“Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes, turn and face the strange.” – David Bowie, Changes
by Astara
Given the political climate on Earth now, as well as the intensity of the environmental climate–both in our country and our world–you may feel like you are just barely hanging on to sanity in all arenas of your life. You may want to run to your room with the curtains drawn, or hide behind a substance, your work, your relationship, or your family.
I hear David Bowie’s song Changes in my head in the line turn and face the strange.
The Strange.
What a perfect phrase for the chaotic times we are in.
Below the chaotic surface of the strange, there is something astonishingly beautiful going on. A rise — dare I say leap — in consciousness is actually happening right under our noses (and has been for a long while). It may not seem like consciousness is evolving given the recent news: record breaking heat waves or climate events, exploding hate crimes, polarizing political chaos, and fear-mongering as a marketing tool, to name just a few. With all of this madness being reported to us at great speed, combined with dismal responses from much of our leadership, we have the obvious equation for any one of us, even the most conscious, to inhabit stress, dis-ease, old triggers, fear, despair and anger more than ever before.
The important thing is to remember we always have a choice–not only in how we respond–but also in how we vision or create our lives moving forward. And we have way more power than we know. That is where you, I, all of us come in, in this moment.
Worldview 1.0 and the Strange
Although the mainstream news sources will not be reporting the current evolving global consciousness to you any time soon, it is happening. Our human evolution is like a series of software upgrades. Imagine your being–your body, your energy field, even your DNA–is right now receiving (and has for a while) amazing downloads of energy. Yes, you are made of energy. Moby sang the song about how we are made of star dust, and he is right. Research shows we are biophotonic. You are made of the energy of the cosmos, you are truly cosmic. The influx of you, of light coming from the sun and the galaxy right now, is in a greater quantity than we have experienced. This universal upgrade is being felt in you and me and around the world. In order to receive more of the high-frequency energy we are, we have to turn toward the strange, face it, build circuits to capacitate our cosmic energy more consciously.
The intense strange times we find ourselves in is a reflection of a dying worldview. And this dying worldview is struggling with all its might to stay in power. What is dying is an outdated view of a universe that is punitive, exclusive, divisive, competitive, judgemental, full of lack and ego distortion that we have for too long called reality (also simply known as separation).
Pam Grout call’s this collective belief in separation Worldview 1.0. Beliefs can be seen as training wheels, which can be shed when no longer needed. Once you’ve learned to ride a bike, the training wheels keep you from riding. When we bravely let go of the crutch of certain beliefs, oh what a free-spirited ride awaits us.
Worldview 5.0
Pam Grout creatively calls the emerging consciousness of a benevolent universe as “Worldview 2.0,” where we begin to remember just how unconditionally loving, abundant, collaborative and playful our universe is. I call it Worldview 5.0 to mathematically, playfully, describe how we are moving beyond the three dimensional duality paradigm we have all been taught. We are even moving beyond the four dimensional paradigm of time and space which is also being deconstructed (especially with the help of quantum physics). Now we are remembering the fifth dimensional paradigm where love, connection and abundance reigns, and always has (i.e. oneness or unity consciousness).
In Worldview 5.0, Rupert Sheldrake’s morphogenetic field, Paul Stamets’ teachings of magnificent mycelium, quantum physics discovery of the holographic universe, and other recent scientific breakthroughs (i.e. remembering) remind us of how we are part of and interconnected to a sentient and deeply intelligent natural world and cosmos. Watch the film by Nassim Haramein called The Connected Universe to learn more.
“I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together.” – The Beatles, John Lennon & Paul McCartney, I Am the Walrus
Worldview 5.0 reminds us that our deepest wisdom and intelligence is centered in the heart. The heart has more electromagnetic activity than the mind, one hundred times more. Rollin McCraty’s research at the Heart Math Institute has demonstrated that the heart knows what will unfold way before the brain knows. The order of command in our body is first heart, then mind, then body. In Worldview 5.0 we learn that acting from the deep wisdom of our heart brings us better outcomes than all the dualistic, left brain, right brain, competing, black or white, this or that, us or them, thoughts in our head. Speaking from our hearts is what Brene Brown calls “ordinary courage”.
“Courage is a heart word. The root of the word courage is cor – the Latin word for heart. In one of its earliest forms, the word courage meant ‘To speak one’s mind by telling all one’s heart.'” – Brene Brown
Our hearts help us be present, humble, strong, and empowered, and usually all at once! In our hearts we can hold more than one seemingly conflicting perspective at the same time; by accepting cognitive dissonance we approach compassion. Watch the movie Power of the Heart to learn more about the heart.
The only Worldview 5.0 headlines you may see might be found in your friends social media feed and the good old fashioned oral tradition making its way to you at your dinner table or local cafe. Worldview 5.0 breakthroughs, milestones and epiphanies are often happening quietly inside your heart or behind closed doors. Even though sharing soul-ution focused, dogma-busting news can be met with great resistance from the current world order, Worldview 5.0 stories are finding their way to all of us nonetheless, and faster than before.
To leap into Worldview 5.0, we must, all of us, begin our own important internal work of shucking the familiar, yet strange, Worldview 1.0. We begin with the difficult experience of facing the strange inside of us and loving ALL of who we are, including the parts of us that are split, divided, and just plain mean at times. When we do the gritty work of leaning into the aspects of ourselves we don’t like all that much and love them to a new place, we open up to the dark nights (and days) of the ego screaming for its old footing in our lives. It is painful and messy work, but oh so worth it.
Into the current anxiety producing world theater we have all created together out of our worldview of separation, the plot turns towards Worldview 5.0. No matter what astrological or spiritual leader viewpoint, there seems to be a consensus: the energies are going to keep intensifying and continuing from here on out. So now is the time to wake up, and begin your true inner work. The powerhouse energies on the planet now provide an epic opening not only supporting our Worldview 5.0 plot, but insisting we undergo our conscious heart-centered evolution and drop Worldview 1.0. We all came here to actualize more of our true nature in the world, and the universe delicately arranged all this to say now is time to step up our game and into our new worldview.
What You Can Do: Six Simple Steps to the Eclipse
Amidst this very chaotic paradigm shift, the question is then how do we, as David Bowie sang, “turn to face the strange” that we find ourselves living through on our way to fully embracing Worldview 5.0? I believe there are some very simple actions that all of us can take now.
This is an opening that we will ALL enter, whether we want to or not. If you are reading this, than you have already begun in some fashion, and are now ready to prepare even more. There is a plethora of helpful suggestions for our accelerated paradigm shift right now, including Ram Dass, The Power Path, Paul Selig, my Heartifact Archaeology Eco-System, and our own Inner Space Academy. Find your own way with this. Because the first step is to realize you are the one you have been waiting for.
Here is an outline of our recommended helpful self-care practices during this time to prepare for the eclipse:
- Become Visionary
- Forgive
- Slow Down
- Go With the Flow
- Absorb Only Nourishment
- Make Time for Silence
FIRST: Become Visionary
Worldview 5.0 teaches us the guru, the healer, the wisdom you most need is inside you. It is not outside you. Yes, we have our teachers, friends, loved ones, channels, intuitives, and surprising angels in our lives to guide us as we need. You know that wonderful feeling when you have an epiphany, and it feels like a remembering, rather than completely new information? The truth is, it is always remembering. Life could be called the school of remembering, to quote Drunvalo Melchizedek. The other truth is, we are all intuitives. Every. Single. One. Of. Us. We are all gifted with intuition and heart wisdom. If you want to learn more about human intuition, see the film InnSaei (“intuition” in Icelandic). Enjoy Astara’s poem InnSaei as well.
Life asks you – do you want to see the world as if life is happening TO you (observer)? Or would you rather see you are responsible for your life (visionary)? As a visionary you have the power to meet life circumstances as an opportunity to own and take action on your deepest dreams. Allow the spectrum of experience from smooth and flowing to challenging and difficult, for it is all part of your learning. In truth we are co-creating with All That Is in order to support our soul’s learning and evolution. The ultimate form of taking responsibility is to own you are creating it all. Even the dark icky sticky stuff, which is helping you wake up and become more loving.
As a visionary, you make the subtle yet important distinction clear. You are not just working with the energy in your body and the world, you are that energy.
This is called stepping into vertical orientation. And it may be the hardest step of all. Without this awareness, it is easy to stay in the victim mindset of something happening “to” you rather than “for” you or “as” you. In the horizontal orientation mindset of the victim, you remain a dis-empowered separated seeker, and what you need is always outside you and just out of reach. Which by the way makes you an awesome consumer!
In vertical orientation, you become empowered to the energy you are. Suddenly then the wisdom is inside you, moving in, as and through you, and you are listening to it. Connected and empowered, it is impossible to stay a victim.
You have the choice to be an observer/victim (horizontal orientation) or a visionary/creator (vertical orientation). We hope you will choose being a visionary allowing more of you (energy) in.
All of creation is asking you (begging you) now to go vertical! It brings whole new meaning to Mahatma Ghandi’s charge to be the change you wish to see in the world.
SECOND: Forgive
I cannot emphasize enough just how powerful forgiveness is. Paradoxically, in the truth of vertical orientation of Worldview 5.0, forgiveness is not necessary. All is perfect since we are here as souls to learn, and there is only one of us here anyway. We have such difficulty in our current separation-based Worldview 1.0 embracing the perfection of the process. Forgiveness is the way to free ourselves from the ego judgements and distortions that limit us, bind us, and hold us hostage to our choices. At a personal scale, if blame, guilt, shame, and hate is held too long in our field and body, then the illusion of separation can create mental and physical dis-ease expressed as self-rejection and self-punishment. In the extreme, such energy can express itself out in the world violently. In society, these distortions of separation and self-hate can scale up to the culture, and lead to bias, prejudice, and ultimately hate crimes and war.
Ho’oponopono is an ancient Hawaiian healing tool that is based on the power of healing through forgiveness, through loving oneself. Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len has a wonderful success story of forgiveness, that stemmed from his knowledge of the Ho’oponopono teachings of Morrnah Nalamaku Simeona. Dr. Len set up an office within the criminally insane ward of a Hawaii`i State Hospital. Sitting in his office, as he reviewed his patients’ files, and without ever seeing a single patient, he worked on himself using Ho’oponopono. Dr. Len repeated the words “I love you” and “I am sorry” over and over again while reviewing each file individually. After a few months, the patients who were isolated and contained were allowed to freely move about, some patients were taken off medications, and even the most intense patients were eventually released back into society. The staff that avoided work through sick leave and resignation, came back. Over four years, it is reported the patients all healed.
“When you do Ho’oponopono, what happens is that the Divinity takes the painful thought and neutralizes or purifies it. You don’t purify the person, place, or thing. You neutralize the energy you associate with that person, place, or thing. So the first stage is the purification of that energy. Not only does that energy get neutralized; it also gets released, so there’s a brand-new slate (Zero). Buddhists call it the Void. The final step is that you allow the Divinity or Infinite to fill the void with light. To do Ho’oponopono, you don’t have to know what the problem or error is. All you have to do is notice any problem you are experiencing physically, mentally, or emotionally. Once you notice, your responsibility is to immediately to begin to clean, to say, ‘I’m sorry, Please forgive me, or Thank You, I Love you.'” -Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len
When you forgive yourself and anyone you hold grievance against, no matter what, you set you free. It is a crucial ingredient in opening your consciousness to Worldview 5.0 and in being able to capacitate higher-frequency energy.
The ho’oponopono steps are simple, just state out loud: “I’m sorry. Please Forgive Me. Thank you. I Love you.”
According to Dr. Len, because forgiveness is not really needed in divine truth, you can eventually just say “Thank you. I Love You.” What are you waiting for? Start today. The key is to forgive yourself, anyone, no matter what harm you believe they have done. Start with you first, since there is only one of us here anyway. You can go through a list of all the grievances you hold in your life with Ho’oponopono. Take all the time you need. And be sure to remember the ones in outer society you also need to forgive including: a president, the perpetrator of a crime, anyone. Forgiving now means freedom now.
“The process is essentially about freedom, complete freedom from the past.” – Morrnah Nalamaku Simeona
THIRD: Slow Down
To step up our ability to download all the big energy, involves a lot of deep internal purging. To enter into this purging process, along with vertical orientation and our forgiveness, we need to slow down. When we slow down, we meet ourselves deeply and truly. Which is why most of us stay so busy!
Let’s look to the important RE words in our life that encourage slowing down.
Remember, reconnect, retreat, resolve, refresh, review, restore, recreate, rest, recalibrate, recuperate, rejoice, reflect…
RE-member the past in order to resolve. RE-view your deepest triggers in a new light of forgiveness. RE-consider and pause before taking action in the world or making a big decision. If we let ourselves go into slo-mo, we can start to RE-ceive all our light, our knowing, and our inner gifts. If you don’t slow down, the universe will find a way to slow you down through other not so enjoyable methods. So slow down.
It is essential to enter into as much of a RE-treat zone as we can carve out for ourselves. As we surf the heightened energies playing out on the world stage as we have created them, when we slow down, when we are gentle with ourselves, when we trust our hearts guidance system, the waves will take us exactly where we need to go. Some of us are already listening and taking time off, taking breaks, and finding our own ways to slow down. Some of us may need a gentle reminder, and this is that RE-minder. Slow down.
Slo-Mo Extra Credit: Vertical Time.
What if you took it further and slowed down enough that time became irrelevant? Yes you can still make your appointments and fill your calendar as needed. But what if you accepted that each moment is just right now? Only now? Eternally now? In the book Navigating the Collapse of Time by David Ian Cowan, he talks about how we have viewed time as traveling along a horizontal axis moving left-to-right from past-to-present-to-future. Draw a circle in your mind and imagine a cross in it. The horizontal line represents the progression of chronological time. The vertical line represents the eternal now. If you look at a peace sign symbol, you can see the beginning of this collapse of our concept of past and future towards the present. It is a whole new way to look at that beloved symbol! And it is another entry point into vertical orientation.
What if time didn’t really exist? (It doesn’t) What if I let go of worries of the past, and fear of the future? What if I stepped into vertical time? Now, that is freedom.
FOURTH: Go With the Flow
A great way to begin to flow better is to literally drink more water. All vital bodily functions happen as a result of electrical signals being sent between your heart, your mind, and your body. Remember, you are energy, and your body is essentially a battery. For your body to operate in full health, electrolytes dissolved in the water of your bloodstream help conduct the electrical signals — and the most common electrolyte in your body is salt. Your body is about 70% water depending on your age, about two-thirds of the water resides inside your cells — intracellular fluid — and about one-third resides outside of your cells — extra cellular fluid. Your body works constantly to make sure that the intracellular fluid and extra cellular fluid have the same amount of electrolyte concentration – this is a very important component of your body’s homeostasis or inner balance. So in addition to water’s role in maintaining cell life, body temperature regulation, chemical and metabolic functions, transport of nutrients, and removal of waste — water assists our miraculous bodies in receiving the download of Worldview 5.0.
Without enough water, we just can’t capacitate all of who we are. We cannot capacitate all the energy we are. So drink up!
FIFTH: Absorb Only Nourishment
The old adage still applies: You are what you eat. Medical research is revealing the connection between our health and what we think, what we eat. Pledge to no longer absorb toxicity in any form. Give all of your minds (head, heart, and gut) a rest, and feed yourself only loving nourishing foods, thoughts, situations, people.
Move away from people, places, and activities that feel like poison, go toward what is nourishing. Notice the difference between nourishing or toxic thoughts in your body and energy levels. “Spit out” poison thoughts, stop believing them.
We can support and fuel our way to Worldview 5.0 through the plant intelligence that is available to us on this planet. Consider the following recommendations, but you need to listen to your own wisdom and find the food path that is right for you. Eat attentively with intention to know what feels good (or not).
Consider, at a minimum, taking a break from processed foods for at least two to three weeks to give your body a rest and help it RE-fresh itself. Eat as many fresh organic local seasonal non-GMO foods, especially as many fruits and vegetables as you can. The existence of pesticides in our world is real, why put them into your already post-industry pollution impacted body? Expand beyond this criteria if you are feeling frisky. You can try cutting out dairy, wheat, corn, soy and sugar for a while (a long while!). You will feel a world of difference.
Absorbing only nourishment in all ways will help you not only lighten up from a weight perspective, it will also help you “lighten up” from a biophotonic perspective! You will glow.
SIXTH: Make Time for Silence
Step into silence. It is in our silence that we can really meet ourselves and do the soul processing we are here to do. We recommend finding a meditation practice that works for you, using breath to help get you there. The stillness of the meditation helps you tone your vagus nerve, bringing balance to your parasympathetic nervous system. The deep breathing helps bring oxygen into your body, which helps everything. Silence helps us slow down and meditation helps us drop into that silence deeply. Find a meditation class at a local yoga studio or mindfulness center (for those in Omaha, check out the Mindfulness Outreach Initiative). At a minimum, even a short five-minute meditation will bring you back to your center, quiet the mind, and help you welcome more intimacy with your own heart. When you drop into this wordless heart-centered place, you can’t help but drop into oneness. If you have time, meditate longer. Studies show 15 to 20 minutes is the threshold to cross before you can even calm your mind. It is helpful if you can slowly scan your body and relax it from head to foot as you breathe. For those that are more drawn to moving meditation, find a way to bring inner stillness to your movements. Whether it is yoga, dance, walking, running, swimming or another form of movement you love, follow your breath and find the still point within the movement. It is in the stillness that we are able to truly digest and metabolize these downloads of light.
Drop the pebble of the mind into the pond of the heart. – illuminating hearts
We hope you enjoy the alchemy of the Eclipse as a cosmic amplifier of what you choose! Whether you plan to attend the eclipse, or will be remotely connecting to the energies, the energies are there for all of us. And during the short window at the height of the total eclipse that only lasts a few minutes — take a moment to drop into your heart, feel your connection to the earth and the universe through vertical orientation, and feel how powerful you are and how loved! That will help you download one of many upcoming light upgrades to Worldview 5.0.
May your eternal now align you with you and All That Is. And may you be humo-luminous and bright.
