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 – June 2005

I have the great opportunity to mentor teachers and practitioners of spiritual healing. There is the wonder and awe of the power of sharing teachings and spiritual healing. And of course all the shadow stuff of jealousy and competition comes up. Our work together on the planet is to work through these shadow states of consciousness so that we can embrace the consciousness of love.

I wrote a bit last month about how many of us need to install an update into our DNA code to move out of competition to a place of working as an alliance.

I was journeying/meditating on this issue some more. I met up with Lao-tzu. I was thrilled to have such an amazing teacher talk to me about this issue. His advice was that when one walks down the middle path there is peace and freedom. The energy from other people including jealousy will pull you off of the middle path. This will pull you away from freedom.

He encouraged me to keep cutting the energetic ties with others who pull me off my path. He also encouraged me to keep walking on the path toward the light, peace, and freedom. He encouraged me to teach this way to others.

The work of transmuting the problematic energies we experience as egoic beings is our greatest work. And we have been working on doing this for years. As you continue to do this work visualize, feel, hear, smell, and taste yourself walking on the middle path towards freedom. As you find yourself being pulled off the path by others cut the energetic ties binding you. As you experience being pulled off the path by thinking about the past or future experience yourself shifting your focus to the present.

It is clear to me that the middle path that Lao-tzu is talking about is the path of being in the present moment.

Years ago I wrote that life forms that live on the earth seek out light. Plants compete for light. Humans compete for resources and love which I think are misperceived as light. When we seek to buy objects on an unconscious level we think we are buying light.

Light gives life and light provides the energy for life forms to live.

When we find the light within us all the light that is needed and desired is available to us. We will no longer have to compete for that which we believe is outside of us.

Keep up your practice of absorbing light from the sun, the air you breathe, the water you drink and bathe in, and the food you eat. Keep doing the inner work of transfiguring into light and allow your cells to absorb the light from within nurturing you on every level.

As the earth absorbs light, water, and nutrients it bursts forth with an amazing amount of abundance that creates nutrition for all of life.

The earth gives and gives. There is only abundance. It is like chi. There is no such thing as limited chi in the universe. There is no such thing as limited abundance in the earth. It is the collective energy of fear that creates scarcity.

To receive the gifts of the earth and give back gratefulness and appreciation keeps the cycle going.

Mabel Mckay, who was a Pomo elder, wrote that the trees gave people food and that was one thing that kept the trees going. I believe it is important to get the physical, emotional, and spiritual food from trees and plants and give back to them with love. This keeps the abundance flowing.

Both the summer solstice and the full moon are June 21. Create an appreciation ceremony in nature that others can come to where as a community love and appreciation are given for all that we receive so that we might thrive.

Be flexible about how you perform the ceremony so that you might include others who are not initiated into spiritual work. We can all go outside and be in appreciation for the abundance that we receive from the earth.

And as you do your ceremony of appreciation for the abundance that you are receiving from the earth as well as the sun, the water, and air the energy you share will be magnified by the full moon.

Incorporate weaving a web of light within and around the earth into your ceremony. Again bringing in as many community members as you can. The light within and around the earth connects us all.

Many of you who read The Transmutation News are also students of classic shamanic healing. I recently attended a psychology conference where one of the speaker’s presentations inspired me to share some of my thoughts about performing soul retrievals today.

The presenter’s name is Dr. Bessel Van der Kolk. He is a trauma specialist and is the author of more than a hundred papers on trauma. He directs the Trauma Center in Boston, possibly the largest trauma specialty center in the U.S. He has also written some books on trauma.

He shared with us some research that he was a part of where brain scans were performed on patients who suffered trauma.

What was found is that during a trauma it is the limbic part of the brain that is affected by trauma. During a trauma the right posterior part of the brain lights up. This part of the brain doesn’t have language.

The left anterior part of the brain literally shuts off during trauma. This is the part of the brain that is associated with speech and being able to talk about events.

Other neuroimaging studies also show that the impact of trauma sits in the amygdala, hippocampus, hypothalamus, and brain stem. It does not sit in the verbal and understanding part of the brain.

van der Kolk says that it is our bodies, not our minds, that control how we respond to trauma, what we do and don’t consciously remember, and whether or not we recover from it.

This means that in the midst of trauma civilized discourse is not possible. It also means that people don’t need to talk about trauma to resolve it.

As we have always known talk therapies are not successful with people who have suffered trauma.

Bessel van der Kolk shared about the successes of working with the body to resolve trauma. He talked about the power of chi gong, tai chi, yoga, dancing, and breathing in order to quiet the body down and teach people self-regulation.

All the above methods came out of shamanism. In teaching workshops I keep trying to get participants to understand how important song and dance has been to shamans. I personally believe this is more important to shamans than the journey itself.

The fact that trauma lives in the body makes a lot of sense to me. When I perform soul retrievals I experience all the sensations that the client felt at the time of his or her soul loss. I have always experienced all the information in my body.

In sharing my experience with clients I have felt greatly challenged. I feel so much and yet I don’t ever have the language for what I feel. Based on what Bessel van der Kolk discovered along with others who have performed neuroimaging this would make sense.

In soul retrieval trainings I try to teach practitioners about the importance of bringing ritual and ceremony into working with clients. And one of the most powerful experiences for many in my soul retrieval trainings is the fire ceremony that we perform. During the ceremony I do have people dance and move what is being released into the fire.

Many practitioners of soul retrieval have been more moving their work towards a psychotherapeutic way of working. Many practitioners ask the client to talk way too much.

Brain scans are showing what shamans always knew. I ask those of you reading this page who do perform soul retrievals to journey on how to work with less talk and more of what would be called body psychotherapy.

We don’t need to turn to other systems to do this. Shamanic healing in itself does embrace what is taught in chi gong, yoga, tai chi, and breathing. We just have to bring it back into our work. As shamanic practitioners we need to engage our creativity. I feel a lot of practitioners have become trapped in trying to move shamanism into old forms of psychotherapy that are not effective. I think we need to bridge psychotherapy into shamanism and not the reverse.

And I want to remind you that I am teaching with my husband Woods Shoemaker this August at Omega Institute. The workshop is intended to teach concentration practices along with teaching the shamanic journey. Please look at my calendar posted on Trainings and Announcements for more information.

I saw this great sign on a church in Santa Fe:

“If God seems far away right now – who moved?”

  “The divine energy in itself is infinite potentiality and actuality. Creatures are localized manifestations of it. If there is no obstacle in us, no false self, we become transmitters through whom the divine presence as boundless love and compassion communicates itself to others in ever widening circles of influence.”

–       Thomas Keating

 Happy summer! Enjoy the beauty and be joyful in your life.

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Transmutation News – May 2005

There are many paradoxes that we all must live with. We live and function as the ego small “i” and also as we transfigure embrace the principle that we are source and are also the big “I”.

In this paradox we are facets of the creator and are unique as creative beings. At the same time we are part of an entire organism. Sometimes we get lost in the aspect that we are the only ones creating change in the world. When really it is the organism that we are part of that is changing. We feel responsible to make a change as independent from the organism we are merely part of. Go back to the metaphor that I have been using where we are fingers that think we are independent from the rest of the body.

Yes, we are all aspects of the creative forces of the universe and in this way we do create in the world. At the same time the organism we are a part of is evolving and part of our work is to surrender to the life force we are part of. This means that we are not always in control of the changes that are happening. The metaphor that I keep getting in my journeys is that we have to learn to surf the waves of transition and change. We have to understand that the organism we are all part of is changing and taking us as “fingers” along with the changes.

This does not mean that we should stop doing our creative work as facets of the creator. But this also means that we have to surrender to the process of evolution. This is part of the paradox we all need to live with right now.

In the February Transmutation News I wrote about Chase Carter’s music CDs. He sent me a sample of a new CD he is working on. The vibration on this CD is pretty high so I find myself getting transcendent information when I listen to it.

While I was listening to the CD I was looking at transmuting the energies of fear and jealousy. I received some very interesting information.

Fear and jealousy are part of our DNA code for survival of the fittest. As we act out of our animal nature there is the experience of competition for resources and the energies of jealousy as we have a drive for procreation.

As the organism we are part of is evolving the need for these behaviors is changing. We are part of an organism that is evolving to working with psychic powers such as clairvoyance and telepathy being the norm instead of being extraordinary powers. The organism is evolving to sharing resources instead of competing for resources. And procreation will not be the overriding force of life.

Our DNA code needs to change to embrace this new evolution. Many teachers are writing about how we have the ability to change our DNA code for healing the body. I see that we need to change our DNA code for this new evolution of consciousness where we are more in touch with our psychic powers and the energy of love and light. Most of us work towards experiencing love and light. The new evolution of consciousness is where this is a natural state.

The children coming in will naturally have this new evolution of consciousness coded in their DNA. We already see this with many children coming in only experiencing love and are clairvoyant and are telepaths. But we will see more of this.

Think about computers. The new computers you buy already have the upgrades installed. For those of us who are the older model we must install an upgrade.

In your meditations and journeys hold the intention of changing your DNA code to evolve to the new frequencies of the organism we are part of. We are all evolving together.

I do believe that those who can evolve with the new frequencies will survive and thrive in the coming times ahead.

As we are spirits embodied our bodies are the vessel for our spiritual work. As the frequencies on the planet keep raising we must strengthen our bodies to be able to contain these higher frequencies.

So please keep finding exercise programs and practices such as yoga, Tai Chi, and Chi Gong to support your body. And of course pay attention to the kind of diet that keeps you strong and healthy. We can’t do a spiritual bypass. Our bodies must be supported to keep being a strong container for our spirit.

On this note it is spring. Get outside and be in nature. Experience all the new growth and take in the beauty. This is the best exercise for our body, mind, and our spirit. For nature nurtures us on all levels.

Continue the practice of absorbing light from the sun, the food you eat, the water you drink and bathe in, and the air you breathe. Take in the light as you inhale and give it back as you exhale.

Keep doing your transfiguration practice to experience a state of radiance and oneness. But also try to meditate and connect with the physical organism that you are part of. Experience your connection and the growth that is happening. Experience the changes in the earth and the frequency. And most of all experience the abundance of life force.

Victoria Hoch wrote this wonderful poem after being at a Medicine for the Earth Gathering. She gave me permission to share this with you.

Sunflower’s Song

Everyday I devour the fire of the full sun like a lord’s feast.
Protected by my sheath of leathery leaves, dry winds cannot harm me.

Sun sprung from earth-warmed seeds scattered by storms, I bloom intensely yellow.
The blue sky is my feathered crown and I am rooted in happiness.

My sun-saturated petals are victory flags for bees.

This full bloomed summer self will end when nights grow cold.
I loosen seeds about me like a shower of worlds.

But today is a sun-gilded one and I a petal-ed trumpet.

Nothing diminishes my burning bloom, the blaze of life’s fire.
I claim my bold brightness and sing the song that comes-

Fierce happiness.

The full moon is May 23. Let’s continue to weave a radiant web of life within and throughout the earth. And as much as possible keep initiating others in your community into this practice.

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Transmutation News – April 2005

Spring is a time for us to nurture the new growth that is being dreamed into being by the earth, the sun, the air, and the water. It is a good time for us to see how we are nurturing our own garden of life.

I continue to receive feedback from students that a regular practice of transfiguration is responsible for a positive change in health and sense of well being.

To inspire you to continue your transfiguration practice I will review the principles of the practice.

The definition of transfiguration in Webster’s Dictionary is “shapeshifting”. When we talk about the practice of transfiguration we are experiencing who we are beyond our skin. We are experiencing who we are beyond our ego and our thoughts. The spiritual essence of who we are is divinity, oneness, source, and spiritual light. We are experiencing our divine perfection and radiance which is our true nature.

All world religions and spiritual practices teach about the experience of divinity in the use of healing.

-In Christianity Jesus taught that the kingdom of God lies within. One of his teachings was that we all must shine our light in the world.

-The Kabbalah teaches the principle of oneness and divinity.

-In the Hindu tradition mystics and healers transfigured into a deity in their miraculous healing acts. They did not merge with a divine force; they dropped their experience of separation and became divine.

-In Taoism it is talked about being in harmony or in one with the Tao.

-Buddhists observe who they are beyond ego and thought and experience the Buddha nature.

-The old Alchemists taught that the self -possessed man must die for the “Great Work” to be done. This means that the ego must be put aside to experience divinity and oneness.

-The great shamans have been women and men who traveled to the other realms through a near death experience or a life threatening illness. Once on the other side they remembered that they were more than a body and ego. They remembered the source from which they came. And through the experience of spiritual light and experiencing unity with all they got their clairvoyant and healing abilities. True shamans have always taught about the unity of the web of life.

In my books I shared the message I received from a being I call “The Voice” in a dream I had in the 1980’s. The voice said that man has been looking for God outside of himself for the last 2000 years. Man will be looking for God inside of himself for the next 2000 years. This is the task of humankind at this time. We must reverse directions in our spiritual practice and go as deep inside of ourselves as we have been traveling outside of ourselves.

When we talk about the practice of transfiguration this is what we are talking about. We are moving into a place of union. We experience our own divinity, God, the goddess, the Buddha, Krishna, the wealth of gods and goddesses we experience outside of ourselves, or whatever terms fit your religious and philosophical beliefs.

The creator or creative forces of the universe are within us as well as outside of us. We are working with the esoteric principle of as above so below, as within so without.

In Medicine for the Earth I describe this process in both the chapters on dismemberment and transfiguration. I give a guided visualization in the exercise section of the dismemberment chapter to work with to dissolve the body and ego which keeps us separate from our divine nature.

On my CD “Miracles for the Earth” I lead people through the process of transfiguration in one of the exercises on CD2. Some toning is also included as part of the experience. As I have written before I have found toning to be a good way to hold the transfigured state. It is a way to keep the ego from coming in and creating an experience of separation again.

I still listen on occasion to the guided visualization on “Miracles for the Earth”, as I find it helps me deepen my transfiguration experience over time.

If you do not have a copy of “Miracles for the Earth” you can order it at www.soundstrue.com.

At first you might find it helpful to go through the formal steps of letting go of the body, the ego, and thoughts to get to a place of source, unity with all, divinity, and spiritual light. After practice you might be able to just use a decree of I am divine, I am source, I am that, I am spiritual light, I am radiance, or I am love. Any one of these decrees can be used to get into a transfigured state of consciousness. Another decree a student shared at a workshop is “Thank you for taking from me that which keeps me separate from my divinity and spiritual light.”

Putting on some music that supports an expanded state of consciousness will help you experience and remain in this state for a longer period of time. Doing some toning will continue to create a vibration and frequency that not only allows you to experience a transfigured state but also on its own changes the resonance of your body. Toning alone creates emotional and physical healing.

 

You are not merging with an outside spiritual power to do this practice. You become that spiritual power. You do not go outside of your body; you go within. As I have written many times, it is who we become that changes the world and not what we do. As we become source, divinity, and spiritual light we create healing within. For when we experience a state of separation communication breaks down between our cells and our DNA. This lack of communication creates illness. When we experience a state of oneness and spiritual light this creates a state of coherence. Coherence is that perfect state of communication between the cells and our DNA, which allows cellular repair to occur.

When we experience a state of oneness and spiritual light we move into harmony and in sync with the river of life. In this state we can manifest good health and a feeling of well being. In this state what we need naturally comes to us as we are in harmony with life.

I had received a powerful metaphor for all of this from a descendant I had met during a shamanic journey. She said imagine a finger dropping off a hand. That finger decides it is independent from the body and can have a life of its own. She said that this is a preposterous thought. But this state is what our planet is experiencing today causing a tremendous amount of illness. Illness comes from the perception that we are separate from source and the web of life.

She said we must reach down and reattach all the fingers that have dropped off the hand and disconnected from the body. This has been a powerful metaphor for me to work with.

So yes, I do transfigure as much as I can. Some weeks I do the practice daily. And some weeks I can only do it once or twice a week. As I continue the practice my goal is to keep shining my inner spiritual light as much as I can throughout the day. The real work is can I shine that light while I am standing on line at the grocery store or at the bank? Can I continue to shine that light when I am stuck in traffic? If I can I not only heal myself by setting up a state of coherence in my body, but I effect the world around me as I lift all who are in my presence. That is our true work or “The Great Work” that the alchemists speak of.

Again key words that describe the experience of being transfigured is experiencing your divine perfection and radiance.

Again the definition of alchemy is working with and through the dense darkness inside. So part of our practice is also to learn how to transmute and transform the energy around our problematic thoughts, emotions, beliefs, and attitudes. This heals ourselves and all of life on the planet. The more we do this work the more we move into states of love and appreciation for what the earth, water, air, and the sun have to offer us. We move into a state of love and appreciation for all of life healing states of separation which lead to fear, depression, anger, and violence. We heal those states inside and in the outer world by incorporating the practice of transforming energy into our minute to minute lives.

As we can truly absorb and receive the light from our food, water, the air we breathe, and the sunlight we keep transmuting what we are taking in creating healing in our bodies and psyches. This is such an important practice at this time on the planet where we are surrounded by so much toxicity.

Both of my parents are 90 years old. They live in an independent living facility. Although their bodies are wearing down, their minds are still good. As they are both independent thinkers living in an institution brings up a lot of issues and challenges for them.

 As I observe their challenges I have realized that the institution they are living in is a microcosm to the greater macrocosm in the world today. As we are all living in an institution where we need to behave in certain ways to be accepted by the cultures we live in.

 On one level we are all one and there is no separation. And we are also a reflection of the creator or the creative forces of the universe. Like a diamond there are many facets to the creative forces and we all reflect back a unique facet to the creator. So we are one and also at the same unique facets. And we live in cultures that want us to repress our brilliance and uniqueness and fit in. It is all part of the paradox we are living in. And the question remains how to we honor the brilliance of all of us while remembering that in truth we are all one being? How do we shine our brilliance and experience oneness at the same time?  I feel that this is one of the challenges of our time. This remains a work in progress. 

As I observe weather patterns around the world it is interesting to note how different the weather is behaving than what many of us are used to. In areas where there is typically a lot of moisture there is now drought. In areas that don’t always get moisture there has been a lot of rain and snow. In areas of the world there is greater precipitation and ranges in temperatures than has been seen before.

Mother nature is attempting to get our attention. And it is time to listen. I suggest that each of you journey to the spirit of the city in which you live. If you do not work with shamanic journeying use your practice of meditation to set an intention to meet with the spirit where you live.

There is only one earth and one sky. But there are cities around the world that also are facets of the creator. There are cities that also contain collective beliefs.

Find out from the spirit where you live what is trying to be communicated to your community through the change in weather. Ask how you can be in service to the spirit of where you live. Ask what messages and teachings you can share with other members of your community.

Let’s listen to the wake up calls so they don’t have to get any louder.

If you want to read the Transmutation News in another language please go to the home page to find the link to other translations.

The full moon is April 24. Let’s continue to weave a radiant web of light within and around the earth. Let’s continue to invite and teach others in your community to create a human web of light.

In Medicine for the Earth I shared a quote from Manly P. Hall, author of The Secret Teachings of the Ages:

“The purpose of alchemy was not to make something out of nothing but rather to fertilize and nurture the seed which was already present. Its processes did not actually create gold but rather made the ever-present seed of gold grow and flourish. Everything which exists has a spirit- the seed of divinity within itself- and regeneration is not the process of attempting to place something where it previously existed. Regeneration actually means the unfoldment of the omnipresent Divinity in man, that this Divinity may shine forth as a sun and illumine all whom it comes in contact.

Here are words of wisdom from Ghandi to inspire you:

“Keep your thoughts positive because they become your words. Keep your words positive because they become your behaviors. Keep your behaviors positive because they become your habits. Keep your habits positive because they become your values. Keep your values positive because they become your destiny.”

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Transmutation News – March 2005

Why do fundamentalist groups in the world have so much power? How is it that corporate groups have the power in the U.S. to change policies to ones that disregard the health of the environment, animals, plants, trees, humans, and all of life?

Focus. It is all about focus. These groups have learned the power of focus to manifest what they want in the world.

I get a wealth of emails about laws that are being passed and that will be passed that disregard all of life.

If I allow myself to get distracted by this information I will just go and buy a lot of ice cream and try to comfort my egoic self. I would be buying the concept of well we won’t survive anyway so let’s eat, drink, and be merry.

If I write about the details of all these broadcast emails circulating around the world I am feeding the negative and destructive impact of the words and energy. In other words I am not feeding the heart filled with love, harmony, light, and unity.

The key is how I react to what I read and then how I act. It is important to maintain balance. Yes, I feel sad and sometimes get lost in “what’s the use”. But I do not stay in this state. I focus. I move into seeing every living being on this great planet as divine light. I see the earth and all the elements in their divine light.

People working spiritually in this way might be a minority. And that does not matter. What does matter is if you do your spiritual work and hold the focus.

Remember: intention + love + union + harmony + concentration + focus + imagination = transmutation and creation.

Now more than ever we must hold this planet and its inhabitants in spiritual light. Now more than ever we must drop our differences and bond together in absolute harmony and unity to create change.

When people used to ask the great Indian sage Ramana Maharshi, “Shouldn’t we go out and take social action?” His response was first find out who you are and then respond from there.

In Medicine for the Earth I wrote about Ramana Maharshi and his great work. His message is that there is no ego or “I”. This is just an illusion.

Krishnamurti another great Indian sage would respond to people who wanted to run out and take social action. He would say that if you go out without transforming yourself first then you will create more chaos.

We see this as groups of people get caught in their ego and move into states of division. From this place true change does not occur.

So we keep doing the work to remember the truth of who we are. The alchemists called this “The Great Work”. And as we watch the news and read letters, emails, and newspapers talking about the state of the world we respond by perceiving the planet and all living beings in their divine light.

This is one way for us to take social action. This is the way I choose to work. I know in every cell of my being that who I become has a huge impact on the web of life. And I know as has been taught for thousands of years that everything manifests on the spiritual level before manifesting on the physical level.

Focus, focus, focus!

Here is a prayer by St. Francis that I find helpful:

hold in our hearts love

Honor and adore,

serve, praise, and bless,

glorify and exalt.

magnify and give thanks.

For over a year now I have written from time to time about a pilot research study that I am engaging in with the University of Michigan Medical School. We had been working on the research design for close to two years.

The study is to look at the effect that the Medicine for the Earth work has on people. We know the changes we have seen in water. As we are mostly water the changes will also occur in us. Over the years of teaching Medicine for the Earth I have received letters and case studies about miraculous healings coming from engaging in a practice of transfiguration.

Sara Warber, MD, the primary investigator for Michigan Integrative Medicine was a participant in a Medicine for the Earth Gathering in Ohio led by Dr. Greg Miller. They got to talking about doing a research study, and they contacted me after the training.

We began doing conference calls on a monthly basis. Kate Durda who is a Medicine for the Earth teacher in Michigan joined our team. Vera Moura who is also a student of Medicine for the Earth and works at Michigan Integrative Medicine did an amazing amount of work to pull the work together on paper and also do the screening of volunteers. We came up with a great research design. We decided to work with a population of people who had had a heart attack.

There would be three randomized groups. One group would go through a Medicine for the Earth training with me. One group would go through a Lifestyle Change training learning yoga, meditation, and how to work with their diet. And one group would get their regular cardiac treatment with no other interventions.

Once we got the research design money literally started dropping from the heavens so that we could move forward. Our one obstacle was getting approval from the IRB (the board at the university who approves studies) which is known to take forever.

We set a date for Feb 10-13 2005 and had to wait to fully advertise for volunteers until we got the approval. Before we could advertise in newspapers, magazines, and radio in Michigan we had to wait for approval.

Approval came at a very late date and we didn’t think we had time to get enough volunteers. But another miracle happened and we did.

So we did meet this Feb. 10-13 and what an extraordinary experience it was. We had 23 participants in the Medicine for the Earth training. All participants got psychological tests and blood tests measuring immune function before we began.

I taught the group all the Medicine for the Earth principles. We worked with how to transmute negative states of consciousness, how to transfigure, and how to work on creation and manifestation. It was an incredible circle of people and we created a sacred and loving space where change and healing could take place.

Some of you who participated are reading this month’s Transmutation News. And we welcome you into the global community working together to create harmony within which manifests as harmony without.

The key of course is for all to continue the practices taught as I have been encouraging all of you who read this page to do.

There will be quite a lot of group support to make sure that this happens.

The Lifestyle Change group will meet next month.

After 3 months and 6 months everyone will get blood tests and surveys about how they are feeling emotionally. A medical paper with the results of the study should be published by this time next year.

It really is the first study in the world of this kind. And it all just came into place naturally. I was contacted by the University of Michigan to do the study. Money came effortlessly for the study to happen. The perfect group came together. And without thinking about it our training ended right before Valentines Day. So for all of us looking at how Medicine for the Earth could heal our hearts with the power of love we ended at a time where people celebrate the heart and love.

It will be interesting to watch the results. So far every step of the way has been truly miraculous. I have no doubt the miracles will continue.

And I am so grateful for the opportunity to work with such an incredible group of people!

I also want to thank all of you who had been reading the flyers I posted on the Transmutation News and helped to create support for the work in non-ordinary and ordinary ways.

I cannot say more about the study until a paper is published. But I will keep you informed in whatever way I can.

The possibilities are endless!

I had a powerful dream one night after I returned from Michigan. I was told that as people heal through alternative practices the field of energy would change so much that others would experience spontaneous healings. My dream definitely had to do with changing the morphic resonant field. I was very encouraged in the dream by how much healing can take place naturally as more people incorporate spiritual healing practices into their lives.

On this note it is now time to introduce as many people as possible into the principle that we are one, source, divine, and light. If you have been reading the Transmutation News for awhile you will remember the journey I had that in our world we operate as fingers that have fallen off the hand thinking we can have an independent life. We are part of a whole and none of us are truly independent from the web of life.

March 20 is the spring equinox. This is a time where we celebrate the possibilities of new life. We celebrate this month the change in season circling into a time of new growth.

To celebrate this time of change I ask that you find a friend, family member, co-worker, or neighbor who you can introduce one or more of the principles of the Medicine for the Earth to. Depending on the person you talk to you will have to choose your words.The Medicine for the Earth work bridges all world religions. Every world religion has the practice of transfiguration but it is explained in different ways.

Read over the section Creating A Human Web of Light. Initiate someone in your circle and community to this work. As we do this on the spring equinox the ripples of new growth, evolution, and unlimited possibilities will also ripple across the entire web of life.

I also wanted to let you know that as we talk about expanding our circle the Transmutation News is now translated into German, Italian, Spanish, and Slovakian. It is also in the process of being translated into French and Portuguese and Dutch. It’s exciting how our circle is growing.

March 25 is the full moon. Let’s continue weaving a web of light, divinity, and love within and around the earth. New life is sprouting and light and love is encompassing our great earth now.

Happy spring!!

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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 – January 2005

Here we are again celebrating a New Year. This is a time when many feel that there is opportunity to begin again. It is important in honoring the nature of cycles to always see that there are times of new beginnings. We acknowledge and honor the events of our past. We hold the knowledge that our past has brought us to where we are now. There are no isolated events. We are on a continuum in our evolution.

Last month I asked you to create a dreaming space where you can begin to draw your energy within during this time of winter. So much has happened in the world around us during the last year. It is important we take the time to pull in a reassess our lives and where we are going.

During this dreaming time we have the opportunity to create a strong intention for the next year for our planet. It is time for us to review how we can best be in service to all life right now.

The times we live in seem to support people in looking outside of themselves for answers. The ancients for thousands of years have been teaching that all we need to know is within. We can be inspired by the work of others, but it is important not to give our power to others.

At this time there needs to be no weak links in our web. One of the issues that create weak links is people on a spiritual path who believe that others have more power or hold the answers. There is no hero or heroine to save us now. We all must add our power, energies, and light together to create a harmonious world. The more we can “step up to the plate” the greater the success of our work will be. We must be a strong community of people willing to hold and share the light. We must not depend on others to do this for us.

This means going within and gathering strength. This means going within and really getting in touch with our inner light so it can continue to shine forth in the world.

This is a powerful time for us to gather our light and shine it. Don’t get lost in the chaos of the outer world making you one of the weak links. Take the time to be strong in your inner knowing. Set a strong intention for the year. Intention is everything.

I will continue to teach and also to write The Transmutation News. But in some ways I feel I have shared what can be shared. For it comes down to practice. We must do our spiritual practices to go within and find the source of knowing and light. No techniques replace spiritual practice.


Over the years I have had many miraculous experiences with the elements. I don’t want to share all of what has happened as I don’t want to break the magic by analyzing it and talking about it. But I can say that I have had many experiences where it was truly clear water, or earth, or air, or fire was helping me out on a personal level.

These experiences have led me into a “love affair” with the elements. I know for certain that the elements are living beings that respond to the relationship I have created with them. All great partnerships demand a good relationship. This means time, honor, respect, communication, appreciation, and love.

One way that I work with the elements is by talking to them as friends especially in times when their behavior creates fear for me. In strong winds or rains I talk to the elements and share what is coming up for me, and I listen to what they have to say. Listening to the elements means “opening up my invisible ears” where I can perceive their messages to me.

I sing in praise of the elements. I thank them for all the help and life they have given me. And I do this daily and throughout the day. And from doing this they are responding back.

My suggestion to you this month is to pick one of the elements of air, water, earth, or fire that you have “issues” with. Set an intention to communicate with it this month as you walk through the world. This is not a journey or meditation. This is interacting physically with an element. Create songs of appreciation to the element and hum or sing it throughout the day. Listen for messages coming back to you. Notice if your relationship and understanding change. From my own experience I know it will.


In such a time of division in the world we must support all those on a spiritual path. I feel strongly that we need to transmute the belief in divide and conquer. This does not mean remaining silent if you see abusive and/or unethical behavior. We all live on the same earth and our heart beats are connected to the one source of life. It is in this letting go of division and feeding the energy and power of unity that we will finally see a shift in the world we live in.


Last month we gave thanks and appreciation to all those who work on this website to keep the information flowing around the world and keeping us connected.

This month I would like to thank all of you for your love and support. I do feel it! And let’s give thanks to the community of readers around the world for all you do to hold the light.


I know many of you loved the movie “What The Bleep”. Last month I saw another great movie called “I Heart Huckabees”. It is about the principle of oneness and the connection between all things. Dustin Hoffman and Lily Tomlin play existential detectives. It is very funny and yet very profound. Check it out if you can.

I also wanted to remind you that “Miracles of the Earth” is now out. This contains a lecture on the Medicine for the Earth material as well as experiential exercises. You can order it at www.soundstrue.com.

If you are looking for some inspirational reading for the winter months ahead here are some ideas:

I recently had the incredible opportunity to meet with Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee who writes and lectures about Sufism, dreamwork, and Jungian psychology. His depth of knowledge of the inner worlds is quite extraordinary.

Llewellyn has written a few books. The book I have finished reading is Working with Oneness. He writes about similar things to what I teach in the Medicine for the Earth work. But his wording of course is different. The second half of the book was true magic for me. The concepts he spoke of and the words he used to explain the teachings inspired me to go much deeper with my own work.

In February 2006 Llewellyn and I will do a one day event in the Bay Area. He feels strongly that spiritual teachers of other traditions must come together and create sacred space together for a real collective shift to happen.

His book is published by The Golden Sufi Center. You can visit www.workingwithoneness.org for more info and how to get the book.

Dr. Edward Tick is a psychotherapist who works with the effects of war on many different levels. He works with veterans from all different wars. He is a key educator in the effects of the chemicals and bombs used in wars. He is on the board of the Society of Shamanic Practitioners (check Important Links to find out more info about the society.)

He is known for his work with Vietnam Vets and bringing them back over to Viet Nam to heal. His work is incredible and I don’t know anyone receiving the same results as Ed is getting.

He has a website which I will be adding to the Important Links Section. The website is www.mentorthesoul.com. He has written books and articles and you can visit the site to learn more.

I met Dr. Edward Tick at the Bioneers Conference this year. I have never been so moved in listening to someone talk about the work he does with vets. I had no idea that this was going on. Many of you reading The Transmutation News have been impacted by the Viet Nam war. I feel it is so important to learn about what Ed is doing and what is happening in Viet Nam today. The people’s ability to forgive and love those who return is amazing and gives hope of the healing possible.

I have not read Ed’s books yet. I did listen to the tape of his lecture at the Bioneers called “War, Earth, and Soul, Apocalypse and Transformation”. I got the tape through Conference Recording at www.conferencerecording.com. This lecture will make you cry in sadness and at the same time give hope that healing can happen.

I cannot recommend enough that you learn more about Edward Tick’s work.

And one of the most unusual books I have read also has a profound teaching in it: Agnostic Prayer by Paul Sutherland. It is a very small book, and I did find myself walking away from it saying “wow”. On the back of the book it says, “Agnostic Prayer…A story about love, chocolate, adventure, art, romance, Italy and France, and a man who sold his painting to an idiot.”
It is not your usual book, but I certainly did enjoy it. You can order it from Amazon. It is published by Karuna Press.

I recently wrote a chapter for a remarkable book called The Heart of Healing. I announced it a few months ago. This book gathers, in one volume, powerful strategies for getting well and staying vibrantly healthy. Concise chapters by Deepak Chopra, Dean Ornish, Joan Borysenko, Andrew Weil, Bernie Siegel, Larry Dossey, and others, explain their most powerful ideas. The book also unearths many little-known but powerful therapies from new, previously-unpublished practitioners, with approaches that give relief to people who have been helped by conventional medicine- and it gathers the most advanced thinking about the future of medicine. On the book’s website at http://www.NewHealer.com you can read sample chapters and learn more about the book.


If you want to read the Transmutation News in German, Italian, Spanish, or Slovakian, please go the Important Links Section of this site. We now have a new French translator who is working on translating the Transmutation News. We will be able to add French again shortly.

The full moon is January 25. It is so important to keep weaving a web of light within and throughout the earth. Please join in with all the people around the world doing this work.

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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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