Pulse of Creation

Pulse of Creation: The Return

Phase 5 of Natural Mystic

"When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness." (Joseph Campbell)

Background:

Pulse of Creation is the second and final program of the Advanced Certificate. It has Shaman's Path and the Certificate course as prerequisites. Pulse of Creation has two modules. Completion of Pulse of Creation leads to the award of the Advanced Certificate of Shamanic Self-Discovery.

Purpose:

Pulse of Creation explores your soul's ecstatic retrieval with greater access to the 'life force'. This embodying of Spirit integrates the archetype of World Server - living as a 'builder of the dawn' and 'rainbow bridge' in the new consciousness.

Description:

The return stage of the heroic journey following the initiatory experiences of the programs, including Shaman's Path, carries with it the task of embodying the new energies and states of consciousness that may now be more flowing and accessible. If these life force energies are not being accessed or allowed to flow the task is instead one of using the power now at hand to appropriately address whatever is taking place instead. One, most likely both, of these tasks, will be the work of Pulse of Creation.

A wide range of spiritual traditions inform us that the soulful embodiment of Self involves a creative integration of the earthly pulse of the human ground of Self, sexuality and survival with the cosmic pulse of planetary evolution, spirit and ecstatic states. Living more soulfully as a result of the personal, shamanic and other spiritual forms of Self-discovery in this course leads naturally into living your bliss and the archetype of the World Server. That is, the identity of Self has maturely embraced yet expanded well beyond the more limited 'skin encapsulated ego' (Watts).

Pulse of Creation explores the joyful potentials of access and integration of our human ground with these so-called non-ordinary or ecstatic states and realms. It also supports the further transformation of any ways of being, such as fear or dependencies, that might otherwise limit you from experiencing the bliss, ecstasy or rapture of the alive body, heart and soul. Out of this wonderful place new attitudes, understandings and cultural seeds arise for the new planetary culture. This program explores ways of being, and your own experience of movement toward living, in this new consciousness. Welcome home!

“We are in need of… new attitudes and understandings, for each society can only realise the potential contained within its ‘ mythos’ – the cultural seed which contains the gifts and possibilities of any given cycle. If we are to work positively with the challenges of our time and heal ourselves and the earth, we require a new‘ mythos’, new seeds of consciousness which will ensure the full flowering of our aspirations. We require a paradigm shift that is as radical as moving from linear to spherical thought… we must reshape our awareness to correspond with this natural condition. By moving into a more planetary awareness we shall not be invalidating the world of the mundane but bringing the gifts of the spirit to bear on worldly events. We need to stretch ourselves both by stepping outside the earth to comprehend the wholeness and mystery of life and by stepping inside our own hearts to activate the personal resources of the planet… This is the nature of the dance.” (Lindfield, 1986)