BOOK LIGHTS: from “Toward 2012: Perspectives on the Next Age”, edited by Daniel Pinchbeck, in the chapter, ‘Mutual Aid Revisited’ by Anya Kamenetz

Mutual aid societies prefigure most functions of the modern state. They’re at least as old as armies, but their mission is life, not death. For millennia, people have banded together to provide one another with health care, pensions, unemployment aid, investment capital, buying power, aid to the poor, disaster relief, old age care, child care, culture, entertainment, political efficacy, education, food, shelter, and livelihoods. They have also leveraged their numbers to elicit some of these same benefits from those other two institutions, business and the government. Mutual aid extends the bonds of kinship and makes individuals into citizens.

Anya Kamenetz

The way of The Divine Feminine is to engage in ‘mutual aid’ without giving up our individualism. Each of us joining with the others creates a powerful force in the world of the 21st Century!

BOOK LIGHTS: from “Shaman, Healer, Sage: How to Heal Yourself and Others with the Energy Medicine of the Americas” by Alberto Villoldo, Ph. D.

Shamans are people of the percept. When they want to change the world, they engage in perceptual shifts that change their relationship to life. They envision the possible, and the outer world changes. This is why a group of Inka elders will sit in meditation envisioning the kind of world they want their grandchildren to inherit.

Alberto Villoldo, Ph. D.

Let’s all envision the kind of world we want our grandchildren to inherit!

 

BOOK LIGHTS: from “The Divine Matrix: Bridging Time, Space, Miracles, and Belief” by Gregg Braden

The fact that the discoveries show that we can use our connection consciously opens the door to nothing less than our opportunity to tap the same power that drives the entire universe. Through the oneness that lives inside of you, me, and all humans who walk the planet, we have a direct line to the same force that creates everything from atoms and stars to the DNA of life!

Gregg Braden

Contemplating connectedness is not just about philosophical exercise. It becomes the basis for co-creating our lives with the creative force of the Universe! This is how we express our uniqueness.

BOOK LIGHTS: from “Shaman, Healer, Sage: How to Heal Yourself and Others with the Energy Medicine of the Americas” by Alberto Villoldo, Ph. D.

The human energy field appears to extend only a few feet beyond the body since, like the magnetic field of the Earth, it diminishes in strength very rapidly. Yet it also travels at the speed of light, connecting us to the luminous matrix of the entire Universe, known to the Inka as the texemuyo or all-pervading web.

Alberto Villoldo, Ph. D.

Each of us and all of us are connected to the ‘all-pervading web.’ That makes it all the more important that we each fire up our inner Light and connect it with every one else’s Light. Imagine what can happen when we raise consciousness to the point that we have a magnificently lighted ‘all-pervading web’! Do your part today!

BOOK LIGHTS: from “Trust Your Vibes: Secret Tools for Six-Sensory Living” by Sonia Choquette

Knowing that the Universe will help you puts you in a vibratory state of receptivity, which creates a vacuum. Whenever a vacuum is created, spiritual law dictates that the Universe will rush in to fill it with its vibratory equivalent. In other words, you get what you expect. So if two people drive to downtown Chicago on a summer weekend night and one expects to find a parking space and the other doesn’t, they’ll both be right: The person who expects support will get it, while the one who doesn’t, won’t.

Sonia Choquette

What is the ‘vibratory state of receptivity’ of the vision you have for your Life? Will there be a parking place or not? Be sure you are creating the space at the vibration level of what you WANT your vision to be. Then let the Universe fill that space!

BOOK LIGHTS: from The Divine Matrix: Bridging Time, Space, Miracles, and Belief by Gregg Braden

Produced under the rigid control of laboratory conditions (perhaps for the first time), evidence arose of the powerful relationship that ancient traditions have held sacred for centuries. The DNA changed the behavior of the light particles – the essence of our world. Just as our most cherished traditions and spiritual texts have informed us for so long, the experiment validated that we have a direct effect on the world around us.

Gregg Braden

When Gregg Braden tells us about scientific experiments now documenting the impact that we humans, by our presence and our conscious observation, have on the world around us, then we need to accept our role in what is happening on the Planet. Our thoughts have power and effect. Be careful what you think for you are all-ways contributing to the collective consciousness!

 

BOOK LIGHTS: from “The New Brain: How the Modern Age is Rewiring Your Mind” by Richard Restak, M.D.

…intelligence is plastic and modifiable. All of our experiences result in the formation of neuronal circuits. The richer, more varied, and more challenging the experiences, the more elaborate the neuronal circuits…the brain’s capacity for change – its plasticity – remains vigorous throughout our lives.

Richard Restak, M.D.

So maybe you CAN teach an old dog new tricks! Every challenging conversation we have is carving new neural pathways in our brain. And every time we repeat an experience we deepen the hold that pathway has on us. Maybe it’s time to opt for ‘the more elaborate’ neuronal circuits and check in on the deepened pathways to make sure we want to keep them entrenched. Discussions that allow us to explore give us the option to create the new space in our brain for more elaborate, sophisticated understandings of human consciousness. I think I’ll keep growing ‘elaborate-ly’!

BOOK LIGHTS: from : “The Soul of Money: Reclaiming the Wealth of Our Inner Resources” by Lynne Twist

It could be said that a great fund-raiser is a broker for the sacred energy of money, helping people use the money that flows through their lives in the most useful way that is consistent with their aspirations and hopes for humanity…It could be said that each of us has the opportunity in our own lives to steward the flow of money; whatever level comes our way.

Lynne Twist

Creating a ‘right relationship’ with money allows us to use money to make things happen in the world. Each of us does not have to tackle the problems of the world in isolation because now we can easily join with others to contribute resources – time, talents and treasure – toward moving humanity along on its evolutionary path. Allowing money to flow through our lives and into helping projects makes an energetic space for more money to flow to & through us. The operative word is ‘flow.’

 

BOOK LIGHTS: from “Touching Peace: practicing the art of mindful living” by Thich Nhat Hanh

We know that when we have peace and joy in ourselves, our peace and joy vibrate throughout the cosmos. So when we have hatred and anger in ourselves, they too will rebound to all quarters.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Our feelings are not just ours – they ‘vibrate through the cosmos.’ So notice how you are feeling and notice what you are vibrating through the cosmos. Maybe you don’t have to choose hatred and anger…

BOOK LIGHTS: from “The Divine Matrix: Bridging Time, Space, Miracles, and Belief” by Gregg Braden

The implication of both quantum theory and the ancient texts is that in the unseen realms we create the blueprint for the relationships, careers, successes, and failures of the visible world. From this perspective, the Divine Matrix works like a great cosmic screen that allows us to see the nonphysical energy of our emotions and beliefs (our anger, hate and rage: as well as our love, compassion, and understanding) projected in the physical medium of life.

Gregg Braden

When we see that we project onto this ‘great cosmic screen’ our emotions and beliefs, we can own our power to direct the movie playing out on that screen. We are a part of the story of that movie and our participation is invited as we develop into the person we were born to be. Our role in that movie is our Life Purpose. Create that movie with confidence!