The Gathering Week

The whisperer and waiting

There is someone (you?) calling her (or is she calling us?), because once we were one; the calling – the conscious history – on the one hand, and on the other'Undine',

who lives in another dimension. She is the whisperer of waiting, indicator of insights.

By opening up to her, the bringer of insights, there is the risk of losing certainties, but also the opportunity of acquiring new values.

Following the legend of Undine, living in the sunken world.

During this week, we want to 'listen and serve' Gaia in the Green Cathedral. In doing so, everyone brings and contributes his/her own 'antenna' and motives.

Thus, we experience that the essence of the world around us expresses itself here energetically with ease. This moving part that spirit gives us, the essential dance of everything, the 'living spirit'. This contact with our natural awareness and consciousness expresses itself in all kinds of forms of angels, nature and elemental beings et cetera et cetera. We want to deal with and make contact with this consciously and respectfully. And that requires us to use 'feeling with reason' and respect this presence.

In doing so, we like to keep 'the middle open' so that we can live and organise our multiplicity.

Born with lungs, expecting clean air.

Living in awareness of essences contributes to a life of meaning and connection. Unity of life is living in awareness of that greater presence and of our connectedness with all our cells and organs too. For instance we are born with the expectation of clean air...

And in that something is currently going terribly wrong. For instance, one million of the eight million plant and creature species, such as insects, butterflies, snails, shellfish, fish, native trees, are threatened with extinction.

Creative thinking in the light of the future.

Essential to our care for all that lives is a greater sense of responsibility for our thoughts and actions. Not just what but how we think, its persuasiveness determines how we view ourselves, the circumstances and the world around us and thus Gaia. It is important to consciously choose what you want to experience and feel, what you emit and do.

This requires us to have a mounting awareness, to know who we essentially are as fellow-earthlings and to live according to the values that are inherent to these. Jan Rotmans, professor of Transition Studies, in his most recent book 'Omarm the Chaos' ('Embracing Chaos'), calls this the tipping point, a change of era, chaotic, turbulent and uncertain.

During the Gathering we want to focus, in an integrated approach, on

• the cathedral, inviting us to tune into other energies and explore our own 'channel'/frequency within it
• listening to what wants to be told, through your own inspirations, images, language, sound, movement and ceremony, woven from resonances and floating Substance
• the power of the mindset AND of acting responsibly in times of chaos & transition.

We start early each moring with silence, meditation, sound, from the 'white barn', where we also share our breakfast. We further use the mornings for our research and exchange of experiences and visions. Sometimes there is another small gathering in the afternoon or evening. Once in a while we also roll up our sleeves to experience in practice what it is like to be part of our Gaia Collective.