Happy Autumn to those in the Northern Hemisphere and to those down South like me well happy rainy season! It truly is a tad strange for me to be in Costa Rica and miss out on the wondrous spin of the four seasons as I'm more used to given my Canadian roots but, alas, I have followed a deep calling since my trip here last year to make a new home in this beautiful country. It has been quite remarkable to be here in this halycon amidst all the changes sweeping our world. To be closer to the natural world and feel the comfort of Earth, Gaia's glory of love, has been like a salving mothering embrace, mitigating the severity of changes taking place. It's not necessarily good or bad: I know many friends who have endured the beleaguered circumstances of the pandemic and have witnessed them growing in strength. Humans are hardy and hearty folk and if anything modern living has softened us some; exiled us from the strengthening that the wild used to afford us in more pastoral environs. COVID-19 is many things to be sure and in a world increasingly awakening to quantum reality, multi-dimensionality and the subsequent collapse of duality, many things can be true at the same time, a dizzying prospect for intellects honed by dualistic thinking as is the norm in Western civilization.

Multi-dimensionality in the realm of COVID means that it can also be a plandemic, also a real virus that poses an unprecedented threat to our species, also a response from Mother Earth Herself perhaps to halt our destructive civilization, saving us from ourselves and many more perspectives. And given that truth is an absolute quagmire of a million different points-of-view in our Information Age, I personally have felt it best to take a step back from trying to figure it all out and rather plunge deep into the heart and the quivers of the Earth's guidance blossoming there in beatific perpetuity.

This is not mere hippy-speak: the ancients proclaimed the Earth as a living Goddess whose stead is wisdom. In fact Her name was Sophia to some which in Greek means wisdom. And as I have learned in my time learning from First Nations peoples (Native Americans), the goal of the vision quest (whereupon one sits out in solitude in the wilderness and partakes in a fast) is to obtain visions, guiding teachings from Mother Earth Herself. The great elder who guiding that vision quest, Anishinabe wisdom keeper, Nii Gaani Aki Inini (Leading Earth Man)/Dr. Dave Courchene, recently wrote: "The Earth is a living entity, with an intelligence we need to connect with. She is the true teacher of life who helps us find ourselves, as we go within our own being." 

We are living in a time of profound changes. In 2018, Uranus, the planet of revolutionary change and independence, entered into Taurus, the most Earthy sign, where it will remain until 2025. This commenced a cycle of inevitable Earth changes and hopefully in order to rectify us with Mother Earth Herself. That is up to us...Mark me, the gravest problem is NOT COVID-19 but our broken relationship with Earth and nature and it has been that way for a long time, too long. We are a species divided not only from the sacred ecology of its home planet, making us a species succumbing to collective insanity, but we are also divided from ourselves, the very nature that is us. And this is why if there's anything that 2020 is jostling us to do it is to embrace the changes and take time to truly step back and abide in the heart.

The upheaval of modern civilization as we know it is inevitable if we are to course-correct and break inveterate patterns that are stagnating our evolution. I would daresay many of us wanted this, despite how difficult it is. We knew we could not go any longer as business as usual and hope to thrive or even survive as a species on this planet in the way we are behaving collectively. Furthermore, since behaviour is conditioned by beliefs, we needed a period of time to deeply question the beliefs that form the substratum of our consciousness and architect the very design of our civilization. Truly, the only relevant change is on the level of consciousness itself, something difficult to affect when one is perpetually caught in the busyness and distractions of modern living. It takes tremendous rectitude and willful assiduity to tinker with one's causal level of being. It requires lots of presence, the luminous vigilance afforded by meditation to inquire as to how one is truly acting in this world and inquire where our blindspots lie, and the skillfulness to enact change, endure turbulent circumstances and begin the slow and steady rise of one's soul consciousness (a deeper sense of being based on unity, love and holism). 

For those already walking such a path of spiritual practice, 2020 has probably been a pretty exciting year, even ecstatic. That's not to downplay the inherent suffering that has occurred in loss of human life. That is tragic but it's also inevitable in life when this kind of adversity hits. Our civilization, long shirking nature, was due for a horrendous and sobering intervention. We have no one but ourselves to blame. So, we do our best to care for those in need while also plunging into the necessary response needed in our world in this era. And that response for me has been to go in to coalesce with the need for revolutionary fervour, realize that our civilization can no longer be based on patriarchal sciences steeped in left-brain rational-materialism but need to integrate the feminine aspects of our being, namely, our intuitive intelligence and the rapture of spontaneous insights, feeling nature, caringness, the love that unifies all that is disparate and, possibly the paramount, bridling to a sense of Goddess alongside God. Stationing the feminine in the divine realm alongside the masculine which has monopolized such a position for long now radically transforms our sense of the world. I urge everyone to try it for themselves, whether by rituals to honour Goddess, exploring the multifarious traditions of Goddess worship or simply allowing an intuitive practice to be gifted by your divine imagination itself.

It's obvious that the world will never be the same and for many of us it might still be intense how fast it has all shifted. But as I shared very early on this year, a dear friend spoke to a Colombian wisdom elder who shared that this is in fact the answer to our prayers. The world desperately needed to change. The important task now is inspiring ourselves to rise up and wrest control of the narrative of how the world will change from systems of power that have already proven themselves ineffectual. We need big courage in our hearts along with big dreams. It is time to re-vision our world. And as much as the US election drama is throttling our consciousness with chaotic divisiveness, the real game lies in our own lives and the responsibility to take control of them and our communities so that we can step forth out of a civilized mode of living replete with antiquated problems and begin to pioneer something new, while also pulling on the threads of the great ancestral wisdoms of our past.

This brings us to another astrological activation: the burgeoning Aquarian Age. According to another brilliant elder who I have followed for years, Barbara Hand Clow: "Miraculously, at the exact moment of the Winter Solstice December 21, 2020, Jupiter conjoins Saturn in zero degrees Aquarius trine the Pleiades, the dawning of the Aquarian Age." We go through each astrological age cycle roughly every 2150 years and to be alive in one of the pivot moments is quite momentous as we are witnessing flagrant cosmological change on Earth. We have been transitioning from the Age of Pisces for the last 50 years or so and are now set to truly enter increasingly into the new age of Aquarius, whereupon true world peace is to be actualized, along with stunning technological achievements in the realm particularly of subtle energy, along with massive expansions of consciousness to unify humanity like never before. The harbingers for this age are already quite clear in our culture. Seeds are being planted and the first flowers of these changes are beginning to bloom.

I will speak now more openly about my personal beliefs surrounding COVID-19. You don't have to agree with everything I say and hope you don't. We need to be able to dialogue, respectfully debate in these times. It's a reason why I have taken an immense step back off the social media platform of Facebook as it has truly become a maelstrom of divisive expression, emboldening hate and furthering polarization among the masses that is poisoning our society. I highly recommend taking a step away from Facebook, especially if you have found yourself daily engaging in back-and-forth postings to try and claim victories in the battlefield of belief. It's not worth any of our time, truly.

I believe one of the more controversial aspects of COVID is the fact that it seems increasingly clear that it is being exploited by world governments to roll out a techno-styled tyranny of surveillance, unprecedented social control and even such nefarious prospects as vaccines that contain quantum microchips. This is not conspiracy theory but a reality that can easily be researched (if you would you like to hear my deeper opinion on conspiracy theory, check my Wisdom Warrior talk HERE). Is this some kind of dark, devilish agenda, or simply one belief system asserting its solution to a problem that perhaps doesn't jive with how many of us see it? As a former Chinese Medicine practitioner, a believer in natural healing and a critic of empirical science, I have serious doubts about ramping up an allopathic medical system to address a viral outbreak when already many natural remedies have proven effective. Ultimately, there needs to be a rise of a truly integrative medical system that sees the strengths and weaknesses of both the allopathic and more holistic methods. 

As I have shared in many of my Wisdom Warrior talks on my Youtube channel (please subscribe and check the out HERE) there is a very old wound in our species around the divorce from nature, Earth and a sense of Goddess Herself that has been plaguing us, pushing us into a grave imbalance on the level of consciousness. I don't believe any of us can truly render how deep and significant this wound is but I do know that the more I study it, connect the dots throughout his-story, the more I'm aware that there's deep aspects of human consciousness that have been persecuted, oppressed and silenced for so long we don't fully even recall their silencing. Yet, when one studies the genocides of the Pagan, indigenous Europeans and then genocides of pretty much every indigenous culture following that. the suppression of the Goddess and polytheistic beliefs with the rise of monotheism, patriarchy and the male God supreme, it is evident a grand schism has driven an essential aspect of our species into fragmentation. And then there's the whole Judeo-Chrisitian and then Muslim religious extremism which posited this world as something akin to a fallen paradise, opening it to the nefarious raping of civilization, plundering its resources, murdering its ecology, and pushing us to the brink of self-annihilation. Through all that madness, the shining and sobering awakening is this: we are of the same cloth of Earth. We are continuum with all that is here. We are Goddess and She is us. We cannot harm the ecology of the planet and believe we do not do ourselves harm in kind. We are nature too.

This awakening is so massive that we need a kind of collective initiation where, like any skillfully exercised ritual ordeal, an old egoic form of being is brought to death, or rather, alchemical transformation, becoming the soil to sow a luminous rebirth as something more powerful than its former is brought to life. 2020 and the COVID pandemic/plandemic is just that. I say plandemic because I do believe that elements of it are being exploited but either way it doesn't change the fact that we have an opportunity here to change like never before. It remains to be seen how that change will take effect. Will we continue to entrust our power to political leaders steeped in a military-industrial system that is based on the very baleful beliefs I have just mentioned? Will we continue to live in a modern civilization that has exiled itself from the Earth and continues to hold the sword of Damocles above its head? Will we allow ourselves to be divided, gaslighted into civil war even, or will we find ways to courageously affirm a unifying inclusivity that will embrace us all and allow for healing communications to smooth out generations of trauma that continue to haunt us? Will we continue to let duality polarize us or can we shift into a revolution of consciousness and wonder at a possible new world of multi-dimensional, universal truth; a harbinger perhaps of a new golden age?

It can seem so daunting, can't it? Yet, as the ancient Taoist, Oriental mystics affirmed, the heart can handle the burden of things when we allow ourselves to shift into its great conscious expanse. Meaning, make time for timelessness and to bridle to Her. Assert your indigenousness to Earth by finding time in each and every day to sit in nature, even if just the speck of a holy park in an urban enclave, a backyard nestled beside a tree, and sit in meditation and contemplation. Contemplation and reflection are some of the most important skills our minds have. Contemplation is meditative thinking, meaning we take time to breathe deeply and relax for some minutes, setting up a foundation of calm mental vibrations and then bringing forth something to think about. When we relax, our body naturally sets in motion internal harmonizations (homeostasis) which heal us on all levels. Our mental activity also dips down into the heart where we have greater access to the miraculous powers of insight (spontaneous revelation), intuition and emotional intelligence. When we think from the space of the heart in contemplation, we are more than often suffuse with synthesis--ideas comes together, conflicting thoughts find delicious resolution. And more mystically, we hear the whispers of wisdom of what the Taoists call the guiding realm. We aren't meant to be lost and confused. We have access to guiding wisdom at all times. We just have to make that sacred time; assert kairos (divine time) over chronos (clock time). Meditation gives us the opportunity to do so and because natural environments are perpetually in a state of meditative doing and being, our practice is enhanced there via entrainment with natural vibrations. It's as if we are all pregnant with a new world, and like a noble mother, we need to honour the precious life being born in our lives. We need to care for ourselves, slow things down, listen to what our body and this little life needs. Nourish ourselves well and bathe ourselves in healing vibrations with constancy. 

What is the chaos of our current world is the cleaning and clearing of space for something new? How can we step deeper and more boldly into sovereignty? What world do we wish to help create? These are vital questions for right now. And as crazy as it might sound in the face of all the tumult, we need to trust. Trust that we are living within a great source-field of high intelligence that is interfacing with us always. This is the gem of all spiritual teachings, the divine itself, and yet our materialistic culture has cut us off from this metaphysical truth. Now we get to be a part of that great reclamation; the re-enchanting of the world! I can attest that one of the greatest tools I have wielded in my life to make me more connected to this guiding realm is THE PRESENCE PROCESS by Michael Brown. A stunning book that lays out a 10-week program to amplify presence in our lives, help integrate fragmented aspects of our beings (often due to childhood traumas) and plug us more deeply into the great presence of the unified field of which we call exist whose constant offering is insight. Moreover, the recent release of the documentary film THRIVE 2 also renders the need to reconnect to this Source Field with wondrous clarity. I highly recommend watching it with friends and family.

You won't believe me until you embody and explore it for yourself. We as a species need to live with the heart as our supreme centre. The Taoists regarded the Heart as the Emperor within. For too long, we have lived with the intellect as our guide, the ego ruling us rather than the soul which resides in the temple of the heart. This is one of the great shifts to be made as we cross into the new age, from head to heart consciousness. And now, at a time of dire circumstance when the intellect is increasingly exposing its weaknesses whether in the absurdity of prolific labellings happening in online dialogues (e.g. Nazi Hippies!) to the blurring of Left and Right political parties fueling increasing incoherent debate, to the sheer apocalyptic anxiety gripping so many. It's like the universe is a supreme masterful wrestler, putting us collectively in merciless after merciless hold, asking us to tap out, and us stubbornly refusing to accept a transformation of consciousness. But in the heart, duality collapses and multi-dimensionality unfurls. We engage the constant stream of wisdom of the guiding realm, Goddess Herself whispering on the gift-waves. We feel peace, knowing that we are a part of something greater that is also playing an immense part and guiding things always toward harmony, even through necessary dissolutions. And there, we can hear the voice of the Earth, Gaia-Sophia, awakening and awakening once again in us, guiding us toward a new civilization of peace, justice and vibrant health and joy.