Mike Shares About Retreat 42
May 12, 2010
Here is a wonderful story from one of our first Retreat 42 voyagers, Mike Blackstone of Phoenix, Arizona. Here’s what he says about his experience on the retreat.
I was fortunate enough to be invited on the first Retreat 42. I couldn’t wait because I had a significant life project that had stalled. Retreat 42, the way Annie and Ian described it seemed to be exactly what I needed and the timing was so perfect, as well.
Going on that virtual retreat turned out to be so much more than I expected, and it was simple. All I had to do was carve out a small amount of private time each day to go inside and “stand” face-to-face with my “critic and pessimist” and talk my greatest fears.
Annie and Ian’s support was so important at that point because I could have given up. Sticking with it, I was really surprised that lasted only a few days, when optimism and peace of mind slowly began to show up, and within another few days I easily and effortlessly resurrected my project.
And wonderful things in my life way beyond my project started to happen. If you have never had the experience of getting more than you imagined and hoped for, get ready for a new “first” in your life on Retreat 42.
There were still rough spots before the end of my Retreat, and each one got easier and easier to get past, stronger than ever each time. Annie and Ian had been through theirs and they shared and warned of what we could expect. Knowing what to look for and what I might be up against was just everything. I had such confidence in their care. They are truly “from the heart” people.
If you are determined but just can’t get something going you really want and care about, Retreat 42 will be one of the best decisions you ever make.
Thanks Mike!
If you’re interested in learning about Retreat 42 or how you can join the next one, please email me at annie@anniehart.com.
Or join me and some of our Retreat 42 community on the Radio Show this Friday March 14 at 11 am. The show can also be downloaded later.
Koyaanisqatsi – Life Out of Balance
February 12, 2010
Koyaanisqatsi, Hopi word
“Crazy life, life in turmoil, life out of balance, life disintegrating, a state of life that calls for another way of living.”
Over twenty years ago I was privy to hearing the prophecies of Indigenous peoples first hand. I heard them through the mouths of the elders and their stories of the future. But honestly I was naive back then and I wrote them off as ‘doom and gloom.’ I told myself that it wasn’t really true what they were predicting. I was in my twenties and carefree. What the hell did I know about the world to come?
It wasn’t until the year 2000 that I suddenly woke up one day and said, “Oh my God, they were right.” The things that they had predicted were coming true – earth changes, political upheavals, very specific disasters that had been foreseen thousands of years ago.
How did they do that? How did the Hopi and every other indigenous culture around the globe know what was in store for our future? They just did. That’s the best I can say. They predicted it precisely and exactly.
But here’s where a confusion comes in. They never said that it was going to be the end of the world. They said it was going to be the end of A world.
Now what’s the difference? The end of the world vs. the end of a world? There is a huge difference. You see to the native people their frame of time was always told like a story. They hold time as a series of successive worlds, similar to how we have ages, epochs and eras, but their worldview is even more comprehensive than that.
Each ‘world’ had a theme an inevitable evolution. When you can see it that way, it’s easier to understand how they could predict the future. They could see in the span of evolution of the ‘worlds’ what was going to come next.
What they actually said was that it’s up to us to create the next world. This is the part that is always left out when people talk about the end of the world. The world is not ending folks. That would be the easy way out! We’re not getting off the planet that quickly.
It’s much harder to realize that a world is ending and that we need to do something about creating the next one. We can’t just stay asleep. What they said was that it would be the end of an age of darkness and the possible beginning of an era of light and that it is up to us to make the necessary changes in lifestyle and consciousness to usher in another world.
We can no longer go on as we have been – driven by greed and avarice, with complete disregard for human life and our planet. That world needs to end. It is up to each of us to make those small and steady changes every single day day after day, day in and day out.
There is no rest for the bringers of the next world. But that doesn’t mean that we have to be hopeless and cheerless about it. In fact just the opposite. We need to be as filled with light as we can be.
Our hope for the next world lives in us. Each day, day in and day out – not reacting to the craziness of the world around us but quietly and confidently making the necessary changes in ourselves and helping those around us.
Every change you make in yourself contributes to the balance and healing of the world. Today let’s reverse the tide and make our mantra, “Life in balance begins with me.”
You are welcome to listen to my Radio 42 Show on this topic. They can be downloaded any time.
Yours in always making the effort to contribute to a happy and sane world,
Annie
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