Once when I was asked to be on a telesummit and create a topic for conversation, I took a casual poll asking what people might be interested in knowing more about. I was expecting questions about the Collectives of Light or my history or I don’t know what. But there was a question a friend posed, which has stayed with me. I’ve been letting it percolate for some time, letting it rest lightly as I go about all the other everyday things. I’m paraphrasing, but it was something like How is cosmic consciousness or expanded experience of reality useful? Or how can being in connection with higher realm beings/collectives of energy help us here? Essentially, how is it all practical? I loved the questions!
It feels like I could write a whole book about it, but I’ll try to be brief here. The thing is, if I’m being totally transparent, it’s sometimes hard to navigate everyday stuff. I often don’t know what day it is and sometimes need to remind myself of the month. I keep a paper calendar in addition to an online work calendar because it helps me be physical. It helps me ground. And simple things like that help me track time-based structure. I’m always present when I’m supposed to be for client sessions and other important things. One could argue that all becomes less useful as one experiences extraordinary spaces while still embodied, but I believe we’re meant to stay in the body, not go out of body. We need the body (and the mind) to support us in the process.
I had plenty of years being out of body - especially during dream time, whereby I had prophetic dreams and was often in higher realm experience (even though I didn’t know that’s what it was at the time). I also had recurring nightmares, all of which of course is informed by daytime experiences. In that phase (many years of childhood and early adult), I’m not sure any of it was useful. It scared me. And it only made me more unhappy with the reality of my everyday experience, which was in high contrast to the lightships and iridescent Light Body, limitless flight kind of experiences during dream time. I would see myself floating above my body, then take off and go to a new experience. Was that useful? Probably not, except that the “dreams” were like breadcrumbs, planting seeds in awareness, trying to remind me that there’s much more than we think is true of our life here. And all the flying dreams supported the flight response which wasn’t possible in waking hours. So that’s no small thing. But all of this is in hindsight. At the time, I really just thought I had a highly active imagination. :)
Fast forward to the incredible expansion of all reality that is truly hard to put into words. I would sit plastered to an old wing-back chair having “channeling” experiences that are too vast to go into here. But I wasn’t checked out of life. It was the opposite. I felt truly alive for the first time. I loved life. I wanted to be here. I felt connection in a way I’d never felt with another human. And, over time, immense trust, openness, huge compassion, the deepest empathic sense, and unconditional acceptance and love so big I still cry every time I feel it or think about it. Not just unconditional love and acceptance of me, but of and for all life. Not that all was rosy. I was going through very hard things at the same time. But it was the first time I’d ever been so aware that all perceptions of experience exist and are possible in the very same place. I was living it. And my physical illnesses were healing. And my emotional landscape was changing. I thought I was losing it. But the times I was inward and “channeling” were so beautiful, so joyful, so peaceful, and so healing, and so full of a new understanding and broad perspective that I welcomed it all. And the connection with myself and the Collectives of Light helped support me in having very new kinds of connection possible in human relationships (and plants, pets, etc).
I really miss those early days sometimes. The ability to spend hours totally immersed in the quantum Field, receiving information, healing, and getting to know different spaces of consciousness in different realms. But that phase changed because it had to. At least it was a necessary change for me. While experiencing higher realms and oneness is highly pleasurable, I don’t want to spend my whole life on this planet in a chair! I was sick for many years and was severely limited, mostly confined to bed or a recliner in pain. So as I was healing, I had time to be inward. But now that I'm having a different experience of life, I don’t want to sit around while life happens around me. I want to create, to do, to express, to love, to share, to invite people to explore their own limitless essence while still being grounded, to explore where the edges of capacity are and how those edges change, to soak up every second of this life from those expanded states of being (and sometimes challenging, far less expanded states) while in my body, not out floating around out in the multiverse.
So, that’s what I aim to continue doing as much as possible. Is it becoming bizarre to have this sense of being in a chaotic world? For sure. Is it useful? Yes! What can be gained from communing with higher realms of awareness (however one experiences that, whether it’s Collectives of Light or a sense of higher Self or a new way of feeling)? Well, healing, gratitude, grace, peace, calm, joy, greater creativity, abundant love, excitement about life, pleasure in everyday beauty, creating with energy, an ability to be with hard things in new ways, a deeper sense of connection with and new perspective of self and all life, and a sense of meaning. If any of us can feel any of those things even for the briefest of moments, that’s no small thing. Do I ignore all the suffering and hate? I know it exists. I’ve experienced varying degrees. I know generalities of what’s going on that’s absolutely horrible. Do I turn away if I’m immediately in the witness space of suffering. No. I can’t even let a bug meet its physical end in a pool. We could debate about whether or not I’m interfering with the path, but I can’t just swim around while a bee is drowning. So, it’s rare that I ever get to actually do a lap. :) I’m the weirdo in the pool everyone laughs at because I’ve got as many bugs on my fingers as possible while treading water, like a circus act, as they dry out for flight and a new lease on life (or as it becomes clear it’s too late for them). An entirely different kind of exercise. So, long story, no. If it’s in my path, I can’t ignore it. Whenever possible, whenever I feel like I can take some sort of action physically to alleviate suffering, I do so. The rest of the time, I choose to do work that helps create conditions that allow for more people to have their own experience of renewed aliveness of being and embodied energetic presence. And I spend time in energetic space whereby change can occur in different ways. A new paradigm requires at least an openness to a new state of being and a new way of creating.
For me, it’s all highly useful and highly practical (if grounded). While there are many tools that have helped me, none have been as vast as the differences in my life which have grown from the intimate connection with energy, with frequency, with light. If what is unseen in the non-physical can help create conditions for joy, peace, new kinds of relations with people and all life, more creativity, the ability to imagine (and create) new systems, connection with higher infinite intelligence, compassionate presence, more balance, an exquisite ability to experience oneness, more compassion, more physical energy, more healing (physical, mental, emotional, spiritual), and on and on, then yes. I know this to be true. For me, it’s not only useful but crucial. It is the energetic template from which an entirely new paradigm of being is emerging.
Can it all simply be like parlor tricks? Telepathy, spoon bending, remote viewing, distance healing, bilocation, etc.? Sure. Of course. It can simply be done just for awe. It is all rather mind blowing when as a collective species we’ve all thought we were limited beings for so long. But what we do with what’s available and how we create is all individual choice. These are all completely natural states that are already possible here now. How one accesses and then creates and expresses from those states are up to the individual.
From my experience, what we do here matters. Not only for our own personal journey but for all life everywhere. What we think, feel, create—all of it matters. And also, especially, what we believe. Invite a softening in the belief system. It used to be that one needed to see to believe. Or one had to have research to believe. But what if inner experience is just as valid? Research will follow, seeing with open eyes will follow. There’s an invitation simply to invite more curiosity in all experiences. A curious nature softens space within and allows for new possibilities to emerge that were there all along. Almost every day, I used to be like You’ve got to be kidding me. This can’t be real. But it was so outrageous that I was curious as to what was going on. So I kept opening to it all.
So, I wholeheartedly believe that connection with our own energy and the energy of so called higher realms matters. It helps in a plethora of ways. I believe it’s one reason why we’re here. To unify our energetic and physical bodies, and to be aware we are doing so, and beyond that, to co-create with the process. If only to enrich the everyday experience of our time here, though there’s far more.
We’re at a time when it’s more possible for more people to be creating from these states and spaces of being. While I don’t currently teach groups steps for telepathy, bilocation, and those sorts of things, I do open as a conduit and offer group Fields of energy whereby one can be inward and have experiences of energetic realities beyond what’s been known to them before in order to support creating the pathways so one can then safely do so on their own. And I offer invite only (for now) Inner Alchemy Arcs where we explore more deeply. But by all means, please try to keep it light. Pun intended. All can be so serious so much of the time. Wherever and whenever possible, let’s be open to curiosity, and fun.
There are a couple current offerings should you want to open to the possibility of a new experience of yourself in relation with other folks also exploring. One is deeper, more cosmic, purely energetic, as we gather in an energetic Field. We will gather in a Summer Luminous Living Field during the month of June and the Summer Solstice (today is the last day for the 2 pay option). The other is a Sacred Sound Field with crystal singing Bowls for receiving while in community, here in Tucson. And of course, you can have a new experience in your own way any time you like, whether you’re plastered to a wing-back chair or hiking in the forest. However you are meeting life today, may all be in Beauty in the foundational energetic spaces for you.
