Welcome to my latest newsletter. This is the English version, but there are translations on the Quantum K website. As always, please do share these words if it calls you to do so.

Resonators to support us with electromagnetic smog

Thank you also for your support with my resonators. Here is a recent testimonial from a client from South Africa:

“Thank you Andrew, the resonators I’ve purchased from you are absolutely effective! I felt grounded and more centered, even noticed a positive effect on my meditations. I could easily slip into meditation and connect with Source”. Anusha

Here is the link if you want to try out some of these very inexpensive helpers. If you need a Christmas present idea for a friend or loved one, a pack of these will slip sweetly into a Christmas card: Resonators

Book -‘Heal Your Past, Free Your Future’

In my quest to share all the healing keys from the book, here is the third one, under the beguiling title ‘Muddy Boots’. This is no substitute for the wealth of information shared in the book, but the harmonic and statement have value as a standalone healing tool:

“I now release all limiting soul contracts, curses, spells, core beliefs and foreign energies from my energy field. I lovingly embrace the lessons they have taught me.”

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If you want to put this all in context, here is the book link: Heal Your Past, Free Your Future  Again, a great idea for a Christmas present, and don’t forget there is a Spanish translation available now…..

This month’s theme: Are you living intimately?

True intimacy is a natural state of being where we are present, mindful and relaxed. In this state, we are aware of all the sensations at the perimeters of our known self, whether that is our physical body or our energy field. It is not something we need to strive for or force, it is our natural state of being when we are in balance.

When we are living intimately, we sense and appreciate everything around us, the gentle brush of the wind on our faces, the warmth of a hand holding our own, the aroma of that first cup of coffee and the soft feel of those freshly changed bed sheets. Intimacy isn’t just about sex…

As beautiful as this is, it is an incredibly vulnerable state to live in and hard to maintain unless we feel genuinely safe and nourished. A high state of vigilance is not conducive to intimacy; the stimuli being absorbed while on alert is to satisfy the demands of our survivalist instincts, our optimum response to the perceived threats in our environment. This is control not surrender.

When I journeyed shamanically to explore this idea of intimacy, I was shown a small hedgehog (perhaps a porcupine in other countries) snuffling along among the autumn leaves. I was encouraged to lay my hand flat to the ground and wait. Sure enough, the hedgehog moved towards me and walked onto my hand, where I felt the gentle touch of its tiny feet rather than the sharpness of its spines.

There may be many layers of meaning here but, for me, the message was an encouragement to invite in intimacy with gentleness and patience, to extend an open hand towards life through gentle action and intention, and then let those sweet sensual feelings come forward. In those situations where there is no genuine threat, openness and vulnerability allow in the most exquisite of experiences.

In contrast, if we chase after that connection, we could feel the sharpness of those hedgehog spines as it curls up into a self-protecting ball. When we chase after anything, we can come from need, and need is lack. We simply reinforce the current situation and attract more of what we already have, pushing away intimacy in our desperation to find it, triggering more rejection from those who feel the ‘neediness’ in our approach.

So, if intimacy is a natural state, what might keep us out of it? Here are some behaviours and senses that I would suggest are possible barriers:

In terms of practicalities:

1. Putting needs of others before our own
2. Always needing a measurable outcome from an activity
3. Prioritising tasks over presentness
4. Needing to control the environment
5. Being over busy.

In terms of feelings:

1. Sensing fear and danger where there is none.
2. Insecurities about self, ‘I might be too much for them’ or ‘they won’t respond to my affection’.
3. Unresolved guilt, shame or self-judgement
4. Fears of commitment
5. Putting barriers up to other people and the world
6. Fear of rejection
7. Seeing the worst in people

If you have several of these dynamics, be gentle with yourself. It just means that you have experienced difficulties around intimacy, probably during childhood when you were most vulnerable to your environment. Connect with them lovingly, set an intention to surrender gently to more intimacy and thank Spirit for helping you on this path.

With love

 

Andrew

Book – Heal Your Past, Free Your Future

In my quest to share all the healing keys from the book, here is the second one, under the heading ‘Avoidance and denial’. This is no substitute for the information in the book, but the harmonic and statement have value as a standalone healing tool:

“I acknowledge that I have avoided and denied aspects of my life. I now commit to wellness, to lovingly meet and release all that I have locked away.”

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If you want to put this all in context, here is the book link: Heal Your Past, Free Your Future

Resonators to support us with electromagnetic smog

Thank you also for your support with my resonators. It excites me to feel this growing number of users adding their energy to the network of love these little vibrational chips support. If you keep buying, I’ll keep making!

Here is a recent testimonial from a client from South Africa:

“Thank you Andrew, the resonators I’ve purchased from you are absolutely effective! I’ve stuck one on my skin (on my arm) for a day and I felt grounded and more centered, even noticed a positive effect on my meditations. I could easily slip into meditation and connect with Source. I dream every night but on the night I had slept with the resonator, I had some profound dreams” Anusha

Today’s theme: Breaking out of scarcity thinking

I must start by saying that I am not speaking here to those in crisis, for whom scarcity is real and perhaps even life threatening. This is for those of us who feel relatively safe and free to fully express ourselves.

I do believe we come from a place of unconditional love and need context, through conditional love, to help us understand and appreciate who we truly are. As part of that context, we are here to explore and transcend our collective sense of scarcity.

If we go back to the original Adam and Eve story, it was the temptation of more – knowledge in this case – that woke them up to the realities of duality, love and shame. In anthropological terms, I suggest this story represents the time when the early homesteaders and hunter gatherers decided that they wanted what their neighbour had. As a species, we stopped living in harmony with our surroundings and became materialistic in nature.

Scarcity is not a reflection of actual monetary wealth, you can be rich and have poverty consciousness or relatively poor and feel abundant. If you are struggling, it is not a direct reference to how you relate to money. Your struggles might simply be a consequence of global, patriarchal greed that has redistributed our natural resources unfairly and the ‘illusion of meritocracy’ that encourages us to see this inequity as warranted.

Of course, scarcity isn’t just about material possessions, it can apply to our sense of free time, love, wisdom, compassion, or fulfillment. Any belief that there is something missing in our lives takes us away from our present moment into a desire for future gratification. For example, ‘when I find my true life path, I will be happy’ or ‘when I retire I will start having fun’… If we do this, we are living in absence, in lack, and creating more of the same.

How do we transcend scarcity?

Should we work harder? Save more? Prioritise our own needs over others? No, these ideas can still have scarcity at their core. The key solution is GRATITUDE.

This is one of the great drivers of true manifestation. If our prayers and visions contain gratitude for all that we already have, then we acknowledge our abundance and we show energetically that we already have enough. Conversely, when we pray for more, to receive, then we are showing the creative energies around us that we are in lack, that we are in ‘want’ in both its meanings.

Prayers of gratitude must come from a valid place though, so find those areas in your life where you do genuinely feel abundant and express gratitude for those, it’s contagious! We cannot manipulate creative energy by our words and prayers if our beliefs and actions are not aligned with those words. If there is misalignment, we will create from that place of confusion and contradiction.

Embodying gratitude

I suggests 3 key steps:

Set your intention – decide that you want to live in abundance at all levels and thank God and Spirit for their support and for the abundance that you already have. Be specific.

Heal the blocks to your abundance. What beliefs did your parents show you and live by? What does society show you? What do you believe around scarcity? You may need support in this, so please find a therapist or use my book to help you.

Take abundant action. That doesn’t mean giving away all your money, but be generous without expectation of reciprocation. Give for the simple joy of giving, not to receive back. Show abundance of time by taking a long bath, calling a friend, having a walk in nature without purpose. Live abundantly at all levels, inhabit your own personal Garden of Eden.

With love

Andrew

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I mentioned my ‘resonators’ last time and was overwhelmed by your response, all my stock went in 2 days! Clearly, there is a wide awareness of the perils of artificial electromagnetic fields. If you haven’t yet checked out my inexpensive offering, they are here on this website.

Book release – ‘Heal Your Past, Free Your Future’

I hold a clear vision of a new, more compassionate, world. To get there, we must individually and collectively release the imbalances of our past so that we can be more loving in our present. This is why I wrote this book.

I want the healing keys in the book to be available as widely as possible, so I’ve decided to share one within each newsletter until you have the full set of 12. I love the idea of us working together on a shared concept from one newsletter to the next!

There will be no background explanation or detailed support on how to use the phrase and the harmonics, but their power should still come through and if you like what you feel, the book is there waiting for you on this website.

Key 1 – Energetic protection

“I am an aspect of all that is, light and shadow, love and fear. I give back to mother Earth and Spirit all the energies I meet that do not serve me, knowing that I am eternal energy and cannot be harmed.”

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If you wish to engage with its healing potential, please read out the phrase several times each day, including the harmonic, and let your breath, body and emotions respond as they wish. Stop when you no longer feel energy around it, or when the next newsletter arrives.

 

Today’s main theme – Are you thriving of surviving ?

There are certainly existential threats in the world today, perhaps greater than ever before, but almost certainly wider. Every system of modern life I can think of is under threat – energy stability, food, national safety, economies, climate, personal finances and our health.

My hope is that there is a Divine plan guiding this transition, that this depth of chaos and struggle is necessary because every aspect of our lifestyle needs to change. We cannot evolve into higher consciousness but continue to live in the old ways. But change is scary, I’m scared too.

As usual. I rely on the inspiration and guidance I receive in my shamanic journeys. When I asked about how we can manage in a world held by so much fear, I was shown two roads we must choose between, each underpinned by matching belief systems. Please feel into these words – do you recognise yourself on either of these paths, perhaps different ones depending on how you are feeling day to day?

The path of fear and survival

“The world is hostile and full of existential risk”

“People can do me harm”

“I must therefore protect myself at all levels”

“This requires me to separate myself from the people and events around me”

“In doing so I must close down my heart so that I cannot be hurt”

“I must also numb myself, taking my presence away from my moment to moment experiences”

“I will do what I am told by authority because they know what is best for me”

“I can return to my true life path when the danger has passed”

Can you see how damaging this path is? It is designed to neutralise the risk of pain and suffering but in doing so takes away the very essence of our humanity. It builds walls rather than communities, division rather than agreement and fear rather than love. This is a place of weakness, victim thinking, blame and fatalism. It does not reflect the magnificence of who we really are.

There are also consequences at the physical level. The background stress this approach creates impacts on our immune system, our endorphins, our sleep and even the way our bodies communicate internally.

The path of trust and thriving

“I am resilient and stronger than the dangers around me. I can transcend any challenge”

“I trust that the people around me are fundamentally driven to help not harm”

“I can therefore stay open and loving, knowing we are stronger together”

“I will stay grounded and present in my experience”

“The events around me may be beyond my control but I can choose how I meet them and whether I add love or fear to all I experience”

“I can grow from this and understand myself better”

“I will hold a vision for the best possible outcome for our species”

“I know I am always doing the best I can”

Apart from being more enjoyable, if we can hold this space we will also retain our power, our discernment and our physical and mental well-being.

Which road do you choose?

Finally, it’s worth remembering that contagion comes in many forms, not just disease and viruses. The most contagious energy of all is the energy of love. Let us call in an unstoppable pandemic of love that washes across the planet and beyond. Let’s walk that path of certainty into our glorious future together as one community of souls, in our shared Garden of Eden.

With love

 

Andrew

Welcome to my latest newsletter. This is the English version, but there are translations on the Quantum K website. As always, please do share these words if you so desire.

I am constantly delighted at the support you are giving my work, whether the Quantum K system, the resonators, my new book or these newsletters. I am so grateful to you all.

I recently journeyed shamanically to ask if the various healing tools I use are connected in some way and, if so, where that energy sits. I was shown an image of planet Earth and all the satellites circling around her in lower orbit.

The suggestion was that the healing systems I use are all part of a less tangible grid that also sits around our planet, connecting us all in higher levels of consciousness.

It contains a broad range of colours and vibrations and is enhanced by all acts of loving kindness that run through it – a guiding energy for humanity and our planet. In contrast, all the energies of fear, greed and hostility dull its colours, creating a background noise that interferes with our connection to our highest potential.

I was shown this shamanically, but in many ways it is a confirmation of what many spiritual people have been intuiting over recent years as a mechanism for a shift in humanity’s consciousness, or ‘ascension’ as it is often called. I don’t fully align with the new age movement, but there is a clear overlap between its core beliefs and the ancient prophesies of most indigenous people.

I have said from the launch of Quantum K in 2008 that the more people who use the system the stronger it will become, and I strongly believe the same about my book and the resonators and any other high vibrational devices, actions or feelings we may share. If I dowse about it, I get that the resonators are now a little more than twice as powerful as they were when I first started making them, because the growing number of people who use them has developed a specific layer within the global energy grid of love that they support and draw from. The overall grid itself has strengthened hugely over this period. There is real momentum here.

I have always seen the resonators as tuning forks, reminders of our true vibration and state of being. They do not block obstructive or harmful energies, they simply keep us connected to this grid of love when we are facing the opposite. Ideally, we should be able to hold these higher frequencies irrespective of the challenges around us, but that is a lot to ask, so if a resonator on your watch helps you stay balanced, then so be it. Please do not assume that their low price means low value!

Resonators

In practical terms, this grid is fed through the kind of invisible energy field that science is just starting to recognise. Terms like the Schumann Resonance are now well understood in scientific circles, but other terms like zero point, scalar, tachyon and quantum refer to energies that we can now detect but cannot fully explain.

I accept that my words are very limited, that there is an ultimate truth against which I will inevitably fall short, but even so, there is surely a core message here for us all about the simplicity of our life purposes – to find love. I am often asked by clients to tune into their life purpose, their calling, what they are here to achieve. I suspect most people are disappointed when I suggest that there is probably no grand plan of deliverable success, no great fame, no measurable legacy.

I believe that we are all here quite simply to find love – through service, wisdom, gratitude and joy. We may have specific themes that help us find these states of consciousness, but ultimately we are all on the same quest, one that we may or may not choose to follow.

Perhaps we can also now hold on to a different analogy, that we are here to strengthen the growing earth grid of love around us. Maybe life really is that simple.

There are so many different ways to do this. I was asked recently why so many spiritual people seem to be working the land, looking after small-holdings etc. I think there is a message here, that an easy and important way to open our heart centres to love is through connecting with Gaia. For me, when I tend my garden I feel grounded, present and deeply connected to all that is. It is the easiest way I know to find a state of bliss and mindfulness and, through that, support the grid of love that surrounds us. It is also a way to give back to Mother Earth at a time when she so deeply needs our support to undo the harm we have done to her.

For those times when connection and love is hard to find, I do recommend the easier route of using the supportive tools I offer you. My book ‘Heal Your Past, Free Your Future’ is packed full of life changing ways to open up to more love and my resonators give a cheap and direct access to this global field of balance.

These are the prophesied times and as the Hopi elders have said, ‘we are the people we have been waiting for’.

With love

Andrew

New book – ‘Heal Your Past, Free your Future’

At least £4 from each sale goes to indigenous charities – “Thank you for another wonderful donation. We really appreciate your tremendous efforts and will use every penny you give to fight for tribal peoples’ rights”. Jade, Survival International

From Argentina to Finland, Australia to Canada, this book is selling around the globe. Are you part of this movement yet?

Electro-Magnetic Field (EMF) protection

I haven’t mentioned this subject before in my newsletters, but it is becoming such an important area of stress on our immune systems that I feel it warrants a quick promotion of my protective ‘resonators’.

I make these personally in a sacred process. At £11 per pack of 3, including worldwide postage, they are designed to be affordable and inclusive. There are some incredible aura photos on my website showing how they work, please do check them out: Resonators

Today’s main theme – Connecting with Source

It is interesting how many variations we have culturally for the name of our source creator. When I open sacred space in my shamanic tradition, I include the phrase: ‘you who are known by a thousand names and you who are the unnameable one,’ which I feel says it all.

If we can’t even agree on a name for this energy, how are we meant to build a relationship with them/it/him/her? Is there anything else so fundamental to our lives that that is so intangible, whose love is so deep that our vocabulary is overwhelmed?

My mind often wonders into the absurd, here is me trying to describe a meeting with the Divine:

“So, this God person then, what did they look like?”

“Well, I didn’t actually get to see them as such.”

“So you can’t even say if they are male, female or non-binary?”

“No, historically this energy is deemed masculine, but that is perhaps a patriarchal influence, not the truth. I’m pretty sure they are none and all of the above.”

“OK – what did they say to you?”

“Nothing in words, I just had a sense of a connection in some way”.

“Did you touch them, smell them or did they leave behind anything tangible like a footprint or momento?”

“Nope”

“How do you know you even met this being?”

“Well, I can’t be absolutely sure, it just felt rather nice, almost overwhelming, a sort of warm feeling all over, a sense of knowing, a sense of being deeply met and understood”.

“O.K. that isn’t much help, I’ll have to find this Source person for myself then, what’s their mobile number and Instagram address?…..”

I want to share a few more serious thoughts here. First of all, my shamanic teachings recognise that there is a Creative consciousness which they call Great Spirit. They separate this essence into a masculine energy above us – (the sun beyond the sun) – and a feminine energy below us in the form of mother earth (Pachamama). When we draw their gold and silver light into our auras we connect with the completeness of their love.

This feels significant to me. It is easy to assume that Great Spirit / God / Source / Allah is above us in the spirit world, accessible through prayer and dedicated practice, meditation, mindfulness etc. For me, that is important but only one aspect of divine love. When we only look upwards we miss the magnificence and divinity of our physical presence.

I write about this more in my book, but this one sided view of Source can leave us out of balance and when the creative energy within the physical realm is ignored, then she will take action. At the individual level, our bodies can develop pain, inflammation, disease, something to get our attention. For many of my clients, recognising the Divinity and sacredness of our bodies and our world is key to recovering wellness. Less meditation, more gardening….

At the global level, we can see how the disrespect of our planet has led to us being in the mess we are in today; we have learnt to take without reciprocity and pollute without care of consequence. This is a response of the collective unconsciousness, we do not see our bodies as sacred or divine, so we apply the same disrespect to our planet, even though she is the provider of our physical bodies and the resting place to which we will all return.

As a personal example, I was cleaning out my guttering last week, a fairly thankless chore I thought as I set the ladder carefully against the wall. As I peered into the guttering channel I saw a body of partly decomposing leaves from the nearby trees that had blown in over the winter, and a single thistle plant that had rooted itself in the soil that was forming and was reaching out to the sun for sustenance.

In that moment, I felt I was looking straight into the eyes of God. This simple thistle seed had somehow made its way into my gutter, rooted itself deeply into the compost underneath and then reached upwards to find the light. I saw myself in the thistle, what do you see?

With love

Andrew

Welcome to my latest newsletter. This is the English version, but there are translations on the Quantum K website. As always, please share these words if you feel so inclined.

New book – ‘Heal Your Past Free Your Future’

“Energy just started flowing as soon as I started reading the first section ‘Acknowledgements and Dedication’ and continued ’till I stopped, as if the simple act of reading was a healing process. It was amazing!“ Fiona UK

A huge thank you to all those readers who have bought the book, and I am touched to have reached so many people. To those as yet undecided, tempted but not sure, I ask you to ponder the questions I ask myself when I am presented with a book or a course that could be right for me. 1. Could the material add value? 2. Am I ready? 3. Am I sabotaging myself if I say no? In terms of sabotage, do you recognize any of these:

• “I can’t be healed or helped”
• “I don’t deserve it”
• “I can’t prioritize the time or money”
• “There are no quick fixes”
• “I don’t want to get my hopes up and then be let down”
• “It won’t work for me”
• “No-one truly understands me or what I have been through”
• “There is always a catch”

Do any or all of these apply to you? I am clearly promoting my own work here but, please do consider where you may be compromising your wider life choices.

“I am enlightened and so is my dog”

These words were offered to me on a recent shamanic journey so I thought I would share them here as part of my goal to stimulate your curiosity.

So, are you enlightened? I suspect your immediate reaction is to shrink back from any suggestion that you might be amazing or special in some way, your ego keeping any inflated sense of self in check. If you are like me, a lifetime of limiting programming takes a lot of unwinding – decades of being told that the truth sits outside of you, that you must listen to your parents, your teachers, your government or your priest to gain access to truth and wisdom.

In the spirit of breaking free of this programming, I ask you to look inside and see if your ego is telling you that you are less than you truly are. If so, a journey to enlightenment would shift from being one of growth and improvement to the release of the shackles binding what is already there inside.

I’m sure this newsletter title (‘I am enlightened and so is my dog’) was given to me light-heartedly by Spirit to take away any sense that spiritual growth is just for ‘special people’. Perhaps all that we seek is right there in front of us, in the eyes and hearts of the natural world. I often sit and watch the goats and animals we look after on our smallholding, looking for the wisdom they hide in plain sight. What motivates them when they wake up? Do they plan their day? Do they have ambition or aspiration for more than they already have? Do survival instincts, living in a world of predator and predated, block their connection to the moment and to their environment?

My sense is that the primal brain that controls our survival instincts sits far away from our pure consciousness, and that it is therefore possible to live in challenging circumstances, perhaps even under mortal threat, and still retain our spiritual integrity. I would go further and suggest that, as with the Buddha, the recognition of suffering can even be a trigger for spiritual growth and transcendence. That is not to diminish our pain, just to say that buried within our personal torment, there may be gold waiting for us. Our highest achievement may be to find love in the face of suffering.

This is why I am uncomfortable with any suggestion that only those in the West can truly focus on their spiritual path, that those in conflict zones or battling with poverty must put their spirituality on hold. If anything, the reverse carries more weight for me, that our suffering can be a trigger for us to find our already present state of enlightenment, our internal light that shines constantly in the external darkness.

If you have heard of ‘Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs’, please consider whether it could be a distortion of the truth based on the pervading colonialistic thinking of its time. Do look it up, or read my book!

Getting back to our animal friends, I do see them showing fear as farm vehicles pass by, or as predators sound out in the quiet of night, but I see that as the response of the primal brain and that their consciousness maintains its love, wisdom, and connection with all that is. I find it humorous that we can look so far outside our immediate environment for spiritual guidance and truth, and yet all we seek sits in front of us, in the eyes of the field mouse, the song of the blackbird and the wagging tail of our canine companion.

Personally, I have had elusive moments of euphoria when I am lost in the moment, overwhelmed by the sheer beauty of life. Sometimes it is in nature, sometimes in the bosom of my family, but it always involves a state of bliss when I remember who I really am and the essential part I play in ‘all that is’. In those moments, perhaps I am simply remembering my natural state of enlightenment, that state that my animal teachers lovingly demonstrate to me every minute of their waking day.

With love

Andrew

Welcome to my latest newsletter. This is the English version, but there are translations on the Quantum K website.

“Heal Your Past, Free Your Future”

The book is generating so many positive reviews, thank you to everyone who has taken the time to send me a testimonial. Here is a recent one from Nancy D in New York:

“I have your new book which I LOVE. And to say that is such an understatement.

Today I started chapter 6, and all I can say is “WOW”. Just reading the key has energy pouring out of my system. I really thought I had resolved a lot of early childhood and forward…. It’s OK. I am so very grateful for this work. It is simply ASTOUNDING”.

Every book sold now generates a donation to indigenous charities of over £4, so when you support me you also support the sources of the ancient wisdom I have written about. If you want to experience this healing potential for yourself, please follow this link:

Heal Your Past, Free Your Future

Why I have hope

It feels to me like the world now sits in the middle of something bigger than I have ever seen before, with existential threats coming from all angles. My heart breaks daily and I keep this respectfully in mind as I look into seeds of something new emerging from the ashes of the old. Is there a chance that these prophesied times are coming true? Are we part of a greater plan, guided by the hand of Spirit?

My personal vision is of a reversal of the current trend of centralised power, decision making and supply. I envisage a world where we live in local communities, with gentle ties to a wider picture but fundamentally self-sufficient within our local area. This would lead to the decline in significant national borders or identities, so no threat of collective warfare and therefore no need for organised defences.

In this more communal way of living, we focus on simple pleasures, a slow and gentle life, and we work together to make this possible. There are no big businesses to dis-empower or manipulate our beliefs, all we need is available within our locality. We re-learn the ancient crafts, built around the bedrock of regenerative farming and sustainable living. This is how we have lived as a species for 99% of our time on Earth, gently respecting our planet and walking softly upon her belly, and this is how we can live again.

Within this model, there is a need for elders and council, but no hierarchy. As Paul Francis says in ‘Finding Your Deep Soul’ – “The inconvenient fact for the ‘Taker’ cult is that for the vast majority of human history, we got on fine without leaders and were better for it.”

This model still allows for a collective consciousness, a sharing of love, wisdom and teachings as has happened throughout history – as far back as the original shaman who gently seeded their teachings across various lands and cultures around the world.

Can this actually happen?

I was listening to a TED talk by David Christian on the history of the Universe and was interested in his description of the second law of thermodynamics, or the law of entropy. He describes it as “the general tendency of the universe to move from order and structure to lack of order, lack of structure — in fact, to mush”. He describes how this law can be overcome during ‘goldilocks moments’ when the conditions are just right for expansion.

Humanity has created these goldilocks opportunities through our movement into farming, travel, and wider communication. The more recent exploitation of fossil fuels gave us another opportunity for global expansion of industry, travel and trade.

However, in the words of Christian again: “We refer in big history to these moments as threshold moments. And at each threshold, the going gets tougher. The complex things get more fragile, more vulnerable; the Goldilocks conditions get more stringent, and it’s more difficult to create complexity”.

For me, I am reassured by the suggestion that this centralisation of collective power, built upon intricate and interconnected global ways of engaging with each other is not aligned with the natural order of the universe.

The issue is how we can all transition from where we are to where we might prefer to be, without deep collective suffering. When I journey shamanically, I am shown the Aesop fable of the lion and the mouse, where the lion spares the mouse on the promise that one day she might be able to return the favour. The lion is then caught by hunters and is freed by the mouse gnawing away at the net with its teeth. The lion and mouse then become friends and equals.

For me, this is a metaphor for how we in the West need to support all those around us with less obvious privilege because soon we will need their help. Who knows how that might transpire, could it be the spiritual wisdom of the indigenous people?… the healing powers of the sacred medicines of the rainforest?… knowledge of small scale farming and seed bank diversity?

And maybe I am writing from ego, maybe we are the mice in the story…

Time will tell, but it sounds to me like a levelling of power, where we share this beautiful world with mutual respect and friendship. This gives me a sense of hope. I hope it does for you too.

With love

Andrew

Welcome to my latest newsletter.

“Heal Your Past, Free Your Future”

I am truly overwhelmed by the support you have given to my book. The production costs are all but covered now which means that I will very shortly be able to give a huge £4.25 donation to indigenous charities for every copy you buy. If you want to share in the alchemical potential of the book whilst being in reciprocity with those who provided much of the wisdom contained within it, then please continue to support me. Heal Your Past, Free Your Future

Special offer for May/June 2022 – If you send a copy to a friend or loved one as a present, or successfully encourage them to buy one for themselves, I’ll send you either a free pack of electro-magnetic stress blocking resonators as a thank you for spreading the love, or, for UK residents, a CD of the narrated version of Quantum K, as you prefer. Each are worth £11…. It’s a win/win/win! Just email me when the book order goes through.

The role of the shaman in a modern world – no3 – ‘personal healing’

This is the final article exploring the role of the shaman in a modern world. As always, please share it with like minded people if you feel so inclined.

We have already looked at the importance of our nature connection and holding vision, especially in a world in transition that needs all the support we can give. Today, I want to look at the shaman’s role as a healer.

This is a huge subject worthy of several books, so this newsletter can only scratch the surface. There are so many areas a shaman can offer support and I have written summary sheets on my website that cover many of them. Please click on the individual links below if one appeals to you:

• Bands of Power

• Transition Rites

• Mythical map

• Underworld Journey

• Upperworld Journey

• Creating sacred space

• Creating a sand painting

• Despachos

• Soul retrieval

For this newsletter, I am going to focus on just one, one that I feel is most relevant right now – a shamanic journey to the Upperworld. If you would like to go on this journey, I have 3 guidelines for you:

• 1. Please either open sacred space in some way or say a prayer for support

• 2. Only proceed if your mental health is balanced, if you can comfortably drop into a mildly altered state and come back safely from it

• 3. Do not drive or do any activity requiring your focus until the journey is over and you are fully ‘back’.

This shamanic journey takes you to the Upper World, the place of Spirit, our guides and our celestial parents. We will invite them to meet us so we may seek their guidance. I have recorded the visualisation for you to access below or by all means use the script that follows to record it for yourself:

upper world journey audio

“See yourself in a field. Feel the grass under your feet. A soft warm wind gently brushes your face and the sun warms your back. Look around, and enjoy the sight of wild flowers and grasses as they dance around you.

You notice a big old tree ahead of you. You start to walk towards it, step by step, and as you get closer you notice there is an entrance to the hollow inside the tree. It is big enough for you to easily step into.

As you do so, you feel the space around you and smell the woody scent. You are going to go up to meet your celestial parents, but to do so, you must leave the physical realm behind, so you allow your body sense and everything that you don’t need for this journey to dissipate for a while. See yourself as a golden speck of light.

Now allow yourself, as this light, to travel up the inside of the great tree, up and up and up, feeling yourself rising higher and higher. You see a way out onto a branch, which you follow until you are standing firmly upon it. Here you call on Pachacutti, keeper of the Upper World, to send down a gold and silver ladder. See the ladder appearing through the clouds and landing softly on the branch, beckoning you to climb it.

As you take your essence upwards, rung by rung, you see ahead a beautiful cloud that holds you safely as you float onto it. In this place of Spirit, everything is in its fully healed state. Pachacutti welcomes you. You explain that you have come to meet with your celestial parents and explore this domain. Ask now if this is possible at this time. If you sense a ‘yes’, then start to look around. What does this world look like to you? What do you see? What do you sense?

You now notice two specks of light moving towards you. They come closer, one gold and one silver. As their form becomes clear, you see that they are your celestial parents, the guides who know you so deeply, who see everything you have done and everything you can become… and they love you completely, unconditionally.

Feel them come either side of you and embrace you in their love. Allow that love to nourish you, to permeate every aspect of your essence…

Ask them now if they have a message for you. Listen to what they have come to tell you…

Have they got a gift for you? Look into their outstretched hands and receive whatever sits there …

It is now time to return to the middle world. Thank your celestial parents and Pacacutti for their love, their wisdom and any gifts you have received. Say goodbye for now as you return to the ladder and take your essence back down to the branch of the tree. Stepping off onto the branch you see the ladder disappear above you and you journey back down the trunk of the great old tree, down and down until you reach the ground again.

Now gather yourself up, your physical body and all the parts of you that you did not take on this journey. Step out of the tree and into the meadow again. Feel the grass under your feet and the wind and warm sun on your back. Take a few steps and then start to feel yourself come fully back into the room. Feel your feet, wiggle your fingers. You are back. You are back.”

With love

Andrew

In this newsletter, I want to look briefly at the concept of holding vision. This is an aspect of shamanic practice that is available to us all but needs to be considered alongside other aspects of shamanism and activism generally. Visioning is an important response to current world dynamics but not the only one.

My sense is that the earth is torn between growing levels of individual consciousness and the attempts of some powerful bodies to hold onto their control. We are having to look for personal balance against a backdrop of climate change, a pandemic, and conflict.

So how might a shaman respond?

First of all, there is always action to be considered, an appropriate and compassionate response to whatever the situation is. A combination of strong resistance where needed – we sometimes need a clear and boundaried “no, this is not ok” – as well as looking for the support needed to lead the situation towards a place of healing and resolution.

Alongside this, there are emotional implications within any situation. There might be judgement and hostility triggered within us, grief, empathy, fears for the future or a capacity to drop into polarity thinking, where there is ‘right’ and ‘wrong’, ‘good’ and ‘bad’. All emotions can be allowed space to be seen and felt so that they can move through us fully, without getting stuck.

Another aspect to consider is that of holding vision. This requires us to hold a space for something bigger than our current struggles, perhaps a world of community where we unite behind common goals and values. It sits alongside the physical and emotional layers and may be refined and developed by the practical actions we take and the emotions we feel.

Energising the vision is important because it is so easy to get caught up in the physical struggles facing our species and the emotions that go with it. We are on a journey of the soul as well as the mind and body. Honouring our capacity to envision something different, bigger even than our full understanding, keeps us connected to that limitless part of us and our world.

The Laika shaman are the vision holders in Peruvian shamanism. They were persecuted by the Spanish conquestadors in the 16^th Century and fled up to the heights of the Andes where they held their medicine intact for 400 years along with their vision for a healed Earth. When they came down from the mountains in 1950 it was to share the vision of a new potential with the rest of us, a vision of ‘hominus luminus’, a higher level of consciousness within the whole of the human race, all of us connected.

Within my own practice, I sometimes feel a difficulty in holding a vision for a heart based, loving world, when some of the organisations and governments that hold ostensible power do not seem to operate at that level.

I journeyed to the mythic for advice and was guided to see this not as an issue of resistance but of resilience. I was shown a world created from our hearts, a world that cannot be reached, let alone damaged, by beings or organisations that do not recognise the essence of love. It is not a question of defeating them, but transcending their world view and its reach.

Creating your vision

It is important that our visions are based around a clear essence, but are broad and flexible enough in their detail to call in an outcome beyond what we are able even to imagine. We should focus on the quality and energy of the vision and leave the details to Spirit.

Sometimes, our visioning and dreaming can be limited by the boundaries of our known experiences, by ambition that sits well below what is actually possible. This is why I only look to capture the loving feeling of the area I am envisaging. I do not focus on a particular political structure or ideology holding sway, or a specific outcome, just the sense of a positive feel for how that situation might develop. This means not trying to manipulate structures from our limited perspective and having the humility to realise we don’t have all the answers, perhaps just a lot of opinions!

We can then energise it by lighting a candle, blowing it into a stone that we leave on the earth, or into a stick that we give to fire.

Whatever your vision is for our beautiful world, please do whatever you can to put your loving intention behind it. It is through the combined energy of these prayers and visions alongside action and inner growth that true change can occur.

With love

Andrew

It is easy for the mainstream media to marginalise ancient teachings and characterise shamanism as being a fringe and obscure curiosity, dangerous even, one that only has relevance historically or within some indigenous cultures of today. This ignores all the timeless teachings of the shaman and their way of life.

For me, shamanism can be viewed as having three key essences which I will explore over my next few newsletters. For today I want to focus on perhaps the most topical of the three, our relationship to the land.

There is little doubt that humanity is currently a major threat to its own existence, but we need to put this in context; it is a relatively new issue. We have been on this planet for roughly 200,000 years and in all but the last 200 or so we have played a positive role. It is only through industrialisation of our farming processes and excessive ‘land grabs’ back from nature that we have moved out of balance.

In other words, for 99.9% of our existence, we have been beneficial to our planet. It is time to return to this relationship, where we still interact with our environment but in a way that supports it rather than depletes it. It is time to step in, not step out; but do so underpinned by the gentle principles of our ancient ancestors – of resilience through biodiversity and sustainability.

In 1966 Robert Paine introduced the concept of ‘keystone species’. Like the centre stone in an arch that stops the rest of the stones toppling down, a keystone species is crucial to the balance of the land and environment around it. Beavers, wolves, elephants, otters, are all examples of animals that can affect and even transform their environment through creating minor disturbances that allow other species to thrive.

We humans are also a keystone species. We have historically wandered over great distances, digging for tubers, hunting game and foraging for fruits. As we did so, we created tiny disturbances in the soil into which plant seeds would fall, while also leaving a trail of dung behind us full of seeds from the fruits we had consumed. When we cleared woodland glades for farming, we created opportunities for wild plants to establish, nourishing all the insects and animals that could feed off them.

These ways of living built up diversity in the ecosystems around us.

This is all understood by the shaman and indigenous peoples. This is called living in ‘ayni’, in right relationship, where giving and receiving flow together in a balanced state of existence, where people leave a small but positive footprint upon the land.

As part of their gratitude and respect, shaman may also leave offerings on the land. When I travelled to Peru a few years ago it was sad to see that this custom had suffered from Western influence. The shaman with us said that their people had become so used to sharing with the land that they had not adjusted to modern industrial processes, including plastics. They had assumed that they could leave a wrapped item on the land and it would decompose like organic matter. They, too, will need to adapt if they are to maintain their balance with the natural world while embracing Western influences.

So, how does this sit with you? Do you share, plant and nourish? If you have a garden, do you disturb areas of soil to create fresh opportunities for diversity and new seeds to arrive? Do you have a windowsill where you could leave food for the birds and insects, or a nearby common area where you can cast some wild flower seeds? If you can afford it, do you support organic farms that grow their crops with sustainability and diversity in mind?

For me, we honour this way of living partly through our actions but also through our way of being, the grace with which we partake in life. If we eat slowly and consciously, feeling heart based gratitude for the food that blesses our plate, if we sit in nature with awestruck wonder at its beauty, then we are likely to be in ayni, in balance.

Our consciousness combined with our actions evidence our drive to live in harmony, respect and reciprocity with nature. They create a strength of intention and momentum that will demand change from the bigger institutions and governments.

Whatever their response, this is a matter for us, the people, to solve. Yes, we must voice our concerns to our national leaders, but more importantly, we must take direct action through how we shop, eat, and relate to the land around us. We are now witnessing globally the power of individuals uniting behind shared goals. Let us be part of that irresistible force of positive change.

With love

Andrew