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09 01 2021

A Case for Accessing our Indigenous Knowing

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For thousands of years, human beings have been seeking to find their place in the Universe. We can see from the remaining indigenous spiritual practices that this involved an interactive, interconnected, and symbiotic relationship with all life on earth and in the universe as well as a relationship with a higher dimensional being who looked out for them and all life. From that we see the development of many religions which gave a higher dimensional Being some powers over the humans with the agreement of protecting them. Today, in the western world, many humans have abandoned the belief in a religious God/Goddess. Some are regaining a greater personal awareness of the network of all life on earth of which we are a part. Some still believe in the ironic phrase of humans having the dominion over all life. The latter have simply abandoned their responsibility to the earth and her animals, trees etc.

Some say we are in an extinction event. If the majority of humans decide not to change their ways environmentally, and communally, then our species will die as this planet becomes unable to support life as we have known it. Environmentally so that other species and humans can survive and thrive on this planet. Communally so that we each treat every other person as we would like to be treated as in equal rights for all humans regardless of race, religion, sexual orientation, handicap etc. To this list I will add the need for humans to come back into right relationship with nature as in the manner of indigenous cultures. What does that mean? It means recognizing that we are part of an interconnected, interactive, and symbiotic whole of all life. We are one of the elements of life on earth and certainly not the most important one. This awareness would change how we work with the land, protect natural areas, limit the use of water, clean the air, protect the rights of animals, birds etc.

In his book, Sand Talk, Tyson Yunkaporta talks about how his indigenous people comprehend these matrices of connection with other humans, with the land, with animals, plants etc. This knowing helps them keep balanced and respectful in the actions that they take with others in these matrices of connections. This in-the-moment knowing of the interactive, interconnected, and symbiotic relationship that we have with all life is critical in the survival of all humans, not just the indigenous peoples. Humans must become present to these matrices of connection of which we are a part if the species is to thrive on this planet.

I have been using another language-based tool to open myself up to my own sense of my Beingness, to what it is that I came here to be and do. The Templates of the Language of Creation allow me to define what words, persons, concepts mean to me. These new definitions are always life-generating and life-enhancing. Therefore, my thinking becomes deeper and wider in how I think, and how I function in the world. To explore the Language of Creation and its Templates, go to www.loc-institute.com/

06 01 2021

Empathy and Your Empathic Response

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by Elektra Porzel, Director Language of Consciousness Institute

Human beings were originally created to be and are one connected whole. They were and are the individual spirits comprising one Human Soul. Like the cells of a human body, where each cell acts on behalf of the healthy functioning of the system, the organ and the whole body; each Spirit likewise impacts the health of the One Human Soul. At one time humans lived in communities where they recognized that unity and those interconnections. We respected all life and related to it as part of the same whole that we were part of. What happened for one, happened for all. In those days, the word ‘empathy’ was not needed in the languages of that time, because the people experienced themselves as interconnected with each other and all life. They ‘got’ their unity with the Eternal, with the Universe, with each other and with all life.

Even at late as 2000 years ago, this can be seen in the Aramaic language and the ancient Hebrew language. Somehow, somewhere, sometime since then, the human species lost its sense of connection and of being in unity with all life. Probably around the same time, our languages started to reflect a separation from other humans and other forms of life. Remember in 1966, when Time magazine’s cover asked, ‘Is God Dead?’ I believe that this reflected the separation from religious institutions that Americans were evidencing. Our religious institutions no longer connected the people to the eternal and to all life. We were separate in our religions and our religions were separate from our daily lives. We had begun to experience our own and our family’s survival as being on our back alone. “Pull yourself by your own bootstraps’ battled ‘it takes a village to raise a child’ in the American history. The lone cowboy is honored. The matriarch or patriarch of a family or village is not.

The drive to live in community has been evidenced for centuries. In the 19^th century there were several notable attempts to create communities of unity. Each of those communities were separate from the larger society though, so that sense of unity of connection did not translate to the larger culture. In the 20^th century, there arose other attempts to form community that did not either create a sense of unity in the members or had leaders that did not protect the lives of all the people. It feels to me that this deep craving for living in connection with others is unity is a core remembrance of the human species of the time when we lived in unity with all life and with the eternal. We would not have that longing, that craving, if that experience had not existed in the history of humanity. It persists because we crave to be in connection with others and with the eternal in a field of unity.

In this century, we are searching for ways to be in connection with other humans, with all life and with the eternal. One word that is used to express an experienced connection with another is the word empathy.

“Empathy is the glue of connection under all conditions and all circumstances. Empathy is the tether between all life that has life be alive and vital. It is also what protects the species from extinction. Ask any good therapist. When a person can be comforted in times of anguish, their system returns from a traumatizing experience faster. This is empathy. It doesn’t matter if it is called sympathy or compassion. We are reclaiming the word empathy through our craving to be able to be connected to the unity of life again.” Tantra Maat

Some of us are called an Empath. That’s a title that refers to our ability to recognize another’s experience physically, mentally, spiritually etc. There are many kinds of Empaths. Being an Empath does not mean that you act on that awareness, it just means that that specific sensitivity of awareness is a capability that you carry. It does not mean that you make an active Empathic Response. Empathy is the activity of awareness of connection. Your Empathic response is the action that you take when you have experienced Empathy.

Now, because we all connected, it feels like we have an empathic response when we experience compassion or sympathy. We say that we pray for another or that we are holding them. Given those statements, it seems that we are more compassionate that we are active in response. What would it be if, when sensing this compassion for a state of another, we chose to take action that was life-enhancing or life-generating for another? Perhaps it is a physical action like protecting someone from injury or trauma or assisting them in healing. The stories about sick animals being helped by volunteers are good examples of Empathy and Empathic Response. The volunteer recognizes that the animal is in a trauma situation. They take action to care for the animal until they are safe and healed. That is a in-the-world empathic response.

What if your Empathic Response is more in the energetic realms? I sometimes image that my intention/prayer goes up into the Eternal/God/Goddess and then light/healing energy comes down from the Eternal onto the person bringing them peace, healing, etc. what I want for them or what they have asked for.

We are one. We are interconnected with all life whether we consciously recognize that or not. Think about it. Sense in yourself what are your registers for Empathy in your body, in your energetic field? What have been your Empathic Responses? These are actions that you take that acknowledges your interconnection with others. These are always something life-enhancing, life-generating. We are one Human Soul. What we do for another we do for the whole of us. Make your Empathic Responses life-enhancing, life-generating for your fellow Spirits in the One Human Soul.

02 04 2021

Moving Outward in Your Fibonacci Spiral

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Have you ever looked at the Fibonacci Spiral, and at its number sequence? There are small boxes in the middle and a spiral that starts at the very smallest boxes. Then the size of the boxes expand as the spiral expands. This spiral is also called the Golden Mean and is the basic structure of all life on earth. The numbers go like this: 0, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89… Each number is the result of adding the two numbers before it. Each number therefore includes the number before it and as the spiral moves it includes the spaces before it as well.

To me, the smallest boxes seem like life in any culture. Our cultures, our religions, our families define what we should do, think, and be. This is what our brain has recorded as we grew. Another name for our mind at this point is our historic mind. That historic mind simply sends our thoughts along the neural pathways that have been already laid down. If we allow those neural pathways of the historic mind to guide us, then we can expect to do, be and have what our society/religion/family has told us to be, do and have. The truth is we do not have to allow our brain to operate only in the neural pathways laid down in childhood.

If you feel that you have other places to go, that you have other ways to be, that you have other things to do, then it is time to create new neural pathways in your brain and your body. You might think, well that is easier said than done. Those neural networks of your historic mind are ruts in your brain; these are your default thinking processes because they are automatic. You see it in your reactions, so quick, something just said or done before you can think differently. Response takes a pause, a choice. It is in response where you start to move beyond the borders of your historic personality, your historic mind, your previously accepted lifestyle, and viewpoints. You start to move from 1 to 2 to 3 to 5…to 89 and beyond.

It takes choice to move out of old patterns. Choice to give up something – like watching tv for an hour – to do something new – like cook a new healthy recipe. Renounce and act. It is a formula that works. Renouncing one habit to make room for a new one! I also use the Creation Exercises from the Language of Creation to start claiming more of what I want in my life. The Creation Exercises put a stop to our automatic reactions as they put our capacity to create back in our own hands in our direct link with Creation. In our Creation Exercises, we write what we crave for our life that is life-enhancing for us, life-generating for us. We access our own deepest wisdom in our Craving Exercises, and we are in the present moment as the Observer in the Observing Exercises. Interested in learning more about writing about your craved life? Go to http://www.loc-institute.com/product/tools-for-learning-the-creation-exercises/

While I have experienced what it is like to move on the spiral and include more, I anticipate the sense of expansiveness that could come with going further out on that Fibonacci Spiral. What is possible for us as we claim more of whom we came here to be, to do and to have? What would it be like to be an 89? That individual would have moved beyond his/her historic personality and life viewpoints. They would be in a vertical connection with Creation/their God/Goddess. They would look like everyone else, no perfection here physically. They would still function in our present-day reality but not be of it, not in reaction to it. They would still do the dishes and take out the garbage. They would stand in their own truth. They would embody their Sovereign Being, that Soul who chose to incarnate on earth. A person who lives in the spiral at 89 includes everything in the early parts of their spiral. They include all of their experiences the 1, 2, 3, 5, 8 up to 89. The difference is that the space that these historic experiences take up are miniscule compared to the vast field of the 89. Those historic thoughts, experiences of the early part of the spiral of our life, have no power to direct our 89’s actions or thoughts.

What would it be like? Well, that is different for everyone. Honestly, yes, my reality and my sense of the space of my Spirit, my landscape will be different than yours. My sense is that as we expand our field, as we move along the Fibonacci Spiral of our life, we include more within it. There is unity where more is included, not excluded. I believe that 89 is a reachable state. Make it a goal for the rest of your life. Include more and have life-enhancing actions, thoughts and experiences as your measure of what you want in your life. Then you can BE more of whom you came here to be, DO more of what you craved to do and have more than you ever believed you could have.

I highly recommend that you start to and continue to write the Creation Exercises. These Creation Exercises are the only time that I stated to myself what I most deeply craved. Try writing them! Imagine what the life you crave would include. Use the alchemical formula of the Creation Exercises to open you up to more…more of life’s opportunities, life’s graces, life’s synchronicities. To learn more about the Creation Exercises of the Language of Creation, go to http://www.loc-institute.com/product/tools-for-learning-the-creation-exercises/

01 04 2021

A New Year A New Focus

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In 2020, we all have experienced changes in our lives that were dramatically different than in previous years. Sometimes these changes brought different commitments to the use of our time or how we relate with others. Many of these changes were forced on us such as staying away from family and friends, monitoring our children’s or grandchildren’s online education, wearing of masks and keeping six feet away from each other. These changes also shifted our perceptions of our role with others in our communities and the nation as was seen by the Black Lives Matter marches and the high turnout for voting in November. Our holiday plans changed and we both missed them and found other ways to ‘be’ in the holiday mood. Loneliness and sadness brought many to tears as they yearned to be with family or sick friends.

No matter what we experienced, we all began to see our lives in a different light. Some have chosen to view much with suspicion and negativity. Those conspiracy theories and fake news have not helped all of us to move into more sustainable future for everyone. They probably have nuggets of truth in them, yet they do not promote creating a world that works for everyone. Some people are choosing to take their 2020 experiences and build a life that is life-enhancing, life-generating – one that they deliberately make better. Are these hopes for a different and better life like our old New Year’s Resolutions? Maybe no and probably yes – there is something different in how we come to these Resolutions this year. For myself, I began to wonder how my resolutions might be different.

Let’s take a look at a common one – getting healthier. Typically, a lot of people start this one and lose momentum within a month or so. What might shift our level of commitment this year? How could our experiences of 2020 support us in keeping our 2021 Resolutions? In 2020, I was studying with a Damanhur Meditation class, and they raised the idea of Renouncing something so as to bring some new commitment into our lives. Something is ended so that something new can begin. So, I thought what would I renounce in order to be healthier in 2021? My lattes? Complacency with the idea that I always have a hard time with weight loss, or Sitting instead of moving? I chose to renounce the latter and the other two will probably occur soon as well, though that is not my focus for now.

So far, this is an inner change for me, a kinder approach to me. I renounce sitting/resting instead of finding some movement to do. Yes, I am only in Day 4 of 365 days of 2021 and each day I have done something – maybe its yoga, maybe its Pilates for seniors, maybe its walking. I am listening to my body and how it reacts to this new daily movement, as it moves instead of resting. I made a commitment on my calendar to exercise every day in the morning. I make myself get up, check out Silver Sneakers on YouTube and pick something. I write in my calendar what I did. I call these calendar commitments and evidence notes, my dates with Creation/God/Goddess. They are my larger commitment to that connection I have with my Source, that which created me. For me, bringing in this element of my life into my commitment to renounce resting instead of movement – well it ups the ante and my support system as well. Afterall, I am here because my Spirit wanted a life here on this planet. I can make this life better by feeling physically more able to move and play. So, me and Creation are together in renouncing resting and committing to movement. Yes!

What would you renounce as you seek to bring something new into your life? Procrastination? A favorite treat? A reluctance to commit? It’s not too late to look back on 2020 and decide what you want to do differently in 2021. Maybe its renouncing self-isolation so as to commit to reaching out to others – even on Zoom. Maybe it is renouncing just thinking about how you want to support local food sourcing and committing to being active in local movements for sustainable food for all? Maybe its renouncing suspicion and putting your ‘extra’ time into making a change? Maybe you are like me and renounce sitting and commit to enjoy your physicality more? Maybe???

It is time to take what we learned in 2020, renounce the old and make room for the new.

As an additional support, I write the Creation Exercises that come from the Language of Creation by Tantra Maat. They look like word templates where you write phrases that are life-enhancing and life-generating. They give each of us access to our deeper wisdom and our larger dreams. They are alchemical formulas that support us in accessing our dreams and supporting their manifestation in our lives now. To learn to more about the Language of Creation, visit http://www.loc-institute.com/

I would love to hear your stories! What are you renouncing? What is the new activity that is taking place now?