Having a retreat coming up is great for my balancing my masculine and feminine brain. I have to put a ton of energy into creating the curriculum, making handouts and fancy booklets, and my favorite, doing research!!  One of the things on my list of offerings this winter is practicing visualizing a new way of being in the world. And since I can’t ask my class to do work that I haven’t already done, I’ve gone back to my “welcome 2022” template and have been making notes about inspired ideas that have come since then.

One thing I have been thinking about a lot is sustainability. Not the current form of “how much can we take from the earth while leaving the bare minimum”, but rather, how could we live more like the earth was before we cut down so many trees and killed off so many animal?. Ancient trees, miles of forests, clean rivers and lakes, massive diversity of species….  That led me to think about numbers of people, and how do you manage billions of people with limited resources?

Then an idea began to surface. I remember back in the 70’s, when marijuana was first making its way through the midwest, and one of the things we all believed (where this idea came from I have no idea, but it was accepted by everyone I knew who smoked) was that cannibas had a REVERSE TOLERANCE. That meant that the more you smoked, the less you needed. It was a belief, a thing ascribed to. And then it slowly began to fade from our consciousness until no one ever mentioned it again.

‍ I have been thinking a lot about medicine lately - both pharmaceutical and naturopathic - and one thing I realized is that in our western mind set, we don’t really talk about that as the body heals, it needs LESS of everything, and a higher vibration of what it WAS taking. And thinking back to reverse tolerance, what if the body heals best as we take less and less of whatever the “thing” is, and we do more and more to raise our frequency?  What if you only took your “big gun” supplements/drugs at your sickest, and then the intent was that as the “illness” progressed, you would use higher vibrational substances, less of them, and would work directly with the intelligence of your cells?  What if STAYING on big gun medication for too long actually impairs the body from healing? 

Homeopathy is a brilliant medicine. It is based on the science of vibrational memory. Water remembers everything it comes into contact with. It can be programmed with intention. So let’s say we take penicillin and we want to make it a higher vibrational medicine. We would mix it with water, shake it up a lot, then dilute it and repeat over and over until there was literally nothing in the water of the original penicillin EXCEPT the memory of it. The strangest part for me was that the more times a product was diluted, the stronger the homeopathic became. It didn’t make sense logically, but having been on various homeopathic remedies throughout my life I know this is true. 1000X arnica is much  much stronger than 200X. In homeopathic terminology, a higher dilution ratio  generally indicates a stronger or more potent remedy.

So let’s apply that idea to food.  What if our diets were supplemented with energy? Sun breathing, grounding, flower essences, homeopathics, regeneratively grown food - all ways of receiving a higher vibration. By using fewer material resources and focusing more on energetic resources, this would allow the Earth to support many people lightly. 

And we would have to remember how to utilize free energy. There are so many people working on this and so much information available that I am convinced we’ll see working models flooding the world soon, all at the same time so that it can no longer be suppressed. 

And all of these ideas have to sit upon a foundation of “what would we do with a life like that?” If you didn’t have to have a job, what would life look like? If you didn’t have to work to live, how would you live? And they would also have to sit upon a foundation of being able to feel our connection to all other life, something I feel we have lost. Until we know the mountains like we know our elbows; until we know the underground mycellium network like we know our hips, until we remember and feel with our whole body that we are of the Earth, our lives may continue to be a search for something via distraction, drama and over indulgence. 

These ideas continue to percolate in my half waking states. I keep looking for images that will inspire me to be able to clearly see what that world could look like. I am particularly fond of Gilbert Williams artwork. His images are magical, the colors superb and they invite you to enter the paintings and imagine yourself there. If you know of other great art or photographs that can inspire a vision of a lush and fecund Earth, please send me a message.

If you’re interested in joining the retreat, you can find more details here or feel free to reach out and contact me. 

Blessings!

Cat