At various spaces we are called to pause and meditate on the reflection of all that was offered on this topic through the meditative channeled state. In I am All that Is, we embark on a journey into all that we are.

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The journey from this point, takes the readers to not only identifying the challenges we are facing, but how it is entwined to our own personal growth and how unravelling the two together can be the inspiring paradigm change we need for our future. It is here we begin to understand that the Living System is actually the language of life that is continually in conversation with us through all that exists, and that our re-membering to life and observing and participation in its language we become whole.

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The story, the questions, the journey to now. We begin with recognising climate catastrophe, social injustice, economic breakdown, housing crises, agricultural decay, food insecurity as the common global challenges, yet at the base of these disasters is the question, are these simply the result of political forces, or is there something deeper driving these issues? Could it be the way that we look at our world, from a human centric perspective, that provides fertile ground for exploitation, disadvantage, and oppression? We begin with not only realising all that holds us to the human centric system we have built but the process as to why and how this is done. That deep amongst this, lay the firm beliefs we hold that are tying us to the separation from life that we desperately seek.

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Forever striving, we now slow the pace in order to arrive, we are here, at a place that offers us the ability to live into - actualise - our realisation, by learning the foundations of the humble essence of life.

If we visualised this essence we would see it as fractals, the energy of life that forms as sacred shapes and sounds that resonate into all else. Our footprints over the bridge means we gather, this gathering is so important in how we proceed, yet it will feel foreign to so many of us as it is a gathering of long forgotten dreams, that we know as values.  It is not a question of what do we value, rather what does life value?

Watching closely with stillness and silence we observe that life holds a very delicate value system.

These values are the principles, the philosophy, the essence upon which the universal law abides for life to become. They are the philosophies that life exists on.

In relationships we often forget that values are their foundations and as life exists upon the alacrity to relate, our interconnectedness relies on values to build all things. Our creation, our thriving, and our boundaries for that to occur depend on these universal laws. Values are the place from which we draw boundaries. In one simple knowing of values and their importance to life's creation, we can see that the values we have held until now, have allowed us as humans to exceed the earth's boundaries and push her to a place of stress so great that her ailments are our ailments. Her dis-ease is our disease. In aligning now, realigning with the natural laws, universal laws, earth's values, we align again within her boundaries. We gather ourselves into her arms and holding and ever so gently we begin anew. We begin with values as the foundation and build boundaries from that space. This brings guidance to the meaning of life. To what we seek. 

Values tend to stay the same - like beliefs we tend to develop them at a young age and hold them as they bring the foundation to the beliefs - so in part the importance of the bridge is disrobing old values, like shedding skin and finding grace in the faith of our dream seeds to actualise our new realisation of truth.

We don’t need to begin with questioning what our old values were that have enabled us to break her boundaries, we have done that - to arrive here through awareness and realisation - we have questioned that each time. Now we step out of them, which is why this is a gathering effect.

We scoop up the blossoms, we adorn ourselves with the fragrance and infuse our blood, bone and being with her way.

The values of the Living System are simple, it exists on the intoxication of Custodianship, Truth, Acceptance, Oneness and Love. 

Why - who chose them? Please remember that these values aren’t what WE discuss or decide. This is Life speaking, saying this is the base from which I begin all things. Humankind may want to debate and decide (maybe even mansplain) what we believe them to be, but when you sit in silence and ask Life what are her values, this is her reply.

Custodianship:

Life’s aim - to care and protect, equity and harmony for all

In creating Humanity - our duty as Human form in life to care and protect. Our capacity to reason holds our ability to care at the same time as protect, both of which dominate the totality of custodianship. Not for one existence over another, but to allow balance to be found within them. The ability to steward, to shepherd, to care for, to parent, to guide with trusteeship, is all the essence of custodianship. It is deep regard. Not respect but regard, for life's continued existence and our place amongst that.

Truth:

Life’s aim - the foundational truth of oneness as the energy of eternal existence.

In creating Humanity - we were to open to and be willing to hear truth. The ability to willingly seek it at whatever the cost. Not just perspectives of truth but the foundation of truth as a whole sum of all perspectives that carry life’s truth. In this our willingness to give over to truth, to live by it, to acknowledge its need so deeply that to behold a lie, or allow one to pass us feels like the pebble in our shoe to which we would carry and endure every day. 

Acceptance:

Life’s aim - to offer creation  and all created in diversity for the full expression of life to be experienced.

In creating Humanity -  Allowing all to show up as they are, allowance of our humanness and our capacity to err time and time again yet held by the truth and custodianship to make effort once again. To correct ourselves within that acceptance. Owning our responsibilities, our roles, our place. Acceptance is all about the space of diversity and all the various forms and expressions of life being all of who we are.

Oneness:

Life’s aim - oneness as our wholeness. Our interconnectedness. All that is for one is for all.

In creating Humanity - That our interconnectedness be as our veins and arteries through which we all nourish and nurture each other. That all that is for one is for all, that in fullness for our heart we offer fullness to another. Oneness is about unity, a coming together and our deep need for that  - NEED - to collaborate and cooperate and unite. That we are not ever fully alive in isolation, that our aliveness depends on our wholeness to and with all other.

Love:

Life’s aim - the essence of creation itself as resonance and vibration a yearning for life to continue as love.

In creating Humanity - We feel and offer this as the very creation of life itself. How life began and begins over and again. All life, through the desire and yearning of itself as love.We see and experienced love through beauty, through compassion, through the extension of all the other values. Life yearns and yearns deeply to express itself and offer itself in service to its continued creation, and so grants us love, that love be the only word, concept, knowing, for such grandeur.

Of course these words are our language, it is not however the language of nature and life itself and it’s not right to define or describe them more than that. It is in observing that we come to this and in observing that we each find its truth. As long as we stay locked within a word, a definition we give it, that we delineate it to its core, we stay on the outer of realising what is indeed happening. 

In many ways these words do not even come close to defining what occurs as the natural law, but it is all we have. 

Better than this, is living into it. Lived truth. Feeling it. Feeling is our natural instinct and feeling is the way life responds. This way, what or how, is not to be explained but lived. It’s not for our minds but our heart and senses. Not to understand but accept. Again, be silent, be still, observe how the trees survive amongst each other, all that they give and commit to each other. How a savannah plain has way for all in its cycles. How seeds use custodianship from the air to be carried forth or a dung beetle to spread its message. See how the love is always revealed and how truth is. It is what life does. 

At this point there is a huge understanding to note, we would not be here if we did not (were not) align(ed), this moment means we have paid our last respects to old values that go against life and are ready to build into new values. A moment that we gather on the bridge to work amongst nature. This is an important moment to stop and actually deeply know this, bow into it, we wouldn't be able to accept this alignment without already being ready. If we are aligned our intent is custodianship, truth, acceptance, oneness, love and at whatever level we begin we are walking to that alignment. 

Placing ourselves AS that is important, as opposed to questioning if we are that.

To activate values we need to live them as action. This means we begin with the actions that will lead us to holding the values. The actions for the values are even more simple than the values themselves. Simple, yet seemingly difficult as we are far removed from them by our fear and our ‘lack’ mentality.

Let’s be really clear again - life is abundant - there is no lack or less or more in nature, there is balance and wholeness and the willingness for all to thrive.

The beauty of these values is that they act as if we are that. As we action with regard, honour, protection, service, love towards all things we are ourselves acting of these values. Love is a doing word of service, as much as a space of creation that we can break down to actions of compassion, kindness, patience, tolerance and forgiveness.

The cultivation of humanity is for the common good not for an individual goal and the values of the Living System reflect that. Again, at no time are we ever an individual.  The Living System always was and is, and we are but one piece of its many creations whose roles are to live as its values so that all of life exists.

The Living System is the first instance of life and creation in its fledgling forms that have expanded and through which we have become. At its beginning our Indigenous peoples were the first custodians, the first to shepherd the way through listening and observing how she moved and shaped and flowed, the first to express the values of life to ensure our survival. All Indigenous cultures existed (and continue to exist) from the space of oneness, the wholeness of life experienced and expressed. Our desire now to return to indigenous ways, to hear indigenous voices, to listen to their teachings is a return to the original custodians of life, the first peoples who chose to hear and wander with life, to live as the values of the Living System, that is why it is their knowledge that we seek a return to because it is the way intended for life to exist. The first undistorted egoless vessels through which life was revered, they walked with her amongst her knowing that she was life and existence. Hence life itself being honoured, revered and venerated into a Godlike status to which they knelt to every day for its blessings.

It was through time and distance from our human becoming that we literally walked ourselves away further and further from this truth. Our ego developed by distance and separation, formed through our disconnection, then fashioned into its own existence delivering its own needs and desires based on its own values. This is death.

The end for life is not death as we think it, true death of life is in our separation, the moment we banish ourselves from our wholeness we place ourselves into our own transition and passing from our mother, our source, our truth.

All things lead to love, life's essence, and so do its values. That we should know love, be love, is to know life. That in suspending judgement and allowing an open heart to lead, is how we step off this bridge and begin to live again amongst life.

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Everything at this bridge is the values, the ethics and foundations of the Living System. How it plays out and works. Every time we cross this point how becomes clearer and we become more committed to a realisation that we are here in service. 

I need to step back before going forward in order to make certain you are understanding ‘the bridge’ concept.

Until now we have been tied to the old story of life - it marks a few very important pieces highlighted by the very strongly cemented line in place at the intersection of our lemniscate. This line has held us captive. It has told us we are separated, kept us hidden from our true space of belonging and told a story of our rise to consciousness being held only within our own existence.

When we remove that line and go to the new story we see that we all of a sudden find more than who we ever thought ourselves to be. We discover we are a part of all of life - we realise that this wholeness holds so much of our rise to awareness. It also holds expansion on the entire living beyond the current model of systems.

THE BRIDGE is that cool slide through the middle - it is only small in space and time, at this point we gather.

Have you ever noticed the gaps in knots? That no matter how tight you pull there's space hiding for flow, for finding way, at the same time as being a determined connection point. That's the bridge. It’s this space of looped, entwined, entangled webbing, at the same time as being loose and open to movement. This is how we place values into our living. Loosely. So that they evolve. This is how we observe the ethics of life, her foundations and principles that we accept as being so unique to place and people that they are forever open to evolving. The bridge is the crossing, it's in our minds as well as literal. We are bringing in new pathways and paradigm shifts as much as taking actual steps towards our new way of living. 

Until now we are learning, growing, becoming. Our connection becomes deeper to our own self awareness and our interconnectedness, our awareness evolving to realisation. There’s never too much to know of one’s self or our place amongst life and so each swirl (return through the lemniscate)of life takes us deeper, closer, into all that we are.

Life is a shared storehouse of inspiration, creativity and expression, all things belonging to all sentient beings.

Never again will only one form, one creation, one lifetime, be the beginning, middle and end of the story but one piece that is shared amongst many. Life is a fluid eternal flow of which our part is one act, that as we find those who share our expressions and creations, we add to the energetic potential of the power of life. We are one - this bridge is the moment of recognising that - and dipping our beings back into the sauce (source) of life that holds our way of becoming and layering ourselves once again in the ethics, principles and foundations of all that we are layer upon layer  until we are coated in our truth of belonging.

In the brief time crossing over - yes a death of the old crossing over to the new - we gather what we recognise as being a part of our next steps. We take on the principles and/or the depth of those principles that ‘make sense’ to us at this point in time. We open to ‘what's possible’ and explore ‘greater potentials’. All of this possible and potential is offered by life through her own expressions and examples of being. When we do this we then allow our growth to be lived greater at one with all of life.

Whilst crossing the bridge we do two things, we reconnect to that which we are as alive, vital and expressive forms of energy through our senses and then, through our senses we rediscover the values of life, we feel into them again as the foundations of the Living System which hold the very principles of the way in which life exists. 

So we return to all that we are - including re-membering with our feminine - and we gather. Gathering all that is to be the values and knowing of Life that we are a part of  - and two - in order to do that we reconnect to our senses and unfurl the feminine within.

It is important of course to highlight here that the removal of all our senses and their roles has maintained our disconnect from life and we are called to become one with them again. In truth we have 6 senses, each of these lead us to our highest knowing, and we discover this in our return. Our most well known taste, sight, hearing, touch and smell are left unable to be expressed without the sixth sense of voice. The capacity to inwardly or outwardly express those senses is vital when it comes to rounding out what it is to feel. To express feelings is crucial to our becoming and all creations have the capacity to do this.

It is our senses that keep us connected to our place in nature and it is our senses that we call upon to discover all that is offered at this crossing. Our senses are our connection to the elements and elementals, to the essence and fabric of life itself. We relish in the smell of the flowers to recognise them, held spellbound by the clouds, the ocean, the birds so that we remember. We taste the food life grows. We hear the songs calling us. It’s our senses that we use to stay connected to nature, and now their importance comes to life in order to build our place amongst nature again. As we awaken the senses to a knowing within we discover that we always knew, and that we always were, always are, always will be, words that mean we are connected and here, a part of life's way. Our senses, our instincts, our intuition become our guide to falling into life once more.

The disconnect from voice, being silenced, is a part of the trauma that is held within all things. That we have a system that not only removes our voice but this in turn removes our expression of sense, the capacity for us to sensate and not express is being held captive within our own being. To vocalise feeling, is not only an essential expression to our connection to our form in life, but to our connection to all forms of life. These six senses that open us too engaging in physical form in this lifetime, that allow us to be within this earthly plane, to then hold deep importance to that which allows us to maintain our connection to the outer worlds. 

These senses relate directly then to the higher knowing of instinct and intuition.

Instinct that allows survival on the earthly plane and intuition that offers connection to our being, our energetic field, the star dust from which we begin. This is important to know, for this moment on the bridge allows us to bring both forward, our instinct and intuition as a part of the wholeness of our senses. 

Instinct is a part of our animal connection. The capacity too instinctively know is what keeps us alive. Instinct is a part of the more than self existence as it is how the animals and plants exist. We hold this capacity alongside them, as a way that we respond to each other through our senses, responding on instinct to survive. 

Intuition is a part of our sacred self, our sacred connection allowing us to stay connected to our higher self. Connected to that which created us as life. This is what makes us unique in our sacred self, as human form, that we remain of higher knowing, not higher intelligence. That our sacred intuition is gifted to caretake, to remind us of our creative caring force of the universe, allowing us the ability to know the space and privilege of cooperation, as love, to all sentience. 

Arguably having the voice stripped from us has allowed the separation of our journey to truth to be deepened.

It is important to connect voice to truth telling/revealing/sharing - if we acknowledge that whilst there is an ultimate truth of an event/time/moment - it is through listening to perspectives of truth that this is found - therefore removing voice - removes capacity to know truth. All voices must be heard for truth to be found. Truth is found through a gathering of perspectives. All voices must be heard to form those perspectives. Withholding voices disables the truth to be found and only the ‘best fit version’ of the truth to be shared, hence history only known by the loudest most privileged voices.

Here at this bridge we must make mention of the feminine for it is through her rise that we unfurl our bound wing, never to be clipped again.

The power of the feminine is not to rise to meet the masculine as a force of armed wielded power that strikes down its enemies, rather that it is an unyielding force of energy that seeks right balance and harmony, that allows life to restore itself. It is an intimate connection to creation and balance that presides above, within and about all things. Feminine is the role of nurturer and healer, and when this energy of creation is given its full (f)light and we allow it to emanate from us we are in the greatest power of creation.

It must be noted that both energies of masculine and feminine are within all things, they belong as a balanced energy within every sentience.  All things hold both qualities and every quality holds both energetics. We are all of the masculine and the feminine. They are within every moment as is life and death. Which one you choose to express is ultimately the choice of being a part of that moment fully as all that you are and all of life itself or not. That the feminine force has been withheld, has been enabled through the drive of instinct and survival. 

The bridge is a gathering, and gathering our senses allows us to take the next step across this threshold.

With our fullness, we open to reimagining our ways through the whole of who we are. That imagination and belonging are not of the mind but of the senses - within our skin beyond our fingertips - and this allows us to realise the need to remember the values of the Living System for it is deep within us that these exist, that within, there already exists the very morals and ethics that continue the creation of life herself, and we belong there.

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