https://albertashistoricplaces.wordpress.com/2018/01/10/rainbow-fossils-and-bison-calling/
Well, more strangeness. It has taken about a week to actually get to write this down, mainly because I wasnt sure where I was going with it.
A little while ago, I was clearing stuff from around the garage and the garden. I came accross a box of ammonite fossils that we had collected when the kids were small, on the Dorset fossil coast near Lyme Regis. We ( I ) kept them, they are interesting but what to do with them now?
This has been quite a few weeks of decluttering and I keep getting stuck when I come accross certain items or papers. Finding the fossils again that first time, a few weeks ago, was strange because it was in a part of the garden that was particularly junked up and I had worked hard on it. The fossils were put into a box and left outside the garage door with lots of other boxes of junk.
It was a few weeks later that the ammonites fossils came back to my attention. My partner was looking into the box and bringing out a few of the ammonite fossils. Around this time, I was having many spontaneous meditations or visions, and I had had, few days before a medition or vision of ammonite in the rocks. In the visual that was more a feeling and so not perceptive but experiential, was of actually being the ammonite. It was a curious feeling of actually being the life form in the ammoinite. The feeling stayed with me a fewdays, even now I can step back into. The feeling was/is quite comfortable, of being cosy in the rock and just, being, of emanating ammonite energy. I can even now, use the visual/experience to summon a quiet relaxing mediation. Retrieving them from the box of junk outside the garage coincided with this.
From this I got:
- All things stay with us, we do not have to collect reminders because it is all in our energy fields, just because we do not remember doesn't mean it didnt happen, we just don't need to remember it, until you do need to remember it.
- The energy of everything is real,
- We are part of the ongoing consciousness, just evolving and moving through new and different life forms.
- The form of life that is consciousness is presence. It fills and animates all things. The only thing that doesn't know this is us, humans.
Humans at one time or another began to move away from this 'knowing' (maybe some cataclysmic event or tinkering, or divine plan or whatever ......seemed to cause a catalyst to match up a developing EGO with survival instincts. This reaction/progression had two functions or consequential results:
- to ensure that humanity survived the eons of planet life needed for maturation of consciousness in the 3rd dimension, and,
- it 'walked' us, humanity, away from the ONEness we were secure and emotionally stable within, and into the Desert of individual aspects, acting as individuals, which no longer knew the emotional comfort, stability and security of being one with the ONE consciouness.
And so began the long ancient walk of 'being alone' and depending entirely on Survival instincts, getting further and further away from the ORIGINAL ONENESS EXPERIENCE. ~~Had to happen?
Three answers spring to mind.
1. Yes, Probably.That probably was one plan: For each aspect of the ONENESS to 'walk' its way.... back to maturation within the ONE, rejoining its spiritual counterpart of being ONE in the ONEness, so to speak....
.........and bringing a whole lot more HUMANITY, back with it, than before it began....
The ongoing cycles created by the human aspect, will ONLY cause it to become bigger as it experiences itself through plots, life events, situations, and its relationships with other humans, with other landscapes and with itself....
.....IT CANNOT HELP BUT diversify and surmount all of what it means to be human, created by human reaction and thoughts, actions and intentions...humanity is diversifying through what calls it to be human. The 'human aspect' of the ONEness, or 'humanity'... as it 'walks' in its human capacity... ...becomes greater than it ever was... before he/she began the 'WALK'. This brings expansion to the ONEness of which Humanity is the human aspect.
2. No, but it did, and that it just randomly happened out of the chaos.
3. Maybe there are two plans. The one which happened here, described above, in which the cataclysmic event caused the separation of the human aspect from its security and emotional stability with the ONEness and then subsequent take over by the EGO/survival instinct .... and a second plan in another universe, one which is Not so polarised and where duality is not its theme, and where a Cataclysmic event DID not happen, and in this plan the individualised aspects continued to grow and expand, secure and emotionally stable within ONEness. A 'control group' in the experiment? Perhaps a race to the best outcome? Maybe they are our counterparts, ourselves, living through both scenarios, a double whammy where we have the best of both worlds and which combined, ensures the survival of the memory of ONEness, by having those who are still living ONEness....remind us, humanity, here in this plan, of it.
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This finding is was lifted out of layers of dust, hidden and held, memories amd visuals, dreams and refinforced by triggers by Karmic clear outs. Dreams and meditations, information coming through the living library.
In this I refer back to three posts.
- ONEness/l'Oneliness
Monday, 6 May 2019
- The Sand people and karma from attachment to identity for identity.
Sunday, 28 April 2019
Old Karma, perhaps the oldest for me.
Yesterday and today, I had some weird insight into some ancient karma which explains the unfolding of personal issues. Goes back to some surreal attachment to roles regarding survival: personal survival, survival of the family and survival of the species...but it is the attachment to the very demanding, urgent, physical mental, spiritual and emotional senses ~~~threaded through the archetypes, like stitches on an ancient garment ~~~that were needed for survival gave and continue to give IDENTITY. When Early Identity forms its foundations in the role of early age survival, it threads through your skin and bones and becomes the unseen driving force (Karma) that propels further 'reason for being'. It is the Attachment, whether conscious or not, voluntary or not, that is not seen (Karma) and keeps pulling on your strings, to be rebalanced. The visions I had were glimpsing the time of 'earth wobble', (cataclysmic) or (whatever caused it, there are a few ideas ), but it was this event, that caused a lock down in survival identity.
Another image was of my foot in the sand. 'My' foot was ingrained with sand, and was practically 'of' the sand, it knew no other terrain. Somehow I got a vision of being of an ancient people. Maybe from the first who started migrating from the deserts to people the world. So 'I' was of an ancient, sand dwelling, bedoiun people, where survival in such a landscape of moving sand meant that survival became dependant on the identity formed around roles, nothing else was in your frame of reference for existence, other than the hostile environment.
If you were attached to your identity -you had a chance of surviving the fluid and uncertain terrain.
This allowed survival of self and offspring, and furthering of the species. This was serious business.
'Seeing this allows the attachment to these primeval archetypal roles to 'unform and release', and recycle the held energy. Not sure how the 'wobble' fits in, but it does. Michaela. Cataclysmic event.
- a short video from Eckhart Tolle explaing how karma is gently released as Presence (ONEness) come in.
Monday, 13 May 2019
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~The next part of the strory, is when I ordered some books a few days ago. One book I thought I was ordering is 'Earth' by Barbara Marciniak. She channels the Pleidians, and writes about OUR human RELATIONSHIP WITH EARTH as being a 'living library'. I had read about it before or listened to the channelled messages about it many years ago, and loved the information. So I was looking forward to get the book. What I had actually ordered was a different book entitled, 'Earth', but by a different Barbara. It was a childrens reference book about Earth. At first I was dissappointed, it wasn't the book I wanted, But then I knew that nothing is random. I had ordered it by mistake, but knew there must be something in it for me.
The Last few days I was feeling quite down, and lonely, and even today still not feeling great with all the energy being blasted out of my system. I was probably quite tired with all the uploads/downloads and energy enlightenments and I just wanted to do NOthing, be NOone and go NOwhere. I was still thinking about the idea of holding a huge reservoir of 80% karma energy, which means you get so tired holding all that stuff. It means that 80% of energy is held up elsewhere, or holed up elsewhere, or locked down in dispersed identities, which leaves only a small amount energy to be living in the now, IN THIS MOMENT. So thats karma telling you that what you are doing is reliving an imbalance caused by getting lost in so many identities and not remembering you are part of the ONENESS. Which for me is a pretty good description.
I have been using the comfy 'ammonite locked in a rock' feeling to relax into sleep with. This ammonite meditation feeling is being ONE with life, and energy, and does not need anything.
When an instance of 'life/consciousness' leaves a living vehicle, a body, (a rock) it goes back into the one which it has never seperated from, and if it forms into a new body, giving animation to that new form...experiencing a new form. It does not bring the old identity of the previous form it inhabited with it. The new has to be experienced and lived till completion, fully embracing it. The old identity is giving to the ONEness, and the NEW identity is lived in full. But nothing is ever lost. Humans became so LOST in attachment to their IDENTITY ego/survival instincts that they lost the ability to give it all up to the ONE on completion of that life form. So the identity builds up a wrapper around around them. This locks in as pain and becoems the driving force for karma, so reincarnation brings them back to live the need for ATTACHMENT to the identity, again and again.
As well as that doing some abundance work, but still wondering if all that 80% karmic energy tied up in holding all those eons to me was ever going to shift because that was probably what was keeping abundance away.
I listened with my body and knew that I had to get rid of the 'pain'. Which is not acually pain as such, it is the amount of 'unconscious remembering' that we do, that causes you to feel locked into a rock. Pain being the word for baggage which you don't need to hold anymore, but you insist (ego/survival insincts) on holding.
It was during this that I learned that we are 'seeds'.
In living through many forms, we are expanding consciousness as it requires us to through this dimension. We are the seeds and hold the information of life and the universe. We hold to us the systems that moves this whole 'experience/experiment' FORWARD through the process of expanding. We also hold the inner catalysts that cause the inner maturation and conditions needed for that maturation required by the seed.
The seed holds it all, but the ego/survival instinct forgets to let go of its attachment to all the previous identities and calls for a reliving of them. The ego is responsible for the survival of the human aspect, as a spiritual consciousness contained in a human energy form. These are two very distinctly different entities and so the ego, necessary for survival and experience, has become the Dominant interface between the two. It is what it is. Expansion however, now demands that we are in the next phase of ALLOWING EGO to blend harmoniously with the two parts, spiritual consciousness and physical experience on the Earth.
The hard knocks of karma are our inner maturation guides, providing the ongoing conditions for the seed's Growth and expansion phases. The seed is part of ONENESS. ONENESS grows through all the individual seeds.
We should know that nothing is ever lost...all energy lasts forever. It all goes back into the ONEness, from which we came. The oneness can hold it all, we don't have to.
The childrens book, 'Earth' by a different barbara?
Well it is a full pictorial showing how Earth is made up, the weather and the plates, the seas, and sands....and there was two sections of great interest, one on Ammonites and one on what I call Sand people, Bedouins, that moved through the deserts of Africa to populate the EArth.
This was the piece that helped me fit together the other pieces in my latest puzzle.
And, 'Earth' the living Library by Barbara Marciniak? Well WE are one with Earth, and WE are the living the library.
Michaela.
More on the beautiful Ammonite below.
https://albertashistoricplaces.wordpress.com/2018/01/10/rainbow-fossils-and-bison-calling/
Rainbow Fossils and Bison Calling
For an animal that looks like an awkward collision of snail and squid (Figure 1), ammonites have played surprisingly important roles in international history. To Blackfoot First Nations on the Plains of North America, the ornate edges of ammonite segments resemble miniature bison (sometimes called buffalo), and, for over a thousand years, they have been used in ceremonies to summon bison spirits. Across the ocean, 16th to 19th Century fossil hunters propelled ammonites into palaeontological fame by using them to anchor theories of an ancient earth (Figure 2). In modern Alberta, Canada, miners and members of Blackfoot First Nations are seeking iridescent ammonites to fuel a global demand for art and jewellery; sacred and secular, and now economic, ammonites are immersed in a complex story.
Snakestones and Iniskim
From ancient oceans 400 to 65 million years old, ammonites slowly drifted their way in to our hearts. Ammonites have been found in Solutrean archaeological sites in Western Europe beginning around 20,000 years ago (Figure 3). Human fascination with these marine invertebrates (animals without a backbone) continued across the planet: ammonites appear in traditional ceremonies of cultures from Ethiopia, China, Japan, and India. Pliny the Elder (A.D. 23-79) provided the first written description of these ‘horns of Ammon’ (they are named after an Egyptian deity who was commonly depicted with ram horns).
Partly owing to their popularity, ammonites figured front and centre in debates during the Age of Enlightenment (late 1600s to early 1800s) about the organic origin of fossils and the Earth’s age (Figure 4). Scientists of the day argued that ammonites were once living, as opposed to prevailing thought that they were either produced by natural geological forces (as rock anomalies) or that they were once snakes turned to stone by heroes of legend (hence their nickname ‘snakestones’). Ammonites are thought to have spurred the now common usage of ‘modern analogy’ in palaeontology: interpretations of extinct animals are based on modern organisms that they resemble (ammonites were compared to modern nautilus). Ammonites also helped develop theories of extinction, evolution, and a field of study called ‘biostratigraphy’ that establishes chronologies of sediments and rock horizons based on distinct organisms that only lived during relatively narrow time frames. Ammonites helped order the ages.
Ammonites are relatively common in North America. They were occupants of the former Bearpaw Sea that once washed what is now the centre of the continent in warm and shallow water. In Southern Alberta, river valleys have carved into the Bearpaw Formation and revealed a plethora of fascinating extinct organisms. According to some historic accounts and oral histories, First Nations on the Plains thought that fossil-bearing beds of Alberta’s badlands around Dinosaur Provincial Park (a UNESCO World Heritage Site) were the home of Grandfather Buffalo, which may reference dinosaur bones prevalent among the hoodoos. At the other end of the size scale, when segments of ammonite shells disarticulate (break apart into their individual chambers), they look like tiny bison (Figures 5 and 6). These are thought to be gifts to be used to call bison for hunting or as bringers of other good luck. Iniskim (ammonite sections) have been found at archaeological sites of the ancestors of Plains First Nations across the U.S. and Western Canada, with evidence that Iniskim use extends back for millennia.
Fossil, gem, or both of them?
Members of Blackfoot First Nations continue to harvest Iniskim for ceremonial purposes. Beginning in the 1960s, collectors began recognizing a commercial value of a particular type of ammonite that produced wildly iridescent colours, owing to the replacement of its shell by aragonite and a suite of geochemical processes. Iridescent ammonite shells (ammolite) are available in commercially viable beds for mining in one place on the planet: Southern Alberta.
In recognition of its uniqueness and beauty, ammolite has become an internationally renowned gemstone. Ammonite mining is a regulated activity that involves participation by miners, palaeontologists, First Nations, and government bodies. The province’s legislation has evolved as the ammonite industry and regulators respond to international demand; ammonites are valued as mounted fossils (as art and in feng shui), as investments (whole fossils are purchased and stored in vaults for future re-sale), and as jewellery. Items featuring ammolite inlays are especially popular tourist purchases in Alberta’s Rocky Mountain parks of Banff and Jasper.
Value
A brief history of these curious fossils reveals multiple layers of value that people have assigned to objects over thousands of years. Because of their aesthetics, biology, and uniqueness, ammonites are at once spiritual, of immense scientific importance, and a growing commodity. Balancing these interests is no easy task. Positive relationships have helped deliver particularly important fossils (ammonites as well as other organisms like marine reptiles) uncovered during mining to institutions at home (the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Alberta), and around the world where Alberta will continue to contribute to a collective marvel of ancient life. The significance of ammonites is a story as complex as their multi-chambered shells and it will continue to evolve.
Heritage Art Series
The Heritage Art Series is a collaboration of the Historic Resources Management Branch, the University of Alberta, and the Royal Alberta Museum. Each artwork shares an important story about the people of our province: we hope it fosters a greater awareness of our past and instils a deeper respect for it. The etching below is by Calgary artist Eveline Kolijn and appropriately captures the wonderful complexity of the ammonite story in Alberta. Reconstructed ammonites swim with contemporary creatures that spill across the septa of a split ammonite shell. Diatoms (tiny and intricate aquatic organisms that reveal environmental conditions to palaeontologists) float against a backdrop of cliffs in southern Alberta. More stories and colourful scenes from Alberta’s past, from guns and boats to oil sands and arrowheads, can be viewed here.
The views expressed in this blog are of the author alone and do not necessarily represent those held by institutions involved in the Heritage Art Series.
Written By: Todd Kristensen (Archaeological Survey of Alberta).
Thank you to Dan Spivak (Royal Tyrrell Museum) for insight and edits.
Further reading:
Etter, W. 2015. Early Ideas about Fossil Cephalopods. Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 134:177-186.
Monks, N. and P. Palmer. 2002. Ammonites. Natural History Museum, London, London, England.
Mychaluk, K. A., A. A. Levinson, and R. L. Hall. 2001. Ammolite: Iridescent Fossilized Ammonite from Southern Alberta, Canada. Gems & Gemology 37: 4-25.
Peck, T. R. 2002. Archaeological Recovered Ammonites: Evidence for Long-Term Continuity in Nitsitapii Ritual. Plains Anthropologist 47:147-164.
Reeves, B. O. K. 1993. Iniskim: A Sacred Nisitapii Religious Tradition. In Kunaitupii: Coming Together on Native Sacred Sites, Their Sacredness, Conservation, and Interpretation, edited by B. O. K. Reeves and M. A. Kennedy, pp. 194-259.
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