Visions at the Edge: From the Other Side, Experiment #3 ~ Chris Maddox

by | Aug 25, 2020 | WILD WOMAN | 8 comments

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.
 
 
 

#3

 
earth and water
 
The oak grew with defiance and grace at the lake’s edge, rooted into red clay earth and reaching down into the water too.
 
I knelt down in the water at its feet, which felt like the exact right thing to do.
 
I reached my heart out through my hands for the weathered and sturdy roots living under water and held on. An unnameable feeling swept through me, which felt something like holding the hand of my Grandmother.
 
What majesty, I thought, as deep comfort rose up and out through my eyes, Why do we need to invent anything else when this perfection exists?
 
The only thing we need to invent, I thought, are ways to protect these wild miracles.
 
 
dreaming and waking
 
There was a little girl sitting in the grass and gently twirling a strand of pink crystal beads around her soft little fingers. She was saying something that sounded like a prayer I’d never heard.
 
I curled myself around her and wept.
 
She smiled, and then with a tenderness in her voice and her eyes, she kept twirling the beads which sparkled in the sunlight, and said her prayer, over and over…
 
I cried until I couldn’t anymore, then looked up to see the big brown eyes of an old friend, who stood me up and wiped the tears from my cheeks.
 
A familiar noise echoed up from downstairs and I opened my eyes, feeling both here and there.
 
 
past and future
 
As the fires blaze and the winds get stronger,
 
As the oceans carry our garbage from far from our sights,
 
As the tensions between the many tribes build and the technology of destruction advances,
 
As the bees die and ecosystems collapse,
 
A too-simple question emerges: What will it take for us to heal this?
 
Because we can, I feel, we really can…
 

 

Read More “From the Other Side”

 

Your Turn

Have you found yourself recently at an edge between this and that?
 
Please share about it in the comments below and/or write draw it in your journal.
 
Can’t wait to read them.
 
 

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8 Comments

  1. Stacey suter
    Stacey suter on August 27, 2020 at 4:49 am

    Hi Chris, this was deffo something very different to read. Very deep. Loved it. You are so right…

    “What will it take for us to heal this? Because we can, I feel, we really can…”

    I too believe we can, maybe a wwp leader and circlers group/tribe should be formed to brainstorm together what we can all do and offer as a collective to help heal.

    I have been feeling a bit inbetween;

    Caterpillar and butterfly
    I have had the sense of feeling like I am in the cocoon waiting for nature patiently to allow for me to transform, to become. I trust.

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    • Chris Maddox
      Chris Maddox on August 31, 2020 at 3:22 pm

      Beautiful ♥️, Stacey, I love it.

      I hope that next year’s theme & some of the new workshops for Circle Leaders will be inspiring spaces of cooperation & inspiration. I know my instinct has been to focus in my local community & hopefully we can aspire to do more on the ground where we are.

      xoxo

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  2. Stacey suter
    Stacey suter on August 27, 2020 at 5:22 am

    Also was curious as to if u have sent out experiment 1 & 2?! X

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  3. Danielle Anne Gismondi
    Danielle Anne Gismondi on August 28, 2020 at 9:52 am

    You are a sunbeam. I love you. Thank you.

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    • Chris Maddox
      Chris Maddox on August 31, 2020 at 3:23 pm

      Awww, Danielle ♥️

      Thank you, I love you too.

      Reply
  4. Naomi
    Naomi on August 28, 2020 at 11:30 pm

    Dearest Chris, How I love you so.

    I, too, find myself curled around babies and weeping quite often. The babies are my own star seeds. And Great Spirit does this wild thing of helping me heal my own inner child by gifting me motherhood to two little versions of me. It’s amazing and terrifying all at the same time.

    When I get overwhelmed with the notion of changing and molding the new world, I remember that there’s only two little new worlds that really matter. If I can start there, the ripples in the water will swell far and wide. So I lean into the curl up, and whisper prayers of my own. ❤️

    Thank you so much for this.

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  5. Chris Maddox
    Chris Maddox on August 31, 2020 at 3:26 pm

    Thank you for this beautiful reflection of motherhood & growth. ♥️

    May all the little ripples dance together to make a more loving world.

    xo

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