<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" > <channel> <title>spiritguides Archives - Inspirited</title> <atom:link href="https://www.inspirited.world/tag/spiritguides/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /> <link>https://www.inspirited.world/tag/spiritguides/</link> <description>Inspired by Spirit</description> <lastBuildDate>Sat, 01 Oct 2022 07:42:39 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en-US</language> <sy:updatePeriod> hourly </sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency> 1 </sy:updateFrequency> <generator>https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2</generator> <image> <url>https://i0.wp.com/www.inspirited.world/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/cropped-NoonzCreative_Inspirited-world-logo_Final-01-1.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1</url> <title>spiritguides Archives - Inspirited</title> <link>https://www.inspirited.world/tag/spiritguides/</link> <width>32</width> <height>32</height> </image> <site xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">193467459</site> <item> <title>Egypt and the Blue Lotus</title> <link>https://www.inspirited.world/library/blog/egypt-and-the-blue-lotus/</link> <comments>https://www.inspirited.world/library/blog/egypt-and-the-blue-lotus/#respond</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[MayaAbouChedid]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 01 Oct 2022 06:05:54 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ancientegypt]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ancientgreece]]></category> <category><![CDATA[bluelily]]></category> <category><![CDATA[bluelotus]]></category> <category><![CDATA[callingonguides]]></category> <category><![CDATA[cosmology]]></category> <category><![CDATA[dream]]></category> <category><![CDATA[dreamspace]]></category> <category><![CDATA[dreamstate]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ecstaticstate]]></category> <category><![CDATA[egypt]]></category> <category><![CDATA[egyptiancarvings]]></category> <category><![CDATA[egyptiancosmology]]></category> <category><![CDATA[essentialoil]]></category> <category><![CDATA[expand]]></category> <category><![CDATA[gateways]]></category> <category><![CDATA[greekcosmology]]></category> <category><![CDATA[guidance]]></category> <category><![CDATA[inspirited]]></category> <category><![CDATA[inspiritedblog]]></category> <category><![CDATA[inspiritedworld]]></category> <category><![CDATA[intention]]></category> <category><![CDATA[invocation]]></category> <category><![CDATA[journey]]></category> <category><![CDATA[magick]]></category> <category><![CDATA[medicine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[medicineguides]]></category> <category><![CDATA[medicinejourney]]></category> <category><![CDATA[medicinepath]]></category> <category><![CDATA[middleeast]]></category> <category><![CDATA[mystical]]></category> <category><![CDATA[mysticaljourney]]></category> <category><![CDATA[mysticsism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[nefertem]]></category> <category><![CDATA[northafrica]]></category> <category><![CDATA[papyrus]]></category> <category><![CDATA[plantmedicine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[priesthood]]></category> <category><![CDATA[seeing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[shamanicjourney adventure]]></category> <category><![CDATA[shamanism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[spirit]]></category> <category><![CDATA[spiritguides]]></category> <category><![CDATA[stateofconsciousness]]></category> <category><![CDATA[teachers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[temples]]></category> <category><![CDATA[thoth]]></category> <category><![CDATA[toth]]></category> <category><![CDATA[tradition]]></category> <category><![CDATA[trans]]></category> <category><![CDATA[understanding]]></category> <category><![CDATA[weboflife]]></category> <category><![CDATA[wisdom]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.inspirited.world/?p=9515</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>Both Papyrus and Blue Lotus were deeply embedded in ancient Egyptians ways of living and dying. The first in their language and communication in one reality and the other in their connection to the spirit realms through the dream space and expanded states of consciousness in parallel realities.</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.inspirited.world/library/blog/egypt-and-the-blue-lotus/">Egypt and the Blue Lotus</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.inspirited.world">Inspirited</a>.</p> ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[ <div data-elementor-type="wp-post" data-elementor-id="9515" class="elementor elementor-9515"> <section class="elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-7258e8b0 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default" data-id="7258e8b0" data-element_type="section"> <div class="elementor-container elementor-column-gap-extended"> <div class="elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-7740dac sc_inner_width_none sc_content_align_inherit sc_layouts_column_icons_position_left" data-id="7740dac" data-element_type="column"> <div class="elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated"> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-27c45e59 sc_fly_static elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor" data-id="27c45e59" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="text-editor.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <p>It was on the Nile River where I was handed two small essential oils bottles by my shamanic teacher seven years ago. One was Papyrus and the other was Blue Lotus. I was on a mystical journey with a group of people that I knew in Peru. We went on an adventure to explore the cosmology of ancient Egypt. Another shamanic experience that followed a deep dive into the world of the Buddha in Nepal and India 2 weeks prior. <br>While handing us the tiny bottles of oil, our guide told us: “We will not ingest any plant medicine here. Instead, we will work with the spirits of Papyrus and Blue Lotus through the sense of smell and see where they will take each one of you on this journey”.</p> <p>Both Papyrus and Blue Lotus were deeply embedded in ancient Egyptians ways of living and dying. The first in their language and communication in one reality and the other in their connection to the spirit realms through the dream space and expanded states of consciousness in parallel realities.</p> <p>As I opened each of the bottles and I smelled them separately, the Blue Lotus called out. I felt a deep reignited connection with it. I knew it somehow. It was the first time I smell it yet, somehow, the memory of it rippled in my body. “Mmmmm. This is a beautiful smell” is what I shared aloud as I applied some of it on my wrists. </p> <p>One more guest was late, and we had to wait for him to start moving on the Nile River and exploring some sacred sites. As he arrived, the boat was waiting for us. He was coming directly from “Burning Man” and was in a very interesting state. The first day on the boat, he was purging almost the whole day and he was very agitated and restless. In the afternoon, our guide asked me to work with him energetically and physically with the intention to help him calm down and sleep.</p> <p>After our dinner together, everyone in the group went down the deck to their rooms and I stayed to work with him for more than 2 hours. By the end of the session, he was calmer and ready to rest. <br>Going back to my room felt like a dream. I took a shower and went straight to bed. I had placed both bottles of essential oil on the bedside table near me. I felt so blessed to lie down and I went into a deep sleep as soon as I laid my head on the pillow. <br>At some point during the night, I do not remember what time it was, I woke up to the smell of the Blue Lotus filling the room. It was so vivid. I turned to check if any of the bottles was open or fell down on the floor. Both were closed and still in the same place where I had put them. I freaked out! </p> <p>A day or two prior, as we were visiting one of the temples and the archeology guide was explaining some of the carvings on the walls, I had connected with a figurine of a deity whom I came to know as Thoth, the Moon God. What pulled me in his direction was his knowledge in the arts of magic, the system of writing, science, art and the judgment of the dead.</p> <p>Back to my room, I was in an ongoing state of fear. I did not know what to do or who to call. I was awake. I was aware of what I was smelling. I kept repeating to myself: “What is going on? Where is this coming from? <br>I sat back on my bed and while being smothered by the smell of the Blue Lotus which I knew very little about back then, I was not able to understand anything at all. I was not in ceremony yet, I felt I was. <br>Suddenly, a form showed up in the room. A silhouette of a spirit! I could not believe what my eyes were seeing. I knew it was a spirit but how? How can this happen outside ceremony or without ingesting any plant medicine? <br>In denial, I asked: “Who are you?”<br>A voice responded: “You called for me”.<br>The vision of the carving in the temple linked me directly to those words. I was in awe. I could not believe how this can happen!<br>My head was spinning. My body frozen. I could not move. <br>After realizing what I had asked for and, in my ignorance, I added: <br>” Yes. I did call for you. I connected with You, and I ask you to teach me your medicine”. <br>What? What was I talking about? It was overwhelming. It’s like I was not the one talking. It was as if I was set on the side, and something is talking through me. I was out of my own way. I was shocked by what I was expressing. <br>The spirit answered: “What is medicine for you?”<br>If there was anything until then that was keeping me together, this question wiped it. I was speechless. I did not know what to do, how to answer or anything else whatsoever. I felt blank. <br>“What is medicine to you?”. I had been exploring and healing in the world of plant medicine for almost 4 years and I did not know what medicine was. I had heard the maestro and other practitioners talk about it. I memorized what it meant for them and would repeat their words, but I had no idea what it means for me till then. Their words escaped me as I was lost in a world of smell and spirit. <br>Was it all a vivid dream in which I was fully present and absent at the same time? <br>I do not remember how I went back to sleep but it felt like sleeping became the dream itself and that vision was the reality that I lived. </p> <p>After sharing this story with my guide, the next morning, he said three words: “Hold your ground”. What did he mean? I had no clue. I was miserable. I felt I was going crazy, but I kept moving because I had no other choice. I was there and I could not leave. Not yet. <br>The rest of my journey in Egypt was life transforming. It was one of the most potent experiences in my journey outside the ceremony house. I brought the Blue Lotus oil back with me and over the years I spent in the jungle, that same bottle accompanied me until it was empty. I had kept another sample in my apartment back home and every once in a while, I would smell it. </p> <p>Earlier this year, I started receiving messages again about the Blue Lotus after sharing it with some women. Seven years following my experience in Egypt, I was pulled again to understood what happened with me. As I searched more and followed the threads, I learned about the main Deity of the Blue Lotus – Nefertem and the ancient ritual of Initiation by the Blue Lotus in Egypt and Greece. My part of the world in this lifetime. </p> <p>This mystical plant surfaced again in my life, and I knew that I will get a chance to work with it through a woman, a priestess and a guardian. It is timely and it is needed now.<span style="font-size: 16.875px; letter-spacing: 0.015em;"> </span></p> <p>In Love and Medicine</p> <p><b>Maya Abou Chedid</b></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </section> </div> <p>The post <a href="https://www.inspirited.world/library/blog/egypt-and-the-blue-lotus/">Egypt and the Blue Lotus</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.inspirited.world">Inspirited</a>.</p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>https://www.inspirited.world/library/blog/egypt-and-the-blue-lotus/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">9515</post-id> </item> <item> <title>The Eye and The Spell</title> <link>https://www.inspirited.world/library/blog/the-eye-and-the-spell/</link> <comments>https://www.inspirited.world/library/blog/the-eye-and-the-spell/#respond</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[MayaAbouChedid]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2022 12:32:53 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ancestralhealing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[beliefsystems]]></category> <category><![CDATA[clarity]]></category> <category><![CDATA[cosmology]]></category> <category><![CDATA[crumbling]]></category> <category><![CDATA[death]]></category> <category><![CDATA[envy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[evileye]]></category> <category><![CDATA[eyeofhorus]]></category> <category><![CDATA[fear]]></category> <category><![CDATA[greed]]></category> <category><![CDATA[humanity]]></category> <category><![CDATA[inspirited]]></category> <category><![CDATA[inspiritedblog]]></category> <category><![CDATA[inspiritedworld]]></category> <category><![CDATA[integration]]></category> <category><![CDATA[intention]]></category> <category><![CDATA[journey]]></category> <category><![CDATA[judgment]]></category> <category><![CDATA[light]]></category> <category><![CDATA[littlesaints]]></category> <category><![CDATA[love]]></category> <category><![CDATA[maldeojo]]></category> <category><![CDATA[medicineguides]]></category> <category><![CDATA[medicinejourney]]></category> <category><![CDATA[medicinepath]]></category> <category><![CDATA[middleeast]]></category> <category><![CDATA[mother]]></category> <category><![CDATA[nature]]></category> <category><![CDATA[powerofintention]]></category> <category><![CDATA[powerofwords]]></category> <category><![CDATA[puremedicine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[religion]]></category> <category><![CDATA[seeing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[shamanicjourney]]></category> <category><![CDATA[shamanism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[soulguidance]]></category> <category><![CDATA[spell]]></category> <category><![CDATA[spelling]]></category> <category><![CDATA[spirit]]></category> <category><![CDATA[spiritguides]]></category> <category><![CDATA[teachers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[toth]]></category> <category><![CDATA[tradition]]></category> <category><![CDATA[truth]]></category> <category><![CDATA[understanding]]></category> <category><![CDATA[weboflife]]></category> <category><![CDATA[wisdom]]></category> <category><![CDATA[women]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.inspirited.world/?p=9363</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>When someone “loses it”, as we commonly say, there is always a reason and this reason falls into the unknown. It is usually a crisis. We don’t know what to do with this family member, friend or partner. This unknown has not been preached in holy places. It has been feared, banished and expelled as God did to Lucifer. Unfortunately, so much of the truth has been tainted and unspoken of because of fear. </p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.inspirited.world/library/blog/the-eye-and-the-spell/">The Eye and The Spell</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.inspirited.world">Inspirited</a>.</p> ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[ <div data-elementor-type="wp-post" data-elementor-id="9363" class="elementor elementor-9363"> <section class="elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-7258e8b0 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default" data-id="7258e8b0" data-element_type="section"> <div class="elementor-container elementor-column-gap-extended"> <div class="elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-7740dac sc_inner_width_none sc_content_align_inherit sc_layouts_column_icons_position_left" data-id="7740dac" data-element_type="column"> <div class="elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated"> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-27c45e59 sc_fly_static elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor" data-id="27c45e59" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="text-editor.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <p><span style="font-size: 16.875px; letter-spacing: 0.015em;">I got pulled again to my altar this morning while experiencing heaviness in my head and a sense of disorientation. I was earlier guided to proceed with an energy clearing for the house and my mother who is struggling with a family occurrence that has been lingering for a long time. A very long time.</span></p><p>You see, in this lifetime, I happened to land in the Middle East and I have to say, it was not a soft drop. What was I thinking about? I have no idea but that decision was a crazy one!</p><p>I sat on my pillow, held my drum and started a rhythmic beat. I was already in an expanded state. I did not need much to get carried by the beat to explore what is going on.</p><p>Few days prior, it was the New Moon and for this cycle, I sat in ceremony and called on all my helping spirits and guides to join me here, in this space, that I just returned to after half a year.</p><p>I knew the landing was going to be rough again and the welcome back quite charming!</p><p>Anyway, as I drummed, I asked for my energy to be straightened to see with clarity. Some of my main tree allies joined in and after singing them, my energy settled and the head space was clearer. Suddenly, m vision was sharp and I started seeing what is still going on in my family.</p><p>When someone “loses it”, as we commonly say, there is always a reason and this reason falls into the unknown. It is usually a crisis. We don’t know what to do with this family member, friend or partner. This unknown has not been preached in holy places. It has been feared, banished and expelled as God did to Lucifer. Unfortunately, so much of the truth has been tainted and unspoken of because of fear.</p><p>Much of this unknown that experts tend to diagnose, analyze and even reject is related to soul loss. This is not to scare anybody. It is to talk about it, to say it out loud. Every family has at least someone who has gone through losing parts of his/her soul in their lifetime.</p><p>Those parts of the soul can freeze in time when we go through a certain traumatizing incident (accident, death, war, rape, …) or someone intently steals parts of the soul usually by casting a spell which was divinely agreed upon as well.</p><p>The visions started downloading fast! At some point, I had asked: “Please show me if there’s any additional role that I need to play in this situation”. I knew I was not also ready to let go of my mother. I was not ready for her to leave. Not yet.</p><p>Vividly, I was accompanied by one of my guides to see, for the first time, the “evil eye” (also known in Central and South America as <em>“Mal de Ojo”</em>). This has been casted and intentionally spelled onto my mother and her family (siblings and descendants) within the Christian circle. The intention was clear. It was based in greed and envy. It was based in fear and so it was carried through her to affect each one of us in different ways.</p><p>I saw intertwined threads, darts, lack and loss. They were old, miserable and sucking on my family’s energy still! I had done a lot of healing work so far, but I was somehow not allowed to see this until <span style="font-size: 15.75px;">now! While</span> receiving all of this, I was shown the connection with my latest <em>Little Saints </em>diet in the mountain of Mexico. I was getting prepared to scatter this energy cutting all the threads and shimmering pure light on and into it… <br />This had been carried for a long time within the religious belief system I grew up in… It was embedded in it because fear was the motive to believe in God and not Love. I remember that very well. This was why I decided to seek God on my own. Something never felt right within me yet my connection with the Archangels, some of the Saints, Jesus and Mary archetypes was always strong. </p><p>In this part of the world, the eye is quite symbolic. I used to see a blue representation of the eye hanging on the top of people’s main doors, in their cars and businesses. The stories that came with that were “protection from the evil eye”. I used to see women including my mother praying on a glass of water to remove the “evil eye” which was spelled on someone. I’ve seen my mother praying, yawning and tearing up while she was in that state. Sometimes, she would tell someone that the spell is too strong and that she did her best but could not remove it.</p><p>How long has this been going and how come the symbol of the eye depicted as a protection from evil in the Egyptian times (<a href="https://egyptian-history.com/blogs/egyptian-symbols/eye-of-horus" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Eye of Ra and Horus</a>) became something to pierce as a dart into the heart and soul of others?</p><p>The ceremony went intensely for whatever amount of time. Eventually, I felt as if a weight has been removed from my psyche. What I was left with was acceptance. I saw how this whole cycle of harm had affected each one of the family I was born with in this lifetime including myself and where each one took it. That part of the story that was lingering in the unknown is now known.</p><p>I sat, head down as if coming out from a battlefield. What do I choose now?</p><p>The answer came as the question surfaced. “I accept each one’s soul path. I have done and I am doing my part. Again and again, I surrender the rest to God…</p><p>In Love and Medicine</p><p><b>Maya Abou Chedid</b></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </section> </div> <p>The post <a href="https://www.inspirited.world/library/blog/the-eye-and-the-spell/">The Eye and The Spell</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.inspirited.world">Inspirited</a>.</p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>https://www.inspirited.world/library/blog/the-eye-and-the-spell/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">9363</post-id> </item> <item> <title>Dismembering and Remembering</title> <link>https://www.inspirited.world/library/blog/dismembering-and-remembering/</link> <comments>https://www.inspirited.world/library/blog/dismembering-and-remembering/#respond</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[MayaAbouChedid]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2021 13:28:33 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category> <category><![CDATA[beinghuman]]></category> <category><![CDATA[breathbybreath]]></category> <category><![CDATA[change]]></category> <category><![CDATA[connection]]></category> <category><![CDATA[cycleoflife]]></category> <category><![CDATA[death]]></category> <category><![CDATA[dismembering]]></category> <category><![CDATA[embodying]]></category> <category><![CDATA[evolving]]></category> <category><![CDATA[expansion]]></category> <category><![CDATA[experience]]></category> <category><![CDATA[exploring]]></category> <category><![CDATA[grief]]></category> <category><![CDATA[growth]]></category> <category><![CDATA[healing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[helpingspirits]]></category> <category><![CDATA[humanity]]></category> <category><![CDATA[inspiring]]></category> <category><![CDATA[lessons]]></category> <category><![CDATA[life]]></category> <category><![CDATA[lifecycle]]></category> <category><![CDATA[lifepassage]]></category> <category><![CDATA[listening]]></category> <category><![CDATA[loss]]></category> <category><![CDATA[meaning]]></category> <category><![CDATA[medicine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[messages]]></category> <category><![CDATA[moving]]></category> <category><![CDATA[nature]]></category> <category><![CDATA[paradigms]]></category> <category><![CDATA[plantmedicine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[practice]]></category> <category><![CDATA[rebirth]]></category> <category><![CDATA[remembering]]></category> <category><![CDATA[riteofpassage]]></category> <category><![CDATA[sacredgeometry]]></category> <category><![CDATA[shaman]]></category> <category><![CDATA[shamanic]]></category> <category><![CDATA[shamanism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[shifting]]></category> <category><![CDATA[spiral]]></category> <category><![CDATA[spirit]]></category> <category><![CDATA[spiritguides]]></category> <category><![CDATA[spiritual]]></category> <category><![CDATA[spirituality]]></category> <category><![CDATA[sustainability]]></category> <category><![CDATA[teachers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[timeless]]></category> <category><![CDATA[trueself]]></category> <category><![CDATA[wisdom]]></category> <category><![CDATA[words]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.inspirited.world/?p=6078</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>We have the experience of birth in our body memory. From the moment a seed was planted in our mother’s womb, our own creation started manifesting in form. We moved from a pure consciousness expression into a human consciousness experience.<br /> In this experience, we come to witness and see, on many occasions, a glimpse of how creation works in cycles and spirals while we learn about linearity and we move with its veils, boundaries and structures.</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.inspirited.world/library/blog/dismembering-and-remembering/">Dismembering and Remembering</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.inspirited.world">Inspirited</a>.</p> ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[ <div data-elementor-type="wp-post" data-elementor-id="6078" class="elementor elementor-6078"> <section class="elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-2c3f543c elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default" data-id="2c3f543c" data-element_type="section"> <div class="elementor-container elementor-column-gap-extended"> <div class="elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-5418871b sc_inner_width_none sc_content_align_inherit sc_layouts_column_icons_position_left" data-id="5418871b" data-element_type="column"> <div class="elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated"> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-78270105 sc_fly_static elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor" data-id="78270105" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="text-editor.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <p></p> <p>We hold the experience of birth in our body’s memory. From the moment a seed was planted in our mother’s womb, our own creation started manifesting in form. We moved from a pure consciousness expression into a human consciousness experience.</p> <p></p> <p></p> <p>In this experience, we come to witness and see, on many occasions, a glimpse of how creation works in cycles and spirals while we learn about linearity and we move with its veils, boundaries and structures.</p> <p></p> <p></p> <p>When the movement of life’s cycles gets us close to the center of the spiral’ a centripetal movement, everything comes to an almost collision-like big bang. One of dismemberment in which the outer layers of the spiral dissipate and a whole initiation of a new cycle starts.</p> <div><p>A moment in time, where time does not exist and only the present that life offers brings in the opportunity to step into a whole new paradigm shift.</p> <p></p> <p></p> <p>We are living this individually and collectively right now and however I can try to put it, the words can only describe how it feels like to watch this movie and be part of it while knowing that, everyone of us, has a role to play sometimes and sit in the spectator seat with a giant box of popcorn other times.</p> <p></p> <p></p> <p>We all know, in a way or another, from each one’s personal experience, that sometimes, we need to grab onto something, anything, so tightly as if our life depends on it. If we have been doing that all our life, we are witnessing the crashing and burning of it.</p> <div><p>Things are breaking, dismantling and many are going through a process of dismemberment. </p> <p></p> <p></p> <p>Every part, how it used to be placed and situated is getting uprooted and moved into almost thin air. It is like gravity is changing its mind from keeping us together yet we still see our bodies here.</p> <div><p>The pain of dismemberment is brutal, to say the least. The pieces of the psyche are shattered just like the effect of an intense non-nuclear blast in the center of Beirut, a city, a country, a land. What is the difference between a land and a body?</p> <div><p>The projection is real. The reality is showing what is going on inside each one who is still breathing on this earth.</p> <p></p> <p></p> <p>When we do hold on to anything, we wish time would stop in that moment of pleasure.</p> <div><p>We wouldn’t know how to do that when we are babies lying on the bosom of our mother and feeding on her body because we do not know what control or loss means yet.</p> <div><p>When we face inconceivable pain and knee-bending loss, time stops. Right there and right then, nothing matters anymore. We find ourselves naked under the eye of God. Nothing to hide and nothing to do.</p> <div><p>Like a seed that just dropped from a tree on bare earth, it is held by an organism that opens up for an extension of life to continue, taking roots and getting covered again to sprout and transform into another tree.</p> <p></p> <p></p> <p>How magical life is?</p> <p></p> <p></p> <p>When we look around and see the center of the spiral moving so fast and yet so slow.</p> <div><p>A hole that can be the start and the end simultaneously.</p> <div><p>A hole where creation and destruction co-exist and the emergence of life in its full expression carries the potential of living and dying in it.</p> <div><p>Life is a rite of passage and death too.</p> <div><p>When we go through an internal death, a dismemberment, a loss of everything we knew, we open up to remembering something and that thing can bring in a true sense of living and dying.</p> <div><p>The pieces come together again and we feel a whole rebirth happening in our bones and skin.</p> <p></p> <p></p> <p>When we are ready to live fully, we are ready to die fully.</p> <div><p>The cycle of life is such and life is happening through us.</p> <p></p> <p></p> <p>Going and coming. As the breath, as everything in nature, as everything in this universe.</p> <p></p> <p></p> <p>Live fully.</p> <p></p> <p></p> <p>Love fully.</p> <p></p> <p></p> <p>In Love and Medicine.</p> <p></p> <p></p> <p><b>Maya Abou Chedid</b></p> <p></p> </div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </section> </div> <p>The post <a href="https://www.inspirited.world/library/blog/dismembering-and-remembering/">Dismembering and Remembering</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.inspirited.world">Inspirited</a>.</p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>https://www.inspirited.world/library/blog/dismembering-and-remembering/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">6078</post-id> </item> <item> <title>The Language Of Spirit</title> <link>https://www.inspirited.world/library/blog/the-language-of-spirit/</link> <comments>https://www.inspirited.world/library/blog/the-language-of-spirit/#respond</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[MayaAbouChedid]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2021 10:30:37 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ancient]]></category> <category><![CDATA[awareness]]></category> <category><![CDATA[balance]]></category> <category><![CDATA[beinghuman]]></category> <category><![CDATA[connection]]></category> <category><![CDATA[DNA]]></category> <category><![CDATA[earth]]></category> <category><![CDATA[elements]]></category> <category><![CDATA[embodying]]></category> <category><![CDATA[energy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[expansion]]></category> <category><![CDATA[experience]]></category> <category><![CDATA[exploring]]></category> <category><![CDATA[harmony]]></category> <category><![CDATA[healing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[helpingspirits]]></category> <category><![CDATA[humanity]]></category> <category><![CDATA[inspiring]]></category> <category><![CDATA[knowledge]]></category> <category><![CDATA[language]]></category> <category><![CDATA[life]]></category> <category><![CDATA[lifeforce]]></category> <category><![CDATA[listening]]></category> <category><![CDATA[meaning]]></category> <category><![CDATA[medicine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[messages]]></category> <category><![CDATA[nature]]></category> <category><![CDATA[omens]]></category> <category><![CDATA[opening]]></category> <category><![CDATA[plantmedicine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[practice]]></category> <category><![CDATA[saman]]></category> <category><![CDATA[shaman]]></category> <category><![CDATA[shamanic]]></category> <category><![CDATA[shamanism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[sound]]></category> <category><![CDATA[spirit]]></category> <category><![CDATA[spiritguides]]></category> <category><![CDATA[spiritual]]></category> <category><![CDATA[spirituality]]></category> <category><![CDATA[sustainability]]></category> <category><![CDATA[teacher]]></category> <category><![CDATA[timeless]]></category> <category><![CDATA[weboflife]]></category> <category><![CDATA[wisdom]]></category> <category><![CDATA[words]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.inspirited.world/?p=5316</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>Every form of life has a spirit to it, be it still or mobile to the naked eye. The shape of the physical form can translate the shape of the spirit itself. No shape is identical to any other in its gross representation all the way to how it took that shape over the days, months and years. Each has its own signature and is the conglomerate product of spirits that make up the immensity of creation.</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.inspirited.world/library/blog/the-language-of-spirit/">The Language Of Spirit</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.inspirited.world">Inspirited</a>.</p> ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[ <div data-elementor-type="wp-post" data-elementor-id="5316" class="elementor elementor-5316"> <section class="elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-4eee539b elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default" data-id="4eee539b" data-element_type="section"> <div class="elementor-container elementor-column-gap-extended"> <div class="elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-44c7d3f4 sc_inner_width_none sc_content_align_inherit sc_layouts_column_icons_position_left" data-id="44c7d3f4" data-element_type="column"> <div class="elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated"> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-5b446cec sc_fly_static elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor" data-id="5b446cec" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="text-editor.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <p></p> <p>Every form of life has a spirit to it, be it still or mobile to the naked eye. The shape of the physical form can translate the shape of the spirit itself. No shape is identical to any other in its gross representation all the way to how it took that shape over the days, months, and years. Each has its own signature and is the conglomerate product of spirits that make up the immensity of creation.</p> <p></p> <p></p> <p>Shamans, women, and men, watched nature, sat in nature, and imitated nature beings to call on and embody their spirits through an open, untamed, and pure connection. They knew that nature holds the wisdom and the power of life from the peck of sand to the blinding sand storms. The drop of water to the majestic oceans and snowstorms. The movement of tectonic plates to the surfacing of gigantic mountains. The warming rays of the sun above to the melting volcanos venting the below. They were interested in what looked scary and they explored it with courage and resilience.</p> <p></p> <p></p> <p>To them, earth spoke and they listened. Spirit was bigger and they connected to its dimensions. The skies were their maps. The stars and planets bestowed messages and omens. Every being talked to them showing the way to find food, shelter, and medicinal plants to heal the body, sustain the livelihood and maintain harmony in a community.</p> <p></p> <p></p> <p>Spirit spoke through sounds and they learned the language and the power of it. Some abused it and still do. Others honored it, taught it well, and knew that they are mere messengers on this earth that were chosen and chose others to carry the lineage.</p> <div><p>With the evolution of humanity, we can’t deny the gradual distancing from nature and the abuse that fed the greedy spirits in the human psyche. On the other hand, the energetic network that connects the earth from the mycelial web to the energy lines and sacred power sites in which sages and mystics sat and channeled light and wisdom for ages awakened the embedded information in our current genetic material.</p> <p></p> <p></p> <p>Shamanism is known to be the oldest practice in the history of humanity and the acquired word “Saman” comes from a relatively recent depiction found in the Northern European (Siberia) lands but the word, in its many descriptions, is timeless. <a href="http://Where Does the Word 'Shaman' Come From? - Green Tara College - School of Shamanism (shamanic-training.eu)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://Where Does the Word ‘Shaman’ Come From? – Green Tara College – School of Shamanism (shamanic-training.eu)</a></p> <p></p> <p></p> <p>When we look at a practice that is tracked with an estimation of tens of thousands of years and is more so alive and needed in these times, we can say that Spirit is speaking louder inviting many to open up to learning a whole new language expressing it through art, medicine, architecture, finances, law, production, education, politics and every other field of society that we have the opportunity to refine with pure intention.</p> <div><p>The language of Spirit is the one that connects us all. When we touch on that, we come to know that everything we think of and do plays an essential role in the livelihood of others, the harmony and balance in nature.</p> <p></p> <p></p> <p>The ones who came before us carved the path for us and it is our turn to continue the work for our descendants.</p> <p></p> <p></p> <p>In Love and Medicine.</p> <p></p> <p></p> <p><b>Maya Abou Chedid</b></p> <p></p> </div></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </section> </div> <p>The post <a href="https://www.inspirited.world/library/blog/the-language-of-spirit/">The Language Of Spirit</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.inspirited.world">Inspirited</a>.</p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>https://www.inspirited.world/library/blog/the-language-of-spirit/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">5316</post-id> </item> </channel> </rss>