Usually I would feel a shift around this time, a stirring of energies deep beneath the crust of the Earth. I would joyfully announce, my voice tinkling across the frozen snow that "Spring is here!" And folks would eye me with curious suspicion as the view out of the window was a direct contradiction in the physical eye. But what is "usual" is in flux, now, and what is to be the new "usual" may not assume its renewed form for a very very long time...
The Eastern Phoebe called to us last week. "Feeee-beee! Feee-beee!" As loud and clear and True as could be. The eastern Phoebe that leaves us here in the Northeast of the United States when the temperature dips in the Autumn, and we do not hear her lovely song until the sure signs of budding manifests on the trees. That used to be very late in March or in April. But the Eastern Phoebe, so attuned with Her Higher Wisdom, says it is Time to return, time to come Home. Many family groupings of Canada Geese, my most beloved harbringers of seasonal change, have never left the meadows and ponds and streams of my Catskill Mountain Valley/Hudson River... I have become very engaged in directly observing the changing patterns of Bird Migration in my home area. Like ALL animals, the Birds have been teaching me (and my son) so much about Life in its purest Forms.
There can be no denying ever again that change is upon us. My neighbors are tapping the Sugar Maple Trees already, a ritual generally enacted sometime in March. I had resisted this for some time, felt resentful that the world that I had known all my beloved childhood was changing. Of course this was a futile exercise in holding on when the Earth herself was full force in Her determination to Evolve. It is gradual and rapid all the same, the acceleration of the changes on our Beloved Planet, as gradual and rapid as the awakening of human consciousness. We are deep partners in creation, we and our Mother. We are of the same particles, the same elements and minerals and Divine Breath have created us all.
I would like to share with you a personal message to me last month (1/17/12) by my Beloved Partner and Teacher, Archangel Sandalphon:
Our difficulty is that we have become autistic. We no longer listen to what the earth, its
landscape, its atmospheric phenomena and all its living forms, its mountains and valleys,
the rain, the wind, and all the flora and fauna of the planet are telling us. Since the
Seventeenth Century we have not heard, we have not understood the inner world about
us. We have experienced the external phenomena. We have had no entry into the world
of interior meaning. We have not heard the voices.
Until we do listen, until we do hear these voices and understand what they are telling us,
our lives will continue to be shriveled, our judgment as absurd, as destructive as we can
presently observe in what we have done to the soil, the water, the air, and the living forms
of this loveliest of planets. We will appreciate or revere the planet if we are to form a
viable Earth Community.
To achieve this intimacy with the Earth we need new religious sensitivities. The
redemption- oriented religions in their traditional forms have fulfilled a significant part of
their historical mission. Cosmologically oriented religion is the way into the future. We
need to recognize the story of the universe as we know it through our empirical sciences
as our sacred story. From its beginning the universe has had a psychic-spiritual as well as
a physical-material dimension." (* more information below)
The Eastern Phoebe called to us last week. "Feeee-beee! Feee-beee!" As loud and clear and True as could be. The eastern Phoebe that leaves us here in the Northeast of the United States when the temperature dips in the Autumn, and we do not hear her lovely song until the sure signs of budding manifests on the trees. That used to be very late in March or in April. But the Eastern Phoebe, so attuned with Her Higher Wisdom, says it is Time to return, time to come Home. Many family groupings of Canada Geese, my most beloved harbringers of seasonal change, have never left the meadows and ponds and streams of my Catskill Mountain Valley/Hudson River... I have become very engaged in directly observing the changing patterns of Bird Migration in my home area. Like ALL animals, the Birds have been teaching me (and my son) so much about Life in its purest Forms.
There can be no denying ever again that change is upon us. My neighbors are tapping the Sugar Maple Trees already, a ritual generally enacted sometime in March. I had resisted this for some time, felt resentful that the world that I had known all my beloved childhood was changing. Of course this was a futile exercise in holding on when the Earth herself was full force in Her determination to Evolve. It is gradual and rapid all the same, the acceleration of the changes on our Beloved Planet, as gradual and rapid as the awakening of human consciousness. We are deep partners in creation, we and our Mother. We are of the same particles, the same elements and minerals and Divine Breath have created us all.
I would like to share with you a personal message to me last month (1/17/12) by my Beloved Partner and Teacher, Archangel Sandalphon:
"Ground your experience of Spirit into the Earth-
you are a living breathing entity extention of God creation,
like all life forms on this planet, and you are all changing and ascending
together- it does not do the service that you have committed yourselves to,
by taking on your physical forms, to ascend in your mind or spirit alone-
and leave all the physical behind- this is a vouyeristic practice
not of the true meaning of incarnation upon the Earth.
Bring your Spirit awareness down, the light of your I AM presence
down throught the crown of your head and send it through the bridge of your toes,
the bottom of your feet, into the soil beneath you. Let this light radiate out
all around you until you can not see its edges. Do this and soon you will fulfill
your destiny as a conduit of God's love unto Earth."
-Beloved Archangel Sandalphon to Rev. Ursula Carrie, January 17, 2012
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Thomas Berry (1914-2009), cosmologist and geologian, “Earth scholar”, called this phase of the Earth's Evolution, the Ecozoic Era:
"As we think about the future form of an integral Earth Community we might begin with the observation that in the sequence of biological periods of Earth development we are presently in the terminal phase of the Cenozoic and the emerging phase of the Ecozoic era. The Cenozoic is the period of biological development that has taken place during these past 65 million years. The Ecozoic is the period when human conduct will be guided by the ideal of an integral earth community, a period when humans will be present upon the Earth in a mutually enhancing manner.
The Cenozoic period is being terminated by a massive extinction of living forms that is
taking place on a scale equaled only by the extinctions that took place at the end of the
Paleozoic around 220 million years ago and at the end of the Mesozoic some 65 million
years ago. The only viable choice before us is to enter into an Ecozoic period, the period
of an integral community that will include all the human and non-human components that
constitute the planet Earth.
taking place on a scale equaled only by the extinctions that took place at the end of the
Paleozoic around 220 million years ago and at the end of the Mesozoic some 65 million
years ago. The only viable choice before us is to enter into an Ecozoic period, the period
of an integral community that will include all the human and non-human components that
constitute the planet Earth.
The first principle of the Ecozoic era is recognizing that the Universe is primarily a
communion of subjects, not a collection of objects. This is especially true of the planet
Earth. Every being has its own place and its own proper role in the functioning of the
planet, its own presentation of itself that might be identified as its voice.
communion of subjects, not a collection of objects. This is especially true of the planet
Earth. Every being has its own place and its own proper role in the functioning of the
planet, its own presentation of itself that might be identified as its voice.
Our difficulty is that we have become autistic. We no longer listen to what the earth, its
landscape, its atmospheric phenomena and all its living forms, its mountains and valleys,
the rain, the wind, and all the flora and fauna of the planet are telling us. Since the
Seventeenth Century we have not heard, we have not understood the inner world about
us. We have experienced the external phenomena. We have had no entry into the world
of interior meaning. We have not heard the voices.
Until we do listen, until we do hear these voices and understand what they are telling us,
our lives will continue to be shriveled, our judgment as absurd, as destructive as we can
presently observe in what we have done to the soil, the water, the air, and the living forms
of this loveliest of planets. We will appreciate or revere the planet if we are to form a
viable Earth Community.
To achieve this intimacy with the Earth we need new religious sensitivities. The
redemption- oriented religions in their traditional forms have fulfilled a significant part of
their historical mission. Cosmologically oriented religion is the way into the future. We
need to recognize the story of the universe as we know it through our empirical sciences
as our sacred story. From its beginning the universe has had a psychic-spiritual as well as
a physical-material dimension." (* more information below)
Well, what, now, then?
How strange it is indeed to fully embrace the fact that we are living in a Time of Great Change upon our Planet. That we are a part of a Shift that is reaching into the very marrow of All of Existence as we have known it on Earth, even further back than we can research in all of recorded Human history. That we as human beings, with all of our communications and technology, inventions and innovation and ideas of being able to control the forces of Nature, are merely a small part of a story of our Universe that is unfolding at its own pace, driven by its own Desire and Intelligence. Was this always the plan since the creation of the Earth? Were we always evolving into this very critical place in this particular timeline of existence as humans on Earth? Was it always in the plan that human produced pollution and waste would contribute to the acceleration of this Change?
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There are as many answers and original and subsequent lines of inquiry as there are varieties of humans and individual experience here on Earth. And although there are meditations and techniques in many schools of thought that say it is indeed possible to change the past through thought, since not an overwhelming majority of humans are adept at these techniques, starting where we are now seems the best place to begin. Bring your Spirit, through your Heart, to Earth.
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I encourage you all to keep up the practce of invoking the Violet Flame and raising your own energy vibration on a daily basis. There is still the Playlist available at my YouTube channel area, Being the Light to Heal the World http://www.youtube.com/playlistlist=PLBDDF7F87DE807083
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For those of you who are "experienced" meditators and feel drawn to participate, I also encourage you to make way to the Children of the Sun Humanitarian Foundation. We as Group Avatar and Light Grid Programmers are now in full swing of our 2012 Avatar Training and Planetary Grid Transmissions. I have been participating in the audio meditations that are offered by their founder Tiara Kumara for about a year now and find them very inspiring and helpful in keeping myself in the Energetic Alignment that is necessary for me to continue to evolve into and live my Highest Path and Purpose for this lifetime, in these critical times of Change. I find daily meditation no surprise in helping to realign myself with the Energy of my I AM presence, with Divine Love, Light and Truth. Meditation also assists to help lift me out of lower vibrations of fear, anger, etc, which I have often magnitized to myself through interactions with others who are in that space throughout my day while out and about.
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Find them at: http://www.childrenofthesun.org/
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21 Practical Ways to help the environment: http://www.practicalenvironmentalist.com/21-practical-ways-to-help-the-environment
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* You may read more of this excerpt from Thomas Berry at:
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You may also read this chapter in scanned form at: http://www.uvm.edu/rsenr/greenforestry/LIBRARYFILES/Berry_Era.pdf
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You may Hear Thomas Berry speak this material at: http://www.archive.org/details/ecozoicera_berry
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Read a short biography at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Berry
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And listen to an excerpt read from his book, Dream of the Earth http://youtu.be/POomCHT6hNE
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And as Always, I am sending Love from My High Heart
and Blessings Unto Yours,
Until Next Time...
Rev. Ursula Carrie
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