Over the winter we came across stories about the Eleusinian Mysteries. The final initiation in that mystery school was developing the capacity to sprout a seed from the light of your being while seeing through the illusions of duality and separation...that has become our daily prayer for the human race ~ that we develop our capacities to sprout the seeds of Love's Infinite Possibilities while developing our capacities to dissolve the illusion of separation and duality.
The fields are dedicated this year to the "Unimagined Event Horizon". The Unimagined Event Horizon is a landscape that abides in the human psyche-soul matrix, that appears when apocalyptic urges and terrors are re-solved in each Human Being. Let us help each other get there...and use our nuclear powered creativity to face the impossible and find solutions.
Don sat facing the unknown for months, information about what and how to plant simply wasn't arriving.
One day he went up just to sit in the field, and two young hawks appeared and mapped out the configuration of the fields. It is in the shape of an old Sanskrit symbol, and the rows were to face true North, all the information started arriving--about what and how to plant.
My father is dying...during one of our visits together, he gave back to us a copy of the book "Old Turtle", and a huge concrete turtle for his garden that we had given him for his 70th birthday. He requested "Old Turtle" be placed at the edge of our growing fields and that once a year we gather there to remember him.
Don took Old Turtle up to the fields and created a space for him to look out on the horizon. My dad's favorite view... He planted a strip of buck wheat and sunflowers laid out before Old Turtle like an airport take-off runway. And "Old Turtle" is poised, awaiting his time to fly off into the unimagined event horizon.
Abby is pregnant and due in September. Don dedicated the arm of the field as a birth portal for the new baby who is arriving.
Planting occurred in 2 phases this year, several days apart. So far it has been a very gentle entry, quiet, cool, rain when needed. Last night it only rained on the field and nowhere else.
We believe this is a time of great opportunity for the earth and its inhabitants. We believe all of us in our daily choices contribute to what's possible. One of our daily choices is the passionate conversation between nature and human beings.
The unimagined event horizon is the aspect of every human psyche that lives in the inner landscape beyond apocalyptic terrors. Let us help each other through these terrors, and put our nuclear-powered creativity to work facing the impossible and finding solutions.
*Nuclear: the fuel that occurs in a human being when emotions are experienced in the name of becoming Love and the illusion of duality and separation have dissolved.
The Believer, Neil Young
I'm just a believer baby
in those dreams of mine
you see they just keep
on coming in a long, long line
Oh yeah, I'm the Believer
And like that song bird singin'
whether its red or blue
just like those church bells ringin'
I'm keeping my faith in you
And though the seas may rise until they do
I keep doin' the things I"m doin' and believe in you
I'm makin' the change
I'm keepin' my faith in you