Category: Transmutation News

Transmutation News – August 2001

I have just returned from Abadiania in Brazil where I went to see Joao De Deus (John of God). Joao De Deus is a full medium where he gives his body as a vehicle for beings who were once alive and gifted at the art of healing to work through him. He brings one entity through at a time, but he has many different entities who use his body as a vehicle to heal through.

I went to Brazil to see Joao De Deus after I heard about his work. He does visible psychic surgeries as well as invisible psychic surgeries. Both seem to have the same effect on people. People who have had invisible surgery performed on them have been x-rayed and stitches have been found in their bodies.

According to Robert Pelligrino-Estrich, author of The Miracle Man, Joao De Deus is probably the most observed, recorded, and tested medium ever to enter the physical world. I was intrigued to go see him as I was wondering if there would be anything I would learn that would add to the transmutation work I am involved with.

Heather Cumming, a student of mine, leads trips to see John of God and I decided to go on one of them. I was deeply touched by John of God’s story and humbleness. The entities started coming through Joao De Deus at the age of 16. He was the son of a tailor and was raised in complete poverty. He thought he had passed out from hunger and when he came to learned that he had healed a room full of people. He had been picked by the spirits as a vehicle for them to work through. He suffered terrible persecution, yet persevered. He went from town to town curing the incurable. The doctors and religious figures in these places were jealous of his work and called the police to stop him. In each town he went to he was beaten by police and jailed. He accepted no money for his work. Between starvation and being beaten he suffered terribly but never gave up his mission which is to heal the sick and to make people aware that we are here on Earth to improve our level on the “other side”.

Years ago he started a center at Abadiania called the Casa de Dom Inacio. Dom Inacio de Loyola is the principle entity that oversees the work. The other entities are part of his community of healers sent to work through Joao. Joao accepts no money for his work. Donations are accepted for expenses for the running of the Casa only. He gets none of the money given. The Casa is run by a large staff of volunteers of people who were cured of incurable illnesses and people who were once cripple and can now walk again. They are so grateful for the healing they received they devote their time to help Joao continue his work. Joao also recognizes that he does not create the miracles, but is just a vehicle for the entities to incorporate through. He maintains his humbleness after all these years of the entities curing thousands of people.

There is a lot more to say about this and you can check Heather Cumming’s web page for more information:
www.healingquests.com

Although I did not go with a specific illness I needed cured I went asking for whatever help I needed to have a strong body to continue to do my work in service to the planet. So much happened for me on physical, emotional, and spiritual levels that I definitely label my experience a true miracle. As I have just returned home I need some time to integrate all that happened.

There were a couple of obvious things I was struck with while I was in Brazil that relates to the transmutation work and the material in Medicine for the Earth.

For one, as I experienced two personal miracles beyond my imagination I now know in every cell of my body that there are no limitations on possibilities for healing the planet and ourselves.

There is an amazing amount of energy put into the creating of sacred space at the Casa. From the moment you enter the main hall of the Casa you are asked not to cross your arms or legs so that the healing energy of the entities that are passing through each person be available for everyone there. There are two meditation rooms that are completely full with people meditating for hours without moving or leaving to ground the energy for the entities to work on each individual and the community present. There are constant prayers and lectures about the power of God, the divine, the spirits and the need to have faith for miracles to happen. Miracles happen at the Casa everyday and the community participates with Joao to make them happen.

I did have invisible surgery performed by the entities. I left the surgery room with the knowing of where the surgery was done, as I couldn’t move certain parts of my body as I felt as if I was pulling the stitches and was very sore. Once the entities begin working on you they keep the work up even in your hotel room. That night I had some pretty wild spiritual experiences. The next day I woke up in an extremely open spiritual state. I was so connected with the land and nature. I heard the big rocks on my land in Santa Fe calling to me asking me why I have not established a relationship with them as vital living beings. I was shown that if we treated the land where we lived as a living breathing being and asked for guidance of what was needed the energy of cooperation created would create unimaginable abundance.

In the last few web pages I have been using the word “collaboration”. In Brazil I was getting the word “cooperation”. I was shown, as our consciousness about how all of nature is alive is still asleep this creates a sleep state for the earth also. The earth is not producing the abundance it is capable of, as it is not being recognized for the living being that it is.
This took me to a much deeper level than I have been to with the material in the chapter I wrote on connecting with nature. I was shown such a beautiful vision of what is possible if we asked the land where we lived for what is needed for the land to produce the abundance it is capable of. So I have come home to my garden asking the land here what it wants me to plant versus what I want to plant.

I have recognized on a deeper level that every rock, crystal and other power objects that line my desk and bookshelves are living beings that crave communication and relationship. They are living and breathing and share my house with me. So I am now seeing how I can establish a deeper relationship with who I have brought into my home to live with me.
With cooperation all things are possible.

During this month try to connect with the land where you live. Even if you live in a city the buildings are built on living breathing earth. Through journeying or meditation ask how you can establish a relationship of cooperation with the earth on which you live.

Go around your house and take notice of the living beings in the objects that you have brought into your house to live with you. Once again establish a relationship which honors the life force of all things that alive.

Make sure you stay grounded while you do all this. This practice can put you in a very open place.

The most important teaching I left with from Brazil is the understanding that I am in service to the divine and the spirits. I am not in service to my own egocentric desires, attachments, and needs. I often find that we give conditions to the spirits of what we will do and what we want to do. I learned about the process of unconditional service. And I also learned about humility. In a ceremony we might participate in the creation of miracles. We do so by tapping into our own divinity and divine spiritual powers. But we are not personally responsible for the making of miracles to happen. Sometimes we forget this.

For those of you who think you might want to see Joao De Deus for healing and would like to make a spiritual pilgrimage down to see him in Brazil I highly recommend Heather Cumming as a guide. She is a completely loving and ever patient guide. She lived in Brazil for 30 years and considers Brazil her home. She knows the culture and the history, which helped me, feel connected to the land. She is also fluent in Portuguese, which is helpful, as the people in Abadiania do not speak English. There are a few English-speaking people who volunteer at the Casa so one could make do without a guide. There are also many rules at the Casa to keep things working in an organized fashion. By having Heather as a guide we never had to think about anything or try to figure out what was going on. This allowed me to sink as deep into my spiritual experience with the knowledge that all the ordinary reality details were being taken care of. She is also loved at the Casa so we really felt welcomed there as a group.

If you would like to contact Heather you can e-mail her at hcummings@aol.com. And of course please check out her website, www.healingquests.com

Transmutation News – July 2001

Happy summer! I hope you had a good summer solstice celebration honoring the change in cycle. I also hope you reflected on the practices I have given so far this year before you move on.

In June I led my first five-day gathering to explore in a deeper fashion the material in Medicine for the Earth. Working with the power and vibration behind words I have decided to use the word “gathering” instead of “workshop”. “Gathering” has more life to it.

The five days gave us an opportunity to deepen and anchor the spiritual practices needed to change who we become creating the harmony inside of us which will be reflected back to us by our outer environment. The week also showed the divine play that happens by deepening and honoring our relationship with the elements, the nature spirits, the ancestors, the spirit of the land, and all living beings who share this earth with us. The week was full of miracles and most of all the miracle of seeing how simple it is to create change.

So far in the groups I have led we have always worked with infusing deionized water with ammonium hydroxide in our ceremony work of transmuting water. As I have already mentioned the focus of our work has been to learn how to create harmony within which will create harmony without. We have worked in partnership with water as water has reflected back our inner state to us.

People who have been following my work have written to me to ask if I have ever tried working with an acid. During this five-day gathering we worked with both the ammonium hydroxide which is alkaline and we also worked with nitric acid. We worked with two different bowls of water at the same time. The starting pH of the water with ammonium hydroxide was 11.5 and the starting pH of the water with nitric acid was 2. So we needed to lower the pH of one bowl of water while raising the pH of the other bowl. This was a great way to work, as we really needed to let go of numbers and truly work with transfiguring into divine and harmonious beings and not focus on the water.

The water with the ammonium hydroxide went down to a 9.5 and the water with nitric acid went up to a pH of 4. In both bowls we had a change of a pH of two which is huge exponential shift. One metaphor that Vic, the physicist we work with, used to describe this is it is the difference of falling 200 feet versus 20 feet. One of the challenges we have had in working with the change in pH is that most people don’t understand the magnitude of a change of even one point of pH. So we do the best we can to come up with metaphors.

Of course I am excited about the results we are getting with the water for the focus of my work has been to show that is possible to change our environment with the use of spiritual practices. What most excited me however during this five days was how transformed each individual became with the spiritual practices we engaged in. For the ceremonies we perform to heal the environment will have no long-term effect if we do not change ourselves.

As requested by many of you, I have posted the Medicine for the Earth gatherings for 2002. Please look under the “Workshops and Announcements” section of this web page for the schedule. As usual the tuition is on a donation basis and we have scholarships available for the room and board fees.

We learn and grow through our relationship with others. As we share our earth with other living beings there is a great deal of growth that comes from deepening our relationship with the rest of life. We are in a constant intimate relationship with the living beings earth, water, fire, and air. How many of us acknowledge this intimate relationship?

For example, if everything is alive then air is a living being. When we are born for life to fill our bodies we must take a breath establishing our relationship with air. Our last breath signals the end of life. We are in a second by second relationship with air. It is such a natural process that we do not always acknowledge.

For this month try to raise your awareness to your relationship with the air you breathe. This relationship is constant and your survival is dependent on this ongoing relationship. As many times as you can remember to do so in a day allow yourself to breathe into your heart. Experience your energy moving from your head into your heart. From being in your heart express your love and appreciation for the air you breathe and for your relationship with air.

As the elements are living beings they are intelligent They know you and recognize you. Allow the air you breathe and the wind and breezes you feel outside to recognize you and honor you.

Notice what changes you feel by bringing this practice into your life. Of course, you can do this with all the elements. And I will lead you through this in the following months.

When we gather in groups one of things we tend to do is to talk about the troubles of the world and all the dramas that are occurring. Of course, this has a place in processing all that is going on around us. There is another practice that we can add which will begin to heal these troubles.

In Medicine for the Earth I wrote about the power of imagination. Imagination is a divine gift given to us to manifest ourselves and dreams in the world. Part of being a spirit in a body is learning how to use our imagination to create in manifest form. As I have written many times we are dreaming the wrong dream. It is time to put our gifts of imagination into gear and start visioning a world where there is harmony and beauty.

At some point this month try to gather some friends together for a visioning party. Put on some meditative and expansive music and allow your imagination to put out a vision for the life and world you would like to see. As enough of us send the vibration of our dreams up into the universe we will begin to see the manifestations of a new group dream. But we need to do this on a regular basis and inspire many others to join us. Whether you do this practice alone or in a group does not really matter. What is important is for as many of us who are willing to dare to bring a new dream into reality.

One of the dreams we have already been creating is creating a worldwide web of light. I hope you can feel, see, and experience the web getting brighter and stronger. Please join in on the full moon meditation of creating this web of light on July 5.

Transmutation News – June 2001

Since the year began I have asked you to incorporate a number of spiritual practices into your life. I have asked you to expand your perception to see the beauty in all things. During the months I have asked you to connect physically with all the elements. I have asked you to work with the material from Medicine for the Earth on writing your own creation myth. In March you were to pick different spiritual practices to work on when you start your day to help you transmute the problematic and dark thoughts and feelings that arise throughout the day. You were also asked to reflect on your day before going to bed and transmute the events and thoughts of the day that still needed to be worked on. In April you were asked to find a practice of observation that you could use to find the still place inside yourself and to learn how to stay present. In May I asked you to work in collaboration with the nature spirits through joy.

This is a lot of material to work with. Before we move on to new material, please use this month to reflect on what you have been able to incorporate into your daily life. Remembering that it is who you become that changes the world not what you do, it is essential that you have found a way to change your priorities to bring some of these spiritual practices into your life. Alchemy teaches us that what is inside of us will be reflected outside of us. If our consciousness is polluted so will be our environment.

If you have only been reading Medicine for the Earth and the transmutation news it is just not enough to help reverse environmental pollution. If you have only been trying to learn techniques that will heal, it is not enough to reverse environmental pollution. The way to reverse environmental pollution is to transmute ourselves first. Yes, we can perform healing ceremonies to heal the earth, but there will be no long-term effect if we do not change ourselves. All the ancient spiritual traditions teach that our environment reflects back to us our inner state. As this has been known throughout the ages then it is time for you to refocus your energies to work on changing your inner state.

During this month work with the principle of focus and set your intention to incorporate the spiritual practices that feel right to you to change your inner world thereby affecting your outer world. Take the time to evaluate your relationship with yourself and other living beings such as the elements, the plant, rock, animal, and insect beings, the nature spirits, etc. to ensure the principle of collaboration. Make sure that you are setting your priorities straight and have created the time in your day to do the work you have committed to do.

Caroline Casey author of Making the Gods Work for You shares a Haitian proverb that says, “The gods won’t appear, the magic won’t happen, if we are not living our real life. Studying life is not living life, and therefore has no magic.”

The full moon this month is June 5 and I hope you will continue join in on the meditation to create a human web of light.

I have read a couple of wonderful books that I wanted to let you know about:
Going Native by Tom Harmer. This book has been published by University of New Mexico Press. For more information you can call 1-800-249-7737 or go to http://www.UNMPRESS.com.

Deep Power: The Political Ecology of Wilderness and Civilization by David Kowalewski This book was published by Nova Science Publishers. For more information you can call 631-424-6682 or e-mail them at Novascience@Earthlink.net or visit their web site at http://www.nexusworld.com/nova

Transmutation News – May 2001

This month I would like to jump ahead in going through the material in Medicine for the Earth. I want to talk about the principle of collaboration.

On this web site and in my book I have written about the experiments we have done in my workshops with transmuting or changing the nature of water infused with ammonium hydroxide. I have been encouraging people to get into a divine state where the water reflects back our own divinity and state of harmony. We have gotten profound results with the water working in this way. I have steered people away from using only divine intervention to do the work. In only working with divine intervention we call in divine forces and helping spirits to do the work for us. In working with divine intervention we usually take no personal responsibility.

If we are to evolve our spiritual practices to work with healing the earth we need to work in partnership with divine forces and helping spirits. We need to work in collaboration. This creates the necessary changes in us that shifts and evolves consciousness. This evolution of consciousness naturally creates a different environment.

In chapter 13 (page 157) in Medicine for the Earth I wrote about the wondrous gardens that were created in Findhorn, Scotland and Perelandra in Virginia where the people engaged in collaboration with the nature spirits.

I have also written in other parts of the book that there was a time when the gods and goddesses walked the earth.

There are beings that were once visible to all of humankind which inhabit the earth with us. As we have moved into a society that works with what is only “rational” we have lost contact with the special beings that we live with and have become invisible to most of us.

During this season the nature spirits are dancing and singing and enjoying life. We can call them in and work in collaboration to help us learn how to heal our environment.

In shamanic healing work we often call on the compassion of our helping spirits to alleviate pain and suffering for others or ourselves. This month I would like to suggest trying another way of working with collaboration with the helping spirits as well as the nature spirits. This month I suggest that the calling in of help be done through joy and not with asking for pity. They both have their place; they just access different realms.

In working with healing the environment we can work in a co-creative partnership with the helping spirits and the nature spirits through joy. Meditate on the word “joy”. Get a real sense of the vibration of the word in your body. “joy” has a high vibration to it.
The energy of joy is a vibration creating a different kind of spiritual opening than an opening that is created through suffering.

For this month try to experience joy and while in that state let the nature spirits know that you wish to make contact with them. You cannot make yourself experience joy. Joy is a state that happens. One path to joy is to start by thinking about what you love and appreciate. As you shift your attitude throughout the day to an attitude of love and appreciation you will notice a sense of joy starting to rise up in you. Also as you shift your perception to see the beauty in all things you will also experience joy.

Spring is a joyful time in nature. Set your intention and focus on allowing yourself to feel the joy of life and call in the energy of collaboration with the spiritual realms from this place.

Notice how your perception changes including how your perception of nature shifts to a different vibration. Notice how the shift in vibration allows you to see how vibrant nature is. Try to spend a significant time out in nature this month noticing the difference when you experience nature from a place of joy.

The full moon this month is May 7. Please join in on the meditation to create a human web of light.

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.