13 Indigenous Grandmothers. Week 1 ~ Prophecies Revealed: The Mission of the Council Feb 10th,

Having not had a lot of advanced notice on this course, and being involved in information development for the past several years on all aspects of integrative health care, I was unaware of this Council of Grandmothers until one of our spirituality liaisons, Beth Patterson, sent me a link and said 'is this something you'd like on Lumigrate?'  Why YES, I would, providing they do a good job with the technology and the company they've hired to collect the money and do all the services is legitimate and good. 

Well, the apprehensions kept melting away the more involved in the process I got and I really enjoyed the moderator, Stephen Dinan (and his wife who assisted) of "The Shift Network".  After over an hour of engaging conversation between Rita Blumenstein and Jyoti, I chuckled at the closing when Stephen hopped back in and Rita said 'hi, who are you?', as if it were a phone conversation between the two of them without the others listening.  

I had been thinking how amazing this technology must seem to these Grandmother elders.  She came home from work in the Tundra country of Alaska and was on the phone to be connected to people all over the world through technology and tecky people in California.  It was VERY well done. 

If you're on the phone you can hit 1 or 2 to answer questions they asked so they knew how many people had heard of the Council for a while or how many, like me, were new to it; most had known for a while.  Then they pushed another button which broke us into groups of three and they chimed after a minute and asked each of us for a minute to say who we were and what our intentions were.  

I'd just been to a seminar at our Business Incubator the day before about goal setting for business and one of the speakers, Tom Sawyer of RSW Partners, a local 'going national' markeing firm, said that you have to put your goals out there publicly for others to know so you're accountable to them.  So I found it interesting as I was processing the course to think about how much was weaving from this spiritually advanced group of people coming from far away on a telecourse with concepts I'd attended locally in Grand Junction. 

I sense we are fairly far along in a movement process. I found Jyoti's background fascinating; PhD in transpersonal psychology (which is what I did an oral book report on in eight grade, boring my class most likely and feeling nerdy when the next girl did 'Little House on the Prairie'), studied at the Jung Institute, etc.  She said this is a time of weaving.  Please look at the Lumigrate logo! I was the key person in the design of that, with the help of a graphics artist and a creatively minded assistant at the time.  Weaving ribbons to represent 'integration' of different concepts, professionals, people, theories.  The light coming out from the center -- light/lumen, which goes back to the old expression of the law of the lamp post/law of the hammer in allopathy or simply as the words we created express "Lighting your path to health and well-being".  Some days are very long days at Lumigrate, and I look for these confirmations to let me know that I'm doing exactly what is intended for me today. 

Essentially, they set the stage for the six weeks of courses weekly and website interaction to be for people healing their differences, listening to Mother Earth, finding peace and balance, and asking people to see through the eyes of our hearts as this will heal the world, and for all elders in all cultures to be respected for their wisdom.  ~~ Mardy

Here's the link to the piece letting us know about this by Beth Patterson, our spirituality 'elder' at Lumigrate. If you follow the link she provides it takes you to her coverage of it on Virtual Tea House, where she clearly says it's an affiliate link, so if you don't go from VTH to their website to sign up, she doesn't get the 'credit' for telling us about it ! (Appreciate the transparency and I look for that with providers I network Lumigrate with.)

Beth squeezes out time to contribute on Lumigrate to help us with our spirituality aspect, so naturally I want to see her receiving for her time and energy (and money SHE puts into learning about 'her thing' of spirituality).  www.lumigrate.com/forum/learning-begins-th-210th-13-indigenous-grandmothers-light-our-way-forward