From “The Return of the Divine Feminine” Facebook page.

“The power of quiet is great. It generates the same feelings in everything one encounters. It vibrates with the cosmic rhythm of oneness. It is everywhere, available to anyone at any time. It is us, the force within that makes us stable, trusting, and loving. It is contemplation contemplating. Peace is letting go – returning to the silence that cannot enter the realm of words because it is too pure to be contained in words. This is why the tree, the stone, the river, and the mountain are quiet.”

—Malidoma Patrice Somé, “Of Water and The Spirit,” (Penguin Group, New York, 1994)

http://globalascensioncenter.org/

What is the Global Ascension Center?

The Global Ascension Center is a non-profit organization which is establishing its first major project: to acquire land where a Person, Source, and Earth become One. A Center where there is no distinction between what is mundane and what is Sacred. Where there is no separation between the person and his or her environment.

All of us have heard of Sacred Land. Sacred Land is something that we often associate only to Native People’s from around the world who consider all of Gaia a Living, Conscious Being.

Yet we, in the West, have lost our capacity to see our Earth this way.

Due to our cultural viewpoint of being separate and independent from Earth, Land and Environment, we built a society under the tenets  of “taming and exploiting” of our Earth.  The results are personally felt in stressful city living, as well as globally with widespread pollution, and numerous social problems.

By the time Westerners realized that Sacred Land was to be revered and protected, most of it was indeed built on and destroyed.

Fortunately, we now know that there is something very special about those locations. Around the planet millions of dollars are spent every year as individuals travel long distances to reach, and experience, Sacred Land. Their pilgrimages take them to a location where they can have a larger than life experience, a reconnection with their own divinity, with Source, or even with Gaia.

Yet that connection can be achieved by any of us, anywhere we are. Not only that, but it can be created in conjunction with the beings who inhabit the land. The trees, the animals, the bugs… all have a conscious awareness of their place on the planet. The planet itself is recognized by most cultures to have its own identity and consciousness. Gaia, Pachamama, Madre Tierra.

Here in the West, we have lost that ability. The ability to be one with our environment. To reconnect with our Earth. And we look for it thousands of miles away, at some Sacred Land location. We go there passively, expecting something to be given to us. Or we go in thinking we need to do stuff to the land in order to “heal” it. We leave bits of ourselves there, our vibrational luggage, and sometimes even objects such as crystals, photographs, or markings that we were there. Sometimes we take with us stones, or other objects from the Sacred Land.  All this we do to connect and stay connected with that higher vibrational environment.

The Global Ascension Center is a place where we carry out a real time journey of remembering how to be one with our environment at a very physical level. How we can take any land, raise our own vibration, raise the land’s vibration if it needs it, and reconnect with it at a higher level of awareness.

“To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.” ~ Osho

We need suffering in order to see the path. The origin of suffering, the cessation of suffering, and the path leading to the cessation of suffering are all found in the heart of suffering. If we are afraid to touch our suffering, we will not be able to realize the path of peace, joy , and liberation. Don’t run away. Touch your suffering and embrace it. Make peace with it. The Buddha said, “The moment you know how your suffering came to be, you are already on the path of release from it.” If you know what has come to be and how it has come to be, you are already on the way to emancipation…

~ Thích Nhất Hạnh

May what I do flow from me like a river,
no forcing it and no holding back,
the way it is with children.

Then in these swelling and ebbing currents,
these deepening tides moving out, returning,
I will sing you as no one ever has,
streaming through widening channels
into the open sea.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross

To see a fine lady upon a white horse.

Rings on her fingers and bells on her toes.

She will make music wherever she goes.

It takes courage to be who you are, to be completely authentic, when this is not reflected back to you by those around you. And it is sometimes difficult to recognize what is truly authentic in ourselves. But this is the way to freedom. Those who have the ability to encourage and guide others in this undertaking are to be treasured.

Past the Cusp of Summer

 August 2006

 Just past the cusp of summer,

The sunlight slices at a wider angle

Through the soft cushion of cool air.

It is still warm to the skin.

The daisies are saying goodbye dryly.

The last peony is browning and limp.

A fresh dampness arises from the grass.

It mixes with the smell of the sun-drenched wood of the windowsill.

A small plane drones.

There’s an unmistakable slowing down.

When I take time to notice,

I will see flies

Bumbling slowly,

Easily crushed by a hand.

I know from watching, listening, smelling,

As year spirals upon year,

That Summer is folding in upon herself,

Taking her warm wings south,

The iridescent ones,

The ones that formed a portal to

All the faerie kingdom only on Midsummer Night.

— Pamela Ann McDowell Saylor

I said what about my eyes

God said Keep them on the road.

I said what about my passion

God said Keep it burning.

I said what about my heart

God said Tell me what you hold inside it

I said pain and sorrow

He said… stay with it.

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

–Rumi

“Being self-luminous
You cause everything to shine;
Delighting in your form
You fill the universe with delight;
Rocking with your own bliss
You make the whole world dance with joy.”

~ Utpaladeva