Becoming Mindfully Whole

Beaks and minds

I saw standing on the stones of the riverbank

a dark bird with its back to me.

It turned its head to left, then right

revealing a beady eye

and an outrageous orange beak

almost as long as its head.

In some other world

I knew it as an oystercatcher.

I have seen different birds’ beaks adapted

in manifold ways to feed self and offspring.

I have also seen human minds adapted to their purpose:

displaying stabbing verbal sharpness

or the scattering gloom of anxiety

or the tight gleam of avarice.

And I have seen the enlightened mind

intimate with everything

like a soft beak the colours of the rainbow

big enough and flexible enough

to nourish the world.

From: Some Palaeolithic Creature in Me

Mysticism, BecomingOur BecomingAugust 17, 2024MindComment

Walking into Interbeing with Our Feet

Regeneration of the Divine Earth
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Integrating Our Mystical Participation as Nature

Regeneration is taking the step from seeing the earth as an object and into experiencing it through our interbeing. Into “humans doing things as nature.”

The incarnation of Christ in the cosmos is the divine interfused in all things, very much including the earth. And so our living into and as the Body of Christ will also be through the divine earth.

We must reimagine and reconfigure our relationship with the earth and the orientation of our consciousness. We cannot and must not “sustain” the way things currently are, but rather we can come into our generative participation in loving service and care for our larger body.

Mysticism, BecomingOur BecomingAugust 3, 2024FeetComment

Becoming Wombful

The Wombful WeSpace of Generativity
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Integrating the Heart and Womb in Communal Becoming

In our WeSpace groups in ICN, we most often and naturally experience the shared space among us primarily from our heart center. As the heart is our center of relationality, that makes sense.

The womb center also has a powerful capacity for collective awareness. The WeSpace of the womb is of a different nature, and for many, can be difficult to experience—especially if our attention is caught up in the strength of our heartful connection of love and relationality.

What would it look like to set the intention to directly explore the shared womb space in integration with our heartful connection?

Mysticism, BecomingOur BecomingJuly 20, 2024wombComment

Becoming Heartful

Poetry as a Portal to the Heart

Poetry and the arts can be wonderful portals to help us enter into the felt awareness and experience of our embodied centers. They help us integrate our participation and understanding through engaging our mythic and magic structures of consciousness.

Mysticism, BecomingOur BecomingJuly 6, 2024HeartComment

Enchanted Becoming

Whole-Body Mystical Activism
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Guided Meditation for WeSpace (or personal use)

The following new meditation from Luke Healy is a guided practice primarily for use in a WeSpace group. It can also be used in personal practice as a way of participating collectively in mystical activism.

Mysticism, BecomingOur BecomingJune 22, 2024Mystical ActivismComment

Healing & Transforming the World in Practice

The Vibrant Web of Spiritual Heart Energy
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Heartful Attunement with Whole-Body Mystical Presencing

“To heal and change and the world through mystical activism, we need ways to purposefully and directly move from our ordinary consciousness to non-ordinary mystical consciousness... We believe the vibrant web of spiritual heart energy is a major factor in how Jesus operated and how we function also. It is transforming and what heals and changes both us and the world.”

– Paul Smith

Mysticism, BecomingOur BecomingJune 8, 2024Mystical ActivismComment

Stepping into What Mystical Activism Looks Like

Engaging in the Divine Sphere of Power
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Mystical Activism with a New Lord’s Prayer

Asking God in Jesus’ name has nothing to do with ending one’s prayer with the words ‘in the name of Jesus.’ We can say ‘In the name of Jesus’ over and over again, and if it is coming from ordinary consciousness, it is just words that we hope have some magical meaning like ‘abracadabra.’ ‘In the New Testament there are no magically potent names,’ no hocus pocus.

BecomingOur BecomingMay 25, 2024Mystical ActivismComment

Engaging with Jesus' Mystical Plan for World Peace

Integrating Our Embodied Oneness
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Kissing God

Have you embraced your oneness with God? Do you believe it? Try this practice of integrating your embodied oneness anytime you like:

Mysticism, BecomingOur BecomingMay 4, 2024Mystical Activism, OnenessComment

Practices of Prayer that Change the World

The new ICN rhythm of Saturday emails has shifted to sharing an article for learning one week, followed the next week by invitations into deeper becoming through spiritual practicing, intentional forms of engaging, and opportunities for integrating into our daily lives.

BecomingOur BecomingApril 20, 2024Mystical ActivismComment

Introducing a New ICN Saturday Email Rhythm

Throughout Lent, we held a special container of grief and glory. I want to thank you for walking this path with us—to whatever degree you have. This has been a season both of loss and invitation for our community.

Paul Smith has now transitioned from founding elder to a living ancestor in our midst. We will continue to honor and be guided by him in the years to come. We are eternally grateful for all he brought forth and shared in his life, and how he embodied and invited the spirit’s call to evolve for so many.

BecomingOur BecomingApril 6, 2024Comment

Beaks and minds

Regeneration of the Divine Earth–Integrating Our Mystical Participation as Nature

The Wombful WeSpace of Generativity–Integrating the Heart and Womb in Communal Becoming

Poetry as a Portal to the Heart

Whole-Body Mystical Activism –Guided Meditation for WeSpace (or personal use)

The Vibrant Web of Spiritual Heart Energy–Heartful Attunement with Whole-Body Mystical Presencing

Engaging in the Divine Sphere of Power–Mystical Activism with a New Lord’s Prayer

Integrating Our Embodied Oneness–Kissing God

Have you embraced your oneness with God? Do you believe it? Try this practice of integrating your embodied oneness anytime you like:

Regeneration of the Divine Earth
–
Integrating Our Mystical Participation as Nature

The Wombful WeSpace of Generativity
–
Integrating the Heart and Womb in Communal Becoming

Whole-Body Mystical Activism
–
Guided Meditation for WeSpace (or personal use)

The Vibrant Web of Spiritual Heart Energy
–
Heartful Attunement with Whole-Body Mystical Presencing

Engaging in the Divine Sphere of Power
–
Mystical Activism with a New Lord’s Prayer

Integrating Our Embodied Oneness
–
Kissing God