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It takes a Field, to create a Field, to create a Field...of Wholeness - Sarah WhiteleyIt takes a Field, to create a Field, to create a Field...of Wholeness - Sarah Whiteley

Here in Jerusalem – I am in a place of reflecting on a week of holding and hosting many people, from many places – around becoming present to the ‘edges’ we tremble on, individually and collectively - the same inquiry we were in last week at the second Axladitsa Guardians Gathering. My core reflection is that it takes a field, to create a field, to create a field. Within this, it takes a quality of fieldness that is able to invite wholeness - that can be felt, witnessed, embodied. I am tired. My body is trembling; vibrating from the energy we have held, witnessed – and called out, for us human beings to become whole. I have given everything this week. To hold and host fields that are still becoming aware of themselves is ‘big work’. It encompasses the ability to hold and host the individual, team and collective levels simultaneously – and to give presence and intention to the aspects that need strengthening at any given moment. It is the split-second-ability to dance with and respond to the flow of emergence. It is the importance of appreciating that at any time, we can be whole – and it is our individual and collective responsibility to practice and ground this wholeness and bring it to bear – here, now – and invite others into this knowing and practice too. It is our charge as human beings to call each other forward into this presence of being – and to hold compassion when we meet an ‘edge’, where we need to breathe it in and integrate – with all the courage that this takes. We are inherently whole – and our world is full of fragmentation – real and imaginary – and, for so long, our dominant world-view has held a premise that we are separate – different from one another – unable to connect. It no longer serves us to hold this thought or practice, on any level. All we do is inflict pain on ourselves, and then on each another. We love being whole – it is our innate essence of being. We love meeting each other in this quality – and we know it when we see it – and we long for it daily. It is our work, my work, to keep calling in wholeness – on all levels - and from this – re-craft our systems, cultures, practices, to live fully – individually and collectively.

Yet, even in the inherent knowing we are whole, it takes immense courage to keep calling it in – since we have so bought into the notion we are not. We are power-full when we are whole. It is this is what we have been holding and hosting – and, as a field, Maria and I - with consciousness, clarity and love. Many reflected this to us these days – and appreciated the gift we offered – and from this place, we witnessed them – as whole human beings – as a field of presence – able to hold and host others in the same quality – and in that, they felt more alive – and emboldened to continue the work they are hosting here in this part of the world. We have done good work these days…together…with many people, from many places…!
Second Guardians Gathering - Harvest & Photos - Sarah WhiteleyUnless we engage our authentic selves, we cannot live the future now
Unless we engage our fullness, we cannot take the leap individually and call in collectively
Unless we tremble collectively, we cannot presence the new

The three of us – Ria, Sarah and Maria - are sitting here in the outdoor kitchen at Axladitsa-Avatakia, in Pelion Greece. Stones are keeping our flipchart paper in place as the wind is blowing strongly from the Aegean Sea. We take a leap now to begin to write this collectively – through the collective being that has emerged between the three of us. All of us are used to writing on our own, directly from source and we engage with this vulnerability to share this collective energy to make this possible. Giving voice and discovering the appropriate language seems to be our collective leap, which has been sourced from a deep trembling that has grown between us this week. For the rest of the story, see: Harvest Photos
Taking the leap - together 27^th May 2008 - Taking the Leap - together - Sarah Whiteley
Today we – Maria, Ria and I - called each other to the question what is My Work in Our Work. We then reframed it into what is Our Work and therefore what is My Work in this? Is this the question – or is it that we need to return to the question of what makes me tremble that we had two days ago…? More sensing, slowing down, passing the talking piece – realising that if we are talking about a collective inquiry that calls in the next level of human evolution – then perhaps what is really needed is for us to become conscious of the leap we need to take together – here – now. What does it take to leap? Faith – courage - trust – many things…what then, is the leap we need to take together? Who are the other pioneering collective leapers??? So – what if it is us who need to name it, call it, invite it – a field of practitioners, leaders, people who care - who are already living on the edge, ready to take the leap, to be in the inquiry – to call in the future, to raise the vibration, to harmonise, align, tremble in the not knowing – individually – and be ready and willing to seek the edge collectively – and to move it together. What came up for me was the phenomena called the harmonic convergence - the resonance that is created when Planets align – and as this occurs the Music of the Spheres is created and amplified. Is this what we are calling – but in the human sphere? What kind of resonance would be sent out? What resonance would we carry as we move in our world? What systems would spring out of this new understanding? What would fall away…? What are the conditions for the leap to become possible?