Some Beaver Medicine waited for us in the Forest

Beaver medicine asks us to take a good look at the quality of our environment and suggests destroy that which no longer serves . Destruction has an important role in creativity and can not be avoided.

Beaver medicine points that we have a hard time to be joyful because there is a compulsive need to feel important and be THE best ever at a given task or situation.
Western perspective seeks grandeur and leads to burn-out and exhaustion.

Allow For Help - Allow Receiving

I am back from a short holiday in Norway ....
some times we need to set ourselves loose , even physically , to jump in another kind of flow than we are usually in in our daily lives....
We do have a lot of really good ideas, we quote wise words but often we do not really be-live that life is about surrender , flow and love. We might THINK it but we miss the FEELING part .
Thus, travelling and experiencing things out of our comfort zone is a good thing .
Here comes a little sharing from our journey:

We had no fixed plan and just followed our heart.
This brought us up into the Norwegian mountain .
We drove quiet a while until we realized that to go on we would need to pay a fee to enter the Conservation Park and go on . Actually we had no Norwegian hard money to put into the machine .
So we entered the little supermarket ( the only place open in the whole area ) , but it turned out that neither could we change money nor could they take the sort of card we had. ....
In that minute a young woman stepped up out of nowhere and just offered us the money we needed , without anything in return !
No money , no thing. Just that.
We had a very nice conversation and we shared the happiness about our human meeting. ...
My learning : it is equally necessary to learn to receive as it is to give.
We need to un-controll and un-plan our lifes in order to open the doors for the hearts to open again...
if we always avoid to come into the place of being helpless we deprive ourselves of the wonderful opportunity to meet the goodness in others and restore our belief in humanity . 

The Truth and Nothing But The Truth ... Really ???

As human beings we are programmed to lie . It seems to be a nessecity for survival in our society.
So the moment you are willing to stay in truth , to unravel the truth, it feels like a very real danger to your survival.

But when you commit yourself to the truth you must examine deeply into your own lies. You need to allow yourself to see what image you have built up as to "who you are" and how you are lying to cover that image.
This freaks the sh... out of us as in the depth of our minds we be-live that what we find deep in us is worthlessness and ugliness. That the truth of who we are is too ugly to be exposed to ourselves and especially to others.
Or, after some time of "spiritual work" a fear of being just a lost soul in the infinite realms.
When we stopn there, living the truth seems not bearable. And we commit ourselves to all sorts of denial - again ...:
Positive affirmations, changing paths, trying new ways,/workships/teachers/therapists .....you name it....

The first thing you have to reflect on is therefore the question :
"what do I really want " ...
maybe the answer is : everybody will love me, I have the power to manifest the life I want etc....

Next thing to reflect on :
"what does that give you"  and will that really be what your soul longs for ...

going deeper and deeper to the bottom might give rise to new resistance .
Are you willing to get down to the bottom of it all and
experience your no-thingness ?
The real deal lies under all the layers of lies and self-betrayal .
There you find your limitlessness your spaciousness the truth of who you are.
Allowing yourself to STOP all self-betrayal, to drop into yourself will let you be the truth you always have been. And see the truth:
From this point of no-thingness, from the pureness and (w)holyness of who you are you can bear the whole world.

From Fear to Love - NOW !

~InSight of Today~

There are but two feelings / state of Be-ings ... Fear or Love.
In every given moment I have the possibility to discern where my thoughts, emotions and reactions spring from. Take a step back from my engagement in those fears and observe them profoundly.
Then I have a choice :stay in the fear zone, in the old paradigm , worry about economy, health and the future or switch consciously to love and freedom.

In order to choose, the only question is : what do I want to see in this world, what do I want to feed.
Energetically it is fact that the thing I put my energy and attention to , grows. .... So whatelse could I choose than LOVE ?


Yes, there are forces out there ( and in us) that want to see us in fear. But the only power they have is through our stepping into their traps.

So let us turn from victim mind to consciously choosing Love.
From Competition to Responsible Co-Creation.
From I to We.
To Caring and Sharing ... from Fear to Love.

Shake the old stuff off and change the world - NOW 
 This is THE time 

Ecstasy , Love and Joy

 

 

Are you aware how much you impact my Life, Growth and Happiness ... Yes YOU ... ALL of YOU
As you, I am a human being going through many transformations and transitions. I am on my Spirit Path since birth as all of us , more aware since about 20 year...s . I have walked different traditions and woke up to the in-sight that all are the fingers pointing to the moon , not the moon itself. All are equally valued by me today , now that I know we do not need a path, tradition, Culture , religion .... we can honor them for what they have been in the development of humanity , but we only need to Wake up to the our deepest cor/heart and re-connect to Source ... adn Walk In Beauty .
It is YOU who have helped me to SEE , FEEL, UNDERSTAND in many different ways . Ways I might not have appreciated in the moment, for which I apologize and ask your forgiveness as you will ask forgiveness from those you have judged harshly on your path .
I am Mama Bear. I love you, this love can be tough ... to Wake you and me up from illusions , but I love you no matter what .

Yesterday I decided that my path from now on goes through ecstasy and love and Beauty after decades where it has developed through pain/s. I am grateful to be ready to allow for me to leave the trail of tears inside me.
I honor the pains and fears and wounds and abuse I have faced in this lifetime . It made me strong and who I am . But it is not longer needed now.
I welcome the celebration of Life starting now in my early fifties . Celebration of Life itself and all its expressions . Cooking , Walking , Watching , Talking , Love Making .... all in Abundance and Beauty and Heart . 100 %. Healing Complete.
Gratefulness and Love.

AND : if I can do it , YOU sure as heaven, can do it too !!!!

Horse Hair Request

Request to all fans and friends and clients :
We want to add a jewelry and baskets with Horse Hair to our EarthLife Shop - Sacred Land Creations....
Those of you who do have the possibility and willingness to provide us with some bigger portions of horse hair are welcome to contact us .
In return we would make a simple bracelet from your own horse´s hair for you and send / give it to you asap.
How does that sound .... WE are excited to proceed into this new adventure  —

Happy Christmas & Good 2012

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Love AllWays , Dagmar

The Way of the Divine Feminine

Do not follow the ideas of others ~ do not follow others
~do not create new -isms ~ follow no "paths"
~create no groups, no new religions , no new sects ~ not more separation
...become quiet, enter your heart-mind-ground and
SEE / FEEL / BE and KNOW...
then BE / SPEAK / MANIFEST the Truth
This is the Way of The Divine Feminine
~ Dagmar Magdalena Ceki ~

Wonder is Everywhere ~ Performance in White ~photographic video created by me

~Great Art found in Daily Life ~

created this video - sharing who "I" am ---I Am The Rainbowserpent

I Am The Rainbowserpent

Actualization Ah-Kine Enlightenment

by Dagmar Magdalena Ceki

I was asked to write an article about enlightenment and I thought –„gush, how can I do that ?„
So much is said about it already – many people have written about it .
Is there anything new I can write ?
Maybe by sharing part of my EarthWalk I can give an idea of what Enlightenment might be ....

My consequently walking a spiritual path started in 1998 when both my parents died in a very short period of time.
My mother was diagnosed with an extremely aggressive type of cancer which progressed very quickly .
It was a gift for me that we still had enough time to heal our lifelong issues with each other and that we
were able to experience a special kind of closeness that often only dying makes possible .
It rids us of all conventional behaviours and attitudes and thoughts , we come to the very essence of our being.
During this process , my father- as an alcohol addict - , could not cope with the situation . He went in and out psychiatry , but always started drinking again. So after my mother passed it took not long until he died one night in the street , because he lost his key and couldn’t enter his house again.
It was cold and he already was ill , so they found him dead on the next morning.
Death is one of the greatest teachers and brought me into a deep commitment to find out more about life and spirituality.

First I met Roshi Joan Halifax at a Buddhist Women Congress in Cologne / Germany. As she held workshops about death and dying , I went to see her . Listening to her talks and participating in a workshop , made me wanting to continue studying with her.
For several years I practiced Zen and had the blessings of deep and profound buddhist teachings.
Enlightenment in buddhist practice is a topic that seems very central to the teachings.
Enlightenment is like the fuel that runs the practice ...but what is this „Enlightenment“ we are striving for ?
There are many different approaches already in Zen practice , even more when we take all buddhist traditions in account.
On my way, to be honest , I lost interest in this question. I felt being here NOW is a task already big enough.

While in retreat with Joan Halifax, I came in touch with women who practiced shamanism and were students of a Native American teacher. After an invite to a Sweat Lodge I felt a deep longing of going deeper into it.
But it took me a while to find my own teacher.
2003 I started a traditional apprenticeship with Maria Yraceburu, a Quero Apache HolyOne of the Tlish Diyan ( Snake Clan).

In a traditional apprenticeship there are several circles and spirals in personal growth and spiritual re-connection that we have to go through. First we have to free ourselves from the Ego, this part we usually mis-identify with the I or Me, the part that has a lot of „Likes and Dislikes“ and very personal intention in all it does and decides .
We go through all our issues and, like an onion, get rid of one layer after the other as long as it takes to be freed from at least the biggest Ego parts and have kind of a sense of connection to our True Self, to our authenticity and to the spiritual source that we might call God/ess – Spirit – Emptiness or whatever.
This is followed by a period of time in which we need to learn how to go with the flow, integrate our knowledge into daily life and get more insights about our purpose here on Earth.

Enlightenment in the Tlish Diyan Tradition is called Ah – Kine and means Actualization.
People who come to that actualization are called the same , as there is no longer a gap between Enlightenment and the Enlightened person.
Ah- Kine means to be aware of our Oneness and Diversity in a profound way. Not in the meaning of a short and spontaneous moment ( like e.g. Sartori in Rinzai Zen ) but in the moment to moment living our evolutionary role.
Of course I know there are moments of Enlightenment ever now and then , spontaneous experiences of Being One .
But where does it lead to ... ?
In our times of Narcism and Egoism as valued attitudes and ways of living , in our times where „being One „ is often misunderstood as „I am okay , you are okay“- no matter how I behave- , and the fact that we are all already enlightened on our deepest mindground leads to the thought of „ we do not have to work any more on it“ – we need more to the concept of Enlightenment.
I had dozens of opportunities to observe so called Enlightened Masters or students having these Sartori moments, and I was puzzled by the way they lived ...about the amount of sexual, financial abuse and addictional behaviour to be found..
Explanations as „don’t expect teachers to be perfect „ wouldn’t work for me. I felt that if somebody is enlightened this should go hand in hand with a authentic, ethical behaviour towards all sentient beings.
Meanwhile I understand that Enlightenment might happen in a moment , but if it it not intristically connected to a profound spiritual and personal growth in this person it means nothing but an EgoTrip . It does not serve the community , not the world and not the Universe.
Enlightenment unfolds, and only if we join into with ALL efforts to grow personally , become more authentic , live ethically it becomes Enlightenment that serves humanity and All That Is.

Only Enlightenment that is more then just a nice moment of personal feeling and insight can be called Actualization – Ah- Kine .... Walk your Talk ...