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2024-03-29T12:39:49Z
Ursula Hillbrand
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Alchemy of World Service - hosting with the subtle worlds - unlimited potential for LIFE on all levels/dimensions
tag:artofhosting.ning.com,2014-03-09:4134568:Topic:90023
2014-03-09T18:26:38.562Z
Ursula Hillbrand
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<p>I am sensing those of you drawn to this conversations on subtle worlds are the ones who embody capacity to hold an intentional place of connection and integrity in alchemizing, in co-creating not-yet-realized potential - for radically amazing shifts in stuck, hardened systems.Please read on and join in this work if drawn, as we create a planetary field of possibility. </p>
<p>It seems right timing for this <i>series of 3 calls</i> as we approach the…</p>
<p>I am sensing those of you drawn to this conversations on subtle worlds are the ones who embody capacity to hold an intentional place of connection and integrity in alchemizing, in co-creating not-yet-realized potential - for radically amazing shifts in stuck, hardened systems.Please read on and join in this work if drawn, as we create a planetary field of possibility. </p>
<p>It seems right timing for this <i>series of 3 calls</i> as we approach the <span style="color: #3366ff;"><strong><i>full moon on March 16</i></strong></span> and the tipping point into Aries with <i>the <strong><span style="color: #3366ff;">Vernal Equinox on March 20</span></strong></i>. With Aries the energy can begin to move – opening, birthing, initiating, activating, life giving and renewing. And at the Equinox – in the Northern Hemisphere - days become longer than nights – truly a time of amplified light. Let us honor the power of this <em>threshold.</em></p>
<p>This is an invitation to those who deeply feel the call to serve, to gather in virtual circle (from wherever we each are) - to <span style="color: #3366ff;"><b><i>bring our collective presence and planetary field to the alchemy of transformation</i></b>.</span> You are invited to participate in a collective anchoring and energizing of potential. There are 3 themes in the series:</p>
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<li><span style="color: #ff6600;"><b><i>The World Economy</i></b></span> - creating spaciousness and softening in this human created thought-form structure, so hardened and contracted - creating room for new ideas</li>
<li><span style="color: #ff6600;"><b><i>The Granting of Freedom</i></b> -</span> softening, opening the increasingly explosive and separative polarities across the world as people take to the streets. How might division and separatism soften and invite a loving place for the fullness of all. A true freedom! </li>
<li><span style="color: #ff6600;"><b><i>The Understanding of Money</i></b></span> – an energy flow – what does it really mean to give and receive, to live generosity, to live generatively?</li>
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<p>Our <b><i>collective attention and intention</i></b> is to soften, and to open these energy patterns so stuck, so entrenched, so rigid, steel-like. And to create possibility we have not yet seen – for new ways to emerge in human consciousness. We must step away from fear and give energy to potential - with no attachment to the result. And to invite and acknowledge our connection to the subtle in this process. </p>
<p><b><i>The first will be a one hour call on Thursday March 13 at the times below.</i></b></p>
<p><b><i>Theme- The World Economy</i></b><i>. </i></p>
<p>As we begin in silence, channeled singing/vibration/sound will amplify and expand our collective planetary field as we silently work energetically with this lead-like energy, followed by your voice contributions of what has emerged or been noticed in the field. We gift the power of collective vibration, silence, and voice as we live the Aquarian call to group service. Your presence is powerful.</p>
<p><b><i>Inviting others:</i></b> It seems important to expand this human collective field. If you know others who can hold a very present space and intention to be of service to life’s potential on Earth, please invite them to join. </p>
<p><b><i>The dates, times, durations:</i></b></p>
<p>- <b><i>Thursday March 13, Tuesday March 18, Thursday March27</i></b></p>
<p>- <b><i>Duration 1 hour, except Tues. March 18 1 ½ hours. This will be instead of the regular CCC call that would have been on March 20</i></b><b><i>.</i></b></p>
<p><b><i>Note: US time goes forward an hour on March 9, so the following time adjustments are needed in Europe and other places until the end of March.</i></b></p>
<p>Europe 7 PM</p>
<p>UK 6 PM</p>
<p>Lebanon 8 PM</p>
<p>Turkey 8 PM</p>
<p>Columbia 1 PM</p>
<p>US Eastern 2 PM</p>
<p>US Central 1 PM</p>
<p>US Mt. Noon</p>
<p>US Pacific 11 AM</p>
<p>Australia depends on location</p>
<p>Please arrive a bit early as we will begin on time.</p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><b>the US number.</b></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><b>US +1 424-203-8405 Access Code: 777 714#</b></span></p>
<p>Number(s)from other countries <b> </b></p>
<p><b>Belgium +32 (0) 4 244 10 75 777 714#</b></p>
<p><b>Austria +43 (0) 1 2650551 777 714#</b></p>
<p><b>UK +44 (0) 330 606 0180 777 714#</b> </p>
<p><b>Australia +61 (0) 3 8672 0100 777 714# </b></p>
<p><b>Germany +49 (0) 30 255550300 777 714# </b></p>
<p> Let me know if you are in another location and would like a phone number.</p>
<p>And you can always Skype into the US or any of the above numbers</p>
<p>You can contact me at judykaywallace@gmail.com</p>
<p>I will share the harvests here. </p>
<p>My deep gratitude and appreciation for each and all - for who you are and what you bring.</p>
<p>Judy</p>
NEW BOOK - The Fine Line of Destiny, Second Edition
tag:artofhosting.ning.com,2013-11-11:4134568:Topic:86373
2013-11-11T15:22:39.435Z
Ursula Hillbrand
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<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2655751567?profile=original" target="_self"><img class="align-left" height="281" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2655751567?profile=original" width="215"></img></a> The Fine Line of Destiny, Second Edition © 2013 by Sarah Whiteley is published and available from <strong>Tuesday November 12th</strong> - in e-book and paperback versions. <br></br> ......<br></br> <br></br> "The Fine Line of Destiny is an auto-biographical memoir, Modern Myth and practice guide of the subtle artistry of living wholeness and conscious evolution.<br></br> It is a story about…</p>
<p><a target="_self" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2655751567?profile=original"><img class="align-left" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2655751567?profile=original" height="281" width="215"/></a>The Fine Line of Destiny, Second Edition © 2013 by Sarah Whiteley is published and available from <strong>Tuesday November 12th</strong> - in e-book and paperback versions. <br/> ......<br/> <br/> "The Fine Line of Destiny is an auto-biographical memoir, Modern Myth and practice guide of the subtle artistry of living wholeness and conscious evolution.<br/> It is a story about what happens when you hear a Call and follow it. Not an idle, fanciful call, but a Call that resonates so deep in the soul that it ignites a journey of discovery – uncharted, yet destined."<br/> <br/> "The story-lines include the:<br/> - Unfolding of intimate relationships and partnerships, animating the essential qualities of the human experience<br/> - Evolutions of contexts, including home-places and homelands, learning grounds and uncharted lands<br/> - Co-creation of life-affirming patterns and practices - most notably, the Art of Hosting Conversations that Matter and the Living Wholeness Practice - capable of catalysing social and systemic transformation<br/> - Local and global awakenings - where the patterns and practices inspired systemic transformations, responded to revolutionary movements and amplified shifts in consciousness and practice grounds around the planet<br/> <br/> The Fine Line of Destiny also chronicles the fineness and magnitude of what it means to follow a Call that continues to evolve over time – and what it takes to say Yes again and again – to let go and embrace the next level of wholeness, soul calling and destiny."<br/> <br/> ......<br/> <br/> Available for purchase, from 12 November: CLICK: <strong><a href="http://www.conscious-evolution.net/author/books" target="_blank">BOOKS</a></strong> for Reviews & further details.</p>
<p>......<br/> <br/> <em>May this Book serve as inspiration for the Callings that reside in you.<br/></em></p>
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<p>Best wishes, Sarah</p>
Subtle Artistry of Conscious Evolution Research
tag:artofhosting.ning.com,2013-09-29:4134568:Topic:85272
2013-09-29T15:43:51.619Z
Ursula Hillbrand
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<p>In recent months, I have been diving deep ... exploring, excavating ... and sometimes balancing on the edge between the Dark Night and the Void ... an evolutionary 'edge' I greatly feared in my 'darkest moments' and yet, in recent times, revered. However, during this tender time, in navigating the subtle edge 'between' the distinctions of 'black', I slowly revealed a gateway to my next level…</p>
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<div class="discussion"><div class="description"><div class="xg_user_generated"><p>Dear Friends</p>
<p>In recent months, I have been diving deep ... exploring, excavating ... and sometimes balancing on the edge between the Dark Night and the Void ... an evolutionary 'edge' I greatly feared in my 'darkest moments' and yet, in recent times, revered. However, during this tender time, in navigating the subtle edge 'between' the distinctions of 'black', I slowly revealed a gateway to my next level of work<strong>: the subtle arts of conscious evolution.</strong></p>
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<p>Today, I launched the <strong><a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.facebook.com/SubtleArtsofConsciousEvolution" target="_blank">Subtle Arts of Conscious Evolution</a></strong> Facebook page, and invite you to join. Just before going 'live', I invited the wisdom of iTunes to randomly select the song that would offer insight :-) O<span class="userContent">ut of 5375 possible songs, ‘Living the Creative Fire’, from Disc 2 of The Creative Fire, by <strong><a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Dr-Clarissa-Pinkola-Estes/29996683634?directed_target_id=0">Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes</a></strong> was the shuffled ‘song of choice’. </span></p>
<p><span class="userContent">Dr Estes says … <em>“There is something about creative life that is about reaching down into the hottest water, with the tenderest of hands, trying to extract that one sterling piece of material that clearly lays on its side and the bottom. It’s finding that one thin lens in a plush rug … “</em> <br/> <br/></span></p>
<p><span class="userContent"><strong>For me, the lens of <em>Subtle Artistry, is</em></strong></span> <strong><em>perhaps one of the exciting leadership frontiers of our conscious evolution.</em></strong></p>
<p>With this, I began a MA/PhD program in September with the <strong><a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.wisdomuniversity.org/" target="_blank">Graduate School of Wisdom Studies</a></strong>: <strong>developing the philosophy and subtle artistry of conscious evolution -</strong> and currently, am exploring the <strong><a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.wisdomuniversity.org/AkashaParadigm.htm" target="_blank">Akasha Paradigm</a></strong> in an online module with Ervin Laslo, and others -</p>
<p>and if resources allow (in the form of donated airmiles/funds to cover my flight from the UK to Mexico) attending the <strong><a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.wisdomuniversity.org/Evolution.htm" target="_blank">Exploring the Edge of Evolution: The Intimate Community as Leader</a></strong> at the Pyramids of the Sun, in Teotihuacan, Mexico, in late October.<strong><br/></strong></p>
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<p><strong>My desire is to explore, expand and co-evolve the subtle arts of conscious evolution with others, and yes, this is also a deeply personal journey. </strong> My intent is that this Subtle Worlds space, <strong><a href="http://powersofplace-workspace.ning.com/group/subtle-artistry-of-conscious-evolution-research?xg_source=activity" target="_blank">Powers of Place</a></strong> my <strong><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.conscious-evolution.net/" target="_blank">Website</a>,</strong> <strong><a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.facebook.com/SubtleArtsofConsciousEvolution" target="_blank">FB</a></strong> - plus other resonant online spaces be 'action-research' portals for co-creation and harvest.</p>
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<p>I hope to co-journey with you all, in right timing.</p>
<p>Much love,</p>
<p>Sarah</p>
<p>email: sarahlouisewhiteley@gmail.com</p>
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Hosting with the subtle world - more concretely working towards co-creation
tag:artofhosting.ning.com,2012-09-27:4134568:Topic:63723
2012-09-27T22:59:13.815Z
Ursula Hillbrand
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<p>Since I called this group a bit over a year ago, it has become quite popular, and a great deal of questions and experience has been exchanged. Thank you for all these beautiful contributions! Now it is time to become a bit more concrete. Personally I have made working with the subtle and invisible a learning journey over the last year, and it certainly has paid back, in hosting events and the rest of my life. I have met and worked with people who dedicated their lives to working with the…</p>
<p>Since I called this group a bit over a year ago, it has become quite popular, and a great deal of questions and experience has been exchanged. Thank you for all these beautiful contributions! Now it is time to become a bit more concrete. Personally I have made working with the subtle and invisible a learning journey over the last year, and it certainly has paid back, in hosting events and the rest of my life. I have met and worked with people who dedicated their lives to working with the subtle, the most renowned perhaps, being Marko Pogacnik who came to our Bregenzer Salon last year. Now we are planning a deepening training in the Art of Hosting and Harvesting conversations that matter in autumn, 1-3 November 2012, to which I will bring what I have learned. See for the invitation:<a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2653313281?profile=original" target="_self">AoH_herbst%202012_fin.pdf</a></p>
<p>One more conscious aspect of this training will be the art of sensing. Sensing space, sensing what place offers or calls for, sensing the energies of the day and time, using music to lighten up or deepen the moment, body work, but also and foremost, working with clear intention, and how that can guide and pull the forces of the subtle worlds together. In the end hosting work is working towards best possible co-creation of what is available in a given space at a given time. (The training is intended to be in German, however if English becomes a need we will expand to that need. And as sensing is anyway often happening in the world beyond words, we are more than ready to accommodate).</p>
<p><img width="300" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2655754232?profile=RESIZE_320x320" width="300" class="align-left"/>I have also had the privilege to meet Petra Rahlfs, who as a medium has worked with advising companies and leaders in their very practical decisions for years. </p>
<p>Her fascinating capacities lead a famous German publisher to ask her to write a book, so that her talents could benefit more people, and also suggested that she would start to give workshops. Well, the book is out, “Making the invisible visible”, "<a href="http://www.unsichtbares-sichtbar-machen.de/" target="_blank">Unsichtbares sichtbar machen</a>" . And as Petra got to know the Bregenzer Salon, she chose it as the space for her first workshop on 30 October 2012. So in case you want to combine the deepening of the art of hosting with learning from her precious experience and sensing, or just focus on that workshop, you are welcome to join us a day or two before the AoH Training, for a workshop and/or some personal coaching on October 31st in that field of making the invisible more invisible. On October 29 there will be an introductory lecture. More details are <a href="http://www.bregenzersalon.eu/info/News.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>
Parallels
tag:artofhosting.ning.com,2012-01-14:4134568:Topic:49620
2012-01-14T22:07:42.308Z
Ursula Hillbrand
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<p style="text-align: center;">Parallels running along the <i>edges of Time</i></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Travelling between the shores of the new World</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">And this one being <i>transmuted</i></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">How will we transit?</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">By Swimming – or sinking?</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">The latter…if <i>un-committing</i>…</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Come - the edge IS <i>crumbling…</i></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Parallels running along the <i>edges of Time</i></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Travelling between the shores of the new World</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">And this one being <i>transmuted</i></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">How will we transit?</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">By Swimming – or sinking?</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">The latter…if <i>un-committing</i>…</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Come - the edge IS <i>crumbling</i></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">What will WE choose?</p>
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<p><a target="_self" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2655754708?profile=original"><img width="330" class="align-center" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2655754708?profile=RESIZE_480x480" width="330"/></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Parallels running along the <i>edges of Truth</i></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Travelling between the shores of the new World</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">And this one being <i>bridged</i></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">How will we tender?</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">By Loving - or Fearing?</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">The latter…if <i>uncaring</i>…</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Come - the edge IS <i>wavering</i></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">What will WE choose?</p>
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<p><a target="_self" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2655754729?profile=original"><img class="align-center" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2655754729?profile=original" height="219" width="329"/></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Parallels running along the <i>edges of Trust</i></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Travelling between the shores of the new World</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">And this one being <i>trampled</i></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">How will we relate?</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">By Honoring - or Mis-deeding?</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">The latter…if <i>non-believing</i>…</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Come - the edge IS <i>cracking</i></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">What will WE choose?</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><a target="_self" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2655755167?profile=original"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2655755167?profile=original" height="220" width="330"/></a></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">Parallels running along the <i>edges of Beauty</i></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Travelling between the shores of the new World</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">And this one being <i>neglected</i></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">How will we attend?</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">By Creating - or Negating?</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">The latter…if <i>non-cultivating…</i></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Come - the edge is <i>captivating</i></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">What will WE choose?</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"></p>
<p><a target="_self" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2655755043?profile=original"><img class="align-center" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2655755043?profile=original" height="219" width="329"/></a></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">Parallels running along the <i>edges of Hope</i></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Travelling between the shores of the new World</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">And this one being <i>dreamed</i></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">How will we participate?</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Joyfully…wantonly</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">The latter…if <i>not wholeheartedly</i></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Come - the edge is <i>beckoning</i></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">What will WE choose?</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><a target="_self" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2655755467?profile=original"><img class="align-center" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2655755467?profile=original" height="220" width="330"/></a></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">What will WE choose?</p>
Balance Point of Truth
tag:artofhosting.ning.com,2011-09-15:4134568:Topic:37404
2011-09-15T19:04:05.982Z
Ursula Hillbrand
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<p>Today, a dear and trusted friend voiced a concern of me having posted the <strong><a href="http://axladitsa.ning.com/video/nigel-farage-greece-under-commission-ecb-imf-dictatorship" target="_self">video of the UKIP MEP, Nigel Farage</a></strong> – a UK public servant who’s political party, according to Google is ‘<i>Libertarian, non-racist party seeking Britain's withdrawal from the European Union.’</i></p>
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<p>I <i>replied, “Yes, I (we) know he is of the Right. He simply offers a…</i></p>
<p>Today, a dear and trusted friend voiced a concern of me having posted the <strong><a href="http://axladitsa.ning.com/video/nigel-farage-greece-under-commission-ecb-imf-dictatorship" target="_self">video of the UKIP MEP, Nigel Farage</a></strong> – a UK public servant who’s political party, according to Google is ‘<i>Libertarian, non-racist party seeking Britain's withdrawal from the European Union.’</i></p>
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<p>I <i>replied, “Yes, I (we) know he is of the Right. He simply offers a (strong) perspective. I am not aiming to ‘profile’ him as such, neither do I get overexcited or concerned about his ‘radical’ nature. Yet he is a voice that somehow speaks in opposition to and counter-balances some of the opinion of ‘others’, who are causing Greece and its people much pain…” </i></p>
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<p><i>It’s interesting they are against Europe (the word derived from the Greek word Eurōpē (Ευρώπη) often voiced as “the one that sees”…perhaps Nigel’s perspective might transform the emptiness of the current term and practice.</i></p>
<p><i><br/> Perhaps also it would be helpful if I qualify my addition of this video to the Ning. I hear your caution and welcome it...”</i></p>
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<p align="center"><i>~~~~~</i></p>
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<p>What I value – and why I chose to post the video - is that, for me, Nigel <i>was speaking his truth -</i> and in the current climate offers a fundamentally different perspective to others. Whether I believe his viewpoint or not, I honour it. I know his ‘radical’ perspective will wave a red flag to many – <i>and perhaps even his perspective is fundamentally wrong</i> - but for me, his (and others) voice of ‘truth’ holds the possibility of catalyzing the discovery of what I/<i>we DO believe</i> – even if counter to his/there’s.</p>
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<p><strong>There is immense power when we ‘<i>speak our truth’</i> – not <i>the</i> truth, but</strong> <i><strong>our truth.</strong> It represents our belief</i>, <i>our sense of something</i> – <i>our opinion</i> – <i>our passion</i>. The challenge is not to get stuck in ‘our truth’, become ‘opinionated’ or become unable to hear other ‘truths’, especially those in polar opposition to our own. Can we sit in the space of many truths? Can we find the balance point between them? <i>And, what happens if 'a truth' IS fundamentally ‘wrong’ – ethically, morally, societally? What happens then?</i></p>
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<p>I remember going to Israel for the first time in March 2005 and in the final circle check-out with 25 or so people – people’s of the conflict, plus many Internationals – I heard an entire kaleidoscope of ‘truths’ - multi-levelled, contradictory truths. <strong>It was the first time I recognised the power and presence of many truths co-existing. <i>All voices held a truth</i>. </strong> The first point of balance was being willing to hear them all – in this case, possible because of the safety and trust we had cultivated in a two-day hosted process. These qualities, plus the willingness to share and be vulnerable, enabled the space to stay open, in what, culturally and traditionally would normally have collapsed, if indeed started at all. The second was to allow the many truths to catalyze and coalesce into new collective intelligence - the unwavering unity of humanity and the desire for peace.</p>
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<p>Only just last week – one of the participants from this very time, 6 years ago - was one of the core hosts of the 1000 table world café in Israel – another living testimony that the space of many truths remains alive - and the call to co-create newness is widely being sought by many.</p>
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<p><strong>Holding space for the many truths to co-exist is perhaps the prerequisite for the generation of new collective intelligence, in fact, a core condition</strong>. Without it, we generate more of the same, or at worst, nothing at all. Our truths and opinions remain diverged and polarised and we retreat into our opinion ‘camps’, shooting perspectives from arms length – with the possibility of cultivating new collective intelligence diminishing to nothing<i>.</i></p>
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<p align="center">~~~~~</p>
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<p>This interaction over the innocuous act offering out this video, and then receiving a dear friend’s cautionary advice has been a deeply significant experience for me. I have seen more as a result of my own practice of speaking my truth - of which this, and indeed all my writing is an act of. With this I have also become conscious of my deeper motivation to act in the first place. And I know that to be true of my friend too.</p>
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<p>I <i>still</i> believe we need to hear these ‘radical’ perspectives – especially now. And, <strong>we need the processes in which we can individually and collectively hold the tension between these ‘truths’ – in the pursuit of opening the space for interaction, that will transform and illuminate the balance point between them - so that new collective intelligence can be generated</strong>. This is, in part, also the reason why I was called to write this blog – since the polarities reside in me too…and I wish to seek the wholeness of my own knowing – acknowledging always that the truths may remain distinct and unintegrated. Yet, this time, I seem to be have been able to hold the paradox of both - and generated newness and consciousness.</p>
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<p><strong>Crucially, the act of uncovering motivations and deeply held assumptions underpinning these <i>radical</i> perspectives needs to be tended with inordinate sensitivity, as this is perhaps where the tru(th) power resides</strong> – often unknown, more often too distant for us to travel to – yet if questioned generatively is a journey of discovering our own ‘radical’ roots.</p>
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<p>And…as I said, <i>some things are just wrong</i>. How do we hold space for these too?</p>
Wholeness of Economy - the Subtle world of Value
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2011-09-13T06:09:44.883Z
Ursula Hillbrand
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<div class="xg_module_body"><div class="postbody">Yesterday I received a question from someone on a Ning network, who had clearly read my profile page and blog entries….“ Sarah...How are you systematically shifting your own financial system...or is that a question too far...?”<br/><p> </p>
<p>To which I replied…”Fundamentally - thank you for asking...x”</p>
<p> </p>
<p>“Sarah...fundamentally is a big call, where do you start or where did you start...?”</p>
<p> </p>
<p>It got me thinking, that perhaps I needed to become conscious and harvest my learning journey to date.</p>
<p> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">~~~~~</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"> </p>
<p>I always knew that part of the journey of coming here to <strong><a href="http://www.axladitsa.org/" target="_blank">Axladitsa</a></strong> was fuelled by the desire to come into relationship with this question of systemically shifting – including my own financial system - and to re-pattern my life from a state of living fragmented to living wholeness. For this I knew I needed to step over a threshold that would change <i>everything from the roots up</i> – as that is the nature of fundamental transformation. </p>
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<p>I knew that how I was relating to money was misaligned with the energetic that was its origin – for me, <i>to make visible the value of the subtle and tangible aspects of life</i>. Historically it was to allow the nature of the relationship with a person, a service, a real thing to be consciously named and framed – and given real value that is societally understood and agreed - whatever the size and nature of this society. The notion of “trading” emerged and expanded over time, with goods and services moving between family, village, town, region, country, Region – and eventually the entire globe. </p>
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<p>The notion of ‘concentration currencies’ also emerged – the ‘precious’ entities that had recognised value became cornerstones within trade agreements and the ‘gold’ of the region became the new currencies, and in time, quite literally: Gold, the precious metal; Olive oil, the liquid ‘gold’; <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroleum">Petroleum</a> (Greek: petra (rock) + Latin: oleum (oil)). These became the <i>power broker</i> currencies, manufacturing the modern life.</p>
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<p>Over time, the relationship within the boundaries of real exchange, the mutuality of one having a ‘something’ that could be traded, the reciprocity of gifting both ways was slowly distanced and gave rise to <i>a concentrated form of relationship</i>, that seemingly had the power of shift relationship and eventually started to create itself. Money. </p>
<p> </p>
<p>It became a prime symbol of wealth and a core mover that drove many towards an unknown, unreal destiny – sometimes cascading without a safety net, over the edge. Wealth was less about how many camels, cows, jewels, goats, oil, trees one owned, but how much you could own, consume and buy with the cash accrued. Neither did wealth mean how much love, beauty, knowledge, happiness one had, but what one could possess – in many cases bypassing the entire web of the social field. The nature of our relationship to wealth became slowly dislocated from the roots of origin and growth took on a power of its own, no longer held with Integrity. Like a traveller, who sets off on a journey, becoming distracted and confused along the way, eventually losing site of any defining landmarks – money dangerously lost its way, no longer able to navigate its way towards a meaningful destination. </p>
<p> </p>
<p>And so here WE are as a Humanity and Economy, a ghost of her former self.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>I speak this not from a place of blame, but from a place of experience. I too have lived this journey – and I bow my head in shame. I too became seduced by the power of this presence – drugged by the need for more, and disorientated by the emptiness I eventually felt. Until, finally not knowing how to rebalance my reality, my relationships, my bank account, I decided to try and find my way again.</p>
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<p>And so, I decided to journey – with as much consciousness as I could muster. My desire was to breathe life back into the fullness of my relationship all of life – of which money / economy was an important factor was my focus. Within this, I wanted to embrace the fullness of what <a href="http://axladitsa.ning.com/profiles/blogs/economy-s-claim-re-examining-our-relationship-to-money" target="_self">‘economy’ truly meant for me</a> - from being <a href="http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/render?llr=ebacm6fab&v=001b3MRj4D6bdp9v51J1dVL3ZtCwX-gZBcSR3a6XOVpl1GDy3AwfboOCjiQGBx7DTaczAf7Ruk2Ltj3c4zXp6vmGiA5lFoMwh4eiOV9yhQZ1tXjTKuyaqe7CcHnyw0u3FKBonly">frugal management of resources in a geographical region</a> adopted in the 19th century <i>to a life-given, healthy practice of</i> <i>tending our hearth and home</i> – and amplify all the implicit energies of mutuality, reciprocity, exchange and cash, that made up the wholeness of economy.</p>
<p> </p>
<p align="center">~ Economy’s Claim ~</p>
<p align="center"> </p>
<p align="center">How was I reduced</p>
<p align="center">To the perspective of money</p>
<p align="center">When my original calling</p>
<p align="center">Was "Keep order of Home"?</p>
<p align="center"> </p>
<p align="center">Mutuality, Reciprocity</p>
<p align="center">Exchange And Cash</p>
<p align="center">This wide bless-ed bounty</p>
<p align="center">Inspired with Intent</p>
<p align="center"> </p>
<p align="center">Let the pendulum swing</p>
<p align="center">From Scarcity to Abundance</p>
<p align="center">Re-claiming the Magic</p>
<p align="center">Roots to High purpose</p>
<p align="center"> </p>
<p align="center">Economy’s Debtors</p>
<p align="center">Chalked up over Time</p>
<p align="center">Claim “Come & re-pattern”</p>
<p align="center">Re-member to the Hearth</p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p>But how to journey, especially when the landmarks were few and far between? Simply start…start exploring….</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Questions for me are always a good start. <em>What is the wholeness of economy? What are the qualities of it? What does it look like? How does it move?</em></p>
<p> </p>
<p>These questions became part of my inquiry – initially playing part-time with them for a while until taking the decision to journey consciously and deeper into foreign lands. Literally.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Stepping into guardianing this 24 acre piece of land was the defining decision to be a student full time. We only had one third of the amount needed to purchase and so became precariously balanced on the threshold between Trust and Complete Madness. Yet, I could not, not take this step forward towards Destiny!</p>
<p> </p>
<p>And, I knew that Not having Enough was a crucial companion in the inquiry – and somehow held the doorway to new insight. The trusting relationship of the previous owners of the land – through family connections spanning both geography and time - met our own Belief and Hope with their own – and were inspired to accelerate our journey to Home and inspired about how we sensed this special place might become a place of learning and perhaps even beacon of hope in the future. The act of signing over the legal ownership at this early stage and agreeing a payment plan was a sign of the previous owners’ absolute <i>declaration of trust</i>.</p>
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<p>Yet, Not having Enough, who’s middle name was Scarcity had a power that could crush the life of these fragile seeds that Belief and Hope held – especially when the nature of need within Not having Enough was REAL. The call for how to bring balance and release Tension’s grip was met with trusted relationships going deeper – those able to bridge Need and Not knowing - as the inquiry to understand what was truly present here, was still being understood. Integrity and Discernment were crucial allies – holding the line of what was useful resourcing and healthy relationships of support and what were not. Better to go without than receive that gifts that created undesirable side-affects with the dis-eased crew of Dependency, Misalignment and Fragmentation. These kinds of gifts of those bearing them were thanked – and sometimes unceremoniously set packing - or simply fell away naturally. In times of drought where the lack of rain has the power to crack the ground open, and the patient waiting for the monsoon ensures, so too are the lessons learned with Resilience as our teacher.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Other gift-bearers also showed up, granting their lessons to inform the future and re-pattern the whole: Subsistence, the teacher of <i>making do with what you have</i>; Resourcefulness <i>- the seeker of giving and being gifted in life-giving ways</i>; Fear of Lack - <i>the constrainer and gatekeeper</i> shadowing a most significant teacher, Abundance <i>–the iridescent cornucopia of life.</i></p>
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<p>Also the teachers of Diligence and Truthfulness were present as relationships were tended. Disappointment and whispers from Judgment came often when Reality could not give what was promised – as a result, Letting another Down sank quietly into the depths with Despair. Resilience and Determination rode the waves of Fear with the white-water-paddlers companions, allowing the fine navigation through the maze that Turbulance had set up, in part by Destiny and Life itself. </p>
<p> </p>
<p>Also on the river were trusted Re-Sourcers, proficient white-water paddlers themselves who became the responsive support-crew, throwing Life-lines, bringing necessary support and sustenance to fed the newness, hold the space and gift in so ways through silent and present witnessing, and allowing the flow and the paddlers to continue, preventing the cataclysmic descent into a whirlpool that would swallow everything…</p>
<p> </p>
<p>In time, the cycles of ebb and flow forged the new groove of insight and shifted the trajectory of what it truly meant to be alive. Walking the edge was no longer a distant memory from outdoor education days, holding space as the young and the older navigated to the dizzy heights of a rock climb, neither when sensing the edge of wind and sail – or even crawling between the edges of rock-formation of lifetimes in a cave system – but <i>the edge of existence and consciousness – of what it TRULY meant be alive.</i> Not simulated, illusionary – but REAL. The gift of Caring Enough – otherwise known as Unconditional Love was probably the most powerful teacher of all – for their presence called forth the bounty of what it meant to be living the wholeness of life – for doing whatever it takes to live generatively – to keep tending the hearth and Home day by day. For these lessons and this experience, I am truly grateful. </p>
<p> </p>
<p align="center">~~~~~</p>
<p> </p>
<p>This inquiry is still ongoing – but what I do know is that <i>Relationship is key</i>. <i>Invitation is too</i>. <i>Willingness</i> <i>is also.</i> And of course <i>Love of Life</i>.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>To explore <i>all</i> these aspects mentioned here, within the breadth of currencies available to us is, in part, a necessary act of keeping them vibrant, alive, meaningful and connected – and perhaps these acts of exploration – <i>acts of kindness</i> - may eventually heal and restore of the roots of Economy back into its Integral self. With this, it is to listen out for when there is time for mutuality, reciprocity and exchange present. It is to listen out for when cash is needed. It is to listen out for when to respond and when not to. It is to listen out for when to be the receiver and when to be the gift.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>The art is to keep these energies acting as one coherent whole <i>– through the movement</i> that keeps them alive and dynamic – whilst at the same time, being acutely aware of what needs amplification to maintain the balance of relationship within life and the living of it. As I see it, this is the wholeness of economy – and is the practice I am cultivating real time.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Yet, the nature of the full compliment of energies within the wholeness of economy requires the interaction of others. It simply cannot be done alone.</p>
<p> </p>
<p><i>And so here WE are as a Humanity…perhaps ready to explore the wholeness of economy together - and the nature of this subtle world of Value...<br/></i></p>
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<p>So – PQ, as I said, in my answer to your question on the <strong><a href="http://thefinancelab.ning.com/" target="_blank">Ning</a></strong>, about how I am systematically shifting my own <strong><a href="http://axladitsa.ning.com/profiles/blogs/economy-s-claim-re-examining-our-relationship-to-money" target="_blank">financial system</a></strong>...<i>it was not a question too far</i>…and with the gift more consciousness…I still reply...</p>
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<p>“ Fundamentally - thank you for asking...x”</p>
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Body as amplifier
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2011-08-08T10:04:00.272Z
Ursula Hillbrand
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<p><em>Sarah wrote a beautiful piece of reflecions on how to work with the subtle...</em></p>
<p><em>This is how it starts:<br></br></em></p>
"I have been in alot of discomfort this week. The body is the physical conduit for life - and my particular <i>loud-speaker</i> is my back, challenged by too much windsurfing years ago - but now sensitized and sensitive. You could say I am like a ‘lightening conductor’ for impressions, frequencies, resonances and disturbances from the inner and outer field.…
<p><em>Sarah wrote a beautiful piece of reflecions on how to work with the subtle...</em></p>
<p><em>This is how it starts:<br/></em></p>
"I have been in alot of discomfort this week. The body is the physical conduit for life - and my particular <i>loud-speaker</i> is my back, challenged by too much windsurfing years ago - but now sensitized and sensitive. You could say I am like a ‘lightening conductor’ for impressions, frequencies, resonances and disturbances from the inner and outer field. <br/>
<p><br/> The pain has been was excruciating – a nerve trapped and tapped constantly - uncomfortable when sitting, terribly painful when trying to stand – but attracting and amplifying impressions from many significant and powerful conversations throughout the week. I have attempted to ground the intensity, not quite managing, and overloading. This particular painful spate started a few weeks ago, then lessened after I had a chat with Jeraldene, my mentor – where I made some important realisations. We spoke about part of my calling and work being about ‘streaming consciousness’ and that I am going through a step-change in my ability to do so; now attracting stronger and higher stronger frequencies. I likened it to ‘live streaming’ like real-time video relays over the Internet – but I am grounding impulses, impressions and <i>intelligence</i> from multiple realms and bringing coherence and visibility to it. My recalibration to higher frequencies is still in progress – yet in the meantime, my conduit is working at full capacity until which time, my ability to receive these next-level frequencies has been stabilised."</p>
<p><a href="http://axladitsa.ning.com/profiles/blog/show?id=2794562%3ABlogPost%3A21040&xgs=1&xg_source=msg_share_post" target="_blank">Read more here</a>.</p>
Hosting with the elementals
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2011-03-21T23:04:26.314Z
Ursula Hillbrand
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I would like to explore with you how elementals can help in hosted processes.<br />
<p> </p>
<p>This goes back to an experience we witnessed during a practice day in the EC last year.</p>
<p>My dear colleague and mate Helen Titchen has already referred to that special day in an <a href="http://iyeshe.wordpress.com/2010/06/13/natural-ways-of-working/" target="_blank">earlier blog post</a> on natural ways of working.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>So the idea of the campfire around which this day was organised, the…</p>
I would like to explore with you how elementals can help in hosted processes.<br />
<p> </p>
<p>This goes back to an experience we witnessed during a practice day in the EC last year.</p>
<p>My dear colleague and mate Helen Titchen has already referred to that special day in an <a href="http://iyeshe.wordpress.com/2010/06/13/natural-ways-of-working/" target="_blank">earlier blog post</a> on natural ways of working.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>So the idea of the campfire around which this day was organised, the topic on observing how nature does it, and how could we learn from her for our hosting work were one manifestation of something special occurring that day.</p>
And then I experienced a very concrete event later on:<br />
<p>It happened that in the morning I had a look in my garden for something organic I could bring to the group. It was the time of cherry blossom! This beautiful tree embraced me and led me to the idea of bringing a twig or two to our learning day.</p>
<p>I brought them in a vase, which found its space first before my feet in the circle while checking in, and later on the window sill.</p>
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<p>There was a particular moment in a conversation during an open space, where some energy sparks just shooted over in light speed from the window on the other side of the room, to the group of three we were engaging in, and it was as if the inspiring ideas that actually came out of the mouths of us in that truly magical moments, were connected to or supported by the energy coming from the branches. Intuitively I immediately knew that that was so. It is hard to say, if the conversation attracted the sparks or the other way round. I am saying sparks, as that is the best way I can name what I sensed, there was no visual perception, although almost, it was more of an energetic sensing.</p>
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<p>I have more and more the feeling that we are helped by the subtle world, if the conditions are right.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>That is why I want to start a conversation and see if you also had some of these intuitions or experiences and what were the circumstances around those.</p>
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<p>Looking forward to some interesting sharing!</p>
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<p>Ursula</p>