The Vision: Twin Pond Sanctaury
Artwork by Jennifer Marie Rose Johnson
Eternal One
Help me to awaken,
to liberate myself and be completely realized as I journey through earthly planes,
amid mountains and unfamiliar waters, as I inhabit the universe of creation.
Deliver me through my experience to the Truth that lies beyond separation and limitation
as I reciprocate with unconditional courage, integrity, forgiveness, and trust.
Open the Sacred Way for all to
walk in the Light and live a life of impeccable beauty and love.
On Earth as One
We welcome all the many paths of awakening. Here, we encourage each person to learn together, to share, to laugh, and to pray together. We create a space to grow and do the deep work of self-reflection within a supportive community container.
Together, we are called to break down the conditioning that has shaped us and return to our essential selves—a journey that is personal and yet deeply connected to spirit and Mother Earth. In this space, we discover our gifts, our unique medicine, and find the courage to share these with the world.
Now is the time.
Now is the time to step into our most powerful gifts and to share them with others.
There is no purpose in gaining wisdom or healing if not to offer it in service to others. We are stronger when we rise together, harmonizing opposites, dissolving dualities, and bridging divides. This is the real work needed today!
Healing does not happen in isolation; it happens in community.
There is a prophecy that says the coming of the next ‘messiah’ will be a sangha—a sacred circle, a sacred hoop.
We believe in the power of community.
We believe in the transformative power of healing within a community container.
We are ready to build that sacred container here, with you. We are only as strong as our weakest link, and in supporting one another, we all benefit.
We are Living in Prophecy Times
All across the Earth, there is a shared prophecy. Indigenous elders from every corner of the world say that we are living in prophetic times. Prophecy, however, is not a prediction—it is a possibility.
Now is the time the ancestors spoke of, the time to make the necessary changes within ourselves, and through that, on the planet.
Over the past many years, I have been listening to the voices of indigenous elders from all around the Earth. Among their many teachings, one message stands clear: We must heal and restore our sacred connection to Mother Earth. We must protect the Earth and all its inhabitants from the destructive cycles of greed and harm that have plagued us. We must return to a place of sacred reciprocity with all life.
This begins with each of us. Healing the wounds passed down through generations, and breaking the destructive patterns we carry unconsciously. As we heal, we stop perpetuating the cycles of harm. This is the path to collective healing, and it begins within
There is an Andean prophecy which says there will be a time when the earth, Pachamama, catches a bad fever and the glaciers will begin to melt and that will be the time when we need to share with the people of the north, our traditions and teachings, so that they can come into good relations with the earth. The eagle condor prophecy says that until the eagle of the north and the condor of the south fly together as one there will be no harmony on this earth. In this prophecy the eagle of the north represents the intellect and the condor of the South the heart and we are in a time where these have fallen out of balance. These teachings help us come more fully into our hearts while still honoring the intellect. It is all about sacred balance, sacred reciprocity. The Andeans urgently feel now is the time to share their teachings to all humans across the planet. It is time for us to become bridge builders, to begin learning and sharing these earth honoring traditions and teachings because they are critical in restoring balance on the earth and to save humanity. They believe the time is now and they are deeply eager to share their teachings to all people, as there is no time to waste.
Q'ero Prophecy
Since 2012 I have been working with the Q’ero people of the high Andean regions of Peru. During the Spanish Inquisition in the 1500's the Q'ero people fled high up into the Andes and lived there in isolation, keeping their traditions intact.
The Q'ero tell of a prophecy that there will be a time of great shaking and during that time a golden temple would be revealed. In 1949 there was a great earthquake in Cuzco area of Peru and in a Q'ero village a mountain split apart and a temple site was revealed that they had never seen before. When this great shaking occurs and the temple revealed was the time to take their traditions down from the mountain and teach them to the children of the eagle, the children of the north. In 1949 Oscar Nunez Del Prado first encountered the Q'ero people at a festival high in the Andes and recognized them as original children of the Inca by their clothing. He went to their village and this was their first contact with western world since 1500s.
This is how their traditions began spread to the western world.
These traditions are openly given by the Q'ero people. It is part of their prophecy that people of the west help bring these teachings forward. These people will be "chakarunas" or bridge people.
They urgently want their teachings to be shared now because they believe this is the only way to bring humanity into the next level of consciousness, one where we live in sacred reciprocity with mother earth and all life.
Later on Don Benito Q'oriwaman saw their traditions were dying out by influence of western culture and realized unless fair skin people begin to pray to the mountains, to mother earth, that the children of the condor will perish. He said that by fair skinned people doing this will inspire the children of the condor to become interested in their traditions again.
Penobscot Mythology
In Penobscot tradition, elder Sherri Mitchell (Weh’na Hamu Kwasset) speaks of the Dance of the Cannibal Giant mythology in which a creature awakened by the destruction of mother earth and only if people can awaken to their own destruction, and the need for change, will the cannibal giant be put back to sleep. Weh’na Hamu Kwasset had a vision for and created the Healing Turtle Island Ceremony to address the need for this healing, this is a 21 year ceremony. I was able to attend this for two of the early years before the pandemic and before it went online. I highly recommend this profound event, see link below.
The Legend of the Rainbow Warriors
Native prophecies say that when the earth is ravaged and animals are dying a new tribe of people will come onto the earth from many colors, classes, and creeds. When the time of the white buffalo approaches (and there have been white buffalo born in the last 10-15 years) the third generation of the white eyes children will grow their hair and speak of love as a healer of the earth, these children will seek new ways of understanding self an other.
They will seek elders and come to the Native healers and ask for guidance. This will be a sign that the ancestors are returning in fair skin and many colored bodies to unite to help restore balance to the Earth.. They will learn to walk the earth mother in balance again. These children will be tested by substances to see if they can remain on the path.
The story of these Rainbow Warriors is told by many peoples in many different ways. It is said that we are in that time now when the Rainbow Warriors are coming about. So it is a time where we have to acknowledge that we are all human beings upon the same planet and that’s what the Rainbow Warriors is all about.
In hearing these transmissions and walking with a living prophecy, does this trigger a re-awakening within your self?
How can we search within ourselves to find the places within, where our own heart and mind are still doing battle? And how can we bring healing to this? How can we come more fully into balance? Balance between the feminine and the masculine, between our inner self care and our outer actions, between our heart and our mind.
May we ask this of ourselves and of the world.
To learn more, you can go directly to the sources yourself, the voices of indigenous elders,
see the following links to learn more and to contribute to this work:
https://motherearthdelegation.com
https://sacredinstructions.life
https://www.healingturtleisland.org
https://www.dancingwiththecannibalgiant.com
These organizations have been doing alot of work for many years in supporting the Q’ero:
https://www.eaglecondorcouncil.org/about
https://www.golden-threads.com/our-story
https://www.thefourthlevel.org/about-wiraqocha-foundation
Please visit and contribute to the Land Peace Foundation, an organization dedicated to the protection of Indigenous rights
and the preservation of the Indigenous Way of Life:
https://landpeacefoundation.org/about-land-peace-foundation/
In acknowledgement of the original Wabanaki people of this land we steward we acknowledge and support:
The Wicuhkemtultine Kinship Community which focuses on kinship as an expression of relationality, cultural continuity, and as a means of preserving Indigenous knowledge systems through retained relationship and deep connection to the land.
The community is grounded in three core Wabanaki values:
N’dilnabamuk – honoring all our relations.
Alabezu – ensuring that everyone has enough to live their lives with dignity.
Wicuhkemtuline – helping one another.
To learn about and support Wicuhkemtultine Kinship Community:
https://landpeacefoundation.org/wicuhkemtultine-kinship/
Kunsi Keya Tamakoce (Grandmother Turtle Island) is an indigenous community in Hungtington, VT. It began in 1987 when Beverly Little Thunder founded the Women’s Sundance to teach the traditions and ceremonies of her Lakota heritage. Beverly’s vision of sharing the ceremonies of her heritage with people of all nationalities allows many to learn and participate in the spiritual practices of the Lakota nation. Please visit and contribute here:s
https://www.kunsikeya.org/more-about-us.html
May the merit of our healing work together be for the benefit of all beings.
May we be the medicine offered this day.
Blessed Be
Community Agreements
1) Own your own experience and respect the experience of others.
This vital agreement contains within itself all the other agreements and is inviting everyone in the community to take an empowered view (rather than a victim stance) in life and relationships. Owning our personal experience means we understand that our experience and the experience of others may not be the same. Some simple techniques which support us to interact from this place include:
- Speak from “I” rather then a general “we”. Speaking in this way allows for a deeper and more authentic space of relating while at the same time not making assumptions or projections about others.
- No shaming or making others wrong. No one is receptive to being told they are wrong and we follow the perspective that there is no “wrong”. Instead there is wisdom and ignorance. Where wrong can never become right, ignorance has the potential to become wise. Each situation and experience is a building block of evolutionary growth.
- Work to separate one’s observations & feelings from the projections & stories that arise from them. Many disharmonies start simply from making stories based on observing only a small part of a larger situation. Our mind has the tendency to fill in the blanks and it can be very helpful if we understand that our stories are just that, stories. They may not be true.
- Cultivate curiosity rather than judgement: Having judgments about someone or something is a closed way of being. On the other hand asking from a place of true curiosity why someone is being or doing something in a certain way creates an opportunity for better communication and deeper understanding.
2) Be transparent. No hiding.
Transparency involves embodying qualities of openness, receptivity and vulnerability while cultivating consciousness. Consciousness is the main medicine and it is essential for resolution to first recognize that there is even an issue. First and foremost this is referring to being transparent with oneself and choosing to see all outer feedback coming to us as reflections of our inner world. When disturbed we first ask, “How is this a reflection of me? How am I being in this way? Am I disturbed because this person is reflecting something I don’t want to face in myself?” Some additional ground rules include:
- No Gossiping (talking about others indirectly in a negative, venting or complaining manner). Gossiping never solves anything. Instead it only acts to create unnecessary drama that distorts reality. It is everyone’s responsibility not to gossip as well as call it out if others are engaging this way.
- Instead, go to the source of your disturbance – our personal disturbing emotions. What is the real source of our emotions and how can we channel this energy without being dominated by it and hurting others? This exploration allows us to approach the external trigger/s directly from a grounded, compassionate and curious perspective. If support is needed then mediation can be very helpful.
- Don’t be afraid of confrontation. Challenges are the raw ingredients for our growth and facing them in a grounded way allows for collective evolution.
- Be open with others about your process and challenges, especially when it is affecting others.
3) Be in integrity and 100% responsible.
Coming into integrity is a process of aligning one’s thoughts, words, actions and feelings. When a community unanimously takes 100% responsibility for all of these aspects of our being, an empowered and inspired space is created.
- Focus on solutions, rather than problems. If you can see it you can solve it and the only way to bring real benefit is though a personal example. Fixing things is fun and makes others happy, complaining creates disharmony and discord.
- Notice when you make a mess and clean up after yourself, be it energetic or physical.
- Be honest and make amendments. When stepping out of integrity, take responsibility for this and be honest with oneself and others, making appropriate amendments with those who are affected. Sincere acknowledgement brings oneself back into integrity.
4) Honor your true self.
It is not possible to be in service and bring benefit to others if one does not take care of oneself, especially around the basic needs of our human organism. Don’t assume that others will be able to read your mind and communicate your needs so the community can support each other.
It is essential to recognize that there may be a difference between what I want (based on conditioning) and what I need in order to thrive and actualize my full human potential. When detoxing one will often crave what is being released.
5) Practice presence with self and others.
“The true master is a beginner in every moment.” As we gather life experience, it can become increasingly difficult to maintain the beginners mind. We make the commitment to practice presence with ourselves and others, listening in an active way no matter how much we think we already know about what is being shared. Cultivating presence alone is all that is really needed to resolve and avoid disharmony and it is the greatest support anyone can give to another being and the community as a whole.
6) Confidentiality.
We are here to share the learning not the story. This allows us to be vulnerable, create a safe container.
7) Take initiative and be engaged.
Everyone in the community takes initiative to be fully engaged in community projects and meetings as well as their personal growth and development. It is up to each person to benefit from their life experience and no one can undertake your personal evolutionary process for you. Each individual is committed to serve as an inspiration and example and be the change in the world.
The journey to create a supportive and empowered container for conscious community to thrive has given us a lot more understanding and compassion for all of the conflicts in the world. We have been able to cultivate deeper compassionate awareness by seeing first hand how even in a space of peaceful beings who share a resonant world view and a similar spiritual path in life – conflict, tension and drama still arise. The beautiful gift in this is that the resolution starts from the inside.
More than just conceptual formulations these agreements are an expression of an elevated frequency of consciousness handed down to us from the ancestral lineages of humanity. Putting them into practice provides a format and container to apply our formal spiritual practice and views into every moment of our lives. When everyone’s efforts work collectively to uphold this field, every step of our lives become more and more filled with meaningful, compassionate and joyful insights into the essence of human nature which we can abundantly share with each other, being the ripples of consciousness that we are.
