I spent last week with a small group of women, talking… about many things, all of which were indicative of but a sliver of their own potential… and mine. (Visit the Women Gathering blog for more about the week.)
I was deeply moved by my time with them. I witnessed terror and courage; grief, sadness and loss sharing space with determination and hope. I rode the wave of discovery, followed by the one of crashinging back into what was, trusting that the next one would be uplifting and move us closer to the shores of our intended destination.
Just exactly where that was, no one was able to describe. However, we all knew that this journey we were on – together – would be one long remembered and deeply cherished as having been the beginning of something potent and profound. We were awake and chose to engage in ways that would keep us awake.
For me, this was yet another journey into the vast and accelerated potential of an Emerging Futures conversation. They are unlike anything else I engage in. It requires that we be willing to surrender the intellect and trust the body to lead. In the lives we live, the only thing we can be sure will never lie to us is our own body. These Emerging Futures conversations demand that I trust the unique signal that I AM in the world; that I be willing to be fully present and visible; and that I engage with the natural intensity that flows through my body. These combine to bring the full measure of who I AM in the world to become the invitation to those with me to trust, allow and become that for themselves. In that moment, magic happens!
Much can be said about these Emerging Futures explorations and will be said in other places. But for now… for me… what will not leave me is yet one more experience that is evidence of two things: 1) women are the key; and 2) only a woman awake can awaken another woman.
So familiar is our centuries-old commitment to staying in the coma that we have come to believe protects us from the pain of knowing, we will never abandon it unless it can be replaced with a deep and unwavering trust that we are safe in body, mind and spirit. Only in the presence of a woman awake is another woman able to touch that Sacred Space where safety resides, becoming willing to shake loose the deep sleep that numbs her to her existing reality. Women awakening and awakening other women – shamelessly and without apology! – is the force that will transform our world.
We know it’s no longer up to the men. (And here, as in other places, I am feeling the pull to ‘do the thing’ – you know the one : the one about how I have nothing against men, that there are many fine and honorable men in the world, that I have two sons, a brother and a father all of whom are men, blah, blah, blah…. so suffice to say that all that is a given!) We know that the world we currently live in is already shaped and defined by men; that many men are themselves saying, that it’s up to the women to clean up the mess (some things never change!); that women are the key to a new and life-sustaining way of being in the world, etc…. and that it’s not working. If Gaia’s recent and terrifying expressions are any indication, we have precious little time to wake up and smell the roses.
I know women are the key. I also know that it is not a process of knowledge or information or training. It is a process of awakening to what is already there and redirecting the force that we already are. It is a process of calling up the truth that sits just below the surface and allowing it to move and become a force for redesigning and manifesting a new world. All this demands a connection to the body in ways that allow the intellect to surrender to the body – and let the body lead. We have no idea how to do that! Having spent decades in the throes of repetitive and often brutal reinforcement to always have the intellect override the body, this is not an easy task to accomplish. And yet without it, we are destined to keep doing what we’re doing. Clearly, it’s not working.
This is a tough place for many women to stand. And truth be told? I don’t think a lot of women are up for it. There will be a (relatively) small and highly contagious few who will become the attractor for those other few who will be drawn to the vibration of what ‘awake’ carries for them, in their lives. They, then, will become part of this wave of those highly contagious few… and on and on it will go. One breath at a time… many times over… by many women awake and shameless in their being so.
My thoughts continue to unfold from my time last week and often seem random and in some way, chaotic. And yet, I know and trust that all is unfolding exactly as it should. Rather than try to surround them with flowing prose and arrange them in some way that does not come naturally, I share them here as the ‘thought farts’ that they are. 🙂 Do with as you will.
* We are pollinating a new and emerging species. There is no great mystery as to what that is. For more than 50 years, our science has been slowly unfolding to us a far more powerful version of the truth of ‘what’ we are. Not ‘who’ – not our characters or our personalities or our ‘humanity’ but the expression of our physical presence and its connection to the unseen. These are not explorations of consciousness but adventures of expression through engaging the full measure of our physicality, guided by the intense presence of the unique signal that we are in this world. We are indeed, Quantum Biological Humans. Knowing that is not what makes the difference – exploring what that means, is.
* The Quantum Biological Human™ wall chart (Fully Alive book) gives us a place to stand and from which to explore … and also, a place to move to. We can choose to stay on the allopathic/Newtonian side and be dazzled in amazement by the Quantum side, or we can cross the divide and explore what it means. Try it on! Allow ourselves to experience rather than discuss and philosophize about. It is a choice – and each of us is response-able for what we choose. Our lives will become the obvious reflection of what we have chosen.
* It’s up to women. It’s up to women to wake up, stay awake and awaken other women. Not against their will (that would just be more of what we already have!), but by our becoming willing to be seen and heard for the full measure of who we are. Just be ourselves! Tell the truth of our own experience, that we might be found by those seeking a different and far more powerful vibration of our own potential in our physical world. Every time we hide; every time we pretend to be less; every time we become silent and withdraw; every time we live as if someone else’s opinion of us is more important than our own; every time we live as a shadow of who we are, we have become a part of the status quo. We already know that the stutus quo is killing us. What do we think we have to lose????
* Manifestation is a spiral. Energy (LifeForce) moves through layers and eventually coalesces into dense matter we call ‘reality’. As a process, it is predictable and accessible to us all. It is never absent and is constantly expressing. We are never NOT manifesting! Our individual and collective realities are the evidential trail of our quality of engaging this process. It also has elements that we have been taught to separate ourselves from, like intensity (“chill out, slow down, ease up, mellow out”, etc.). It also demands a strong connection to the unique expression of the signal that I AM in a physical world; and the willingness and ability to decloak and be shamelessly present as that unique expression. The rest just falls into place. The Quantum Biological Human is designed to have the signal flow through the device of the body and manifest an outcome from this natural flow.
I know there will be many more Emerging Futures explorations. I know that each pass will bring me closer to where I am going… wherever that is! I trust. I allow. I follow the impulse and let go. Some days, it sucks to be me and most of the time – the vast majority of the time – I love waking up to what and who I know I AM. It only hurts when I forget. The rest of the time, it is what makes my life the Great Adventure!
Breathing is good…
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