We are very excited about the upcoming Winter Sacred Space Celebration (Dec. 12) and the Seasonal Festive Dinner (Dec. 7). In many ways these express a culmination of the year in community.
The creative juices are flowing to manifest the Sacred Space, with a keen awareness of keeping the energy light, and creating the "yes" space. Lightwork creates beautiful and rich productions; the focus is on setting the energy of spirit, love and inspiration.
The Seasonal Festive Dinner, on Sunday, Dec. 7 at 7:00 pm at the Brock House, is a chance for the community to come together, dress up, and have someone else cook dinner! It is a relaxed evening of good food, enjoyable company and dancing.
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by Nov. 24 if you would like to join in!
Lightwork received more media attention this month when Julia Watson
was invited to be November's Guest Columnist on Vancity Foundation's
website ChangeEverything.ca. Check it out!
As well, all the Lightwork Levels are in progress currently. There is much learning, lightness and growth for all as the days get shorter and colder the light within us gets brighter and warmer.
Yes to all!
- Debbie Longley
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My process these days is around balance - tuning into how my body deals with all the commitments of my day, and finding ways to make it easier. I've found in the past that stress can be a spiral that is hard to break out of - it's easy to lose perspective when you 'become the stress'. Lately I have been monitoring this and have been finding ways to break the cycle. A well-placed nap or deep meditation relaxes my body and reduces the stress level. My priorities have been changing from the commitments being primary to my internal state being primary, which of course makes everything easier.
This time of year Lightwork Productions- the creative wing of Lightwork- focuses on the upcoming Winter Sacred Space Celebration. This event has a crew of inspired people working behind- and in front of- the scenes. There are many tasks to be shared in putting on an event like this, from brainstorming concepts, to editing video, practicing music, and all the little details. Yes, it is an exciting time!
The next Lightwork book is in the early stages of being edited. A lot of the material for Lightwork books and articles come from transcribing the audio recordings from Lightwork meditation classes. The next book will provide an introduction to energy awareness for beginners, and is partly a transcription of Level 1. Having the teachings in writing is very powerful and an effective way to preserve and share the information.
- Julia Thiessen
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This fall has come with spectacular colours! The maple trees’ massive golden leaves carpet the path along the aptly named Maple Valley Road. The fresh air and vibrant colours make trips to the ecovillage a welcome break from the city. Now that the summer visitors have lessened their weekend trips we are getting to know our neighbours on the regular water taxi run. We are learning that many people have been looking at our website and are very supportive and interested in what we are doing. It has been lovely to feel support from the wider island communities.
And just what have we been up to this month? Well, we’ve put in a new door on Hawk House. This one has windows on the top half of the door which allows more light to come in when we are lunching on a rainy day. We are continuing work on the cob building roof which means lots of harvesting logs, stripping and putting them in place. We’ve planted a grape vine and a blueberry bush and have been watching the rye cover crop slowly cover the potato patch.
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- Julia Watson
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Look to see the whole
The energy incarnate
The might of manifestation
The light of skies
The body of Earth
The balance of cosmos
In each and every Source resides
The might of manifestation
The light of skies
The ocean was like glass, so very calm, as I headed out into Clayoquot
Sound alone in my canoe. The life force energy that runs in the area
is incredible, and I had a great desire to go out there, to touch in
with it. I had many times before entered natural, sacred places to
recharge, but this one was a little bit different. I was wounded. I
was wounded and bleeding on an energy level, and I had no idea to what
degree until this trip revealed what was truly going on for me as
Spirit in-body.
I paddled out into the Sound, first across the riptide between Tofino
and Vargas Island, down the channel and out into the exposed water. My
heart was pounding as I left the protection of the inside of Vargas. I
knew that in a moment I would be in the open ocean swells. It was a
calm day, but the swells of the ocean are always there, and they were
about 15 feet across and an easy two or three feet deep, just rolling
in.
I floated over them easily as I paddled out, knowing that in an
instant, if the ocean had wanted to change its mind, the swells could
be unmanageable in an open boat, especially single-handed. But I was
in communication with the ocean, and it felt safe to make this crossing
at this time.
Before I canoe in open waters, I make sure I touch in with a spiritual
guide. It is a being that goes canoeing with me. It floats just off
the bow of the boat, and offers protection. It is there to communicate
with me or to warn me of about what is happening on an energy level.
I glanced at the calm ocean swells flowing in. I noticed the shoreline
and the huge kelp bed flowing easily, up and down and back and forth
with the ocean swells. I looked at the sky. It was cloudy and
constantly moving. The weather is constantly changing out there. It
was truly awesome.
I paddled for hours that morning, getting deeper and deeper into the
Sound, farther and farther away from any of the modern developments. I
came across a kelp bed that was so huge and healthy. Kelp beds are the
rainforests of the ocean in the Pacific Northwest. I was so happy to
see one in such good condition because so much of the water around
British Columbia is becoming polluted. But here, the kelp was
thick. It was so thick that when I tried to paddle my canoe through
it, I would get stuck occasionally on top of the kelp. I paddled
through the big bull kelp, as it sat on the surface, and reveled in the
amount of life that lived on and around it.
I had enough food and gear to be out there for a couple of weeks if I
needed to. I had no idea how long I would be. I was wounded. I had
been in a relationship for six years, with a child, which ended with my
wife getting involved with another man and getting into a family-type
relationship. This was incredibly painful for me because I loved her
so deeply. I knew that my time in Clayoquot Sound was not going to be
a holiday. This was time to do some work spiritually, because I could
not continue to live with the way my energy was running.
I paddled for hours that morning. I lost track of how many hours, but
I had put my boat in the ocean before daybreak, and the sun was getting
high in the sky. I didn't actually know where I was going to stop, but
when I saw a beach ahead, it looked like this was where I was meant to
be for that evening. It was totally isolated. There was no one
around. There were no boats nearby. Not a soul to be seen, and this
looked like the place where I needed to get my message.
The energy in the Sound was a little different these days. There had
been wolves on Vargas Island that had attacked a person, which had
never happened before. He was sent to the hospital and had many
stitches. He was in his sleeping bag when the wolf attacked him and
mauled his head. This was going through my mind as I approached the
beach. I was going to camp by myself. My body had a relative amount
of fear, but as Spirit, I knew I was exactly where I needed to be.
There was a little bit of surf coming onto the beach, not much at all,
and I easily controlled the canoe through the water and heard the sound
of the bow of the boat coming up onto the sand. I hopped out and
pulled the boat up. It was a beautiful beach with light grey sand and
a rock outcropping halfway down. Past the sand lay a thick mass of
first growth trees as far as I could see.
I turned and looked out. There were the few other islands I had passed
on the way out, and also the open Pacific Ocean. That life force
energy was extremely strong. I felt the energy on the beach and
realized that this was a powerful place, a power spot with lots of
beings around. I felt I was being watched, and as I walked around the
beach, I noticed the beach was covered in wolf tracks. They had been
here, and they had been here very recently.
I was aware they were still around. I could feel them watching me.
There was an aspect of fear, but also an aspect of being taken care of,
an understanding that there was something more here that I needed to
get.
After setting up camp, the sun broke through the clouds for the first
time that day, and it got hot. It got very hot very quickly. I peeled
off all of my clothes and did a run around the beach, touching into the
wildness inside. It was wonderful. I climbed on top of the rock
outcrop, the sand on either side, and felt the power of the place once
again. It was incredible.
It had been a very emotional last year, changing from a family of four,
as my wife had a child from a previous marriage, to being single half
the time, and a single father to my child the other half of the time.
It was wonderful to be raising her, but I was still going through the
grief of the loss of the family.
I turned deeply inward, stabilized my energy system, touched into the
energy of the place, and the wolf spirits were right there. They had a
message that was clear to me. That was an ancient, wild message:
"Protect yourself, or die."
For the past few months, I had felt my life force being drained away.
I was getting weaker. I realized that I could get sick and die if I
allowed it to continue. I was losing my power. I was giving my energy
away to a relationship that no longer existed. The grief and the loss
were draining my life force, and at that moment I realized that if it
continued like that, my body could die. It was a very real possibility.
The wolf spirits were making this blatantly clear to me. They were
showing it to me, and I heard it loud and clear. I thought about all
the people who go through the end of a relationships like this. I
thought of how many get so weak, and die. The Western medical
profession always has a rational medical explanation, but on an energy
level it was simply that their life force was bled away. They were too
wounded to continue.
I searched my energy system to find the wound, to find where the
bleeding was. To my amazement, I found two things. In my second
chakra, there was an open energy wound that I was not owning. It was
foreign energy creating a breach and I was bleeding my own personal
energy from the wound. I also found an energy cord plugged into my
third chakra that was still attached to the old relationship and I was
losing energy fast, here, as well. I was giving it away. It was being
drawn out of my space. This was serious and was the main source of the
depletion. There was no doubt in my mind that if I let it continue
like this, I did not really have a hope. The wolf spirits whispered
again, "Protect yourself, or die."
It was entirely clear what needed to happen. I realized the cord had
been there for a few years now, and it needed to go. I needed to sever
the cord and get my power back. With the support of the beings on that
beach that afternoon, I pulled the cord, I unplugged it, pulled it
right out of my third chakra, and destroyed it.
I had been trained for years how to do this, how to heal myself on this
level, but as I did that, a phenomenal energy shift happened. I ran
some gold energy through my third chakra to heal the rawness, and some
healing gold energy through the second chakra to heal and to stop the
bleeding of the energy and own the places that were un-owned. My body
collapsed. I stopped the bleeding, but now my body needed to recharge
with energy. I used the healing force of the beach to help and support
me as I turned up my energy and recharged.
I thanked the wolf spirits for being so supportive and triggering the
fear, which in turn helped me to see what was happening on a deeper,
more truthful level. This allowed me to make the energy shift in order
to heal myself. I so respected their fierceness.
I left the beach at daybreak. The sun had not come up yet, and it was
foggy. I paddled out into the fog and into the Pacific swells, which
were so calm I could hardly believe it. They were like glass. There
was no sound.
At one point after a couple of hours of paddling, the fog came in all
around me. I couldn't see anything except the huge, glasslike ocean
swells. It was so calm, they just rolled in, and I just floated over
them with such ease. There was no sky. There was no land. It was an
incredibly powerful moment for me. It was a communication with
Source. I felt that I was fully in Source's hands at that moment. I
felt that loving presence in every
molecule of my being.
This continued for hours, the only sound being my paddle as it gently
created little whirlpools behind the boat. I floated along with that
loving presence. The awesome power of it was just incredible. I felt
that I could be squashed by Source and nature in a heartbeat if so
desired, but at the same time and in that moment, feeling completely
safe, completely loved, completely at one. It was my gift after doing
the healing, and a chance to remember the message that I am always
supported, that Source is always there. This was my graphic, physical
and beautiful experience of that loving presence.
After that day, I got more and more powerful. My strength returned,
and I had truly shifted my energy and was healing the wounds. Things
would be much, much brighter from then on.
- Scott Robinson
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