“Only if one loves this earth with unbending passion can one release one’s sadness,” don Juan said. “A warrior is always joyful because his love is unalterable and his beloved, the earth, embraces him and bestows upon him inconceivable gifts. The sadness belongs only to those who hate the very thing that gives shelter to their beings.”
                                                                                                    Carlos Castaneda~Tales of Power

What is Earth Dreaming? Our perceptions change if we imagine the Earth as a sentient body. She shelters, embraces and bestows upon us the energy to navigate the field of unbroken wholeness, the unconscious that is “dreaming” our world into the realms of matter and psyche. We, as beings upon this planet, may be expressions of that wholeness, manifestations of the underlying essence field expressing itself through her. And yet, with the holographic nature of being, we are that wholeness within ourselves, in our personal landscape of the body. At any moment we can explore the greater wholeness through our own body and psyche.

“The artificer has hung a single glittering jewel at the net’s every node, and since the net itself is infinite in dimension, the jewels are infinite in number. There hang the jewels, glittering like stars of the first magnitude, a wonderful sight to behold. If we now arbitrarily select one of those jewels for inspection and look closely at it, we will discover that in its polished surface there are reflected all the other jewels in the net, infinite in number. Not only that, but each of the jewels reflected in this one jewel is also reflecting all the other jewels, so that the process of reflection is infinite.”
                                                       Francis H. Cook~ Hua-Yen Buddhism: The Jewel Net of Indra

Imagine that each of us, each sentient being including the Earth, are glittering jewels “like stars of the first magnitude” hanging in Indra’s net. This visual image of unbroken wholeness, the lines of intent that form the matrix from which the manifest world arises allows a glimpse into the realms of the cosmos, of which we are a part as well as reflective of the whole. At each node of energy, at each energetic junction, there is hung a jewel, or an experience of sentient consciousness, that reflects all other sentient consciousness, or parallel worlds. If change happens in one jewel, then this change ripples throughout the realms of sentient experience. In a sense, every being on this planet may be a parallel world, a jewel that with awareness reveals the facets reflective of the other facets of this vast web of connectedness, a wholeness expressing the underlying sentient reality. At any moment all the directions or energies of wholeness are present, as matter and psyche are exquisitely responsive and reflective to the underlying matrix of wholeness.

“Our unconscious existence is the real one and our conscious world a kind of illusion, an apparent reality constructed for specific purpose, like a dream which seems a reality as long as we are in it… Unconscious wholeness therefore seems to me the true spiritus rector of all biological and psychic events.”
                                                                          Carl Jung ~Memories, Dreams, and Reflections

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