Kauai Essences Blog

The times they are a changing.  It seems that a gear has slipped in the progression of business as usual.  It is being called a recession.  The bubble bursts and out flows our illusion of control.

Survival.  The word of the day.  Economic survival, survival of our planet, survival of our bodies and survival of our sense of self.  Nothing survives in form forever.  Only Consciousness has that role.

For those who are still trying to hold onto control, I feel your pain.  I feel the panic of being out of control.  The deep anguish of knowing that death is just around the corner.   What to do?

Allow change to happen.  It is going to happen anyway.  Interface with the future like we do with our past.  The layers of  past programing  need to be eliminated.  I see the layers falling away in many of those people I have worked with in flower essence readings.  I see amazing evidence of evolution in many engaged in their Human Design experiment.  I see people waking up all over the place.  The times seem to be ripe for awakening.

What a change that would be.  Going from asleep to awake.  From resisting to allowing.  From fear to gratitude.  We are witnessing the end of an age.  An age based on the use of fear to manipulate political and profit based will.  All based on a frightened little ego, cowering in the dark, trying to preserve itself as best it can.  I say, “Give up!”  There is a power that knows the way.  Our job is to have faith in That.  And finally, to know that I am That.  What a blessed change.

Where have I been for the last month?  The action of life has been so consuming that there has been little energy left for blogging.  Between the world financial markets falling apart, the reality that it may be too late to correct the climate crisis and just getting old, the mind has been working overtime to deal with it all.  What’s a mind to do?

I was in California for a week visiting my daughters.  Being with family during these times seems like the most soothing thing for my nervous nelly tendencies.  Nothing like a lot of hugs and love.  I saw Religulous , the movie, and highly recommend it to all.  Finished the third book by Jed McKenna, Spiritual Warfare, and I was enormously impacted.  What a writer!  The central theme of the book is that we are so scared of our death that we go into denial and don’t get the significance of actually being alive.  Yep, I am going to die, and I refuse to acknowledge it.  What an impact!  The jist of it seems to be that we loose sight of the miracle of life.  Put another way, wake up.  Life is happening right now.

So in retrospect, my mind has been perceiving major issues and problems in such a way as to blind me to the simple reality that I Am alive and well right now.  I am not alone in this, as many people have shared similar confusing stories with me during their essence readings.  The flower essences that came up addressed the personal crap that each person was blinded by.  Not just salve on a wound, but a direct salvo to destroy the minds latest and greatest stunts and skits.   What is left is the essential Self.  Hang in their folks.

Time has shifted.  Things are a bit different.  My daily reality consists of moving up into the mind and then down into the body over and over again.  I am continuing to experiment with being in the body rather than the head.  I am buzzing right now as I write about it.  A fullness, a presence fills the body and it’s surrounding field.

It could also be fueled by the seemingly minor adjustment that I have made regarding where I look for the answers.  I began my flower essence “work” with guides and devas.  Also, with a God out there.  Making the little adjustment to looking for answers and God inside has pulled down a house of cards for me.  I have had to own each of those guides as me.  I am is so big.  Yet, I have been eager to believe in authority other than my own. This experiment for me is quickening.  I am.  So are You.

I did my first splenic manifestor reading today.  I am one, but I have never done an essence reading on someone else of this Human Design type.  The essences that came up were pretty much what I  might have expected.  Two of them; Kapok Bush(Bush) and Greater Stitchwort(New Earth Essences) were for the effects of growing up as a manifestor: lethargy, worn out, apathy, resignation and feeling battered by life.  These are the same things I have experienced and that most adult manifestors are saddled with.  The world isn’t comfortable with manifestors and every sort of behavior modification technique is used to get them back in line with everyone else.  This manifestor can certainly use these essences as they will help to have another go at life with a refreshed perspective.

The third essence was a Solar Butterfly essence, Mio Goa, tourquoise from Eric Pelham.  It is for helping restore the Divine creativity that a splenic manifestor can spontaneously express in any moment.  Since most of us manifestors have had our spontaneous expression snuffed out, this essence will help reignite the natural expression or manifesting qualities we  had conditioned out of us.

These essences are the first ones that this person needed to help start the unwinding.  The splenic manifestor is one of the few creatures on the planet that is not meant to wait before acting, but instead to initiate through their intuitive knowing.  It has all gotten so mixed up.  The manifestors become good little waiters, and the others pretend to be manifestors by initiating all the time.  We took a step in this reading towards making this person more who they already are wired to be.

Here is an example of what is happening with my readings:

I first met Ken, just before my Translucent You retreat in April 2008.  I had no expectation and no alternative motive, just open to receive.  He picked out some flower essences for me and I used them over a period of time.  I was blessed with being on Kauai for approximately 4 months, and decided to continue this practice while there.  When I completed a bottle of flower essence I would then go see Ken and obtain another bottle.  What happened over this course of time seemed to be magical. While, I don’t pretend to understand the mechanism behind flower essences, I do accept its healing power and transformational properties I experienced.

When I first began using flower essence, I wasn’t fully aware why Ken picked out what he did or how it pertained to me.  To be honest I wasn’t even sure I would notice a difference.  However, over a few days, things began to become crystal clear.  I began to notice old hurts or emotions that I was unknowingly holding on to.  That alone was only part of the transformational process, but as we know the first step is awareness.  Not only did I begin to recognize these aspects of my life, I was able to detach from them for they no longer held significance for me.  After several bottles of flower essences, I began to have a genuine perspective about myself and life as a whole, one of happiness, one in which my heart felt expanded with gratitude and love.  With each essence I used the process was so subtle, like having a clay body mask and each part slowly falling away like little bits of a puzzle leaving me feeling refreshed and cleansed.  For me, using flower essences was a mystery and an awakening colliding.  That being said I leave you with a quote by Albert Einstein “The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.”  Flower essence is in deed a mystery in the aspect I can not explain how it works, I just experience it and accept what it brings to me.  However, “The only source of knowledge is experience.”

High there fellow practitioners.  A couple of things.  First, the Korte Phi Essences from Germany have made a come back.  I have their Rose collection, and it just never came up for people in my intuitive readings.  Things have changed.  Over the last few months to a year these essences have come up repeatedly and one in particular: Rosa rugosa - Apfelosen, Souvenir de Philmon Cochet rose.  Here is the interpretation:  “Real love requires a unity of mind, body and soul.  This rose helps establish that link, connecting the different energy levels.  Heart and mind merge so that love embraces our entire being.  Opens the door to higher vibrations.”

My interpretation is that the heart, in the body, must  ground our thinking.   The heart and soul can be the driver of the mind.  They guide it toward authentic loving acceptance.  If this essence is doing that, I am excited to use it and prescribe it.

Known as “the atomic bomb of the Polynesian Kingdom”, Nioi(Cayenne Pepper) has come into my life and I want to share about it.   My body has gone through a respiratory flu bout that lingers.  Five days ago I figured that I may need conventional medicines to end the coughing, etc.  I intuitively went to my garden and asked whether there was anything there that could cure my body.  The strong answer was Nioi(Cayenne Pepper), there in the middle circle, two plants, beautifully hanging their red globes. I grew them as more of an ornamental contrasting plant, but had never done any more than run one over my lips.  Picking one, I could feel the life force pulsing and the end of it looked like a real dragon head, ready to shoot fire. I had forgotten the training I received from a Hawaiian herbal healer.  He said it was the number one warrior for healing.

Well, of course no one uses the stuff because it can be amazingly painful.  Although it is  painful to chew, I am witnessing fascinating positive reactions.  First day, my eyes stung for hours after I had eaten the pepper.  My nose unloaded.  Mouth was like a bomb went off.  Perspiration, panic and then I just road that first one out.  Whew.  The second day I only ate a half a pepper.  Third, I almost finished one.  Next two days, one each, and I’m sliding into a momentum of one a day for who knows how long.

Burning skin in the legs and stomach, intestinal clearing, and heat and perspiration are some of the obvious things that I’ve noticed.  Oh, I forgot.  The cough is 90% gone. I am convinced that Nioi is a powerful warrior herb for this body.  So, it seems that I will continue this one a day thing.  Checking it out on the web, I was blown away to read about the effects of Cayenne Pepper.  Cayenne has the ability to clear the blood, cure digestive problems and to help people who suffer from cold hands or feet. It alleviates inflammation and can break up the deposits that contribute to the pain of arthritis. It clears sinus congestion, conjunctivitis, and bleeding gums. Because it also has astringent qualities, it can stop bleeding and prevent swelling. A source of Vitamin C, it rejuvenates the entire body when energy is depleted.  Then there are the guys that are swearing a shot of cayenne tincture or tea will bring a person back from a heart attach.  Amazing stories about how it cures all heart or circulation issues.

So, time passes, the mouth burns and the dead rise.

This category, “Deep Thoughts” has been a surprise to me.  I started a few months ago trying to fill in something, anything, that fit with deep thinking.  My own opinions on the relative value of the mind and thinking have seemed to create a bit of a stir.  I just got a  comment from Rick on many good uses of the mind, which deserves a response.  He is basically stating that he hears Human Design people saying the mind has no use. He offers, “It is my mind that feels my gut and my heart and puts those feelings into actions words and thoughts.”

What do you think about that my friends?  Get it?  Think about that.  IT IS ALL THINKING.  We are programed to evaluate everything by thinking.  Rick says it is his mind that is doing the feeling.  I’m sorry Rick, but you need to press the cosmic reset button and drop back into the You you are anyway.  That is not done by thinking.  I also totally get where you are coming from Rick.  I have been riding that road for most of this trip.  Now is a grand experiment in being ourselves.  If we would only stop thinking for just a moment.  I have spent a  life time of trying to be more worthy, to manifest more, to attract what i wanted and/or needed.  It has been a full time job.  The experiment now for me is turning in my resignation slip.  I give up.  I  allow what is to be. No more wishing, hoping and praying.

Feeling through my body.  Reminding myself that Consciousness, God, is all there is, and I AM THAT.  All that is left is silence.

Nine days ago I was a little sick, but not so sick that I couldn’t finish a series of blogs on the mind.  The body went down hill fast after that.  No medicines worked.  Sleepless nights.  Wow.  My companion throughout this period was my mind.  After just telling the world about how I don’t listen to it and that it is not my authority, it grabbed the upper hand.  Is there a price to pay for drawing the line in the sand regarding the mind????  It seems like the mind is the ultimate addiction in this life.  Trying to break it without any support structure is a job.  My only medicine was to not resist.  Let it kill me.  Something has died.  A peace or contentment has begun to take over.  No way to know what tomorrow will bring.  The good news is that some power has me in tow.  I surrender to that power.  What will be will be.

As I blog on, I am led to clarify what I’ve recently written. The point of this, for all of us, is to figure out who am I. Socrates led the list of philosophers in establishing this question mantra. It appears like almost everyone is missing the answer. If God is omnipresent, that means everywhere. In you and me and every rock and tree. The problem in getting that seems to be one thing: the mind and its pattern of interpreting everything. Without this problem mind, there is only letting go and resisting nothing. What does God have to resist? It sounds easy. But, it is not part of the mind’s patterns of analyzing and resisting out of fear.

The point is You are your only authority. There is nothing outside of us that comes close. What about all that powerful channeled material? I used to love it so. Great stuff for the mind in its quest to figure it all out. What about the Pope? Do I really have go there? Abraham, Moses, Jesus, Budah, and Krishna were examples of understanding their own Divine nature, but that doesn’t mean we should look at what they said to make decisions in our lives. There must be some help! I mean we seem to need help. Right?

My path, in addition to flower essences, has been Vedanta for a long time. That is the stuff that Eckhart Tolle wrote about in The Power of Now and New Earth. To catch up on this, go to Oprah.com to review their 2008 webcast. My favorite author, now deceased, is Robert Adams, Silence of the Heart.

Over a year ago I ran into Human Design. It is very close to Vedanta when you look at it deeply. Since then, it has run over me. It is an amazing tool. The point of it, in my opinion, is to align with your own unique vehicle of expression of the omnipresent Divine. It is not for the faint of heart. The bottom line with it is that your mind is not your authority. You never make decisions with your mind. Not with any bodies mind either. The system identifies your own unique vehicle in this incarnation, and it supports a new understanding on who you are and aren’t, as well as how to make a decision correctly. Sound cool? Well it is! If you want to check it out, look at HumanDesignAmerica.com, HumanDesignHawaii.com(you’ll love my dear friend John) or email my wife at kauaigoddess@gmail.com. She does readings.

Well, that is the point: You are your own authority. Or, if that is too much, just let go to life. Baby steps seem to help, and checking out the stuff I mentioned will be enough to engage anyone for a long time. One final note here. In Human Design, I am a splenic manifestor. That means that my main gift is intuition for others. I finally am living my design in that I mainly do intuitive flower essence readings for people and my design not only allows me to be intuitive, but I can share it with others. What a joy! Enjoy your ride my friends!