The following is part two of an edited version of an excerpt from a recording of the workshop Restoring the Fragmented Heart: The Way of Sacred Relationships given by Franco at Jesi (Italy) in September 2007. This workshop takes place again this year from 2 to 9 October 2010 (see http://www.facebook.com/Astroshamanism#!/event.php?eid=106220109434425&ref=mf), and is followed by another workshop also dealing with relationships titled The Blessed Way of Passions (see http://www.facebook.com/Santoro.uk#!/event.php?eid=152017481478333&ref=mf)

In part one of this article (see: http://www.facebook.com/notes/astroshamanism/restoring-the-fragmented-heart-part-one-scared-and-sacred-relationships-by-franc/436528563328) we identified two types of relationships: scared and sacred relationship. Scared relationships are strictly based on the belief in separation and the fear to step out of the human separated paradigm, or Human Arbitrary Configuration (HAC), whereas sacred relationships aim at releasing fear and separation, reawakening true perception and the multidimensional nature of life.

As a matter of fact in scared relationships, the term relationships is merely an euphemism, since their purpose is to prevent any relationship and to support the fear of relationships themselves. The partner is just a cover-up to keep away from our true multidimensional nature and preserve soul fragmentation. A scared relationship is a desperate surrogate of the relationship with the web of life, a bogus dreamland with an inevitable date of expiry and a tragic handover of souls, which may serve an educational purpose as long as the initiatory learning is not delayed.

“The feminine soul is cast out and projected from its human male form when a man falls in love with a woman. This process is reversed when a woman falls in love with a man. When humans fall in love with the person most closely replicating their own inner self at the time, souls fly out of their bodies with all pandemonium breaking loose. On the spiritual plane, romance is a sacred intersection of astral and material dimensions… an initiation for awakening soul-consciousness in the human form ensues. The fundamental disorientation of Humans Falling In Love is a combination of inter-dimensional collision and a genuine out-of-body experience.” [i]

“Human personalities” as Antero Alli puts it “discover their spiritual nature in many ways, one of which is by throwing their souls away. This is only natural, as hearts grow fonder in absence. The fatal element of romance emerges when humans-in-love realize how much they miss their souls, after throwing them out, while convinced they are missing their human other… the target of their projections.”

Scared relationships, or special relationships, as A Course in Miracles call them are “based on differences, where each one thinks the other has what he has not. “They come together, each to complete himself and rob the other. They stay until they think that there is nothing left to steal, and then move on. And so they wander through a world of strangers, unlike themselves, living with their bodies perhaps under a common roof and yet a world apart.”[ii]

Such relationships focus upon holding grievances. They maintain that, if you met that ideal him or he, if she or he spoke or acted differently, if certain outer circumstances or events were changed, the ideal relationship would be possible. The source of the relationship is constantly perceived as being outside and this produces the inevitable and ongoing fear that this source may be lost or abandoned.

Sacred relationships have a different foundation. “Each one has looked within and seen no lack. Accepting his completion, he would extend it by joining with another, whole as himself. He sees no difference between these selves, for differences are only of the body. Therefore, he looks on nothing he would take. He denies not his own reality because it is the truth. Just under Heaven does he stand, but close enough not to return to earth.”[iii]

A sacred relationship is learning to be the source of love rather than waiting for others to be the source. When I deny any part of me or others, I cannot reach the Core Multidimensional Identity, or God, Spirit, etc, for this Core is the place where all parts meet. Hence the path to the Core involves the acceptance of whoever and whatever exists. In a sacred relationship the partner becomes a holy mirror, who allows you to see who you are. It is a path of forgiveness. Forgiveness for myself, for all the aspects I do not like in me. Forgiveness for others, for whatever I do not like in them. As I forgive, I pave the way to the Core. The Core is ultimately reached when I become capable to comprise all, nothingness included.

All those we meet in our life are projected components of the wholeness from which I have separated myself, and every single relationship is a path to that wholeness. Here it is a question of pragmatically accepting with no reservation that “your partner is doing exactly what your energies, unconscious though they may be, are manipulating the partner into doing or saying. And you have to take full responsibility of this without saying, ‘Well, hey – Come on. He’s doing something too.’ What he’s doing in his movie, in his reality experience, doesn’t make any difference. It’s what he’s doing in your movie that carries the message from your Shadow. You have to begin by taking 100 percent responsibility for that – not 50 per cent or half and half – or the insight will never come. Only when you do take full responsibility (without any blame) for your partner’s behavior, for your partner’s speech and actions, only then are you in the place of power where you can begin to experience the manipulation of your partner by your Shadow side. You can then begin to bring the energy back to live comfortably in your own life. Then it no longer has to manipulate your partner into getting its messages to you or doing whatever it is that may be causing the problems between you, causing the barriers or the feelings of separation”.[iv]

The sole reality of the universe is unity and, although according to the hallucination of separation I appear as split, I am inevitably connected with whoever and whatever I perceive by a web of projections. Those on whom I project my fragmented parts, do the same with theirs. However, no one is able to understand how he receives the projections of others until he has had a complete experience of how his projections manipulate the lives of other people. I am the only inhabitant of my mind and all I perceive outside is just a part of that mind.

Notes:
[i] Antero Alli, Angel Tech: A Modern Shaman’s Guide to Reality Selection, New Falcon Publications, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA, p. 131
[ii] A Course in Miracles, Text, p. 467.
[iii] A Course in Miracles, Text, p. 467.
[iv] Edwin C. Steinbrecher, The Inner Guide Meditation: A Transformational Journey to Enlightenment and Awareness, Aquarian Press, p. 139.

© 2010 Franco Santoro, Cluny Hill College, Forres IV36 2RD, Scotland,http://www.facebook.com/Astroshamanism

Forthcoming Astroshamanic Events

Findhorn Foundation, 2-9 October 2010
Restoring the Fragmented Heart: The Way of Sacred Relationships
Exploring relationships from a multidimensional and shamanic perspective to heal connections with partners, relatives, friends and significant people in your life.
We track and release blocks to our capacity to love, identifying the underlying issues that hamper relationships, and we promote healing, fulfilment and peace. This is a profound process that supports right relationship aligned with our authentic soul purpose. Designed for all types of relationships.
Income related price: £495 / £645 / £775. Includes 7 nights accommodation and all meals. Bursaries are available.
See: http://www.findhorn.org/programmes/programme406.php

Findhorn Foundation, 23-30 October 2010
The Blessed Way of Passion: Astroshamanic Healing Touch
In this workshop we will discover ways of employing physical contact to foster expanded states of consciousness, reawaken healing talents and integrate them in everyday life. This week will impart shamanic healing skills for tracking and retrieving separated parts, releasing soul wounds and blocks, promoting harmonious connections with our inner and outer environment.
We will explore our multidimensional nature and the sacred dynamics of sexual energy, employing the body as a keyboard aimed at recovering and grounding hidden forces. The intent is to release energies that hinder our potentials, aligning ourselves with the dynamic flow of life and opening up to new horizons of purpose and harmony.
Through sounds, silence, trance, prayers and dances, we will share ways of channelling profound passions, transforming and merging them in accordance with one’s life purpose and the web of life. This workshop involves gentle forms of physical touch.
Income related price: £495 / £645 / £775. Includes 7 nights accommodation and all meals. Bursaries are available.
See: http://www.findhorn.org/programmes/programme347.php

Findhorn Foundation, 29 December 2010 – 5 January 2011
New Year Spiritual Healing Retreat
With Franco Santoro.
It promises to be a most transformational and healing week which includes a New Year’s Astroshamanic Trance Dance and plenty of opportunities to recapitulate the past and use it to fertilise empowering gifts for the present and future.
An opportunity to promote expanded awareness and healing through meditation and spiritual practices. We will alternate periods of silence and dialogue, stillness and movement, touch and contact, relaxation and activity, group and individual work, bringing careful attention to our inner and outer world. We will scan the past year, using various forms of astroshamanic recapitulation and the Astroshamanic Healing Grid at Cluny, extracting blessings and releasing grievances, paving a luminous healing way for the New Year.

Findhorn Foundation, 26 February – 12 March 2011
FOUNDATION TRAINING in ASTROSHAMANISM
An all-comprehensive two-week training aimed at providing an in-depth experience and understanding of contemporary shamanism and spiritual research in alignment with the principles of the Findhorn Community. Participants are encouraged and supported in opening, discovering and implementing the relationship with their inner guidance and soul’s purpose. This also involves releasing blocks and retrieving hidden potentials, learning to use shamanic healing in their life and relationship with others.
The training consists of two workshops, which can also be attended independently

26 February – 5 March 2011, A Journey into the Inner Universe.
This workshop focuses on the clarification of the life Intent and the connection with their inner guide. Participants will be trained in working with basic astroshamanic techniques for expanding perception and reawakening their authentic purpose. The programme includes: astroshamanic voyages, trance dance, totemic postures, circle positioning, astrodrama, ceremonial sharing, planetary chants, the ritual of the Sacred Cone and various opportunities for integrating shamanic work with ordinary reality.

5 – 12 March 2011, The Voyage through the Zodiac
During this second week participants will experience the whole spectrum of astroshamanic archetypes, retrieving and transforming blocked energies, strengthening the relationship with their multi-dimensional self and Intent. This workshop is designed for people who intend to employ shamanism both for themselves and in their practice with others. The previous week (or another one-week workshop with Franco) is a prerequisite for attendance.
Income related price for each week: £495 / £645 / £775. Includes 7 nights accommodation and all meals. There is a discount of £95 on the total combined price if booking both weeks. Bursaries are available.
Training and Mentoring Service
We offer a wide range of basic, intermediate and advanced training and individual consultations. These also include distance learning modules and mentoring services. Courses and sessions for both personal and professional use can be adapted to most types of situations or needs. For more information contact: info@astroshamanism.org

Astroshamanic Healing Sessions
How do they work and how to arrange them.
Sessions typically last 60 minutes and can be in-person or distant (over the phone or Skype). Distance sessions involve a preliminary exploration of the astrological chart, followed by a telephone or Skype consultation, a healing practice and a successive consultation aimed at examining what emerged during the practice. Each session is geared according to the issue and intent of the client. The aim is to focus on prominent issues, both from an ordinary and multidimensional perspective, releasing grievances, while uncovering authentic talents and finding empowering guidance. If the client finds it helpful, it is also possible to have additional sessions, or start a specific training programme. Fees for a distant session (60 minutes) are income related: Euro 50 or £ 45 (low), Euro 60 or £ 55 (medium), Euro 70 or £ 65 (high). If you wish to arrange a distance session, please contact Franco to make an appointment at info@astroshamanism.org
In the Workplace: a number of corporate, government and community organisations have utilised our work to support executives and employees in their professional and personal lives. In the workplace, individuals can successfully identify and implement honourable intentions, experiencing increased motivation and fulfilment, while also creating harmonious working relationships. Programmes with this focus are currently under development. For more information contact: info@astroshamanism.org

Franco Santoro: Energy worker, shamanic facilitator, member of the Findhorn Foundation and the developer of astroshamanism. His work is based on thirty-five years of direct personal experience, integrated with the teachings of many traditions, including Mediterranean and Celtic cultures, A Course in Miracles, Osho (for whom he was press agent) and the Findhorn Foundation Community. He is the author of Astroshamanism: A Journey Into the Inner Universe; Astroshamanism: The Voyage Through the Zodiac; the eZine PAN and other works including the series on CD, Healing Sounds from the Findhorn Sacred Cone Circle. Franco lives at the Cluny Hill College campus of the Findhorn Foundation in Northern Scotland, where he regularly holds workshops, courses and consultations. He also runs outreach events worldwide.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT:
Franco Santoro, Cluny Hill College,
Forres, IV36 2RD, Scotland
phone: +44 (0)1309 672289
e-mail: info@astroshamanism.org or franco.santoro@findhorn.org
http://www.astroshamanism.org/
http://www.facebook.com/Astroshamanism

http://ezinearticles.com/?Top-Five-Regrets-of-the-Dying&id=3268063

People grow a lot when they are faced with their own mortality. I learned never to underestimate someone’s capacity for growth. Some changes were phenomenal. Each experienced a variety of emotions, as expected, denial, fear, anger, remorse, more denial and eventually acceptance. Every single patient found their peace before they departed though, every one of them.

When questioned about any regrets they had or anything they would do differently, common themes surfaced again and again. Here are the most common five:

1. I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.

This was the most common regret of all. When people realise that their life is almost over and look back clearly on it, it is easy to see how many dreams have gone unfulfilled. Most people have had not honoured even a half of their dreams and had to die knowing that it was due to choices they had made, or not made.

It is very important to try and honour at least some of your dreams along the way. From the moment that you lose your health, it is too late. Health brings a freedom very few realise, until they no longer have it.

2. I wish I didn’t work so hard.

This came from every male patient that I nursed. They missed their children’s youth and their partner’s companionship. Women also spoke of this regret. But as most were from an older generation, many of the female patients had not been breadwinners. All of the men I nursed deeply regretted spending so much of their lives on the treadmill of a work existence.

By simplifying your lifestyle and making conscious choices along the way, it is possible to not need the income that you think you do. And by creating more space in your life, you become happier and more open to new opportunities, ones more suited to your new lifestyle.

3. I wish I’d had the courage to express my feelings.

Many people suppressed their feelings in order to keep peace with others. As a result, they settled for a mediocre existence and never became who they were truly capable of becoming. Many developed illnesses relating to the bitterness and resentment they carried as a result.

We cannot control the reactions of others. However, although people may initially react when you change the way you are by speaking honestly, in the end it raises the relationship to a whole new and healthier level. Either that or it releases the unhealthy relationship from your life. Either way, you win.

4. I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends.

Often they would not truly realise the full benefits of old friends until their dying weeks and it was not always possible to track them down. Many had become so caught up in their own lives that they had let golden friendships slip by over the years. There were many deep regrets about not giving friendships the time and effort that they deserved. Everyone misses their friends when they are dying.

It is common for anyone in a busy lifestyle to let friendships slip. But when you are faced with your approaching death, the physical details of life fall away. People do want to get their financial affairs in order if possible. But it is not money or status that holds the true importance for them. They want to get things in order more for the benefit of those they love. Usually though, they are too ill and weary to ever manage this task. It is all comes down to love and relationships in the end. That is all that remains in the final weeks, love and relationships.

5. I wish that I had let myself be happier.

This is a surprisingly common one. Many did not realise until the end that happiness is a choice. They had stayed stuck in old patterns and habits. The so-called ‘comfort’ of familiarity overflowed into their emotions, as well as their physical lives. Fear of change had them pretending to others, and to their selves, that they were content. When deep within, they longed to laugh properly and have silliness in their life again.

When you are on your deathbed, what others think of you is a long way from your mind. How wonderful to be able to let go and smile again, long before you are dying.

Life is a choice. It is YOUR life. C

Video that clears up some issues of 2012.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMRtjXgfIs8&NR=1

This is an incredible documentary on the process of making life:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vsl90WUkuY&feature=fvhr

This is an incredible video that shows that animals are not our enemies, and have a great link with us.  Depending on your intention and interaction with creatures, humans or animals, determines the outcome of the relationship.

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From Isolation to Universal Consciousness

Base or Root Chakra: Foundation of arcology
[Whole cell thought = Earth cell = Gaia = Life-force]

Rainbow Color : red
Architectural symbol : greenhouse, garden, kitchen
Element/Sense : earth, smell
Identity: person/planet, microcosm/macrocosm
Orientation: self-preservation, survival instincts, groundedness
Location: base of the spine (skeletal system)
Endocrine System: adrenal glands
Musical Tone: lam; connects you with the Earth below your feet, survival
Geometric Form: square within the circle, hexahedron
Sphere: lithosphere or geosphere (rock sphere inside Earth)
Words : innocence, soil, Earth chakra

Navel or Sacral Chakra: Passion needed to complete the act of creating arcology [Whole body wellness]

Rainbow color: orange
Architectural symbol: circulation, water and transportation systems
Element/Sense : water, taste
Identity: center of emotions and pleasure, soul
Orientation: self-gratification and justice; fluidity and grace
Location: just below navel
Endocrine System: ovaries/gonads
Musical Tone: vam, connects you to your emotions and sexuality
Geometric Form: icosahedron
Sphere: hydrosphere (water sphere which includes rivers, lakes and the ocean)
Words : creativity [thought to be the seat of prana], water chakra

Power, Solar Plexus Chakra: investing in the idea of arcology by putting energy and will into its creation
[World Energy Grid]

Rainbow color: yellow
Architectural symbol: world-wide solar energy grid
Element/Sense : fire, seeing, plasma
Identity: inner self, center of self-esteem
Orientation: self-definition, personal power, will, autonomy, and metabolism
Location: between navel and sternum below ribs
Endocrine System: pancreas & adrenals (vital to digestion)
Musical Tone: ram; connects and aligns the energy center in your body with your spirit and intellect
Geometric Form: tetrahedron
Sphere: biosphere (life sphere)
Words : evolution; earth life chakra

Heart Chakra: Love for the idea of a network of arcologies as a structure for our planetary salvation
[Evolutionary Loving Partnerships]

Rainbow color : green
Architectural symbol: child care and learning centers
Element/Sense : air, touch, clairsentience
Identity: social
Orientation: conflict resolution, love, peace, compassion, centeredness, humor, balance
Location: just over the sternum (heart)
Endocrine System: thymus gland (controls the immune system, T-cells)
Musical Tone: yam–connects spirit to your physical body; allows love to channel into your inner self and out to the external world of others.
Geometric Form : octahedron
Sphere: atmosphere (air sphere)
Word : security (financial and safety), sacred breath chakra

Throat Chakra: Share ideas about living in arcology with others, oral and written
[Communication ]

Rainbow Color: blue
Architectural symbol: media and creative arts centers, and the Internet
Element/Sense : sound, clairaudience
Identity: creative/collective, “inner mental ear”
Orientation: communication, commitment, and creativity
Endocrine System: thyroid gland (responsible for growth and maturation)
Musical Tone: ham, connects you to psychic truths
Geometric Form: dodecahedron
Sphere: noosphere (thinking layer of the Earth)
Word : collectivity; earth moon chakra

Third Eye or Brow Chakra: Visualized ideas, blueprints of arcology
[Global consciousness—Holocracy]

Rainbow color: indigo
Architectural symbol: network of arcologies
Element/Sense : light, clairvoyance
Identity: archetypes, intuition, imagination, higher mental abilities, wisdom
Orientation: astral body, neurons
Location: central forehead
Endocrine System: pineal gland (produces psychedelic chemical dimethyltryptamine, and secretes melatonin, a hormone that may help regulate the wake-sleep cycle)
Musical Tone : sham; connects you with divine wisdom and the future
Geometric Form : metatron’s cube
Sphere: anthrosphere (humans and our constructions)
Words : forgiveness, earth sun chakra

Crown Chakra: Architectural ideas, the arcology of love
[Cosmic Order--Sacred Geometry—Akashic Record]

Rainbow color: violet
Architectural symbol: observatory dome
Element/Sense : abstract thought (fifth element—ether, dark energy)
Identity: universal computer, genius, enlightenment, oneness, understanding
Orientation: self-knowledge, life purpose, and spiritual path
Location: top of the head
Endocrine System: pituitary gland (master gland), secretes endorphins for positive mood
Musical Tone: aum; Connects energy body to spirit; sensitive to light
Geometric Form: spin on Earth’s axis
Sphere: Sphere (outside or heavenly sphere)
Words : integration; Earth’s axis chakra

http://news.mongabay.com/2009/1110-herndon_amazon_shaman.html

Physician Christopher Herndon explores how Amazon shamans diagnose and treat disease.

Ethnobotanists, people who study the relationship between plants and people, have long documented the extensive use of medicinal plants by indigenous shamans in places around the world, including the Amazon. But few have reported on the actual process by which traditional healers diagnose and treat disease.

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