Quantum Consciousness and Nature's Rhythms and Cycles - Part 2

Once upon a time we lived more harmoniously with natural rhythms and cycles and understood patterns that determined how we lived. Nature is (and always was) the quintessential feminine wisdom within us all that is complimentary and opposite to the masculine life force energy. In the world of Chinese Medicine wisdom and the duality of all things relating to yin and yang, you can't have one without the other, it goes against universal/natural law.

Last week I wrote an article about Quantum Consciousness and its relationship to our human context. I explained 5 levels of consciousness that provide insights into our physical and non-physical being Like the principle of yin and yang, our physical and non-physical worlds in balance are necessary for living a truly joyful, expansive and content human experience.

Often we limit ourselves to the physical world in fear of 'the unknown' or 'the invisible' depending on our spiritual or energetic awareness. That's ok, however how do we then limit our human experience if parts of us are denied? Consciousness is a huge global topic that's rapidly sweeping through human awareness as we all begin to question who we are and the choices we make through deeper self-inquiry.

What I love about this evolving level of self-inquiry is the continuous 'remembering' and 'return' to ourselves as 'energy beings' and the synergistic surprises along the way. How does that show up in your awareness? What does it mean to be conscious?

From this Quantum awareness, I'd like to journey towards Indigenous wisdom that has always had foundations in natural rhythms and cycles. Why is this important? Our understanding of nature based wisdom is directly reflected within our biology and energy, all life is working harmoniously within natural rhythms and cycles so it's important for us to return to these natural ways of being to appreciate who we are, as nature. Most of the western world has been colonised in some form or another and indoctrinated out of nature based wisdom so this remembering and returning to rhythms and cycles that already exist is the guidance and connection many of us are craving.

As we evolve and co-exist with all life, our collective healing is happening in every moment through awareness of our own responses, behaviours, thoughts, feelings, attitudes, actions and beliefs. As we cycle through our own patterns, how can we further support ourselves and others consciously?

I always come back to nature's way as she/we are NOT in separation, we may perceive this separation yet we are already co-existing in both seen and unseen worlds regardless of our level of consciousness. Our ability to be present to this masterful universal life force that weaves all life together firstly helps us understand the relationship we have with ourselves (control based or flexible?) and the relationship we have with the natural living world around us (appreciative or destructive?). How does this land for you?

No individual or species is privileged in the world of nature: All eat and are eaten; all become sick and die in their turn. Humans are part of an interconnected continuum of life.' - Lisa Kemmerer

Life is essentially a responsibility yet Mother Earth has presented this wonderful garden of eden to all living beings to experience joyfully, abundantly and lovingly in infinite ways. Are we embracing life with joy, wonder, awe and appreciation or not?

With the climate crisis always present, we seem to continue missing the mark with what it means to live a good life harmoniously in relationship to all living things from the mycelium network to the cosmic beings in our neighbouring galaxies. These mystical and mythical parts of life enhance our reality if we are open to a 'multi-dimensional' way of operating.

Communities exist everywhere, seen and unseen, micro and macro, physical and non-physical. As we learn to understand and accept more interconnected wisdom, we can truly open our hearts to receive something beyond our current context. Until then, we may remain in endless entropic loops that hinder our evolution, the choice is ours.

With an understanding of synergistic and regenerative ways of being, we can begin to appreciate endings (death) and beginnings (birth) and the way they work responsibly and in harmony with nature's rhythms and cycles. Life cycles go beyond the paradigm of linear based living and 'normality' into a co-creative understanding of 'diversity' and opportunity.

Life evolves with energetic awareness through a quantum path of interconnected waves and particles forming and reforming with every thought, feeling, belief, attitude and response we emit. How is our human context nested within the natural landscape of alchemical and evolutionary wisdom? Is it still beyond the scope of our awareness? For example, as we transition from Autumn to Winter, a shift in the landscape happens that sends ripples of information out to all the animal, plant, mineral, and microbial soil communities to let them know change is afoot. They listen, understand and innately know what to do. Do we listen?

One cycle ends and another begins. This is the nature of all life on earth - a series of conversations that are carried on the wind, travelling through infinite water ways, activated by the sun and absorbed into the earth beneath our feet. Will we continue to misinterpret all these natural signals and our own inner technology in service to the human constructs that often just keep us distracted? Can we restore a healthy relationship that exists within each of our human bodies and allow that to lead us on life's path as true Earth Keeper's?

'Climate Change begins with Human Change.'

How can we reimagine and embody change in deeply natural ways that respectfully reconnects us back to our innate biorhythms inside and out? Are our hearts open enough to receive this information about who we are and how we can appreciate the patterning and wisdom that is already encoded within?

We can learn to REALLY listen, that's a start. In my experience, this takes time and effort, depending on the complexity of the life we have created. I know when I finally chose to embark on my own journey of reconnection to natural cycles a few years ago, I had no idea what impact it would have on me and my life. Several years on I am still expanding these ways of being through deeper awareness of listening to nature, astrology, cyclical rhythms and pulses and quantum awareness of how reality appears.

We have to start somewhere, it's a long term unfolding that we can all honour on some level. The sketch below provides a simple guide to natural nested cycles that are part of my own educated awareness and energetic expressions of rhythmic cycles that can be applied to life.

Each cycle carries its own energetic story that naturally informs all other cycles making this awareness less complex than we think (I feel). What's important with cycles is not jumping into 'doing' anything about it, but rather being in the awareness of the energy and natural reflections whether they be the weather patterns, the temperature in the air, the bird activity, the strength of the sun at certain times of the day, the texture of landscapes, the reflective qualities of natural light throughout the day, the feeling of the earth under your feet and so on. Can we slow down and engage with life in these intimate ways so we an experience concepts of decomposition, renewal and regeneration in sensory and intuitive ways?

Other examples include what differences in our energy occur at the full moon and new moon? How does that affect how we feel and how we relate to others on that day?

What changes occur internally and externally as seasons merge and transition from one to another? How does this make us feel and what does that tell us about our habits and patterns?

What astrological and energetic influences arise around the solstice and equinox transitions that inform the seasonal cycles? (do you know when the solstice and equinox transitions occur?)

How do all these make us feel and are we able to intuit what our bodies are asking of us in these cyclical ways or are we simply paying them lip service, denying them, resisting or ignoring the flow of information and inspiration that we are clearly receiving (whether we realise or not)?

These are just a few ways to begin questioning how we may adapt our life journey and become more aware of natural attunement that is often in direct opposition to current systemic ways of operating in our western world.

What choice will you make after reading this article? Is this important to you? The difference that makes the difference is up to each and every one of us, how will you respond to nature's call?

I bring it back to interconnected choices:

1. the path of the heart in alignment with nature's rhythms and cycles
2. the path of confusion in alignment with entropic systems and forces

Both these choices tend to be entangled with each other (yin and yang together) so our own discernment and clarity around what the heart path looks and feels like is the first step. A process of undoing is necessary for most of us so we can create the spaciousness for the 'remembering and returning' back to ourselves to happen organically and simultaneously.

Ultimately, regeneration becomes a way of life as we embrace and embody natural cycles and rhythms to continue restoring and weaving a harmonious interconnected web of life in relationship to everything we know and don't know. Let's be honest, we really don't know much..... we all have so much to learn.

I trust that each conscious undoing has a complimentary and opposite force of co-creative energy (quantum waves and particles...) occurring with noble intention. Being responsible for these intentions is what matters.

Appreciating these greater natural forces beyond our perceptions and human constructs feels to me to be the most important 'action and non-action' as that is the source of true rebalancing taking place in all living ecosystems within and around us. We are far less significant that we believe ourselves to be. Our actions have been tainted by many flaws including colonialism for many decades and as Marya and Patel ('Inflamed', 2021) remind us,

'colonialism isn't simply the physical occupation of land. It is a process, an operation of power in which one cosmology is extinguished and replaced with another. In that replacement, one set of interpretations about humans' place in the universe is supplanted. Patterns of identity, language, culture, work, relationship, territory, time, community, and care are transformed. Colonialism has fundamentally altered our relationships with the web of life, and we are living with its consequences.'

Most of us who are consciously doing good believe we are saving the planet, but really she is reflecting back to us that we need to save ourselves through our awareness of right relationship that restores harmony within and without, universal law. Mother Earth is our true teacher. We can choose to engage with the roots of who we are or not. Real change happens here with the ripple effect of natural wisdom - a simple yet powerful strategy.

Gina Yallamas - budding Earth Keeper 🌳

References: 'Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice', Marya. R & Patel. R, Allen Lane, 2021.