The luminosity of the present moment
It's never been easier to find, and it's never been more welcome than in these times.
Hey. There’s so much I want to talk about with you today, and as is so often the case these days, everything I want to discuss revolves around Nature. (I do bang on quite a lot about the natural world, I know.)
That’s because it’s becoming ever more clear—to me, anyway—that Nature is where it’s at. Not only in terms of our mental and physical health, but also our spiritual connectivity to all that is. Especially in these times.
By the way, if you’re somebody who has always appreciated the beauty of Nature, and has always enjoyed spending time in it, then that is incredibly great. Seriously. You’re ahead of the game.
But what if you are someone who just isn’t all that interested in Nature? Like I wasn’t, for the first half century plus, of my life? If you’re somebody who’d rather sit in a cafe, or on a zoom call with friends, or hang out in an air conditioned shopping mall, than go walking through a dappled forest?
I feel you. Been there.
Or maybe you like Nature just fine, as far as it goes—but you don’t think it has anything much to do with spirituality….which is supposed to be unseen and floaty-cloudy, and tends to be located someplace up in heaven. Right?
I’ve been there too. It’s a big club.
If any of the above applies to you, please hear me out anyway. Because I’m talking to you too, every bit as much as I’m talking to the person who has always revered Nature and can’t get enough of it.
Natural and unnatural EMFs
I’ve spoken about this topic at length in a newsletter from a couple of years ago, which I’m posting again, here. So I won’t repeat myself now, except to say this:
The unnatural EMFs I talked about back then, have been ramped up quite a bit since I first wrote that piece. And they are likely to keep increasing in intensity, at least in the short-to-medium term. These unnatural frequencies are not good for your health. Nor are they good for your spiritual unfoldment.
Nature is the exquisitely perfect antidote to both.
Here’s the earlier newsletter, should you wish to read it (again):
But it’s not just about soaking up the natural EMFs, important as they are. There’s so much more that Nature offers us, mentally, physically and spiritually, than just electromagnetic remediation.
I would go so far as to say this: Your lumpy transition out of the world made of fear, and into the much higher-frequency world made of love, will be much, much more graceful if you can spend as much quality time in Nature as possible.
Barefoot, if you can.
Again, this has to do with receiving the natural EMFs, as well as the subtle exchange of higher, finer spiritual communication between your mind/body/spirit and the earth itself. Which, of course, is part of Nature. (As are you, yourself.)
Bearing in mind, of course, that if you’ve never been resonant to the divine magnificence of Nature and your own place in it, you probably won’t feel much of that goodness at first.
I say this because, in the spring of 2022 I made myself start going barefoot, as I spent my days out on the land, caring for the Half Wild Garden.
Mind you, I’ve known for at least four decades that barefoot walking in Nature is good for you. But I never liked it. And even here in the garden I was squeamish about slugs, or spiky thistles, or hedgehog poo (squishy!) in the grass, or having to cross woodchip paths with my tender, un-calloused feet. So in the beginning it was a chore. A slog. A sort of ‘eat your vegetables, they’re good for you,’ kind of thing.
But I did it because I knew it was time for me to get closer to Nature. I wanted my energetic field to resonate more with those natural EMFs, than with the kind we’re increasingly bombarded with from all sides. It felt important, both spiritually and physically, to plant my flag (and my feet) firmly in the real world: The world made of love.
I had no idea just how wonderful it would turn out to be.
Quite quickly—after a couple of weeks, maybe?—I started to feel there was something unnameably delicious about making direct contact with the earth for several hours every single day.
It felt satisfyingly rich. Like a mental/physical/spiritual homecoming. And deeply peaceful in ways I hadn’t anticipated.
(If you’re a barefoot walker by choice and habit, this will all be an obvious no-brainer. But for me it was a revelation.)
After a glorious 6 months of this direct communion, I grieved a bit, come early November, when I had to say goodbye to the earth; the ground was just too cold and mucky to continue.
Ironically, 2023 has been far less conducive to barefoot walking, for a whole variety of reasons. Yet to my delight, I found that the relationship so firmly established between me and the earth the year before, was even more vibrantly available this year. Like old friends, picking up beyond where we left off, without missing a beat. Even with socks and shoes between us.
I suspect some of this oh-so-ready availability has to do with the ever-increasing amounts of high frequency, love-based goodness taking root on this planet. Socks and shoes were no barrier this time, because the frequencies of love this year are stronger than they were last year.
And it’s easiest to notice this unceasing escalation of goodness and beauty, I find, when one is consistently out in Nature.
It’s not that these rising frequencies aren’t happening at the shopping mall or in the cafe, by the way; they’re happening everywhere, because absolutely everything in this world and universe is part of Nature.
But the natural world of trees and sky and soaring mountains and all the rest of it, is like the clothing that divine love wears, in order to show up here on planet earth. Natural Nature is love in tangible form.
The world of science and technology, on the other hand, is the current emperor of this planet. And that emperor has no clothes. If you get my drift.
It’s not that there’s anything wrong with technology per se. Technology can be a great thing, a wonderful, life-enhancing thing. Why not? It’s just that, in our lifetime at least, most technological advances have been made to serve the world made of fear. With often catastrophic consequences, somewhere down the line.
So, while you can theoretically receive Nature’s divine input no matter where you hang out, in my experience it’s going to be much, much easier for you to access that nourishment if you’re spending time out in the world of Nature. (Minus your phone, or your fitbit, or whatever EMF-generating device you might be otherwise tempted to carry with you.)
And now we’re (finally!) getting to what I really want to talk with you about, today. And that’s how incredibly easy it’s becoming these days, to access the present moment when out in Nature.
And why is that important? Why might you want to access the present moment in Nature, as opposed to, say, in the yoga studio?
Because Nature is already the real world. And the real world, is the world made of love.
(And of course you can do it in yoga class too. It just won’t be as…natural.)
The world made of love, at this point, is still more of a frequency thing; it hasn’t yet fully landed in physical 3-D. As you may have noticed. It’s not yet obviously tangible or visible to the naked eye in most places, on this planet.
And that’s partly because we’re still in the dissolution phase, of everything that is unlike love. Which will no doubt be going on for quite some time. Because, let’s face it, most of what currently exists is unlike love.
But the world made of love is here; it’s growing daily in power; and it’s only a matter of time before your physical society and world start to reflect its goodness.
Right now, you still have to look for it; it’s not yet unmistakably in-your-face. But it will be.
Presence in Nature
These days, a very easy way to connect with the world made of love, is to go out in Nature and just pause there for a little while.
Sit down. You don’t have to meditate, you can just hang out.
Close your eyes. Listen to the birds, or to your own breathing, or not even that. Just… sit there.
And open up to what’s vibrantly available: Let the shimmering, ever-present silence enter your awareness.
This is the kind of silence that is a full-body, felt sensation; the kind of silence that runs like a cool, clear river underneath the ongoing sounds of daily life—the kind of silence that’s now readily available to everyone, in every present moment, out in Nature.
It’s the kind of silence that contains communion. It feeds and nourishes the soul.
And all you have to do is show up for it. Even for a minute.
And when you open your eyes again? Notice the divine luminosity of everything around you. Every blade of grass, every dewdrop, radiant with sacred aliveness.
What is that?
It’s the real world. It’s how things really are, all of the time.
We’re just usually dulled way down by the fear-based frequency bandwidth we inhabit, so we don’t normally see it. Even now, you’ll find that the sacred luminosity will probably disappear on you, and be replaced by business-as-usual-perception pretty quickly.
But the real world is always here, and always available to us. Even if we ourselves can only manage a few moments of shared communion with it, now and then.
In these transitional times, don’t underestimate the effect of this divine 2-way communion, however brief it may be. Within the radiant silence of the present moment, your mind, body and spirit are planting your flag in the world made of love.
And that’s not all: Thanks to your planted flag, the world made of love, in turn, is strengthened in its ability to take tangible form in this world.
Which is how the whole thing works. We choose it. Each one of us issues the invitation, in our own way.
Celebrating silence in the present moment, out in Nature, is my way.
Just thought I’d pass along the invitation, in case you’d like to join me there.