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How Modern Mysticism Will Save the World

January 10, 2018 By Cara Lumen

OUR LUMINOUS LEGACY

You and I are modern mystics, whether we claim the title or not. And modern mysticism can save the world.

Anthropologist and shamanist Hank Wesselman wrote the book MedicineMaker: Mystic Encounters on the Shaman’s Path in 1998 – twenty years ago. He saw hope then, and we know we’re in more dire straits today. I need to see and understand and embrace the hope he holds out.

What were you doing twenty years ago?  How aware were you?  I was in year three of a five-year program to become a licensed spiritual practitioner in the Center for Spiritual Living, in Santa Rosa, California.  I had recently come off of 15 years of wholistic exploration and training in New York City.  I was already a “modern mystic.”  But as I read this one chapter in Hank’s book I began to find the vocabulary to explain to us how we, as modern mystics, can and will alter this collision course the world seems to be on.

Here’s how Hank defines a modern mystic:

“You are a modern mystic if you:

1- Have a strong sense of social justice.

2 – Understand the importance of physical, mental, and spiritual balance and harmony.

3 – Are environmentally savvy. You see a pattern of connection of all. You understand that everything and everyone is part of a pattern and thus interconnected.

4 – Are committed to achieving the direct, personal transformative experience of the sacred.

5 – Most believe in the existence of more than one level of reality. The modern mystic understands that there are also the non-ordinary realities, the subjective dream worlds or spirit worlds, where the laws of physics and cause and effect may not work in the same way.

Take it a step further into these next ideas which I have explored and experienced as I delve more deeply into shamanism. See how much of this is true for you:

6 – The modern mystic believes that some individuals have the ability to enter or journey into these alternate realities to accomplish certain things and gain help, direction, and knowledge from the inner sources of wisdom and/or spiritual entities that reside there.

7 – They believe in the existence of spirit helpers and spirit teachers, who, in turn, are thought to provide the seeker with power and knowledge, protection and support, that one cannot access on one’s own.

8 – Modern mystics believe in the existence of spiritual or mystical power, perceived by virtually all as an invisible essence or force that pervades everything in the universe and that can be highly concentrated in certain places, objects, and living beings.

9 – It is understood that everyone can learn how to access, accumulate, and focus this power, and that one’s health, well-being, and success in life are all dependent on being able to increase and maintain one’s personal supply of it.

10 – There is also a belief in a personal energy body—the aspect of the self that carries this power as life force and which provides the etheric pattern around which the physical body is formed.

11- Most modern mystics also feel a genuine distance from and disaffection for Western allopathic medicine. They seek alternative solutions.”

What I nearly missed

I was feeling discouraged as I saw so many people with absolute opposing views on basic values and priorities. Whatever their reasons, they seemed caught up in the present and had no concern for our future – the impact our choices today have on the rest of our lives and on our children. Many people are simply focused on survival.

I felt outnumbered and alone.  Where were all these mystics, these people working to raise the collective conscious?

I found them online. I found them in the groups that I participated in, in online courses I take.  I joined with them in group meditations and continued to expand my own awareness.

This idea that there are so many active mystics in the world today is comforting because I know those of us who are aware that we are lightworkers are all doing our individual work.

Expanding my own spiritual practice makes me feel more valuable as an active participant in a larger movement, and brings me a comforting awareness that my spiritual focus can join with others all over the planet who are thinking and feeling and working in the same vibrational manner, to change our world.

There’s tremendous power in the energy of groups and even though, as an 85-year-old metaphysician in the conservative mid-west, I sometimes feel alone, I am not alone.  I am part of the powerful steadily expanding vibrational thinking that’s gaining power on our planet. There are a lot of us on this mystical journey. And we are changing our world.

Here’s the turning point:

According to Hank’s book, in 1996 some 24% of Americans fell into this category of mystic.  That was over twenty years ago. The internet has helped us find each other, and I am on group meditations and shamanic courses with people from all over the world.  Yes, we mystics have the planet covered. We’re everywhere!

Now we need to increase our collective light. We do that through our ever-deepening spiritual practice and by joining with like-minded mystics to radiate light.

Mystics are in all cultures; they have migrated from all religions.  They are everywhere.  It’s incredibly powerful to join in a group meditation with like-minded people from all over the world. There’s an amazing sense of connection and an even greater certainty in our collective power to change the world.

What has to happen

Anthropologists call it a “cultural revitalization” movement. That means there’s a large group of us who see that the current way is not working and we are willing to explore a whole new set of ways to see ourselves, our problems and the solutions.

A whole new way. That means questioning all our choices, releasing a great deal of stuff and starting from scratch to develop and devise a pattern of living that’ll keep our planet livable and our lives sustainable in a state of profound peace and harmony.

That means a lot of change

That means a lot of letting go, of re-assessing, of being willing to change what we believe and how we think our lives should be.

It calls for visionary thinking 

What does visionary thinking mean? It means finding ways to address overpopulation, land conservation, how technology is affecting the mental development of our children and our own social abilities, our livelihoods. What we will do when there’s no more land upon which to grow food, what we will do when the oceans rise and the ports all close and all trading ceases.  Everything is so interconnected that when one strand is damaged, other strands have to change and compensate.

Fortunately, there are modern mystics working in all of these areas.  We, as fellow mystics, must listen to them and support them. And if called to do so, join in the work.

We modern mystics must raise our vibration

You can begin to heal the world by examining your own thinking.

What you expect your life to look like is probably not going to be how it turns out. Technology and innovation are rapidly changing everything. How do young people train for jobs that don’t even exist yet – but will when they are ready to enter the workforce?

Be aware in every stage of your life that your options change, that new opportunities continually unfold, and find ever-expanding ways to offer your own gifts and talents and life purpose so that the choices you make are in alignment with your mission in life.

Question everything

Notice the repercussions of everything you do.  Whether it is what you recycle or how far you drive or the activism work you do, allow your values to be fluid and adjust them to the ever-changing flow of nature and the expansion of your own spiritual awareness.

Question your physical body-suit life.

Expand your spiritual life and go deeper and broader and higher as you explore the invisible realms.

Be aware of the repercussions of your choices on others.

The waste, the pollution, the consumption, the warfare, the suppression are numbing.  We are all part of the same planet.  We are all connected. What we do affects the whole.  All of us. Each of us.

Respond to new information

Scientists continue to uncover new knowledge about our universe, our planet, our potential.  Keep abreast of those discoveries, particularly in areas that call to you. Then put that new knowledge to work in your own life and show others how to follow suit.

Know the repercussions of your action

I’m a vegan.  I know about the food chain process.  My personal choice is to save one animal at a time through my own actions. One person’s action can add to a collective result.

So much of the damage to our planet comes when people are not aware.  Not aware of where their plastic discard will end up, not aware of the impact of their anger, not aware…  We, as modern mystics, must monitor all we do and continue to raise our vibration in the world.

You are a member of the Transformational Community

If you resonate to any of these ideas, you are a modern mystic and a member of the Transformational Community. We may not call ourselves that, but it’s time that we recognize there are many others worldwide who are working to raise the collective consciousness of our world.  We do that through our private, spiritual practice, and we find other like-minded change-makers and join with them, as activists, in group meditations.  We are finding each other and that is empowering. Our collective light is expanding.

How do you choose to take your modern mysticism to the next level?  

This is how I do it. I continue to deepen my personal shamanist work and explore the invisible realms daily.  I actively focus on deepening my connection and awareness of nature.  I mindfully radiate light to our world each day. I write articles like this to serve as a guide and encouragement for other spiritual explorers.

We are old souls, we mystics.  We are the elders.  We must do the consciousness work that helps others understand that we are one energy, one light, one essence.  And as such, we are responsible for the well-being of each other. Our whole.  Our world.

Mindfully raise your own vibration to your innate wholeness, and it will broadly affect the world around you.

There is hope.  With each deepened awareness and each conscious choice.

Welcome, modern mystic, to the save-our-planet project. We can save our world.

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Filed Under: Our Luminous Legacy Tagged With: modern mystics, Spiritual Expansion, transformational community

Are You a Leader of Change?

August 22, 2017 By Cara Lumen

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The world is shifting rapidly. New technology, new science, new possibilities, new expectations.  We either keep up or rapidly fall behind.

Change means constant flexibility, releasing, exploration and adaptation. And those of us who are flexible enough to see, realize and create an alternate option are being called upon to lead.

Change means flexibility

Change can be scary. It means moving out of your “comfort zone”.  It means learning new skills and embracing new beliefs.  Flexibility is the cornerstone of being a Leader for Change.

Change means releasing

In order to change, we have to let go of what we think we know and what we believe and be prepared to explore what we thought was inconceivable. As science continues to uncover new planets and deepen its understanding of how our body works and discover the relationship of man’s choices and the well-being of our planet, we have to change our minds.  We have to keep learning and shifting and keeping up.

Change is about adjusting and modifying what we think we know.  Embracing change means to be open and curious.

Change means exploration

What calls to you?  Where can you be in service?  People are training for the new technology.  They’re becoming active in the governing of their community and they actively participate in global organizations that are caring for the world. I work energetically with others all over the world to raise our collective consciousness.

Look at new opportunities.  Go where you’re called.

Change means adaptation

There are technologies that are leaving me behind.  I’m not a good texter but I can make a video. I’ve never done Instagram but I’m in Facebook communities. Find the new technology or idea that calls to you and make it your own.

Change your thinking

We have to stay flexible in both our thinking and our expectations.  What we used to believe possible is now very outdated and limiting. We cannot go back to the familiar, the comfortable, the safe. It’s obsolete, outmoded and stultifying.

There’s no way I can truly identify with the children who are 80 years younger that I am.  I did not grow up with the technology they have available now.  That very technology will color how they develop and how they see the world.  And that’ll be very different from my life experience.

But I can watch and observe.  And I can keep expanding my own service in the world and embrace some of the new technology so that I can share with others.

Be a change maker

My personal role is as an explorer and map maker of the unseen world, the spiritual experience, the esoteric concepts that run through the core of our lives.

People can serve in many ways. The knowledge that we each have to be more active in our governing process, at the local level and up, is beginning to sink in.  More women are running for office.  Young people see themselves as part of the solution.

I am active in transformational communities working to raise the collective consciousness and support light workers in all fields.

Find your place on the spectrum of change and get to work.

Whatever you do to allow change to flow though your life is perfect. Be conscious of the need to change.   Be open to new ways of being, new ways to express yourself, new ways of thinking.  And then hang on to your hat and enjoy the ride!

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How to Effortlessly Radiate Ligh

Are You In Illumined Service?  

Choices That Create Your Future

The Guardianship We Hold 

Building a Transformational Community to Heal Our World

Filed Under: Positive Change, Self Transformation, Transformational Community Tagged With: leasership, positve change, transformational community

Your Desire to Heal the World  

June 27, 2017 By Cara Lumen

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I want to help. I want to be an active part of the transformation community. I want to help heal the world.

It’s a lot easier to become a part of planetary change than you think.

We work outside of time and space

I was getting a little caught up in the idea of finding a group with which to do group healing work. I regularly join in Full Moon and New Moon groups to focus our energy, but the more chaotic our world becomes the more active I want to be.

As we work outside of time and space, whenever, wherever, we do our wholing work, it is effective. Someone, someplace in the world, is doing the same thing and our light energies will meet up.

 What quantum physics has to say

“In quantum physics if you change the behavior of one particle, another particle in a different location will instantaneously react whether inches or universes away.” – Dr. Eric Pearl, author of The Reconnection:  Heal Others, Heal Yourself  

With every meditation, every prayer, every journey, we change ourselves, our vibration, our energy. And that automatically and forever has impact on our world. Our job then, is to consciously continue to increase our own light in the world.  We do that through intentionally working in our inner world.

Lower frequencies emulate or attune to higher frequencies

Are you a higher frequency? Do you look for and see the good in others?  Are you always thoughtful and considerate in your interactions?  Do you hold a loving space in your heart even for those with whom you do not agree?

We are not trying to change anyone

This wholing work is not about seeing people as wrong or less than whole, it’s about holding the Light of Wholeness so anyone who is looking for it can find it. We are members of the Transformational Community, we are Light Holders, Hope Shiners, Gatherers to our Heart.

When we, in our own space, do daily imaginative, intentional work, it does have an impact in the world. Our spark of love and inclusion connects with sparks of others and the high vibrations find each other and surround the planet.

It begins with you

Begin with your own daily blessing to the world. I use my Tree Messenger to carry my blessings around the world. I work with my spirit guides to open space for healing and  wholeness. It’s not about sitting and asking the Universe to do it for you. It’s about you, in your space, wherever you are, actively focusing your consciousness toward holding High Watch for our Planet, for our Universe, and knowing that our Light Energy is connection with the Light Energy of others to heal the world.

Will you begin today to be a Messenger of Light and wholeness for our world?

To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:

The Guardianship We Hold

Building a Transformational Community to Heal Our World-

Wakan Tanka, the Originating Mystery

How to Active a Tree Messenger to Send Healing inert to the World

How to Use our Interconnection to Heal the World

Filed Under: Positive Change, Spiritual Expansion, Transformational Community Tagged With: planetary healing, Spiritual Expansion, transformational community

How to Find Your Spirit Guides

May 31, 2017 By Cara Lumen

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Only 5% of our brain activity is conscious, the other 95% is unconscious. That means that 95% of our wold is unseen and accessed through our unconscious.  You can cross the bridge between the realms when you access your Spirit Guides.

In this episode, Cara tells the story of her gradual awareness of her spirit guides and how you can attract and begin to communicate with yours.

Live in the nowhere that you came from
even though have an address here .
-Rumi.

(8:47) In this episode we consider: 

1 – Why we need to learn to explore the “nowhere that we  came from.”

2- Cara’s experience with fining her spirit guides

3 – How to find your spirit guides

4 – How to work with your spirit guides.

Quote mentioned:

Why are you lonely
when the whole universe is within you
-Rumi

Live in the nowhere that you came
from even though have an address here .
-Rumi.

Resource mentioned:

David Nicihol, The Gaifield Project

Members of the Deeper Song Transformational Community are Light Holders, Hope Shiners and Gatherers to our heart. Will you join  us?

For More Insights on Your Deeper Song Consider: 

vLog: Deepening Our Connection

Post: We Are Part of a Larger Spiritual Order

Podcast: 17 – Exploring The Village of Nothingness 

Filed Under: Self Transformation, Spiritual Expansion, Transformational Community, vLog Tagged With: spirit guides, Spiritual Expansion, transformational community

Deepening Our Connection

May 31, 2017 By Cara Lumen

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Cara Lumen, explorer, spiritual philosopher and founder of the Deeper Song Transformational Community introduces the focus of her new vLog, “Insight for a Deeper Song.”  Based on the understanding that we are all one energy, she explores the subtle inner realms and the voices of nature to bring back ideas and insights that help us sing a deeper song.

In this episode, Cara talks about energy, that we are one energy, connected, interactive and responsible for the well-being of the whole.

Everything in the universe is within you.
Ask all of yourself.
-Rumi.

(4:17) In this episode we consider:

1 – The meaning and responsibility that comes from knowing that we are all one energy.

2 – How we can become a more active part of the World Wide Transformational Community.

3 – How the focus of Insights of a Deeper Song will be to hear and interpret the subtle voices that surround us and learn to apply those insights to enrich our lives.

4 – An invitation to come exploring with us.

Members of the Deeper Song Transformational Community are Light Holders, Hope Shiners and Gatherers to our heart. Will you join  us?

For More Insights on Your Deeper Song Consider: 

Podcast:

18- How Your Light Illuminates Paths of Darkness

PosT: 

Building a Transformational Community to Heal Our World-

I Am You

Filed Under: Self Awareness, Spiritual Expansion, Transformational Community, vLog Tagged With: transformational, transformational community, transformational thinking

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