Jayda Wakes
Jayda wakes to a
choice of worlds. It feels like, “Oh, my God. The world is so fucked up!” Or
not.
Or not.
The feeling is of
a hum of something not quite known. The feeling is in Jayda’s heart and holds
promise, whereas ‘the world is so fucked up’ holds only frustration, fear and
sadness. Arising from bed, Jayda chooses, stepping forward to begin her day,
shifting her focus to the droning hum, like the sound you hear just before the
kilted man begins to play his bagpipes.
It feels like
love. This love is expansive; it has no object. Everywhere she looks, Jayda
sees with the eyes of love. The kitchen is beloved and the coffee pot is a dear
friend. Breakfast is fair sustenance, the harvest of the best the world has to
offer. This is the good life. Tastes are savoured and the morning’s quietness
fills Jayda’s consciousness with a single word – gratitude.
The natural world
beyond her windows calls and Jayda strides out and into the forest below her
home. Vast trees stand solemn, holding the hillside as sacred just as measured
monks hold the chant in some ancient abbey. There is great patience in the
woodland, seeming infinite, and Jayda feels deeply met by the powerful presence
of these trees. Below her, down the hill, she sees her neighbour, Phin, walking
the trail on an angle to her own path. They will most likely intercept and she
thinks about Phin as she moves forward, again her heart filled with the hum of
some great wisdom.
He has told her
his name – Phin, short for Phineas. He lives with his wife and child and they
live a good life. Jayda has felt his energy as stable, wise, knowing the
pleasures of simplicity and understanding the land’s pace and timing. She can
feel this now as they slowly draw nearer to each other. In her forehead, she
can feel her own knowing, her own power. Phin and Jayda greet each other simply
and easily. As Jayda continues and Phin moves beyond her, she feels the great
reach of Phin’s energy. His quiet calm being informs the air around him and
goes much further. She feels the reach
of her own energy. She feels great love and vast compassion for all that is.
She feels it as a wave. She feels how this reaches all the way to the Arctic and
to Brazil.
There is pulsing
being there on the hillside as wave upon wave of magical becoming radiates from
Jayda. This is the way of it for her, having chosen. In her choice, Jayda makes
the world.
Pervasive Peace
Pervasive peace is
in the world. The trees, grasses, flowers and rocks are radiating peaceful
energy. As Jayda and 5.9 billion other people walk or stand on the planet, they
feel this peace within them. Peaceful energy flows between and around all of
these people and they are well; they are at ease.
Some still suffer
the stresses and tensions of resistance and strain against their own fears.
This struggle is within, yet appears to be outside of them and they perceive
enemies in their own kin and kind. Jayda can feel these people just as she can
feel the 5.9 billion. She sits with her friend Sondra and together they create
compassion tones, long droning tones from hearts filled with compassion.
Droning tones that sound like moans or like cathedral speech in tongues flow
from their small circle. Great powers of transformation are in this circle and
there are other circles like this – some larger, some very large – all across
the face of the planet. People gather to move energy, to share possibility from
their hearts to the hearts of those who are not in peace.
Where there is
peace, there is compassion. Together they sound like a vast and mysterious gong
that is gently, but purposefully struck again and again and again. Like the
compulsive force of a woman’s labour to birth, waves of pervasive peace sound
in the world and the people come into peace within themselves one by one.
This coming to
peace is an act of courage as it requires of each one that they face their own
pain and fear, their own feelings of hurt. These cannot live in peaceful hearts
and must be ever so gently released to make way for peace. This is the work of
self-transformation that is being done and has been done by the courageous sons
and daughters of humanity. The light of this peace within is soft, but
infinitely and perfectly transformative; all that is the world is changed by
it.
As Jayda and
Sondra sit after toning, they feel this infinite and perfect peace. They feel
also the echoes of fear and anger, pain and suffering that are in hearts not
yet at peace. Compassion for these fills them as they sit in a peace that
passes all understanding. It is vast and true and beyond comprehension. Once
more, they tone and in their droning moaning tone, they send peace out into the
world.
It looks like
wellness in people’s eyes, in their open faces and easy stance. It sounds like
a hum of easy conversation and an intent listening to know common ground and
create common good. The land basks in peace that looks like August sunlight,
even in Winter. Peace shares good news and celebrates a neighbour’s success. It
is rich in that which makes life good, joyful, easy. It smiles a smile of sweet
and simple love.
Peace engenders
cooperation, collaboration and co-creation. These move across time zones and transform
whole landscapes in careful co-habitation. Gardens grow. Places that knew
poison are cleansed and health is renewed upon the land from soil biota to the
airy heights where birds soar. The vast trunks of trees hold peace within them
and offer it through their reaching branches to the universe beyond Earth’s
lovely skies.
Justice
There is in
Jayda’s heart the energy of justice. It is a steady, sure sonorous drumbeat
within her being. As she breathes, Jayda sends this out into the world to everyone
everywhere. This too is a choice and for Jayda it feels essential.
Justice moves with
measured steps on every road and sidewalk, in every jurisdiction, every town
and province. Cities are built on justice, on the careful creation of good for
all. When people live right beside each other and on top of and beneath each
other, sharing and caring justly is the foundation of the good life.
There are those
who feel they have been harmed, that injustice has been perpetrated against
them. Jayda can feel these energies if she scans the energetic field of
humanity in search of them. The way forward for those who hold onto these
energies of harm and victimization is to come to forgiveness and release the
endless cycle of victim and perpetrator. Realizing that we have all, in our
infinite being, played the role of perpetrator and the role of victim moves us
into wholeness and allows justice to sound steady in the world.
Jayda loves the
way that justice feels within her. She knows a man, Jon, who studied law and
sought justice through the laws of the land. She reaches out to Jon to ask him
of his life now, now that justice informs the very ground underneath their
feet.
Together, they
walk on sacred ground on a grey day in early May.
“Do you miss it?”
“Not really. I
moved slowly out of the adversarial system of advocacy and arbitration, crime
and punishment that we all lived with for so long. I could sort of feel that it
wasn’t taking us anywhere we wanted to go and it seems others had the same
sense of it as cases became fewer and fewer. I started doing more and more
mediation and remediation work, using the excellent model of restorative
justice in First Nations communities. In those circles, resolution and the
restoration of good will and trust between people is always the goal.”
“That feels strong
and loving. Is that what you do now?”
“Here and there I
am called to help in such cases, but they are more rare as people feel from
their loving hearts to act in careful and respectful ways with each other. So,
what I do more often now is to bring people who are still fearful and in need
into contact with peers who are free of fear and filled with the wisdom of love
and respect for all others. I mostly do this with older people as our young
people are so clear and joyous, but there are some young ones still, those who
have known great trauma and are struggling, who need to see and feel what it is
to live in open trust that all is well and all will be well.”
“From what I hear
you saying, I understand that you feel fear is what pulls people into acts of
injustice and disrespect of others.”
“Yes. Fear and
trauma – untransmuted trauma that acts like a darkness within us – these are
what drive people to do harmful things. As we all are moving away from fear
completely and are so lovingly transmuting the trauma within us, becoming
clear, becoming whole and knowing ourselves as love incarnate, as divine love,
as the very embodiment of kindness, we just don’t go there anymore.”
“And old lawyers
get to go for lovely walks on country roads in the middle of the week in the
middle of the day.”
“Indeed!”
“There are places
in the world where justice is only beginning to be felt and trusted, known and
understood. I can feel them. Do you ever think of traveling to these places, to
bring a clearer sense of justice to them?”
“I trust that what
we love and value in our world, the justice, the respect for each other, the
care for each other, that these will travel from our hearts to the hearts of
people all over the world.”
“I feel the same
way, Jon. It fills me with gratitude for your being to hear you speak as you do
here today, for I feel the same way. Justice fills my heart and I send it out
from me as I breathe.”
“Justice feels
round and perfect, like this planet when seen from outer space.”
“Yes. Justice
feels inclusive, like the divine love within us, and like the sun shining onto
each person equally.”
They walk in
beauty and in silence for a time before going their separate ways at the bottom
of the hill. The joyous feeling of love for all things, of peace with all
people, is in their hearts.
The City
Jayda lives in the
forest, far from any city, far even from a large town. When she travels to the
city for an appointment or to visit a friend, she habitually tenses up. To
relax into the noise and movement of the city is a choice for Jayda. It is a
choice of worlds every time we choose peace with where and how we are.
Jayda travels to
the city and feels the tension within her as she sets out on her journey. She
chooses acceptance, flow and feeling open to what is. The day is stormy and
grey. Jayda sees people hurry through the high winds playing between the tall
buildings.
Everywhere, people
are active, moving from here to there, engaged with their lives and with the
many people around them. They speak multiple languages, wear all kinds of
different clothing styles and hair styles. They all share their humanity with
each other. There are multitudes of people living, working and creating
together in the city. They are colourful and diverse. The global village is in
the city.
There is plentiful
delicious food of many cultures in the city. There is innovation and
transformation of all kinds. Rooftop farms in the city provide healthy organic
vegetables. Front and backyards are flled with flowers and plants providing
healthy food. Playgrounds are everywhere and there are many beautiful parks
where people gather in peace and simple joy.
Jayda feels the
city’s energy. There are stories, songs and styles in the city. There is a
great mix of emotion, thought and movement. The city is for humanity what the
jungle is for insects; prime habitat. Every square meter of the city is
maximized for sustainability. There are green walls of living plants and
greenhouses of food production. Transportation of people and products is
magical. Or so it seems. It’s easy when you have the technology and in this
world, the technology is lovingly creating ease for all.
Where Jayda lives,
in the forest, there are foxes, coyotes, bears, deer, moose, racoons,
porcupines and skunks, among many species of bird, many species of frog, toad
and salamander and many species of insect. In the city, there are also foxes,
coyotes, racoons, skunks and many species of bird. Some birds live more easily
in the city landscape than they do in the forest. Species of frog, toad and
insect live in wetlands and carefully stewarded tracts of woodland within the
city’s borders. Trees are particularly valued and tended in the city and the
city’s parks are deeply shaded, as are many boulevards.
Tall buildings
house people’s homes and businesses in the city. People live close together and
in this way the city is a place of great learning and personal growth for all
the people living there. It is a constant invitation to become. Jayda sits on a
bench in a small park near a busy city street. She feels, hears and sees much
to love and value in the city. The world contains both Jayda’s quiet
mountainside forest home and the city and everything in between these two.
Everywhere, people are living lives of sacred becoming, deep learning, constant
change. Everywhere choices are made moment by moment. Jayda chooses joy in the
city and finds beauty there as well.
The Children
The children are
as light upon the Earth.
The children are
filled with joy and enthusiasm. They play and create worlds. They move and
enjoy their bodies. They focus their minds on questions and quandaries and find
simple solutions and elegant truth.
The children
access knowledge, skills and abilities from past lives and from across the
galaxy. They can do this as their parents and grandparents cannot. They do this
easily, without realizing that it is new on the Earth. They play musical
instruments as if having had years of practice. They bring information through
that they haven’t learned yet. They are adept at knowing things that they have
never been taught.
The children
easily and naturally hold inclusion in their hearts. They play and learn with
every skin colour known to humankind and every gender and sexual orientation
rainbow hue. They know each other as one aspect of humanity’s vast being and
find it good that this is so. They dismantle the polarity of humanity’s yes and
no, male and female, up and down power structures without even realizing that
there was something there to be dismantled.
The children
create worlds without even trying.
As the children
bring light into the world, Jayda feels lighter, feels more joy. Jayda tunes
her receptivity to the children lighting up the world and smiles and knows
great gladness in her heart as she realizes what it is that the children bring
to Earth. They solves centuries old conundrums in a heartbeat of inclusion and
acceptance. Their open eyes and open hearts heal wounds of humanity that bled
for over a thousand years. This light upon the Earth shines out, like car
headlights on a dark night. Then more and more of this light shines until the
dark night is as day and the light is everywhere.
The children grow
up and grow older and as they do, they become the wise counsel to us all; they
create and choose worlds that are golden in our sight.
No Lack Nor Want
As the days go by
in her choice of worlds, Jayda feels within herself a vast sense of completion,
a sense that all is as it should be at all times.
Jayda looks around
her and sees beauty, peace and love permeating her world. She feels no lack nor
any sense of want. She feels no need to acquire this or that to complete her.
She feels complete and knows that she embodies the perfection that is inherent
in all things. This feeling and knowing changes everything for Jayda.
When we make a
choice of worlds, we automatically include all the people whom we love in that
choice. It works like this: when we choose a world – say, a world of peace and
plenty for all – each of our associates, colleagues, family members and friends
shows up in that world as a version of themselves who also chooses that world.
There are infinite worlds and infinite versions of each of us. When we choose a
world, we invite those we know and love to join us there.
Thus, Jayda is not
alone in her feeling of being complete, of having no lack nor want within her.
A vast and seemingly endless cycle of consumption to feel complete within and
then desire because of the return of that terrible feeling of emptiness within
and then more consumption and more desire… is released. It is no longer part of
Jayda’s world. Instead there is joy with what presents itself in every moment,
every day. There is a delight in sharing this joy, sharing one’s being with
others. Song and stories, laughter and playfulness emerge spontaneously and are
shared easily. This world is a joyful place.
This joy with what
is ripples out and touches more and more people. It touches people who are
unknown to Jayda. It changes the economy of her region, country, world. It
changes what is consumed, how and when and how often. It changes the ecology of
her region, her country and her world. Everything matters. Everything is
connected to everything else. Jayda’s feeling of delight with what is changes
her whole world in every moment with every breath that she takes.
At times, often at
sunset, Jayda sits and looks out into the forest and feels a vast peace within
her being. She sends this out from her on a breath and then another and then
again. She feels the fulfillment of her being in sharing this peace with the
world and so she sits and sends it out on her breath with a vast love for all
of humanity within her.
