Marti Spiegelman, MFA

Humans have been gifted the most puzzling role in the unfolding of the universe – the role is to be the housing for a unique 2-part style of consciousness, that is a key player in the evolution of life in the universe. This is recorded in all the great wisdom traditions of the world, shamanic and contemplative alike. The difficulty is that we’ve become enamored with one of those parts, which only allows us to see a few pieces of the whole at a time and is solely geared to ‘do’ things. In fact, its job is to carry out intricate instructions that the other part of consciousness receives from the ‘One’ intelligence that we are. In modern cultures, we call this other part of consciousness the ‘un-‘ or ‘sub-‘ conscious realm. So here we sit – unaware of the whole system housed within us, and only with awareness that there are things to ‘do’. We can think about ‘being’ in a larger state of awareness, but it can be rather hard to achieve, and when we do, we no longer know how the ‘being’ actually expresses itself in the world of form. We try to figure it out and end up in ‘doing’ again, puzzled about how to allow the unfolding [ . . . and will anything get done?]

Nature is comprised of systems – intricate interrelations between various energies and life forms – and every system is connected to other systems. Janine Benyus reminds us that nothing in nature exists outside a system, and life always produces what is conducive to life. The universe and life evolved through the magic of these interrelations for millions of years. Then we humans were spoken into being, and eventually our unique 2-part consciousness evolved. You see the problem – awake as we are, we can’t perceive the system. We’re effectively on the outside with no view of a way back in.

What we need is a bit of education – we need to learn again how consciousness has spoken us into being, and be that. Only in being fully who we are, awake to our puzzling and magical gift, will we be able to live into the questions of our times instead of haggling over who has the right answer. Join me for the education of a lifetime, through the shaman’s lens.

Marti Spiegelman Marti Spiegelman MFA brings nearly four decades of specialized training in shamanic traditions and related fields to her current work as a training professional, mentor, speaker, and founder and host of Awakening Value™: Shamanic Technologies of Consciousness and Success on the VoiceAmerica™ Web Radio Network. www.martispiegelman.org; www.awakeningvalue.com