Evolutionary Leap
“We have to work like the ants, only together we can change the world. We are harvesting the fruits of our work and creating a positive change.” Manari, traditional healer and leader Sápara Nationality, Ecuador
When a good friend sent me an email with a link to listen to Sounds True https://www.soundstrue.com/ interview with Lynne Twist, I trusted that Lynne’s wisdom could help me have some glimmer of hope for humanity in these challenging times. I first met Lynne many years ago and joined her movement, the Pachamama (means Mother Earth) Alliance.
Pachamama Alliance grows and supports a global community of people working to bring forth an environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling, socially just human presence on our planet.
In this podcast, Lynne discusses the challenges and opportunities now facing humanity and how each of us can live in this world contributing to an evolutionary leap for our species and all life on Earth. I wondered just what Lynne has learned about the times we are in and from spending the past 25 years with the the Sápara Nation in the Ecuadorian Amazon.
I learned that Indigenous peoples in the Andes speak about 500-year cycles and that we are moving through and out of dominance and darkness towards balance and light, a time of regeneration when mind and heart remember that it is one. Lynne explains, “As a species, we are in a birth canal. We are giving birth to a new kind of human being. We are evolving into knowing a love for life that will allow us to flourish, that will allow us to hear and receive unshakable feedback from the Earth.”
One day as she was walking in the Amazon jungle with a Shaman he stopped and asked, “Do you feel them?” Lynne stood very still and listened. In that instant they were there. Souls of butterflies, snakes, ants, trees. Suddenly all of the life around her had souls and she could feel them as a part of herself.
“Since that moment I know I have a love relationship with all of life,” she said her voice cracking with emotion. “It’s like when you are so moved by something you disappear. You are there but your identity dissolves. I was the souls of the creatures that were around me.”
What Lynne is pointing us towards is how we can continue to open to love and how Pachamama is showing us the way to become the one soul. When we choose to take an individual leap towards dreams of peace, kinship and making choices that honor nature including our own, we evolve towards what will impact lives for thousands of years to come.
I believe from Lynne’s stories that we humans have the capability to co-create with the creator our visions from the one heart. I am inspired and full of hope when I hear Lynne say, “The new human being is one that accesses intuition, personal power and spiritual guidance to make choices that as Buckminster Fuller said creates a world that works for everyone.
“True healing is an awakening to a vision of our healed nature.” Shaman, Healer, Sage by Alberto Villoldo, Ph D.
Intention: Go out into the forest (or your back yard). Put your hands on a tree and ask for guidance. Let the tree tell you how to open to its soul. Walk your path with wisdom born from opening your awareness to the one soul. Dream. Dream boldly.