Medicine for the Earth Bay Area

Based on the ancient principle, "it is who we become that changes the world," Medicine for the Earth offers deeply empowering ways of transforming our consciousness. It is a visionary philosophy pioneered by Sandra Ingerman and based on seven key practices: intention, concentration, focus, love, harmony, union, and imagination. Nearly all mystical spiritual traditions have long considered these practices as keys to creating miracles.

We all know our planet and her creatures are suffering. We know we need to change our lifestyles and actions; we know we need miracles to shift all that is out of balance. When shamans say that we are "dreaming the wrong dream"--believing that we are separate from nature, separate from the spiritual realms, and victims of our life and environment--they mean that we are poisoning our perceptions of life by feeding emotional and mental toxins, producing fear, anger, hate, and despair.

To walk in balance and support change, we need to find our way into more positive and beautiful dreams for the planet. Medicine for the Earth is a visionary way of being, acting, and thinking, as well as a set of spirit-based practices that help us embody our divinity. Drawing on ancient alchemical methods for transforming personal and environmental toxins, Medicine for the Earth gives us tools for deep personal and planetary healing.

Learning the basics of Medicine for the Earth practices in a group setting is energizing and empowering. We work in cooperation with helping spirits, divine forces, spirits of the land and the elements while we access our own divinity. We learn to work with energy and formlessness, intention and imagination, divinity and shadow; we change our state of consciousness and shift our perceptions through meditation, breath, sound, and movement. We use shamanic journeying and ceremony to move into harmony within the web of life, and explore ceremony as a way of transmuting toxins in our bodies and the environment.

The group work prepares us to bring daily Medicine for the Earth practice into our lives, transforming and transmuting our negative beliefs, attitudes, and the energy that comes from our emotions. By creating positive change within ourselves, and bringing our consciousness into a state of harmony and balance, healing follows. As we repair damage on the spiritual level, the natural world begins to repair at the same time. Ongoing gatherings are an opportunity to continue learning and to practice this work with others. They offer hope for all of us in the power of our intent: to heal our world under attack, to live in reciprocity with all beings, and to open our hearts.

As Sandra Ingerman describes the process, "We learn how to tap into another level of reality in perceiving ourselves as part of a web of life and not separate from it. We learn how to remember our own divinity and how to experience the divinity in others to create strength as well as planetary healing. As we learn how to become more conscious of our thought forms and work through our problematic states of consciousness, we bring great healing for all...When our perception shifts, our reality changes."

During a number of Medicine for the Earth gatherings, contaminated water was repeatedly tested before and after healing ceremonies to gather data on the transmutation that occurred. In these tests, distilled water with a pH of 7 had ammonium hydroxide added, changing the pH to 11 or 12. After the ceremonies, the pH of the water consistently dropped from one to three points. Such a change in the nature of polluted water is not scientifically explainable or "possible;" it is roughly the equivalent of spilling coffee on a 100 square foot rug and totally cleaning all but ten feet of it with a healing ceremony. Computer-generated images produced by the Gas Discharge Visualization technique (GDV), which measures electron emissions to show energy responses and reactions, has also been used to show before-and-after ceremony changes in the structure of water, soil, food, and participant energy fields. For more information on these results, see the book and the website (link follows). Finally, anecdotal reports of the effects on humans include remissions of cancer, diabetes clearing up, help with thyroid problems, improvements in environmental illness, decreased depression, more energy, and a general sense of increased well-being. All of these results illustrate how the principle of harmony within creates harmony without.

See Medicine for the Earth: How to Transform Personal & Environmental Toxins by Sandra Ingerman. NY: Three Rivers Press, 2000, and www.medicinefortheearth.com.