Community Conversation: Spiritual Heaven and Spiritual Earth

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Spiritual Earth

• When I look at my Shield, I can see it as a diagram of Spiritual Earth that is me, that I am. 
• From JiMi Tao in the Glossary, pg. 113:  Spiritual Earth is “Earth embodied with Allowance and Acceptance of the Emotions of Joyful Beautiful Union.
• I remember a teaching that the Earth is the quality of Love.  Earth’s purpose is to experience life of Love, and we are made of and are part of the Trinities -- TO Love, OF Love, FOR Love, and FROM Love.  These four Trinities are part of the Four Fold Way, a process that allows us to make sense of our lives as our Mental Bodies think, our Physical Bodies sense, our Emotional Bodies feel and we are allowed to recognize that there are many learning modalities and ways to experience ourselves and our world and these ways can help us come out of chaos and move into cooperation and cocreation.  This is the work of Love, and as we learn who we are, we evolve our Acceptance and Allowance of the journeys of others, too. 
• I am the world, and the world is me-like/like-and this is true for All Being.  Spiritual Earth is Love evolving through US living in and through all our bodies—Mental, Physical, Emotional, Etheric, Cosmic.  
• In my contemplation of Spiritual Earth, I came to understand Cherishment as foundational for Spiritual Earth.  I read about Cherishment in JiMi’s words in the Glossary:  “Mystery begins in Graceful Cherishment.  Mystery holds firm all forms of inner Matter, both Divine and Human Body,” and, “Cruelty’s highest potential is Cherishment. . . . Cherishment is the Vehicle from which Love is born . . . is the thing that connects us in generosity, to all life, all bodies, where I am the breath of the wind, the Wave of the Universe, where we’re all one wave together.  When we cherish each other, we live between love and loving. We can sit and allow the fullness of Presence as Cherishment, we will ascend . . . . we gain the health of being.”  
• This is what integrated in me:  Divine Source in Generosity creates all of Creation and Cherishes all of Creation, accepting and allowing All Being to experience life in all its fullness, trusting the process to work through evolution always back to REMEMBERING OUR ONENESS, because LOVE IS ALL THERE IS.  Generosity, Cherishment, Acceptance and Allowance are key components of Being, and all Being is Spiritual Earth.  I am Spiritual Earth as DivineHumanBeingInLove, as Enspirited Matter and Enmattered Spirit. The Being of the Earth, of the Land, is sacred and spiritual Being and so calls to us, invites us to be in sacred spiritual relationship, as we are reflections of each other, part of each other, and part of a bigger whole together. 
• Spiritual Earth, I believe, is Love Being and Becoming—a dynamic (not static) movement—Wave of Matter and Wave of the Universe—that is not a “conglomeration of things” but consists of ordered, interwoven and interdependent processes that follow a Natural Order or underlying principle in a harmonious system of relationships of “energy quantums.” (combining language of both JiMi Tao and  Imre von Soos)  Spiritual Earth is the process of a multitude of holons in relationships in what von Soos calls an Integrarchic System.  I love this word because integration is how I think, sense, and feel my life experience.  
• So, when I create prayer sticks, I am bringing together many holons of physical forms, thought forms, prayer forms, emotional forms into a bigger holon that then is planted in the dirt and sends out through the wind and interactions with grasses and people and the land, the parts of me infused in my creations, and they join with other dynamic prayer sticks to dance together on the lands in which they now live.  When we come together with others and clear land, pray, drum, sing, dance, walk the land, plant the prayer sticks, we are the dynamism of Cherishment, forming new relationships with each other, with the land, with the Beings that live there, with the air, with the neighbors, etc. forming a new holon that connects with, becomes, allows, and accepts even bigger, more encompassing relationships. I see many torus loops of each holon joining together into bigger loops and joining ultimately with the torus loop of the planet and making that connection of DivineHumanBeing, connecting all Spiritual Earth and Spiritual Heaven.  Spiritual Earth a Vehicle of me, us, we—the dynamic process of living Love, re-membering and re-membering, and returning to our Source in Universal Oneness.  

 Prayer Stick Painting

• The beads represent all the components—the beings—the holons—that make up the whole, and together become part of a bigger whole. 
• The Elements are all present in my prayer stick.  The feathers represent and play with AIR.  The orange, red and yellow bead is the Sun representing FIRE.  The blue bead with the wave is of course WATER.  The green bead with plants and the Torus Loop represents EARTH—the Element and the planet.
• The top bead has a picture of the Butterfly Nebula.  I chose this to represent the connection to the heavens, the cosmos, and to being part of the Universe.  I like the butterfly as a being that goes through transmutation, evolving from caterpillar to butterfly in a lifetime.  I like knowing the prayers going forth keep going throughout the Universe. 
• The golden spiraling bead represents to me fractals spiraling into more inclusive and bigger and encompassing holons in the spiral pathway we all walk. The spiral of the beads on the stick also depicts the spiraling dynamic nature of our Being, our path, our movement in the Universe. 
• The pink bead says Cherishment, for I find Cherishment of Source, the Creator, for Creation to be a foundation of all existence, a reason for all Allowance and Acceptance, the comfort to my Soul, a seed of Spiritual nature of all Creation. 
• The blue bead holds the Web of Life, of Light, the web that holds us all in our ONENESS.  The strings of the web are like/like the strings holding the beads and connecting them to the stick. We are connected by heartstrings. 
• The pink bead with the wavy lines represents to me the Wave of Matter that we are, and the Wave of the Universe. We are resonant beings that resonate our beingness to each other just like sound waves, light waves, radio waves, etc. 
• The yellow bead with many hands represents all the people who came together to make, to bless, and to set these prayer sticks in Spiritual Earth holding Sacred Space. 
• The stick itself is like the Reed, connecting Heaven and Earth, like the orange arrows of Powerful Thoughts that become Charitable Ideas for Compassionate Action. 
• I added words—Qualities—that were key to my understanding Spiritual Earth, and notes of music to denote the Universal Song being sung by the prayer sticks in the grasses, in our homes, in the Earth and by all of us through the making, dancing, doing skits, clearing land, drumming, singing, planting prayer sticks and poles, spreading cornmeal and smoke and water, praying, sharing in this ever-present and expanding Dance of Creation.