Love, Medicine and Virtual Reality

The topics for this week's Wisdom Groups are:

For Tuesday evening:
"I am dreaming my life in this moment.
I live in a world of illusion made be images of light. The story I create is a virtual reality that Is only true for me, the one who creates it."
~ Quote from Voice of Knowledge by Don Miguel Ruiz

"Love is the medicine that accelerates healing.
Love yourself, love you neighbour, love your enemies, but begin with self-love. You cannot love others until you love yourself. You cannot share what you do not have. If you do not love yourself, you cannot love anyone else either."
~ Quote from Mastery of Love by Don Miguel Ruiz

peace and love

Path to Freedom

Next week, on Tuesday evening we will consider the quote:

"Don't make assumptions. Eliminate gossip. Making assumptions is a setup for suffering because usually we gossip about our assumptions. We make assumptions and believe we are right, then we defend our assumptions and try to make others wrong."
~Don Miguel Ruiz from The Four Agreements

On Thursday afternoon, the moderator chose the topic:

"Reducing personal importance is one of the most important steps on our path to freedom."

~from the Living the Four Agreement Wisdom Group ethics.

peace and love

I Love

I love you.
Thankyou.
I am so happy and grateful for Life.
For Beauty. For the River.
To express and create, and move
and swim........to dream and share.
Thankyou, thankyou, thankyou. thankyou, thankyou, thankyou,

Joy Beauty and Gratitude

Tonight, at 4 in the morning is the Fire the Grid meditation. For me, its about experiencing joy and gratitude.
What better way to get into the mood than a hike to the river. I went to my "new" spot that I have named, "The Grotto".
Its down a steep ravine.
But once down here, it is paradise. The water was wonderful. Refreshing but not cold. I spent the day snorkeling down river and around the bend.
Then reading and laying in the shallows where the water has carved out the rocks into natural pools and perfect little seats for my bum. Heaven!

The Four Agreements' Topics

For this Tuesday evenings discussion, we are looking at:

"Create the perfect relationship between you and your body.
Treat your body with all your love, honor, gratitude, and respect.
When you make it your goal to adore your own body and accept yourself completely, you are learning to have a perfect relationship with anyone else you are with."

~ Don Miguel Ruiz, from The Mastery of Love

On Thursday afternoon, the Wisdom Group will be contemplating;

"One way to change your beliefs is to focus your attention on all those agreements and beliefs, and change the agreements with yourself. In doing this, you are using your attention for the second time, thus creating the dream of the second attention or the new dream."


~ Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreement Companion Book

peace and love

Fire the Grid!

I thought that this bears repeating.

Here is the link for a Intro to what its about: Fire The Grid

Enjoy!

Fire the Grid!

This is a wonderful idea.
And worthwhile checking out.
A Nova Scotian woman had an incredible experience and is sharing her truth with all that will listen.
I watched her Youtube presentation (all 8 parts) and I feel richer for having taken the time.
Her name is Shelley Yates and she is a true hero.
The website is Fire The Grid
or just go to You Tube and type in her name or Fire The Grid.
This is not just Canadian....it is a worldwide event for July 17, 2007.
Its possible to do this kind of stuff because of this medium.......The Internet!!

I LOVE IT.

Unconditional love and Respect

The Four Agreement Wisdom group on Tuesday night, the moderator picked a card from the Voice of Knowledge deck:
"Respect is one of the greatest expression of love. If other people try to write your story, it means they don't respect you. They consider that you're not a good artist who can write your own story, even though you were born to write your own story."
~Don Miguel Ruiz

On Thursday afternoon, the moderator chose the topic:
"Love is unconditional. In love, there are no conditions; you love for no reason, with no justification. You are free to be what you are, and you allow others to be what they are."
~Don Miguel Ruiz

peace and love

Love, Honor and Beliefs

The Four Agreement Wisdom Group on Tuesday evening will considering the quote;
"Our emotions tell us how we are doing in our life. If we don't like our emotional reaction, we need to clean up the lies that we believe. By following our emotions, we change our beliefs, and our circumstances change."
~from The Voice of Knowledge by Don Miguel Ruiz

On Thursday afternoon, the group will be invited to contemplate the following:
"Love and honor your physical body. To create a relationship that takes you all the way to heaven, you have to accept your body completely. You have to love your body and allow it to be free to give, free to receive, without being shy.....because "shy" is nothing but fear."
~ from the Mastery of Love by Don Miguel Ruiz

peace and love

Gratitude, Love, Loyalty and Justice

On Tuesday Evening we will be considering the quote from The Four Agreements:
"Don't take anything personally.
Refuse to eat emotional poison. Taking things personally makes you prey for predators. They can hook your attention with one little opinion, and feed you whatever poison they want.
Refuse to eat poison."
~Don Miguel Ruiz

The Four Agreement Wisdom Group will meet again on Thursday afternoon with focus on part of the Circle of Fire prayer:
"We will live our lives with gratitude, love. loyalty. and justice
beginning with ourselves."
~Don Miguel Ruiz

peace and love

Silent Knowledge and Our Art

Tuesday evening we will be considering the quote;
"You are an artist of the spirit. Find yourself and express yourself in your own particular way. Express your love openly. Life is nothing but a dream, and if you create your life with love, your dream becomes a masterpiece of art."
~ Don Miguel Ruiz from Mastery of Love

Thursday afternoon, the card was picked from the "Voice of Knowledge" deck:
"We are born with silent knowledge. When we are born, our body knows what it is, and it knows what to do. We can feel silent knowledge every time we breathe."
~Don Miguel Ruiz

peace and love

Cob Cancelled

Here are some of the Mudgirls mulling over the details of the workshop.
I got more information in this meeting that made me realise that this was not going to work for me.
So I took care of myself and cancelled my offer to host the workshop on my property.
22 participants were coming but they pared my project down to a 10' diameter, not enough room for my drumming group or my meditiation group. :>(
22 people plus young children would be using my bathroom and the clincher was that they are taking no responsibilty for anything that may happen. 100% responsibilty and liablity was to be mine.
It worked out ok, they found another host property fairly close to here and I wish them well.

Freedom and Forgiveness

This Tuesday evening, the Wisdom Group will be discussing the 4th Agreement;
"Always Do Your Best
Under any circumstances, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgement, self-abuse and regret."

Then on Thursday afternoon, we will consider the quote:

"Forgive Others. Forgiveness is the only way to heal your emotional wounds. Forgive those who hurt you no matter what they've done because you don't want to hurt yourself every time you remember what they did. When you can touch a wound and it doesn't hurt, then you know you have truly forgiven."
~Don Miguel Ruiz from the Mastery of Love

peace and love

Love and Adoration

The Four Agreement Wisdom Group will be considering the following quote for this coming Tuesday night:
"Imagine that the message of Love is possible and you will find that it is yours."

On Thursday afternoon, the topic for consideration will be,

"Create the perfect relationship between you and your body. Treat your body with all your love, honor. gratitude. and respect.
When you make it your goal to adore your own body and accept yourself completely, you are learning to have a perfect relationship with anyone else you are with."

~ Don Miguel Ruiz

peace and love

Action and Transformation

On Tuesday night's group,
the topic is:
"When I am absorbed in what I'm doing, the voice of knowledge hardly
speaks.
When there is inaction, my mind has to have action, and that is an open invitation for the voice of knowledge
to talk to me." - Don Miguel Ruiz

The Thursday afternoon group will
discuss:
"Always do your best.
Practice makes the master. By doing your best over and over, you can master the art of transformation. By doing your best, the habits of misusing your word, taking things personally, and making assumptions will become weaker and less frequent with time." - Dom Miguel Ruiz

peace and love

Skiing in May

Here are my lucky lucky kids who got to go skiing in May.
Their thoughtful Aunt and Uncle, who run The Mountain School
invited them to join them for a weekend at Whistler Blackcomb.

They look so beautiful.
And the mountains are so beautiful.

Amazing.

I stayed home for the Cob workshop and then it got postponed at the last minute. Oh well.

I did enjoy a very quiet introspective weekend.

Mother's Day Peonies

Look at these incredible peonies!!!

This lovely friend of mine grew them herself. And she cooked me a fabulous Mother's Day lunch that took us all day to enjoy.

Bless you, Sweetie!

Love and Creation

This coming Tuesday evening, we will consider the quote from Don Miguel Ruiz's book , "The Voice of Knowledge":

"I co-create with God and with life.
Life creates what is real, and I create a story about what is real. The story is how I qualify, justify, and explain what I perceive. My story is my creation, and it's a masterpiece of art."

On Thursday the moderator chose a card from the "Voice Of Knowledge" deck that reads:

"I choose to write my story wih love.
Love is the material that comes directly from my integrity, from what I really am. In my story, what is real is my love."

peace and love

Cob Building

The workshop got postponed til June 9th.

But this article came out in our local paper and it explains what is going to happen here much better:


Local Earth Building Series Empowers Both Women & Men



Using soils and rock from the earth, wood from nearby beaches and forests, and by recycling materials like coloured bottles, broken pottery and tiles, car tires and windshields, the MudGirls Natural Building Collective have rediscovered the home building alternative that many people are searching for.



Looking back towards tradition and forward to a sustainable future they have been building beautiful, unique, energy-efficient and inexpensive homes for themselves and with others. The effects of current day construction methods and development are beginning to be felt by many people the world over, both intellectually and in the form of chemical sensitivities and environmental pollution. Many habe been left wondering if there is an alternative to the harsh materials and resource depletion that go hand-in-hand with modern housing.



Jen Gobby, founder and co-ordinator of the MudGirls, says she “believes strongly in keeping the learning of [natural building] skills financially accessible, as well as a very inexpensive form of building for the owner-builders that we assist. We build with gifts from the generosity of the earth, and want to honour that generosity."



The MudGirls have been facilitating workshops for two years, during which students trade their labour for the skills they gain, which makes it both a cost-effective and communal experience for all involved. “I must say, cob is the most fun, back-to-the-earth, down-to-earth way I’ve ever built,” says Amber Hieb, a MudGirls member. “For me, coming from a long line of builders—all of them being men: my brother, my uncles, father and grandfather—to be able to reclaim building for myself, in a way that is using what is readily available and accessible around me is rewarding on many levels.”



Although there are workshops offered for both women and men, there is an emphasis on women for this very reason: to change not only what is built but also how. “Where presently we have a more rigid, square, hierarchical model of construction, the MudGirls represents a shift towards a more fluid, feminine, cooperative way of building—from the bottom up,” says Julie Chadwick, a new MudGirls recruit.



Until now, the MudGirls have used cob—a mud made of clay, sand and straw that one sculpts into form—for their main building medium. However, this summer they will be expanding their horizons by offering their labour in the creation of hybrid projects that can include elements of building with adobe, strawbale, wattle and daub and earthbags.



“The Mud Girls aim to empower women and men with the skills and confidence for building both shelter and community,” says Gobby. “We want to seek new and ancient ways to live in harmony with the earth and to also have a singing dancing laughing good time while doing it.”



They will be working as crews to help people who are embarking on their own natural building adventures, offering services from basic eco-renovations of an existing home to helping build small structures such as cob ovens, outhouses or garden walls, to assisting with the construction of cottages and homes.



This summer season the collective is also offering some of the most extensive and exciting natural building workshops to date. Each one is tailored to include aspects of both hands-on skill sharing and building, and an emphasis on subjects such as Social Activism, Alternative Technology and Alternative Transport. Through the workshops. Participants will get the opportunity to experience true communal lifestyle, with group camping, childcare and home-cooked meals.



Workshops are happening in the Nanaimo area this summer! The Earth Masters Program has teamed up with the MudGirls to offer a series of affordable weekend hands-on opportunities to get to know cob from the ground up. The adventure begins with learning how to scout out just the right site, to finding ingenious ways to incorporate recycled and scavenged treasures into your home. Participants will learn how to sculpt walls out of the earth beneath their feet, split cedar to shingle a roof, and make non-toxic paints from little more than household items.



For more information about the upcoming Nanaimo area, five-weekend workshop series, starting June 9th and 10th please contact: Earth Masters at 250-753-5605; or communityassets@telus.net .

The Power and Magic

On Tuesday Evening, the moderator chose the subject:

"Faith is the power of creation that all humans have.
I we invest our faith in a lie, that lie becomes truth for us. If we believe we are not good enough, then thy will be done--we are not good enough. If we believe we will fail, we will fail, because that is the power and magic of our faith."
-from The Voice of Knowledge by Don Miguel Ruiz

On Thursday afternoon, we are asking ourselves the question;

"How can we support each other in overcoming blocks to changing old beliefs?"

peace and love

Enjoying Myself and Creating Our Life

Tuesday Night, the topic is:
"I enjoy the presence of myself.
I find myself smiling and having fun, even when I am just by myself. The more I enjoy myself, the more I enjoy my life, and the more I enjoy the presence of everyone around me."
- Don Miguel Ruiz from the Voice of Knowledge

Thursday Afternoon the subject will be:
"Lies blind our faith and lead us nowhere.
When lies blind our faith, we fall into the illusion what we are separate from God, and we lose our power of creation. Real faith is having faith in life, faith in ourselves, faith for no reason. From this point of power, we can create whatever we want to create."
- Don Miguel Ruiz from the Voice of Knowledge

peace and love

Intimate with Earth

This is a series of workshops that are being held on my little acreage.
I am thrilled!
If enough people sign up, we will construct a lovely circular building with a built in bench. Perfect as a drumming/meditative/ceremonial space.
It will be down in the pasture, near the blue well house. There is a source of clay near the pond that we will use for the walls (mixed with straw and stuff)
My neighbour, Joanne has a tractor. She has offered to come over to move some rocks for the foundation.
The amazing organizations involved are Earth Masters and Mud Girls.
I have been blessed!

Imagination and Wisdom

Dear All,

This Tuesday the moderator chose the Imagining:

"Imagine living without the fear of loving and not being loved in return. You are no longer afraid to be rejected, and you don't have the need to be accepted."

On Thursday afternoon, the moderator chose a card from the Voice of Knowledge deck;

"Everything I believe about myself is just a story.
In my story, everything is about me, and it has to be that way because I am the center of my perception. The story is told from my point of view."

peace and love,

For Your Toltec Consideration

Tuesday night, the moderator picked a card from the Voice of Knowledge deck,

"You are an angel, and your life is your message.
You can be a messenger of lies, fear, and destruction, or a messenger of truth, love, and creation. But you cannot deliver lies and truth at the same time."

Thursday afternoon, a card was picked from the same deck,

"Listen to the silent voice of your integrity.
When the voice of knowledge becomes the voice of integrity, your emotional body becomes the way it was when you were a child. You return to the truth, to your own common sense. You return to love, and you live in happiness again."

quotes by Don Miguel Ruiz

Spring on Vancouver Island

The skunk cabbage is blooming in our pond. The leaves on the alder are
showing themselves. My daughter and I went for a walk without jackets.
The horses are frisky and the ornamental plum is in blossom.
The trilliums are up everywhere. I always feel like I am getting the universe's approval if a trillium blooms in my yard.

This Week's Subjects for the 4 Agreement Group

On Tuesday night. the moderator chose a card from the "Voice of Knowledge" deck:

"Our emotions tell us how we are doing in our life. If we don't like our emotional reaction, we need to clean up the lies that we believe. By following our emotions, we change our beliefs, and our circumstances change."

On Thursday afternoon, we will contemplate the quotes:

"Imagine that you have permission to be happy and to really enjoy your
life.
Imagine that you love yourself just the way you are."

peace and love

Appreciation

Recently. I read in a book that the word/concept Appreciating has another side to it.
I am about to make another list of Appreciation, and I wanted to pass along the idea:..... like stocks and bonds.....what we focus on...will Appreciate.....the Value will Increase.

I Appreciate in my life right now:

My amazing talented and loving children

Courageous friends to explore the experience of transcendence with.

The opportunity to create spontaneous composed music. ( so fun!)

Being surrounded by burgeoning nature.

Thanks to my son, having an excellent computer and being connected to the vast resource called the net.

My unconditionally loving pets.

My really comfy bed.

Search Words

This is the first time I have done this....its quite fun to see. It's what search words did Google bring people to my blog?
For the past week or so, they are as follows:



"my favourite room"
my favourite room
"Oran mor" healing
Eyes of an Angel by Paul Elder
flying frenchman Lorenzo with his horses
Lorenzo and his horses
lorenzo french horses
tweetey
eckhart tolle exceprts
lyrics walkway dream mountain new life people say silence river
lorenzo the flying french man
barroom view of love i would not want my words to
"my dog licks my"
"byron katie works "
"shania" "noll"
shania noll
michael brown consciously connected breathing
michael brown consciously connected breathing
Dogs licks have healing for people?
shania noll

Wisdom Group

This coming Tuesday evening we will be contemplating the quote:
"The way to transform what you believe about yourself is to unlearn what you have learned.
When you unlearn, your faith returns to you, your personal power increases, and you can invest your faith in new beliefs."
from the book, Voice of Knowledge by Don Miguel Ruiz

Thursday afternoon, we will discuss the various responses to the question:
"How do we live our lives without expectations and at the same time, create/dream our personal dream?"

peace and love

This Week's Topics

This Tuesday evening, the moderator chose the topic, "Forgiveness";
list 5 ways/incidents in which you forgive yourself and list 5 ways/incidents in which you forgive others. One may or may not share these with the group.

On Thursday afternoon, the moderator chose a quote from the book, The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz:
"Be Impeccable With Your Word.
When you hear an opinion and believe it, you make an agreement and it becomes part of your belief system. The only thing that can break this agreement is to make a new one based on truth. Only the truth has the power to set you free."

Peace and Love

Vernal Equinox

Today is the Vernal Equinox.
I chose this as the topic of the Wisdom Group Tonight. This ties in with the weekend I just had....the Spring Celebration... a chance for renewal, for transformation.
I felt very blessed because I got to meet my very first blog friend in person. She spontaneously showed up for the Wisdom Group.
Thankyou Joy Living! You renewed my faith in Magic.
After the meeting we all went down to the Stone Table and drummed, sang songs and declared our intentions for the new Spring.

More Oran Mor

Oran Mor, The Great Song.....the sound of the universe, the song that is always singing.....and we can join in anytime.
This weekend I helped arrange a Spring Celebration. We will gather for the weekend, using music, art and sounds to communicate.
This will be an opportunity to use other means besides our words to Express.
On Friday afternoon, we are going to a cave that I "discovered" on a hike to the river. We will bring candles and blankets and our willingness to explore ourselves.

"Where I sit is Holy,
Holy is the ground.
Forest, mountain, river
Listen to the sound.
Great Spirit circling,
Circling all around"

Thoughts and Suggestions

This week, we will gather on Tuesday evening and contemplate the end of the "Circle of Fire" prayer (that Don Miguel Ruiz wrote as a tool to access the dream of heaven on earth.)

"We will respect all creation
As the symbol of our love communion with the one who created us
to the eternal happiness of humanity."

The next Wisdom Group will be held on Thursday afternoon of the following week. the moderator chose the topic:

"Imagine living your life without being afraid to take a risk and explore life.
Imagine what your life would be like if you were not afraid to lose anything."

She chose a poem to introduce the subject:

"I would not want all my words to parade around this world in pretty constumes, so I will tell you something of the barroom view of love,

Love is grabbing hold of the Great Lion's mane, and wrestling and rolling deep into existence while the Beloved gets rough and begins to maul you alive.

True love, my dear, is putting an iron clad grip upon the sore,
swollen balls of a Divine Rogue Elephant and not having the good fortune to die!"

-Hafiz (1320-1389)

The Four Agreement Wisdom Group Topics

This Tuesday , March 6th, the topic is
"In remembering not to take things personally, we are free to not believe anyone, including ourselves. Reducing personal importance is one of the most important steps on our path to freedom."

On Thursday, Margaret-Heather picked a card from the "Voice of Knowledge" deck with the quote by Don Miguel Ruiz;
"I don't take anything personally.
I am a secondary character in other people's stories. I know that whatever people say about me is just a projection of their image of me. It has nothing to do with me."

peace and love,

Thrilled to be 50

Turning 50 feels like an opportunity to declare my Self to the universe.
I believe that Anything is possible and now more than ever believe that we are ageless beings.

I am grateful for Everything that has happened in my life so far. I have been blessed with a wonderful Mother and Father and siblings to grow up with. I am SO happy that they were agnostics with a little atheism thrown in for good measure. I felt this is what got me my start on living an authentic life. I invite All That Is, to live through me, every moment so that I live life Directly as opposed through my sets of belief and practiced patterns of thought.

It was through my own direct experience that I "see" that All is Love and All is Well.

Happy Birthday to me.

Party Pictures

The beautiful teacups and the punch bowl
The table is set.
Guests arrive and are seated.
After the meal there was much drumming.

My beautiful crew who made it all possible.
I love you!

Four Agreement Wisdom

On Tuesday evening, the
moderator picked the topic:
"Let your life be transformed.
When you stop making assumptions, your word becomes impeccable, and your life is completely transformed. Magic just happens in your life. What you need comes to you easily because spirit moves freely through you."

On Thursday Afternoon, the subject will be a quote from the book,
The Voice of Knowledge by Don Miguel Ruiz;
"Our true nature is to play and explore, to live in the moment, to enjoy life.
As little children, we are completely authentic. Our actions are guided by our instinct and emotions; we listen to the silent voice of our integrity. Nobody teaches us to be that way, we are born that way."

peace and love