transmutation with Sandra Ingerman

intention + harmony + love + concentration + focus + union + imagination = transmutation

Sandra Ingerman offers this formula to recall our light and let it shine forth. 

In Shamanism we are taught that everything is connected. Everything that is alive has a spirit and is connected in a web of life. 

Begin to get in touch with your true nature which is light by putting on some relaxing soothing music and allow yourself to get into a quiet place. 

• Take some deep breaths bringing you to a centered place where you will be able to experience a state of harmony and love. 
• Allow yourself to go inside holding the intention that you want to experience the light that shines within your being.
• This will bring you into a state of union with your creator or the power of the universe. 
• Keep your focus and concentrate on your intention. 
• Allow your imagination to help you feel and see your internal light. 
• Give yourself permission to let your light shine fully through you. 

This light is always there and cannot be used up.  The capacity to share your light and be filled by it yourself is endless. Your light cannot be destroyed or taken from you. You do not have to worry about becoming depleted, as the source of this light is infinitely abundant.

Should you wish to continue this practice and share it Sandra has also been generous enough to share this incredible transfiguration ceremony.

May you be filled with light and love and radiate it in your daily life. Blessings always!

wisdom of the stars

It has been a cosmic roller coaster of a week - starting with the full moon and closing with my birthday and the NEOWISE comet peaking on July 12. Happy Birthday to me and what a special gift it is to have my very own stellar fireworks.

Newcomer Comet Neowise, North Wildwood NJ on July 8, 2020 by Chris Bakley

Formally named Comet C2020 F3 NEOWISE by NASA, the newly-discovered comet has been visible in the early hours before sunrise this July. And now it will also be visible in the night sky for the next ten days. Check out this Comet Watch site to track it in your area.

The event is truly a once-in-a-lifetime experience - NASA estimates the comet takes about 6,800 years to complete its path around the sun. Starting this weekend it will be visible to viewers in the Northern Hemisphere in the evening just after sunset. 

How wonderful to have this year's birthday marked by such a spectacular event. Seeded from the stars and lighting up the heavens to shine down on us. Glory be to me! to me! to me!

What a delight it is to have this perfectly timed happy event to mark my auspicious day when the heavens are most closely aligned to my original date of birth. Blessings and gratitude always.

2020 midyear boon

This July full moon has many different names across the world. It's called the Buck Moon, Thunder Moon, Hay Moon, Mead Moon and Ripe Corn Moon.

Buddhists, Hindus and Jains traditionally celebrate Guru Purnima as a day of grace and new possibilities dedicated to all spiritual and academic teachers.

lunar eclipse of July 2020 in Capricorn

Halfway through 2020 the world is still scrambling to salvage what we can of our toxic lives and poisoned planet. The pandemic, lack of clarity, corrupt politicians, failing economies, and bad government and management reflect clearly all that is broken in our systems and human behavior. 

I know how it feels like to let go of everything that does not serve me and make room for the new.

I know how it feels like to fill my mind with loving, life-affirming visions and re-align

with my most optimum future to better serve all of humanity.

I know how it feels like to surround myself with people that are

inspiring, elevating, and know how to have fun and have my back.

I know how it feels like to experience infinite fulfillment and joy. ~ Rosan Cruz/Mataji

Extreme choice and radical change are forced on us now after years of refusing to solve many escalating and growing concerns. Left with little choice maybe we can now collaborate and build community as we are intended to do.

May light and love prevail in honor and compassion for all.

GLO-CAL | the inter-bonding of global & local

"In this quiet where the seismographs register half the usual vibrations and the skies are blue over Beijing, we are discovering the power of the glocal." ~ Kayleigh Stack, Bearing Witness to Earth

The inherent power of Glo-Cal - global and local are not separate or mutually exclusive.

Under quarantine, in isolation or sheltering in place human beings are reaching out across the globe to connect and build communities in ways we have not done in ages.

Due to state and county lock downs many have resorted to supporting local growers and businesses in a variety of creative ways.

Including planting their own edible gardens and re-growing food from usually discarded scraps. Recycling and repurposing what we have instead of trashing stuff all too easily.

Social media, smart phones and online platforms like Google, Skype and Zoom are all blowing up with our need to stay in touch however way we can with family, friends and coworkers.

We manage somehow to congregate in virtual reunions. In the wake of former filial get togethers we come together in alternative options for many life events. Weddings. Funerals. Births. Anniversaries. For lots of occasions and causes.

The crisis and confusion of these past months have brought many together in creative and interesting ways. We manage to cobble up fragmented and multifaceted webs of familiar or strange relations.

In virtual chat rooms all over the world we reach out in interconnectedness. As human beings faced with this deadly pathogen we are made more conscious of daily life choices.

As we gaze into each other, eye-to-eye, smile-to-smile across social distancing may we find a new sense of ourselves as a global humanity living on this incredible planet.

One Earth. One humanity. We are all in this together.

dismantling manifest destiny

This week's episode of The Shaman's Cave centered on the solstice - summer for us here in the northern hemisphere and winter in the south.

In a wind journey that wound us back to the previous solstice in September, we witnessed what seeds we planted then that are now growing in our gardens this summer.

manifest dismantling

September is my fave month because it opens on day one with Mahala's birthday and my labor day. My special request for the month was to call on Spirit of the Higher Realms to share their message of light and love as their willing conscious channel.

troubled times, troubled dreams

Trouble with sleep? Not surprising, given the corona coaster we are on. Giving us quite a few wild rides of our lives. Some expert advice could help us better understand what is showing up for us in dream time. 

Sleep & Dreams online webinar

Former Technion President Professor Peretz Lavie will talk about the correlation between stress and dreams, and how repetitive images of the crisis, amplified in the age of 24/7 visual media, are creeping into our nocturnal wanderings.

Dr. Qanta Ahmed will share her recent experiences treating critically ill COVID-19 patients with sleep disorders. She will also describe how fear of infection and economic hardship have led to a spike in insomnia and offer remedies for a good night’s sleep.

worldly wild women

Women hold a vocabulary

For joy in their mouths like

A field of lavender and bee bellies

Buzzing a hum back into the earth. 

© Liza Wolff-Francis 2018 

June 5 penumbral lunar eclipse & Sagittarius full moon

To wake up each morning filled with such gratitude. Expressing heart felt and soul defining grateful appreciation. Washed in the grace of my own joy and happiness. 

To keep my attention directed and focused here. However dismayed, disgruntled, disjointed the wobble of the world is. 

To accept everything is alright. All is as it should be. In the rumble and rabble of pieces falling into place. 

Reflection. Revelation. Revolution. As the world turns and we spin along.

*Liza Wolff-Francis (Albuquerque, NM) is a poet and writer with an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Goddard College. She has a chapbook called Language of Crossing (Swimming with Elephants Publications) which is a collection of poems about the Mexico-U.S. border.

be the light + come from love

Could it be so simple? Be a light bearer. Love and be loved.

In non-ordinary reality we can journey back in time to our ancestors or forward to meet our descendants. We can benefit from the wisdom and guidance they can share with us here today.

A helpful piece of ancestral wisdom we can apply in this challenging time. A contribution we may share with our descendants. A healing practice of our descendants that can help us.

an image we carry in our hearts of a better time among better folk

When the nation lets a petty tyrant and petulant peepee baby discard a 40 year tradition in the highest office of the land do we hold our light high and bright?

When some would rather party for a weekend at the beach or a backyard barbeque than focus on the 100,000 lives lost in the pandemic what is it we are memorializing?

How are each one of us being as individuals and as part of our communities?

What will it take to wake up? What will it take to be the change that needs to happen?

Who are we being? What are we doing?

What have our ancestors built? How are we affected and influenced?

How are we in our world now? What will our descendants be like?

Simple is not always easy.

caring for our carers

Our carers are now doubly at risk - saving lives in this pandemic and blocking those protesting stay at home orders. How insane can this be?

#HeroesAct2020

Stay-at-home orders have been mandated in nearly every state in the country to prevent the novel coronavirus from spreading through social contact.

green & growing

I came across this image recently and was reminded that we are spiritual beings having a human experience.

The yama cautions against possessiveness while the niyama asks us to focus on contentment. Both send the same message, appreciate and be grateful for what is. So it is. So it shall be.

Vis medicatrix naturae or "the healing power of nature" as natural medicine is the practice that organisms have the innate capacity to heal themselves, given a nurturing and supportive environment.

At our current Shift Network course with Sandra Ingerman, we are learning to transmute our energy to feed the collective with love, light, positive thoughts, and beautiful dreams. To individually contribute to bringing about a greener and healthier world.

Story of Flowers
Many different flowers are growing beautifully and strongly in this world. Taking their roots in the earth, sprouting, blooming, pollination by birds and insects, living on in spite of rain, wind and storms. They pass on the baton of life, rebirth and decay. Everything is so in a continuous, endless cycle. This is the story and message of this animation.

Produced by AMKK
Directed by Azuma Makoto
Illustration by Katie Scott
Animation by James Paulley