Dear Friends of the Light,I've traveled many miles since my last newsletter, a journey that has carried me north, east, south and west through varying degrees of autumn.
Fall colors were moving into their glory in Michigan, were gone from the trees in the Muskoka area north of Toronto, and were in their final stages in Montreal. Now, in northern Virginia, they're still shifting from green to gold here in the Shenandoah Valley and blazing with fire on the slopes of nearby Massanutten Mountain.
I'll be writing more about my Canadian experiences in the coming days, in my New Earth Chronicles.
There's one experience, though, that I share with all U.S. visitors to Canada. It has to do with change.
Pocket change.
You see, Canada has done away with its $1 and $2 bills, replacing them with $1 and $2 coins. So every time you break a five in Canada, you end up with a pocketful of loonies ($1), toonies ($2), quarters, dimes, nickels and pennies.
A pocketful of change.
During my time in Canada, my coin-filled pockets were a constant and personal reminder of just how much transformative change we carry with us in each moment.
That change can sometimes feel heavy, like those extra coins. They can be awkward, uncomfortable, unsightly. Noisy. Insistent in their refusal to be ignored.
Just like transformative change.
If you're like me, you tend to spend coins more quickly than banknotes, just as you spend smaller bills more rapidly than large ones.
In spiritual, emotional and metaphysical terms, that's a good thing. It means the heaviness is temporary.
Just as breaking a banknote into its component pieces frees us to swiftly unload the coins — be it into a cash register or piggy bank — so breaking down our fears into their component parts can help us shed them more quickly.
That's because we get to see what some of those component parts are, hidden as they were within a larger block of greater fear.
For me, simply returning to Canada after a 10-year absence revealed some of those components and offered me many openings for change. Just about every moment presented itself as an opportunity to shed some old heaviness and step into the light of the new.
In Montreal, for example, I discovered why my childhood home was so reluctant to sell.
Only as I walked through its empty, echoing rooms to say goodbye, did I recognize that I was afraid that if the house sold, it would take all my memories with it.
The day after I relieved the house of five decades of memories, we had a purchase offer. The day I released the house to its new life with new occupants, the purchaser accepted our counteroffer.
A moment of realization and a willingness to act on my fears changed everything — and not only for me.
The word change is something of a misnomer, of course. No one truly changes from one thing to something else.
Even Clark Kent didn't change from reporter to superhero. As soon as Clark stepped into a phone booth and shed his mild-mannered appearance, the Superman layer was already there, waiting (as it always had) for that moment of revelation.
It's all about levels of awareness and layers of beingness, about acknowledging and stepping into what has been hidden...what we have hidden from ourselves.
Everything we will ever be we already are. All our potential lies within, waiting, like Clark's super-suit, to be recognized, acknowledged, activated and expressed — by us.
We don't need to change anything to access it, other than our awareness.
Still, the word "change" serves a purpose. It describes perfectly our perception of what we're experiencing.
As many of us feel called to change our lives — to change the work we do, to change how it looks, to change how we look — the word change feels appropriate. It suggests revolution not evolution, a sharp turn not a slow curve.
When I crossed the St. Clair River at Port Huron, Michigan, and drove into Canada, I knew change was imminent. I knew I stood on the cusp of radical transformation, that I could not cross back into the United States unaltered.
Although I can't yet see all the changes, some have already begun expressing themselves.
One example is the pending house sale. Another is tele-class I described in my last newsletter, The Wisdom-Keeper Training: The Way of the New Medicine Wheel. Scheduled to begin this Sunday, it had garnered much interest though few registrations. Ironically, it too is about change.
Like my teleconferences, suspended this month for similar reasons, the numbers for the tele-class simply weren't there.
Change was in the air. I just couldn't touch it.
My first night back in the U.S., I was all set to cancel the class when someone phoned to order the CD set.
"I can't sell you the CDs if there's no class," I said. But then I got to thinking. Or, rather, the angel that planted the phone call then planted the seeds of change in my mind.
In the spirit of these accelerated times, the seeds have already germinated and sprouted.
The class is gone. In its place, I have devised a self-study version that's more accessible because it's less expensive, isn't tied a specific time and is designed specifically as a do-it-yourself experience. (See sidebar, above right, and article below for more information.)
Yes, there was fear to acknowledge and move through before that piece of change could realize: financial fear.
As I paid my bills a few nights ago and discovered that they would absorb just about all my cash, I had to keep reminding myself that the only true currency is the currency of faith, and that I'm always fully supported...to the extent that I know it to be so.
Moments after I paid the last bill, the first Wisdom-Keepers program sold.
Altering how I work with this material is one piece of personal change. Others are still buried deep within the realm of the invisible.
Yet they are there, waiting to move into the place of awareness. There, they'll jangle until I give them their due, each pocketful of change ready to buy me a new experience of light, a new opening to love, a new blessing of life.
What about you? Is change jangling in your pockets? Are you ready to shed your Clark Kent suit for that of a superhero?
You can do it. I know you can. I believe in you.
Namaste,
Mark David
Change & Empowerment: the Wisdom-Keeper Training & the New Medicine Wheel
Have you been called to awaken the Wisdom-Keeper within you? Are you ready to be a bridge from the current Information Age to the Age of Wisdom and Discernment?
Are you called to the new medicine wheel, the one that blends the four directions into one?
If so, then you're ready for The Wisdom-Keeper Training: The Way of the New Medicine Wheel, a guided program of self-study and initiation.
Working with five energy drawings — one for each direction and one for the heart of the wheel — and with five accompanying CDs of initiations, activations, guided journeys and other transformative experiences, you will step into the next level of your power to help midwife this next stage of your life, this next age of humanity.
The New Medicine Wheel is an initiation into the powers that you, yourself, have called in to you at this time, an opportunity to be a pioneer and way-shower as you step through the portal into this new age and stage.
You planted these seeds at the beginning of time. Now you are ready to harvest them — for yourself and for all.
The Wisdom-Keeper Training offers you a key to this new age in your life and in the life of humanity.
Everything we will ever be we already are. All our potential lies within, waiting, like Clark Kent's super-suit, to be recognized, acknowledged, activated and expressed — by us.
Dear Friends of the Light,
I've traveled many miles since my last newsletter, a journey that has carried me north, east, south and west through varying degrees of autumn.
Fall colors were moving into their glory in Michigan, were gone from the trees in the Muskoka area north of Toronto, and were in their final stages in Montreal. Now, in northern Virginia, they're still shifting from green to gold here in the Shenandoah Valley and blazing with fire on the slopes of nearby Massanutten Mountain.
I'll be writing more about my Canadian experiences in the coming days, in my New Earth Chronicles.
There's one experience, though, that I share with all U.S. visitors to Canada. It has to do with change.
Pocket change.
You see, Canada has done away with its $1 and $2 bills, replacing them with $1 and $2 coins. So every time you break a five in Canada, you end up with a pocketful of loonies ($1), toonies ($2), quarters, dimes, nickels and pennies.
A pocketful of change.
During my time in Canada, my coin-filled pockets were a constant and personal reminder of just how much transformative change we carry with us in each moment.
That change can sometimes feel heavy, like those extra coins. They can be awkward, uncomfortable, unsightly. Noisy. Insistent in their refusal to be ignored.
Just like transformative change.
If you're like me, you tend to spend coins more quickly than banknotes, just as you spend smaller bills more rapidly than large ones.
In spiritual, emotional and metaphysical terms, that's a good thing. It means the heaviness is temporary.
Just as breaking a banknote into its component pieces frees us to swiftly unload the coins — be it into a cash register or piggy bank — so breaking down our fears into their component parts can help us shed them more quickly.
That's because we get to see what some of those component parts are, hidden as they were within a larger block of greater fear.
For me, simply returning to Canada after a 10-year absence revealed some of those components and offered me many openings for change. Just about every moment presented itself as an opportunity to shed some old heaviness and step into the light of the new.
In Montreal, for example, I discovered why my childhood home was so reluctant to sell.
Only as I walked through its empty, echoing rooms to say goodbye, did I recognize that I was afraid that if the house sold, it would take all my memories with it.
The day after I relieved the house of five decades of memories, we had a purchase offer. The day I released the house to its new life with new occupants, the purchaser accepted our counteroffer.
A moment of realization and a willingness to act on my fears changed everything — and not only for me.
The word change is something of a misnomer, of course. No one truly changes from one thing to something else.
Even Clark Kent didn't change from reporter to superhero. As soon as Clark stepped into a phone booth and shed his mild-mannered appearance, the Superman layer was already there, waiting (as it always had) for that moment of revelation.
It's all about levels of awareness and layers of beingness, about acknowledging and stepping into what has been hidden...what we have hidden from ourselves.
Everything we will ever be we already are. All our potential lies within, waiting, like Clark's super-suit, to be recognized, acknowledged, activated and expressed — by us.
We don't need to change anything to access it, other than our awareness.
Still, the word "change" serves a purpose. It describes perfectly our perception of what we're experiencing.
As many of us feel called to change our lives — to change the work we do, to change how it looks, to change how we look — the word change feels appropriate. It suggests revolution not evolution, a sharp turn not a slow curve.
When I crossed the St. Clair River at Port Huron, Michigan, and drove into Canada, I knew change was imminent. I knew I stood on the cusp of radical transformation, that I could not cross back into the United States unaltered.
Although I can't yet see all the changes, some have already begun expressing themselves.
One example is the pending house sale. Another is tele-class I described in my last newsletter, The Wisdom-Keeper Training: The Way of the New Medicine Wheel. Scheduled to begin this Sunday, it had garnered much interest though few registrations. Ironically, it too is about change.
Like my teleconferences, suspended this month for similar reasons, the numbers for the tele-class simply weren't there.
Change was in the air. I just couldn't touch it.
My first night back in the U.S., I was all set to cancel the class when someone phoned to order the CD set.
"I can't sell you the CDs if there's no class," I said. But then I got to thinking. Or, rather, the angel that planted the phone call then planted the seeds of change in my mind.
In the spirit of these accelerated times, the seeds have already germinated and sprouted.
The class is gone. In its place, I have devised a self-study version that's more accessible because it's less expensive, isn't tied a specific time and is designed specifically as a do-it-yourself experience. (See sidebar, above right, and article below for more information.)
Yes, there was fear to acknowledge and move through before that piece of change could realize: financial fear.
As I paid my bills a few nights ago and discovered that they would absorb just about all my cash, I had to keep reminding myself that the only true currency is the currency of faith, and that I'm always fully supported...to the extent that I know it to be so.
Moments after I paid the last bill, the first Wisdom-Keepers program sold.
Altering how I work with this material is one piece of personal change. Others are still buried deep within the realm of the invisible.
Yet they are there, waiting to move into the place of awareness. There, they'll jangle until I give them their due, each pocketful of change ready to buy me a new experience of light, a new opening to love, a new blessing of life.
What about you? Is change jangling in your pockets? Are you ready to shed your Clark Kent suit for that of a superhero?
You can do it. I know you can. I believe in you.
Namaste,
Mark David
Change & Empowerment: the Wisdom-Keeper Training & the New Medicine Wheel
Have you been called to awaken the Wisdom-Keeper within you?
Are you ready to be a bridge from the current Information Age to the Age of Wisdom and Discernment?
Are you called to the new medicine wheel, the one that blends the four directions into one?
If so, then you're ready for The Wisdom-Keeper Training: The Way of the New Medicine Wheel, a guided program of self-study and initiation.
Working with five energy drawings — one for each direction and one for the heart of the wheel — and with five accompanying CDs of initiations, activations, guided journeys and other transformative experiences, you will step into the next level of your power to help midwife this next stage of your life, this next age of humanity.
The New Medicine Wheel is an initiation into the powers that you, yourself, have called in to you at this time, an opportunity to be a pioneer and way-shower as you step through the portal into this new age and stage.
You planted these seeds at the beginning of time. Now you are ready to harvest them — for yourself and for all.
The Wisdom-Keeper Training offers you a key to this new age in your life and in the life of humanity.
