Do you ever do self growth exercises at workshops and stick the written outcomes on the fridge for further reference then forget about them for a few years??? I do. Strangely though, when I do eventually look at them again, I often find that subconsciously I have worked on these issue and gained ground. This happened recently and I though I would share a few comments with you. They might apply to someone out there. It was an exploration of the 'Four Directions":
AIR
"Concentrated thoughts about what I am not clog up the channel of creative flow. I must cease to dwell on what is wrong with me and my life and at the same time cease to attempt to grope for thoughts about what is right to counteract that. Instead I will be open to what is, and allow what needs to occur to flow through me If I give myself every opportunity to allow spirit to flow through me, it will."
EARTH
Everyone that lives has limitations through being physical. One set of limitations is no more perfect than any other. There is no 'right' set of parameters to define a human life. Those limitations define you but only in each moment. The parameters of the past do not need to define you now. Live more fully in this moment and savour it. The opportunities it presents are only available in each now and are gone as soon as it is.
WATER
Do not become hooked onto the rocks of trauma. Feelings must flow on, ever moving, ever fresh. Flow over, around and through the trauma into the next new experience with the new set of feelings associated with it. Don't suffer over the past and miss the present.
SPIRIT SPEAKS
" I can take it all from you. I am the refiners fire. Spirit is beyond "Times Tide". When you step into spirit, the river of past memory need hold no sway over you. Then I can unlock the kernel of potential in each of your moments, for you to savour and appreciate life fully."
Humm! Advice I still need to heed and probably always will. Blessings Sparrowhawk
Saturday, 28 November 2009
Wednesday, 28 October 2009
Newsletter October 2009
Hi Everyone. We are on the threshold of the Night of the 6th day of the Mayan Calendar which arrives on the 7th November through until November 2010, when the morning of the 7th and last day occurs. I thought it might be a good idea to find some references for you to have a look at. It might give you a perspective on what to expect. They are listed below.
My take on this is as follows. A plant flowers (morning of the 6th day we are now exiting). There is beauty and abundance of growth for those plants that survive the huge process of coming out of the seed and becoming plants. For some that haven't accessed the nourishment they needed, they wither and die, or struggle on but produce little in terms of flowering. On the human level, those that have taken care of themselves and their consciousness, probably are coming out of a period where things have been good: relationships have flourished, projects of long standing have prospered, health has stabilized. For those that have not done what they could to provide themselves with inner growth in the years before, they probably experienced the collapse of plans, etc. That time is approaching the end. The next cycle is a cycle of 'night' energy. This means in the plant world, the flowers wither and die on the stem. They have to, to allow the seed within to grow, for it is the seed that provides ongoing new life, and are actually the fruit itself. Some seed falls and becomes new growth in the next session. Some provides nourishment by being eaten (us, birds, insects etc). This metaphor can now be applied to ourselves to get a bit of a picture of what is to come over the next year. That which has lived out its use in our lives, will need to be let go of , to make way for a new beginning (which will not arrive until the morning of the 7th day next year). Ways of being that might have served us in the past, will not do so in the future. This could apply to ways of working, ways of thinking, ways of earning a living, pet beliefs about life, or just about anything that has reached the end of its shelf life. This could be hard if we have an investment in holding on to these things/people/events. The best we can do is recognise that holding on will only make us miserable, but change nothing. Acceptance and becoming aware of the new seeds stirring within us is the way to handle this: graciously! It is a time of waiting for the seeds to grow. Its not a time for impatiently 'making' things happen. Its no good 'tugging on the shoots'. Nurturing, loving patience will win the day. It is possible that some whose work is done will leave this life, making way for those in whom the new is bestowed. On a world stage, we are probably in for a rough ride as outlined in the articles and websites below. We cannot really go back to economic growth, because we do not have the planetary resources to do so, so despite the positive spin from the political spin-doctors, and media, it ain't gonna happen. Co-operation with each other and a sense of community is what will get us through all that. Grow veggies and share them. Help neighbours do what they cant. Stand by each other.That sort of thing. What we are able to shed, will provide a clear view of the possibility hidden within. And when the new day dawns, we will see what we will see before us.
Now, "The Way Through" my latest book is at the printers as we speak. It looks great and I am really pleased to have put out there a means by which people can get the groundwork for self development, and personal change (as long as they put it into action that is). For those of you that have pre-committed to purchase, it will onlt be a little while now. For those of you that have been putting it off, now is your last chance to commit to get the discount. The book will retail at $45. Pre-order discount gets it to you for $36 plus post and packaging for those of you that don't live locally enough to arrange pick-up. So contact me on sparrowhawk@spiritflight.co.nz straight away and register your binding intention to buy this great book. Further information and to view the cover, see http://www.spiritflight.co.nz/the_way_through/index.htm
Also, I will be running the first module of the Psychosynthesis Self Development course next June- Sept 12 weekly classes of 3 hours and 2 one-day workshops for $650. This will cover what is essentially Part 1 of the book. I am taking registrations now, and it is filling nicely. Don't wait as I will only be taking a small group as always. Payment can be arranged over time leading up to course commencement if necessary.
I am also offering Munay Ki initiations on a one-on-one bases from Carnegie Cottage now. Please give me a call on 021379104 if this interests you. Munay Ki workshop series of three will commence March 2010.
Bless you all. Sparrowhawk
References for 6th night of Mayan Calendar:
1) The Sixth Night (Nov. 8, 2009 – Nov. 2, 2010), one last period of Dark in the cycle follows. In the plant’s life the flowers wilt and die setting the stage for fruit development or of seedpods that will dry. This is what happened to the Maya civilization right on queue. Throughout human history there have been conflicts and revolts during this period, the most recent of these having been the Viet Nam War.
2) http://www.calleman.com/content/articles/RebirthCelebration.htm
3) 6th Night of the Mayan Calendar begins on November 8, 2009
From this perspective, where we are approaching the end of cyclical changes and the highest quantum state of the universe, it is also logical that the economic meltdown that we are now in is not merely a “recession” or a “depression”, such as we know to have been precipitated in the past by NIGHTS in the calendar. The decline is instead the beginning of the end to the cycles of the economy. Yet, since we know from the study of the Mayan calendar that the time periods when the economy shrinks are the NIGHTS we can make some predictions as to how this end of the economic cycles is going to play out. The first pulse of bringing the growth economy down thus came with the fifth NIGHT and led to a rapid decrease in growth, a fall in stock values, and increases of lay-offs and foreclosures. We are currently in a period in between such NIGHTS, the sixth DAY (see Figure 2), when the same processes are continuing more slowly and may even temporarily be slightly reversed. Around the time that the Sixth NIGHT begins on November 8, 2009 we may however expect that the meltdown intensifies and the US dollar collapses and with it the established monetary system in the world. Many things may trigger such an event, but it is important to understand that whatever triggers it, and this may be some kind of political event, it is the energy of this NIGHT that will bring it about. This incidentally, is also why it is so important what will be made of the rebirth energy of the second half of the sixth DAY.
We can only imagine what such a collapse will mean, but I feel it is clear to everyone that the consequences for our every day lives will be very far-reaching. Because of the hardships many may come to lose faith in this Creation or think that we are being punished. I look upon it differently: The consciousness of the Galactic Underworld is already preplanned to set in a protective mechanism for the planet by first stopping the growth, which is what any cancer doctor would do before any healing could take place.2 As the reader may now realize we have come to a point where the discussion of the end date of the Mayan calendar is a critical issue since how we relate to the future will directly depend on it. This is neither academic hairsplitting nor irresponsible New Age fantasies. Those that advocate the evidence-based Mayan end date of October 28, 2011 may in fact advice people to prepare themselves for this further economic meltdown beforehand in the sixth NIGHT. Those that talk about December 21, 2012 are however, consistently with their logic, likely to continue to make projections on this fantasy screen in the future. What these people in effect are saying to people is “Do not prepare yourself for the New World now! Wait until the shift comes December 21, 2012!” since they do not recognize any quantum shifts before this point in time. To know the exact end date is then a matter of paramount importance to people, because it is their only way of knowing what quantum shift they are experiencing in the present moment. While many people advocating the December 21, 2012 date are simply jumping on a bandwagon to create some visibility for themselves (and sell various products) I feel it is time that they consider what kind of responsibility this implies also for other people. It is probably not an accident that the first major Hollywood movie, surely planned to confuse people about the Mayan calendar and tout the December 21, 2012 date is scheduled to be released in November of 2009 as the sixth NIGHT begins. The ruling media will then use the December 21 2012 date to manipulate the truth and of course there are always some that are willing to play along. It is quite easy to see in whose interest it is that the Mayan calendar in this way is projected to a time in the future when all alignment with it will be too late.
As the established international monetary system collapses in the sixth NIGHT things can go essentially in either of two directions. It will go either in the direction of a grass roots organization of a new economy without banks, interests or growth serving to create a world without dominance. A collapse of the international monetary system, especially if it is linked to a moratorium of all debts, holds the potential of paving the way to a world that is truly egalitarian, based on willful cooperation and where greed will not destroy the world. This of course precludes the existence of a banking and monetary system organized in the interest of a minority and driven by the craving for abstract values rather than human needs.
I think however that it would be naïve to think that such an implementation of a New World according to the cosmic plan would happen without resistance. Some want to hold onto power over others. To many more the downfall of the established order of dominance would be shocking because it would ruin their experience of security in a world that they have become accustomed to. The bankers, governments, medias and ruling establishments world wide will then naturally seek to set up a new single global currency and remain in control, which they are very well prepared for. This especially the case if people are unaware of the evidence-based Mayan calendar and are able to see this difficult period as part of a process designed to lead to a new world. I am however convinced that the upcoming Universal Underworld will bring a new unity consciousness carrying a bliss of just being and love and compassion for all things just the way they are. Thus, things may not become “better” in the sense they were spoken of in the old economy, but life will be more enjoyable because of a new level of consciousness in which things are perceived in another way. Thus, in the years ahead we are in for a confusing mixture of seemingly conflicting developments. A critical aspect of preparation for this is the knowledge that the evidence-based Mayan calendar ends October 28, 2011, which at least gives people a benchmark for the rhythms with which things will evolve even though it will take a certain time for things to settle also after this.
The vision that is emerging for the time ahead is thus neither that “the world is going to an end,” nor that “we will all be happily flying” at a certain preset date in the future. Instead, we see a fairly complex scenario based on the best evidence that we have for an understanding of the future. It has much in common with the difficult birth scenario for the “New Jerusalem” as this is presented in the Book of Revelation. As this book points out this is however not a world for everyone and it is a scenario that almost certainly will require spiritual strength and integrity to endure. I do not want to add any religious overtones to this discussion, but it seems clear that everyone who is aspiring to enter this new world must sincerely seek the truth and avoid simplistic explanations.
Even if the Mayan calendar thus is universal and fundamentally connected to the Book of Revelation it is nonetheless important to know how the contemporary Maya see their end date. Naturally, some of them are happy that their calendar has received worldwide attention and may just believe what the archeologists have been telling them, which is December 21, 2012 (The actual Long Count upon which this date is based went out of use among the Maya a long time ago and so this date has been forwarded to them by modern archeologists). But more authoritative sources such as Don Alejandro Oxlaj of the Council of Elders are not just jumping on the bandwagon. As anyone who has seen the interview I made with him two years ago (available on DVD from Mayan Majix) he rejects the December 21, 2012 date as a miscalculation (Something that at the time was actually a surprise to me). He also carries the prophecy of the Thirteen Baktuns and 13 Ahau, consistent with the October 28, 2011 date (which is 13 Ahau). Unlike myself he however does not specify an end date, even though we do agree that the last katun shift (beginning of the last 7200 day prophetic period) took place in 1992. Around this katun shift at February 10, 1992 we can also very clearly see that major events, a quantum shift, shaping the whole world took place: The end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union (December 25, 1991), the institution of the European Union, (February 7, 1992) and the launching of the World Wide Web (August 1991). By the time of the katun shift advocated by the December 21, 2012 people (John Jenkins says April 1993 in the “Doomsday” documentary on History Channel) the new world was thus already established. Also in the future the people embracing this end date will thus always be in the backwater of what is really happening in the world. This demonstrates the utmost importance of the end date and that those who want to be consciously part of the coming quantum shifts ahead and surf on the waves of creation that these generate will miss that opportunity if they reject the evidence based Mayan calendar with its end date of October 28, 2011. If you ignore the evidence and listen to the December 21, 2012 “alignment”3 prophets this is likely to have very serious direct consequences for your own life and how you approach the future. With the acceleration of time in the Galactic Underworld the difference of 420 days between the two end dates is literally as big as that between day and night.
4) http://www.mayanmajix.com/art024p.html
My take on this is as follows. A plant flowers (morning of the 6th day we are now exiting). There is beauty and abundance of growth for those plants that survive the huge process of coming out of the seed and becoming plants. For some that haven't accessed the nourishment they needed, they wither and die, or struggle on but produce little in terms of flowering. On the human level, those that have taken care of themselves and their consciousness, probably are coming out of a period where things have been good: relationships have flourished, projects of long standing have prospered, health has stabilized. For those that have not done what they could to provide themselves with inner growth in the years before, they probably experienced the collapse of plans, etc. That time is approaching the end. The next cycle is a cycle of 'night' energy. This means in the plant world, the flowers wither and die on the stem. They have to, to allow the seed within to grow, for it is the seed that provides ongoing new life, and are actually the fruit itself. Some seed falls and becomes new growth in the next session. Some provides nourishment by being eaten (us, birds, insects etc). This metaphor can now be applied to ourselves to get a bit of a picture of what is to come over the next year. That which has lived out its use in our lives, will need to be let go of , to make way for a new beginning (which will not arrive until the morning of the 7th day next year). Ways of being that might have served us in the past, will not do so in the future. This could apply to ways of working, ways of thinking, ways of earning a living, pet beliefs about life, or just about anything that has reached the end of its shelf life. This could be hard if we have an investment in holding on to these things/people/events. The best we can do is recognise that holding on will only make us miserable, but change nothing. Acceptance and becoming aware of the new seeds stirring within us is the way to handle this: graciously! It is a time of waiting for the seeds to grow. Its not a time for impatiently 'making' things happen. Its no good 'tugging on the shoots'. Nurturing, loving patience will win the day. It is possible that some whose work is done will leave this life, making way for those in whom the new is bestowed. On a world stage, we are probably in for a rough ride as outlined in the articles and websites below. We cannot really go back to economic growth, because we do not have the planetary resources to do so, so despite the positive spin from the political spin-doctors, and media, it ain't gonna happen. Co-operation with each other and a sense of community is what will get us through all that. Grow veggies and share them. Help neighbours do what they cant. Stand by each other.That sort of thing. What we are able to shed, will provide a clear view of the possibility hidden within. And when the new day dawns, we will see what we will see before us.
Now, "The Way Through" my latest book is at the printers as we speak. It looks great and I am really pleased to have put out there a means by which people can get the groundwork for self development, and personal change (as long as they put it into action that is). For those of you that have pre-committed to purchase, it will onlt be a little while now. For those of you that have been putting it off, now is your last chance to commit to get the discount. The book will retail at $45. Pre-order discount gets it to you for $36 plus post and packaging for those of you that don't live locally enough to arrange pick-up. So contact me on sparrowhawk@spiritflight.co.nz straight away and register your binding intention to buy this great book. Further information and to view the cover, see http://www.spiritflight.co.nz/the_way_through/index.htm
Also, I will be running the first module of the Psychosynthesis Self Development course next June- Sept 12 weekly classes of 3 hours and 2 one-day workshops for $650. This will cover what is essentially Part 1 of the book. I am taking registrations now, and it is filling nicely. Don't wait as I will only be taking a small group as always. Payment can be arranged over time leading up to course commencement if necessary.
I am also offering Munay Ki initiations on a one-on-one bases from Carnegie Cottage now. Please give me a call on 021379104 if this interests you. Munay Ki workshop series of three will commence March 2010.
Bless you all. Sparrowhawk
References for 6th night of Mayan Calendar:
1) The Sixth Night (Nov. 8, 2009 – Nov. 2, 2010), one last period of Dark in the cycle follows. In the plant’s life the flowers wilt and die setting the stage for fruit development or of seedpods that will dry. This is what happened to the Maya civilization right on queue. Throughout human history there have been conflicts and revolts during this period, the most recent of these having been the Viet Nam War.
2) http://www.calleman.com/content/articles/RebirthCelebration.htm
3) 6th Night of the Mayan Calendar begins on November 8, 2009
From this perspective, where we are approaching the end of cyclical changes and the highest quantum state of the universe, it is also logical that the economic meltdown that we are now in is not merely a “recession” or a “depression”, such as we know to have been precipitated in the past by NIGHTS in the calendar. The decline is instead the beginning of the end to the cycles of the economy. Yet, since we know from the study of the Mayan calendar that the time periods when the economy shrinks are the NIGHTS we can make some predictions as to how this end of the economic cycles is going to play out. The first pulse of bringing the growth economy down thus came with the fifth NIGHT and led to a rapid decrease in growth, a fall in stock values, and increases of lay-offs and foreclosures. We are currently in a period in between such NIGHTS, the sixth DAY (see Figure 2), when the same processes are continuing more slowly and may even temporarily be slightly reversed. Around the time that the Sixth NIGHT begins on November 8, 2009 we may however expect that the meltdown intensifies and the US dollar collapses and with it the established monetary system in the world. Many things may trigger such an event, but it is important to understand that whatever triggers it, and this may be some kind of political event, it is the energy of this NIGHT that will bring it about. This incidentally, is also why it is so important what will be made of the rebirth energy of the second half of the sixth DAY.
We can only imagine what such a collapse will mean, but I feel it is clear to everyone that the consequences for our every day lives will be very far-reaching. Because of the hardships many may come to lose faith in this Creation or think that we are being punished. I look upon it differently: The consciousness of the Galactic Underworld is already preplanned to set in a protective mechanism for the planet by first stopping the growth, which is what any cancer doctor would do before any healing could take place.2 As the reader may now realize we have come to a point where the discussion of the end date of the Mayan calendar is a critical issue since how we relate to the future will directly depend on it. This is neither academic hairsplitting nor irresponsible New Age fantasies. Those that advocate the evidence-based Mayan end date of October 28, 2011 may in fact advice people to prepare themselves for this further economic meltdown beforehand in the sixth NIGHT. Those that talk about December 21, 2012 are however, consistently with their logic, likely to continue to make projections on this fantasy screen in the future. What these people in effect are saying to people is “Do not prepare yourself for the New World now! Wait until the shift comes December 21, 2012!” since they do not recognize any quantum shifts before this point in time. To know the exact end date is then a matter of paramount importance to people, because it is their only way of knowing what quantum shift they are experiencing in the present moment. While many people advocating the December 21, 2012 date are simply jumping on a bandwagon to create some visibility for themselves (and sell various products) I feel it is time that they consider what kind of responsibility this implies also for other people. It is probably not an accident that the first major Hollywood movie, surely planned to confuse people about the Mayan calendar and tout the December 21, 2012 date is scheduled to be released in November of 2009 as the sixth NIGHT begins. The ruling media will then use the December 21 2012 date to manipulate the truth and of course there are always some that are willing to play along. It is quite easy to see in whose interest it is that the Mayan calendar in this way is projected to a time in the future when all alignment with it will be too late.
As the established international monetary system collapses in the sixth NIGHT things can go essentially in either of two directions. It will go either in the direction of a grass roots organization of a new economy without banks, interests or growth serving to create a world without dominance. A collapse of the international monetary system, especially if it is linked to a moratorium of all debts, holds the potential of paving the way to a world that is truly egalitarian, based on willful cooperation and where greed will not destroy the world. This of course precludes the existence of a banking and monetary system organized in the interest of a minority and driven by the craving for abstract values rather than human needs.
I think however that it would be naïve to think that such an implementation of a New World according to the cosmic plan would happen without resistance. Some want to hold onto power over others. To many more the downfall of the established order of dominance would be shocking because it would ruin their experience of security in a world that they have become accustomed to. The bankers, governments, medias and ruling establishments world wide will then naturally seek to set up a new single global currency and remain in control, which they are very well prepared for. This especially the case if people are unaware of the evidence-based Mayan calendar and are able to see this difficult period as part of a process designed to lead to a new world. I am however convinced that the upcoming Universal Underworld will bring a new unity consciousness carrying a bliss of just being and love and compassion for all things just the way they are. Thus, things may not become “better” in the sense they were spoken of in the old economy, but life will be more enjoyable because of a new level of consciousness in which things are perceived in another way. Thus, in the years ahead we are in for a confusing mixture of seemingly conflicting developments. A critical aspect of preparation for this is the knowledge that the evidence-based Mayan calendar ends October 28, 2011, which at least gives people a benchmark for the rhythms with which things will evolve even though it will take a certain time for things to settle also after this.
The vision that is emerging for the time ahead is thus neither that “the world is going to an end,” nor that “we will all be happily flying” at a certain preset date in the future. Instead, we see a fairly complex scenario based on the best evidence that we have for an understanding of the future. It has much in common with the difficult birth scenario for the “New Jerusalem” as this is presented in the Book of Revelation. As this book points out this is however not a world for everyone and it is a scenario that almost certainly will require spiritual strength and integrity to endure. I do not want to add any religious overtones to this discussion, but it seems clear that everyone who is aspiring to enter this new world must sincerely seek the truth and avoid simplistic explanations.
Even if the Mayan calendar thus is universal and fundamentally connected to the Book of Revelation it is nonetheless important to know how the contemporary Maya see their end date. Naturally, some of them are happy that their calendar has received worldwide attention and may just believe what the archeologists have been telling them, which is December 21, 2012 (The actual Long Count upon which this date is based went out of use among the Maya a long time ago and so this date has been forwarded to them by modern archeologists). But more authoritative sources such as Don Alejandro Oxlaj of the Council of Elders are not just jumping on the bandwagon. As anyone who has seen the interview I made with him two years ago (available on DVD from Mayan Majix) he rejects the December 21, 2012 date as a miscalculation (Something that at the time was actually a surprise to me). He also carries the prophecy of the Thirteen Baktuns and 13 Ahau, consistent with the October 28, 2011 date (which is 13 Ahau). Unlike myself he however does not specify an end date, even though we do agree that the last katun shift (beginning of the last 7200 day prophetic period) took place in 1992. Around this katun shift at February 10, 1992 we can also very clearly see that major events, a quantum shift, shaping the whole world took place: The end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union (December 25, 1991), the institution of the European Union, (February 7, 1992) and the launching of the World Wide Web (August 1991). By the time of the katun shift advocated by the December 21, 2012 people (John Jenkins says April 1993 in the “Doomsday” documentary on History Channel) the new world was thus already established. Also in the future the people embracing this end date will thus always be in the backwater of what is really happening in the world. This demonstrates the utmost importance of the end date and that those who want to be consciously part of the coming quantum shifts ahead and surf on the waves of creation that these generate will miss that opportunity if they reject the evidence based Mayan calendar with its end date of October 28, 2011. If you ignore the evidence and listen to the December 21, 2012 “alignment”3 prophets this is likely to have very serious direct consequences for your own life and how you approach the future. With the acceleration of time in the Galactic Underworld the difference of 420 days between the two end dates is literally as big as that between day and night.
4) http://www.mayanmajix.com/art024p.html
Tuesday, 28 July 2009
Newsletter July 2009
A friend and student put me on to this website. It sounds like a book worth reading. Much of what you will read below isn't new, but it is from a scientific perspective. The mythologies of many people have told the same story both symbolically as well as more detailed in quasi-historic fact. There is correlations all over the place. For instance, the author talks about changes in hormonal structure that caused degeneration after the tropical 'Garden of Eden' type setting was no longer available. This correlates with stories about the way in which the Atlantians split the brain into two hemispheres, creating male and female with only half the functioning each so that they would 'need' each other and therefore become more manipulatable. The story goes that this was the time that sex was introduced as we know it today (before that it was by choice and in the control of those involved whether they conceived or not) and the on-tap sexuality of the human species was born along with the monthly menses instead of the 6 monthly (or whatever) 'season' that other animals enjoy. As a result our attention becomes dominated by our sexual (hormonal) urges at an early age, shortening the amount of time for brain development.. This the author says it is becoming earlier and earlier, leaving us with less developmental time more and more. It is a documented fact that the human female did change from seasonal to monthly cycles that did affect the availability of sexual activity between the sexes which does indeed stop the right brain developmental function in favour of the left as we become fixated on 'other' rather than the developmental musings of 'self' that we enjoy in our right brain orientated childhood. Which is indeed becoming shorter and shorter as a result of the sexualisation of just about everything. Tie this all in with the Garden of Eden/Adam and Eve mythology and you have a picture forming that ratifies this mans work. Then we can go on about the possibility of Extra-terrestrial intervention into the gene pool of the human species. Lots of work was done in lots of books by Von Daniken in the 70's onwards with such books as 'Chariots of the Gods' and many more. He refers to the biblical reference to the Sons of Heaven, lying with the Daughters of Earth creating a race of giants among other things, but definitely bringing about changes in our genetic structure. He also sites archaeological evidence that is held away from the publics view in most museums because it does not fit in with the currently accepted Darwin's Theory of evolution, which in itself has been distorted hugely by those that followed him. Then there is the Nazga Lines, chalk white horses, Stone Henge, pyramids and on and on. Many believe the Atlantians and Lemurians were of this extraterrestrial stock. Lots to think about if we can get out of our logical damaged left brain long enough to entertain the possibilities. Then there are the prophecies of just about all the indigenous people that speak of the return of a golden age after huge destruction when we will be restored to our former glory. If science is finding all the first bit has merit (at last), I cant wait until they get to the prophecies. But by then I guess we will all know the truth.They spent huge amounts of money slagging off Von Daniken at the time he was putting forward his theories, which to me only proves logic is flawed. It only can see the past not the potential. Thank god (goddess, whatever) we have spiritual and creative development that assists the right brain as much as it can. But in the end its up to each of us what we do with it. Do we follow the left brain logic slavishly like the rest of the world? Or do we think for our Self?
Sunday, 28 June 2009
Newsletter June 2009
Positive statements make low self-esteem even worse
Rob Stein June 24, 2009
Joanne Wood of the University of Waterloo in Ontario and two colleagues conducted experiments in which they asked students to repeat statements to themselves such as "I am a loveable person" - then measured how it affected their mood.
"From at least as far back as Norman Vincent Peale's The Power of Positive Thinking (1952), the media have advocated saying favourable things to oneself," the researchers wrote in a recent issue of Psychological Science. "At this moment, thousands of people across North America are probably silently repeating positive statements to themselves."
But in one of their studies involving 32 male and 36 female psychology students, the researchers found that repeating the phrase did not improve the mood of those who had low self-esteem, as measured by a standard test. They ended up feeling worse, and the gap between those with high and low self-esteem widened. The findings did not change even if participants were instructed to focus on how the statement might be true about them, as they were in a second study.
The study results "suggest that for certain people, positive self-statements may not only be ineffective, but actually detrimental", researchers wrote.
The Washington Post
From Sparrowhawk:
I have long taught that enforced PMA (positive mental attitude) is no substitute for understanding and accepting the truth within us and changing the patterns that manifest as dysfunctional behaviour, ill-advised choices, and uncomfortable consequences. Indeed mental manipulation of this sort serves only to assist us to deny the feedback that is right before our eyes in our feelings, and encourages us to ignore the shadow side that holds so much understanding and healing for us if we will but venture there. It has been very convenient for society as a w/hole to encourage us in this misinformation, resulting in our chanting " my marriage is great" instead of choosing a new partner, repeating 'money is coming to me' as we cower at the thought of changing our poorly paid job. Staying put, when we need to move, and moving when we need to stick with it, is no solution to what ails us and affirmations won't change that. Indeed, Sondra Ray of the Loving Relationship Training back in the 80's used to say that "Love brings out its opposite". Just like a hose in a blocked drain, before anything can permanently change, the dysfunctional must be flushed out, and new choices must be made. Magic wands work in the hands of magicians. We all need to be that in our own lives. Not by self delusion but by self acceptance: by courage to explore what doesn't work in us, finding its roots in our upbringing, and then following through with new choices. This formula will work with new consequences hot on the heels of your new decisions. A new life is created by your own new awareness and understanding of what works (or hasn't) for you. Magic! Denial is magic too. Black magic~! It surrounds issues in mists and it clouds that which needs to be brought out into the clear light of day. It manifests from our unconscious exactly what will disempower us most. And who is doing it? Well, you are, of course! No blame here. Blame is as useless as balls on a cow, to misquote a well used Kiwi-ism. Whose responsibility is it? Yours. Whose fault is it? No one's! While you are busy apportioning blame and guilt-tripping others you are making yourself into a victim. What you could be doing instead is seeing how it came about and making some changes to what you use your adult power to create for yourself from here on in. Having said that, there's a need to get anger out of your system first. Have the rage, and the rave (to yourself, out load) but then move on to making new choices, armed with the knowledge of what needs did not get met for you in the old ones. Childhood is a powerless time. We dont have the physical size, dexerity, or mental aptitude to make choices for ourselves. We spend years relying on people that can only guess at what we need and view us through the eyes of their own dysfunctional childhoods. All we can do about that is learn how to do it differently for ourselves based on what they couldn't do. But to do that, we have to go looking. We have to turn over the rocks of our childhoods. We have to be prepared to see the yukky stuff that made us who we are so that we can make us who we can become. Papering it over with affirmations and false optimism ain't gonna do that, my friends. Courage and hard inner work will, though. And maybe not as much as you imagine. It's amazing how quickly things shift once you shine the clarity of adult power on them. But we do have to make a commitment to the greatest work of all - self-discovery! And it's life long. You don't need a quick fix. You need a life long commitment to evolution of the species. Starting with yourself. That's not about wallpapering over the nasty bits with pretty statements. That's about following the path of honest self-appraisal. By the way, most affirmations are said to try and counteract our inner fears. The more we affirm its Ok, the more we fear that maybe it ain't! Better to follow the fear to where it began and empower ourselves with the skill and knowledge we need to cope with any outcome.
Well thats me for this month. If you need sessions, I might be able to fit you in somewhere, but know that its not something in which I will wave a magic wand and hey presto! all better. And one won't do it. It requires commitment to your journey and gaining the skills that will stand by you for a lifetime. That takes time and patience to turn over the rocks of the past so that they can reveal the pounamu inside, week by week. You are a taonga (treasure) waiting to emerge. How long that takes depends on what's inside, and what needs to get shifted to reveal it. Travel well. Blessings Sparrowhawk
Thursday, 28 May 2009
Newsletter May 2009
Hello. Not sure why I have had difficulty coming up with inspiration for this newsletter, but I have. Maybe its because I have had lots of things that could easily be seen as mishaps occur this month, and I would be lying if I didn't admit that its been hard to see them as anything else. However, the beauty of being on a spiritual path of self discovery is that I don't believe it any more. There are always reasons why things crap out, if we take the time to examine what we have been up to. What we experience is the consequences of the choices we took earlier, and now, down the track, we are living them. I can trace my car difficulties right down to when I made decisions to get the gear box fixed 8 months ago, and the choice to opt for a reconditioned one rather than to have the existing one rebuilt down to one word--fear! I was afraid it would take to long and I wouldn't be able to get to work. I was afraid about the price of fuel and the climate change caused by the fumes. Now I have been without a vehicle for about two weeks one way or another and the rebuilt gearbox would have originally only take 10 days. Still everything is as it should be and I now have a new car, and the nice men at Southern Honda are trying to get my money back from the reconditioned gear box that wasn't up to scratch. I am having a great experience of community, and have learned yet again that decisions made out of concern and fear are never good ones. Expensive lesson this was. Another interesting experience associated with this scenario is that in order to buy my new car I have had to get a loan at 12% from the company that froze my assets to stop themselves from going broke last year. So they have my money and are lending it back to me at interest. Crazy? Yes. But the interesting thing is that two years ago when those debentures came to maturity I had every intention of cashing them in but decided that I better leave it where it was or I might spend it. Might has well have done so hey? Fear again. Now I'm not telling you all this just to cathart my woes. Oh no. Theres a moral, and that is that at the moment there is enormous amounts of fear floating around the collective unconscious and its sooooo easy to get infected with some part of it. There is bound to a bit tailor made to fit your own childhood trauma or family beliefs about how bad things are or how careful we have to be. And once the fear gets you, you can be encouraged to make all kinds of reactive decisions that you will regret (or learn from) later. Whenever we turn to the contents of our heads for advice we get lost in what others think or have thought. We get caught up in the mythology of the times. But surely fear is an emotion, I hear you frown. Yes it is. A natural indicator that shows us that we are about to do something we have never done before and step into the unknown where we can grow, and learn new skills. Once the mind gets a hold on it though, it turns it into a three ring circus where the caution of others that has embedded itself in your brain is telling you to be careful to stay safe rather than to feel the fear and do it anyway. We listen to the parents in our heads rather than the excitement in our hearts and rather than moving forward into the new, we take a safe option that is not on the path of growth for us and we go round in circles for another decade or two. Humm! Well how do we know that following the fear is the right thing to do not a warning to stay well away??? We know because warnings are not fears. They are 'knowings'. They give us tingles of intuition that says don't go there. It's prickly, but its not fear. Next, when fear is beckoning us to greener pastures, there is always a tinge of excitement with it. It's scary but it's good. The other old cautious warning about the bad things that could happen is plain old scare mongering from the head, replaying all the stuff we have had drummed into us from society that is designed to keep us mediocre. Don't listen to it. It's just trying to turn your good fear against you and keep you small. There isn't anything really to be afraid of except not growing. After all, thats why we're here. The only sign of life is growth.
So what should I have done??? Who knows?! That road was not the one I walked down. I played it safe. Threw good money after bad, and listened to my head. The interesting thing about all this is that its easier to see in hindsight. I do know that listening to our hunches will take us where we need to go to get the lessons we need to have. Maybe mine was that in order to get a new car I had to loose money and have a gearbox seize on me in the pouring rain at the lights at the junction of three inner city streets in peak hour traffic. But I had a handsome man and a gorgeous woman tow me back home! In the end, I guess none of it really matters anyway. We end up wherever we need to be, as long as we keep looking at the lessons life chucks at us. In these times of mass hysteria, stay centered in your heart and you cant go wrong.
So.... still time to book into the Munay Ki series of workshops that start on the 13th/14th June, but thats really and truly it for this year. All other courses are booked up (except a possible weekend workshop and talk in Geraldine). Still I can do private sessions for you if that feels appropriate, whether your needs are philosophical discourses, shamanic journeying, psychosynthesis guiding, or healing. I still have plenty of copies of 'Reweaving the Web' available and can always print off more :-) . "The Way Through"- my psychosynthesis workbook containing the wisdom of the ages within it's covers can still be ordered on my pre-release order list for discount and is still on track for a November release. And if you see a little yellow honda logo flashing around town with a grinning shaman at the wheel, its probably me. Cheers Dears. Sparrowhawk
So what should I have done??? Who knows?! That road was not the one I walked down. I played it safe. Threw good money after bad, and listened to my head. The interesting thing about all this is that its easier to see in hindsight. I do know that listening to our hunches will take us where we need to go to get the lessons we need to have. Maybe mine was that in order to get a new car I had to loose money and have a gearbox seize on me in the pouring rain at the lights at the junction of three inner city streets in peak hour traffic. But I had a handsome man and a gorgeous woman tow me back home! In the end, I guess none of it really matters anyway. We end up wherever we need to be, as long as we keep looking at the lessons life chucks at us. In these times of mass hysteria, stay centered in your heart and you cant go wrong.
So.... still time to book into the Munay Ki series of workshops that start on the 13th/14th June, but thats really and truly it for this year. All other courses are booked up (except a possible weekend workshop and talk in Geraldine). Still I can do private sessions for you if that feels appropriate, whether your needs are philosophical discourses, shamanic journeying, psychosynthesis guiding, or healing. I still have plenty of copies of 'Reweaving the Web' available and can always print off more :-) . "The Way Through"- my psychosynthesis workbook containing the wisdom of the ages within it's covers can still be ordered on my pre-release order list for discount and is still on track for a November release. And if you see a little yellow honda logo flashing around town with a grinning shaman at the wheel, its probably me. Cheers Dears. Sparrowhawk
Saturday, 28 March 2009
Newsletter March 2009
Hello Everyone. I hope you are getting the benefit out of the current
Mayan calendar year which began on November 2008 and will continue until
November 2009. Its a time of flowering and abundance. A time of things
coming to fruition, but of course you must have planted the seed for
that to occur.So often we believe that all we have to do is wish for it
and desire it and it 'should' happen. Of course the process of
manifestation is a bit more complex than that. As we are currently
living by the laws of the 3rd dimension, we have to take a 3D approach
to bringing things into being. I touched on this in my last newsletter.
First we must feel the desire. The feelings alert us to a need in us and
needs are no bad thing.We all have them all of the time, like fuel
needing to be shoveled into a boiler to keep it alight.Needs have gained
a bad reputation especially in the New Age of self responsibility where
we believe we shouldn't have any or it reflects badly on us.The truth is
its not needs that are the problem. Its not meeting them! Then we become
'needy' and thats an ongoing condition of powerlessness. The more we
don't meet our needs the more needy we become as we begin to believe we
are incapable of meeting them.The more needs we leave unmet, the bigger
the pile becomes and the more difficult it seems to come back into a
place of satiation and joy. And we have all been there I know! Still all
we have to do is start at the top of the pile with the most urgent needs
and meet them one at a time and bit by bit the pile will get lower and
lower. If we are consistent with this we have every opportunity to come
into balance eventually. That is not a place of 'no needs'. It is a
place of clarity where the upcoming needs can be recognized by the
feelings, elucidated by the mind and met by the body: truly a 3D
approach. So the path by which we must approach manifestation is to
locate the desire inside our feelings. Without that, nothing will occur.
We need the energy of the feelings to 'fuel' the movement towards
manifestation. Feelings and emotion all have a bodily component to them'
an energetic 'buzz' as it were. Take some time next time you are having
an emotion to feel the buzz. It doesn't matter if it is a so called
negative feeling or a great one, it will still have the buzz at the back
of it that powers all things.Then ask yourself, what need is at the
bottom of this feeling? What are you being told to provide for your
self?? Now is the tricky bit because most of us go into the 'I cant'
thinking pattern that we have developed out of the powerlessness of the
huge pile of unmet needs facing us. However, if we stay with the feeling
and go beneath it we will find the need and along with it the desire to
have it fulfilled. Now you can go to the next step. Having located the
energy for its completion, you are then able to shape it into a thought.
"I needs a new car" isn't a manifestation in and of itself. If you have
located the need and the desire contained in the feelings, you have some
juice behind it. Without that juice thoughts are dead, dry things. Now
having shaped the need and desire into a clear understanding of whats
required, you can break it down with the use of your good mind into bit
sized choices that the body can enact and thus bring about the
manifestation of the fulfillment of the need. In actual fact this
process can sometimes be so swift that we dont see the component parts
to it. It looks like we thought about it and there it was. But you
needed to be in the right place at the right time to see the opportunity
that the body can now act on and that was a product of the previous
steps. So we decide to look in the paper for a car, we drive towards the
car yard and low and behold, round the corner from our home, our
neighbour has her car out on the street with a 'For Sale' sign on it and
you have always loved that car!!!
One of the other things I wanted to talk about this month was the
correlation between spirituality and therapy. Most people have a knee
jerk reaction against therapy. They immediately associate it with mental
disease and write it off . And its true that many forms of therapy today
are little more than advice giving and of course, if advice worked for
us we would all be perfect because we have all had loads of it since
childhood onwards. But we all need ways of clearing the decks so that
spirit can come through clearly in our lives rather than being filtered
through the many undealt with needs and issues hidden in our psyche. The
more we get the static off the line the more clearly we see our
evolutionary path of growth before us and the way that our own path
dovetails into the evolution of the whole species and indeed all of
creation. So many people look for phenomena to take the ouch out of
their lives. We want to know that there is something more. But phenomena
is just that. No different from a lighting flash or thunder clap, just
coming from a different dimension of reality. In some it can cause a
adrenalin buzz which makes us feel good for a while as the endorphins
flash through our system, only to leave us addicted to wanting more, or
flat from the mundanity of our everyday lives once it has passed. More
important is to have spirit with you working in your life as it is. It
teaches us how to live fully within the bounds of our current
three-dimensional reality and guides us gently, within our increasing
understanding, to the ability to experience life anew. As we master
that, so we become ready for the next great experience of dimensional
shift. But to master that we need to look deeply into our lives:
clearing away the debris of the beliefs that we have come to hold about
the way life is based on our childhood responses to powerlessness. We
need to rigorously observe our inner world, finding those issues and
needs that are still undealt with, not because we have any disease, but
from the pure love of knowledge about ourselves holding the desire to
extract wisdom from our lives, and move forward along our own path or
growth towards our potential. As we take ourselves forward with new ways
of being, so we affect the whole, contributing to the evolution towards
the next school of learning that awaits us once we have learned what we
need to in this one.
I have written a new book, which offers tools to this end. Based on the
Psychosynthesis model, which is the only true spiritual psychology in
existence, "The Way Through-A Guide to Psychosynthesis in Everyday Life"
gives you over 80 experiential exercises to do, many diagrams to help
you understand visually, and experience from my own practice in
Psychosynthesis as a therapist, trainer, and practitioner for the best
part of the last three decades.This book will be available later on this
year, and I am opening a pre-order list now. For those that place a
pre-publication order with me, there is a 20% discount from the retail
price. No money need be paid until the book is released, but the
pre-order needs to be honoured once the time arrives :-) Shortly there
will be a new page on my website containing sample chapters. In the
meantime, if you have bought and enjoyed my previous book "Reweaving the
Web-A Shamanic Journey of Connection", which is available from me at
any time for $35, you will know there will be a great deal of wisdom for
you in the pages of this new book, which has been my vocation and
avocation for so long. To place an order, please email me with your
name, address, phone contact, and email address. Once your name is
received you are assured of a copy at discount price.
The Munay Ki workshop series that is currently underway is bringing
accelerated growth to its participants I am told, and am so grateful to
be able to offer this wonderful fast track to our growth. However, it is
the next step of growth, not the first step, and those that undertake it
needs to have spent some time on the process of self observation before
embarking on it. If you fit that description, then the Munay Ki can give
you the energetic burst to take you onto a new level with your journey
towards the 5th dimension of reality we are all headed towards. I am
willing to offer a new series in June/July/Early August if there are 5
people who wish to become initiates of this wonderful Andean gift from
the Qu'ero people. There will be no more initiations in Dunedin this
year after that, and there are only 3.5 years to go before 2012 so don't
leave it too long to get this chance of accelerated growth. People need
to register their interest in this opportunity with me as soon as
possible so that I can schedule it in before the beginning of May.
Well My Friends, that's all for this month. Happy manifesting, and
remember the highest good of all. After all, what's the good of a new car
if that's all there is. Blessings Sparrowhawk
Friday, 27 February 2009
Newsletter February 2009
During this month I have seen Kiwi's rally to the poor buggers across the ditch, dodging fires. Thank you. New Zealanders were the first to donate, and Otago was very generous. For those of you that have never seen fires like that, I can assure you its no fun. In 1994 when the fires were hitting the Blue Mountains where I lived, I vowed I could not spend another summer there. For a whole week, we lived with fires about a kilometer away, just waiting for the winds to change and blow them all over the settled areas, all of which are on top of a ridge. The fires can and have streaked up from the valleys and whipped out whole townships. With our ears glued to the radio, we were all ready to take off God-knows-where, with our documents, change of cloths, duvets, food and water in the back of my station wagon- all ready to go. The heat was so intense, I shaved my head. (Not for the first time I have to admit. I was having hot flushes every 30 minutes at the time too, which didn't help). The sirens on the fire engines where constant. I can't hear a siren now without it creating a slight wince inside me. The sun was covered by a continual caul of smoke, (similar to what we saw here last week, but much more so), and the smell of it in the air was stifling. At that time Sydney was going up in smoke too, and I had close friends who kept in contact by phone. "Are you all right?" "Yea, are you?" "Where is the fire now, whats happening??" And on it went.The day it rained we were out on my veranda in tee-shirts " Thank you. Thank You. Thank You!" Well its raining here in Dunedin as I write this and I couldn't be more pleased. Lets hope they are getting it there too, and that their tee-shirts are wet also.
I have been thinking a lot lately about the concept of positive thought. It has become almost passe to talk about being positive because thought manifests our reality. I have come across people that have become so paranoid about themselves if they have a negative thought that their anxiety levels soar. Likewise I have known people who peer into every occurrence to see if they can see what the outcome will be and whether that choice will lead to a positive outcome or not. End result is often that they don't choose anything, for fear of the negative.(Actually they choose not to choose). Of course, thats the most negative outcome of all: paralysis. And depression isn't far behind. The New Age has been rife with affirmations. In fact if you drop a not-so-positive statement anywhere, its not uncommon to be hauled over the coals by a better operator and more righteous follower. Whats more, it is taken as a given that words are an accurate guide of ones thoughts. In Australia, rough-house lot that we are, it is quite common for someone to refer to you as "a silly old bastard". But before you haul off and hit them, (not a positive look in itself), you have to listen to the tone in their voice, look at the twinkle (or not) in their eye, and see what their body language is doing. The intention behind all that could mean "Hey mate, I really love you and you make me laugh". A more appropriate response might be a wink or a hug. If thoughts are all that create, then I think we are all in trouble. I have studied this a great deal, and indeed, some say I have a 'thing' about it. It all comes down to the definition of belief. If belief is indeed only conceptual, the the proponents of PMA (positive mental attitude) would be right. But unless there is 'feeling' behind the words they are empty vessels. It is the feeling behind being called a silly bastard that makes the difference between a friend and a critic. Indeed it goes a bit further still. Based on what we feel, our thoughts can form up in one direction or another, and that in turn directs our actions. When these three aspects of us come together THEN we have a shaped reality. A quick word for this is 'intention'. It is intention that create for us, not just thought on its own.
This whole split-off way of being started with a bloke called Descartes. He believed 'I think therefore I am". Everyone believed him and as a result we all followed like sheep down a road of separation that has lead to the rationalistic, reductionistic world view that has created much of the problem we now face. We have to begin to put things back together again, realising that cutting up a body to find out how it works is as sensible as fighting for peace. We are more than the sum of our parts. So it is with the idea that positive thought alone creates. Belief creates, powered by intention, which fuels our feelings, drives our thoughts and results in our actions. Then when we look around, we have a reality and ask ourselves how did that happen. So My Friends, if you want to change your reality, you need to go deeper than watching every thought you have and every word that comes out of your mouth.You need to go behind the obvious and connect to what you feel about things.Then you can trace that back to what needs to change that is creating those feelings in you. You sort it, and you begin to think differently. Bingo! you make different choices and the whole picture shifts. In this way you are connected to the whole of you not just the thinking process. Indigenous people were much better at this than we were because they missed out on Descartes. Luck people. My own shamanic path honours the four directions of the compass that are representative of body, mind, emotions and spirit.....together. To be whole, they must be in balance. If we lead with just one of them, things become lopsided. Indeed, it is my experience that PMA can be an excuse for NOT looking at those issues we see as negative in us. As a result they don't get dealt with. We may say piles of affirmations to change that, but what is undealt with are lessons not yet learned. They don't go away until we 'get it'. Oh yes. Affirmations do work. But you have to keep it up or the feeling sneaks out and grabs you again when you least expect it and your back to square one.....saying a million and one positive statements to try to create differently. However, follow the negative feeling to its source, learn from it, accept it, love it and move on from it when the time is right, and the wound is healed. No more negative feeling to spoil your party. So Mates, if you hear me saying a negative statement, it could be that you need to listen for the feeling underneath. I could be telling you I love you in a Ozzie sort of a way. Or I could be allowing myself the privilege of working through my own stuff by going into it for a while so that I can get to the bottom of it and move on. We need to let ourselves do that. We need to let others do that too, and not have unrealistic expectations on them. The moving on bit is the final important piece in the jigsaw, and you can't do that until ALL of yourself is ready to. One thing is for sure, the magic that creates our reality is a connected affair, not a hierarchy with the thoughts on the top. So don't stress. It will all work itself out if you give yourselves half a chance and have the courage to go where the feelings take you.
For me, its been an interesting month getting back into the swing of things for the year. As a result I have a shaft of events coming up that might interest some of you.I have articles galore in Soul Cuisine magazine over the next few issues. Pick up a copy at a health food store near you or your favourite spiritual centre. Carnegie Cottage usually has some as does "Spirit and Soul" in South Dunedin. On Sunday March 1st, I will be giving a talk for the Spiritualist Centre at the Wellspring Centre in Oamaru. The topic for that talk will be 'Connection' which will incorporate the Munay Ki with our need to connect to the Web of Life: the One that we are all part of. On Friday 6th March, I will be holding a free public talk on the Munay Ki, the gift that has been given to the West by the Qu'ero people of the Andes to prepare our DNA and light-bodies for the coming Earth and Social changes that are associated with the Mayan Calender's setting of 2012 for the end of this era of planetary development.Call me for a venue but probably it will be Carnegie Cottage.
Following that on from that I will be running the first of three Munay Ki initiation workshops in the first of this years series. There are still two places available in that series. Dates are March 14th and 15th, April 4th and 5th, and May 2nd and 3rd. There will be three rites given at each workshop making up the total 9 Qu'ero rites. They are the Healers Rites, the Bands of Power for our protection through these times, the Archetypes that go into each chakra. Then in Munay Ki 2 in April, the rites gifted will be The Seers Rite, The Day Keepers Rite and The Wisdom Keepers Rite. Finally in May the Earth Keepers Rite, the Star Keepers Rite which seals you for the 2012 transition and the Creator Rite, the final powerful rite that initiates you as co- creator with the Universe itself. Depending on response, this may be the only Munay Ki workshop I offer in Dunedin this year. However, if there are enough interested in going the distance into the next dimension, I will be happy to offer another series later on.
April 26th I am giving a talk at the Mentor Centre, if you would like to come along. My book will be available for purchase at all these events.
In July, I am planning a week of activities in the Nelson region including a public talk, a weekend workshop on the 11th and 12th, and some book promotion. Finally the Shamanic Training Course that I have been asked about is still in the offering. It will most likely take the form of 7 weekend workshops: 4 this year and 3 early next year. If anyone is interested, contact me asap for the Munay Ki, and if you are thinking about the shamanic workshop series, call me for a chat about the possibilities.It is forming up around peoples needs.
Well thats a lot. Hope some of you can find what you want in there. If not, I am available for one-on-one sessions for self growth and spiritual development and just about most things that ail you :-) .Email me. Blessings to you all. Sparrowhawk
I have been thinking a lot lately about the concept of positive thought. It has become almost passe to talk about being positive because thought manifests our reality. I have come across people that have become so paranoid about themselves if they have a negative thought that their anxiety levels soar. Likewise I have known people who peer into every occurrence to see if they can see what the outcome will be and whether that choice will lead to a positive outcome or not. End result is often that they don't choose anything, for fear of the negative.(Actually they choose not to choose). Of course, thats the most negative outcome of all: paralysis. And depression isn't far behind. The New Age has been rife with affirmations. In fact if you drop a not-so-positive statement anywhere, its not uncommon to be hauled over the coals by a better operator and more righteous follower. Whats more, it is taken as a given that words are an accurate guide of ones thoughts. In Australia, rough-house lot that we are, it is quite common for someone to refer to you as "a silly old bastard". But before you haul off and hit them, (not a positive look in itself), you have to listen to the tone in their voice, look at the twinkle (or not) in their eye, and see what their body language is doing. The intention behind all that could mean "Hey mate, I really love you and you make me laugh". A more appropriate response might be a wink or a hug. If thoughts are all that create, then I think we are all in trouble. I have studied this a great deal, and indeed, some say I have a 'thing' about it. It all comes down to the definition of belief. If belief is indeed only conceptual, the the proponents of PMA (positive mental attitude) would be right. But unless there is 'feeling' behind the words they are empty vessels. It is the feeling behind being called a silly bastard that makes the difference between a friend and a critic. Indeed it goes a bit further still. Based on what we feel, our thoughts can form up in one direction or another, and that in turn directs our actions. When these three aspects of us come together THEN we have a shaped reality. A quick word for this is 'intention'. It is intention that create for us, not just thought on its own.
This whole split-off way of being started with a bloke called Descartes. He believed 'I think therefore I am". Everyone believed him and as a result we all followed like sheep down a road of separation that has lead to the rationalistic, reductionistic world view that has created much of the problem we now face. We have to begin to put things back together again, realising that cutting up a body to find out how it works is as sensible as fighting for peace. We are more than the sum of our parts. So it is with the idea that positive thought alone creates. Belief creates, powered by intention, which fuels our feelings, drives our thoughts and results in our actions. Then when we look around, we have a reality and ask ourselves how did that happen. So My Friends, if you want to change your reality, you need to go deeper than watching every thought you have and every word that comes out of your mouth.You need to go behind the obvious and connect to what you feel about things.Then you can trace that back to what needs to change that is creating those feelings in you. You sort it, and you begin to think differently. Bingo! you make different choices and the whole picture shifts. In this way you are connected to the whole of you not just the thinking process. Indigenous people were much better at this than we were because they missed out on Descartes. Luck people. My own shamanic path honours the four directions of the compass that are representative of body, mind, emotions and spirit.....together. To be whole, they must be in balance. If we lead with just one of them, things become lopsided. Indeed, it is my experience that PMA can be an excuse for NOT looking at those issues we see as negative in us. As a result they don't get dealt with. We may say piles of affirmations to change that, but what is undealt with are lessons not yet learned. They don't go away until we 'get it'. Oh yes. Affirmations do work. But you have to keep it up or the feeling sneaks out and grabs you again when you least expect it and your back to square one.....saying a million and one positive statements to try to create differently. However, follow the negative feeling to its source, learn from it, accept it, love it and move on from it when the time is right, and the wound is healed. No more negative feeling to spoil your party. So Mates, if you hear me saying a negative statement, it could be that you need to listen for the feeling underneath. I could be telling you I love you in a Ozzie sort of a way. Or I could be allowing myself the privilege of working through my own stuff by going into it for a while so that I can get to the bottom of it and move on. We need to let ourselves do that. We need to let others do that too, and not have unrealistic expectations on them. The moving on bit is the final important piece in the jigsaw, and you can't do that until ALL of yourself is ready to. One thing is for sure, the magic that creates our reality is a connected affair, not a hierarchy with the thoughts on the top. So don't stress. It will all work itself out if you give yourselves half a chance and have the courage to go where the feelings take you.
For me, its been an interesting month getting back into the swing of things for the year. As a result I have a shaft of events coming up that might interest some of you.I have articles galore in Soul Cuisine magazine over the next few issues. Pick up a copy at a health food store near you or your favourite spiritual centre. Carnegie Cottage usually has some as does "Spirit and Soul" in South Dunedin. On Sunday March 1st, I will be giving a talk for the Spiritualist Centre at the Wellspring Centre in Oamaru. The topic for that talk will be 'Connection' which will incorporate the Munay Ki with our need to connect to the Web of Life: the One that we are all part of. On Friday 6th March, I will be holding a free public talk on the Munay Ki, the gift that has been given to the West by the Qu'ero people of the Andes to prepare our DNA and light-bodies for the coming Earth and Social changes that are associated with the Mayan Calender's setting of 2012 for the end of this era of planetary development.Call me for a venue but probably it will be Carnegie Cottage.
Following that on from that I will be running the first of three Munay Ki initiation workshops in the first of this years series. There are still two places available in that series. Dates are March 14th and 15th, April 4th and 5th, and May 2nd and 3rd. There will be three rites given at each workshop making up the total 9 Qu'ero rites. They are the Healers Rites, the Bands of Power for our protection through these times, the Archetypes that go into each chakra. Then in Munay Ki 2 in April, the rites gifted will be The Seers Rite, The Day Keepers Rite and The Wisdom Keepers Rite. Finally in May the Earth Keepers Rite, the Star Keepers Rite which seals you for the 2012 transition and the Creator Rite, the final powerful rite that initiates you as co- creator with the Universe itself. Depending on response, this may be the only Munay Ki workshop I offer in Dunedin this year. However, if there are enough interested in going the distance into the next dimension, I will be happy to offer another series later on.
April 26th I am giving a talk at the Mentor Centre, if you would like to come along. My book will be available for purchase at all these events.
In July, I am planning a week of activities in the Nelson region including a public talk, a weekend workshop on the 11th and 12th, and some book promotion. Finally the Shamanic Training Course that I have been asked about is still in the offering. It will most likely take the form of 7 weekend workshops: 4 this year and 3 early next year. If anyone is interested, contact me asap for the Munay Ki, and if you are thinking about the shamanic workshop series, call me for a chat about the possibilities.It is forming up around peoples needs.
Well thats a lot. Hope some of you can find what you want in there. If not, I am available for one-on-one sessions for self growth and spiritual development and just about most things that ail you :-) .Email me. Blessings to you all. Sparrowhawk
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