What we bring to the land, or to nature, from our own being, has a profound effect. What we give to the Earth, from our own quality of consciousness and love, has a profound effect. Normally, we just don't realize this. Yet because of this truth, we each have a great responsibility in how we are, in our inner being and in how we walk upon and live with the Earth. Everyone has a potential power to bring positive energies and healing to wherever one is, and this can be our inner gift to the planet and all of nature that is here.
Our state of consciousness and what is going on inside us has a profound effect on the land and in our creative activities. Our love for the earth and life around us has a powerful healing effect. The land around us and even the whole Earth feels our love, when it is sincere and true. Our appreciation, gratitude and enjoyment of nature is healing to the earth, to the land, as well as to ourselves. Our highest intentions for good and our wish to serve the planet is known by the land beneath us and is registered there.
The quality of our consciousness has a real effect on the land and nature, in the same way that music has a real effect in our own being. It is to do with energy vibration, quality, and pattern. Our consciousness is a real energy with a particular vibratory quality and field, which affects the land and everyone around us, according to natural laws of resonance. Each individual consciousness is itself an energy field, with a unique vibrational quality and expansive magnitude. Consider the quality and expansive magnitude of your own consciousness, and also consider how this changes -- sometimes being more positive and loving, and at other times not. So, consider how the quality of our consciousness can be our gift to the land. And this includes the quality of our heart and thought.
Our consciousness and quality of being is remembered on the land, and it adds to what is already there. The consciousness and love we carry within ourselves is transmitted to our surroundings, to the extent it is activated. Both love and consciousness are needed. Love without consciousness is a love without any lighted radiance. And consciousness without love is like a lighted room, but with coldness and loneliness.
Also through our consciousness, we can establish real communication with nature and make good things possible that would otherwise be impossible if we were not in conscious love and communication. So it is important to establish a real, conscious relationship with the land we are on, the nature around, and even finally, the whole Earth. Nature around us knows when we recognize it consciously and with love, but most of time it is ignored.
First, begin with the present locality at hand and establish a conscious connection and sensitivity. This can be in relation to an area of land, or more specifically to a particular life such as a tree or flowers. Remember the key principles of: consciousness, sensitivity, connection, relationship, recognition, love, appreciation, and gratitude. All of these have profound effects on the land and in nature. And if any of this is done in groups, the positive effects are even greater. The higher quality of our consciousness can actually be healing for the land, and it can also establish special energy connections between this land and sacred power places many miles away.
We give much to the land by our love and conscious work. The energy of our intention, effort, sacrifice, consciousness, and our love is remembered by the land. The land is blessed by our conscious work and begins to sing and come alive in thankful recognition of our love. This is the energy of our love and loving work, which is itself a subtle energy implanted into the land and radiated out into the surroundings.
Remember that this subtle energy of love and care radiates from people to whatever is worked upon. Some call it the TLC factor, tender loving care. The intention to serve, to love, and the effort made is the first gift to the land or to whatever we are helping to create. The transformed energies of our own being, through our conscious service and the attitude we carry, is passed on to whatever we work upon. So it is not just our work that affects things or helps the planet, but also our love and quality of presence creates a significant effect on the land and even all around it.
Each of us can be healers of the land by our very presence, assuming we are present, consciously and in loving recognition of the sacredness we are in. Know that wherever you stand is sacred ground, and it will be so. You will be blessing the ground you stand on, through your recognition and reverence of its holiness. It becomes holy ground through your recognition that it is. The land wakes up and the holiness comes alive, because of our conscious receptivity. If one walks or stands with no receptivity, no recognition, no reverence; then the land does not sing for that person and the land does not awaken to its potential.
Anyone can participate in earth healing and in planetary energy transformation, because it all depends primarily on the quality of our consciousness, the love we have and give, and also the little acts of work we can do to care for the earth and bring forth the potential beauty of nature. Every little activity we do, with loving consciousness and with sincere care, has a profound effect in the area around us and even throughout the whole planet.
Know how very important you can be. You can be the cause of healing wherever you are, if you are in a state of reverence and love. And this healing has lasting effects -- it is recorded in the rocks, the soil and the vegetation around you. You have the potential to be conscious mediators for higher cosmic energies to feed the ground, to be a moving vortex of love producing waves of healing across the land.
The work we have done with ourselves to wake up, to love, and to serve life can be shared, and it is naturally radiated to the land we walk upon. So in other words, the quality-energy of our being-presence is naturally shared upon wherever we consciously stand or meditate. Our energies and vibrations are received in the land we stand upon, or walk upon, and then recorded and stored there -- thus becoming part of what this land then offers to others who come by or who stay. Thus, what we give to the land of love, consciousness, breath and activity, releases certain energies, which will be stored in the land.
The transformation of subtle energies within people working or enjoying themselves are shared with the land. Certain qualities of subtle energy are released into the ground and into the electro-magnetism of the area, by way of our work and enjoyment, recognition and love, whether alone or in groups. It all depends upon the degree of receptivity and activity of consciousness, love and creativity.
Conscious and knowledgeable work with the subtle energies of the land has a beneficial influence that extends far beyond the immediate area of work. When a negative vortex is changed to a positive, or a ley line is freed from a blockage, or a painful memory pattern is dissolved, or a place is cleaned and ordered with TLC (tender loving care), or creative building is done in harmony, or even when we celebrate the beauty of living with joy and play; the effects are far reaching indeed.
Geomancy seeks to create and act in response to the greater needs of the surroundings, and to take part in the larger pattern of things. We seek to harmonize our activities with all the kingdoms of nature, visible and invisible, and to be in resonance with the natural order inherent on the planet. We seek to be good stewards of our home-land, knowing that we cannot really own land, but can take on the responsibility to care for certain areas, and any one area is interconnected with all the rest.
Many areas on the planet are sacred sites in potential, which can be actualized with our recognition and creative good works. We can help actualize these sacred areas by defining, with agreement and with beautiful, harmonious monuments, sanctuaries, contemplative gardens, or circles of beauty.
It is even possible to evolve the land to its higher potentials, serving all the kingdoms as well as our human needs. We can be healers of the land and help create greater beauty around us. The subtle, sacred energies of specific sites and ley lines can be enhanced and blended together, helping to create a thriving, harmonious energy web around the planet. We can be a part of the co-creation of the overall patterns and harmonious order for the fulfillment of this planet’s destiny.
Also, we can help the subtle energies of the land unfold by our conscious work. How we work and what we do is all so important, not only to the area we have specific responsibility for, but also for the evolution and destiny of planet earth. Being the conscious servers on this earth, we imbue the land we live and walk on with consciousness, blessings and meaning.
The meaning we give to the land is registered on it, and it will unfold accordingly. We can give significant meaning to our land through our highest thoughts and our best creative work. Our landscaping, architecture and artistic symbolism creates new meaning on the land, as well as our human activities, and these can help bring forth new beauty and potentials of the earth and in our lives; that is, if they are harmonious with the Truth and the sacred energies of the planet. So work to creatively manifest meaning and put love into manifestation.
We can be the creators of a world that fulfills our true needs, and also fulfills the divine Will and Purpose of life. And this can be done with a sensitivity to the needs and beauty of our natural world as it is, rather than merely trying to always fit nature into our own designs. Rather than always trying to fit nature into our human conceived designs and plans, we need to learn how to design in harmony with natural principles and in the natural flow. Our first concern in geomancy is to learn how to be and work with natural environment as it is, and to make use of natural design principles and proportions. Only after this is followed and mastered as well as possible, do we begin to consider how to re-direct the energies as is, or transform what is natural into something artistic from our artistic visionary imagination.
It is possible for human beings to create ley lines, vortexes and sacred sites. This may seem arrogant to some. It could be like saying to a physicist that one can create matter. Yet, it is truly possible to create anything from pure space, because any space has energy and potential within it. Also, energy is everywhere, and this energy can be transformed into anything. In fact, everything and every place is the result of many energy transformations, many processes of transformation. So, transformation and re-creation is occurring naturally all the time anyways. We, as creative beings, can change and re-create all sorts of things.
Really though, the secret to creating lines, vortexes or sites is to simply re-direct energies. For the most part, one is directing special positive energies to certain places, while also resolving or dissolving any negative energies at that site. Clearing the negative and eliminating blocks is always a first step. Then bring in the positive by various means of attraction and also by what we do on that land.
The world responds to our consciousness, to our recognition and attention. It responds to our intentions, love and will-to-good. It responds to our inner-most questions with answers, and it responds to our actions with effects. Through our consciously directed attention we can move energy, and through our defined agreement we can anchor energy. These laws of consciousness are applied in geomancy.
It is possible to transform energy or to move energy in a different direction or into a new concentration. It is possible to transform energies into new forms and into new patterns. It is possible to use our transformed energies to re-build the world around us. It is possible to use our field of energy, our electromagnetism (EM) to resonate a new direction or pattern of forces. We can leave some subtle substance along on our way and magnetize an area in our wake.
We can empower the land, or things or places on the land, with our own power of presence -- of being consciously present. The energy substance of our being can be shared, resonating as our EM field, for service and evolution, for need and harmony. Even our own self-transformation and conscious meditation resonates and refines subtle energies of the land.
A very important service we can do for the land is using our consciousness to help clear away non-useful or negative energies. There are two main ways to do this. One is through conscious visualization of pure white, or fiery light, clearing away all negative and unuseful energies. In this way we use the power of consciousness, which is light in itself, and the power of visualization to qualify and direct the energy. This is a meditational practice of dissipating and clearing old energy forms, which sometimes hang around an area like old thought-forms hanging around us.
The other way of using consciousness to clear away old energies is by pure consciousness meditation. This is really the best way to begin. The practice is to sit quietly in the natural area, preferably in a place that we feel is more special or perhaps central to the area of our intention. We begin with relaxation and allowing our thoughts and emotions to subside into a calm lake of peace as can be visualized deep within us. We do this with conscious breath, practicing the Earth Mother breath, which is to consciously breathe in and out in harmonious, rhythmic balance. Let the breath flow in and out with harmonious ease, in a balanced rhythm, similar to how gentle waves come in and out upon the shore, with a moment pause between each out breath and in breath. Try this and you will know what it is.
Then, while this balanced conscious breath is flowing in and out, we make a conscious connection and attunement with the Mother Earth below us, and we begin to feel this earth balanced rhythm, which some describe as our Mother's heartbeat. So in breath and in feeling, we come into rapport and in tune with the natural rhythm of our beloved Earth below us. We can let ourselves fall into this greater rhythm of being and feel the harmonious peace and balance of this. In this way we come into balance with the greater Earth Mother, and we also come into peace within ourselves.
Now one of the secrets in this is to truly let go of our chattering thoughts and unsettled emotions, so that we can enter into a deep peace in our own being and feel in harmony with natural life. So let go and surrender what is not needed at this time -- all those chattering thoughts and unsettled emotions that are not needed at this moment. If we want them back, then they'll come back some other time, or perhaps they aren't all too important anyways, in which case we can say goodbye to them as we let them go.
This practice is, in effect, important for our own psychic and emotional healing, as well as being central to developing a clear mind able to meditate in the absolute peace of pure being. Yet this also have a profound positive effect on the land and in the natural area of the practice, because of the law of resonance. So when we finally arrive in a pure state of mental and emotional peace, with a purified and clear mind/heart, then this resonates outward into the natural world around us. Particularly, it effectively clears away and purifies the space we are in, because of our own purified consciousness inclusively resonating in all that is around. This is even registered in the the memory of the land, so it holds even after we leave.
We can also understand this kind of meditation as pure 'conscious being', or as pure 'being-consciousness', which is purifying to the land and space we are in. Conscious being is intimately connected with breath, because breath carries the life and power of consciousness. Without conscious breath, we are somewhat asleep. Consciousness requires breath to truly live. It cannot really exist in manifestation without some form of breath. Breath gives life to consciousness. Breath sustains it, carries it, and radiates it. So, conscious breath is the key, the doorway to consciousness. It activates consciousness, and gives it life in this world. Read - 'self-work with consciousness'
Our presence and our EM field of mind/body affects wherever we are moving, resting or doing anything. It is possible to harmonize our being with the EM frequency of the planet. This is done through sacrifice, attunement and breath. Every time we come into a new place, or even a new day, we need to re-adjust ourselves, our EM frequency, to that time and place, to plant ourselves fully there, to settle in to where you are, and to be receptive to the unique quality of energy, if we wish to fully be present and serve the place and moment.
In order to be fully present and able to serve a particular place in time, we need to be fully grounded, psychically and physically balanced, and in harmony with the energies of the land. When we learn to receive, to connect with and ground ourself in the vital energy (Chi or Ki) coming from the ground, we also begin to learn how to balance ourselves better with the powers of the earth, so to move and work with the powers that be, from basic gravity to the more subtle spiritual energies. One needs to develop the Chi and balance within, in order to properly work with the earth body. We need to connect ourselves with the place at hand or what is under our feet, so to speak. When we can dance with the land, the land will soon be dancing with us. We develop a mutual flow of energy between ourselves and the land. We receive the vitality, beauty and subtle qualities of this place, and we give our enthusiasm, recognition and quality of presence.
What we are calling 'subtle energy' has the property of electro-magnetism (EM), yet this is on a subtle level, often unmeasurable by physical instruments and unnoticed by average sensitivity. These will have different-unique frequencies of vibration and different wave patterns. Like sound and music, the vibrating waves can be of many varieties and have unique effects, as they combine together, forming complex patterns and subtle EM fields.
These are formative, patterning fields of energy influencing the area, interconnected and relating with the surrounding fields of the planet. There are fields within fields, each place having a semi-autonomous field, though not really separate from the overall fields around it. They have the properties of consciousness and creative patterning. We can speak of the distinct consciousness and creative resonance of a place; yet it is actually part of, and intimately related with larger fields and the greater whole. The same can be said of our human consciousness and creative mind.
We are, in fact, intimately connected with our surroundings. The environment resonates in us and is resonated by us. The environment resonates and patterns our mind, while being patterned by us simultaneously It is a mutual relationship of reciprocal influence. It is mind resonating mind, and energy resonating energy. This does not mean that the influences are equal in strength or in their effects. The effect of one field upon another depends on the strengths and stabilities involved in the give and take relationship. A patterning effect may only work at a deeper level of causation, and not manifest with apparency, at least not immediately; yet there always is at least some influence at a formative, causative level.
The Earth is already inter-connected in one energy Web, meaning that there is already an intricate interconnectivity of earth energies all throughout the planet. But this interconnected Web, at this time, is not as strong as it can be; for there are many weak connections and many blocks in the Flow due to inharmonious human constructions. Thus, part of the great Work of geomancers and earth-energy healers is to help strengthen the interconnected Web that is already, while also dissipating the blockages and building new connections. No matter what is at present, there is always more Work to achieve in this, because the earth-energy Web can be strengthened and connected evermore.
Consider by analogy the brain. At an early stage of development the brain has neural connections, and all of these neural pathways are inter-connected as a whole, in some manner. But this interconnection is still rather weak. There are connections, but not as many as could be. Thus, over time, as we think better and make more mental connections, our brain becomes evermore interconnected, which results in a finer unity and coherence of our whole brain (and our mental understanding as well). This is very similar to the earth-energy Web.
The Earth's Web of energies (physical, emotional, and mental) is interconnected, in some manner and in some degree, but not as good as it could be. So a part of our spiritual-earth Work is to help make more connections, more inter-connections. And we do this with consciousness and presence; then secondarily with visualization.
As we bring our finest consciousness and presence to certain special places, we help energize these places with our consciousness, presence, and recognition of spiritual beauty.
What we are doing is building a greater Earth Unity (and also earth-humanity Unity) by our own perception and realization of relationships within the Web.
The energy of consciousness, released through us for the land, requires us to be actually conscious. Yet we so often presume that we are conscious, when actually we are half-asleep in a dreamy, imaginative state. When we dream at night, we think the dream is real and that we are awake in this dream. But dreaming of being awake is actually a major delusion in our normal day, until we actually awaken from automatic mind. So what people don't normally realize is that they are mostly in a day-dreaming state and not truly conscious. And this delusion of being conscious, when one is not really, is maintainable because we can perform actions and even communicate with others while not actually being truly conscious. Instead, we are living in an automatic state of being, whereby we act and speak from mere subconscious habit. But it is difficult for the non-conscious, automatic state to realize this about itself. Consciousness is a sort of relative term, when referring to our own. For it is possible to awaken more fully to realize that we were previously day-dreaming or in a waking-sleep. Even right now at this moment, we are in a sort of sleep, compared to a greater possibility of consciousness.
So a significant aspect of self-transformation is to come into a more complete consciousness. This is done by stopping the continuation of our dreaming, letting go of our thoughts that dreamily carry on, and awakening to the reality of this new moment. It is being fully in the present moment, awake, without thought or presumption. One way to come immediately into the present moment is to stop time, as it was, to begin again. This is a way to stop the subconscious rolling pattern that is currently dominating our experience; or in other words, we are making an intentional stop of our current thought-train and dream-state, so that we might then become truly awake and conscious in this very present moment. One can also use breath to achieve this, by momentarily holding our breath for just a moment, in order to consciously wake up in this present moment; we intentionally stop our previous rhythm, then begin again with a renewed consciousness and attunement in the ongoing present moment.
Another aspect of consciousness is pure self-observation, or self-awareness, which is to be thoroughly aware of our being, in its many aspects - including physical body and movement, emotional feelings or moods, and mental thoughts. This is called pure self-observation when this awareness is without judgment and without reaction; since any self-noticing or self-observation could easily lead into self-judgment, overly intense self-criticism, or other kinds of self-reaction. Instead of self-judgment, pure self-observation is just a pure objective noticing about oneself, seeing what is happening in oneself at this moment or seeing certain repeating patterns in oneself. Then, from this better self-understanding, we can intentionally create changes in our self for the better. Ultimately we will want to delve most deeply in our being to discover deeper consciousness, love, and the power of inner spiritual will within us.
In a sense, one is coming into the One consciousness that is. for consciousness is already here and all around. There is really only One consciousness. So what we call our own consciousness is actually just a portion of the One consciousness. Thus, in a sense, we can only really enter into the one consciousness, becoming awake within it. Then, in a sense, it becomes our own. When we come into it, we are then it. Consciousness empowers itself through us, and subsequently, life may awaken around us. The land and life there on has a latent consciousness, which can awaken or activate. When one is truly awake in consciousness, of oneself and the world around, then consciousness resonates consciousness around it. When you observe/experience the life around you with being-consciousness, this awakens and activates the latent consciousness of nature. It also produces a transformation of energy that is radiated into the land and life that you are conscious of. A higher form of energy is released and given out, which activates and transforms energies of the land and also of natural spirits living in that area.
Transformation
is a result of the reconciliation or harmonization of what the
active and receptive forces. A triad will form from the
reconciliation of the active and receptive forces. Both the active
and receptive are in themselves triads. Transformation happens
through these triads in harmonization. It cannot really occur if any
of these are lacking.
The active triad is observation, enthusiasm, and work. Observation is an active attentiveness or conscious study of oneself and the world in relationship. It is ultimately the energy of consciousness, which finds the Truth. Enthusiasm is that special kind of emotional energy, which gets us going to do something. It is that energetic quality that seems to make things happen and inspire others. Third, work is the actual doing something, or the effort made.
The receptive triad is aspiration, sacrifice and trust. Aspiration is the higher desire to become a finer vehicle for service and to be attuned with the Greater Will of God. Sacrifice is the letting go of our selfish conditioning and limited concepts of who we are and what we want. We must let go of the past, without resistance, in order for the New to enter. Trust is the receptive patience and faith in higher help, which is necessary to allow the transformation to complete itself. i
iOne might note that observation has a kind of receptive quality and aspiration can appear to be active, even though they are in opposite triads, respectively. This is because each triad has active and receptive aspects.