Connecting with our Ether Element

This March New Moon, we will Journey with Gongs and Cacao (optional). I will guide you on a shamanic journey to connect to the spirit of Ether.

This is the 5th and final of a series of Shamanic Gong Journeys over the New moons through the 5 elements of Earth, Air, Fire, Water & Ether.

In many different ancient and indigenous cultures across the globe, there are descriptions of the circle of life and medicine wheels which all incorporate the 5 elements of Earth, Air, Fire, Water & Ether. No matter their origin, they all align with the same conceptual meaning. As we are made of these elements, we must be in balance for our health and well-being. We are all different, but if we strive to be in balance as much as possible we will be at our best in health and prosperity and happiness.

The ether element represents empty space, is the most subtle of all the elements and is the essence of emptiness. In this space, the other elements manifest as form. In Ayurveda ether is associated with the 5th chakra, the throat chakra, our ability to speak, and make sound and also includes our hearing. When we are suffering from a loss of voice or hearing, our ether element is out of balance.

Ether is defined by its emptiness of other elements, it is considered cold, because it lacks fire, light because it lacks the heaviness of earth, and immobile as it lacks the flowing nature of air and water. Ether is also omnipresent, it is everywhere, in everything, it is without form, without boundaries and has no limits.

The mind is composed of ether, formless and impossible to contain. A disturbed mind could contain too much air or water, as we ride waves of intrusive thoughts and emotions. Or perhaps we get stuck in too solid, too stubborn a way of thinking with an excess of our earth element. An empty mind during meditation can feel blissful, as it is undisturbed by thoughts and emotions. But too much ether can be damaging too, it can create too much space in the body, destroying the form that keeps us functional. Too much physical space in the mind can cause dementia, as the brain erodes away or an absence of cells in the pancreas could cause diabetes. And when we pass away, we become one with the ether, as we lose our attachment to our physical form completely.

Consuming bitter foods, including ceremonial cacao can increase the ether element in the body-mind. It will help increase our creative abilities and help us to feel the limitless possibilities available to us.

In the Mayan prophecies of the new age we are in, which began in 2012, we are now in the age of Ether. Where we will become more aware that we live in a world of energy. It is time to reconnect to the sacredness of life and to remember we are one, and one way to do this is to journey to the sacred sites and pray for peace on Earth. There will be many changes and challenges as we shift our consciousness collectively as many resist the changes - afraid of this shift which is inevitable. The great teachers of the Mayan traditions say "Find your heart, and you will find your way". Cacao ceremony is one of the best ways to awaken our awareness of our heart and our connection to the ether element.

This ceremony may help you to connect to your inner ether element. To see where you are in or out of balance. Or perhaps you would like to work with the power of the spirit of ether to transform something in your life, and begin the journey towards spring with more creativity and see beyond the boundaries you have felt constricted by with a new unlimited awareness.

We do this by journeying together, with my words, I guide you on a meditation which will lead you to connect with the element of ether. To begin to awaken your awareness of how it manifests within and around you in your reality experience. Perhaps to gain an understanding of where you are depleting your ether energy unconsciously, and how you can cultivate a healthy ether element balance within you.

The gongs and cacao will enhance your shamanic brain in its ability to connect deeply into different levels of awareness, going from Beta consciousness, through to alpha, delta and theta, the day-dream states where we are still awake yet able to vision as if in a dream. To awaken and to see with your shamanic brain what is all around us all the time, yet invisible to most of us with our eyes open. And of course, I will guide you home fully to your body again, so you can integrate the experience and bring home the gifts and wisdom to your everyday reality.