Conscious Universe Retreat in Portland - Follow-up thoughts

This is the final follow-up letter after the Conscious Universe Retreat.

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Hello vibrant beings!
I hope all is well with everyone a week after our time together at the retreat in Portland. I don't know about you, but I've been in quite an active state, with lots of energy moving and change happening in my life. In all of this, I am reminded to slow down, be present, breathe, and be open to what's arising next inside me.

What is arising in you now?

I am grateful for the profound level of participation, openness, honesty and sharing from all of you. I saw again how each of us makes these kinds of gatherings meaningful, by being present, and responding with open hearts and minds. I truly feel blessed to have been in the midst of such a clear and present group of people, willing to look deeper to affect change. It also affirms to me what we can do when we come clear together with each other, with intention.

I've put a link on my website of poems and music I shared at the retreat. You can find them here: http://www.innerworkingsresources.com/ConsciousUniverseResources

Also, there's a Postcard Page on my site that you can use to send post-dated affirmations and intentions to yourself. So, if you want a reminder of your intentions, insights, and goals, then you can send them to yourself through this page: http://www.innerworkingsresources.com/postcard (You will need to log in to use this function.)

So here's another Poem by Theodore Roethke that I feel relates to the slow and quick changes manifesting within us:

The Waking

I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.
I learn by going where I have to go.

We think by feeling. What is there to know?
I hear my being dance from ear to ear.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.

Of those so close beside me, which are you?
God bless the Ground! I shall walk softly there,
And learn by going where I have to go.

Light takes the Tree; but who can tell us how?
The lowly worm climbs up a winding stair;
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.

Great Nature has another thing to do
To you and me, so take the lively air,
And, lovely, learn by going where to go.

This shaking keeps me steady. I should know.
What falls away is always. And is near.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I learn by going where I have to go.

Lastly, I've added below the list of our collective intentions from the retreat. Reading this, I still feel it is a powerful sharing of collective thought. Thanks to Kari for typing up these notes and making sense of them. She will also be posting this list on the Shift In Action site, so we can get some comments and converstion going about them.

Blessings and light to you all,

Patrick

Collective Intentions from the Group Mind of The Conscious Universe

-Allow, support individual transformation and spiritual development of vulnerability, authenticity, and presence
-Create healthy communities beginning with our families and children which create new value and shared meaning by honoring and including many generations, cultures, and traditions, with love, humor, and fun; i.e. best party in town
-Activate and infuse our political system and other currently existing systems with consciousness allowing for the emergent qualities and new ways of doing and being

-Be aware of the fields we come into contact with and create, allowing nature, ancient wisdom and new technologies to guide us and unfold
-Follow the Beauty Way by practicing love and reverence for Earth and all her creatures, continuing toward sustainable, appreciative living
-Continue personal healing by identifying and removing blocks that keep us from having a relationship with the larger global healing and continued connection to divinity to sustain our global community
-Share responsibility at whatever level of influence we have working within communities, expanding into politics and social activism

-Reducing disparities by sharing the wealth and resources among all people and places and educating all and supporting the development and sustainability of local economies, shifting from hierarchical dominated society to partnering on different levels
-Create, recognize, Be the Divine Oneness that we truly are in our Community
-Aligning local and non local by speaking words that create alignment and match
-Un-invent the collective blockages shine the light on them –rework the story, reverse the dream/myth. Create gifts and opportunities out of obstacles and crises.

-Forgiveness: propose we recognize the other as part of all that is, let go on a deep level from the inside out
-Speaking our truth publicly, standing for who we are and intervening to stop the wrong
-Live our beliefs, witness, and remember who we are. Paying attention to what we are called to do today.
-Connect people to projects and resources in our communities, sharing information to create convergence
-Proactively change ourselves and the world by making it happen by bringing peace into the world and being in the collective process, manifest intentionally.

-Plug into, channel, and balance earth energy within a group, heal the Earth.
-See and acknowledge what needs to be healed, and act from the true power of our thoughts. Don’t turn away from the ugly.
-Tap into group energy – find a group or build a group
-Shift from dominating hierarchical society to a consensus partnering society
-Create and express beauty in the world

-Consume that which nourished others and not what harms others on the planet
-Practice mindfulness through prayer, meditation, gratitude, forgiveness– where are we placing our attention?
-Amplify and seek out creative ways to be mindful at all levels in consuming, inventing, sustainability, etc.
-Model change – be that change which we must create in the world
-Live in balance and Harmony

-Create intentional healthy communities and work locally with our neighbors
-Own our accountability as consumers and make socially responsible investments
-Know the oneness of humanity and feel the responsibility for the one, the whole of which we are a part
-Simplify our lives
-Make the invisible visible
-Take responsibility for whatever affect and influence we have now at whatever level it exists