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Transmutation News – April 2001

All the answers live inside of us. People and events often pull us outside of ourselves. This prevents us from being in contact with our the “all knowing” part. For this month notice how often you are pulled outside of yourself during the day. Journey or meditate on if there is a pattern in your life of losing yourself.

Practice the disidentification exercise on page 84-85 of Medicine for the Earth. Read the chapter on Krishnamurti and Ramana Maharshi on pages 80-83. Use your creative genius to develop a practice that will help you move into a place of observation throughout the day. The practice of observation is one way to work with staying present. Only in learning how to stay present will you find stillness. Our spirit as well as all answers and knowledge live in the stillness. We must access the stillness and silence to access our all-knowing spirit which is the reflection of the divine force that created all of life.

Remember it is who you become that changes the world. We must find inner harmony to create outer harmony. Harmony can be found in the stillness of our being. Learn how to stay present throughout your day. This takes focus and concentration and a lot of practice.

As you look around the natural world you will observe movement in the plant life around you. Depending on where you live you might notice that plants are in different stages of flowering or preparing to flower during this season. The only way a plant can produce healthy vibrant blossoms is if the plant received the appropriate rest and nurturance to do so. Most plants that are stressed will either not produce flowers or will produce flowers that are withered. How are you nurturing yourself so that you will be able to blossom into a beautiful flower this spring?

This month I suggest that you do a meditation or journey to merge with the earth. In each season the soil changes its level of activity. To really understand what is happening in nature during the season of spring find out what the soil is doing. You can do a merging exercise during each season to get more information on how the earth keeps changing to support life.

If you are new to this web site you can go back to the May 2000 transmutation news for instructions on how to do this. The instructions also appear on pages 152-153 of Medicine for the Earth

The full moon this month is April 7. Please join in on creating a human web of light.

Recently I was introduced to some fascinating research done by Masaru Emoto. He found a way to show the health of water by freezing it and photographing the crystals. He has been able to photograph water that has been prayed over, water where certain intentions have been sent to it, as well as water that has people’s names recited to it, and water that has had different types of music played to it. The photos are quite fascinating.

He has found that when you combine the intention of love and gratitude or appreciation this creates the best crystalline structures of the water. All spiritual traditions teach us about the power of appreciation and Masaru Emoto shows us through photography how this affects water.

He wrote a book The Message of Water. The web site that describes his work and gives ordering information for his book is www.hado.net

To order The Message From Water in the United States contact

Source Books 615-773-7691.
You can also go their web site at: www.sacredspaces.org

I highly suggest you check out his work.

Transmutation News – March 2001

As it is the spiritual part of ourselves that holds the knowledge of how to heal we must spend more time accessing this part. The part of ourselves that most of us let have control is the ego. We tend to try and figure things out with our intellect.

We must be diligent in finding the spiritual practices that allow us to go beyond the ego to the depth of our being where we can access our spirit. Some of the spiritual practices people engage in involve the ego trying to get rid of the ego. This will not work for obvious reasons.

Part II of Medicine for the Earth gives many examples of practices to get in touch with our spiritual side to transmute the negative beliefs, attitudes, and thoughts that create pollution in ourselves which ultimately effect our outer environment. It’s easy to remember these practices when we are feeling positive and expansive. We forget to do them when we are lost in our limitations. Therefore, diligence, intention, and focus are crucial to incorporate spiritual practices throughout the day.

For this month I suggest you read through the practices in Part II of Medicine for the Earth. Pick different practices that you can work with on arising in the morning to set your intention to work spiritually, a practice you can do throughout the day when you “fall off the razor’s edge” of walking a spiritual path, and a practice you can do before going to bed to reflect on and transmute events and thoughts of the day. This will lead to “the alchemy of your soul”.

Commit to doing this daily and watch how your perception about life starts to change. Remember changing your perception changes your reality.

Remember to incorporate all the elements of the formula for transmutation as you do your practice.

As you begin to experience a consciousness that embraces unity, the shadow might arise. We live on a planet of duality. We have egos that only know separation. As we start to experience unity the ego starts to feel threatened. So you might find yourself moving into a negative state of consciousness.

Do not abandon the work at this point. Have compassion for yourself. Realize that the shifting of consciousness takes awareness and daily practice. Use the tools I wrote about to help you when you move into negative states. And realize that this phase is completely normal.

Another way to look at this is all shifts in consciousness require going through an initiation. An initiation marks a change in our lives. Initiations tend not to be easy processes as initiation requires letting go of an old state of consciousness and going through tests which require surrender and trust. Often when we make a shift in consciousness and begin the initiation required all the “old demons” stand in front of the doorway trying to prevent us from walking through. The doorway leads to a better life and a more conscious way of being filled with rewards. Don’t give up the rewards because you don’t want to embark on the journey.

The full moon this month is March 9. Remember to connect with the human web of light that has formed around the planet.

And let’s remember to celebrate and honor the change in season this month. Happy Spring!

Transmutation News – February 2001

I was finishing high school and entering college during the time of the Vietnam War. I joined the scores of people who demonstrated against that war, as it did not seem just. I was very disillusioned to find that the results of voicing my wholehearted opinion was to be hit with bottles, shoved, called names, etc. This was a very difficult time in my life as I felt that expressing my voice and feelings created no results.

It took me a long time to heal from this. Some people who go into social and political activism thrive on what they do. For me I was eaten up trying to go this route.

When I got into shamanism I found that this was a way for me to create change on the planet and thrive. I was able to find healing for the difficult times in my young adult life. I was also happy that through shamanic healing I could help others who did go to Vietnam and became wounded on spiritual levels.

Today I find myself seeking for how I can best be of service. For it looks like there are challenging times ahead for what I would stand for on environmental issues and what might actually take place. My memories take me back to how I was eaten up by my activities of activism. How can I make a difference, but not destroy myself in the process.

We all have different fates and destinies. We all find different ways to be in the world that feed us and make us thrive.

I have chosen to work on the spiritual levels where I feel I can make more of a difference. In choosing this direction to work with environmental issues it is who we become that makes the difference not what we do. The spiritual practices that help us become in touch and one with our divinity will illuminate the world creating change. This is the piece of the puzzle I attempt to share in Medicine for the Earth.

I had consulted with a lab in Santa Fe that tests water when I was beginning my scientific experiments with polluted water. The owner Greg asked me a very interesting question. He asked, “Will you change the water or will you change the people working on it so much that they will not be affected by any toxins?” I continually think on this question, as toxins did not affect many of the world’s mystics. Throughout the following months transmutation news you will notice me repeating the statement: “It is not what we do that will change the world it is who we become.” So yes we are trying to change in a radical way.

As I journey and work with the material I wrote about more and more it seems that in a strange way I need to let go of my own humanness to walk this path. As a person who feels passionate about my beliefs it is easy for me to fall prey to my emotions. As an empath it is easy for me to lose myself in the pain and suffering I perceive around me. To work with accessing the divine inside of myself I am being asked to let go of the emotions I rationalize having and hold onto. This takes a tremendous amount of focus to work with this. Remember focus is one of the elements in the formula for transmutation.

If the spirits do not experience pain and the divine does not experience suffering how can I bring through that healing energy if I am filled with pain myself? How can one truly illumine light into the darkness if that light does not have a clear container which to shine through?

Herein lies much of the work I write about in Medicine for the Earth. I have shared many of the ways I have learned to work with transmuting negative thoughts, attitudes, and emotions as well as finding one’s passion in life, and living in harmony with all life and nature itself I also encourage everyone to let what I have written stimulate your own ideas of how to work. We are all creative geniuses and we all have the information we need to heal the planet and ourselves. Sometimes we just need a jumpstart.

In Part I, I wrote about the importance of knowing your own creation story, which will help you become in union with the divine in a way that miracles can be created. I emphasized getting a symbol that has no boundaries so that you can experience union with your creator.

The area I did not stress in this chapter is looking at how your creator created life. In looking at this piece it will give you clues to your own creative process. So go back to the creation story that I asked you to write in Chapter 1 and make sure that you included this piece. If you didn’t, journey or meditate on this question to access the information. This is an important piece and it might take you a number of attempts to get the information you need.

I hope you are keeping up with the meditations to shine your light in the world on the full moon and connect with others doing the same. I frequently find myself throughout the day meditating to tap into the web of light. You can keep adding to the light of the web without waiting for the full moon.

A thought to think about this month: “According to the spiritual law, as we repair damage on the spiritual level, the natural world begins to be repaired at the same time.” Ron Roth author of The Healing Path of Prayer.

Transmutation News – January 2001

I hope you had a happy New Year and joyous solstice celebration. I know it felt great for me to feel so many people around the world begin to create a human web of light on the solstice. May we keep feeding this web with our light whenever we think of it. Please remember that I invite you to formally connect with others with this same intention on each full moon.

What I am writing this month is similar to what I wrote on last month’s page with some subtle changes. Working with the subtle changes I outline below will allow you to go to a much deeper level with your experience.

As you begin to see the beauty in all things you might notice the indiscrepancies that come from being a spiritual being in a physical body. If we just perceive ourselves as physical bodies we are ruled by the biological need for survival. We find ourselves trying to keep ourselves safe, fed; we compete for money, space, territory, power, love, etc. When we focus our energy only in this direction most of us feel generally unfulfilled.

As we allow our awareness to incorporate that we are not just a body but also a spiritual being we see that throughout our day we constantly are being presented with choices of how to perceive our reality and what actions to take. Do we feed the spiritual side of life and ourselves or do we only feed the physical? To truly be on a spiritual path means we must also feed the spiritual aspect of ourselves.

The spiritual being (which we all are) is always perfect, always present, Is a true reflection of the divine, and is pure divinity. So theoretically it does not need to be fed as it is always in a divine state. But our connection to our divinity needs to be fed. This has always been the true purpose of prayer, which has been to establish and maintain a connection with the divine.

As I wrote in last month’s Transmutation News our illusion that we are separate from the source of all creation created our fall from grace. This same principle holds true for our disconnection from the divine part of us. We crave to feel and experience this connection again.

So as you go about your day bring your awareness to what part of yourself you are feeding. Are you only feeding the biological being that wants to be safe or are you also feeding your connection with your own divinity, which ultimately will lead you to feeling fulfilled? We are spirits in bodies and we must create balance with feeding all aspects of ourselves.

When you perceive that you are a spiritual being that sees the beauty in all things you feed the connection to your own divine spirit. The same is true when you tap into your own light and let it shine through you as have been practicing the last couple of months. Watch how at every minute of your day you are presented with a choice of how you perceive yourself, others around you, and life. Notice and observe what parts of yourself you choose to feed. Do you choose the part that fights for survival or the spiritual part that knows that all life is of the light? There needs to be balance. Are you feeding one more than the other? Keep a journal for this month so you can keep track of the feelings and experiences that you have as you shift your perception. Once again as you shift your perception your reality will change.

Visualize your body and spiritual being merging together as one. Recognize that the body with it all it’s programs to survive is really a vehicle for your spiritual being. The body allows your spirit to manifest itself and have experiences in the physical world. The ego gives your spirit the experience of space and time.

We chose this great adventure of life on earth to give our true spiritual essence the opportunity to see, hear, feel, smell, taste, and move through the earth.

Let’s remember we are not our bodies or emotions but rather that which has a sense of being, permanence and inner balance. We are pure consciousness in a body with an opportunity to experience this connection.

Using your intention, concentration, focus, and imagination visualize yourself merging your spiritual essence into your body experiencing the union, harmony, and love of this connection.

The above practice works to expand your perception and way of being in the world. We don’t want to expand too much forgetting we are spiritual beings in bodies living on the earth. So to add to the expansive work let’s also add to the work of healing the environment by establishing a strong relationship with the elements.

Everyday for the next month and hopefully longer take a few minutes to connect physically with the elements. When you wash your face connect with the water you are using. Take a breath and connect with air. As you go outside take some earth between your hands and rub it into your skin connecting with earth. Go inside yourself and feel your fire of life or connect with the sun’s rays above you in the sky.

A thought to think about as we start a new year:

Your projections mold your reality.

Transmutation News – December 2000

In Medicine For The Earth I have a chapter on experiencing heaven on earth. In my own life I had always seen them as separate. In my journeys I have learned that heaven and earth have always been one. It is illusion and misperception that creates any separation. As I wrote in A Fall to Grace it is our illusion that we are separate from Source that created a fall from grace. Realizing that we are all one and connected to all creation and our creator brings us back to a state of grace.

When I questioned the spirits on how to work with my illusions the advice I received was if you change your perception your reality will change. It’s all a matter of perception. I felt and still feel this is such a profound teaching, and I felt like I needed more guidance to find a path to bring and ground this teaching into my life. So I asked for more information. I was then told that to change my perception I must see the beauty in all things. I worked with this for awhile and found myself very challenged with this spiritual practice and once again asked for something simpler that I could begin with. I was told to work with being in a state of appreciation and gratefulness. This became my first step into my practice of learning to change my perception in order to shift my reality.

I am now back to trying to see the beauty in all people and in all things. It’s been fascinating for me to observe my process as I do this and what I bump up against.

As an example let’s take the political situation in the world. Those of you reading this web page live in many different countries around the world. We can all look at the political situation where we live and in different areas of the world. As we begin to look at the beauty in all things one area we can bump up against is not experiencing beauty because of? injustice. There might seem to be a lack of fairness on the planet right now. This could bring one to feeling anger, or depression, or a feeling of powerlessness. There is a threshold to cross with these feelings in order to experience the beauty in all things.

There is nothing wrong with feeling any of these emotions. Having and feeling emotions keeps us healthy. Our adverse emotions give us the impetus to create change. At some point it is time to let our emotions signal that it is time to change and move on from what we are feeling. Therefore, there is nothing wrong with feeling emotions, but hanging on to them and rationalizing why we should hang on to them is where some problems can occur.

For example, let’s look at a tree. I am sure that you have at some point seen trees growing in extremely adverse conditions. Trees growing out of rocks are one example. Trees growing in a grove where they block out each other’s light is another example.

When a tree can’t get it’s branches to the light it will grow around all kinds of blocks and obstacles in order to do so or it will die.

When we hold on to our emotions and don’t learn how to change our route to finding a path to the light there is no growth. Remember in the Transmutation News in October I asked you to visualize two beings that would represent your positive and negative thoughts, attitudes, and belief systems. The instructions I gave you were to watch who you feed throughout your day. When you are stuck in your anger about certain situations and you don’t use your emotions to create and propel change you keep feeding one being only. The being that supports life in you begins to starve. You get the point.

If you decide to begin a practice to see the beauty in all things you will find that as you look at the beauty in people and situations that cause you great distress you might get stuck in a range of emotions. Observe those emotions and honor your feelings. Where can you use these feelings to create change in your life and your perception? Try and go beyond these emotions at some point to go to the next level and look at the pure bright spirit that is connected with all people and all life. With this change in perception you will change your vibration. As you change your vibration the energy in your life will change. You will change and this will create change on the planet in a very unique fashion.

We can’t always change our outer world, but we can always change our inner world. By changing our inner world we change our perception. By changing our perception we change our reality. This is the spiritual practice I will encourage you to bring into your life and to the new millennium as we look at finding harmony within that will create harmony without. Begin to work with the above principle and I will give you more next month.

This month we enter into the season of winter. Winter prepares the ground for the new growth of the spring. When one looks at the earth during this time it seems that the earth is dormant. But if one looks deeper there is quite a lot going on. I would suggest that you do a meditation or journey to merge once again with the earth as I have described in previous months. Ask to merge with an area of earth in winter. Learn by becoming.

Notice how the earth receives and churns the necessary nurturance in order to support the new growth and life of the spring. Look at what you need to do in your life to nurture yourself during this time. We are not separate from nature but we are part of it. Become part of nature by changing your nature during this season to become in sync with the river of life.

On another note I have been continuing to work with groups in Santa Fe to work with learning how to reverse environmental pollution. There are two stages to the workshops I am teaching. One level is to begin to look at spiritual practices that we must bring into our lives to change ourselves which create change in our environment. The other is to work together in community to transmute deionized water infused with ammonium hydroxide. The work is going very well and we are getting consistent positive results.

I hope at some point you will be able to travel to Santa Fe and do some work where as a community we can learn from each other and you can bring what you have learned back to the communities you live in.

Now on to the final instructions to begin to create a human web of light. The Transmutation News in November gave instructions on how to tap into your own light. If you are reading this web site for the first time please go back to the previous month for the initial instructions.

The first meditation will be on the winter solstice to celebrate the return of the light. As you get in touch with your own light and shine it in your life you will change your vibration. As we gather our lights together and share it in the world we change the vibration of the planet. It’s crucial to stay focused on your intention.

I suggest that you add no prayers or words as you do this. Just simply shine and allow yourself to join with a planetary web of light that will reach out to touch all the dark places in the world.

For the winter solstice meditate and shine your light as the solstice begins where you live. As you do this the light will grow as it moves from country to country. The light will be passed around the globe. But let’s not stop there. Continue throughout the day and evening to shine. In this way we begin to link the web of light throughout the world by shining at the time of the solstice but we also keep this web alive throughout the day and night.

If you work with a group for meditations or journeying at important times of the year gather together as a group to bring in the solstice. Link hands and link your lights together as you let your own shine come through. Experience the light of your group linking with groups all over the world. Experience yourself merging into one giant web of light.

If you are working alone once again get into a quiet place and let your shine come through you. Experience yourself merging into one great community web of light that is shining around the world.

After this first meditation at the time of the solstice, I suggest we work with creating this web of light each full moon when the power of the full moon will magnify the light we send out. Each full moon keep working with shining your light and visualizing that you are connected to a global human web of light throughout the day and evening. And let’s keep it going every full moon. Imagine the healing and change in vibration that can take place in your own lives as well as on the planet.

A friend reminded me that children always shine. She is sharing this idea with friends who have children. Bring your children into this practice with you.

Remember all life is of the light. You are light, we all are light, we join together in a great circle and web of light.

The next transmutation news will appear after the new year. In honor of my dear friend Brooke who died recently. I would like to wish you the prayer that I would often hear her say: In this year may your life be filled with magic.

Transmutation News – November 2000

Last month I mentioned that I would be starting monthly meditations that would create a human web of light. I want to explain what I mean by this.

When I was researching different spiritual teachings for Medicine for the Earth I found the underlying principle of esoteric beliefs is that all life is made of light. As human beings with egos we often forget our true nature and we over identify with our personalities and bodies. We are light in bodies.

Alchemists did not literally change lead into gold. Rather they transmuted heavy leaded consciousness into gold light consciousness. Jesus in Matthew 5:30-20 challenges us not to hide our light under baskets. When mystics all over the world perform their miracles of healing they are seen to shine and become luminescent. Throughout Medicine for the Earth I write about the importance of the concept of light in all spiritual traditions.

We are light and we came here to shine. But most of us have forgotten our true nature as well as why we came here. A few years ago I was teaching a soul retrieval training in Santa Cruz, CA. I was teaching at a beautiful retreat center in the redwoods where the walk from the dining room to the meeting room was long. It had been raining for days and I found myself missing the night sky, as I knew it in Santa Fe. Living at 7000 feet with not much pollution in the air I can see the stars dancing in the night sky every evening.

One night after dinner I was walking to the meeting space alone. The rain had stopped and the clouds were moving out of the sky. I stopped and looked up and I could see one lone star. As I stood looking up at the sky I had a realization.

When a group of people gathers outside and looks up at the night sky no one gets particularly excited when there is only one star visible. But when an infinite number of stars dazzle us, people start to ooh and ah and take on the excitement of children seeing something beautiful for the first time. The complete awe of the night sky never fails to impact us.

Here on earth we are told at a very early age not to shine so brightly. If we shine too bright no one will love us. There can only be a few “stars” and it is not you. Does this sound familiar?

Why can there only be a few stars here on earth? I have never heard anyone say when looking up at the stars in the sky, “1 wish that star wouldn’t shine so brightly it is outshining other stars”. Why do we have that belief here?

It is our birthright to shine as brightly as we can. In this way we can reflect back the beauty of the night sky above us. We need to find our shine again so that we can light up the dark places of the world.

I propose that we begin on a monthly basis to create a human web of light where for a time we all just shine. This will not only bring light to places that need it right now, but it will heal us and help us remember our true nature which is light. It will also be quite healing to know that you are hooking up with thousands of others who are remembering that we are light. As we share this concept with others our web of light will grow which I know will have an impact on the earth and all life on it.

Remembering the formula intention + harmony + love + concentration + focus + union + imagination = transmutation we can begin to work on remembering our light and letting it shine forth.

You can begin to get in touch with your true nature which is light by putting on some relaxing soothing music and allow yourself to get into a quiet place. Take some deep breaths bringing you to a centered place where you will be able experience a state of harmony and love. Allow yourself to go inside holding the intention that you want to experience the light that shines within your being. This will bring you into a state of union with your creator or the power of the universe. Keep your focus and concentrate on your intention. Allow your imagination to help you feel and see your internal light. Give yourself permission to let your light shine fully through you. This light is always there and cannot be used up. The capacity to share your light and be filled by it yourself is endless. Your light cannot be destroyed or taken from you. You do not have to worry about becoming depleted, as the source of this light is always abundant.

Once you have had the experience of your abundant light and have let it shine through you once again use your breath and intention to take you out of the state you are in. Come back, open your eyes, feel your body, wiggle your toes, and know you are ready to connect with others who wish to shine to bring healing energy into the world.

Begin to practice with letting your light shine through you. And next practice breathing in light and breathing out light throughout the day. In next month’s web page I will give you more information on the monthly meditations. The first meditation will be on the winter solstice to celebrate the return of the light. Again I will give you more information next month.

The exercises I have been giving you on working with your negative states of consciousness as well as being grateful and showing appreciation for your life and all life on earth are essential practices to help us shine. Please don’t think of these monthly meditations as separate work from what we have been doing. Everything I am sharing with you works together. We can’t truly shine our light in the world unless we learn how to transmute the negativity we put out. We must be in a state of gratefulness and appreciation to bring light into the dark places in ourselves, our lives, and to the planet. So please continue the practices of the last few months.

Don’t forget in the dark what you learned in the light.

In May I gave you instructions on how to work with merging with the elements so that we learn about them by becoming them. Over the last few months we merged with earth, water, and air. This month we will merge with a force that gives off great light – fire.

As fire you might become a campfire, a fire burning in a fireplace to keep others warm, the flame on a candle burning, the fire in a volcano or in the core of the earth, or the fire of a beautiful sunrise or sunset.

Transmutation News – October 2000

I hope you had a good fall equinox celebration. One way that indigenous people stay in harmony with the rhythm of life is by honoring the change in seasons. As we are part of nature the change in seasons is going to have an impact on our energy, our food requirements, our mood, etc. Acknowledging the change in seasons helps us to adjust to the changes in a harmonious way.

Fall is my favorite season. I intentionally scheduled my first workshop on the material from Medicine For The Earth during the weekend of the fall equinox. The workshop went very well and I am excited about continuing the work.

In organizing the material I wanted to share during the weekend I broke the work down into two parts. I feel the most important part of the transmutation work is bringing in spiritual practices into our lives that move us into a state of harmony. As I have repeated many times on this web page harmony within will create harmony without. Typically the truth and what is most important is so simple.

The second part of the work is the ceremonies, which we perform to actually work with the transmutation of environmental pollution.

The personal work we must do ourselves. Yes, it is important to have community support as we incorporate spiritual practices into our lives. But ultimately no one can change our lives except ourselves. The ceremony work I think does have to be done in community. It is time in our evolution to work with groups to come together to heal our environment.

This month we continue with the spiritual practice of changing ourselves. The last couple of months I have given you suggestions of how to work with transmuting the thoughts and energy you send out into the universe. The words, thoughts and energy we send out ultimately end up showering back down on us. When we send out a lot of negativity we end up polluting our environment. Pollution doesn’t come just from what we physically put into the environment. The thoughts, words, and energy we infuse it with also impact the health of our environment.

Here is a visualization for you to work with:
Close your eyes and with your Imagination picture two beings. One being you will label positive thoughts, words, and energy. The other will represent your negative thoughts, words, and energy. For the next month throughout the day check in to see whom you are feeding. Notice who you are nurturing the most during your day.

If you really take this practice seriously you will notice what you are calling to yourself and your environment by whether you feed the positive or the negative more. Being on a spiritual path is like walking on the edge of a razor. Don’t judge yourself when you fall off, just get back on the path.

I hope you will continue the practice for more than just a month but ask yourself are you willing to commit to this for at least a month.

I have been informed by a friend that Amazon.com has begun taking orders for Medicine For The Earth: How To Transform Personal and Environmental Toxins.

During a recent journey my helping spirits asked me to begin monthly meditations for the purpose of forming a human web of light for global healing. I will give you more Information once I have an opportunity to organize this more.

Transmutation News – September 2000

As we are human it is natural for emotions to arise when things are going well in our life and when we are experiencing trouble. The important factor for us to look at in our work in transmutation is not getting rid of our feelings but being able to transform the energy around our feelings. In doing this we create an energy that can be used for personal and environmental healing.

Here is a very potent ritual for dealing with anger that rides on the exercise I gave you last month about thinking of something precious to you when you are angry.

Any pain that we feel is an indication, a flag that something is not right in our lives. Pain indicates that there is a disharmony. The first step is to acknowledge why you are angry. Where do you feel that disharmony is occurring that brings up your anger? Once you have looked at this and diagnosed the problem it is time to transmute your anger so that it doesn’t sit inside you creating illness or is not being sent outside you to the environment causing spiritual pollution.

Once you are ready for the transmutation work to occur go outside into nature and find something that seems precious to you—a beautiful rock, flower, leaf, etc. Make sure that this object is something that you would want to nurture and love and not harm. Sit with this life form from nature thinking about your anger. Do you want to send your anger to this precious life? Would you like to transmute your anger so as you hold this life form in your angry state you change the energy you are sending to love and light?

Through your intention ask that the energy that you are identifying as anger be transformed to an energy that embraces love and light. Allow the energy of your anger to change into a form embracing some nurturing, life giving energy that you would like to send to this most precious object you have found. Stay with this experience as long as you can until you feel that the energy has shifted and you have returned to a place of harmony.

In this harmonious state you can now work on the original situation that was causing you pain. You can now take action not from a place of anger but from a place of knowing that change needs to happen If you find yourself filled with anger again around the person or situation you are working with go out again and keep repeating the exercise as many times as will shift the emotion you are feeling.

Remember that the life form you found in nature that you feel is so precious is a reflection of the part of you that you feel is precious. As you would not want to direct an energy that would be harmful to your precious life form, you also don’t want to hold an energy that would be harmful to the precious part of you.

Our local Santa Fe newspaper has begun sharing the predictions of scientists that it is possible that Santa Fe will run out of water in the next decade and that there will be a continued drought for the next twenty five years. These articles have moved me to continue my journeying on the weather patterns not just in Santa Fe but also in the world. The weather is so extreme in so many locations around the world right now.

When I journeyed the key words that emerged for me is that this is a time of renewal. For so long humankind has not been acting in harmony with nature. Humankind has seen the earth as a way to fill our needs without giving anything back. As the energy of giving and receiving is out of balance the earth is renewing itself and no longer making itself so “human friendly”. In order for humans to survive there will need to be more attention put on the use of resources as they will not be unlimited. Natural disasters will force us to put our attention on the land and clean up what is happening instead of on collecting more material objects.

As you know I do not believe in doom and gloom prophecies and know that anything being shown that troubles me in a journey can be changed. So I continued my journey by asking how we can change this. I was told for myself that I was to continue doing the ceremonies that I do on my land to honor the earth, the other elements, and all life forms there. The singing and dancing I do on a regular basis giving thanks for all that the land provides me is a wonderful energy of giving thanks to the land that creates the power of reciprocation. This is just a first step and I will continue to ask for more.

In this same journey I was also encouraged to inspire journey groups around the world to do a journey together of looking at how the community can give back energy that would create the earth renewing itself where nurturance could be experienced by all concerned. Is there a gentler way that this process can continue? This is an issue that each community must look at as the spirit of the land in different places is responding to our behavior in different ways.

All life needs to be nurtured and given back to. The earth and the spirit of where you live are alive too.

A reader of this web page, Mark, after reading the section on entering into a place of appreciation when one fears losing something was inspired to write some haiku verses related to protecting Mother Earth. He generously agreed to have me print them here:

Ripples

Each moment of thanks,
Sending ripples of healing:
Me to Earth to me.

Each moment of thanks,
Ripples joining with others:
We to earth to We.

Each moment of thanks,
Joys of sacred relations:
Help save what still is.

Transmutation News – August 2000

Recently a writer for a book was interviewing me. At the end of the interview she asked me if I felt that the ego had a place in spiritual work and if I thought one could or should get rid of the ego. She was wondering if we could operate in our lives without the ego.

As I have written in the past and as well as in my new book I feel that the ego is the part of us that perceives space and time. For example, the ego tells us how much we have to press the gas pedal to drive. It has a sense of how fast we are going. The spiritual side of us is not aware of speed limits. So yes we need the ego to live in our ordinary lives.

When doing spiritual healing work such as transmutation the ego can get in the way. It is the ego that perceives us separate from the rest of life. In transmutation we are going for union with all that is alive. One purpose of the shaman’s dances and songs is to help to move the ego out of the way so that the power of the universe can come through. One cannot be in union with the spirits, the divine, or the creator when one is fully in an egoic state of consciousness. It blocks the spiritual divine forces from being able to come through.

Krishnamurti used to say that the human mind is infinitely divisive. As we feel separate from others and divine forces we tend to think to survive that we must judge others and compete with others. This philosophy does not work when we are trying to transmute personal and environmental pollution.

Here is a very simple exercise that you can use when yourself moving into an angry or judgmental state:

Think of something very simple that is absolutely precious to you. It might be a baby animal, or a smell, taste, or feeling, or an image of a dew drop on a plant, or a dragonfly, or a bird you love, etc. Think of something that makes you smile and remember how precious life is. When you find what reminds you of the preciousness of life, bring this image, sound, smell, taste, into your awareness when you need help connecting you back to the truth that we are connected to all of life.

This month journey or meditate on other methods you can use to snap yourself out of an angry or judgmental state.

Transmutation News – July 2000

After months of negotiation with Random House I finally have a title for my new book. Random House did not like the title Let There Be Light. So instead the book is titled Medicine for the Earth: How to Transform Personal and Environmental Toxins. The division of Random House that will put out the book is Three Rivers Press and it will be out in January.

Random House took a big risk in taking on this book. Other publishers’ responses to my book proposal were, “This time she has gone too far.” I want the message to get out to the publishing industry that yes the public is interested in spiritual methods for healing the earth. When the book comes out I hope you will inform your communities about it. In this way we can spread the word and also open the door in the publishing world for authors who are writing on a similar topic.

As Santa Fe is still in a drought I have continued journeying on what I need to understand about working with the weather. I had a very interesting journey the other day on this. The spirits told me that when one lives in a mountainous area, it is the mountains that create the weather. I was told that the earth itself calls down certain weather. I was instructed to connect with the spirit of the mountain here as I pray for rain. Here is an application for the journey I asked you to do in merging with the earth. You might find that one way to affect changes in weather is through your connection with the earth itself

On Saturday June 24 our transmutation group performed another long distance experiment with water infused with ammonium hydroxide. We got better results than with our previous work. We were able to change the pH from 11.5 to 10 in about half an hour. This indicates a 30% change in the nature of the water.

This time when I worked I only journeyed. Previously I had been working outside using rattling and toning. In the journey I used transfiguring into the divine forces I work with as well as visualizing the water releasing the ammonium hydroxide. Vic, the physicist we are working with, shared with me after the work that when ammonium has a catalyst some of its ions can transmute to nitrogen gas, which can be released. The nitrogen being released is not a toxic substance. I have to do more journeying on what effect my own visualization process had to do with the results. But it is an interesting new addition to the transfiguration I had been doing.

Once again the key is not what happened to the water, but what happened to all of us engaged in the process. Once again the participants in the work all reported an extreme change in consciousness by embodying the divine forces that made the work successful. The point of the exercise being as we change our own consciousness our outer environment will change.

I did receive a write up of journeys from one journey circle about their journeys to merge with the earth. It was interesting to note that most of the group merged with the earth first by going through water.

I wonder how your journey or meditation went as you merged with air. People who wrote in about merging with air described their journeys to be very pleasurable. Most people did not want to come back from this journey.

This month I suggest you move on to merging with water. You might become a teardrop going down someone’s cheek, or the great ocean, or a drop of dew on a flower. Once again let the creativity of your journeys lead you into a form of water you can become so you can truly understand the element of water which supports all of life.

Don’t forget that water is outside of you as well as in you. You might wish to add to your spiritual work a journey or meditation to understand the nature of water inside you.