The Mandala Garden of Being

Gaiahuasca : The Mandala Garden of Being

In a moonlit night on a spring day,

the croak of a frog

pierces through the whole cosmos

turning it into

a single family.

Chang Chin-ch’en

"In the magic of the heart, in the center that is free, at play in the fields of creation, Shiva and Shakti dance together in creativity and love."

This energy is an expression of eternal delight, of pure arts discovering themselves again for the first time.

Matter, life and mind are expressions of One divine Logos that the Primordial Man and Woman create through each other. 

Shiva and Shakti are Man and Woman, liberated and in love, seting each other free. 

This universe is an overflowing source of this love, a manifested expression of the exuberance of this love. 

This lovemaking inspires all creation, enabling art, poetry, music, and dancing as the spiritual origins of human culture.

In this infinite round of being, every being is a crown of clear light, informing and irradiating all things. Everyone inherits the ability to open a channel for helping to shape culture through creative expression and artistic action in the world. Grounded solidly in what we have come here to do, we all share and are connected in a greater movement we are creating together.

Our thoughts are each others thoughts, a collective chorus of life, the unified thoughts of the uni-verse, the One Song. 

We are all part of each other. “Todos unidos !” – All united.

So here we are at the end of everything, a perfect moment to reinvent the future through the present. To rejoin the end with the beginning, connecting end-ways with first ways, in the Oroboric feedback loop of the perpetual present. For that unfathomable moment of conception is endlessly resurrected, and flowers in the Now.

Firmly grounded in the present, we wake up to the magical destiny of our long lineage of light. The spiritual practices of the world help us to dance outside of linear time and into the a historical present, into the center of the labyrinth of mind where the World Tree, ‘Axis Mundi’, can be explored for wisdom and medicine. Gnosis liberates us from our habits and unties us from the restrictions, blockages and inhibitions around our essence which strives for unity by promoting a loving open-system for relating to energy and information. 

From this well of knowledge comes art, poetry, music and dance, all containing visions of the world within the world. It is from these visions that we may glimpse the potentials through which the present world can transform into the future world. The creative imagination is a guiding sign in worlds manifold journey towards actualization.

There is a deep ecology of spirit immanent within the endless flow of physical, chemical, electrical energies of our universe. We are being called out of the historical present to rediscover our kinship with a more-than-human world, interlinking with the individual and collective minds of kindred animal, mineral and plant species. Co-creating a unified communication of health and harmony, understanding that our actions have implications at every level of life on the planet, we are coming together with other living things to collectively steward the present in order to build a sustainable future. Using art as a starting point for mapping the possible and linking archaic and modern technology, visionary culture is able to apply creativity and integrate wisdom more than ever before.

By nurturing a supple awareness of how the natural ecologies of the earth work in relation to climatic and galactic patterns, we can come to understand the long term consequences of our actions on many levels at once. 

In this way, plant paradigms like permaculture promote the refinement of our perspective and the conscious shift of our behavioral approaches to growth and development in the world. 

Understanding the forest as a metaphor for a stable and healthy relationship ecology, the emerging art movements model designs in nature in order to integrate concepts like energy cycling, no-waste consumption, co-dependent relationships, and biodiversity. Plant paradigms bring us a set of malleable techniques and technologies for healing our relationship with ourselves, each other, plants and the planet.

The standing wave of our collective artistic intention crystalises through time via innumerable iterations, into the ornate and baroque structures of civilization. Humanity has walled ourselves up in ego – in mental constructs – which crystalize around us as artificial and dislocated environments like urban sprawls, credit debt and government control. Smoke stacks, fumes from an ineffable petrochemical metabolism confuse the planet and toxify our collective ecology at every level of organism. 

This world is only the outcome of a certain view. First we make our buildings, then our buildings make us.

The creative imagination is vitalized and inspired by a reconnection to the Gaian fertility circuit. 

Our creativity is our most valuable faculty for regenerating the web of life and moving humanity beyond its current existential and ecological blind alley. Art, music, poetry and dance are universal languages creating foundations for an authentic planetary culture. 

With these skillsets we are able to address and navigate the intricate problems of our time.

Visionary culture is one of the spirit seeds for the emerging civilization, a set of pathways into the collective creation of a sustainable world. The development of art, poetry, music and dance is at the cusp of a long lineage of transformational growth that can be traced back long before the humble origins of our current world. 

At this time of turmoil our spiritual destiny is awakening again, a vessel to transport us across the rift of impending ecological collapse. Redefining our roles as planetary stewards and redesigning our collective approach to saving the biosphere, we are presented with a toolset for activating our potential to play an active role in the unfolding. Utilizing the unlimited potentials of the empowered creative imagination provides human culture with the evolutionary option of harmonizing with the more than human world. [source]

Magical awareness
Gaian tapestry
pure elemental frequencies
mapping the landscapes     —like falling water...life streaming from void
within seed chambers
and honeycombed lattices of light:
an infinite empire of beauty
worlds within worlds
ecologies within ecologies
planting futures
through supple exchanges
between seen and unseen
here we are in this place
of shining stones forever
experiencing the presence

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