Transmutation News – December 2005

I realized at this minute that I was projecting a tremendous amount of suffering into the world. And I did remember that I had a choice. Now the issue that came up for me became was I moving into a state of denial about the world situation if I started to project light and peace onto the world and did not acknowledge my perception of the suffering.

At the same time this question arose I also realized that spiraling into a dark depression did not help me, the planet, and all of life.

I realized that if I wanted to be of service I needed to choose this new path that was being presented to me. Change my perception and change my reality. I wrote about this principle in Medicine for the Earth. And now I felt like I was experiencing a deeper feeling for this teaching.

Human beings project. That is the nature of being human. We can project darkness and suffering into the world. We can project hate and anger into the world. Or we can make the choice to project love, beauty, light, and peace into the world. I was being asked by the depth of my being to choose the latter and I did.

I am sharing my story with you, as I know many of you feel challenged by the situation in the world today. We can once again remember that the spiritual work we do does make a difference in the world.

The most creative forces in the world use the power of focus and projection. As a spiritual community are we tapping into this great power together? Can we be a greater force in the world by joining together our spiritual energies from a place of love for all of life to focus on changing the projection in the world?

I think we can. Here is something to think about to start your work. Use your imagination. Let’s say that you invited all the people around the world reading this Transmutation News to project a perception onto you of what kind of person you are and what you are experiencing in life. Would you want that projection to be one of a person who is seen as suffering and should be pitied? Or would you like to be seen as a person standing strong in your divine light? Would you like a projection of being a person at peace with life?

What would you like that projection to look like, feel like, sound like, smell like, and taste like?

Millions of people around the world are projecting a tremendous amount onto others through their perception. Let us make a choice to gather our energies together to be conscious and focus a projection onto the world that we would want projected onto ourselves.

I suggest that you spend some time this month thinking about the power of projection. I have met many people who have traveled to indigenous cultures where people live in extreme poverty. But yet when one looks into many of these people’s eyes a joy is seen that is surprising. On one level you can say these poor people they have no homes and food to eat. But yet many of them carry a joy and peace that those who have an abundance of material wealth don’t carry.

Is this a teaching for us that we often project suffering onto others who are not experiencing suffering?

I am not saying that everyone is at peace with his or her life. But we also must look at how we project darkness in the world.

One of the issues I have had people in my workshops journey on during the last few months has been the power of group mind. I have seen in my own visions that when we can let go of our egos and join together in a state of group mind changes can occur very quickly.

Let us use the power of group mind to work together December 21 in honor of the winter solstice and the return of the light.

The first step is for you to do your preparation work this month of really looking at what you would want a group of people projecting onto you. Look at what you are projecting into the world and if you would like to change that projection.

This work involves working spiritually with changing the collective consciousness through the invisible and imaginal realms. It takes a great deal of focus and all the other elements that go into our formula for transmutation and creation.

We have to set a strong intention and come from a place of love. We cannot perceive ourselves as separate from the collective field around us. We must become harmony to project harmony. Focus and concentration along with tapping into our imagination of what is possible are crucial keys to the work.

On the solstice you can work alone or in a group. Do your transfiguration work and get into a place of divinity where you experience a state of oneness with the web of life. With your breath pulse a vibration projecting divinity, light, and peace throughout the entire web of life.

This process involves more than mental imaging. You want to get your whole being involved. As you transfigure become peace and with your whole being project that out. Become light and with your whole being project that from the void deep within, the place before creation and out into the world. Become love, and birth love into the collective field.

Bring your children into this work. Teach them how to project light and peace into the world. This will help them stay in a place where they can carry light and hope into their own lives which will effect their own present and future.

This is a great gift that we can give to the planet right now which raises the frequency and vibration for all of life to step into.

Keep this work as a practice to continue. And use this same principle on the full moon which is December 15 as we continue to weave a web of light within and through the earth. We cannot truly weave a web of light if we cannot project that light into the world.


I am updating my book Soul Retrieval: Mending the Fragmented Self as it is now being translated in French. I have contacted HarperSan Francisco to see if they would also like to do a new edition with updates in the work. I have not heard back yet.

In writing my updates I went back and read both Soul Retrieval and my second book on life after healing Welcome Home: Following Your Soul’s Journey Home. I was really amazed to find how much information in both of these books I have been sharing in my Medicine for the Earth work and in the Transmutation News.

Some of the messages I had remembered and refer back to these two books in my writing. But some of the material I have completely forgotten that it was already written.

This is a real lesson for me about timing. Some of the material I had previously written about clearly was not integrated into my psyche. Since I wrote the books and have had a chance to live the work the material is emerging from me with new understanding.

Happy solstice and the return of the light! I project out into the world peace, light, and love for all.

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Transmutation News – July 2005

My journeys and meditations have continued on the theme of the May and June Transmutation News. So let’s continue with the understanding that we are part of an organism and not separate fingers or body parts having an independent life.

Think about how all the organs and parts of the body are fed by the nutrients flowing throughout the body. If a part of the body does not take in and absorb the nutrients it becomes ill.

I was told in my meditations that it is so important for us to settle into our place as part of the organism to receive the nutrients of the organism of which we are part of.

We chose as divine and spiritual beings of light to come and be part of a physical organism during this life. As divine spiritual beings we are also part of a divine spiritual organism.

There are many ways that we have created separation from the whole web we are part of. Just one way is how we have separated ourselves from nature. Animals and other life forms live on the earth and are part of nature throughout the day. We have built houses with artificial materials which cut us off from the elements. We often eat artificial food and our food usually comes “packaged”.

During this month focus on settling in and receive true spiritual and physical nurturance from the organism we are all part of. Allow yourself to receive abundantly from the earth, air, water, and the sun. Reconnect with the natural forces which are feeding us and giving us life.

In the past as I have spoken about the practice of transfiguration I have said it is a way to reestablish coherence in our bodies. In a state of coherence our cells are communicating with each other in perfect symphony allowing cellular repair to occur. When that communication breaks down illness occurs.

As we allow ourselves to reconnect with the organism we are part of and evolve with it and receive and absorb nurturance from it we reestablish coherence for the organism. Healing and evolution can occur in a harmonious fashion.

As part of earth we are like the trees and plants growing through the sun. We each grow into our own uniqueness and beauty as we continue to grow towards the sun.

As humans our life cycle is longer than some of the other species here. We have more time to grow, evolve, and to keep flowering. That is where our continued creation work comes in as we keep evolving into our beauty and shining our light in the world.

Part of experience here is to learn about surrender and part is to learn about how to develop our growth and evolution. If you watch the growth of plants there is a great deal of concentration needed to burst through the seed and manifest form onto the earth.

Years ago I journeyed back thousands of years and asked to meet the ancient ancestors who were responsible for creating such things as the pyramids. Scientists really cannot adequately explain how such structures were built.

When I met with the ancestors I got a very short answer which was the people of your time don’t have a clue what the word concentration means.

Growth and creation do take concentration. We have to surrender to some of the conditions we are given in which our growth occurs. But we are responsible for how we create our lives given certain events and conditions.

I have been writing quite a bit about concentration. It is so key and it is an element we are so lacking in our busy lives. Here is a short exercise for you to try this month.

Take some simple task that you perform in your life or at work. It could be watering plants, or preparing a meal, or writing a short report at work. Give it your full concentration. You can even try singing a song with complete concentration. Notice the difference in the energy that you feel in your body as you do this. Notice the difference of the energy surrounding the task you completed. This will give you an idea of how you can change the world around you if you learned how to concentrate and focus more in living your life and performing your spiritual work.

In workshops where concentration is needed to perform spiritual practices it is common for participants to complain that they are distracted by their mind chatter. We have allowed ourselves to get distracted so easily as we have not learned how to train our minds. Our minds are like a muscle that needs to be trained. If you can start with simple exercises more and more you will learn the power of concentration and focus.

This has also been part of our transmutation of negative thoughts, attitudes, and beliefs practice that we have been doing for years. The more you learn how to stop your reactions and learn how to work with the energy coming up the more you train your mind how to focus on a positive way of being. This impacts your own life in a positive way as well as the entire web of life. For every change in consciousness you make affects the entire web of life.

The full moon is July 21. Let’s continue to weave a light filled web within and around the earth. Let’s do this with concentration and focus and with a strong intention of what we want to create in the world. Let’s open our hearts to all of life as we do this with love. Do this from a place of transfiguring into source and a state of oneness in union and harmony with all. And let our imagination dream the world we want to live in into being.

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Transmutation News – February 2005

See each person in their own divinity knowing this adds to their strength to cope with their situation.

Be careful about sending energies that might be too strong for people in trouble to deal with. Sometimes we can become overzealous in our desire to help. We don’t always maintain good psychic boundaries. Work with your helping spirits if you journey or do other psychic work to make sure you are sending appropriate spiritual help.

If you are trained spiritually to help people who have died cross over do this work. I advise that in situations where a lot of people have died at once not to work alone. You can be overwhelmed by too many souls needing help. It is best with mass death to work with a group.

If you are not trained spiritually in helping people cross over don’t attempt to do so. This work known as psychopomp (a Greek word meaning leader of souls) is not to be taken lightly. People not trained properly can end up becoming possessed.

If you want to help but don’t have any training I suggest that you direct your prayers to asking that a way be made for the souls of the deceased to go back to their spiritual home again. This does help.

My spirits keep asking me to hold people, the earth, and all of life in their light and divinity. There are many mysteries that we must learn to hold as the earth does what she needs to do to balance out her vibration and purge herself of toxins. We don’t always know what is needed. But holding the earth and all living beings in their divine light is always helpful.

We all must focus and concentrate on maintaining a divine state of consciousness and being in a loving state as much as we can throughout the day. It is not enough to meditate or journey once a day or a few times a week. There is nothing “to do” right now. We must change our state of “being” if we really want to be in service.

Evolution is happening on many different levels. On a personal level we must evolve to a place of surrender to “thy will be done” as well as change our state of being in the world. We can do all the spiritual work we can muster, but if we do not recognize the power of our thoughts we have really not done much. We affect our environment on every level with what we put out psychically. I really believe we must clean up what we are putting out in our environment if we really want to help.

Learning how to concentrate is essential. Shamanic journeying alone does not teach concentration. If you feel you need help in learning how to concentrate spiritually you might take a course on meditation, tai chi, chi gong, breathing, chanting, or yoga. There are other systems to study these are just a few that come to mind.

Learning how to concentrate and also be still I think is the next step in learning how to survive. You might be aware of how much is being written about how there was not much loss of animal life from the tsunami.

Researchers are busy trying to research what “special powers” animals have that gave them the warning to move. Even elephants that were chained broke their chains and escaped to higher ground.

I do understand that animals have a better sense of hearing and also smell than do humans. But I believe that the ability to sense danger is an ability that humans have but we have allowed our extraordinary perception to go dormant.

After 9/ll my helping spirits instructed me to help people find stillness. They told me that people will not be informed of danger from their spirits but by learning how to get still and receive information on when they are in danger and how to act.

I have slowly started to bring this into trainings and will be more active about this in 2005. I have been talking about it for years.

Many of you who read this website are students of shamanic journeying. I realize not everyone who reads this page practices shamanism. It was never intended for only a shamanic audience.

Many of you who do practice shamanism I know have been involved in what neoshamanism calls “core shamanism”. This is the belief that the core of shamanism is shamanic journeying.

For years now I have been saying that shamanism is so much more than journeying. For me it is like saying that flour is the core element of baking a cake and that you should stop using any other ingredients.

Shamanism is spending long periods of time alone in nature, connecting to the plants and animals in ordinary reality, learning to read omens, watching for changes in weather patterns, finding food sources, performing ceremonies and singing and dancing. Using the journey to meet up with helping spirits is one part of shamanism. To really practice shamanism you cannot ignore the other practices or it is like trying to create a cake only with flour.

Tribal peoples used to sit around and watch campfires creating a deep state of stillness. They had to learn how to listen, see, feel, and smell in more sensitive ways to how we do so today in order to track and find food. They watched the water for hours and became still. The wind provided the songs listened to instead of the radio.

The long ceremonies involving dancing and singing kept people in touch with the earth’s vibration.

As we became more reliant on technology and science for survival we became disconnected. Our minds instead of our bodies and spirit took control. We no longer know how to open our perception to shifts, changes, and the deep knowledge of what action we need to take. Stillness is what teaches us this. Observing life is what teaches us this.

I think the next form of “Darwinism” for humans is the ability to be still and listen, see, feel, hear, and smell in a much deeper way. I can’t encourage you enough to spend more time alone in nature learning how to connect again and find practices that bring you to a place of deep stillness.

On a similar note I recently received an email talking about the Mayan elders saying that we were not watching the signs we are being given. They feel that more catastrophes will happen if we don’t wake up.

It really does not take a rocket scientist to follow of the energy of what is happening on the planet right now. Can we create change? I do believe that we can. But we must get serious about spiritual practices.

I was talking to a friend on the phone about the spiritual movement. There are many people who are serious about their work and some who are just “checking out” spiritual practices but not really engaging in them. The word “intoxication” came up. I thought about this word.

We live in a world where politicians, religious leaders, spiritual teachers, and TV and the media intoxicate people. Of course there are other ways we “intoxicate” ourselves in life. For those of us on a spiritual path we must pay special attention to make sure we are not being “intoxicated” by the spiritual path we are on. We must reach inside ourselves and find our own inner truth and live it.

In previous Transmutation News I have written that I write each months column when I have time in between my teaching schedule. This means that sometimes I miss current events that as a community we need to focus on. This happened with the January Transmutation News. I wrote it and sent it to Bob our webmaster before the great tragedy in Asia.

Over the years I have written how to best be in service during troubled times. So I know you had the tools to work in the ways in which you were guided.

We have done a lot to the earth and we must expect that the earth will purge from all the negativity we have dumped on her both physically and psychically.

Here are some keys to remember when extraordinary events like what occurred in Asia happens:

Don’t move into a place of pity for the people who have been impacted. When we pity people we lower their vibration. We can have compassion, but pity and compassion are two different energies. Pity robs people of their power.

In the January Transmutation News I wrote about building up a relationship and friendship with the elements. Again I wrote this before the earthquake and tsunami happened in Asia.

As in many things in life there are always paradoxes to deal with and mysteries to hold. If as a planet we had been in a conscious relationship with the elements would we have polluted the earth so much that now she has to purge so violently?

Our bodies are made up of earth, air, water, and fire. When we take in too many toxins our bodies will purge as a survival mechanism. Is this what the earth is doing now with the earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, and fires we are seeing on the planet today?

When we become in right relationship with the elements does healing take place? Let’s look at your own health and well being to answer this question. When you respect and honor your body and take care of yourself doesn’t your health come back into balance? I hope you are answering yes to this question.

Think of the earth as the macrocosm and our bodies as a microcosm. We can use the same principles of healing ourselves to that of the earth. Working with divine light is a spiritual way to heal. Establishing a relationship with the elements and moving into a place of love, respect, and honor is a physical way to heal.

It is important not to move into a place of seeing the elements as being destructive. The elements are working to create balance in the macrocosm.

As the planet moves toward healing itself there will be great loss for humans and other life forms. We must have compassion for those who suffer and go through our own grief as we are impacted in different ways. There is the big picture to what is happening as well as the emotions we must deal with on the human level. The work is to embrace it all.

Every time I meditate or journey on what is needed right now I keep getting the same message as I have been writing about for years. Meditate and experience all living beings and the planet as spiritual light. See the beauty all around you and be in deep appreciation for the great beauty that surrounds you. And do things that bring you joy!

As we have shifted from a consciousness of oneness to the illusion that we are separate we have disconnected from the web of life. As we have disconnected with nature we have lost our inner connection with the vibration of the universe.

It is important to our health and well being on all levels to move our vibration into harmony with the web of life of life again.

Chase Carter was a student of mine and he has been working on creating restorative vibrational sounds. When he first contacted me months ago on what he was working on I told him I would journey and see what my spirits had to say. I was a bit shocked by just how enthusiastic my spirits were about Chase’s work. They told me that his work in the future would be part of creating a big evolutionary change on the planet. My spirits have not been that excited about anyone’s work including my own.

Chase has different CD programs available. The one he shared with me is called “Whispers to the Soul”. In his write up Chase says:

“This calm and relaxing music has particular tones, frequencies, and vibrations that has been known to open blocks and speak a language that only your mind, body, and soul (spirit) can hear. Each track will speak to you in a very unique way, yet gently assisting you in your “Human Process” of learning and healing.

The inspiration to record this collection of music came after years of several “near death” experiences. I have gone through ‘The tunnel’ to the universe or heavens numerous times. While traveling through this tunnel I heard the most beautiful and wonderful music that, I now believe, was generated by vibration. Some have referred to this music as angels singing, however, I believe the sounds of universal vibration is the method utilized by the cosmos to communicate with all living matter. My goal has been to utilize those vibrations so we can create a healing process for our mind, body, and soul.”

I thought about what Chase wrote. I had a few near death experiences in my life. During one I drowned in the ocean and went down a tunnel into an incredible garden. I sat down on a stone bench and listened to the most beautiful and unearthly music.

As I have traveled presenting at different conferences I have listened to different CDs sold which were said to duplicate the music people hear during near death experiences.

As I have listened to these CDs I never felt any of them duplicated what I heard. After what I read from Chase I realized that the music I heard was more than just music but different vibrations. It was not music to be duplicated. This change in perception was very exciting to me.

I love listening to the different tracks on “Whispers to the Soul”. Chase has been developing a process that utilizes sound and vibration as a healing device.

If you want to learn more about his work and also how to obtain a copy of “Whispers to the Soul” you can visit his website at: www.chasecarter.org

Barbara Crowe has been a long-term student of mine and shamanic practitioner. She just wrote a book called Music and Soulmaking: Toward a New Theory of Music Therapy. Barbara has been the director of music therapy at Arizona State University since 1981. She is a past president of the National Association for Music Therapy and has co-authored the new Standards for Educational and Clinical Training for the American Music Therapy Association.

I have been waiting for Barbara’s book for many years. She really put a lot of research into it. She provides concrete examples of the effect music can have on patients with diseases as varied as Alzheimer’s and Down Syndrome.

The full moon is February 24. As we continue to weave a web of light within and around the earth let’s deepen our process. This full moon don’t just visualize a web of light. Experience yourself as part of this web of light. Experience yourself as a light being connected with thousands of other light beings making up this great web.

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Transmutation News – November 2004

If you are reading the Transmutation News early on in the month there is some work for you to do. The election for President of the United States is coming up in just a matter of days. The results of this election will have an impact on the entire world. So it does not matter where you live, please join in with the collective in this work.

In keeping with the principles of Medicine for the Earth I ask you to throughout the day experience a transfigured state and experience the results of the election in divine perfection. You can do this without doing a formal journey or meditation. Throughout the day tap into a state of source, oneness, and light and experience the results as perfect.

The more people we can get doing this the collective energy will help to raise the vibration of the process. This is important work, please participate in this process each day and throughout the day.

The American people are very deep in trance. And one way that people are being kept in this trance state is through fear. The polls show that many women will be voting for Bush for they think that this is how they can protect their children.

There is a lack of information to these women that environmental pollution is as dangerous if not more than terrorists to the children of the world. And if women really wanted to protect their children they would elect a President who was aware of the need to protect and heal the environment.

As there is such a lack of information in so much of the country and the trance state is so deep it is hard to know who will win the election this year. But we put in our best efforts to work spiritually to experience the results in their divine state.

I know that emotions are running high in many of you reading the Transmutation News. It is important to keep doing our spiritual work. This is truly what the earth needs right now. We must continue to work on finding inner peace no matter what the results of the election are. Am I aware of how great a challenge I am presenting to all of you? Yes, I am. And I am challenged in this too. But I do know in every cell of my being that we must not lose ourselves to holding states of consciousness that pollute the earth.

No matter what the outcome of the election feelings will be running strong in the U.S. and around the world. We need you to be strong and help those in your community process feelings. I will be in Europe and know that feelings will be running as high as in the U.S. And yes, for all of you asking I did vote before leaving the U.S. We all need to work in the best way we can to keep our collective energies strong. We do not have to be swept away by “the storms”. We must be like a strong tree and keep our center.

We are here to tend the garden. We must do our work to continue to transmute the inner and outer toxins that effect our garden. Keep your focus. As I have said many times it is easy to keep focused on our spiritual practice when things are going right. It is harder when life presents challenges.

Keep your focus on transmuting your inner states of consciousness. Keep your focus on dreaming a world into being that is in a divine state. And remember that all spiritual traditions for thousands of years have been teaching that everything manifests on the spiritual level before manifesting on the physical.

This means that as a collective we must keep up the spiritual practices we have been working with over the years.

November 26 is the full moon. Let’s keep weaving a brilliant web of light within and throughout the world.

Stay focused
Stay positive
Stay centered

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Transmutation News – October 2004

I hope you are enjoying the beginning of autumn!

As I told you last month The Rainmaking Institute brought Dr. Masaru Emoto to Santa Fe. The first night was a private benefit for the Rainmaking Institute. There were about 150 people present to that and the event was sold out.

There was a panel of Dr. Emoto, Jose Lucero who is an elder from the Santa Clara Pueblo, Norma Tarango from the Rainmaking Institute, and myself. The panel was set up so that we each said what we wanted to about our work and then the audience could ask questions. There was no interaction between the speakers during this panel, which could have made it more interesting. But I know the evening had a profound effect on the audience so it was a wonderful start.

Dr. Emoto has a great sense of humor, and he told me he loves to lecture. He talked a bit about his work of photographing water crystals. He feels that his mission in communicating about the water crystals is to help create world peace. And of course he is so happy to see the profound impact his work is having all over the world. He feels that with the interest of so many people that the planet is saved already. He is concerned about the direction of America and how it is impacting the rest of the world. So he is happy that his work is being accepted here.

Jose Lucero, who is schoolteacher, talked about the importance of working with the youth. He also talked about being able to go down to his stream and still drink the water. As we continue to buy water in bottles we promote the privatization of water.

Norma Tarango who studied with Hawaiian elders these past few years talked about how the Hawaiians believe they live in a cosmic sea above and fluid ocean below here on earth. And she said that the Hawaiians teach that the waters of the world are moving and are abundant.

I of course talked about the Medicine for the Earth work and the key principles. I shared how it is who we become that changes the world and not what we do. And I spoke of the importance of learning how to transmute the energy behind our problematic thoughts and emotions so we are coating the earth with love and not anger as well as the magic of the words we use and what we manifest on earth with our words. I shared briefly the formula for transmutation and creation of intention, love, union, harmony, concentration, focus, and imagination. I shared how our perception changes our reality and the need to stay focused on our spiritual practices right now to make a difference in the world. And of course I shared the results we get with the water experiments we are doing when we experience a divine state of consciousness.

There were also some people from the Hopi reservation that stood up during the question and answer period to give their viewpoint. The Hopi are losing all their water due to mining in the area. And of course they feel the problems in the environment today are a result of human behavior.

I had met the Hopi people who were present at a conference on the Rio Grande in 2003. They have been very supportive of the Medicine for the Earth work as they say the principles of the work follow the teachings of the Hopi elders.

There were other Native Americans who came up to me at the conference and thanked me for my words.

Dr. Emoto spoke again on Sunday to a sold out audience of 800 people. His work really inspires us to look at the consciousness of water and how it reflects back to us our own inner state.

The Medicine for the Earth work blends so well with his message as he states that we must move to a place of love and emphasizes the need to love ourselves. He does not give people tools of how to work with changing their consciousness. He shows very clearly to people the work that needs to be done, and he can reach a very large population with the power of his photos.

I feel we must be very careful in not leaving people with the message that what all we have to do is tape words on a bottle of water and not do our own inner work. It is always a danger in this culture to look for easy ways to “cure” the planet’s ills. We don’t need a band-aid right now. We need people to really focus on doing the inner work needed to heal the states of separation in the world.

Most of the audience who attended the panel discussion was not familiar with the Medicine for the Earth work. Many people knew who I was but associated me with soul retrieval. People were profoundly struck by the work we have been doing and were excited to know about the results we are getting. There were many good connections made there that evening.

As I have been writing over the last few months my helping spirits keep telling me that one of the keys is being able to receive the abundance that the elements are giving us all the time. We must receive the healing help that is always being offered to us.

Dr. Emoto shows this so clearly with his photos. He shows the water crystal that form from the combination of words love and gratitude. He says if you look at the water crystal formed it is one part love to two parts gratitude. And he goes on to talk about H20. Two parts hydrogen represents the yin, the feminine principle of receiving. Oxygen represents the yang, the dynamic principle of giving.

As we live in a world so focused on the myth that giving is more important than receiving we are being asked by the universe to relook at this. It is a great gift to the creative forces of the universe and the elements to receive and to be in gratitude. Living in a place of love and appreciation creates a state of continual regeneration and abundance. When we appreciate what we are being given that creates abundance versus a state of scarcity. It is definitely something for us all to reflect on in our lives.

I feel that we can and we are changing the morphic resonance field by the inspiration so many brilliant spiritual teachers are sharing and the spiritual practices many thousands of people are engaging in throughout the world. Ripples are being sent throughout the web of life.

And we must let go of the attachment of the timing of when we see the physical manifestation of all the work we are doing. We must keep focused on keeping our practice strong.

We are at a time where we must stay focused and hold the space during these challenging times. We must stay strong within the circles we work with as well as stay strong within the larger world community. Whatever happens in the outer world we must keep focused on our spiritual work.


Part of doing our spiritual work is to acknowledge the shadow states of consciousness that might overcome us during these times. Observing the suffering of others throughout the world triggers many of us. Many of us will be triggered by fears about the upcoming election in the U.S. The whole world will be impacted by this next election, and I know emotions are strong right now.

It is important to not fall into judging yourself for the darker, denser feelings and thoughts arising for you right now. Keep your focus. Breathe into your heart and keep holding an image of life that is precious to you. Allow the feelings and thoughts to come up and do the work I have outlined for you in Medicine for the Earth and in all the Transmutation News.

I had a very interesting dream last month. I dreamt that I was leading a meeting. The meeting was in the morning and people had just finished drinking coffee. The coffee was causing some irritation for some. I noticed how people were being “psychically punched” by those in an irritable state. I pointed out to people what they were doing to others.

We do strike out and “psychically punch” others when we are irritable or angry about what is happening. Our work is to transform the energy of our emotions before the energy moves out and affects others.

I know many people say that they can’t bring spiritual practices into their lives because they have no time. I find that when we make a decision do something the time is there.

Sometimes I teach weekend workshops where I am limited in how much time I have for the class. And sometimes the groups can be very large meaning I need more time than I have. I often start to feel panicked that I can’t possibly complete the material and exercises. When this occurs I take some deep breaths and bring myself back to center. And then I slow down my talking instead of speeding up. I take the opposite action of what one might think would work. I always find that as I slow down so does time and I end up with plenty of time to finish the course in a way I feel good about. Try this. You might get some interesting results.

Also it is important to stop separating our spiritual work from our daily life. We must learn how to integrate our spiritual work throughout the day. The point is not to create a separate time for spiritual work and then forget about our spiritual practices the rest of the day.

People are looking for something or someone outside of them to make life better. This is what has kept organized religion alive for so long. This is what makes people choose politicians who use wording that make people feel that a vote for them will create safety.

I assume most of you reading The Transmutation News are way beyond believing in the archetype of the hero or heroine and know that the responsibility to create a world of harmony, beauty, abundance, love, and peace lies within each one of us.

I was asking my spirits about what is the next step needed to help mass consciousness move out of looking for “a savior”. The word that came back to me was “acknowledgement”. People have never been acknowledged for their creative potential. They have been taught to look outside of themselves for those who can create a better world.

Many are insecure and have forgotten the truth of who we truly are which is divine beings learning about the power of manifestation. So the tendency in the world is to squash the power of others and to make others look smaller. We see this in government, religion, the workplace, and in relationships. It is often the result of hierarchical vertical organizations versus horizontal organizations.

The question that comes up is how do we promote the principle of unity within vertical structures unless we truly empower the creativity and power of everyone involved.

We need to begin to acknowledge the creative genius that lives within each and every one of us. Of course it is important to start with ourselves. And we must also start acknowledging the creativity that lives inside all of us.

This month find a way with your words to acknowledge the creative genius and brilliance in those who you meet. In your families give acknowledgement to the gifts of your children and loved ones. When you work with people give them positive feedback for what they are creating. Sometimes you might not agree with what people are doing, that is fine. But we can find a way to give positive feedback on a verbal and energetic level to support their own creative process.

As we do this we lift others up and they become unwilling to give their power away. The more we can affect people in this way we will find people making different choices in electing leaders. We will look for leaders who truly represent the voice of all of us as a collective of creative beings instead of a “father figure” who will protect us.

In another shamanic journey I received a message that goes along with the above. I was told that when we ask for pity from the universe we lower our frequency. When we send pity to others we lower their frequency.

Energy is vibration. When we look at changing the morphic resonant field of the web of life we must change the frequency and vibration of the energy coming from our feelings, thoughts, as well as from our words.

As we keep up our spiritual practice of perceiving all life in a divine and perfect state and acknowledge the divinity and creative genius in those around the field changes in a way that will create a different force moving through the world.

As I have said many times before:
Stay focused
Stay positive
Stay centered

In September I led a Medicine for the Earth Gathering in Santa Fe. What an amazing group of people gathered! We continued the work of showing that as we change ourselves and drop our egoic selves into a place of source, divinity, and oneness our outer environment will reflect that shift back to us.

So we worked as we have done before with ammonium hydroxide in deionized checking the pH before and after our ceremony. Now that we have the GDV camera based on the Kirlian effect developed by Dr. Konstantine Korotkov we could also test other substances. So in our ceremonies we also included working with soil, a peach from my peach tree at home, some cheddar cheese fish crackers, and coffee.

We did see a change of one pH point in the ammonium hydroxide water. The pictures that we got for the water, peach, and crackers were pretty amazing. The coffee showed no change. We certainly can take that one to many different interpretations.

Anyway, we are posting the pictures of the different substances that were included in our ceremony on the Results Section of www.medicinefortheearth.com. There is also a write up on the GDV camera in that section too.

Again is it important to remember that we do not focus on the water, soil, crackers, peach, and coffee. We simply move into a divine state of consciousness knowing that what is outside of us reflects back to us our inner state.

The photos we get truly inspire us to keep up our inner work. This is where our power lies right now. The spiritual work we do does make a difference.

Back in June while I was presenting at a conference in Santa Fe we tried a long distance experiment. A physicist in Scotland wanted us to see if we could make contact with a plant at his home. He developed equipment similar to that written about in The Secret Life of Plants for measuring the activity of the plant. We did get some significant results.

Mark, the physicist, wanted to try another long distance experiment. So at my Medicine for the Earth Gathering we did some more long distance work.

We worked in a couple of different ways. On Wednesday afternoon of the training we began by drumming and rattling and focusing on Mark’s plant. The rest of the afternoon the group spent outdoors on their own working long distance on people who were lying in the middle of our circle as well as names and items on the altar.

The instructions were to transfigure outdoors on their own and to focus on everything in the meeting space as divine and in perfection. Two copies of a photo of the of the plant were left on the altar.

Wednesday evening we also performed a ceremony to transmute problematic states of consciousness in the field of energy around the world. The photo of the plant remained on the altar.

Mark is still analyzing the data. But here is what he has said so far. He said that between 2:50 PM and 4:15 PM There is a clearly visible signal with a varying frequency of 700 and 900. When he listens to the recording, this signal amazingly sounds a bit like the song of a whale.

As far as the timing goes I did put the photo of the plant on the altar a little before 3PM.

When I get the full analysis from Mark I will write them up. I will also post the photo of the spectrum covering an interval of five hours as well as more information on the Results Section of www.medicinefortheearth.com next month.

In September I also taught my second session of my Two Year Teacher Training in Shamanic Journeying and Healing. This session I taught participants how to teach soul retrievals and bring this potent work back to their communities. We had the GDV camera present and some of the participants were photographed before and after receiving a soul retrieval. We have one demo photo of the results. Again check The Results Section of www.medicinefortheearth.com. The photo will be up sometime this month.

Carol Schaefer has written a wonderful book The Power of the Divine Feminine in An Ancient Tear. This is a novel which explores a path of spiritual awakening through the personal tragedy of losing a child, whether by death, miscarriage, abortion or adoption.

Here was my endorsement for the book:
“An Ancient Tear is a compelling story of how a mother’s wounds of losing a child through death, miscarriage, abortion, and adoption can be healed through a connection to and with spiritual realms. Carol Schaefer is a brilliant writer and brings her readers right into the experience she shares. This book is filled with love, compassion, and healing words.

In a time where so many women and men are searching for answers that can’t be answered through ordinary means, Schaefer lets us know that we can turn to the spiritual realms for comfort, answers, and healing.”

Carol Schaefer wrote an acclaimed memoir The Other Mother: A Woman’s Love for the Child She Gave Up for Adoption. This book was adapted for an NBC-TV movie.

An Ancient Tear is available on Amazon and Barnes&Noble.com and by going to AnAncientTear.com.

On Oct. 27 which is a full moon as well as a full eclipse of the moon let’s continue to weave a brilliant, radiant web of light within and around the earth.

Let’s also continue to do our creation work, which I wrote about in April and August of this year. Let’s together call into being a world where people are empowered in their own creativity. See, hear, feel, taste, and smell a world where people are working together in harmony in behalf of all life. Experience your creation as if it is already done. Call it into being now.

October 31 is a time when the veils between the worlds are very thin. Let’s combine our luminescence with the light of the universe to coat the earth with love and light.

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Transmutation News – September 2004

I hope you took the time to fully digest and work with what I wrote about last month. The key to a healthy life is learning how to digest what life brings you. The key to a healthy spiritual practice is fully digesting the knowledge we take in and allowing the process to feed us on all levels. What we can’t take in becomes unusable.

Part of learning how to digest life on all levels comes back to our own transmutation practice. For as we can transmute our emotions and thoughts we create usable energy. Lately my helping spirits have been giving me the metaphor of composting a garden in thinking about my transmutation practice.

Instead of being upset about my thoughts and emotions I can think of composting them which ultimately brings nutrients to the garden within and without. But if compost if not worked through it just becomes rotten. When it is taken care of properly it becomes food for new plants to grow.

I want to suggest another method for transmutation of thoughts and emotions that you can try this month. Go to a store and buy a container of bubbles. You can blow the energy of your emotions and thoughts into the bubbles. I know you want to make a choice not to blow problematic energy into the air, the water, or the earth. As you blow the bubbles into the air just set an intention that the energy be transmuted to love and light.

Today we can see that quantum physics is catching up to what spiritual traditions have known for thousands of years. It is important not to get trapped in thinking that quantum physics can explain all the mysteries. Part of life is being able to hold the great mysteries without trying to understand everything in a logical fashion. But it is exciting that some physicists are beginning to teach what spiritual practices have always taught.

One of the lessons being brought forth today is that there really is no matter. This goes along with the work we did last month. Matter is created from energy. So if you really want to get to the root of illness look to the flow of energy.

If in your shamanic practice you only look at healing the body which we perceive as matter you are not healing the illness. We really need to focus on energetic healing.

For years I have been writing that everything manifests in the spiritual realms before manifesting in the physical. Spirit is energy. When we start to work on energetic levels we see the results manifesting on the physical.

If we can really digest this understanding that most of our bodies and the universe is made up of unpotentiated energy we will evolve toward creating healthy bodies and a healthy planet. As we need to continue to go within and really create a harmonious inner world that will be reflected back to us.

We all not only have this ability, but it is our responsibility as caretakers of this great earth.

Last month I said that we would honor earth and fire as we perform a worldwide ceremony to honor the autumnal equinox. I feel with the critical nature of the times, I would like to honor all the elements together as well as all of life.

The earth shines in radiant colors during the autumn. We learn about the beauty that comes along with change and transitions. We watch how gracefully the trees and many plants drop what they need to let go of for healthy growth to continue. We observe how the earth uses what has been given through death to create new life. It is a powerful for all of life as this is a great time of transition.

The force in the world that creates anger and hate seems to be growing. The violence of war is growing. In the U.S. as the election draws nearer the divisive energies in the country grow stronger.

What is needed right now is a force of love equal or greater to the energies that are manifesting into hate. So many people on the planet have moved beyond anger. And the energy of anger has grown into the energy of hate.

We know from spiritual teachings throughout time that the cause of anger, hate, and fear come from a lack of feeling love and connectedness. Through feeling a lack of love people are connecting with a force of energy that feeds a manifestation of more separateness and feelings of hate.

For those of us who are praying for harmony to return to the planet we must drop our feelings of separateness recognizing that any feeling of being separate is pure illusion of the mind. We must join our hearts together with such passion as to create a field of love and light that is greater than the field of hate.

Many of you have written to me over the years and have said that you do not have other people in your community to do our transmutation ceremonies with. I have asked all circles that have formed around the world to include in all ceremonies those who are isolated.

On September 22, the autumnal equinox, find others you can work with. You might not be able to find people who are willing to transfigure. That is fine. But find one or more persons who are willing to take some time out of their lives to hold hands with you and send love into the world.

If you already work with transfiguration in a circle perform a transfiguration ceremony. In a transfigured state hold hands and allow the force of love and light to permeate through every cell of your being. Be the creative forces of the universe that can work through the dense darkness in the world.

Experience every person on the planet in his or her divinity. This means seeing the people on the planet who are suffering from starvation and thirst in their divinity. Experience those who are victims of war in their divinity. Experience those government leaders and those in corporations who promote inequality and violence in their divinity. This piece is crucial. As we experience all in their divinity we raise each person’s frequency and vibration. Recognize the divinity in all the plants, trees, animals, reptiles, insects, and rocks in their absolute divinity. Create a field of light that comes from your love of life that expands and embraces all of light.

Invite people into your circle who might not be familiar with the spiritual practice you are doing but who are willing to go down into their heart and radiate a field of love that embraces all of life. Bring your children into the circle. They are our future. Teach them about raising a field of energy that manifests into love, which manifests into a planet that loves and respects all of life.

Experience your love and recognize the divinity in earth, air, water, and fire as in the sun which brings us life.

Journey or meditate within with the knowledge that everything occurs on the spiritual level before manifesting in the physical. Create a spiritual energy of love with such passion it has the force to manifest and lift all of life to a way of living through love, gratitude, and respect.

To follow your energy with action create a ceremony where you release into the fire a behavior in which you feed the energies of separation, divisiveness, anger, hate, and fear. Look at the ceremony section of Medicine for the Earth and make and empower an object or talisman with these energies.

Create a fire with intention and ask fire to work in partnership with you to transform and transmute those energies that feed the dark forces. Be clear with your intention.

If we are going to change the energies running our world right now we have to learn to concentrate and focus. Otherwise we are just feeding the forces we say we wish to change.

We live in a culture that would rather “do” than “be”. Doing ceremonies to manifest the energies of harmony, peace, and love are essential to our lives. Being peace, harmony, and love is a whole other level. Being the energies we wish to experience manifest in the world creates a frequency that shifts global consciousness.

Be love
Be peace
Be harmony
Be gratitude
Be light

We change the world by who we become not what we do. Or in Gandhi’s words be the change we want to see.

I have found it to be good experience for me to merge with the earth where I live during a change of season. As I learn how the earth is changing its movement I learn how to change my own movements to align myself with the resonance and frequency of the land I am on. In this way I am more in tune with the river of life instead of moving against it.

Many of you have been merging with the different elements for years now. I suggest you do this journey again. For those of you new to merging with an element please look at pages 152-155 in Medicine for the Earth.

One of the key teachings we get when we merge with the elements is that where there is healthy life force there is movement. We need to keep looking at how our own energy is moving.

And please remember the earth truly loves you and gives unconditionally to you. Experience this love and really take it in. The gratitude for all you receive is an act of love.

September 28 is the full moon. Let’s continue to weave a brilliant web of light within and throughout the earth.

Autumn is such a beautiful and powerful season. Embrace it and enjoy it!!

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Transmutation News – July 2004

In my journeys I keep going deeper with the principle of “receiving” that I have shared with you on and off over the last year. I keep getting that as we learn to receive on a deeper level only then can we really learn how to give. I have written over time that giving and receiving are all one process. As you know there are always deeper levels we can attain with our giving and receiving process. And as we learn to receive more, we honor the empowerment of feminine energies on the planet.

I want to emphasize the importance of keeping up a practice of receiving light, love, and nurturance from the food you eat, the water you drink, the air you breathe, and the light you take in. Continue to work with metaphors that I spoke about in the May Transmutation News to help you receive on a deeper level.
And keep up the practice of breathing in and absorbing light and love from the universe and breathing out light and love back into the universe.

On June 8 there was the eclipse of the planet Venus with the sun. This was an event that received much attention from the scientific community. And of course this eclipse was also acknowledged by many spiritual communities which manifested in different prophecies about this time being shared.

The night of the eclipse I had a powerful dream. I dreamt that a young man wanted to go visit some of the major wartime sites on the planet. In my dream there were two sites that he visited. At each site there was an elderly veteran guarding a small cage with a very large snake in it. I am not sure whether the young man or myself as the dreamer was horrified at this sight. For the snake could barely move within the cage. Either the young man or myself freed the snakes out of their cages.

I felt real strongly that there was a power being caged represented by the snakes. And of course to me, it represented the freeing of feminine energies that have been caged up.

Part of allowing the feminine energies to be free has to do with the principle of receiving. We have a great opportunity at this time to balance out our own giving and receiving natures.

I continue to work daily and minute to minute with the spiritual practices that help me deepen my own giving and receiving nature. I continue to work daily and minute to minute with remembering my own divinity and that any feelings of separation from source and the rest of life are pure illusion.

As we all continue to bring spiritual practices into our lives that heal our feelings of separation the energies of separation that we see on the planet today creating war, hunger, hate, and violence will be healed.

Remember every change in consciousness you make affects the entire web of life.

On this note last month I said we would work with changing the field of energy using ceremonies with the elements. We already did some of this work throughout the years. But it is important to keep it up.

There are so many people leading global ceremonies through the web right now. This is great. The more people engage in whatever level they can to honor the earth, air, water, and fire the more the web of life is affected. A collective shift begins to happen. And we must not get caught up in looking for outcomes. We must just continue to do our spiritual work with the deep cellular knowing that a shift is occurring on some level. As I have said many times before, everything starts in the spiritual level before manifesting on a physical level.

I thought this month we would work with water. We have done the following ceremony a few times already. Let’s all try to work together on the new moon, which is July 17.

You can do this ceremony alone or you can work with a group. And please invite your children to participate on any level they are able to. You can go to a body of water where you live and work in nature. Or if you prefer you can gather a bottle of water from a water source near you and work with it at a sacred place for you.

As preparation take 15-30 minutes and walk outside focusing on absorbing the light and love from everything around you and send back light and love with your breath.

While you are at the source of water you want to honor or at your sacred place do your transfiguration practice. Experience yourself fully in your divinity and with the cellular experience of oneness. Use toning as we have done in the past to deepen your experience. We have learned over time in the experiments I have shared with you that harmony within creates harmony without. The water will reflect back to you your divine nature.

If you are working in nature at the water source finish with giving great love and appreciation to all the waters of the world and the rain that comes down which nurture us on all levels.

If you are working with a glass, bottle, or bowl of water bring it back to the water source you got it from. As you empty the water give your thanks and appreciation. Ask the water to send the message of how much we love and appreciate water to all the waters of the world.

We will continue this process next month with air. Remember the spiritual work we do does make a difference.

As I said earlier it is quite a dance to hold the polarity of experiencing one’s divinity and at the same time being human and experiencing the human condition.

As I find myself experiencing a greater joy of life I also keep finding it harder and harder to observe the pain in suffering in children that comes from living in a world of inequality and where the experience of separation creates hate and violence.

Also on the new moon, let’s also honor the energy of innocence. The innocence in children of all species of life and the child within every one of us. Again this can be done through transfiguration or through an honoring ceremony you are inspired to create.

At the end of May I presented parts of the Healing with Spiritual Light training at the Third annual Conference on “Shamanism in Medicine, Expanding Worlds of Healthcare” in Santa Fe, NM. The conference was sponsored by InnoVision Communications.

As part of my presentation we did an experiment. While I was presenting the Medicine for the Earth work at a conference at Findhorn in Scotland I met a physicist who lives in the Findhorn community. He had built a device similar to what was written about in The Secret Life of Plants to measure a plants response to outside stimuli.

While I was at Findhorn, Mark, the physicist asked me if I would ever be willing to try a long distance experiment to see if a plant in his apartment would be aware of communication from a group I was working with.

We tried such an experiment at the conference in Santa Fe. I showed the group a picture of Mark’s philodendron. The picture was on the altar as we did our singing our dancing. It was on the altar as we did healing on each other that involved the process of transfiguration. And then we also did some toning focusing on the plant.

Mark has been moving so he has not had the time to fully examine and interpret the results. He did say that the computed spectrogram shows several interesting variations of the signal. There were some peaks right in the middle of our activities. I wait for more information from Mark. But it is an example of how time and space do not interfere with communication with all of life.

The full moon is July 2. Let’s continue to weave together a planetary web of light. Experience the web of light within the earth getting fuller and stronger. Transfigure if you can or visualize, feel, smell, taste, and hear the web of light circling the earth strong and bright and filled with love.

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Transmutation News – May 2004

I wrote this month’s Transmutation News the first week of April as I am in Scotland and England until April 30. I will let you know how my teaching went there next month.

Recently a friend of mine gave me a tape of a lecture Andrew Harvey gave at a Prophet’s Conference in Oxford, England last year. Although I felt I did not learn anything new his impassioned lecture gave me a lot to think about.

He spoke about an unprecedented holocaust of the environment and animals. He also spoke about the need to be active on all levels about this.

During the years of writing the Transmutation News I have written about my struggle of how to be of service to the planet in the best way right now. I do believe that the spiritual work we do does make a huge difference as everything that manifests on the physical world starts in the spiritual realms.

I have talked about the need to educate others about what is happening in the environment. The ignorance of Americans to “the environmental holocaust” is staggering. The feeling of entitlement that Americans have about the use of resources is amazing. I know that this is also true in other places besides America. But as I live here and get to see the news everyday and how people are choosing to ignore how humans are affecting all of life.

My struggle over the years is how to educate and be vocal about what is happening and at the same time not coat the earth with my anger.

Andrew Harvey talked about Gandhi and the Dalai Lama as a couple of examples of people who have been able to create change in potentially explosive situations by being able to hold the energy of compassion.

This is a place I am constantly striving to get to. For I want to be able to teach people about what needs to change without creating explosive anger at the same time. So I keep up my practice of transmuting my thoughts and feelings knowing this will keep me on the path of love.

As I have said before we all have a destiny to pursue. I cannot say how each one of us needs to act right now. But it does feel like the situation in the world is critical. I have seen the positive affects of communities of people gathering together to do spiritual work. I have seen how the spiritual work I have done for my trees where I live has made a difference. And I constantly hold the question of how else can I be in service? What else should I add to what I am already doing?

It is so important not to become complacent in our work and to keep looking at what is important to add to our life and practice right now. Keep looking. Keep asking the spirits you work with for guidance. We will all be shown different ways and different paths. And this is part of the beauty of this time. The answers do not lie in one or a few but in all of us.

There is another aspect of the work that I feel is very important to explore at this time. Many people who are drawn to spiritual practices tend to be people who “live out of body”. I think that it is essential to learn to find our inner light and embody it.

The practice of transfiguration as I have been teaching it is an inner body experience. We do not go outside of ourselves to experience the light. Rather we let go of what keeps us separate from our own inner light. This is an important distinction and it might be time for you to reflect on your own practice of transfiguration.

In a journey I was given the following practice to start to perform. I was told to really focus and concentrate my energies on absorbing light from the sun, the air I breathe, the water I drink, and the food I eat which comes from the earth. Receiving this light, nurturance and love is an essential part of the experience of feeling embodied.

One way to work with this is find a metaphor of how it feels to fully absorb. The metaphor might be a flower taking in mist after a hot day. I like working with the metaphor of being in a room where the curtains are closed and opening them up and letting the room fill with sun. It might be a metaphor of trees drinking in the rain or sun through their leaves and roots. Think about a metaphor that works for you and use it throughout the day as you absorb the life giving forces of nature.

Last night I had a wonderful dream. I was shown that as we journey, meditate, and connect with all of life while we walk through the world this creates a tremendous amount of joy and healing for the plants, trees, rocks, elements, and animals. I was shown in the dream how much they revel in the connection and how important and beneficial our continued work to connect and have a relationship with all of life is.

I thought we could combine connecting with all of life and absorbing the life giving force of nature on May 9, which is Mother’s Day. As we focus our intention as a global community to connect with all of life and take in the nurturance we are offered from the elements joy is created throughout our environment. And we can add to this experiencing the web of light we have been weaving around the globe as well as tapping into the web of light in the earth we started to experience last month. Connections and relationship create joy and healing. This is a good place for all of us to focus our energies at this time on the planet for it feeds the energies of love, honor, and respect for life. And by receiving the nurturing gifts of our environment also fosters these same energies of love, honor, and respect for the web of life, which we are apart of.

The full moon is May 4. This month there will be a total eclipse of the moon. Let’s keep focused on weaving a human web of light around the globe. Let’s keep experiencing the strength of the web of light within the earth that connects all living beings. Let’s ask the moon to bring us dreams of how we can be in service to life and caretake our home, which is earth.

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Transmutation News – November 2003

This summer when the temperatures were up to 100 degrees with no rain in sight, I knew I had to augment the water the trees and garden where getting from the drip system.

Every morning the first thing I did was haul buckets of water I had been collecting to the fruit trees. I started noticing after a few weeks of doing this that, as I would come to each tree the leaves would begin to move as if a wind was blowing. The air would be still and none of the leaves on the other trees would be moving. Each tree seemed to be responding to me as I would come to bring it water.

This continued throughout the summer and the deepening connection with the trees and plants in my garden brought me great joy.

The reason I am sharing this story with you is that as we perform our spiritual practices and also connect more with nature we are participating in a dance with the spirit that lives in all things. This dance feeds our souls on all levels and reminds us of the beauty of life.

When we journey and when we perform ceremonies we are dancing with the spirits. This is a joyful dance. When we go out and commune with nature this is also a joyful dance. It taps into a cellular memory of why we came into bodies to be on this planet.

With all that is going on in the world today I don’t know how many of us remember the dance part of our connection with the spirit world. I understand that many of us use shamanism and other spiritual methods to communicate with the spirits to ask for help with problems. And I know that this is a wonderful way to work with personal and global issues.

I want to encourage you to also use you spiritual practices to bring joy into your life. We know how much sacred play and humor can heal.

This month as you continue your journeys, meditations and ceremonies let’s focus on the dance with the spirits and the spirit of water. As we keep looking at healing our waters inside and outside as well as the rest of our environment, let’s look at how sacred play and loving communication can be part of that healing. As we become loving and happy partners with the elements instead of “working to fix” them I do believe that we will see positive results.

As you continue to connect spiritually with the bodies of water near you as we have done in September and October (look at the last two Transmutation News for more info) let’s add the element of play and humor into our practices. Notice how it takes some of the heaviness off the environmental problems. We can communicate on a deeper level with nature when we are not focused on fixing a problem.

Recently I had a dream where I kept on hearing how beautiful life is. I heard the message over and over again and also felt this in my body. The last message of the dream was how people have forgotten this and how we have to teach people step by step how to get back into the beauty of life.

For me bringing play into our spiritual practices is one way of doing this.

November 8 is the full moon. Let’s designate this day as “a play day” with the spirit that lives in all things. Set your intention in the morning and ask that you be shown omens throughout the day that will help you see how the spirits are responding. In working with omens you must become very observant to what nature shows you. For example, you might notice a change in behavior of the animals, birds, and other life around you. You might find that you meet people whose words hold a different kind of meaning for you that tie into your intention for the day. The wind might change as you have different thoughts and feelings.

As thousands of us around the world set our intention to engage fully with the spirits of nature we will activate a new kind of relationship with the living beings we share this earth with.

This will inspire you to keep up your spiritual practices from a place of joy instead of seeing them as one more thing you have to find time for in your life.

I was visiting with a descendant during one of my journeys. As I have written I have found journeying to the descendants a valuable way of learning how to evolve my spiritual work.

During this journey I met with one descendant verses the community I usually meet with. I asked her if she had any advice for me as she watched me teach.

She reminded me that the transfiguration process I have been teaching must become more of a body process and less of a mental process. As many people who transfigure do this in a shamanic journey it is important to make sure that you are not trying to visualize your journey.

Transfiguration is a cellular experience accessed by the sense of feeling. To deepen your transfiguration process the first step is to journey or meditate on how you can unburden yourself from earthly concerns. It is important to take a time out from what your mind is engaging in and perceives as important. In other words we must remove mental distractions. There might be times of the day when you can practice transfiguration before your mind becomes filled with thoughts. You might journey or meditate on a short ritual you can do to set your burdens aside temporarily.

The next helpful step will be to do some deep breathing before and during your transfiguration meditation/journey. Start by placing your hands on your abdomen and inhale slowly through your nose so that your hands are rising. Then pause for one breath and then exhale slowly through the nose. Pause again before taking the next inhale. Make sure your abdomen is rising and lowering so you are breathing deeply and that you are not taking shallow breaths.

As you transfigure keep your hands on your abdomen and continue to breathe slowly and deeply. This will create more of a body/cellular experience verses the energy being in your head.

As this practice becomes more of a body process you will continue to raise your vibration of your cells and your light will shine through you without having to put conscious attention to doing this. Your ability to effect those around you will become a passive non-doing practice. But first your body must change its vibration.

Add deep breathing into your regular transfiguration practice and notice how your vibration changes. If you can add toning to this you will wake up your cells even more.

If you are new to the Transmutation News, please look at the two chapters on Dismemberment and Transfiguration in Medicine for the Earth.

“The Beginner’s Guide to Shamanic Journeying” CD produced by Sounds True is available this month. You can go to www.soundstrue.com or call 800-333-9185 for ordering information.

I hope you will let people know about my new website www.shamanicteachers.com. This website lists local teachers who can teach on the CD.

We will still have the website for local Medicine for the Earth Teachers on www.medicinefortheearth.com.

I am excited by the alliance of teachers and being able to seed our communities with local teachers making spiritual practices available to all who would like to explore ways of evolving consciousness.

November 8 is the full moon. As we declare this is a play day with the spirits of the land and all living beings, let’s remember to joyfully keep weaving a global human web of light.

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Transmutation News – August 2003

I picked an interesting day to write the Transmutation News. Due to my traveling schedule I do not have much choice on when I write this monthly newsletter.

A fire just north of Santa Fe has the town completely enveloped with smoke. I went outside to water some of my plants which are so stressed from draught and smoke. I could barely breathe and got nauseous from breathing in so much smoke. The birds are panicking and flying into things. I go inside to turn on the news to see if I can get any information on where that fire is and I see people preparing to deal with floods from an incoming hurricane. Days ago I was watching cars floating down streets in the Midwest from flooding. While parts of the country are flooding, the Southwest is burning up by unusually high temperatures and no rain. This is like a deja-vu as I remember writing about smoke filled skies last summer in the midst of flooding in other parts of the country.

I sit here wondering, just how out of balance does nature have to get before masses wake up? Yes, there are many people waking up on the planet today. We are all doing what we can to send light and raise the vibration. And we must keep up our spiritual work no matter what is happening in the external world. The time we live in requires us to not get attached to external validation but yet know that the work we are doing together is important. It is more important than ever for different spiritual groups from different traditions to support each other. No matter how different our methods seem, the end result is the same.

In June I presented the Medicine for the Earth work at a conference on the Rio Grande River in Santa Fe. There was a group of people from the Hopi reservation from the Black Mesa Trust. I gave a lecture that focused on the two levels of the Medicine for the Earth work. I talked about it is who we become that changes the world and not what we do. I included in this lecture the importance of transmuting the energy around our emotions, thoughts, and attitudes and also reported on the ceremonial work we have been doing with the water we have polluted with ammonium hydroxide. I stressed the need to combine ceremonies to reverse the pollution we have created with the daily spiritual practices we must incorporate to change on an inner level.

Then we did a short ceremony to create blessed holy water that volunteers would give back to the Rio Grande at different locations on the river.

After the ceremony four Hopi men came up to me to thank me for my words and the ceremony. There was one elder in the group. They said it was like listening to an outsider speaking the words of their grandfathers. It touched them deeply and helped them as many of the Hopi have rejected the old teachings.

It’s important to plant seeds and inspire people where we can. You never know how your words will heal those around you.

The conference ended up being smaller that we expected. But for the people who came it was a way of networking and offering support to each other.

I have written about the plight of the Hopi and Navajo before. Every day, Peabody Western Coal Company pumps 3.3 million gallons of pure groundwater from the Navajo Aquifer, which flows beneath the Hopi and Navajo nations in northeastern Arizona. The water is mixed with crushed coal and slurried from a stripmine on Black Mesa to a power plant in Nevada. The poisoned water is neither reclaimed nor reused.

The waste water is a serious threat to the land as well as the Hopi people. The Hopi and Navajo are running out of water to use as a result of this.

If you are interested in learning more you can visit www.BlackMesaTrust.org.

Some of you have been writing in and asking me what is happening with the book for children I have been working on. As I have been traveling non-stop I had to put it aside for awhile. Also, at this point there are no publishers expressing interest. This has never stopped me from continuing my writing before.

But a student of mine has presented me with an opportunity to work on the same material but in a different form that will reach a much broader audience. I don’t want to say much more than that right now as we have just begun the project. But I am very excited about the possibilities. There are so many children who obviously came in with the tools to heal what we have created. I feel a task for all of us is to help them stay awake and not fall under the spell we have as adults.

I will say more as this project proceeds. When I am done with the project I am working on, I will complete the book I began. I hope to be done with both projects by the end of the year.

After I came back from Brazil to see Joao de Deus, which was a wonderful experience, I had a great dream. In the dream I went to Switzerland where I was meeting with the group that is in the three-year training I am teaching.

I walked into the room and the group was so excited. They wanted to share with me that they had finally gotten what I have been teaching about the importance of setting a strong intention. They all got at the same moment that they could create anything with intention. At that moment I woke up.

All the ancient teaching share the importance of setting intention. Let’s pay special attention to the intentions we put out through our day.

As the elements outside of us are trying to make a statement about the imbalance of our way of life, let’s together on Sunday August 16, meditate or journey to the elements with in. Using the principle of as above, so below; as within, so without what is the message the elements are trying to tell us about restoring balance to ourselves and our planet?

If you want to send me very brief messages (one or two sentences), I will post them on the next Transmutation News.

Back in the 1990’s I used to write a soul retrieval newsletter twice a year. I would find that before the next issue was to be written I would receive letters from practitioners asking the same question. Obviously, that would be the issue I would write about.

In the last few weeks I have received letters from students who practice both the classical shamanic healing methods and from practitioners who are working with bringing through spiritual light through the use of transfiguration.

The results of the work seemed to surprise the practitioners. Instead of getting reports that a client felt great after the soul retrieval or other forms of healing work, a client might have reported fear or anger or other issues arising. The practitioners were asking me if I thought something went wrong.

On the contrary something went right. Yes, clients often come to us seeking “a spiritual happy pill.” But is this really healing? As I used to write over and over in my soul retrieval newsletter, sometimes the spiritual healing work we do for a client marks the end of their healing. And sometimes the healing work we perform marks the beginning of their work.

When we bring back lost essence, power, or spiritual light that which still needs to be healed will surface. This begins the incredibly rich process of now having what has been blocking us on all levels be addressed and worked through. There of course are many ways to work through issues that arise. Some people choose to work through issues with going to a psychotherapist. Some would prefer to use methods such as shamanic journeying or meditation to bring light to an issue and work it through.

The result of spiritual healing work can sometimes finish issues that have already been worked through physically and emotionally. If the issue has not been worked through, the spiritual healing will bring to light the work that still needs to be done. This is a good thing. Practitioners must become comfortable with uncomfortable states arising for clients after healing work. It is not a realistic expectation of practitioners or clients that everyone will feel ecstatic and happy after one session. For true healing is a process. I hope you get the point.

The full moon is August 11, please continue to weave a planetary human web of light.

Please remember to experience the feelings of love and appreciation for yourself and all living beings as much as possible. The more you do this your life changes as well as you change the vibration of the world around you.

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