I started Spotlight Planet Earth in 2016, after getting seriously involved with our climate crisis. Since then, I have written a whole series of essays sharing what I’ve been learning, reading, doing, questioning and even struggling with, always aware of the complexity and enormity of this planet predicament we are all in. My involvement has continued, but more recently, in my last four essays, I’ve written about something else; something that is of utmost importance to me.
In this essay and in future ones, I would like to continue to illuminate this topic with you: a new Spotlight.
It’s about a particular spiritual practice that I’ve been doing for the past 12 years called the mutual awakening practice. It is done with another, eyes open and exploring together the space, or world one has entered into.
I am part of a group called the Evolutionary Collective led by the visionary modern mystic Patricia Albere, and this relatively new practice sheds light on a potential for humanity that is a leap into a wholly new way of being together: one that is not only free from separation and ego, but points to a simplicity of being and caring; a simplicity of love far beyond what we generally mean by love.
As I wrote in my last essay, “How to explain this reality that we access in the mutual awakening practice?
It’s like we are celebrating certain qualities that are imbued in the space and in us – qualities like love, joy, depth, innocence, exuberance, even sadness.
We enter this new dimension together. It’s dependent upon us. It cannot be done alone. And as I said before, so often this milieu, this realm of being we are inhabiting and graced with, truly goes beyond our known vocabulary which can seem very one-dimensional and dare I say even shallow compared to what we experience in this shared envelopment, this divine milieu. And yet, paradoxically, it’s ever important that we do find words, that we do speak as the words, the sounds, even when not quite understood, enhance, deepen, expand where we are dwelling together.”
There are layers upon layers of subtlety – sometimes so subtle that one has to be more than quiet, almost invisible, to capture what is there, stretching to touch its reality.
Today with my partner in practice, it felt like pre-dawn – a place where poetry, visions, and dreams are born – a place just before birth, just before life, and right before something is about to begin. Soft, gentle, almost misty – no harsh lines here – like a Turner Landscape.
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Karen Andrews
April 17, 2023Lovely…makes me want to experience this!
Judy Fox
April 17, 2023Yes, it’s a beautiful practice and glad you were able to “taste” it from my writing.
Barney Stein
April 17, 2023Beautiful and intriguing! Brava!
Judy Fox
April 17, 2023Thank you Barney.
lucas FOSS
April 20, 2023beautifully articulated – sometimes the words just come
Judy Fox
April 20, 2023yes, that’s true. “Sometimes the words just come.” Thank you Lucas.