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The Illusion of Separateness
I‘m recently back from 11 days on the land in New Mexico at a Black Lodge Introduction. This is a spiritual growth program based on ancient Mayan teachings. Black Lodge is an advanced next level of training; SIX 11 day retreats spaced out over three years. And people say our Leadership Program is long!
Our teachers are WhiteEagle, RainbowHawk and WindEagle which in and of itself is completely fascinating. RainbowHawk and WindEagle are elders with RainbowHawk leading the way at 85 (86?). Something like that. Wow!
The work is at an energetic level and at the same time deeply personal. Imagine spending the better part of any day out of doors: around a fire, in some medicine wheel or other or with your body parked for several hours on a ledge overlooking a giant canyon.
Even though my recent ceremony was an “introduction” I am profoundly impacted. I feel reconnected to life in a way that is difficult to articulate. With the challenges of this past year, I had become a bit dry and despite my best efforts, had begun to feel isolated and lonely. Worst of all, I had begun, ever so slightly, to resent the challenges of 2009 and to feel a little victimized by the circumstances. I had begun to create quite a story about being worn down and worn out by it all. I didn‘t even realize that this context had begun to creep into my thinking; it‘s only in retrospect that I can see how much this story had taken over.
While I was in New Mexico, I caught a cold. The first I‘ve had in several years. Bummer right? Except during the ceremony, I learned how to work with that energy, how to welcome it, and allow the cold to strengthen my immune system.
I see now that the challenges of this past year are like this cold and have only served to strengthen me and build the fire of determination, vision and commitment within. I see that my “immunity” against doubt and fear has been strengthened. I am left feeling both humbled and deeply, deeply connected to the beauty of the work that we all do as we light up those diamonds of human consciousness at CTI and beyond.
At the same time, our light is not limited to or defined by these functions. It shines far beyond this form called CTI and illuminates the world. You are (as are we all) beings of light and as we move through our lives in ways that are life affirming, we create profound transformation.
As we go about our work it is easy to feel isolated and as if we are all working in silos. This is understandable. Our world (particularly our work world) is set up to create an illusion of separateness.
Yet how can we be anything BUT connected. How can light be separate from itself? The river of life runs through us and all the cells in our body (60 trillion of them!) are being constantly re-generated from material that already exists. It is not just a lovely idea to say that I am made up of you. It is scientifically accurate!
Please leave a comment. KKH
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