Exercise 2: Pachamama's Dream
(This is an excerpt from a University Of Metaphysical Sciences course at www.umsonline.org,
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Now, get in a comfortable position, standing, sitting or lying down. Take some deep, slow, clear breaths, and become aware of your body. Just notice how it feels. As you listen to the rhythmic sounds of the drum, allow this vibration to open your consciousness. Feel how the drum resonates with a very deep place within you…
Now, as if you were a tree…
Notice your roots, deeply connected in the earth, your toes, your feet, your legs, your knees, your thighs.
Notice your trunk, your reproductive triangle, your belly, your center, your creative fire, feeling the sap flow through you.
Notice your heart, your chest, where your spirit resides, your deva-center.
Notice your branches, your arms, reaching, giving, receiving.
Notice your crown, your head, reaching up toward the sky, receiving the sun-spirit.
Now just sit with this awareness for a few moments. Just breathe in this consciousness of your physical self, your tree-self.
Now become aware of Mother Earth. Notice all her parts, from the atmosphere, with it’s clouds, rain, thunder, wind, and spherical, cyclic form, to all the life forms on her surface, the mountains, the volcanoes, streams, rivers, lakes, and oceans. Notice the plants, the trees, the four-legged creatures, the crawling ones, the bugs and worms, the fish and whales and dolphins, the winged ones, and the two-leggeds, relative to the trees. Notice the soil, the rock, the caves and crystal layers, the underground springs, lakes, and rivers. Notice all this diverse life, coexisting harmoniously. Just breathe in this awareness for a bit.
Now, notice an opening somewhere on the surface of the earth. What does the opening look like? There seems to be a gentle light glowing from the opening, and you feel drawn to enter. You notice that your power animal is at your side, eager to enter with you. You enter the opening, and as your body moves fully into the hole, you feel a great energy, which seems to pull you at a very fast speed into the earth. You feel as if you are flying, and it takes a few minutes to acclimate yourself to the speed and sensation, but then you begin to enjoy it and feel very comfortable. After awhile, you find yourself in a great crystal cavern, and you instantly realize that you are deep inside Mother Earth, within her heart. You begin to notice another energy here, a glowing, living being in the middle of all this life. She is the dreamer of this world. As you become aware of this being, notice her form… She is walking toward you now. Look at her. What does she look like? What color is she? What do you notice about her shape? Watch her carefully as she slowly approaches you. This is Pachamama, the great mother of life.
Soon she is standing right in front of you. Look into her eyes, and notice the unconditional love and kindness there. Just allow yourself to receive this for a few moments. Allow yourself to fully absorb this gaze of love.
Now notice that she is communicating with you. She may not be speaking out loud, but her thoughts are communicated directly to you. She has a message for you, a special message, meant only for you. Give yourself some time to receive this message.
Now, notice once again her loving gaze. As you look deep into her luminous, infinite eyes, feel how very much love she holds for you, how much she validates and blesses your life. You now begin to notice colors swirling around her in a peaceful, rhythmic, flowing way. These colors begin to surround you, and you become swathed in her beautiful, radiant cloak of energy. The feeling is indescribably wonderful, and you feel a sense of fulfillment, clarity, and peace. Breathe this in.
Now you feel her arms embrace you. She holds you in a relaxed, loving embrace, and your body seems to fit perfectly in contour with hers. You feel like a small child, being held by the one who loves you most in all the world. Just take a few moments to fully receive this blessing from Pachamama.
Now, Pachamama takes a step back, and, still gazing at you with infinite love, she holds out her hand to you. You take her hand, and with your power animal still faithfully at your side, you follow her. She leads you back to the hole you came through, and pulls you up inside. Quite suddenly, you are flying again, but this time, with Pachmama! You notice around you a quickly changing landscape. You see underground rivers, and lakes, crystal caves, and layers of molten hot rock. As you move, you notice how Pachamama is emanating her sublime colorful energy to everything around you. You notice that you are traveling through a vast network of caves, and that everywhere you travel, Pachamama is spreading her divine love and nurturance. You begin to notice that you are moving closer to the surface of the earth, and you begin to see roots of trees, and springs bubbling up to the surface. You notice how the energy coming from Pachamama is rising up to the surface in great waves, and that it flows in concentrated streams in certain places. Your gaze follows one of these streams, and you notice the roots of what appears to be a particularly beautiful big tree. As you look at this magnificent root system, pulling up and receiving all this energy, you feel yourself entering the flow of the energy. You are rising up, through the roots, into the tree itself. You experience Pachamama’s loving energy fill this being. You notice how the tree is very conscious of this energy, and how it stands straight and tall, and stretches its limbs to the sky. As you look around at the center of the tree, you begin to notice a face looking back at you. As you look closely, you realize that it is Pachamama! She smiles at you gently, as she shares her secret with you, that she exists in all life forms, that her energy rises up to create all life. From her deep Divine stillness in the heart of the planet, she dreams all things, and dances in each being. You feel how she stretches herself out through the tree, manifesting herself as this great being who, though it might appear still, is also a dreamer and traveler, and a giver of life. And yes, she says, I am you too. I dream you and give you my life sustaining energy, and I dance your life. And so you are like me as well, a dreamer, a dancer, and a giver of life. Whenever you feel lost or alone, remember this. I am you, and you are me. Now go, and dance well!
You feel your self pulled out of the tree, and you find yourself on the ground in front of it. You look up, and see its beauty, and you realize that you can sense into it’s dreaming mind. You see, rising from each of its branches, streams of beautiful, colorful energy, which radiates out into the world. Then you look down at your own hands, and you see this same energy streaming out of them as well. Suddenly, you realize you will never see things in the same way again. You know the secret of Pachamama, and you smile gently, and slowly, slowly return to normal consciousness, bringing this awareness with you… ready to dream, ready to dance...