Soulscape Journeys around the Sacred Wheel of Life Spiritual journeys have been described by some as entry into a moonlit desert night, then movement to a fog-covered mountain and, finally, into the impenetrable darkness of a thick forest.The experience of the desert, the mountain, and the forest symbolize the three stages of the spiritual life generally described as mourning, insight and wisdom. Read more...
Journeying around the Sacred Wheel of Life In our own lives too, we go through the myth of the Fall. We do the same journey that begins in Paradise, in Utopia, a safe, secure, peaceful, loving environment. And then Fall into a world of pain, suffering where we are judged, where unfair discriminations are made, and illusions are shattered. It is the same journey for each of us, the Paradise followed by the Fall (loss of Paradise) and the desire to regain the Paradise. Read more...
Celebrating light is also about getting intimate with our inner shadow However demonic the shadow can become, it has had an evolutionary purpose. When humans lived in the non-dual world of the Ancient Darkness, there would have been peace but it would have been a great status-quo… a world so perfect that it left very little scope for something to ever happen... Human evolution precipitated when the light/shadow entered, when the dynamic dance of opposing values appeared. Read more...
Moving through darkness: an initiation into power Journeying to the Underworld, going into darkness is not a curse, a punishment (for bad karma) but rather a chance to reclaim the shadow/the rejected self and become whole again. This process dissolves judgment and brings greater acceptance of self and others. It is the gift of empathy. And in a world disintegrating from conflicts, it is an important gift… Read more...
The Forest Incubator And the life-long search of the daughter for the lost mother takes her to the forest. The Forest Soulscape enfolds in a kind of maternal support... dark, protected, lush… it is the perfect incubator. Read more...
The Forest whispered to me: Find your Roots Without our roots, without this connection, we are separated from nature, separated from our biological source. “By losing touch with our ground (with our roots) we have lost the sense of our intricate connection with all life. Ignoring our ground, it is no wonder that we face a health care crisis and an ecological destruction.” Anodea Judith Read more...