The Human Flowering Creation-Song

'He who does not imagine in stronger and better light than his perishing mortal eye can see, does not imagine at all'. – W. Blake

What follows is a journey thru the Creation-body, aka the microcosmic earth (Gaia) within each of us, as its exists in the nested patterns of resonance that compose our universe.  This journey culminates in the flowering of consciousness beneath and inseparable from, the Sunlight of our opening Hearts.  It is a gesture of mythic renewal, in a time where our meaning stories have become toxic, dis-ordered, and depleted.  I call it a Creation-song as it allows us to rewitness our essential bio-lineage in ways (chants, songs, breathing practices, spirit-languaging, prayers, and flow on) that can build visionary experiences strong and intense enough to achieve the great personal and planetary transformations that increasing numbers of us are being called to perform. 

I often call it a meditation in the Tibetan sense of the word, which means ‘union’.  It could as well be called a ‘yoga’, a Sanskrit word that also means union.  What are we unifying with?  In the largest sense, our Divine nature, and its awakening to itself thru the play of Creation on this planet.  More specifically we are unifying with the impulse to radically self-transform, the same urge that crystals, flowers, butterflies, and other such radiant beings had at one time surrendered to, and found themselves reborn as higher vibrational expressions of their former selves.

The groundwork for this self-transformation has been laid in the karmas of our former lives, and how we live this life, in such things as how we fertilize the soil of our incarnation (vitality practices), tend the garden of our relations (love thy neighbor), attend to the weather of our emotions (surface and clear), improve the climate of our mind (imaginal hygiene), and keep the seasons in balance (mindful equanimity). 

Such tending the temple of the world, of living life as ceremony, quickens and matures the flowering of each of us.  This is in a feedback relationship with the human collective, and the earth itself, creating a process thru which a very pristine spiritual intelligence is breaking like a dawn on the horizon.  This meditation can therefore do much to help you participate more consciously, and effectively, in this great evolutionary adventure! 

I suggest you go thru this in a seated position, cross-legged if you can, upright and comfortably planted on a cushion.  If you are in a group of people doing this with a facilitator, s/he would likely suggest you do the journey with your eyes closed whenever possible.  It is a very internal process, a path thru an imaginal world that you both make and follow.  Though I draw on a wide variety of therapeutic and spiritual traditions to progress this experience, Taoism is a major influence thruout, so those familiar with tai chi chuan, chi gung, TCM (traditional Chinese medicine), should find some familiarity.  For example, we will use the concept of tan (pronounced ‘dahn’) tien.  Tan tien means ‘elixir field’, and describes an energy vortex in the body.  In the Taoist cosmology there are three, the lower tan tien, located just below the navel, the middle tan tien, located in the center of the chest, and the upper tan tien, found above and between the brows, at the third eye.  They correspond to a number of traits, including the physical, emotional, and mental bodies, and instinctive, intuitive, and insightful ways of knowing.

Begin . . . 
by placing your right palm on your head top, and showering yourself with Divine grace.  After 15 seconds or so, drop your hand, and begin breathing from your abdomen.  Feel your verticality, your uprightness.  Allow your weight to drop, spirit to rise;  weight to drop, spirit to rise.  Feel yourself stretch a bit from the pull of heaven (sky) from above, the pull of earth from below.

Filling the sea of ‘chi’
Now begin a deep inhalation.  Audibly draw air in and fill the lungs, expanding the chest.  You should feel this as a stretch thru your sternum and out your ribs, drawing the shoulders back in a kind of ‘roostering’.  When you have reached your apparent capacity, beginning to sip even more air in a series of sip, sip, sips.  When you have reached your maximum capacity, hold your breath, swallow, and drop the energy down to your lower tan tien.  The lower tan tien is often described as a ‘sea’ of chi, or reservoir of life force.  You fill this sea until it empowers your solar plexus, then overflows into and thru your meridians (channels of chi), irrigating your entire body.  You need to greatly relax and release your abdomen for this, so round it out.  When you feel the life force has permeated your body, finally let out an exhalation.  Do this breath at least three times.

Face work
Briskly rub your palms together until they are well heated.  Place your palms over your closed eyes, and gently press in.  Relax your eyeballs, allowing them to sink into their sockets.  You might even want to thank them for all the work they do.  After some stillness with this, drop your hands and begin to massage your cheekbones with the heels of your hands in circular motions.  Slowly and continuously move them apart to your temples, then across your forehead to your brows, and back down the sides of your head to the jaw joint and together to chin. 

Drop your hands, rub and heat them up again, and now place your left hand over your lower tan tien and with the palm of your right hand, gently rub your nose, your chi antenna.  After a few seconds, bring your hand down and rub the space between your upper lip and nose with a back and forth motion, using the inside edge of your horizontal right palm (index finger to the root of your thumb), and keeping your elbow out away from your body.  Repeat this on the area just below the lower lip.  Then with the backside of the hand, rub the area between your chin and neck, back and forth.  Again, keep your elbow out.  Then go to your ears, and with both hands, pull on your earlobes, and the edges of your ears.  Finish with a vigorous shaking of the hands, arms, shoulders, and so on in a release of energy, like shaking off water.

Opening the Face
Now, with hands at rest, begin to move every muscle in your face that you can find.  This means working the plasticity of the face, getting past all the English language (or whatever language(s) you speak) muscle fixations that inhibit us from the using the diversity of facial muscles we have available, not just for expressions, but for breathing and making sounds.  As you work on this, you may be aware of self-limitations keeping you from fully expressing your face’s potential, conditioned inhibitions about looking weird, crazed, and funny.  Ignore them.  Remember your eyes are closed and so are everyone else’s, and who cares anyway.  Lips, cheeks, tongue, eyebrows, chin, temple, on and on, crackling the cartilage, move everything, including things your didn’t think you could move before.  You might get into a face dancing enjoyment during this, and recognize how often the face is left out of the usual, supposedly full-body, dancing. 

Eventually, you want to get a sense that the skin of your face is getting to tight to contain the movement underneath it.  When you get this feeling, begin movements to shed your face, like a snake writhing out of its skin.  After a time, direct the shedding to define a bilateral split down the center of your face.  Further open this split with symmetrical movements, especially as coordinated by the mouth.  You in fact want the mouth to energetically extend up the center of your face, evoking a latent whole-face orifice action.  Once you’ve contacted this orifice function - which is familiar as it is the same as the anus - move it as an orifice, as a topside anus.  Release thru it, as an opening to move out psychic detritus, and draw in thru it, as a portal of life force.  In and out, in and out, releasing and absorbing, ‘deixa o mal sair, deixa o bem entrar’, breathing with your whole face.  Eventually you want to erase your whole head and all the conceptual realities and identity attachments that attend it.  

You might at this time want to do some specific clearing and charging of parts of the face.  For example, to clear and charge the eyes, begin to breath thru your eyes.  Inhale, bring your head back, allow your eyeballs to rest in their sockets, and sink the energy down to your lower tan tien, and further into the earth.  Then, with reverse momentum, exhale and allow the energy to come up and out in a kind of intense, wide-eyed glare.  Doing this repeatedly you may be aware of the signature vibration of all kinds of junk memes sailing past: checkout stand tabloid headlines, presidential debates, deodorant commercials you saw as a kid, and so on.  A variation of this, after clearing some things out, is to exhale this breathed energy thru closed physical eyes.  You feel out internal eyes and open them, releasing thru them, which generally come into focus with blinking open a single third eye.  This exercise matures when you breath in and out thru closed physical eyes, further activating your internal eye(s) and getting you used to looking at the world thru them.  This is good for your eyesight, and is especially useful for the imaginal journey to come.

Head Clearing
After the face begins to give way and open, you have easier access to the inner head, to move such things as the palate, the inner ear, the skull joints, and the brain.  You begin head clearing by bringing an invisible hand(s) thru the skull and into the head marrow (brain).  There you gently massage the brain.  Feel how that stimulates the rest of the body thru the nerves and marrow conduits.  Slowly begin to squeeze the brain, as if it were a sponge you are carefully wringing dry.  You may feel areas of hardness or heaviness, lumps and impactions in this medium of brain-mind, often drawn to the left side due to the usual left-hemisphere dominance.  This is mental garbage, not unlike the mucoid plaques found laminated to the intestines.

To loosen and flush the brain, further ‘wring the sponge’ with some prolonged full-faced winking and squinting, alternately compressing both sides of your head, and moving it from side to side in a kind of defecating action out each ear.  This uses the orifice function of the ear, reversing their usual role as receivers to eject what often comes into them in the first place.  So back and forth you go, shaking the head sometimes to dislodge stuff, working the aural sphincter, occasionally letting out grunts, and out it goes, bad radio, messy arguments, boring lectures, government lies, and so on.  Going deeper into mental constructs, you might also find large knots of stringy information, the long cause-and-effect kind that is usual to academic education. 

When we study books to pass tests and so on, especially under duress, we often stuff our heads full of this kind of information, to the point where energies kink and bind-up, and nothing ‘digests’ well.  Years of feeding ourselves in this way can create mental constipation.  This, by the way, is often confused with high intelligence, a common occurrence in universities, and wherever their graduates migrate en masse, such as corporate management, and various tiers of government agencies. 

After a good head dump, your brain-mind should feel light, spacious, and even fluffy like a cloud.  At this point imagine anything left in your head to dissolve into a clear blue sky.  Extend this clear blue sky thru your entire body and being. 

Breathing Heaven and Earth
Now see yourself as completely hollow to contain this sky.  Be a vertical tube like bamboo, bendable yet strong.  From each end, open a cone to the heavens above, and to the earth below.  The goal is to breath these two polarities thru the hollow body.  This allows the great organizing forces of heaven and earth to sweep the vehicle clear of petty human concerns and obsessions, dramas and traumas, and reconnect us with larger evolutionary processes.  I sometimes preface this with the following ‘hollow bone’ prayer from the Lakota:

Oh Great Spirit, remove from me today all resentments, anger, fear, guilt, and selfishness.
Remove from my day all thinking that stands in the way of my usefulness to you
Grant me Your peace, and make me a hollow bone so your power can flow thru me.

Begin by ‘swallowing’ the heavenly forces thru the headtop with a long inhalation.  Feel free to reach up with your hand(s) as though pulling a rope down thru the center of your body.  You might want to imagine the colors of the upper chakras, the blues, purples, and indigos, along with stars, planets, and comets, streaming down thru your body as well.  Then with an exhalation, and possibly a push with your hand, release the breath down, down, down to the center of the earth.  From that place, bring up the earthly energies, possibly with the reds, golds, and oranges of the lower chakras, along with crystals, volcanoes, and fertile soils, up thru your hollow body, and exhale from above into the heavens.  Now inhale from both directions, above and below, bringing the two energies into the lower tan tien.  There they meet, merge, circulate, and are released in an exhalation that extends 360 degrees out into the surrounding space. 

Repeat this series of breaths two more times, moving each time to the successively higher tan tien.  You might want to vary this by breathing a white flame of ascension down from the center of the galaxy, and up from the center of the earth.

Playing the Three-Hole Flute
After the above breathwork, stop and imagine the three tan tiens as glowing, radiant spheres suspended within your body, charged and well-balanced with the marriage of heaven and earth.  Now its time to tone these spheres, not unlike playing your body as a three-hole flute.  A tone is a long, extended, steady, single sound.  Be aware of the hollow spaces in your body that align with each tan tien, the intestines and stomach, the heart and arteries, and the nasal cavities and sinuses, as these are resonant chambers that can more fully capacitate your tone. 

Begin with a deep inhalation, expand the chest, and sip, sip, sip more air in to give maximum drive to the tone.  Then go to your belly, and let out the deepest low-end bass tone you can for as long as you can.  Rest.  Then take another breath and repeat with a middle tone, rest, and then an upper tone.  Really flare the nostrils to get a good rebound thrust to the upper tone.  People will have different sounding tones, but what is importance is the depth, clarity, unwaveringness, and length.  These are qualities that develop over time.  Tones not only give you a sense of the range of your voice and how to parse out the breath, but get you used to the feeling of your body as a musical instrument.  A good tone can also act as a ‘spindle’ upon which to straighten out tangles in your energy field. 

After toning each tan tien, you can move up and down the scales.  For example, with one breath start with a middle tone, move high, then move low, and end back in the middle.  I usually end by bouncing down the breath into a low-end tone which rebounds up the body in increasingly higher pitches until its released in a whoosh out the top of the head;  this completes a thorough reaming out of the flute-tube of the body.  

Soning
Now its time to move into ‘soning’, the wonderful wild liminal whirled that exists between toning and singing.  Soning is a free-form expression of voice, a primordial broth of sounds, of melismatic syllables, languages twists, melodic thoughts, audible breaths, animal utterances, plants whisperings, and elemental voicings.  It is a composting of language, and provides great nourishment for the Creation-body.  Practice with soning also allows you to excavate deeper layers of coding in language and culture, surfaces intuitions and bodily understandings, clears blocks, cleanses the vibrational palette, and gets you on the ‘felt' wavelength of communication shared by all tribes of Creation.

Soning begins with the usual long, deep, further sip-deepened, inhalation.  I sometimes imagine the exhalation as a great wave of energy upon which to surf, developing my ‘sonal’ skills in riding high and straight, or criss-crossing, or in complex flourishes:  rapid or extended stops and starts, ups and downs thru the sonal range, and finding unexpected reserves of air/vitality with which to make creative last-minute use.  Or the breath may take on the dimensions of a controlled avalanche down which I slalom, each time turning on a diamond and sending up glistening sprays of energy.  However you work it, it is useful to sone with your whole body as much as possible, to stretch your face, gesture with your arms, move your torso, open your hip joints as energy releasers, even get up and walk around.  The goal is to become voiced by your body.

You are free to work off anyone else’s stronger or weaker riff if you wish, and an entire group harmonic may spontaneously arise, but remember that this is largely for you to explore your voice in (relatively) unimpeded circumstances.  I especially encourage you to be open to the socially unacceptable sounds, the intestinal roilings of the vomit daemons, the guttural gnashing of unrelieved distress, the keening of despair, of grief, and so on.  In fact angelic melodies often follow such sounds, as life force formerly trapped in judgment, becomes acknowledged, redeemed, and rejoins one’s incarnational presence in a kind of ‘soul gain’. 

Often soning mutates into inter-dimensional dialogue, a conversation, or declaration, in what can be described as spirit language.  I call this ‘tribal talk’.  Done well, it is the art of being very articulate in speaking words with no meaning, i.e., no apparent meaning, for all the nuances of intonation, phrasing, timing, the give and take of speaking and listening, etc., all that makes for good conversation, are highly present, for they carry the stream of meaning.  This allows space for these ‘words’ to birth into greater definition, a play of the embryogenesis of languages.  Tribal talk is evocative of novel frequencies of communication, allows other beings to converse with us and thru us, and best of all is good, mystical fun!  And one wonders . . . are there an infinitude of languages, or just one language with an infinitude of manifestations? 

As you continue to sone on, at some point, 8 to 12 minutes is the usual range, it is time to bring the diversity, or chaos, into order, into unity.  The facilitator moves into a single sone, voices it repeatedly with increasing strength, drawing the other voices into this sphere of focus.  I have come to use (just my preference) the sound ‘song’ for this, with a strong nasal action to it.  This syllable in Mandarin Chinese can mean ‘aliveness with no tension’, and is often used to describe the ideal state of your body while engaged in tai chi chuan.

When the single sone climaxes in pitch, it is released in a series of deep, full-body breaths, sometimes rapid-fire, sometimes slow rhythmic pumping.  Feel free to move to intensify and deepen the breaths, to really go off with this and shatter what’s left of derelict or overly rigid energy patterns.  Use the opportunity to breath the body-openings created by the work so far, to infuse and charge them, to express and knead them.  A minute or so of this is good, and then come to rest.

Birthing the Creation-Body
As you come to stillness, allow the stirred-up energies to softly fall to earth, like drifting snowflakes.  Bring your awareness to your lower tan tien, and breathe from there.  Get a sense of activating the umbilical breath, as an infant in the womb.  Begin to slowly rock forward and backward in gentle, fluid motions.  As you do this bring your head and hips up and out as you exhale, chin to the chest and hips tucked in as you inhale.  Back and forth, an ebb and flow of vitality undulating across the shores of Being and Nothingness.  Get a sense that you are breathing thru both ends, that your anus is inhaling and exhaling in concert with your mouth.  Earthly yin energies are coming up from below, heavenly yang  energies are coming down from above, and they are together breathed into the lower tan tien.  There they build in strength, and soon . .  complete a circuit.  Like two live wires touching, they let off a spark.  Fan this spark with your breath.  Grow it, brighten it, until it illuminates your entire body with a pure, cleansing, white light.  Radiate. 

Notice that each cell of your body has now awakened to its own inner light, its original star nature.  See each cell as a star in the galaxy of your body-mind.  Become this galaxy, and then breath open the universe.  Abide in its utter vastness and potent emptiness.  As the universe, allow yourself to be created with each outbreath, destroyed with each inbreath.  Your mind sheds all its human-centered memories, and re-members itself as the Higher Self, the Divine Child.  Rebirth the mind into this alignment, and then into its ability to focus in this time-space plane, to concentrate, and ultimately to create.  The exercise of this mind acts as gravity to pull all the ‘starlight’ into a vortex that spirals back into your physical body, where it coalesces into a glowing sphere, a sun.  Absorb and partake of its warmth, its animating qualities.  Continue to breath until it condenses further into the solidity of a planet, the earth. 

Drop the earth into your belly, the womb of your body.  With this you have the opportunity to be as a creator God or Goddess, given the sacred task to protect and nurture all beings on this earthly journey, to husband and midwife the great process of spiritual emergence.  You feel as all these beings, realize them wrapped and encoded in your DNA, each a gene of the planet revealing itself thru you, dreaming your existence, awakening you to their stories, awakening you to yourself.  Breath this richness of life, breath its fecundity of purpose.  And as you do the earth condenses further into a divine seed (or a divine egg if you wish to do an animal-originated Creation story, or a spore . .  ).   From this seed germinates the Power of our being.  We will now sprout the soma (Divine plant) within, and engage its growth with that of the larger community of the Creation-body. 

Singing Alive the Creation-Body
In this part of the journey, we move the evolution of voice into singing, and into human languages.

To sprout the seed I call upon Great-Grandmother-Growth, often with simple melodic mantras of manifestation, such as Shivoham (I am God), segueing into Dasoham (I am a servant), to deflate ego identifications, or Om Namah Shivaya (invoking the supreme deity Shiva). 

You can also invoke the spirit of a plant, to resonate with specific qualities you wish to have as you grow, such as the strength, wisdom, and fragrance of a cedar tree ~

The Cedar Tree Song 

Here are more sprouting / birthing songs ~

The Beginning of the World
Born of Two Mothers
Taking Root
Sprouting the Buddha

This is a song sung by the devoted mother Madalasa, chronicled in the Vedic literature, to her sons in the cradle, who later grew up to be great personages ~

Suddhosi Buddhosi

After each song, it is good to take a breath and exhale with a shhhhheeewwwwww sound.  This sends the song to spirit, and cleanses the vibrational palette (and palate) in readiness for the next song. 

As the seeds sprouts, allow it to drop your weight.  This is a time to let problematic emotions and life issues drop into the earth as well.  Make compost.  Now feel the seed sending roots down thru your anus, or perineum, and into the soil.  There it stabilizes and begins to take in nourishment, to connect with the Gaian innernet and partake of its intelligence.  Its good to really ‘dock’ with the earth, stretching open the hip joints to facilitate the connection, and allow your nervous system to light up with the feeling of streaming with the earth and its cultural life.  Simultaneously, allow your spirit to rise upward with the emergence of embryonic leaves, the cotyledons.  Feel the pull of heaven from above, the pull of the earth from below.  Situate yourself in communion with these forces, work the polarities, and allow yourself to stretch and grow.  

Here are three songs for this stage of growth~

Island Medicine Song
The Grounding Song
Faith in these Ways

Often at this point that I water the sprouting seed, and introduce it to the rivers, rain, lakes, mist, and so on, often with their deities, such as Yemanja or Oxum.  For example, this world flows with many river songs . . . ~

I Just Close My Eyes
The River is Flowing

The following river song brings in the water cycle, itself part of the circular movement of the elements on this planet, and within us ~

Sister River

We may want to breath in to evaporate water up our spine, allowing it to cloud up in our head, create storms of activity and lightening of creativity, and then rain down the front of our body with an outbreath, running thru rivers and waterfalls into the great ocean of chi in our belly. 

Water songs often segue into element songs, as what is this world but the dance of the elements, in ever novel choreographies of creation?  The little soma plant becomes aware of these forces thru the rivers of blood, rocks of bones, winds of breath, and fires of spirit.  Its seeks to know and work with them, to consciously participate in the creation of life.  Here are some well-traveled element songs ~

Cielo y Tierra
Circles of the World
Great Spirit
Spirit of the Wind

Element songs can be used to serve various purposes.  For example, fire is good for transitioning, for burning up old karmas, surrendering, and rising from ashes ~ 

Holy Fire
The Phoenix

Air is good for such things as lightness, inspiration, movement, and breath meditations ~

Breath Here Now
Clear Blue Sky

You might at this point ask to deepen your attitude of respect and reverence for what you ‘see’ around you, and move into ‘right relationship’ with the society of Nature.  Here are three such offerings to the tribes of Creation:  a Namaste song (Namaste is a Hindu greeting which bows us to the light of the Divine in all Beings), a Hebrew ‘Golden Rule’ song, and a Blessing song ~

Namaste
Hareni Mekabel
The Blessings Song

The soma within by now has grown stronger and sturdier, wider, deeper, taller.  What variety is it?  You decide, unless the facilitator suggests one for the group.  It could be a tree, with spreading branches, or a rose, with its thorns and fragrance, or a squash with yellow flowers, or a generic plant.  Whatever it is, a plant has to experience the seasons, with all their changes, and lessons for entrainment. 

This can be done by breathing thru the seasons.  With an inhalation spring arrives.  The energies ascend, sprouts emerge, sap rises, some early flowering is happening, bees are buzzing.  There is freshness in the air, an awakening.  With an exhalation it is summer.  The energies expand, branches extend and leaf, roots spread, birds are nesting; it’s the height of growth, of yang, and sunny days light the ways.  With an inhalation it is autumn.  Energies withdraw and concentrate, fruits form and drop, grain ripens, frost is on the ground, time to reap what we sow.  With an exhalation it is winter.  Energies descend, the roots receive and store, and all rests and is silent. It’s the depth of yin, cold, dark, wet, and waiting.  And so we breathe thru the seasons a few times, circulate thru the fertility circuits.  This can be varied this by engaging the many correspondences that come with the seasons.  For example, inhale to the east, its dawn;  exhale to the south, its midday;  inhale to the west, its sunset;  exhale to the north, its nighttime.  Or inhale into birth, exhale into adulthood, inhale into the elder years, exhale into death, and inhale into . . . ?

It is good to move your body with these rhythms, to raise and stretch your arms / branches, to fan your fingers / twigs, to open and stretch your legs / roots, and wiggle your toes / rootlets.  Feel your bilateral symmetry and get a stretch down the center of your torso, especially at the sternum to get deeper breaths from there, and to let the light of the internal sun shine brighter.   

The wonderworld of the Creation-body flourishes as we continue to cultivate the soma within, for in this spiritual ecology everything is transparently connected.  We may notice our body as a landscape of ancestry.  Organs may reveal their lineages with planets, colors, flavors, and animals;  emotional tendencies their history in the climate changes of our past;  or generations of cancer in the family as swampy miasms of unresolved conflicts.  We begin to better understand the genealogy of the great family of Life we embody, both within and without our skin-enclosed self.  We tune to the body intelligence, and its amazing powers to flourish despite the confusing signals we often give it.  We can see how Nature raises us as family if we allow her, teaches us the ways of the world, and our structural destiny to continue her creative work in increasingly conscious ways.  These are two good songs for these understandings ~ 

The Teaching Song
Creation Works so True

And where do these teachings lead?   No where else but the wellspring of Nature, the creative source of All, the Divine, the God within and without!  Sooner or later, we all hear it, the call Home, and the longing for Union that it kindles in our lives.  We are always being called home, we just need to open the door, and listen! ~

Oh My Lord

Now is a time to sing deeper devotional and heart-opening songs, especially invoking the Divine mother, as the impulse to flower is nigh ~

Ma Ammachi
Celestial Heart
Mother of my Heart

And some heart suns ~

Long Time Sun
Liberdade
The Infinite Sun

We might also bring in a few allies on the path of transformation.  It appears that birds ‘flowered’ themselves out of dinosaurs, an epic feat of transformation from which we can surely learn.  Here is an Amazonian song to call the birds (and butterflies for good measure) ~

Ikaros Pajaros (calling the birds)

Here are two Garden song to tune us into the world of Flowers ~

Hallelujah
We All Come From the Garden

And a flower song.  The rose carries some of the highest, most heart resonant fragrances of the flower kin-dom ~ 

Light of the Rose

Which naturally opens into ~

Om Mani Padme Hum (invocation of the jewel in the heart of the lotus flower)

When it is time to flower, stretch open the face, palms, and soles, and breath thru them, as they are portals of budding energy.  Open your chest and feel the sunlight of your heart grow more radiant as it attracts an ascending, expanding impulse in your body.  Allow this ascension to take shape and unfold into a blossom. Gloria in Excelsis Deo.  Infuse your being with its essence, with the delicacy, vibrant color, fragrance, generative power, and high vibration.  Bask in these;  allow them to permeate your cells, so that each cell flowers, and you surrender further into blossoming bliss.  You may feel the big bud of the brain opens its petals of songs to the sky of your mind, your speech transform into honeysuckles of clarity, poetry, and helpful words, your traumas become mud out of which the lotus of forgiveness blooms, and soma on.  As your body naturally opens before these forces, be careful to attend to whatever crumpled parts of the flower(s) remain by moving and breathing into those spaces. 

Here are a couple Buddhist offerings to help yourself release before the power of the flower, to let go of attachments to the non-flowered (uncomfortably comfortable) state of being ~

Gate gate paragate parasangate bodhi svaha (when all is gone, gone, gone, only ultimate wisdom remains)
Om Tare Tutare Ture Svaha (asking goddess Tara to help us let you of all that restricts our freedom)

The surrendering can include grief, and attendant sounds of keening, crying, declarations, and so on.  These can arise spontaneously during any time in this journey.  It is useful to work with these blessed opportunities for release, and it is intended that space be held for them. 

As you continue to flower, it is wise to anchor the vibration in the bones, and keep deepening your roots, so that you don’t get overly astral.  Breath in the light, and breath out the love, breath in the love, and breath out the light;  allow your armoring to melt away, and reveal a refreshed kindness and tenderness towards life.

At some point, come to rest, and ‘look’ around you with internal eyes.  You may notice the world has become softly luminous.  This is a song to receive illumination, from the sun, moon, stars, and queen of the forest ~

Me Illumina

All glows with the light of Spirit, all is sacred in this temple universe ~

The Temple Universe

You may have the feeling of being reborn into a new world, as a new being.  Which calls for another birthing song, or a child song ~

The Child Song

As flowering humans we run an energy that is as ambrosia to a spiritually hungry world.  This is a good time to share the wealth, to practice metta, a Buddhist term, which refers to the practice of prayer for the happiness of all beings.  Sebaka mangala is a phrase that in Gautama Buddha’s language of Pali means ‘may all Beings be happy’.

Sebaka mangala

Or a version of this in Sanskrit ~

Om Lokah Samastah Sukhino Bhavantu (May Eternal Peace & Goodwill Prevail in the Whole World)

Metta practice is praying for peace.  We are blessed with many peace songs in this world, and as the call for more mature and compassionate ways to resolve human conflict intensifies, they are incarnating in droves.  Likewise, brought here by our prayers for peace, the angels of light come here to teach. . .  Om Shanti.  We might make an offering of our flower to these angels of light.  If you are a tree, you’ll have lots of flowers to offer. . . .

The Offering Song
Spiritual Life
The Covenant

This is also a time, if you feel so moved, to practice the Tibetan Buddhist meditation known as tonglen.  We can reach out as our blossomed soma-self, or as a Divine being with which we feel a connection, to the sufferings of this existence, and breath in the dark, heavy energies.  We then transmute them in the cleansing light of our heart, followed by an outbreath of positive energies of calmness, clarity, and well-being to help ourselves and the world.  By reversing our usual tendency to seek pleasure and push away pain, we can reduce selfish attachments and develop loving kindness.  Poisons taken in this way can make the strongest medicines.One of the noble truths of Buddha’s teaching is that all things are impermanent, so when it becomes time for the flower within to surrender its form, we would do well to let go to this.  This is another opportunity to let go of anything you’ve been carrying that has outlived its service to you.  The train is leaving the station!  Load up while you can:  attachments and aversions, griefs and gripes, let it all go, and if it comes back, eat it up and transform it in your belly of bliss! ~

Letting Go

And so the soma within comes to the end of this season of flowering and dissolves.  It releases its essences, composts its signatures into our cells, our energy field, our being.  We feel enlivened with the nutrients of its guiding presence, the imaginal bliss of its journey, our journey, of spiritual healing and planetary evolution.  This feeling honors us with gratitude, with the desire to give back as we have received (the seed) and give yet more (the fruit).  And of course how we do so depends on the choices we make in re-imaging, re-living our lives.  This is the work.  Go get ’em!

Here are a couple thank you songs to finish the journey~

Giving Thanks
Gratitude Song

We may at this point feel the gratitude of coming home after long, arduous travels, and how this strengthens the desire to live well by the hard earned lessons.  This gratitude bears fruits of service that feed and nurture the kind of world in which we wish to live. 

Feel your skin and its boundaries, and know them to be just one definition of self.  You might ask that all your psychic boundaries surface and make themselves known to you, especially those made in childhood, long forgotten but still operative.  Breath them to know them, breath them to keep or dissolve them.  Explore the opportunity to become increasingly conscious of these boundaries, to take charge of them.  This is also a good time to brighten and sharpen the colors of your aura with all this vital force, and to strengthen your ‘wei chi’ or ‘protective chi’ with fully body breathing.

The breath and awareness now sink to the lower tan tien, the center of gravity in the physical world, and there we abide in the incarnational existence that allows us to do this work, And for this we are thankful, grateful, to Spirit, to be Alive. 

Om shanti, shanti, shanti . .

I’ve come to transition the end of the human flowering Creation-song with a beginning;  hence, you might rise to meet the whirled with ~

Born Anew

 . . to grow once again from our deepest lesson, the separation that marks all births.