Tibet, and getting closer.
















Finally, I come across this one and label it 'Best Dancer'.


This turns out to be Padmapani.  This is the golden one who was teaching me!  This is the dance I am dancing!  I continue to research and find that Padmapani was prominent in the 4th-5th Centuries, with the highest concentration of statues from this period found in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal.  Well, I have been saying since I was 9 years old that someday, when I am an old woman, I am going to live in a cave in Nepal :)  This excites me so much, but there is still more! 

As I continue to research Padmapani I find out that he is a dancer and messenger for Ahmitabha the Buddha of Infinite Life.  Ahmitabha and Amitayus are one and the same.  AND I have had a picture of Amitayus on my altar now for four and a half years!!  I had no idea who this was, but I loved him immediately when I saw the image, and even wrote his purpose into the essay that got me the graduate school spot which moved me to England where I met the friend who introduced me to the Shaman with whom I had my dancing visions :)  Love~  Oh glorious love which is there all along to guide us, whether we know it or not.

Padmapani - My Favorite Version

Ahmitabha - glowing with light!

We have been working through the night and the day just now, my student and I, drawing from across levels to craft and weave a costume (or two or three!) of beauty and truth. 

Happy happy joy joy! Ohmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Sunshine

This morning as I practiced meditation and yoga I began to sing a beautiful old folk song: The roots of my heart go deep underground and connect to the roots of your heart, I will find you, deep in my heart, I will, I will find you deep in my heart.  As I sang the sun shone upon me and I embodied the suns heart as my heart.  This song is beautiful as a love song between the sun and the human, as it invokes the qualities of fire: will power, strength, the search, longing, fulfillment, joy, heart-centricity.  

Plasma Flare. photo: NASA

In my experience so far, there are three hearts that align in a connective fashion to produce brilliance.  The heart of the sun, the heart of living beings on the planet, and the heart-core of the earth.  My friend Mira, a healer and a shuar, sings a lovely song: "The fire in the light is the fire in your heart."  This is true, and in my recent exposure to the methods of Ayahuasca, I did experience my own heart in resonance with the heart of the earth, with fire.  As my heart increased its capacity, so the fire burned brighter in front of me; as others around me fanned the flames of each of their hearts, the fire danced brighter and higher; as the shaman played ceremonial music, the fire grew in intensity.  The fire of the stars, the fire of the sun, the crystalline and molten layers of fire at the center of the earth, they are the same fire singing within our little beating chests.

Earths Core. photo: sciencedaily.com

Three is a magic number, and as I consider the three hearts I relate this to the three diaphragms of the body: the pelvic floor, the diaphragm beneath the lungs, and the cranial diaphragm inside the brain. Breath, prana, energy, these are the crux of life and the flow of these vital forces within us is what animates our existence.  To be animated above-below-within is an awesome experience.  In the real sense of the word awesome: causing awe, catalyzing feelings of reverence, calling us to our higher potentials.  Observe in the photo below how our suns inner radiance moves to its surface in the geometry of the flower of life.  

Suns Layers. photo: astronomycast.com

Our sun is a good example for us!  As above, so below, as within, so without.  As we practice, so we are.  In our engagement with our willpower, our ability to feel and to share joy, our heat, our passions, our search, we too can engage the flower of life.  We begin by breathing, do a little yoga or meditation that works for our rhythms, our lives, then sing and dance to the center of it all! Now, more than ever, our daily practices which remind us of that which we really are, which call us to our higher potentials, are crucial. 

My prayer for the rest of today is: Dear Universe, as the molten core surrounds the crystalline, may love surround my inner fire, that flow and abundance may flower from my words and my body in a fountain of light!  Amen.

Even after all this time the sun never says to the earth, "You owe me." Look what happens with a love like that, It lights the whole sky!   ~Hafiz~

 

Platforms for Peace

Yesterday as I rode the train into London I quietly cried.  The famine in Somalia, the recent Tsunamis-Hurricanes-Tornadoes-Solar Flares, the radiation in our water, the blank faces around me, the riots burgeoning across the UK, it-was-just-too-much.  How is it, I wondered, that I am so completely committed to positive outcomes? In the face of humanitys' pain, I know humanitys' beauty.  It is all there together, and so exquisite in the mayayuga of its overarching balance.  We are coming into balance.  

In the Polarity model, unwinding trauma is a process of titration in which the charge of initial trauma is first activated in order to bring it to the surface.  Grounding and skills are then applied in order to allow the charge to neutralize.  A series of small activations and subsequent releases toward sattva (nuetral peaceful zero point energy) is a process engaged in over an hour or more, and possibly over weeks or months.  The scale of trauma our planet requires us to nuetralize is enormous.  It may take many earth changes, many riots, many upsets in order for peace to descend on the whole.  I know, based on my healing practice, that this is possible.  If one human can heal, we can all heal.  It is not beyond our grasp.  

Andrew Harvey, a scholar who writes beautifully and extensively about Mevlana Rumi, said in 2006, "Humanity is now terminally ill and can only be transfigured by a totally shocking revelation of its shadow side."  We have starved, maimed, beaten, killed, eaten, deprecated, and defiled ourselves for long enough!  My heart is screaming out.  Our hearts are screaming out.  It is time to dig out the roots of our collective suffering and create the platforms for peace which will allow us to collectively transmute our inner darkness into light.


Today, as I meditated and practiced yoga on the green at Clapham, as I danced and prayed my heart out with my spiritual community, I began to visualize working platforms for peace.  They start small, with the light inside the heart.  They grow from there, one heart-light pouring over huge areas and many heart-minds, they become manifestos which in turn become calls to action.  Action which is rooted deeply in inner guidance and strength, which gives voice and space to our birthright of healing.  


I believe without a doubt that humanity has the courage to face ourselves and to heal.  
I believe without a doubt that collective transmutation of our traumas from pain to peace is the source of our power to create a heaven and earth united. 
I am committed to that transmutation and I therefore take full responsibility for the nourishment and sharing of my heart-light.

As our platforms for peace emerge, as we co-create them with diligence and disgust and delight, we become the sweet prayer of life that is the birthright of every living being.  "The killing stops here." (Atanarjuat in The Fast Runner, a film well worth seeing, 2001.)