<?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>weboflife Archives - Inspirited</title> <atom:link href="https://www.inspirited.world/tag/weboflife/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /> <link>https://www.inspirited.world/tag/weboflife/</link> <description>Inspired by Spirit</description> <lastBuildDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2022 18:16:42 +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>weboflife Archives - Inspirited</title> <link>https://www.inspirited.world/tag/weboflife/</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>A Journey in the Mazatec Tradition</title> <link>https://www.inspirited.world/library/blog/a-journey-in-the-mazatec-tradition/</link> <comments>https://www.inspirited.world/library/blog/a-journey-in-the-mazatec-tradition/#comments</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[MayaAbouChedid]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sun, 31 Jul 2022 19:37:27 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category> <category><![CDATA[chikon]]></category> <category><![CDATA[clarity]]></category> <category><![CDATA[control]]></category> <category><![CDATA[derrumbes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[dieta]]></category> <category><![CDATA[dietingmushrooms]]></category> <category><![CDATA[fear]]></category> <category><![CDATA[guides]]></category> <category><![CDATA[helpingspirits]]></category> <category><![CDATA[huautladejimenez]]></category> <category><![CDATA[inspirited]]></category> <category><![CDATA[inspiritedblog]]></category> <category><![CDATA[inspiritedworld]]></category> <category><![CDATA[intention]]></category> <category><![CDATA[journey]]></category> <category><![CDATA[learningmedicine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[light]]></category> <category><![CDATA[littlesaints]]></category> <category><![CDATA[love]]></category> <category><![CDATA[mariasabina]]></category> <category><![CDATA[mastermycelium]]></category> <category><![CDATA[mazatec]]></category> <category><![CDATA[mazatectraditions]]></category> <category><![CDATA[medicineguides]]></category> <category><![CDATA[medicinejourney]]></category> <category><![CDATA[medicinepath]]></category> <category><![CDATA[mexico]]></category> <category><![CDATA[mountains]]></category> <category><![CDATA[mushroomnetwork]]></category> <category><![CDATA[mushrooms]]></category> <category><![CDATA[mushroomsmedicine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[mushroomtradition]]></category> <category><![CDATA[nature]]></category> <category><![CDATA[nindótokoxo]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ninossantos]]></category> <category><![CDATA[oaxaca]]></category> <category><![CDATA[psylocibin]]></category> <category><![CDATA[sacredmushrooms]]></category> <category><![CDATA[sanisidro]]></category> <category><![CDATA[seeing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[shamanicjourney]]></category> <category><![CDATA[shamanism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[soulguidance]]></category> <category><![CDATA[teachers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[tradition]]></category> <category><![CDATA[truth]]></category> <category><![CDATA[weboflife]]></category> <category><![CDATA[wisdom]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.inspirited.world/?p=9214</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>Another experience on the path of medicine had started. In the southern mountains of Mexico, several leaves of freshly picked Niños Santos (Derrumbes: Landslide and San Isidro Mushrooms) have been served and welcomed with love to accompany me and a dear friend in a medicine space. Another exploration with one intention: medicine to mediate, gentleness to share, truth to expand, love to feel and light to see. </p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.inspirited.world/library/blog/a-journey-in-the-mazatec-tradition/">A Journey in the Mazatec Tradition</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="9214" class="elementor elementor-9214"> <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>Few words echoed in my vision ushering the beginning of the journey. Several minutes after ingesting one medium sized gorgeous San Isidro Mushroom, what many would consider a small dose opened up my <em>dieta</em> after a traditional ceremony 24 hours prior.</p> <p>Another experience on the path of medicine had started. In the southern mountains of Mexico, several leaves of freshly picked Niños Santos (<em>Derrumbes: L</em>andslide and San Isidro Mushrooms) have been served and welcomed with love to accompany me and a dear friend in a medicine space. Another exploration with one intention: medicine to mediate, gentleness to share, truth to expand, love to feel and light to see. </p> <p>I silently opened the medicine space and my called upon guides into the room of a hotel. I had started feeling the medicine as soon as I blessed and ingested it. It was still working from the night before and I felt the crescendo in my being. <br>Eyes shut, the shivers were rippling and sensations accentuating. A shaking I knew. The slow rise and fall of a breath ushering a liminal space where a traditional ceremony adorned by Christian prayers was woven with Mazatecan hymns in time and beyond it.</p> <p>She appeared again; I heard the words as I felt her Spirit strongly present in the space. I had called upon her guidance as I always did with the intention to learn Medicine. Maria Sabina, one of the main Elders and Medicine Woman of Huautla de Jimenez came along with the Spirit of her Mountain and guide, <em>Nindó Tokoxo</em> – Cerro de la Adoración (The hill or mountain of worship).</p> <p>I felt right then that I am going on yet another deep dive and I have been preparing for these 5 days way before arriving to Huautla this time. </p> <p>My first visit to this part of Mexico was 2 years ago and the calling was essentially to be on the land where Maria Sabina walked, lived and practiced her widely known “<em>veladas”.</em> What she called Niños Santos were her food as she was starving, her guides as she was witnessing unknown sicknesses of close and far ones and they were her mediums to access and express a voice that was beyond her. A voice that came from the divine, as she was chosen to be and become. </p> <p>Shortly into the night, weird fluorescent visions started showing with a physical unease as if opening a different kind of gateway; One I was not used to in my journeys so far. I was taken into the world of the <em>Mazatecs</em> who have been the indigenous people of the Southern mountains A.D. <br>Somehow, I did not want to go there and I was trying to shift the journey but this was the way to learn about the story of this land here and meet the many spirits in this space. <br>The visions were not nice at all. I was seeing brutal and ferocious energies that were kind of woven in the space of the mushrooms to maybe protect and allow the survival of this group of people over time. <br>Somehow, along the way, I saw that the people were controlled by some spirits and there was a lot of killing and fighting. The space looked one of “insanity”. <br>I saw again and again the frequency of fear in creating separation. <br>Quite familiar in the story of humanity.<br>What was interesting was the role of the women over time. Their prayers and invocations held the community together and somehow brought a vulnerable sense of sanity back. Harmony held chaos.</p> <p>It was time to have a Mapacho. <br>I pulled myself and wrapped my shivering body with the blanket, rolled a Mapacho and sat by the window.</p> <p>My dear friend was there, gently supporting me as I was sharing my experience. We spoke for hours about life and the layering and transitions of traditions when fear and control take over.</p> <p>Something we are living and experiencing at this moment.</p> <p>My <em>dieta </em>finished on a beautiful note with the <em>Derrumbes </em>engulfing my whole being with warmth and love. The medicine was massaging my whole being from the inside as if bringing the pieces together. I was blessed by the medicine of Mountain Spirit who taught me a lot and joined me on my medicine journey with the graceful and deep guidance of Maria Sabina’s Spirit. Bit by bit, learning and growing.</p> <p>The journey continues…</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/a-journey-in-the-mazatec-tradition/">A Journey in the Mazatec Tradition</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.inspirited.world">Inspirited</a>.</p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>https://www.inspirited.world/library/blog/a-journey-in-the-mazatec-tradition/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">9214</post-id> </item> <item> <title>Reimagining Community</title> <link>https://www.inspirited.world/library/blog/reimagining-community/</link> <comments>https://www.inspirited.world/library/blog/reimagining-community/#respond</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[MayaAbouChedid]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2022 18:57:15 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category> <category><![CDATA[acceptingeachother]]></category> <category><![CDATA[allfacets]]></category> <category><![CDATA[beingtogether]]></category> <category><![CDATA[commune]]></category> <category><![CDATA[communing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[community]]></category> <category><![CDATA[eachother]]></category> <category><![CDATA[exploring]]></category> <category><![CDATA[facesofthedivine inspiredbyspirit]]></category> <category><![CDATA[imagining]]></category> <category><![CDATA[inspirited]]></category> <category><![CDATA[inspiritedblog]]></category> <category><![CDATA[inspiritedworld]]></category> <category><![CDATA[meaningofwords]]></category> <category><![CDATA[multiplicity]]></category> <category><![CDATA[nature]]></category> <category><![CDATA[naturecycles]]></category> <category><![CDATA[naturemedicine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[network]]></category> <category><![CDATA[redefinition]]></category> <category><![CDATA[relationship]]></category> <category><![CDATA[shamanicguidance]]></category> <category><![CDATA[shamanism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[soulguidance]]></category> <category><![CDATA[teachers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[together]]></category> <category><![CDATA[truth]]></category> <category><![CDATA[waysofrelating]]></category> <category><![CDATA[weareone]]></category> <category><![CDATA[web]]></category> <category><![CDATA[weboflife]]></category> <category><![CDATA[wisdom]]></category> <category><![CDATA[words]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.inspirited.world/?p=8756</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>Let us go on a journey together to explore community and let us feel through the guidance that comes through as we go.</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.inspirited.world/library/blog/reimagining-community/">Reimagining Community</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="8756" class="elementor elementor-8756"> <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;">Let us go on a journey together to explore community and let us feel through the guidance that comes through as we go.</span></p> <p>Coming from <b><i>communing</i></b>, we start with some definitions in order and go beyond them. Some of the meanings of the word <b><i>Commune</i></b> (verb or noun) are: <br>“To be in a state of intimate, heightened sensitivity and receptivity, as with one’s surroundings”<br>“To communicate (with) spiritually; to be together (with); to contemplate or absorb.” <br>“A group of people living together and sharing possessions and responsibilities.”</p> <p>Looking a bit deeper through those definitions, some of us might relate to the verb or the action in a way that is more felt with nature beings rather than human beings, Others might pull back from the meaning of the noun due to the sets of rules and regulations that are foundational in cults or structured groups of people agreeing on a common belief system to exist and survive.</p> <p>We all know that things are changing and, in this change, many of us are coming back to our roots, our nature and ancestors. Our connection with Spirit, to be in communion with ourselves and others. <br>This is showing and rippling all over the globe. The shedding of the old structures and hierarchies is happening only to reveal the truth including the sweet and the ugly and tap into the rawness and innocence of who we are and how we can live and thrive with the earth. <br>Everything is asking us to become aware of what we are thinking, feeling and projecting in our daily life and into the collective. <br>This is what we are witnessing more and more everywhere, everyday!</p> <p>Some of what we are seeing is devastating but have you ever seen a birth without blood? It is painful, uncomfortable and pushing us beyond what we think we can handle, but this is exactly how I used to feel when there is a buildup in ceremony before a big purge and a deep sense of peace afterwards. <br>In that state of inner peace, we can create from a place of heart and an echo of Spirit. <br>The global community is going through a collapsing of different belief systems that are not functional anymore. People are losing their mind and in this dramatic loss, the ways the collective mind was structured are shifting and the energy in moving more to the heart, to the earth and the surfacing of communing with the earth and therefore with each other.</p> <p>In this whole shuffle, new communities are developing in every field imaginable. Even the ones who were the lone wolves are howling with joy while in the solace of others honoring, welcoming them and respecting their space and what they offer in a group setting. <br>The resurgence of an authentic need to come together and just sit around the hearth, wherever we are to pray, meditate, share stories, celebrate the cycles of the moon and life altogether that we are part of and know that no one is alone in this whole transition.</p> <p>If there is any teacher that can guide us to be in community, wouldn’t earth be the one?</p> <p>When we hear stories of how our ancestors used to live, we feel this in our bones. A deep wisdom handed over and over generations while more problems were in surge. The wisdom was never lost and now, it is loudly iterated. <br>The wind whispers this in our ears. The water and earth vibrate it under the skin and the light of every nature being is shining even brighter as the sun, moon and stars are dancing in the skies.</p> <p>Life is much more complex now but the foundations of living in balance and harmony with the earth can be adapted with technology in even better ways. The technology that the ancient people of Africa, Central and South America, the Far East and many parts of Europe is till now an unfathomable mystery. <br>Maybe, on this journey of building an upgraded version of community that is genuine, healthy and balanced, we get closer to decoding the mystery of ancient cultures even more. <br>The vision that I am seeing at this moment of the ancient ones having waited for us to get to this point of no time to start cheering us up again is epic!</p> <p>We learned the many ways to be together and the ways to separate. What are we choosing now?</p> <p>If I am to reimagine community with the deep knowing that we, as human beings can live alone yet have this instinctive need to be with others, I would invite joy, respect and the art of listening into the space. <br><br>What would you invite in?</p> <p>In Love & 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/reimagining-community/">Reimagining Community</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.inspirited.world">Inspirited</a>.</p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>https://www.inspirited.world/library/blog/reimagining-community/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">8756</post-id> </item> <item> <title>The Plant Teacher and You</title> <link>https://www.inspirited.world/library/blog/the-plant-teacher-and-you/</link> <comments>https://www.inspirited.world/library/blog/the-plant-teacher-and-you/#comments</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[MayaAbouChedid]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sun, 01 May 2022 21:18:03 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category> <category><![CDATA[balance]]></category> <category><![CDATA[being]]></category> <category><![CDATA[breathwork]]></category> <category><![CDATA[clarity]]></category> <category><![CDATA[cleansing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[clearing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[conditioning]]></category> <category><![CDATA[connection]]></category> <category><![CDATA[expandedstatesofconsciousness]]></category> <category><![CDATA[field]]></category> <category><![CDATA[flow]]></category> <category><![CDATA[guidance]]></category> <category><![CDATA[harmony]]></category> <category><![CDATA[inspiredbyspirit]]></category> <category><![CDATA[inspirited]]></category> <category><![CDATA[inspiritedblog]]></category> <category><![CDATA[inspiritedworld]]></category> <category><![CDATA[intention]]></category> <category><![CDATA[love]]></category> <category><![CDATA[mastermycelium]]></category> <category><![CDATA[masterplants]]></category> <category><![CDATA[medicinespirits]]></category> <category><![CDATA[meditation]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movement]]></category> <category><![CDATA[mysticism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[naturecycles]]></category> <category><![CDATA[naturemedicine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[network]]></category> <category><![CDATA[plantandyou]]></category> <category><![CDATA[plantmedicine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[plants]]></category> <category><![CDATA[plantteachers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[practice]]></category> <category><![CDATA[preparation]]></category> <category><![CDATA[relationship]]></category> <category><![CDATA[releasing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[releasingcontrol]]></category> <category><![CDATA[sacredspace]]></category> <category><![CDATA[shamanicguidance]]></category> <category><![CDATA[shamanism somaticmovement]]></category> <category><![CDATA[soulguidance]]></category> <category><![CDATA[teachers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[together]]></category> <category><![CDATA[truth]]></category> <category><![CDATA[unseenrealms]]></category> <category><![CDATA[weareone]]></category> <category><![CDATA[weboflife]]></category> <category><![CDATA[wisdom]]></category> <category><![CDATA[yoga]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.inspirited.world/?p=8448</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>The plant teacher and you. Granted, two worlds that are energetically connected as parts of this web of life. Yet, the physical ingestion of a well-intended preparation of a concoction made from one or more plants is where worlds meet and collide. </p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.inspirited.world/library/blog/the-plant-teacher-and-you/">The Plant Teacher and You</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="8448" class="elementor elementor-8448"> <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>The plant teacher and you. Granted, two worlds that are energetically connected as parts in this web of life. Yet, the physical ingestion of a well-intended preparation of a concoction made from one or more plants is where worlds meet and collide.</p><p>The many insinuating spirit <em>(energetic)</em> realms of the plant(s) meeting with the many complexities of the modern human psyche to show everything that one can imagine including the shadow parts and the light of healing, the ugly and the beautiful, the infinite depths of the underworlds, middle worlds, upperworlds and other worlds. All of it without any exception. All the way to experiencing the fabric of the universe and meeting God, the divine infinite light of existence. </p><p>Nothing in this fusion is hidden, especially to You. Nature does not hide things like we do. It does not hold onto things. It transforms things even if it will take hundreds or thousands of years to reshape anything with an ongoing tendency to go into a balanced state again. There is an ongoing deconstruction and reconstruction, a fading away of a specie and a rebirth of another. It is all in nature. It has always been and we have been learning from nature and mimicking nature through our evolution with it and in some tiny parts of our brains, we thought that we can control it. </p><p>The plant teachers show us what we are ready to see even if it is boredom, annoyance, expectation and frustration, grief and pain. Going through those layers of resistance, control, fear and doubt opens doorways for us to see much more than we thought and this usually includes what we thought we are not.</p><p>There’s an exquisite indulgence in the ways of perception that we can discover on the journey with plant teachers, inside and more so outside ceremony. An experience of direct revelation where what is happening in the moment is the actual expression of that moment. Nothing more, nothing less. Being in the moment for this moment is all we have.</p><p>I always asked myself where does pain come from? This amount of pain that felt never-ending on many personal experiences in ceremony. The pain in the world that I felt over and over in my inner world. How much of it is there and how much work we need to do individually to alleviate the pain within and around us? How much did I hold inside me and did not know what to do about it?</p><p>Nature detects our pain and maybe this is one of the main reasons why plant medicine is becoming more and more available all over the world. Nature responds to what we need. This brings up yet another question here: How are we approaching and doing our part in acknowledging this response to the call for help? </p><p>Plants communicate through light and sound. The narrative that is added is a mere infinitesimal distraction of the magnitude of wisdom in the world of plants, fungi and nature altogether. The conscious part is usually challenged because of this new encounter. It does not know what to do based on what it knew before such an experience. It only knows enough of the ways the plant “should” be working based on what was heard and read and beyond this is exactly where the magick happens; When your world meets with the world of a plant teacher, in spirit or in body, your Spirit is touched and, in that moment, you are changed. It takes a while afterwards to catch up. </p><p>Opening your senses to tap into the unseen realms is the adventure and the guidance from the ones who have laid a map and who can walk alongside you can be quite a lighthouse as you decide to engage with the spirit and the body of a plant teacher.</p><p>The experience is coded for you and only you to read and understand. The map is only to enter and come back. The construct of the “You” merges with an infinite underlying wisdom which will only remind you of who you are beyond constructs and beyond definitions. <br />It is all in the experience itself, your own. </p><p>The rest is simple. Plants are simple in showing us things especially with what is happening in our inner worlds. Our own interpretation of that simplicity is filtered through a complex way of seeing things, for many reasons, in order to get to a certain revelation or a so-called Aha! moment. The inside world is reflected in the outside world and while the cleansing and clearing are happening, it can be chaotic, loud and many times uncomfortable, until you get tired from hanging on to the old and you experience a breakthrough of one layer and then the next and many others. <br />The adventure is ongoing and the revelations become clearer as we empty self from beliefs and acquired behaviors and patterns that are not essentially who we are. Emptying to receive and give back, to be of service on this beloved earth.</p><p>Such is nature and what a beautiful way to live and be in balance and harmony with all of existence? </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-plant-teacher-and-you/">The Plant Teacher and You</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.inspirited.world">Inspirited</a>.</p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>https://www.inspirited.world/library/blog/the-plant-teacher-and-you/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">8448</post-id> </item> <item> <title>Earthly Heaven</title> <link>https://www.inspirited.world/library/poetry/earthly-heaven/</link> <comments>https://www.inspirited.world/library/poetry/earthly-heaven/#respond</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[MayaAbouChedid]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2022 20:12:40 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category> <category><![CDATA[balance]]></category> <category><![CDATA[being]]></category> <category><![CDATA[breathwork]]></category> <category><![CDATA[clarity]]></category> <category><![CDATA[cleansing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[clearing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[conditioning]]></category> <category><![CDATA[connection]]></category> <category><![CDATA[expandedstatesofconsciousness]]></category> <category><![CDATA[field]]></category> <category><![CDATA[flow]]></category> <category><![CDATA[guidance]]></category> <category><![CDATA[harmony]]></category> <category><![CDATA[inspiredbyspirit]]></category> <category><![CDATA[inspirited]]></category> <category><![CDATA[inspiritedblog]]></category> <category><![CDATA[inspiritedworld]]></category> <category><![CDATA[intention]]></category> <category><![CDATA[love]]></category> <category><![CDATA[mastermycelium]]></category> <category><![CDATA[masterplants]]></category> <category><![CDATA[medicinespirits]]></category> <category><![CDATA[meditation]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movement]]></category> <category><![CDATA[mysticism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[naturecycles]]></category> <category><![CDATA[naturemedicine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[network]]></category> <category><![CDATA[plantandyou]]></category> <category><![CDATA[plantmedicine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[plants]]></category> <category><![CDATA[plantteachers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[practice]]></category> <category><![CDATA[preparation]]></category> <category><![CDATA[relationship]]></category> <category><![CDATA[releasing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[rleasingcontrol]]></category> <category><![CDATA[sacredspace]]></category> <category><![CDATA[shamanicguidance]]></category> <category><![CDATA[shamanism somaticmovement]]></category> <category><![CDATA[soulguidance]]></category> <category><![CDATA[teachers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[together]]></category> <category><![CDATA[truth]]></category> <category><![CDATA[unseenrealms]]></category> <category><![CDATA[weareone]]></category> <category><![CDATA[weboflife]]></category> <category><![CDATA[wisdom]]></category> <category><![CDATA[yoga]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.inspirited.world/?p=8160</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>I always wondered about heaven<br /> What and where is it?<br /> How does it feel?<br /> A human wondering in the field </p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.inspirited.world/library/poetry/earthly-heaven/">Earthly Heaven</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="8160" class="elementor elementor-8160"> <section class="elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-7316e641 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default" data-id="7316e641" 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-203c55e5 sc_inner_width_none sc_content_align_inherit sc_layouts_column_icons_position_left" data-id="203c55e5" data-element_type="column"> <div class="elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated"> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-6a8aac07 sc_fly_static elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor" data-id="6a8aac07" data-element_type="widget" data-settings="{"_animation":"none"}" data-widget_type="text-editor.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <div>I always wondered about Heaven</div><div>What and where is it? </div><div>How does it feel?</div><div>A human wondering in the field</div><div> </div><div>Can it be depicted by the strokes?</div><div>Of brushes, stones and bones… </div><div>The written word and holy frames</div><div>Symbols and codes for special names</div><div> </div><div>Pure essence of the divine</div><div>Sounds and shades, shapes and forms</div><div>A baby’s smile, a stranger’s hi </div><div>An elder’s wave as I pass by</div><div> </div><div>What “Sin” is spoken of?</div><div>That dropped us from home, from love</div><div>Oh Eve, how brutal this world has been? </div><div>For you to awaken fully again</div><div> </div><div>A Spiral, round and round</div><div>Weaving yarn on a high mount</div><div>The essence and the void</div><div>From which creation breathed sound</div><div> </div><div>A heaven like this earthly one </div><div>Or a hell incarnate and gone </div><div>In a worldly flaming space</div><div>Where harmony sits at the base</div><p><b>Maya Abou Chedid</b></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </section> </div> <p>The post <a href="https://www.inspirited.world/library/poetry/earthly-heaven/">Earthly Heaven</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.inspirited.world">Inspirited</a>.</p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>https://www.inspirited.world/library/poetry/earthly-heaven/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">8160</post-id> </item> <item> <title>When One Medicine Calls</title> <link>https://www.inspirited.world/library/blog/when-one-medicine-calls/</link> <comments>https://www.inspirited.world/library/blog/when-one-medicine-calls/#respond</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[MayaAbouChedid]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2022 19:29:00 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category> <category><![CDATA[breathwork]]></category> <category><![CDATA[calling]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ceremony]]></category> <category><![CDATA[consciousness]]></category> <category><![CDATA[expandedstatesofconsciousness]]></category> <category><![CDATA[guides]]></category> <category><![CDATA[holychildren]]></category> <category><![CDATA[innerechoe]]></category> <category><![CDATA[inspiredbyspirit]]></category> <category><![CDATA[inspirited]]></category> <category><![CDATA[inspiritedblog]]></category> <category><![CDATA[inspiritedworld]]></category> <category><![CDATA[integration]]></category> <category><![CDATA[intention]]></category> <category><![CDATA[listening]]></category> <category><![CDATA[love]]></category> <category><![CDATA[mastermyscellium]]></category> <category><![CDATA[masterplants]]></category> <category><![CDATA[medicinecalling]]></category> <category><![CDATA[medicinespirits]]></category> <category><![CDATA[meditation]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movement]]></category> <category><![CDATA[mysticism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[network]]></category> <category><![CDATA[newmoon]]></category> <category><![CDATA[one medicine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[plantmedicine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[plantteachers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[preparation]]></category> <category><![CDATA[retreat]]></category> <category><![CDATA[sacredspace]]></category> <category><![CDATA[shamanism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[silence]]></category> <category><![CDATA[somaticmovement]]></category> <category><![CDATA[soulguidance]]></category> <category><![CDATA[teachers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[thecall]]></category> <category><![CDATA[together]]></category> <category><![CDATA[truth]]></category> <category><![CDATA[weareone]]></category> <category><![CDATA[webofearth]]></category> <category><![CDATA[weboflife]]></category> <category><![CDATA[wisdom]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.inspirited.world/?p=8161</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>A need to feel whole, accepted and belong to a clan or a tribe, a yearning for a passage through unfathomable difficulties, wanting to be and sometimes to run away from being, to meet God, to mourn loss and reconcile with death and dying… Many reasons are putting more attention on healing through expanded states of consciousness to live in a true sense of wholeness again. </p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.inspirited.world/library/blog/when-one-medicine-calls/">When One Medicine Calls</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="8161" class="elementor elementor-8161"> <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>If it had become a trend, a hip thing to do nowadays, a happy-hour, a “trip” which sometimes includes mixes of substances and add-ons that do not cease to amaze me, there is no denial of a deep need that is challenging our state of sanity to push through and change the way we are living on this earth. </p> <p>A need to feel whole, accepted and belong to a clan or a tribe, a yearning for a passage through unfathomable difficulties, wanting to be and sometimes to run away from being, to meet God, to mourn loss and reconcile with death and dying… Many reasons are putting more attention on healing through expanded states of consciousness to live in a true sense of wholeness again. </p> <p>Breathwork, deep states of meditation, silent retreats, vision quest, fasting, somatic bodywork and movement, sound, light and elementals, entheogenic substances and master plant and mycelial teachers are being sought and experienced as medicine by many to somehow remember and re-member…</p> <p><em>“People say that what we are seeking is the meaning of life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think that what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive”. </em>A deeply insightful and so relatable by Joseph Campbell. </p> <p>One of the many approaches to invoke and evoke this connection and gradually tap into it as an anchor in everyday life is through Ceremony. This can include the ingestion of plant medicine or not and it is held in a sacred space with a well-experienced guide meeting with a common intention; Serving and supporting the healing and growth of another human being. </p> <p>The Maestro I used to work with always said: “Medicine is for Everyone” and these few words keep echoing in my journey and reminding me of this truth.</p> <p>When we hear this call, we feel a pull from a place which encompasses our whole being. An original sound echoing within and resonating with the innate sound of creation. A sound that our soul knows and we recon that “It is time for me to take this step”. </p> <p>We start to tune in and listen, slowing down enough to review our intention, investigate and approach this kind of experience with honesty and respect to our body, the wellbeing of our psyche, the functionality of expressing our emotions in a safe container, the reverence to the medicine itself and the elders and guides. </p> <p>Once that call happens and one is truly listening, it is important not to rush through any plant medicine experience just for the sake of doing it and ticking that box.</p> <p>There are many levels to that response and preparing for the journey in a conscious way is crucial for the psyche, the body and the environment that will be explored differently upon return.</p> <p>Preparation itself plays a big role in the whole journey including the integration process. This can comprise starting to explore expanded states of consciousness in different ways (as mentioned above) and tapping into the effect of those approaches on you, your life, your energy and frequency. How you feel about it and how is it landing in your being is what essentially matters.</p> <p>Sometimes, too much can be overwhelming and can take longer time to decipher and understand in order to feel the change and stand again in new way. And yes, for some people, this is what is needed and for others, it is not.</p> <p>This is probably why, among many people out there, I feel like talking and writing more about this subject and shedding light on how can we do things differently and with integrity. This is a core part of our own healing and doing what light beings, medicine guides, elders and wisdom keepers are sharing with us all.</p> <p>We are One and what we think and do affects the whole web of life. Here and now, we always have a choice. </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/when-one-medicine-calls/">When One Medicine Calls</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.inspirited.world">Inspirited</a>.</p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>https://www.inspirited.world/library/blog/when-one-medicine-calls/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">8161</post-id> </item> <item> <title>The Holy Children Speak</title> <link>https://www.inspirited.world/library/blog/the-holy-children-speak/</link> <comments>https://www.inspirited.world/library/blog/the-holy-children-speak/#respond</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[MayaAbouChedid]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2022 18:12:10 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category> <category><![CDATA[authentic]]></category> <category><![CDATA[authenticity]]></category> <category><![CDATA[beinghuman]]></category> <category><![CDATA[communication]]></category> <category><![CDATA[connection]]></category> <category><![CDATA[freedom]]></category> <category><![CDATA[frequency]]></category> <category><![CDATA[holychildren]]></category> <category><![CDATA[humanbeing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[inspiredbyspirit]]></category> <category><![CDATA[inspirited]]></category> <category><![CDATA[inspiritedblog]]></category> <category><![CDATA[inspiritedworld]]></category> <category><![CDATA[intention]]></category> <category><![CDATA[liberating]]></category> <category><![CDATA[light]]></category> <category><![CDATA[listening]]></category> <category><![CDATA[love]]></category> <category><![CDATA[mariasabina]]></category> <category><![CDATA[medicine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[medicinespace]]></category> <category><![CDATA[message]]></category> <category><![CDATA[mushroommedicine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[mushrooms]]></category> <category><![CDATA[mysticism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[network]]></category> <category><![CDATA[neuroplasticity]]></category> <category><![CDATA[newbeing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[newearth]]></category> <category><![CDATA[newlife]]></category> <category><![CDATA[newmoon]]></category> <category><![CDATA[receiving]]></category> <category><![CDATA[revelations]]></category> <category><![CDATA[rewiring]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ripple]]></category> <category><![CDATA[shamanism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[shining]]></category> <category><![CDATA[spirit]]></category> <category><![CDATA[stillness]]></category> <category><![CDATA[together]]></category> <category><![CDATA[truth]]></category> <category><![CDATA[weareone]]></category> <category><![CDATA[webofearth]]></category> <category><![CDATA[weboflife]]></category> <category><![CDATA[wisdom]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.inspirited.world/?p=7832</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>The sun is shining bright this morning and the gentle breeze is cuddling the bamboo leaves across my window. The world outside this sheath is inviting me to step out and bathe in the smells of the earth, the warmth of the sun and the enchanted colors after the rain.<br /> Before my haste, the wave of excitement engrossed me to write this; an intimate journey in which I share the wisdom received by the Medicine of the Holy Children that keep reminding me of the medicine within as beautifully channeled by the wonderful Sabia (Wise Woman) Maria Sabina.</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.inspirited.world/library/blog/the-holy-children-speak/">The Holy Children Speak</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="7832" class="elementor elementor-7832"> <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>The sun is shining bright this morning and the gentle breeze is cuddling the bamboo leaves across my window. The world outside this sheath is inviting me to step out and bathe in the smells of the earth, the warmth of the sun and the enchanted colors after the rain. <br />Before my haste, the wave of excitement engrossed me to write this; an intimate journey in which I share the wisdom received by the Medicine of the Holy Children that keep reminding me of the medicine within as beautifully channeled by the wonderful <strong><em>Sabia</em></strong> (Wise Woman) <strong>Maria Sabina</strong>.</p> <p>What is perceived as complex yet is quite simple.</p> <p>Following one of my medicine journeys that started with a specific intention, I wrote this. I was in a receiving state. I needed answers to what was coming up in my space. The moment the question was being worded, the answer seeped through in no time. It felt true, timeless. A message, raw, harmonious, gentle and deep. It enriched my soul in the moment and as I read it again and again. What came through inspired me and touched my essence, bringing a smile into my heart and a fuzzy warm caress in my chest. <br />A download and an upload that helped me notice what I have been sharing and keep sharing with everyone because the medicine is infinite, as love is.</p> <p>HC: You are human and you are unique in your own humanness as everyone is in their humanness. <br />It is not a hierarchy. You are not smaller or bigger than anyone else. <br />You are creative in your own way as everyone can be creative in their own way. <br />You play your part in being in a human body and express what you are here to express regardless of appreciation or resentment. <br />When you are being authentic, you cannot blame anyone else for not being authentic. This is their human experience and they have the full choice to do what they are doing and to believe what they believe. Honor it. <br />When you do what feels right in your heart and your gut, you become more conscious that you are playing a part in the creation that is happening all over in every moment.<br />People like you are building a new reality; a new paradigm and we are with you on the way. We will not leave. We are here, as the trees were here, as your medicine spirits were here because you are the medicine and you do not need to reference anyone else in your life to do what is right according to them. Do what feels right for you and leave the rest to the divine creation. <br />You meet every being in frequency and the frequency carries the words and actions.</p> <p>M: Am I creating you?</p> <p>HC: Yes, you are and we are creating you at the same time.</p> <p><i style="letter-spacing: 0.253125px;">(HC: Holy Children, M: Me)</i><br style="letter-spacing: 0.253125px;" /><br />This message did not feel complete without honoring an essential guiding spirit in my life and my shamanic path. It is a poem that speaks truth to me and enlivens my whole being. A timeless one.</p> <p><b>You Are the Medicine – <em>Maria Sabina <br /></em></b><br />Cure yourself with the light of the sun and the rays of the moon.<br />With the sound of the river and the waterfall.<br />With the swaying of the sea and the fluttering of birds.<br />Heal yourself with mint, with neem and eucalyptus.<br />Sweeten yourself with lavender, rosemary, and chamomile.<br />Hug yourself with the cocoa bean and a touch of cinnamon.<br />Put love in tea instead of sugar, and take it looking at the stars.<br />Heal yourself with the kisses that the wind gives you and the hugs of the rain.<br />Get strong with bare feet on the ground and with everything that is born from it.<br />Get smarter every day by listening to your intuition, looking at the world with the eye of your forehead.<br />Jump, dance, sing, so that you live happier.<br />Heal yourself, with beautiful love, and always remember: you are the medicine.</p> <p>In Love and Medicine.</p> <p><b>Maya Abou Chedid</b> </p> <p> </p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </section> </div> <p>The post <a href="https://www.inspirited.world/library/blog/the-holy-children-speak/">The Holy Children Speak</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.inspirited.world">Inspirited</a>.</p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>https://www.inspirited.world/library/blog/the-holy-children-speak/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">7832</post-id> </item> <item> <title>I Do</title> <link>https://www.inspirited.world/library/poetry/i-do/</link> <comments>https://www.inspirited.world/library/poetry/i-do/#respond</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[MayaAbouChedid]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2021 15:35:46 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category> <category><![CDATA[authenticity]]></category> <category><![CDATA[beinghuman]]></category> <category><![CDATA[birth]]></category> <category><![CDATA[change]]></category> <category><![CDATA[connection]]></category> <category><![CDATA[creativity]]></category> <category><![CDATA[cyclesoflife]]></category> <category><![CDATA[darkness]]></category> <category><![CDATA[death]]></category> <category><![CDATA[eaxperience]]></category> <category><![CDATA[energy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[expansion]]></category> <category><![CDATA[expressing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[expression]]></category> <category><![CDATA[freedom]]></category> <category><![CDATA[god]]></category> <category><![CDATA[growing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[heart]]></category> <category><![CDATA[humanbeing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ido]]></category> <category><![CDATA[inlove]]></category> <category><![CDATA[inspiration]]></category> <category><![CDATA[inspiring]]></category> <category><![CDATA[inspirited]]></category> <category><![CDATA[integration]]></category> <category><![CDATA[language]]></category> <category><![CDATA[light]]></category> <category><![CDATA[living]]></category> <category><![CDATA[love]]></category> <category><![CDATA[mystery]]></category> <category><![CDATA[mystical]]></category> <category><![CDATA[mysticism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[nature]]></category> <category><![CDATA[naturemedicine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[network]]></category> <category><![CDATA[poetry]]></category> <category><![CDATA[riteofpassage]]></category> <category><![CDATA[shamanism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[shiftishappening]]></category> <category><![CDATA[spirit]]></category> <category><![CDATA[stardust]]></category> <category><![CDATA[truth]]></category> <category><![CDATA[uniting]]></category> <category><![CDATA[vulnerability]]></category> <category><![CDATA[weboflife]]></category> <category><![CDATA[words]]></category> <category><![CDATA[writing]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.inspirited.world/?p=6221</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>I Do<br /> Bow to the majesty of nature.<br /> I Do<br /> Choose to experience life to the last drop.<br /> I Do<br /> Choose to be in my body, accepting.<br /> I Do<br /> Weep to how vulnerable I feel, releasing.<br /> I Do<br /> Feel every motion, embracing.<br /> I Do<br /> Observe every thought, echoing.<br /> I Do<br /> Get down on my knees, surrendering.</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.inspirited.world/library/poetry/i-do/">I Do</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="6221" class="elementor elementor-6221"> <section class="elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-7316e641 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default" data-id="7316e641" 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-203c55e5 sc_inner_width_none sc_content_align_inherit sc_layouts_column_icons_position_left" data-id="203c55e5" data-element_type="column"> <div class="elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated"> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-6a8aac07 sc_fly_static elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor" data-id="6a8aac07" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="text-editor.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <div>I Do</div><p>Bow to the majesty of nature.</p><div>I Do</div><p>Choose to experience life to the last drop.</p><div>I Do</div><p>Choose to be in my body, accepting.</p><div>I Do</div><p>Weep to how vulnerable I feel, releasing.</p><div>I Do</div><p>Feel every motion, embracing.</p><div>I Do</div><p>Observe every thought, echoing.</p><div>I Do</div><p>Get down on my knees, surrendering.</p><div>I Do</div><p>Accept change, re-shaping.</p><div>I Do</div><p>Go through death, birthing.</p><div>I Do</div><p>Try to hide, failing.</p><div>I Do</div><p>Keep going, keep moving.</p><div>I Do</div><p>Sit still, acknowledging.</p><div>I Do</div><p>Know aloneness, uniting.</p><div>I Do</div><p>Laugh at insanity, human being.</p><div>I Do</div><p>Know there is much more, underlying.</p><div>In Love are the ones, unveiling.</div><p>Knowing each other, shining.</p><p>Pecks of stardust, shimmering.</p><p>Emanating our truth, becoming.</p><p><strong>Maya Abou Chedid</strong></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </section> </div> <p>The post <a href="https://www.inspirited.world/library/poetry/i-do/">I Do</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.inspirited.world">Inspirited</a>.</p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>https://www.inspirited.world/library/poetry/i-do/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">6221</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>