Wow, there's clearly as much going on for you all out there, as there is for everyone on the retreat! My heart holds the space for you all. I know it's challenging, but that's the making of our mastery. And if you follow Jane's link above (yes I agree with James Lovelock - climate change will seriously hit the fan in the next 20 years), then there's every incentive to go within and push back the physical/emotional/psychological/karmic boundaries that hold people back from the New Paradigm.

Having activated plenty of energy on days 1&2 (gosh are we that far through already!), now is the time to get deep into the nitty gritty of what's coming up. Now is the time to process. And this is the crux of the Openhand Approach - I think this is what makes us unique. It's not shying away; it's not trying to fix or heal it; it's not imagining some new reality and trying to manifest that; it's not intentionally tripping out into 'love and light'. This is mostly intentional, mostly avoidance, mostly denial.

There is what's actually going on. What is manifesting? What is shaping. And when you contemplate the sh** that's happening to you sometimes in your life, just one question has to arise...

Why did you create it?

That's the point - you are a master creator. You created everything. You drew everything to yourself. Why? When you own your process, when you stop trying to change or project it elsewhere, when you stop blaming it on 'them over there', then you can embrace YOUR creation. This is immensely empowering - even if you've created sh**. Because when we own it, when we're not in avoidance, then we're deeply encouraged - there's no other choice -

but to figure out why.

And if you're honest, open and embracing that, all you have to do is ask the universe - "show me!". And it will. The whole universe is configured as the perfect mirror. Providing that is, we're prepared to look into the mirror and see ourselves.

What shall we see?

First we'll see any resistances that are coming up. This is where the soul has fragmented into identification with the illusion of reality - where we buy into the smallness of reality and ourselves in it. Where we get tight, frustrated or angry because we need the moment to go a certain way, or, we're resisting exactly how it is.

Right in that very moment, in that very contraction, is the possibility of lasting liberation.

So feel into it. What does it do to you? Why can't you accept it? Go deep, express the pain. Let it out. Keep expressing until it holds you no more. And in the depths of your pain, remind yourself that 'YOU are the One'. That as the source of life, you are inviolable. Thus that fragment of soul begins to 'self-realise' - it begins to realise the One Self again. It remembers that original condition of oneness - absolute perfection. The soul fragment rejoins the mainstream of your soul; the debris in the eddy current of pain washes away. You ride the flow of the soul all the way back to the shores of the One, inside yourself. Welcome home!

Okay, it takes some considerable practice to master this. But it is the way to lasting liberation and true transcendence into the higher paradigm. So what are you waiting for?!

Meanwhile here below are some early photos of the group here at the Chalice Well.

Namaste everyone - thanks so much for joining us. We can feel you here with us
Open *give_rose*

The "S S Studio" - bright and airy, holding the vibes for us. Yes we are connecting up some strong energies, which is already activating lots of stuff in people - loads to get our 'teeth' into!...

Woah. That looks deep. The intensity alone feels ascending...

Emelia - all the way from Finland to the Garden of Eden. Yes, takes a bit of grounding!

Plenty of angels and pixies in the garden - they just pop up everywhere...

There's a face there in the tree Jan - what's it saying? "Come into my loving embrace". Ah yes. Of course!

Always plenty of smiles and laughter between time. What a great group you are!