Yesterday I went to toku awa tapu, my sacred river, Te Uru Wai. Anyway, thats what Pete and I call it. Everyone else call it Pipson Creek at Makarora. How it got our name is a long story involving Tohunga, a piece of greenstone (Tangiwai), a shamanic journey and lots of tears. But it feels really important to go back to that wainui (big water), as often as possible to replenish and be connected to the land through it. I haven’t been here for three years too long. No wonder I nearly lost my connection to the land this year. It felt so good to say my karakia (prayer), do my ritual head washing, and mihi (honouring) to the maunga (mountain). Then I sat by it and allowed it to talk to me. I am reading a novel at the moment about a young woman who finds out she is not human but part of a humanoid species called Immortals. Immortals have magic running in their blood and it is felt as a tingling electrical sensation. As I sat by Te Uru Wai, I got the same sort of feeling, manifesting as a sort of peace, flowing, even flushing sensation. I have been interested in quantum physics for a long time as most of you know. It has been my belief based on it that we are literally made of light particles at our most fundamental level. Knowing that we are, is interpreted by all the spiritual paths as enlightenment. People have called us 'light bodies'. But often it is seen as a spiritual prestige. A sort of hierarchy. A bit like someone saying someone is an 'old soul' or 'evolved'. There is an implication that the rest of us are merely lesser human beings. Quantum physics puts the lie to this type of thinking. All matter is made of the same stuff- congealed light. That’s my take on it. We are beings of light, on a world of light, in a universe of light. All of us.
We went to see the movie "Anima Mundi" (World Soul) before we went away. A brilliant film full of truth on oh, so many levels. In part of it, a scientist reiterated that once photons (light particles) were thought to bounce off matter, but that they now know that photons travel through all matter and become programmed by what they have just travelled through. This means that if you stand near a forest, photons that have passed through the trees and picked up tree-programming, are now passing through you. You are indeed being given tree-ness. Likewise the trees are being given you-ness. You cannot separate yourself off from the energy of anything as the photons are carriers of all things to all things. The trick is being conscious of this transference, and by being so, choose to open yourself up to the information that is being offered you. Or not. There are times when we may not want what is being carried our way. If that’s the case we can, by being aware, make a choice to remove ourselves from the source of those photons programming; such as an angry crowd, or a toxic influence. But there are definitely times and places that our soul is nourished and blessed by, and the photonic spread heals and rejuvenates us. Such a place is Te Uru Wai to me. Such a place is Aotearoa's landscape; the mountains, the sea, the fields, the lake and rivers. As the photons of light enter my body, my eyes drink in the knowledge contained in the landscape they see. My nose smells it. My heart reaches out for it. "I am the river and the river is me".
Its New Years Eve today. We are on the threshold of 2012. What that means, we are about to find out. The human psyche has made it an important year no matter what it originally was going to be. All years are important surely? We call it two thousand and twelve years since the birth of Christ, but we can take any starting point. We could say it was the 13th billion ABB (after the Big Bang). Or 64.5 AJB (after Jay's birth). What makes any year important is living it, not counting it. And living is an experience not a thought: being aware of the photons passing through you and therefore knowing who you are becoming.
I wish for you all, this 2012, a year of being fully photonically alive. Live it! Don’t just think about it. Bless you all. And thank you yet again Te Uru Wai for your wisdom. Jay Sparrowhawk Ray
We went to see the movie "Anima Mundi" (World Soul) before we went away. A brilliant film full of truth on oh, so many levels. In part of it, a scientist reiterated that once photons (light particles) were thought to bounce off matter, but that they now know that photons travel through all matter and become programmed by what they have just travelled through. This means that if you stand near a forest, photons that have passed through the trees and picked up tree-programming, are now passing through you. You are indeed being given tree-ness. Likewise the trees are being given you-ness. You cannot separate yourself off from the energy of anything as the photons are carriers of all things to all things. The trick is being conscious of this transference, and by being so, choose to open yourself up to the information that is being offered you. Or not. There are times when we may not want what is being carried our way. If that’s the case we can, by being aware, make a choice to remove ourselves from the source of those photons programming; such as an angry crowd, or a toxic influence. But there are definitely times and places that our soul is nourished and blessed by, and the photonic spread heals and rejuvenates us. Such a place is Te Uru Wai to me. Such a place is Aotearoa's landscape; the mountains, the sea, the fields, the lake and rivers. As the photons of light enter my body, my eyes drink in the knowledge contained in the landscape they see. My nose smells it. My heart reaches out for it. "I am the river and the river is me".
Its New Years Eve today. We are on the threshold of 2012. What that means, we are about to find out. The human psyche has made it an important year no matter what it originally was going to be. All years are important surely? We call it two thousand and twelve years since the birth of Christ, but we can take any starting point. We could say it was the 13th billion ABB (after the Big Bang). Or 64.5 AJB (after Jay's birth). What makes any year important is living it, not counting it. And living is an experience not a thought: being aware of the photons passing through you and therefore knowing who you are becoming.
I wish for you all, this 2012, a year of being fully photonically alive. Live it! Don’t just think about it. Bless you all. And thank you yet again Te Uru Wai for your wisdom. Jay Sparrowhawk Ray
