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Cacao Inner Journeys Here is an interesting article on how this can enhance the spiritual journey by Keith Wilson a Spiritual Teacher who works with this. Keith's Bio:
For those unfamiliar with raw chocolate… Cacao, “Food of the Gods”, has a rich history of sacred use with Meso-American cultures where it natively grows. Why? The tasty candy you know is missing the goodies. Contemporary commercial chocolate processing removes 98% of the chemicals that alter consciousness… and removes the bioflavonoids that increase blood-flow to the brain more than 30%. Chocolate hearts on Valentine’s Day?... The mass-consciousness understands that chocolate should open the heart. In Indigenous poetic language, chocolate translates as “heart blood”. Although ceremonial details of how ancient cultures used chocolate are not known, I have found the Cacao Deva (the consciousness behind the chocolate form) truly willing to work with and contribute to contemporary inner process in a deeply cooperative and heart-centered way. Opening or releasing energies on deeper levels is assisted for those who allow. And if you know cacao: I work with the Devas to find the cacao beans that have a good balance of chemicals and energies for my work. In Guatemala where I have been living, markets or dealers often have a dozen or more different beans – wild varieties, hybrids (a few of which have sufficient goodies), and always beans that have been improperly fermented or dried. Over the last several years I have been buying wild-harvested native cacao a few hundred pounds at a time, often from the producers… and I’ve brought some Guatemalan cacao to England for my workshops. I have limited experience with the raw cacao available here – some I’ve sampled is great! Participants in these Cacao Inner Journeys will savor organic ritual chocolate potion – original goodies included. Once beyond the novelty of having your brain flushed, we will enter a partnership between chocolate and your own handy resources, like guides and Higher Self. A third influence present is my training in inner work. The group will be guided in using chocolate’s ability to clear and open - physical to etheric - both the mental body / brain and the emotional body / heart. Then individual attention will be given to assist you in your own personal journey. You are invited to remember why chocolate was a Deity... invited to experience what was (and is in a few places) the spiritually expanding sacrament / drug of choice for Indigenous populations like the Mayans. With Central and South American Indigenous Peoples, there are Chocolate Shamans. Drink chocolate - get high - go deep. This chocolate deepens meditative focus and presents a door… but doesn’t push you through it. I work with your inner knowing of how to partner with these higher energies… and away we go! Whether you and your Higher Self decide on the general direction of opening / connecting / expanding – or clearing / releasing at emotional body depth… or any of the inner child / pain body / fears / blocks… I follow you, assisting as guided. I usually begin these Chocolate Inner Journeys around mid-morning so that there are fewer full stomachs and sufficient time for the chocolate to wear off by bedtime. I recommend going easy on the caffeine and having a light breakfast. The process usually lasts about 5 hours and lunch is unnecessary. Add another hour if we do the meditation discussed below before drinking the chocolate. A potluck meal afterwards is great! Here, I am having fun sharing my 3 years of play with the chocolate consciousness… these workshops have just been snowballing! International travel has its drawbacks without my Sweetheart Jan… however, she has become a delighted chocoholic… Cacao is certainly where the buzz is! What Else I Am Up To… Most of my professional play is without the chocolate – working in individual and couples sessions, and with communities - whatever one wants to open, understand, or release. Whatever is Up! In partnership with Higher Self / Inner Knowing, where shall we go? I gently assist people in going inside, into what is usually called the subconscious or unconscious, to change the energetic and belief patterns that generate the experience of reality. I have worked extensively with creative people to help them get out of their own way and open more of whatever is theirs. I spend a lot of time with relationship issues. And certainly, issues of healing and spiritual growth. All those seemingly different manifestations of what one came into this life to move through. I work within anyone’s belief system... no need to endorse mine. I follow the person I work with. Names used for this vary… ‘processing’, 'know thyself', ‘inner work’, or ‘working with your shadow’ cover parts. I am oriented to practical results that change how one feels and the way they experience their own life. As long as your Soul is taking you there anyway, why not go with more elegance, prosperity, and expansion… and less pain and struggle? With more density for us all to feel and release… how about allowing more assistance from your Higher Energies and a deeper partnership with your Unseen Friends / Guides? And, an entire letter in itself…. I have a great response from Spiritual Relationship Workshops to help in understanding and allowing the educational magic we cannot escape but did not grow up with models for. This experiential workshop is those models. And is working within the understanding that the relationship arena is where we play out the deeper issues we came into this life to work with – our separation drama with God / Goddess. At a certain point we are ready to move beyond those old scripts… though not through the rational mind. The Glow Meditation: For years I have been sharing a meditation that many pick up in a few seconds. Often, those who have been in life-long practices in various systems delight in this way of being with their Light. It is not for everyone… it requires an open heart / ability to feel and a willingness to drop doing - as in essence this meditation is experiencing ones Light Body (your Multidimensional Self that is in Oneness) on a feeling / energy level within the physical form. This experience is an opening to effortless radiance where one overflows with delightful higher energies that are felt through every cell. Not about mind; not beyond mind; not just heart – with your whole being. This is not something learned with the rational mind… do bring this mind along to watch - find out if abundant Light makes it easier to do your inner processing, slow the mind, open the heart, and allow more of whatever dings your dinger. As a practice of Higher Dimensional partnership, one fills with / basks in the light, and whatever is next comes up – one block, one expansion at a time – or take what you are working with into this Presence. This energy is also totally directable through intent… send it anywhere! I know people who simply use the Glow as a way to recharge, center, and de-stress… deep, fast and easy. Behind all this an understanding that in a free-will universe, God / Goddess cannot change anything – as that would violate our free-will. However, beings of light can get themselves bodies and as lanterns bring catalytic Light into this dimension. A resonance for reality shifting… since we are hard-wired for this, it is joyously effortless. When I see the radiant grin on a face… when even the toes are shining Light… when they know that this energy is both who they really are, and also felt as the Light of Source Herself - a taste of Oneness - then they are available to transmit it to others. I hear from many experienced meditators that they adopt this as their method of choice, or blend it with their practice. I often wake up in it. Being in the Glow is easy while walking, doing simple tasks, in conversation, or with many creative activities. Effortless radiance is a delightful resonance, and it alters the reflection outside called reality. Yes… go to Glow to change the reality you are experiencing through changing your causal vibration. The Glow helps keep you centered and conscious enough to more often choose the highest good – to better remain energetically transparent (as opposed to protected) and to detach from the scripts we all know so well. Being with someone in, say, dump or blame can be a different experience… for both! Your radiant glowing helps them to move out of the loop they are caught in. The effect is often immediate, and helps one understand that in “you create your own reality”.... there is no fine print. Enjoy! …I remember the front-piece of an old English cookbook that said: “Love is not only the most important ingredient; it is the only ingredient that really matters.” May I suggest the Glow in the kitchen… And for those into feeling to the bottom and releasing their inner density, the Glow helps you into those places as easily as you allow. Your partnership with Angels / Guides / Goddess blends easily on this frequency to assist. Saves playing it out in external objectifications as drama! I teach this work. Blessings in the Glow!, Keith.
Alchemy of the Heart: Accessing the Gateway to Your Soul Alchemy is associated with the transformation of metal into gold, however, in spiritual terms it means spiritual transformation to awaken the divine gifts within you. To truly flow with the "magic" within you, your heart needs to be open, open to the divine love within you. By this openness, source love can flow through you, creating the balance of the spirit within the human soul, and creating a life that which will truly make your "heart sing". For divine love has no attachment, influence of thoughts or emotions, just pure love, this is the pure essence of the source. The heart is a revolving door, a gateway to the soul and the connector between the physical heart and the universal heart. Often we shut the door to our inner reality, which is a reality of unconditional love and bliss. The universal heart, is the heart of humanity, surrendering to the love within you, holds the key to the gateway to your soul. The soul is the everlasting aspect of ourselves that desires wisdom and love, it connects us to the past and future lives. Often there is a separation between what the soul desires, and the one which the human personality wants. Accessing the gateway to your soul, is being open to the love that you have access to, by healing the heart centre and being open to receive love. This love is always there for you, you do not need to seek it. You may disconnect from source, but source will never disconnect from you. Often we create a reality of "illusion", one of unnecessary pain, created from the influence of everything around us. One can create a protective barrier around the heart, a wall, as the result of past hurts. We often can seek love outsides of ourselves, reassurance from others, and often do not connect with the love we have within our selves. Past hurts and trauma often cause blockages around the heart. For this is the feeling side of ourselves. The emotions and thoughts that we allow to consume us, are a result of our connection with the outer world. Close relationships, particularly with parents, all affect how we flow with love in the world. This affects our hearts and our energy field and can cause barriers, or close down the awakening of our spiritual heart. Healing the heart, involves looking at all the barriers that have been created. Healing these blockages is often painful, and there are many ways to do this. But from healing comes an increased freedom to live life, from moving in alignment with your soul, and becoming free from the restrictions that we create for ourselves. Becoming aware of the influence of your thoughts, and taking "charge" of your thoughts and the reality that these are creating, is another way to stop these creating barriers to your awakening. Thoughts, such as limiting beliefs affect how we flow with life. If a thought is stopping you from moving towards the life that you want, try and gain a sense of why this thought is there, and begin to gain a sense that this is a reality that you have created. As more of your thoughts begin to "soften", inner harmony and flow takes place. So how do we become "free". Let go of your ego and the need to hold onto the past. This controls how you respond to others; it preserves the safe way of being. Don't be afraid to step into the fear of "knowing" , true healing comes from stepping into the fear and lifting the veil to the true reality. Your heart is an inner sanctuary, within which an inner stillness can be created, that connects you to source, and to a world of unlimited love and peace. "Your task is not to seek love, but merely to seek and find all of the barriers within you that you have built against it" ( a course in miracles.) (This article was published in the London College of Spituality E-zine magazine July 2008)
Manifesting Sound From a Standing Stone - Tareth Retreat Connecting with the earth consciousness – the consciousness of “now”. Glorious weather shone, as we began our retreat in the beautiful bath countryside. A retreat starting with energetic meditations, which would prepare us, or the manifestation of sound from an ancient standing stone in Avebury. On the 4th day of the retreat, the group started their journey to Avebury. We divided into groups, and we waited patiently in turn, to experience the sound from the stone, the universal sounds which are not normally audible to the human ear. The sun shone its bright light, reflecting for me the light of the source giving additional energy for the day, and I was aware of the beautiful “ beings” around us, assisting and guiding as they always do, for this amazing event. Tareth was guided to a particular stone, and so the preparation began, and beautiful crystals were placed near to the stone.
Stone in Avebury from where the manifestation of sound took place
Tareth has manifested sounds on a number of occasions, it is a gift that he has. He had recently manifested sound for a stone in Belgium, but like us he was very excited about this event, as this had not happened at Avebury. Small groups went in turn to the ancient stone, and each group experienced the manifestation of the sound from the standing stone. Avebury is a high energy point, and a strong energetic portal for the earth, and so it was the appropriate place to experience this work. As I approached the stone, my head began to feel a strong energy, source was very much present here, and I knew that I would be hearing the sounds that had been created from the stones. I was filled with excitement of hearing the sound of the universe, a universal sound from the stone.
Group who gathered around the stone to hear the manifestation of sound
As I approached the stone, I saw Tareth looking upwards, I was aware of a strong energy around him, as he became the conduit for the source to work through him, like a “tuning fork” to open the gateway/portal for the manifestation of the sound from the stones. As a group we repeated invocations, Tareth opened the gateway and the sound began. Words cannot describe the sound because they are not “man made”, all I can describe was that this was a sound from the “underworld”. The sound became stronger and stronger and when Tareth repeated this in the afternoon for an “enthralled” public, the sound sounded more and more like a beautiful orchestra of sound. The sound moved my soul; I felt I was at “home” with my universal friends. My energy moved with the sound of the earth, and with the tones of the universe, with every tone my energy shifted more and more, I felt that an initiation with the earth consciousness had taken place. I felt the interconnectedness with the sounds, at one with the source of my being, I was “it”. The event proved a number of things for me, everything emits sound, much of this we cannot hear. Also when source is ready to lift the veil of a reality, it will do so, but it will also ensure that what needs to remain hidden is hidden, until humanity is ready. And so for me a “veil” was lifted, another reality of sound, and I was exhilarated to the core of my being, and pleased to be part of the alchemic work that I am learning with Tareth in Glastonbury. For the sounds are also powerful healing tools, although the event was very “majestic”, the aim of the Tareth work is much deeper work for humanity, thus why the mass media were not invited, and for this I have the utmost respect for his work.
Tareth giving healing near to the standing stone
For details of the Tareth work see www.tareth.co.uk.
Nettles for Health Here is a fascinating article by Cath Parker who is a "Live Food teacher". Wild Food For Free by Cath Parker Now that spring appears to be on its way at last, my thoughts are turning to foraging for wild foods. Often regarded as weeds, wild foods such as nettles and dandelions once formed a vital part of our diet. But now that we are used to buying our food wrapped in plastic from supermarkets much of that knowledge has disappeared. Did you know that many wild plants are more nutritious than their cultivated counterparts? For instance:
Nettles are a good food to start foraging for, simply because they are so recognisable! Next time you go for a walk simply take some rubber gloves and a carrier bag with you. Take the top few leaves from a nettle plant: that way you get to eat the youngest freshest leaves and the main body of the plant can continue growing. It is best to eat nettles in the spring while they are young. Once the flowers start to appear then the leaves are getting too tough and are not nearly so nutritious. The best way to eat nettles is either to juice the leaves (this will only work in a masticating juicer) or else blend them with some water and fruit to make a smoothie. Once the leaves are thoroughly blended or juiced then the sting disappears. I love the following recipe which is great as a satisfying breakfast or a mid-morning energiser: blend a banana with half a pint of filtered water, a handful of blueberries and approximately 20 nettle leaves. If no blueberries are available then use any sweet berry, or else 2 tablespoons of dried blueberries (in which case soak them in the water for half an hour beforehand).
There are many other fascinating snippets of information about nettles: In mythology the Nordics associated nettles with the thunder god Thor. They were said to protect from lightning strikes. Ancient Shaman healers used to purposely strike their paralyzed patients with nettles in order to bring blood flow back into the muscles and skin. In Roman times flogging with nettles was used as a cure for chronic rheumatism. Stinging nettles have a strong association with human habitation - the presence of nettles may indicate that a building has long been abandoned. In Scotland the sites of crofts razed to the ground during the Highland Clearances can still be identified. Nettle juice is said to restore natural hair colour - nettle extracts are used in many shampoos. Nettle leaves increase the function of the thyroid gland, increasing metabolism and energy and burning fat. Nettle leaves are highly alkaline and help to clean the blood and flush the kidneys. Nettles contain silicon which is present throughout the body. This essential mineral keeps the blood warm, helps to direct the flow of electricity in the blood, and maintains the elasticity of the arterial walls. It is believed that a silicon-rich food can increase bone density and improve the health of teeth, nails and hair. Nettles also contain serotonin and other elements of the nervous system. ----------------------- Catherine Parker only eats raw, vegan food and holds workshops to demonstrate how easy it is to increase the proportion of raw and living foods in anyone's diet. She is passionate about spreading the word of the health benefits of raw foods. She can be contacted by email at or on 07734 294 548. Her website is www.cathparker.wordpress.com.
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