Join Us! for the
Annual Winter Sacred Space Celebration
Friday, Dec. 12
7:00 - 9:00 pm
Join us for an evening of sacred celebration with sing-alongs, poetry, stories, dance and more. This is a truly unique and inspiring event.
Friends and family welcome.
Location: Trinity United Church in the Sanctuary
At the corner of Larch and 2nd Ave in the heart of Kitsilano
1805 Larch St, Van. BC
Lightwork is in festive mode, we are looking forward to our annual Festive Dinner and our Winter Sacred Space Celebration which many people at Lightwork have been putting lots of energy into the past number of weeks. We are very excited to share this creative event. In January the Lightwork Winter Retreat is happening near Tucson, Arizona at the Pocket Sanctuary. Our winter retreat is always a powerful time to be with community and take spirit to deeper and richer places within.
The Lightwork Healing Space continues right through December and January with the exception of Jan. 6. Private sessions are available during the winter break as well (winter break dates Dec. 13 - Jan. 18/09). Remember all of those in major Lightwork programs classes resume the week of Jan. 18/09.
- Scott Robinson
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In mid November I offered a 2 hour Energy Management session to 10 volunteers at the Crisis Centre where fellow student Tiffany Young is the volunteer coordinator. The class is based on a standard Introduction to Meditation class and covered centering, grounding, and energy field (aura). I worked with another fellow student, Gail Petersen, to rework the language to make it more accessible and applicable to this group of people. It went really well and I sure learned a lot from the process. This session was a great follow up to the session I offered at Hollyhock in September. I left Hollyhock excited about the possibility of developing a curriculum on energy management and meditation to take to non-profit and social change organizations. As soon as I set that intention this opportunity presented itself. I love conscious creations! So now with this 2 hour Energy Management curriculum established I am ready to offer it more widely to social change organizations. It would be a great addition for staff retreats. Organizations often bring in an outside speaker to supplement their retreat agendas. A few energy management tools would enhance every organization!
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Lightwork Productions is the creative wing of Lightwork. This December the crew is working on a new cutting edge production for the Winter Sacred Space Celebration. This year’s Sacred Space will involve rear-screen projection. Video will be projected onto a hand-crafted projection screen which allows performers to be silhouetted by video. The crew has been having lots of fun creating this dynamic show. Lightwork Productions is made up of a crew of people who share a spiritual practice, and this deep alignment creates the groundwork for the magic to happen.
- Julia Thiessen
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We’ve had great weather the last few trips to the ecovillage. A dry day allows us to get out and work on a variety of projects. We are making a clearing between Maple Valley Road and the tenting corridor. It is a large area designed to be big enough to act as a helicopter landing pad in the case of emergencies and can also double as a playing field. I’ll have my own Lightwork Ultimate team one day! We are using our new razor sharp scythe for the clearing. It may be an old school tool but it is highly effective. Though a bull dozer would be even faster it would be no where near as satisfying!
We’ve had some work done on our new truck Eddie. We’ve discovered that when driving on dirt roads it is important to keep the gas tank well above empty so that the drudge on the bottom of the tank doesn’t get pulled into the engine. Fortunately the new fuel filter was an inexpensive lesson! There is a young mechanic on the island whose family has lived on Hope Point for many years. He has been invaluable in helping to diagnose and repair our vehicles. Island living really emphasizes the importance of community and varied skill sets.
On Sunday, Dec 21 (the winter solstice!) we are having a ‘Christmas at the Ecovillage’ luncheon feast. We’ll be going up for the day and will have a community celebration of the season.
- Julia Watson
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if you would like to visit the Ecovillage.
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Daylight comes
All beings welcome the luminance
The night was dark
The ceiling was close
The world of fear nears its dawn, its end
I watch my fear like a hunter
I track its every move
I slay it bit by bit
As I find deeper truth, deeper power
Out of every night comes a dawn
Even when it feels like it will never happen
Happiness is a myth
Sadness is a myth as well
There is only one road
The way
And it exists outside of such limits
It transcends emotion altogether
A place where there is only one question
Am I in a state of transcendence
or a spiral down in darkness?
The dawn will come
For all
It is just a matter of consciousness
My family and I bought a small piece of property on the Big Island of
Hawaii, right in the shadow of the Kilauea Volcano. Most of the
property was actually "a'a", which is a type of lava that is quite
sharp and sticks out in all directions. It moves down from the
volcano, sort of crumbling and rolling as it goes. The Pahoehoe is the
lava that flows like rope, oozing along, making beautiful formations
One of the jobs of Pele, the being that looks after the volcano, is to
create new earth. The Big Island of Hawaii is getting bigger all the
time. Pele is continually adding to the island, making new land. The
earth is also cleansed as Pele, who has a female valance, sends the
lava down. As the lava flows, she burns away the old energy set on the
land, and creates new pristine land. This sense of newness is what is
most amazing when you walk out on the cooled lava flows. Energetically
the flow creates present-time experience, washing away, burning away
past experience and creating a new, fresh reality.
I walked far out onto the lava flow one afternoon, sat down and touched
into the energy. I was amazed at how pristine it felt, how clean.
There were no beings around. There was no old energy. It felt like a
clean slate. It was so very, very healing, sitting in that energy, the
lava stretched for miles in all directions. It was form, upon form,
upon form of amazing Pahoehoe lava formation.
When I left, I felt cleansed, brought into present time, ready to take
the next step in my life's journey from a pristine place. Little did I
know the next step would be a painful little lesson in owning one's
space.
What Pele does not touch for centuries, is the old land. Pele will
cleanse the land, but leave little reminders of what once was. Often
within a lava flow, will be an area that lava does not cover, these are
like little forest oasis’s you can hike into. There will be trees,
animals, and plants. It is a remnant of the past forest sitting within
the new lava flow, within the new energy. Such a formation is called a
"kapuka", meaning "hole", and on our property there was a kapuka where
the lava did not cover the old land. The energy was vastly different
there. When you stepped off the lava flow onto the kapuka you stepped
back in time into the old energy set of the island.
I was a bit cocky one day and decided to clean out some of the
mangrove that grew in the kapuka so we might walk through more easily
and enjoy the place more. I did not do any energy work before starting
out, just took my saw and began cutting away, and pulling branches and
trees out of the area. I began to notice a very strange feeling as I
carried out my work. I was being beaten up by the land, by the place,
by the energy set, but I still did not take the time to look at what
was going on. Every time I cut a branch, it would swing through and
hit me. I was getting scratches and bruises. Some of the ways the
tree branches were swinging seemed to defy gravity. I would not have
guessed they could move in such a way, it felt like there was another
energy at play.
After a couple of hours, many bruises and a fair bit of blood flowing,
I decided to stop and actually look at what was going on. I closed my
eyes, turned inward, turned on my clairvoyance, and right directly in
front of me, so close it made me jump back a little bit, was a being, a
Warrior, from the old Hawaiian practice. This being was fierce. It
was not happy that I was there. Its energy was very aggressive. This
was not a being of light. This was a being claiming the space for
itself. It was swinging the branches around. It was making sure that
it got me as bruised and bloody as it possibly could before I did
anything about it on an energy level. It wanted me to leave.
All my spiritual training had taught me not to be manipulated or pushed
around by beings out-of-body. But this one was going to be a little
bit of a challenge. The beings around Hawaii pull no punches. They
can be extremely aggressive. There are many, many light beings, but
there are many beings not working from a place of light that one may
run across.
With this being staring me down, I failed to notice the other beings
present. I would call them "deva" beings. They were small, they were
nearby, and they were very excited about the idea of being in alignment
and being in the creative process with me. Two things were going on.
It was very clear the Warrior being was not going to share the land
with us and if it stayed, there was no way we could use that part of
the property safely. So I knew I had to claim the area for us. I had
learned many ways of protecting myself and it was time to apply this
knowledge. A being-in-body with clear intent, using these tools from
a place of integrity, is very powerful. This being was very
aggressive, literally trying to push me back onto the a'a and out of
the kapuka. The being did not go onto the a'a because Pele had cleaned
this place. There was no room for this dark being on Pele's new earth.
I got a basic sense of where the back property line was. It was not
very far, maybe 40 feet back from where I was doing my little yard
work, which turned into much deeper spiritual work. I told this being
that it was fine for it to be around, but it needed to respect our
space and to stay back beyond the property line. I asked it several
times, politely, if it was okay for us to cohabit the property and if
it was okay for us to be around. It kept giving me "no, no, no". It
was one of the most aggressive beings I have encountered. It was just
stating threats that it was going to kill me. So I did a little
demonstration of what I was capable of in order to own my space and to
own the physical space as well.
After I demonstrated levels of energetic power that this being could
totally understand, within seconds, it moved right back and was on the
far side of the property line and would never cross it again while I
was setting the energy there. The only message this being understood
was a Warrior message, a message of force. That is the way with beings
sometimes.
The rest of the day working, cleaning the extra branches out of the
kapuka underneath the guava trees, was a pure delight. The deva beings
that were in support were really enjoying the communication space and
the creation space we were playing with, wanting to turn this area into
a garden, and having a really lovely spiritual communication at the
same time. They truly loved, as I did, the attention we were sharing
back and forth.
By the end of the day, the kapuka was looking beautiful. There was
more room to walk around, the dead branches were gone, leaving a lovely
carpet of leaves on the forest floor. You could look up into the guava
trees, and experience the delightful smell of guava whispering through
one's senses.
As I worked, I noticed the Warrior was kind of hanging around at the
back of the property. I said hello to it a couple of times, but it did
not step foot across the line and I knew it would not, as long as I was
setting the energy there, as long as my intent was there.
That night at the house where I was staying, I found myself sitting on
the bed, talking to a lovely, big Hawaiian woman. I was telling her a
little bit about this being I had encountered, and she said, "Oh, it
sounds like a night walker. These are beings that still walk the
trails and walk the old land of Hawaii. Some are beings of integrity,
of light. Some are beings that are working from that darker place."
She continued: "Do you feel the energy in this house? It feels
strange, doesn't it". I had noticed the house was not a very
comfortable place. She said very simply, in a straightforward way,
that the house was sitting directly on top of an old night walker
trail. This trail went along the beach but also cut right up through
this property, right up into the kapuka above. It was fairly obvious
that the beings that were making the place uncomfortable were still
walking through every night.
As I became more aware, it was really obvious why it was a difficult
place to sleep, with the night walkers walking right through the
building. They were still on their path. They did not care that the
house was built right on top of it, and would walk right through the
building all the time. It was no wonder this accommodation was always
being rented out to foreigners. It was a very difficult building to
live in unless one did some major energy work and redirected the night
walkers. It could be done, but it would be a pretty tricky proposition.
I was glad we were staying there for a limited time and it was not
going to be my problem to deal with. I just owned my space, situated
my sleeping so the night walkers would not walk right through my body,
and lived with it for the time that we were there.
Many people are familiar with the healer beings in Hawaii, but it was a
very interesting experience to come in contact with some of the beings
in Hawaii working from a different place. So if you are ever in
Hawaii, keep a lookout for night walkers. They are a very interesting
group, to put it mildly.
- An article by Scott Robinson
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