Needed for the ritual:
two flags, an
Earth Flag and a US Flag, scissors, and a shovel.
What is Gaia Hypothesis?
Gaian scientists describe the Gaia Hypothesis as global nervous system,
a planetary-level phenomenon of atmospheric and temperature regulation.
This regulation occurs through interaction of atmospheric gases, surface
rocks, water, and the sun with the life-cycle and evolution of living
organisms. Geophysiology (the study of the intimate link between biology
and ecology on the planetary surface) studies the Earth as a network
of species covering the planet's surface incessantly creating new organisms
and environments. Gaia is a huge collection of interacting ecosystems
that transcends all individual organisms.
The sum of the parts of Gaia makes us whole, a holy Earth,
our sacred home in the Cosmos. Even though some Gaia scientists insist
that Gaia is mere science and has no spiritual basis or consciousness,
there is a miraculous feeling as we look at our home planet from Outer
Space. The more one becomes enlightened to the magnanimous recycling
of matters and gases that make Gaia regulate our temperature, the more
we can have reverence for it. In a real way, it becomes a deity; we
were made in its image through the interdependence of all the parts.
Saying that Gaia has a psychic component to its majesty, and a consciousness
that we, as humans, cannot fully grasp, doesn't mean that we--Gaia
worshippers—are
anti-science. We honor science as a way of discovering more about the
mystery of the Earth around us, within us, forever grateful for the
breath we were given through its grace.
Preface:
We live at a time between paradigms. The dying paradigm holds on to
a dead universe. The materialist-scientific worldview has divided the
world between sacred and secular space. Such a worldview has created
a world of nation-states and empires, a world where men rule over women,
exploiting plants, animals, and the earth to create their own separate
wealth. Such a worldview has created a culture of toxic and psychic
wastes, ugly urban sprawl, massive species extinction, and a society
split between the rich and the poor.
The symbol that best represents this worldview is a national flag;
it has become an icon of civic religion. It doesn't matter which national
flag since all of the national flags of the world need to pass on.
The concept of nation-state must be transformed into pledging our allegiance
to the entire planet. Such a transmutation evolves us from our Homo
sapiens phase of existence to thinking in terms of ourselves as Gaia
sapiens, a term used to describe our interdependence to the living
Earth. Thus, the goal of this Gaia Ritual is to wipe out the symbol
causing us to hold on to a dead-end past that is stopping us from being
able to solve our critical problems using a whole-systems approach
to a changing world.
The image of Planet Earth seen from Outer Space altered our perception
of home. It showed us that our biosphere is one. No national borders
could be seen from Outer Space. These artificial borders are man-made.
In order to free ourselves from the non-natural borders that have caused
countless wars and conflicts, we need to liberate ourselves from the
symbols of tyranny by realigning ourselves with the sacredness and
mystery of the Cosmos.
In times of revolution, artists become iconoclastic. Since we live
in a violent, terrorist culture that has manufactured thousands of
nuclear weapons, a violent revolution is not what the planet is calling
for. A revolution within, a spiritual revolution, what I call a lovolution ,
is what the planet is calling for. To love truth enough to tear down
the symbol of our slavery and embrace the truth of our holistic experience
will lead us into a Gaian paradigm that builds an economy of shared
resources administered by a global wisdom culture and a Gaian government.
Giving birth to this paradigm is like cutting a hole in the flags
of oppression and making a quantum leap of consciousness through the
gap in order to experience the unitive oneness of being part of a Superorganism.
Nationalism has put firewalls around our minds; removing the firewall
of nationalism will allow the global brain to be greatly enhanced by
our communication technologies as we enact planetary citizenship. Allowed
to flow together, the pieces of this emerging model can find their
place on the genius code of Gaia. A genius code is the spiritual dimension
of our genetic code. It is the seed of our personal creative expression
yearning to come into form in the world.
Placing one's reverence in the heart of Gaia liberates our imaginations
to construct galactic, organic gardens within arcologies-the fusion
of architecture and ecology-- both on Earth and in Outer Space that
have the creative potential to be far greater and wiser than anything
imaginable at this time. Our first step is to step through the hole
in the American flag, the ultimate symbol of world conquest and domination,
and enter a new dimension of universal being where kindness and love
reign supreme.
Before the Gaia ritual begins, go back to our roots, the earth from
which all things arose, and dig a hole large enough to bury an American
flag. Fold up the Earth Flag and place it in the hole.
To begin the ritual, hold up the American flag. Have the participants
call out words that describe life in the United States of America .
Think of this as a grieving process, letting go of the pain and suffering
that the false symbol has caused people around the world. The grieving
process is necessary to unblock our creative potential and move on
with a new era of planethood.
I want to emphasize that these key words are looking from a present
moment perspective of the way I see life in the USA . I realize that
using such words to describe the USA will be offensive to a lot of
people who believe that the US flag represents liberty and justice
for all. In my experience, I have not witnessed this perspective. The
pursuit of liberty and justice for all can no longer be thought to
be obtainable through a nation-state organization. In order to obtainable
world peace, it would seem that we need to evolve into a system that
provides liberty and justice on a planetary scale. These keywords could
be:
US flag symbolizes: nationalism, imperialism, colonization, patriarchy,
patriotism, war, worker's exploitation, Wal-Mart, commercialism, global
capitalism, nuclear weapons, nuclear power, nuclear waste, domination,
Native American genocide, class warfare, TV brainwash, Hollywood glamour,
drug and alcoholic addiction, sugar and caffeine addiction, dysfunctional
families, divorce, urban sprawl, traffic, totalitarianism, political
corruption, plastic politicians, air, water, and soil pollution, private
prisons, executions, private property, fast foods, dystopia, Christian
fundamentalism, media monopoly, sexual inequality, cancer epidemic,
child abuse, illness, anti-art, anti-gay, anti-liberty, anti-woman,
divide and conquer mentality, might makes right military, plutocracy,
slavocracy, trillionaires, republicrats, Outer Space junk, unemployment,
pornography, promiscuity, corporate greed, corporate welfare, us and
them duality, homelessness, global warming, obesity, police brutality,
materialistic-scientific view.
Next, with the scissors, the ritual guide cuts a hole in the middle
of the American flag to release the funnel of negative energy that
has concurred during the era of nation-states and places it on the
ground over the hole. The ritual guide then bends down over the hole
in a child's pose in yoga. S/he puts the Earth flag and the American
flag together so that the Earth flag is showing through the hole in
the American flag and slowing comes up into the Goddess position in
yoga, legs hip width apart, hands to the side, arms raised
in a square position with the flags between her hands. Then she calls
out keywords of the Gaia sapien. The audience is invited to add words
to the list. Key words could be:
Earth Flag symbolizes:
wellness, wholeness, spiritual democracy, holocracy,
health care for all, justice for all, human rights, animal rights,
women's liberation, sacred marriage of God and Goddess, Gaia hypothesis,
natural blessings, child sensitive world, restoring of air, water and
soil, reseeding forests, preserving wilderness, ecovillages, ecocities,
arcologies, solar power, photosynthesis, renewable energies, windmills,
world energy grid, Outer Space colonies of world peace, Outer Space
exploration for all humanity, health care for all, food for all, organic
gardening, universal education, free communication, egalitarianism,
open and free communication, harmonic concordance, Earth changes, evolution,
lovolution, neutopia, healing biotopes, Earth's sacred sites and star
gates, alignments, universally-attuned archetypes, Global Renaissance,
Green paradigm, sharing national resources, Jubilee, natural capital,
Earth Bank, World Management Committee, global meritocracy, hagiocracy,
housing as a human right, eros, animal liberation, meditation, yoga,
nuclear disarmament, abolishment of war, rainbow nation, oneness, unity
in diversity, balance between the collective and the individual, participatory
universe, Cosmos, Cocreation, cosmogenesis, symbiogenesis, enlightenment,
combining genius codes, memetic pattern, morphic field, mass resonance,
massgasms, noosphere, Quantum Leap, crop circles, creative potential,
social synergy, the new story, the Big Birth, matriotism, unified system,
sacred compassion, sacred wisdom, tantra, sacred geometry, crystals,
Divine reality, living universe, interdependence, Superorganism, Emptiness.
To end the ritual, journeying into the "imaginal realm," our
guide asks us to join with her in a simple visualization. Ask yourself,
what would a holistic, Gaian worldview look like as it overcomes the
symbols of Empire to create a whole system's design? Using our advanced
technologies and our collective wisdom visualize a new world.
Sacred Arcology Visualization
Inspiration for this visualization came from Richard Register's book Ecocities.
Focus on the healing, calming, and holistic energy within
each of us as we begin to raise each other up from the dead epoch of
nationalism and artificial borders of all kinds. Visualize bioregions
taking shape around natural borders such as micro-climates, waterways,
deserts, plains, and mountain ranges. Get in touch with the bioregion
closest to you. Connect with its particular landscape and its climate:
the trees and plants, streams, rivers, lakes, the edges of the sea
flowing through your veins. Tune into the indigenous species and local
cultures. Hear the sounds of nature as you connect with wilderness.
Fly over the countryside with the eyes of an eagle. As you fly over
agricultural areas noticed the land has been divided into squares of
corporate farming. There are very few wilderness areas surviving and
each of them has become small islands surrounded by urban sprawl. The
home ranges of wild creatures are severed by highways and sprawling
subdivisions, oil and gas projects, and industrial forestry and mining
that have no regard for sustainable economic and agricultural practices.
As the human population increases, notice backcountry areas are now
threatened for sensitive wildlife by recreational activity.
Hover over the Mexican/American border of Arizona and see the border
fence, the security lights, and the noise from aircraft patrol vehicles
as a major threat to wildlife movement making it impossible for jaguars,
ocelots, mountain lions, Mexican wolves, and pronghorn to return to
their home ranges.
Now visualize saving wildlife by linkages along the spine of the continent,
corridors of connected natural habitat where large roaming animals
are free to migrate. Tunnels underneath highways allow animals to safely
cross on their migratory journeys.
After viewing the national border, fly to a metropolitan area in your
bioregion and land. It might take you a while since some metropolitan
areas are one hundred miles long. But there is no longer business as
usual. A social transformation is occurring consciously evolving us
to a new social paradigm founded on ecocity principles. You are a witness
to the toxic, overpopulated, car congested, fast food, crime infested,
oil and drug addicted dinosaur cities of Western Civilization blossoming
into ecocities designed to create a pedestrian, three-dimensional network
of arcologies for people, not automobiles. The goal of these ecocities
is to foster full human potential, protect the environment, and eliminate
the causes of class warfare and imperial conquest by bringing us back
to our true spiritual, creative, and cosmic order.
Wilderness areas expand as sprawl is rolled back to reasonable
limits as existing cities are remodeled for foot traffic, bicycles,
and renewable energy transit systems. By shiftingpopulation density
to pedestrian/transit centers, people can walk, bike, or have a short
transit ride to all the places they need to go to create a meaningful
life. Housing and work, commercial areas, places to socialize, ecological
industries, warehousing, education, recreational activities, promenades,
and even agricultural areas will be in close proximity. Within a metropolis
there will be a number of different pedestrian cores of walkable centers
connected to each other by public transits, like light rail, and bicycles.
For traveling longer distances, there will be the transit. In cases
of emergency, cars will be for use or rent. Most manufactured and electronic
goods are rented allowing one to easily return items when they break
down or for upgrades. We turn from an economy based on ownership to
an economy of users who fairly share natural resources.
An ecocity is designed to create opportunities for face-to-face interactions
and spontaneous meetings that was impossible to arrange in the car-centered
culture. Spots for social gatherings in downtown centers have beautiful
pools and fountains, public art, and fruit and nut trees and other
permaculture gardens. On top of tall buildings are rooftop arboretums.
Bridges built between buildings interlink public and natural spaces.
Natural areas, waterways, and nature paths are restored. Some parking
lots become community organic gardens when the concrete is removed
and the soil renewed. Within green belt areas, open spaces allow for
the reintroduction of indigenous species. Terraces and rooftop gardens
are designed to help bird species and other local species to come back
and thrive.
Suburban neighborhood centers are formed creating car-free zones.
Health clinics, computer and science labs, art studios, gyms, and libraries
are free in inspiring neighborhood community centers of life-long learning.
Intersections of streets become compost and information centers.
Now you can clearly see different types of landscapes emerging from
the chaotic urban sprawl. There are landscapes of ecocities and ecovillages
designed around walkable centers, and landscapes that support human
industry such as mining, forest production, agriculture, fish farming,
and manufacturing. But there is a very different value system at work
than at the time when Western Civilization dominated the world developmental
model with practices that destroyed the surrounding landscapes.
Now a revolutionary philosophy called cradle-to-cradle design is applied
to all industry and building projects. Cradle-to-cradle design framework
is based on nature's design principles to create materials and industries
that are regenerative and create healthy environments. They are not
only sustainable but sustaining. Working with nature rather than dominating
over nature as in the cradle-to-grave paradigm that has caused vast
world-wide pollution, poverty, and waste, it celebrates the interdependence
of life.
In the cradle-to-cradle paradigm there is no waste. As in nature as
with the human world, waste equals food; like trees, cradle-to-cradle
design uses currents of solar income, and like all healthy ecosystems,
it honors diversity. This holistic approach to design uses scientific
knowledge as a critical element in the design process, a true design/science
revolution where chemicals and materials are made for perpetual recyclability.
In this paradigm, water that goes through industrial processes is cleaner
when it is discharged from industries than before it is used.
With the heroic spirit of saving the biosphere in the air, the spirit
of the age is liberated. As dangerous effects of climate change due
to a century of burning of fossil fuels are undeniable, people feel
and are educated to the urgency of the immediate need to radically
change their lifestyle. They see it as their duty to humanity to move
into high-density, car-free housing districts of mix-use ecocity zoning
principles. Matriotism, a reverence and loyalty toward Planet Earth
is taking over from the old patriotic urges that only think about the
welfare of one's nation-state. Peace is in the air as nuclear weapons
around the world are being dismantled.
Work flex hours allow everyone to work for 20 hours or less per week
in maintenance, construction, and service jobs within the context of
an ecocity framework. The cradle-to-cradle economy based on solar power
requires the creation of jobs that develop solar technologies, construction
of mixed-use buildings, remodeling old buildings with ecological materials,
building greenhouses, farming rooftop and organic permaculture gardens.
Other time throughout the week is devoted to inner work, bodywork,
education, and community and spiritual development in the context of
finding one's true role within the arcology model. Every part of life
is accounted for in the care-based economy such as housework, childcare,
elderly care, artwork and scholarship. A new kind of global currency
is evolving based on wealth defined as something that fosters the health
of the planet. No one can own the health of the planet; rather everyone
benefits from a healthy planetary ecology and needs to share in the
responsibility for its maintenance. Individuals don't own natural resources,
they share them. Instead of a Gross National Product Indicator of the
health of the economy, there is a Quality of Life indicator which indicates
the general welfare and happiness of the people.
See all the human and natural resources of the world being accounted
for and redistributed from an Earth Bank accounting system, being fed
the data it needs to function through the Internet, forming an open-source
ecological economy. Finally we are living as one family united to save
our precious life-support systems on Earth!
Now, visualize the military budgets of the world shrinking as we begin
focusing on the real needs of our times, love in action-lovolution--
solving homelessness, unemployment, starvation, illiteracy, polluted
resources, poverty, deforestation, and crime as money that was going
for trillion dollar military budgets are now going into constructing
ecological cities. As we focus our creative energy on the internalization
of constructing arcology-putting our own "house" in order--the
external fears that resulted in nuclear arms races, cease to exist.
Youth spend time in a Global to Local Service Corp rather than being
recruited to fight in nationalistic foreign wars for oil.
Phase one of the great transformation is remodeling old cities by
making pedestrian centers and phasing out automobile use. The second
phase is building entirely new cities, or arcologies on Earth, and
eventually into Outer Space--energized by the power of the sun, perhaps
even beamed down in the form of microwaves from solar powered satellites.
As national borders are torn down and walls crumble, feel the energy
circulating around the planet using a world energy grid. Visualize
conserving the ecology by living in a new communal design with nature
that fuses technology with evolutionary architecture. Wild animals
are now free to roam again as people live in compact cities and use
a much smaller proportion of the Earth.
By thinking in terms of what is good for the total environment and
total humanity, the Urban Effect takes effect as we birth arcology
into existence, becoming one harmonized organism. Arcology, a whole-city
container for a new moral order of the parts within the whole, creates
a more efficient complexity than could be conceived within the context
of urban sprawl. It miniaturizes our habitat by imploding the metropolis.
Arcology is understood as a miniature universe, a multi-level, multi-dimensional,
transcultural structure that interiorises Gaia by absorbing planetary
consciousness. High-density interaction allows for more synthesis of
knowledge, more interacting and interweaving of elements creating more
consciousness than ever before. Through our constant connection with
each other and nature, our spiritual evolution accelerates. We begin
to understand our collective purpose of being the stewards of life
on Earth and our sacred human destiny of being the carriers of love
into Outer Space.
We recognized arcology in all its diverse forms to fit
into specific geophysical conditions, as the actualisation of the aesthetic
transfiguration of the earth, "the compassionate melding of matter into the aesthetic." Artistic
considerations and aesthetic values take precedence over material concerns.
Never again will the importance of beautiful design be forsaken for "practicality" because
beauty is a necessary ingredient for survival! This process is called aesthetogenesis :
the transfiguration of the universe from an "entropic, indifferent,
rational, protohuman cosmos into one that is aesthetic, compassionate,
and ultimately ultra human: a universe of pure spirit." Arcologies
become places where new forms of consciousness and spirituality emerge.
Through arcology, we become Gaia knowing itself and s/he has the potential
of reproducing biospheres of technological galactic gardens throughout
our loving Cosmos.
Feel this vision being absorbed into every cell into our body as it
opens up parts of your brain that have lied dormant for centuries.
Allow the vision to rush up your spine like a water fountain of light
illuminating your heart charka and gushing out the crown charka of
your divine head. See these rays of energy uniting with others who
cells have absorbed this visionary blueprint as the blissful energy
dances in spirals with the output of the light waves of other's divine
brains. As more and more people discover the arcology within, the more
it becomes our collective reality.
Embrace the arcology of the Goddess, the Queendom within you yearning
for materialization. Focus on your breath and as you breath let the
air carry the vision into your cells, seeking deeper and deeper into
the blood stream of life, leading you to crystallize peaceful arcologies
of the people's ever evolving wisdom in your mind's eye.
Mitochondrial Eve Meditation
Get in touch with yourself by watching your breath. This
is a basic meditative practice of many world religions. In Judaism,
breath means “the spirit of God that infuses the Creation;”
in Christian mysticism, the Holy Spirit is seem as the Source of all
life and breath; in Buddhism and Hinduism, prana or breath is thought
to be the “vehicle of mind” because it causes our minds
to change and shift. Visualize your breath being
prayers to the life force within us, every breath a pray, breath moving
us through emotional pain and ecstasy.
Note the flow of air being inhaled and exhaled. Connect
with the cycle of gases being exchange within you and outside of you.
During photosynthesis, plants use carbon dioxide and produce oxygen.
During animal metabolism, oxygen is used and carbon dioxide is a product.
The waste of one organism is the life source of the other.
Take a few seconds to align your
breath with this animal-plant cycle. As you breath become more
aware of this mutually dependent relationship between animals and plants.
Unlike bacteria or prokaryotic cells, animal and plant cells are called
eukaryotes because their cells contain a nucleus. When
you inhale, thank the plants for producing food and oxygen for animals.
When you exhale, give with love your carbon dioxide to plants so that
they can grow.
Begin to feel your breath on a cellular level. There are 10 trillion
cells and 200 different kinds of cells that make up your body, all needing
oxygen every minute of the day to survive. Now go deeper into your lungs
into the alveoli, small, sponge-like air sacs that look like grapes
on a vine. It is here where oxygen and carbon dioxide is exchanged.
Surrounding each alveolus is a network of tiny blood capillaries. Oxygen
from the alveoli diffuses across the alveoli cells into the red blood
cells. These oxygen molecules attach to hemoglobin, an iron-containing
respiratory pigment inside of red blood cells that are excellent bonding
vehicles for oxygen to be transported to the heart. At the same time,
carbon dioxide moves out of the blood and into the lungs, where it is
exhaled. It takes 30-45 seconds for the blood to be pumped to the heart
and return with the used blood to be exchanged for oxygenated blood. Take a moment to thanks our lungs for contrasting
and expanding since we were born. Your first breath was a great act
of self-love. I invite you now to dedicate the remainder of your breaths
to the liberation all living beings.
Now tune into the mitochondria, these ancient organelles that live inside
the cell’s cytoplasm. They utilize the oxygen. Oxygen and carbon
dioxide molecules easily pass through the cell’s membrane. Mitochondria,
rod-like organelles, are thought to be descendants of bacteria. They
are called the cell’s powerhouse because they produce chemical
energy by combining oxygen with food molecules. This provides the energy
for cell movement, division, and other functions.
Once free-living bacteria, mitochondria contain their
own DNA and replicate independently through splitting in two, at a different
time from the rest the cell that reproduces through mitosis. Mitochondria
reproduce by cell division similar to other bacteria. This is because
they are the descendants of symbiotic bacteria living inside the eukaryote
host. They became so dependent on their host that they could no longer
live outside the cell.
When bacteria merged together to create a nucleated cell
for survival reasons, they became more complex organisms. After the
first bacteria connected with other bacteria, million of years of
interaction other organisms evolved including fungi, plants and animal
species. We are as old as the mitochondria bacteria that allowed us
to use oxygen. This process of mergers that lead to the creation of
new species is called symbiogenesis. We are the product of symbiogenesis. Take
a moment to reflect on all the time it took for you to have evolved
from the first bacteria to a complex organism.
The language of life is chemistry that bacteria use to
communicate and diversify with each other on a global scale. Find
resonance with the different colonies of organisms that merged to make
up your body. Realize that these organisms work in cooperation, not
competition, and collectively make our bodies whole.
Mitochondrial DNA are transferred to future generations
during sexual reproduction in the fertilized egg cell through the female
sex cell not through the sperm cell. During nuclear (chromosomal) DNA,
which equally originates from both parents, most, if not all the mitochondria
in an organism are derived from its mother. Unless a mutation has occurred,
the mitochondrial DNA are identical to its mother, the Mitochondrial
Eve. They have been the most successful organisms in evolution since
they now live in all living creatures and direct their own metabolism
by providing cellular energy for the benefit of the entire cell.
Get in touch with the mitochondria
residing inside you. Take a moment to connect with your mother, grandmother,
and great grandmother--your ancestresses down to the first bacteria—from
whom you inherited the miracle of breath.
God, Holy Spirit, Prana, Breath, Buddha, Krisha, Mitochondria, Goddess: the
life force is within us.
Saving Plant and Animal Life on Earth:
Sacred Arcology Workshop
and Healing Ritual
Materials needed: Slide projector or Power point projector (not necessary, but it would help) Watercolor paper, oil and chalk pastels, CD player
Visualize the sacred arcology workshop combines a creative visualization meditation with conducting a healing ritual to save endangered species, including the human species, from the destruction of urban sprawl.
The first part of the workshop we will look at the archetypal underpinnings of urban sprawl to understand why it is one of the major causes of the devastation of both plant and animal species. This is a problem we can see all around us in the city that I presently live, Tucson , Arizona . As more and more housing developments annihilate the beautiful and unique Sonoran Desert , our workshop will attempt to visualize a new model of development, a new archetype in architecture.
After a short presentation on the gravity of the problem we are trying to heal, I will ask the participants to take a quantum leap of faith with me into a future world where human beings are living in a steady state economy that is at peace with the planetary ecology. I will share with them my vision and knowledge of what a sustaining arcology-ecological architecture-might look like and how our life-style patterns would radically change in a positive way by worshipping Gaia, the God/dess within, and living in a womb-like container that reflects our reverence for the life-force.
Next, we will do a 20 minute meditation with the sounds of a drum beat from a recording from the book The Journey to the Sacred Garden by Hank Wesselman. Going through the near death experience of the self-destruction of our life-support systems, we will be led by our animal guides and enlightened beings up a time tunnel and drawn towards the light of a new world designed in a ribbon of sacred arcologies around the planet. This is a place where all beings are happy and free to develop their full potentials. This is a world of ecocities where we live as if “the whole world is one family” and the sacred arcological design allows all beings the right to exist in dignity and love. This move towards conscious evolution allows our DNA to unfold an internal, ever-evolving blueprint of divine architecture that supports our connection with universal order.
Questions to ask yourself during the “end-state imagery” part of the meditation period are: what would your chosen work be within a Sacred Arcology? What are your daily spiritual practices and social obligations? What are your relationships with other people and with children like? What is health care like in the good world? What role does technology play in the Sacred Arcology? What is the economy and agriculture like? How are people educated? What are the feelings one is experiencing in the sacred arcology? What art and/or science do you engage in? How is your innate genius liberated?
Participants are to be aware of any sensations (tingling, tightness, warmth) that are being generated through their visualization process. Also, participants are to note that a quart of people never “see” things with their mind. Their visions come through other senses involving one or more senses such as movements (kinesthesis), sound, taste, vision, touch, and inner sensation. They are to get in touch with their “felt sense” and even beyond the senses to the sixth-sense perceptions or precognition so that we become channels of end state imagery.
Having glimpsed the new world, the second part of the meditation is to be a bodhisattva (an enlightened being who forgoes nirvana in order to save others) by bringing those images and feelings back to Earth in order to awaken others. It is time now in engage in “process imagery,” the step by step changes we need to make in order to reach the end state of happiness and bliss for all beings again.
What changes do we need to make in our personal lives to reach the Queendom of Love on Earth? What do we need to give and give up in order to create the Sacred Arcology? And what will be gained if we take will be lost if we don't?
After the meditation, we will record our experiences and knowledge we received from the visualization using the drawing and writing materials provided. We will take the next half hour sharing our findings in pairs and a few visions with the entire group.
The final hour will be spent beginning with a brainstorming session-thinking together-- on what we would like to do collectively to create a healing ritual to draw down the muse of the Sacred Arcology. We will experiment building a healing ritual using a democratic process to discover the way to achieve a spiritual democracy with the focus on healing Gaia. Our task for the healing ritual is to create a Morphic field (one underlying energy field) needed to influence the future direction of the human species.