About the “From the Other Side” Series

with The Wild Woman Project Founder, Chris Maddox

 
In the modern world, brimming with companies, people, and special interests waving their hands and shouting, “Look over here! Buy this, do this, think this!,” our attention has become our most powerful & precious creative resource.
 
It is clear, the World is undergoing a massive transformation – the outcome, yet unknown. I believe, as Einstein did, “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” I also believe that by accessing and working with the historically suppressed/oppressed Feminine Principle (which moves through all things) and the Right Brain (which we all have), we can uncover a different kind of thinking.
 
So – I am experimenting with writing through the interior of my spontaneous experiences with Inner Guidance, with hopes that it will offer me & you, dear reader, gems of perception and an account of a different way of thinking – from the other side. 
 
May it be useful.
  
 

#2

 
Morning.
 
The first sips of coffee, with my old friends, journal and pen. Out on the porch we gaze onto the magnificence of morning and pray for guidance about the day ahead. Within moments, a spider drops from above and lands on my right breast.
 
Hello, spider. What message is this?
 
A feeling: There are secrets we already know.
 
Walking barefoot on the cold, moist dew of the morning. Autumn is spinning gold out of the once green grass. The light of the Sun shines through the mist and a steam seems to rise from the Earth. A feeling of total alertness washes over me.
 
What is that?
 
?
 
?
 
?
 
I see countless little cotton-like orbs spread out over the field, each sitting between blades of grass.
 
I walk toward one and kneel down.
 
Jaw drops.
 
Heart speeds up, a drumming inside.
 
It is a tiny, perfect, spider web!
 
And there are at least are a hundred more!!!
 
There are secrets we already know.
 
I walk around visiting the tiny webs. Portals, each of them.
 
As I gaze into their intricate patterns, a vision of last night’s Full Moon emerges with a sense there were ancestors celebrating out here as the world slept.
 
In the light of the morning, in the presence of the webs, through the rhythm of my beating heart, I hear the drums of the people who knew this land and loved it long before I was living in this flesh.
 
Did they enter through the webs? There is no way to know for sure, but every part of me is saying, They were here.
 
As I walk back to my porch to get to work, that sneaky old feeling comes in: you better not tell anyone or they will think you’re crazy.
 
Today is different though. 
 
This fearful voice doesn’t crack all the way through the surface of my awareness.
 
Maybe it’s the spiders,
or the pulse of the ancestors,
or the countless mystics I know from all walks of life that would relish in this story without an ounce of judgment & then share their own,
 
but today all I can hear are these words:
 
There are secrets we already know

Your Turn

Have you ever had an experience with a deep Knowing and/or Nature that you could not necessarily prove or quantify?
 
Please share in the comments below and/or write draw it in your journal.

 

 

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