I watched the Joanna Macy's video and chills ran through me. The Shambhala Prophecy- the heart warriors that set off ripples of light! Yes, this is exactly what the world needs now and exactly the challenge we are to undertake. Thank you for sharing the video. This clarifies things for me. As Joanna said, well now I have my marching orders.
I was not familiar with Joanna Macy before being drawn to this site and deciding to join in May. But once I was here and after Jeanne's first class on May 8th, I opened and read every page, every forum or blog post and every link.
And learning about Joanna Mavy then, from my readibg here, and visiting her webpage and learning about "The Great Turning" and Creational Spirituality felt very validating and connective to me.
And now...thank you, Jeanne... for this Shamballa Prophecy link as well...courage and wisdom have bern my prayers for growth since 2000 and this further adds to my feeling connected.
To know that 'not knowing how things will turn out" carries its own great power is actually quite wonderful..reminds me of Tibetan riddles or koans in the student-teacher discourses as they sit across from one another for hours and hours if not days.
Lots to appreciate as well as think about here..everywhere here!
There's more. The Shambhala Prophecy sounds a lot like a vision I had in 1985. And my 1985 vision sounds astonishingly similar to the story Charles Eisenstein recounts in his 2015 book The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible.
My 1985 vision (which I shared with all my clients back then) : I had just begun giving readings when I got a vision that the people who were coming for the readings were part of a tribe from a far off place, far off in time and space.
They' came here (myself included) in streams of light that flowed right into mothers' wombs. (They are still coming here today.) They grew up here, suffered the troubles of our world, many had to deal with difficult families and social life because they had powerful intuitive gifts, even when they weren't aware of it.
When they had worked through enough of their issues, they would emerge as guides to others. But often many of them acted as guides to their family when they were children, even if the families didn't appreciate them.
When the time was right, each would begin their true soul's work here. When the climate surge in our world hits, which I feel started in 2017, the many from the tribe would feel an urgency to begin the work they came here to do.
I also believe that people who have been connecting to my website are also part of the tribe. Then there are many others who are connecting to teachers all over the world so that they can equip themselves to do their soul's work.
Who would they be helping? I was shown refugees flowing out of a major U.S. coastal city which I thought was New York, but perhaps it represented more than one city. The refugees were mostly young well-clad people who were going to need to deal emotionally and spiritually with major earth changes. I was shown light workers who would be pulling them out of the water to higher ground. I took that image as a metaphor for people who'd be helped to deal with the overwhelming emotional issues of having to adjust to a new world.
There was much more to this vision, but that's the gist.
Then last year, I read a similar story at the end of Charles Eisenstein's book A More Beautiful World that Our Hearts Know is Possible. He asks us to imagine a place in a far away planet or galaxy that is highly evolved.
Both places where Eisenstein's tribe and my tribe easily fit the idea of Shambhala, with the inhabitants being the Tibetan prophecy's Shambhala Warrior.
Here's what Eisenstein wrote:
Once upon a time a great tribe of people lived in a world far away from ours. Whether far away in space, or in time, or even outside of time, we do not know. They lived in a state of enchantment and joy that few of us today dare to believe could exist, except in those exceptional peak experiences when we glimpse the true potential of life and mind.
One day the elders of the tribe called a meeting. They gathered around, and one of them spoke very solemnly. “My friends,” she said, “there is a world that needs our help. It is called Earth, and its fate hangs in the balance. Its humans have reached a critical point in their collective birthing, the same point our own planet was at one million years ago, and they will be stillborn without our help. Who would like to volunteer for a mission to this time and place, and render service to humanity?”
“Tell us more about this mission,” they asked.
“It is no small thing. Our shaman will put you into a deep, deep trance, so complete that you will forget who you are. You will live a human life, and in the beginning you will completely forget your origins. You will forget even our language and your own true name. You will be separated from the wonder and beauty of our world, and from the love that bathes us all. You will miss it deeply, yet you will be unable to name what you are missing. You will remember the love and beauty that we know to be normal only as a longing in your heart. Your memory will take the form of an intuitive knowledge, as you plunge into the painfully marred Earth, that a more beautiful world is possible.
“As you grow up in that world, your knowledge will be under constant assault. You will be told in a million ways that a world of destruction, violence, drudgery, anxiety, and degradation is normal. You may go through a time when you are completely alone, with no allies to affirm your knowledge of a more beautiful world. You may plunge into a depth of despair that we, in our world of light, cannot imagine. But no matter what, a spark of knowledge will never leave you. A memory of your true origin will be encoded in your DNA. That spark will lie within you, inextinguishable, until one day it is awakened.
“You see, even though you will feel, for a time, utterly alone, you will not be alone. We will send you assistance, help that you will experience as miraculous, experiences that you will describe as transcendent. These will fan that spark into a flame. For a few moments or hours or days, you will reawaken to the beauty and the joy that is meant to be. You will see it on Earth, for even though the planet and its people are deeply wounded, there is beauty there still, projected from past and future onto the present as a promise of what is possible and a reminder of what is real.
“After that glimpse, the flame may die down into an ember again as the routines of normal life there swallow you up. But after each awakening, they will seem less normal, and the story of that world will seem less real. The ember will glow brighter. When enough embers do that, they will all burst into flame together and sustain each other.
“Because remember, you will not be there alone. As you begin to awaken to your mission you will meet others of our tribe. You will recognize them by your common purpose, values, and intuitions, and by the similarity of the paths you have walked. As the condition of the planet Earth reaches crisis proportions, your paths will cross more and more. The time of loneliness, the time of thinking you might be crazy, will be over.
“You will find the people of your tribe all over the Earth, and become aware of them through the long-distance communication technologies used on that planet. But the real shift, the real quickening, will happen in face-to-face gatherings in special places. When many of you gather together you will launch a new stage on your journey, a journey that, I assure you, will end where it begins right now. Then, the mission that lay unconscious within you will flower into consciousness. Your intuitive rebellion against the world presented to you as normal will become an explicit quest to create a more beautiful one.”
A woman said, “Tell us more about the time of loneliness, that we might prepare for it.”
The elder said, “In the time of loneliness, you will always be seeking to reassure yourself that you are not crazy. You will do that by telling people all about what is wrong with the world, and you will feel a sense of betrayal when they don’t listen to you. You might hunger for stories of wrongness, atrocity, and ecological destruction, all of which confirm the validity of your intuition that a more beautiful world exists. But after you have fully received the help we will send you, and the quickening of your gatherings, you will no longer need to do that. Because you will know. Your energy will thereafter turn toward actively creating that more beautiful world.”
A tribeswoman asked, “How do you know this will work? Are you sure our shaman’s powers are great enough to send us on such a journey?”
The elder replied, “I know it will work because he has done it many times before. Many have already been sent to Earth, to live human lives, and to lay the groundwork for the mission you will undertake now. He’s been practicing! The only difference now is that many of you will venture there at once. What is new in the time you will live in, is that you will gather in critical mass, and each awaken the other to your mission. The heat you will generate will kindle the same spark that lies in every human being, for in truth, each one is from a tribe like ours. The whole galaxy and beyond is converging on Earth, for never before has a planet journeyed so far into Separation and made it back again. Those of you who go will be part of a new step in cosmic evolution.”
A tribesman asked, “Is there a danger we will become lost in that world, and never wake up from the shamanic trance? Is there a danger that the despair, the cynicism, the pain of separation will be so great that it will extinguish the spark of hope, the spark of our true selves and origin, and that we will be separated from our beloved ones forever?”
The elder replied, “That is impossible. The more deeply you get lost, the more powerful the help we will send you. You might experience it at the time as a collapse of your personal world, the loss of everything important to you. Later you will recognize the gift within it. We will never abandon you.”
Another man asked, “Is it possible that our mission will fail, and that this planet, Earth, will perish?”
The elder replied, “I will answer your question with a paradox. It is impossible that your mission will fail. Yet, its success hangs on your own actions. The fate of the world is in your hands. The key to this paradox lies within you, in the feeling you carry that each of your actions, even your personal, secret struggles, has cosmic significance. You will know then, as you know now, that everything you do matters.”
There were no more questions. The volunteers gathered in a circle, and the shaman went to each one. The last thing each was aware of was the shaman blowing smoke in his or her face. They entered a deep trance and dreamed themselves into the world where we find ourselves today. -- Charles Eisenstein a.r.r. You can order his book here. Its a great book as are all his books.
There is more that I received about the tribe that I was told was coming for readings. I'll start a separate thread on it soon.
Jeanne, Yes! Yes! Yes! Absolutely yes!
Thank you Jeanne for sharing your amazing vision and this beautiful story by Charles Eisentein. As I was reading tears were steaming down my cheeks, all too real yet again hopeful...
Hi guys
I am definitely in need of support. At my wedding recently, some guests were preaching the merits of Trump to Canadians. One guest (a trump voter) also wrote us a long letter about the importance of accepting Jesus Christ into our lives. Reading that letter privately later I felt that me and my husband are now going to lose a friend because we refuse to adopt their Christian literalist world view (and this is a child hood friend of my husband). My coworker has just joked that I couldn't live anywhere except Cambridge because of how liberal I am. I moved to the United States from Canada in 2016, and I increasingly feel trapped here. I feel claustrophobic, like I can't escape and am forced to live the rest of my life here, when all I want to do is run away. Problem is I want to run away with my husband who wants to stay here. I am tired of being told I'm overreacting, tired of listening to people praise Trump and staying silent, tired of being told how lucky I am to be living in the United States (really?!??!?) as if every other country is inferior. I am just tired.
Sorry for the rant.
Natalie
Natalie,
Welcome to the USA! As you may have noticed, many of my fellow countrymen don't get out much. Most have never been through a modern Asian or European airport, ridden a fast, quit, and convenient intercity train, or walked the streets of a very, very walkable European city like London or Dublin. Most of us have no frame of reference, in other words. Most of us don't know that our potholed streets, inefficient public transportation, or crowded and dirty airports would simply not be tolerated in much of the western world, or eastern world for that matter. My parent's generation (our "greatest" generation) did live at a time where we led the world in most things including infrastructure. Unfortunately, the rest of the developed world and much of the developing world is passing us by and we are too insular to realize it.
As a Unitarian, (check us out if there is a church in your area - you might find some like-minded people), I have been told many times that I am bound for hell in a handbasket unless I mend my ways. I tell them that I am comfortable with my faith and appreciate their concern.
I hope things get better for you and also hope that your husband gives you the kind of love and support you need. I'm glad you are here and if you lived out in the sticks of central Illinois, my wife and I would be happy to make your acquaintance. I hope you can find like-minded friends where you live so you won't feel isolated.
Take care.
Natalie, would your husband be willing to move to a more liberal region? I'm a pagan who grew up in an atheist family and we always managed to find friendship and community. I promise that there are a lot of people in the US who are not Trump supporters, or religiously conservative.
Beautiful story that makes so much sense. Thank you for sharing, Jean!