While I was living in the States, I was developing my internet based business, A Whole New World, experimenting with a range of transformational ways of connecting with people far and wide. This meant I was sitting for long hours at my computer and after a while I realized  my life had become unbalanced. I cherished my virtual communities and the new friends I had made yet I longed for more face to face contact and physical presence. I was excited by all the things I was learning, yet my body was complaining of neglect. The Hopi Indians have a word for life out of balance: KOYAANISQATSI. Me and six and a half billion others!

This was an important part of my decision to return to New Zealand, where I knew my soul would be fed by access to wild nature and local spiritual community. For the first three months I was back here, I spent large chunks of time in my soul home in Golden Bay, submerged in deep presence with wild nature all around me and the inspirational flow of writing coming from within. What bliss! During these times I had no access to the internet or telephone, no distractions and nothing to pull me away from my own centre, no temptations to look for what I needed outside myself. Everything I needed was right there in that simple space, in solitude and deep soul connection. I felt utterly fulfilled. And the world kept turning without me!

However, nothing lasts forever, and after a while I began to hanker for my global connections again. I had friends, commitments, responsibilities, and projects on hold, and I was eager to get back to them. I wanted to bring all the parts of myself together. Surely the lover of silence and solitude and the global citizen could find a place to be at one?

However, as John Lennon said, “Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.”  I have had to learn to be patient. Long story short, I found what appeared to be a perfect place to live over the New Zealand summer, a little eco-cabin, surrounded by trees and looking out to sea, but getting the internet connected there turned out to be a saga, stretching over weeks, and finally global connection won and I decided to move on.

I will write more about what I learned about living simply in the eco-cabin but right now, here are some reflections on being without internet:

We are always connected.

Each of us is a cell in the body of humanity/nature/spirit/consciousness/cosmos/God.

We are always connected to our soul family whether we can speak to them and see them, or not.

When we are attuned to our inner being we know what is happening in the world without listening to the “news”, we may not always know the details but we can feel it inside.

Whenever we take “time out” to focus on our spiritual development and to clear limiting patterns from the bodymind, we do this for everyone. As each of us frees ourselves, we free the whole.

I love this inhalation, breathing in to the self, breathing out to connect with community. I wonder if connecting through the internet actually helps us to remember and develop these intuitive ways of knowledge, or whether the busy-ness and information overload drown out the whispers of this subtle knowing? Probably both are true. Which brings me back where I started: the ongoing, everyday need for balance.

Oh, and just as I was finishing this article, a wise man and a gardener passed by my cabin and told me that the internet service farms used by Yahoo alone use more power than all the tvs on the planet. Not to mention the electromagnetic energy they release into the environment – poor birds and bees! There are costs to our convenience which we rarely reckon.  Bring on the next stage of our evolution when our intuitive powers are more highly developed and we cast no shadows on our companions.

Namaste

Rose Diamond

As soon as I stepped onto the Air New Zealand plane for the flight from LA to Auckland, I experienced a difference in the energy. The urgent go-go-go of the USA was left behind at the gate and the time chariot to transport me back to my soul home stood waiting and vibrating with calm presence.

I noticed a slight irritation in response to the calm atmosphere, as if a stimulant or adrenaline rush had been suddenly withdrawn, leaving a bland absence. I’ve heard people speculating that a peaceful world will be boring. Don’t we all thrive on drama? Or are we simply habituated to it?  Could we live without the constant drive for self improvement, to get ahead, get by, keep it altogether, be heard, be seen, be someone, make a difference, tweet, twitter and jump at the sound of the next email dropping into the inbox?

After many months concentrated work in creating my internet business, I jumped streams and crossed the world to re-discover how it feels to be unplugged. It’ a long way to go for a rest, I joked, as I contemplated the 33 hour journey. I wasn’t sure if this overwhelming desire to return to New Zealand, my former home for 12 years, which had arisen like a whale breaking the surface of resistance, was an act of self sabotage, or, as all my friends assured me from the vantage point of objectivity, was exactly what I needed to do.

I will soon find out.

After we touched ground, the same sense of calm accompanied me through passport control and customs and on to the domestic lounge of Auckland airport, where a four hour wait afforded me the opportunity to watch and observe. By now I was deeply relaxed and mindless and I remembered Eckhart Tolle’s two years on a park bench. Yes, I could get into this. As I watched the comings and goings of lean attractive women, happy laughing men, beautiful children; Maori, European and Asian faces, I felt no separation. I was seeing with my heart’s eyes, One Family.

The energy in New Zealand is very soft and Yin, the people are open, friendly, helpful, natural and smile often. It was this that attracted me on my first visit, 15 years ago when I made the choice to stay and make the South Island my home. I was on my Soul Journey and my soul was stirred and soothed. And now a new chapter of the Soul Journey unfolds.

And then it dawned on me: this is A Whole New World. It’s already here. I know I am prone to idealize New Zealand and like any other country it has its shadow side. But I know peace when I find it and I could sense my being vibrating on a higher level of consciousness in tune with this environment.

A beautiful day blessed my return to the South Island and sunny Nelson as we flew over the Land of the Long White Cloud and the clear sparkling waters. And when we touched down and I stood on the land again, I didn’t cry as I thought I might, but laughed when I turned to see the mountains capped with snow, and the glorious spaciousness of the land/seascape. I had been away for three and a half years yet it was all so vibrantly familiar and homely, time seemed to collapse.

The next day, July 25^th was the Mayan Day out of Time and I went to a celebration of Time is Art. This was such a typical Nelson community event in the beautiful community house where I’ve given and received so many workshops and gatherings. Old friends and familiar faces, dance meditation, thai curry and chai, a dvd of Jose Arguelles reminding us that it is Time, and a concert from the Gong Masters with their big gongs tuned to the Earth and the Moon and Chiron, that resonate through and bathe the whole being. Who-hoo, I’m home!

Arguelles spoke of the necessity, for those of us who intend to hold a higher frequency of consciousness, to unplug from the distraction of technology and open our minds and hearts to the higher intelligence of the Cosmos and of the Earth and to expand  our telepathic abilities. He urged us to surrender totally, to give up the illusion of control. Nothing is more important than holding this higher energy now.

Personally, I don’t want to give up all my technological tools. I value the global community I have been able to create and participate in using the telephone and internet. An important part of the mission of A Whole New World is to help to join up all the little lights of conscious community into one big light of radiant consciousness, and technology has an important part to play in this. Yet, it is just this calling to be closer and more attuned to the Earth and the Cosmos that has brought me back to New Zealand. I crave immersion in Being and Nature to balance the focused work of building and creating the new culture.

It feels very important at this time to follow these inner callings, to find this balance, to create situations where we can listen to the emerging wisdom of the universe and drink deeply at the well of renewal. May you all find these blessings.

An earlier talk by Arguelles,   vodpod.com/watch/ 578447-2012-spiritual-journey-jose-arguelles

Dvds from the Prophets Conference http://www.prophetsconference.com/audio.html

If you are interested in joining me for an exploration of the Soul Journey, I will be giving and introductory teleclass soon. Please email me to express your interest.  rose@awholenewworld.net

Photo by Henrique Araujo, www.henriquearaujo.com

Unplugging, July 27th, 2010, Rose Diamond

You have to love something very much to bring it into being.

I’m not a biological mother this lifetime but it’s easy to see how much you have to want and love a child to carry her in your body for nine months, then birth him through chaos and pain, and nurture her for a lifetime.

We are planetary mothers, birthing a new world through the expansion and contraction of our beings. We expand into new and previously unimaginable possibilities and contract back into limited egoic patterns so that we can bring awareness into them and release them. In this way the universe breathes us.

Then there are our personal acts of creation, projects which give form to self expression and unique contribution. The most fun part for me is the inspirational phase, when I’m receiving new information or synthesizing ideas to create something new. When I’m in this meditative, receptive state, I am sensing into the unfolding edge of evolution, where the new arises. I feel very alive on this edge and in a mystical, prophetic state.

It is necessary to bring this information down from the universal intelligence into the collective consciousness, and to anchor it into the Earth. That’s one reason why I write, the act of bringing the information through the body creates a space through which the information becomes immediately available to the collective field of consciousness. So even if my words are never read the thoughts seeds have been sown. In this way an act of creation is a form of spiritual or evolutionary midwifery. I’m noticing recently how ideas are spreading like wild fire, there are thousands of people tuning into the same information simultaneously, creating a mass flowering of consciousness.

I have intuitively known the importance of making myself a vehicle for evolutionary consciousness ever since I made the decision to follow my creative process and be a writer 18 years ago. But it was impossible to talk about it then; I would have been called grandiose or even psychotic. Now, I’m hearing how many, many, people have felt similarly alone over the years, as they’ve pieced together the intuitive soul knowledge of  what was unfolding in collective consciousness and visions of what was to come, yet were unable to share this widely for fear of ridicule, or worse.

To create something you have to love it enough to be courageous. You have to trust your inner knowing more than you trust anyone else’s opinion. You have to be unshakable in your commitment, dedicated and persevering, and remain trusting that all the hard work is justified.

In my experience, creating an educational product, such as a book takes an enormous act of labor. Beware anyone who claims you can write a book in a weekend! Take the 22 Days of Transformation which is now an audio product and e-book. This began as a desire many years ago to use my wisdom and skills to create transformational learning communities, and the desire has moved through many forms until it found its present one. In March I offered the 22 days as a daily 30 minute teleclass, a guided meditation and active visualization, followed by a group sharing. The whole process unfolded quite magically, as deep soulful community and a rich creative field developed between participants. If I hadn’t experienced it, I wouldn’t have believed it possible to create such synergy with people I had never met in person. But it happened! This and other experiences I’ve had recently have shown me how virtual communities can be a powerful evolutionary vehicle. They enable people to meet at a soul level more easily than in person, without personality and physical distractions. We feel the vibration of each other’s energy across thousands of miles, we touch each other’s hearts and meet soul to soul. Personally, I expanded into my full potential many times during the series, a glorious feeling of alive, vibrant presence, blissful fulfillment and open heartedness.

So because the series was so successful and loved by those who showed up on a daily basis, I decided to transform the daily visualisations into an audio product. It’s been quite a process, once again taxing my dedication and perseverance. As I said, you have to love something to bring it into being, you have to love it enough to pour hours of focused energy into it and to keep going even when Mercury’s retrograde and the thing just isn’t coming together! And yes, I do love the 22 Days of Transformation, and of course I hope you’ll love them too! Let’s take these seeds of transformation and sow a Whole New World together!

Go to: www.awholenewworldcoaching.com/22days.html for your audio series, or sign up for the new learning community starting on May 31^st.

Namaste

Rose Diamond