The Sense of Curiosity and Continued Learning for the New Age
My vision of the New Age is one of a sense of oneness with the Earth, of being in community with others and with all life on Earth, of harmony and peace, of curiosity and continued learning, and of creativity. In my last post I elaborated on the expanded sense of creativity. Today I want to explore the breadth of curiosity and continued learning. As I previously mentioned, on our journey into the New Age we have much to learn and to unlearn. As described by Johan Calleman, we are leaving the world of dualistic thinking, of our automatic ways of thinking that have been our survival in this world of separation, separation so deep within us that it blocks our true connection to the Earth and the community of all life on Earth. Unlearning that which separates us will bring us into the new world of harmony and peace. Charles Eisenstein describes in great detail the world of separation that keeps us tied to our dualistic thinking and what is needed for us to break free of it.
Our learning begins within the community of those who seek to live sustainably with the Earth. This movement directs us with great diversity to many actions, to recycling and finding ways to avoid excessive packaging and consumption, to shopping, growing, cooking and living organically, to working together in mutual support in our projects of living and in overcoming our personal needs and struggles, to love each other in our diversity because each person has something to offer and teach, to decrease our carbon footprint by living with renewable energy, and to give back to the Earth more than we take. Our knowledge is incomplete, but as we move into the New Age our learning continues.
A second source of learning is to realize that our hunter-gatherer ancestors lived in this sense of harmony with the Earth and all life of the Earth, and that we have available to us ways to commune with and listen to the spirits of our ancestors to discover and learn from them how they lived in this oneness with the Earth. These ways of communing and listening are through dreaming and both hypnotic and ecstatic trance. A number of writers, foremost among them Ervin Laszlo and Rupert Sheldrake, have shown us the existence of this Universal Mind, which Laszlo calls the Akashic Field and Sheldrake the Morphic Field. These fields or the Universal Mind are accessed through our dreams and trance experiences, altered states of consciousness that diminish the interference of our five senses. Our dreams and trance experiences open us to the Universal Mind that exists beyond our own limited mind, limited by our five senses, and open us to the visions of the distant past and the voices of the spirits of our ancestors and of the Earth. I have been writing about and teaching Ecstatic Trance, trance that opens us to this world of the spirits that has so much to teach us. Dreams and trance take us beyond the rational world that is limited by five senses and take us into the world of the sixth sense, of the spirits that become our guides and provide us with the intuitive knowledge that we need to move into the New Age.
To keep alive within us these spirit guides, a personal home altar as was used by our ancestors and is used by our current hunter-gatherers is a useful place for collecting the images and reminders of these spirit guides to keep them alive within us. On our trip to Peru we visited one home in which we saw a family altar ) of the family’s reminders of their human and animal spirit guides and a figure of the deity of abundance to whom they placed bits of food and other offerings to give thanks for what the Earth provides.
Our learning begins within the community of those who seek to live sustainably with the Earth. This movement directs us with great diversity to many actions, to recycling and finding ways to avoid excessive packaging and consumption, to shopping, growing, cooking and living organically, to working together in mutual support in our projects of living and in overcoming our personal needs and struggles, to love each other in our diversity because each person has something to offer and teach, to decrease our carbon footprint by living with renewable energy, and to give back to the Earth more than we take. Our knowledge is incomplete, but as we move into the New Age our learning continues.
A second source of learning is to realize that our hunter-gatherer ancestors lived in this sense of harmony with the Earth and all life of the Earth, and that we have available to us ways to commune with and listen to the spirits of our ancestors to discover and learn from them how they lived in this oneness with the Earth. These ways of communing and listening are through dreaming and both hypnotic and ecstatic trance. A number of writers, foremost among them Ervin Laszlo and Rupert Sheldrake, have shown us the existence of this Universal Mind, which Laszlo calls the Akashic Field and Sheldrake the Morphic Field. These fields or the Universal Mind are accessed through our dreams and trance experiences, altered states of consciousness that diminish the interference of our five senses. Our dreams and trance experiences open us to the Universal Mind that exists beyond our own limited mind, limited by our five senses, and open us to the visions of the distant past and the voices of the spirits of our ancestors and of the Earth. I have been writing about and teaching Ecstatic Trance, trance that opens us to this world of the spirits that has so much to teach us. Dreams and trance take us beyond the rational world that is limited by five senses and take us into the world of the sixth sense, of the spirits that become our guides and provide us with the intuitive knowledge that we need to move into the New Age.
To keep alive within us these spirit guides, a personal home altar as was used by our ancestors and is used by our current hunter-gatherers is a useful place for collecting the images and reminders of these spirit guides to keep them alive within us. On our trip to Peru we visited one home in which we saw a family altar ) of the family’s reminders of their human and animal spirit guides and a figure of the deity of abundance to whom they placed bits of food and other offerings to give thanks for what the Earth provides.
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