2019.07.04 July 4th Celebration of You!
I am sharing two posts. One is the post I posted on Facebook. The other is the one below send to the Spirals of Being by an Architect, Maggie Divine Spark. We are so not done. We are so the people who are moving with the next recursion of reality that will be new and different but returned to the original nature of the original design here. Enjoy your day!
My post on Facebook:
“I work up crying from both joy and sadness today but the joy WON! I, at 73, years old have the AWESOME opportunity to exist in freedom with you! Our freedom to BE! I dressed in red, white, and blue this morning -before it got too hot!!- and touted the love of my country on the dog path Lily and I take in the morning. I am so blessed I have a culture of people who stay the path of existing in unity with all life. With them, and others I get to explore the greater realities that are weaving into and are part of the disruption here on this planet as what goes against life fights to keep its hold on Gaia’s beloveds BUT IS NOT WINNING. I have amazing children who are ‘to thine own self be true’! I live in a country that is fighting for the next recursion of freedom for all. My country says that it exists for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Damanhur Spiritual EcoCommunity who our culture of unity gets to participate with also address happiness as a goal. This is our freedom: To find joy, love, and tenderness under all conditions and through all challenges. For me, happiness is being oneself with others who are true to themselves, never giving up the values you have that make life precious, and knowing that regardless of the shifts and changes before you, you are free.
Have the best day ever. As Phillip Phillips sings in his song Home
Hold on, to me as we go
As we roll down this unfamiliar road
And although this wave is stringing us along
Just know you’re not alone
‘Cause I’m going to make this place your home
Settle down, it’ll all be clear
Don’t pay no mind to the demons
They fill you with fear
The trouble, it might drag you down
If you get lost, you can always be found
Just know you’re not alone
‘Cause I’m going to make this place your home
I love you, Tantra Maat
Sent by Maggie Divine Spark to the Spirals of Being who operate in the growth and development of being in unity with all life.. so of course, this includes you!
On this July 4th when tanks are being paraded as our contribution to freedom I offer you a brilliant perspective from Mama Donna, an urban shaman. I invite you to take her message into your heart and celebrate our interdependence. We cannot make it in a world of separation. It’s an illusion.
Reach out and share some epithelial cells with another and remember I am you and you are me and we are we!
7.4.2019
Happy Interdependence day!
A few years ago, I was invited to address a gathering of clergy who were being trained to serve as resident chaplains in the pastoral care department of a major urban medical center. Specifically, they asked me to present the shamanic point of view of team building with an emphasis on creating alliances and community.
What a fascinating assignment. I immediately sat myself down to give some serious thought to the substance of their request. After much rifling through of books and files as well as several sessions of deep meditation on the topic at hand, I realized that there is no such thing.
From a shamanic point of view (as well as quantum scientific thought) separation is a false concept. It is redundant to think of reaching out to build teams, alliances and communities, since we are already all connected, allied, joined together as one. The fact is there is no such thing as opposing sides.
There is only one side: just us folks, all of us everywhere, trying to live life as best we can, much more alike than different. There is no us and them. There is only us. We – all of us who occupy this planet: organic and inorganic; living and not; past, present, and future – are the world.
We come from our Mother Earth and return to Her belly. We are made of the same substance as the sea, the soil, the stars. There are, and ever have been, only so many molecules in existence, and all the rest – birth, growth, death, decay, development, change, evolution, transformation – is really just about recycling.
We breathe the same air as our cave-dwelling ancestors, continually inhaling and exhaling, trading carbon dioxide and oxygen with our plant relatives untold billions of times over the millennia. And the same holds true for water. We drink the tears of crocodiles and elephants. We wash in the drainage of the ages. It rains, it pools, it evaporates. We drink, we pee, we drink. Again and again and again in a grand scale cosmic round robin.
All borders and boundaries and separations are pure illusion. Each time we touch someone we leave some of our skin atoms behind and pick up a parcel of new ones in an intimate epidermal exchange.
Thus we merge, quite literally becoming part of each other.
I am you and you are me and we are we.
We are all in this together, inextricably bound, riding on our beautiful blue planet through space and time. We are one team, one community, one world, one living, breathing entity. And the sooner we realize it, the happier, safer, saner and more sustainable we will be.
Today we are surrounded by artificial division, manipulated resentment and fear-mongered anxiety. The real dynamic being played out right now is not about conflicting religious, economic or nationalistic factions. It is not even about war. The struggle is actually between those who believe that the world is defined in terms of contrast, of black and white opposition – good or evil, right or wrong, war or peace, with us or against us – and those who are able to see things in a more harmonious, holistic and congruent manner.
These are deciding times. It is imperative for those of us who perceive the big picture to make a concerted effort to reach out in ever-expanding circles of affinity, support, and empathetic embrace. Now is the time to create healthy, functioning networks in recognition and in honor of our mutual state of being and our common fate.
Let us come out of the cocoon closets of our isolated, separate selves and set our intentions on unity. Let us come together to make connections. To make friends. To make sense. To make art. To make amends. To make whoopy. To make time. To make magic. To make love. To make change. To make peace in our hearts and on the planet.
Let us project ourselves outward as cooperative partners; as interconnected members of our families, communities, species and world; as consciously coexistent inhabitants of our planet, and as conscientious co-creators of our combined future. Life on Earth depends upon our interdependent efforts.
With best blessings of interdependence,
Mama Donna
Donna Henes is a spiritual leader specializing in rituals and writing in support of personal and planetary transformation.
