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News December 2008

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Lightwork Announcements 

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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

By donation (suggested donation $15)

 

Upcoming Meditation Classes

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Level 1:
Learn energy management tools.

Cathy Belgrave - Calgary, AB
Starts Thurs, Jan. 22
 

Keith Grennan - Kitsilano, Van. BC
Starts Mon, Jan. 26

Debbie Longley - Oakridge, Van. BC
Starts Wed, Jan. 28 
 

Krista Morrison - Lightwork Centre, Van. BC
Starts Wed, Feb. 4

Julia Watson - Kitsilano, Van. BC
Starts Mon, Mar. 16

Private Spiritual Sessions
over the Lightwork Winter BreaK - Dec. 13 - Jan. 18/09

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Krista Morrison - Lightwork Garden Studio - available Dec. 15 - 24/08
Debbie Longley
-  Oakridge - Weekday Evenings, Thursday mornings, weekends
Julia Watson - Kitsilano - Weekday Evenings and Weekends



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Lightwork Spiritual Development

 
 
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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Apprentice Corner

Reflections of Julia Watson

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!  This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it


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 Lightwork Productions

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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Lightwork Ecovillage


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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Cold 1, Cypress Mountain, North Vancouver, BC Canada 2005
 
 
 
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Cold 2, Jericho Beach, Vancouver, BC Canada 2004
 
 
 
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Cold 3, Cypress Mountain, North Vancouver, BC Canada 2006
 
 
 
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Cold 4, The Peace Country, BC Canada 2004
 
 
 
 

It's Dawn
 


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

With each second the world is brighter

 
- Scott Robinson
 
 
 
 

The Night Walkers

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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