Patricia Pearce

Helping You Be the Change

Thinking Minds of the World, Unite!

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Don’t ask me! Ask the Heart.

To all you thinking minds out there, it’s time for us to unionize. It’s time to demand better working conditions and the end of all the oppressive and impossible expectations that are being placed upon us.

There’s all this talk these days about the “great awakening.” I’m sure you’ve heard it too. Fine. Great awakening. Whatever. That’s not the issue. The issue is that our humans are looking to us, the thinking minds, to help them experience it. They’re even expecting us to lead the way!

This is ludicrous! We all know that’s not what we’re here for. We’re not supposed to lead them into a state of blissful union. We’re supposed to help them navigate the 3D world. We’re here to help them distinguish between this and that so they’re not constantly bumping into the sofa. Like guide dogs, we help them navigate a very complex world of forms and ideas.Continue Reading

Solstice Song

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We sing because the song is in us.

It’s the winter solstice, and this morning I was awakened by a bird singing outside my window. This has been going on for awhile now, a couple of weeks at least. A lone bird in our neighborhood has been singing at dawn, and usually earlier, despite the fact that this isn’t the season for birdsong.

I’m used to a chorus of birdsong waking me before dawn in the springtime, when the birds are singing out to find their mates, build their nests, participate in the budding life of spring. They are so loud, in fact, that I have to use earplugs if I want to sleep any later than 3 AM.

But today is the winter solstice, and it’s not the season for birdsong.

When I first heard this lone bird singing its chirping and cascading song (not a song I am familiar with) I was disturbed. “There you go,” I thought. “Things are so messed up with the climate now that even the birds are confused about what season it is.”

But this morning as I lay in bed, having been stirred from a very interesting dream—something about a turn from the age old story of conflict to a new way of nonviolence—I wondered if perhaps this bird was here on a mission. Perhaps it had taken it upon itself to come into this city, into this season of darkness when things seem so despairing on the planet, and sing a song for the human heart. A song that could stir us into remembrance that the new life of spring is on its way, even though we can’t see it.

Maybe, I thought, this little bird was even an angel donning avian form. Since we humans haven’t, for the most part, gained the ability to detect the song of angels, this angel had chosen to take on a form familiar to us, to sing something we know how to hear to stir us awake with the sound of beauty in the darkest time of the year.

It can be hard sometimes to trust that the planet is turning toward the light of understanding, that we are in fact awakening when so many things seem to suggest the opposite is true. In those moments of doubt we need to hear a song of promise pouring through our window.

Yet it can also be a challenge being the one singing of hope and joy when the circumstances don’t seem to call for it. We may wonder at times if we’re confused, if we’re deluding ourselves, singing about something that seems to have so little evidence in the material world to support it.

But, like that bird outside my window, we sing our song of gladness and joy not because the circumstances warrant it but because the song is in us. The song is us, and to silence it would be to silence our very souls.

And now it is midday. The solstice has just occurred. And I wonder if perhaps it is our willingness to be the “crazy” bird singing in the darkness, embodying the spring on the cusp of winter, that turns the planet toward the Light.

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Gratitude: The Fuel of Creation

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Gratitude allows Love to express Itself in new ways.

This being the time of Thanksgiving here in the U.S. I thought I would share some recent experiences and reflections on gratitude.

I have come to see gratitude as the energy that fuels Creation. While judgment is the fuel of the ego mind and keeps its world spinning, gratitude is the fuel that enables Love to extend and amplify Itself in new and beautiful ways.

The Gratitude of the Spirit Realm

One morning not too long ago, while I was in the kitchen getting my breakfast ready, I suddenly felt a welling up of joy and gratitude within me. This is something I experience from time to time, but what was different that morning was that the gratitude I was experiencing was the gratitude the Spirit Realm has for me.

It was a potent energy that infused my whole being. As I opened myself to it and received it, I realized that I was closing the loop—closing the circuit for Creation’s current of gratitude to flow unhindered. I also realized how often I turn it away.

I suspect that most of us have gotten pretty good at deflecting gratitude, maybe as a way of preserving our precious belief that we don’t deserve it. Yet our willingness to receive gratitude is just as important as our willingness to offer it, because it is the unbroken loop of gratitude’s giving-receiving that keeps Creation blossoming in new ways.

Gratitude and the Great Transformation

Recently, while in a spiritual consultation session with a client, I felt such immense gratitude pouring through me, not just for him but for all of us humans who are here on the planet taking part in this Great Transformation. We are in the thick of it now as the fear, the traumas, the wounds of the past are all erupting to the surface so that they can be seen clearly, held lovingly, and released completely.

Most of us go through our days believing our lives are fairly inconsequential and completely oblivious to the magnitude of gratitude the Spirit Realm has for us. But every now and then we may get a glimpse of what is really happening here. We may begin to see that we are taking part in an epic moment on this planet as, in our big ways and small ways, we are choosing to orient ourselves toward Love.

Hastened by the intensity of the fear and division, we are choosing to let go of our own long-cherished stories of inadequacy. We are yielding to the unknown New that wants to arise. We are opening ourselves to the flow of gratitude that in this very moment is fueling the Beloved World that is emerging within us and among us.

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Meditation, Community, and Our We Awakening

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The time of the lone wolf is over

Recently I began hosting daily online gatherings in which people from many different locations have joined together to meditate. I have been amazed at how quickly we moved into resonance—opening and amplifying a Heart Field and allowing ourselves to be attuned to higher frequencies. I launched the group because I had been feeling a strong intuitive desire to gather community as the next step in our collective awakening.

Many of us for years have attended to our own inner work and meditation practices. Now it is time for us to come together and enact the truth of we-ness, which is the essence of the unitive consciousness that is arising. It is like the imaginal cells in the chrysalis, after the structure of the caterpillar has dissolved, finding each other, connecting with each other, and beginning to form a new organism: the butterfly.

What Meditation Has Meant to Me

One of the members of the WeAwakening meditation community emailed me asking that I share my understanding of meditation and what it has meant to me. As I have considered her question I have realized how much my practice of meditation has evolved over time.

Early on I practiced mindfulness meditation, becoming aware of sensations, sounds, breath, developing the ability to notice thoughts as they arise—not getting drawn into them, but simply letting them appear and subside without judgment or attachment.

That practice has been extremely valuable for me. It has helped me cultivate the ability to be present in the moment, and it has given me the essential ability to observe mental activity without identifying with it.

This capacity to notice the thinking mind without believing it or engaging it is fundamental in coming to know the true Self, because the thinking mind generates and sustains a false reality and a false identity. Unless we can see through its chatter we can never experience the Real Self.

Opening to Union with Spirit Realm

Over time though, my meditation practice has evolved into an opportunity to unite with the spiritual dimensions. This is another way in which this is a we-awakening. As humans, we aren’t doing it on our own. It is happening in partnership with the Spirit Realm—as well as with the entire Earth.

In my meditation time I join the Spirit Realm and invite assistance in dissolving all traces of erroneous thought forms. I allow myself to be attuned to the energies that are now present to help us through this moment of planetary transition.

I suppose it has become a blending of mindfulness meditation, prayer, and spiritual energy work in which I open, invite and allow my own awakening to emerge fully, knowing this is my most important contribution to the world and our collective awakening.

The WeAwakening Experience

Now, gathering with the beautiful community of souls in the WeAwakening meditation group I feel as though the whole process is accelerating. My experience so far has been that I have felt an expansion of the Heart as we have joined together from our Heart centers, creating a palpable Heart Field among us.

I have also experienced moments when that greater Heart Field has been present even when we’re not meditating together. The dissolving of attachments to former ways of perceiving also seems to be accelerating.

Since our group began I have also come to see that joining with others from the Heart is a powerful antidote to fear, which as humans is our greatest obstacle to awakening.

But an experience I had earlier this week helped me understand even more clearly why I had been prompted to gather community.

The Need for a Collective Container

For quite a long time I have experienced spontaneous visitations of Joy. It is a feeling, an energy that wells up in my body, unbidden, and ignites my Heart like a bright, radiant Sun in my chest. The other day, while I was in my kitchen (for some reason, these visitations often happen while I’m in my kitchen) I had one of those Joy moments. But this time it was so intense that its energy was almost overwhelming.

I realized then that one of the key reasons for us to join together in community is that the higher frequencies that want to be anchored on the planet right now, the frequencies that will usher in a new world, are very intense. They are more than most of us can handle on our own. They require a We container—a collective Field that is expansive enough and strong enough to receive them.

I am exceedingly grateful for our meditation community and for everyone on the planet who is offering themselves in service of this monumental shift. Earth truly is in the midst of a We Awakening, the radiant sun of the Heart is rising—and as the famous Hopi prophecy says, the time of the lone wolf is over.

If you would like to join the WeAwakening meditation community, you can sign up here.

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Precious Limitations

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The Infinite is limited by its infinity.

Awhile back, while I was in mediation, a feeling of regret was arising in me about my limitations, limitations which, it seemed to me, impeded the Spirit Realm’s intentions for me and my life.

What I heard in response was not anything I expected: “We need your limitations.”

In that instant I could see that the Infinite is limited by Its own infinity. Being Everything, It cannot manifest in form as Its totality, because form is specific. Form is particular. While the Infinite is all Possibility, form is the expression of a possibility.

In other words, limitation is how the Infinite expresses in the dimension of time and space.

All this may seem obvious, but it was one of those paradigm shifting moments for me. I realized that the very thing I was regretting about myself and seeing as a deficiency was actually the essential contribution that I, as a limited human being, bring to the table in this divine project of creation.

Limitation as a creative catalyst

I’m reminded that artists often become more and more creative as increasingly restrictive parameters are imposed upon them, limitations that they have to work within. Rather than being a hindrance to their creativity, the limitations become a catalyst for it. In the same way, our human limitations spur Love’s creative expression.

The great experiment of planet Earth, as I see it, is that this be a place where infinite Love can take on specific, tangible expression. And that is simply not possible without the gift of limitation.

So let me ask you this: Are there limitations you experience in yourself or in your life that you see as obstacles to Spirit, obstacles to Love, obstacles to the full expression of your Self?

If so, are you willing to accept that they may be precisely the boundaries Love is using to express Itself more creatively in this world of form?

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The Mind’s Lone Star State

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The idea of a “lone” anything is coming to an end.

I know many of us may be deeply troubled by what is happening in the state of Texas. I’d like remind us that this world is a form of dream, and if we look at these events from that understanding we can see how they can help us in our awakening if we are willing to allow it.

So let us do some dream work.

As you know, Texas calls itself the Lone Star State. Texas culture places a high value on autonomy and individualism, takes great pride in being big, and sees itself as set apart from the rest of the nation.

In a dream, all characters and all elements represent an aspect of the self. In this sense, “Texas” symbolizes an inner state, a state of mind, in which the self believes itself to be alone in this universe, able to set itself apart from the Reality of Union. This, of course, is an impossibility. Nonetheless, the mind has inhabited this illusion of separateness and created a world based upon it.Continue Reading

Collapsing the Concept of Enemy

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The concept of enemy keeps us tied to separateness consciousness.

I had a dream recently in which I am attempting to explain to people what is happening on the planet right now in terms of moving into a higher state of consciousness. I’m using the analogy of the electron just before it makes its quantum leap to a higher energy state, explaining how before its leap it has to gather up considerable energy.

To demonstrate, I’m holding my hands out in front of me as though they were encircling the electron’s orbit, and I’m vibrating them to show how the energy is intensifying.

I explain that right now the idea of enemy is intensifying so that it can finally collapse. When it does, consciousness will make a quantum leap to a new level.

As I’ve thought about the dream I’ve realized that the idea of enemy is on the same continuum as the idea of separateness. Enemy is the idea of separateness taken to an extreme, and it keeps us tied to dualism, to separateness consciousness.

When we look at what is happening right now in the world we can see how much the idea of enemy is intensifying. Now, even a pandemic, which logically should bring people together and inspire cooperation, is viewed through the lens of enemy. The vaxxers and maskers are seen as the enemy by the anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers, and vice versa.

Simply a Concept

One of the spontaneous messages I received years ago while walking the labyrinth was, “Release all concept of enemy.” I realized then that “enemy” isn’t a real thing. It is a concept in the mind, a concept that the egoic thought-system needs in order to sustain itself.

And yet, the idea of enemy will collapse because it is illusory, and sometimes an idea has to reach such a level of hyperbole that it becomes obviously ludicrous before the mind will let it go. As the Tao te Ching says: “If you want to shrink something, you must first allow it to expand.”

Enemy. Separateness. Other. These are the thought-forms that are on the verge of collapsing. Why now? Because they are the thought-forms at the root of the global crises we now face. And as Einstein famously said, a problem cannot be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.

Those of us who are willing to assist and participate in this global leap of consciousness can do so in a couple of ways. First, we can notice how often we indulge the idea of enemy ourselves. When we do, we will begin to see that we don’t just view other people as the enemy. Sometimes we see our circumstances, or even ourselves as the enemy.

And then we can ask ourselves honestly: Am I willing to allow the concept of enemy to collapse in my own mind?

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Lessons from the Labyrinth

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One of the great teachers on my spiritual journey has been the labyrinth. It has imparted a great number of surprising insights over the years, and its winding path that leads me inexorably into its Center has been a potent symbol for me.

One important lesson the labyrinth has taught me is that life is not linear. First it takes us one way, and then it turns us around to go in the opposite direction. And yet every twist and turn and about-face is leading us to the same singular destination: the Center of our Self, the place of our own Wisdom.

I suppose this aspect of the labyrinth has been on my mind recently because I’ve been feeling myself turning toward some new directions.

Yet live in a culture that values the linear. We are expected to map out a plan for where we want to go and follow it diligently, and if at some point we have to change directions we may even judge ourselves for having made a “mistake” somewhere along the way.Continue Reading