Council of All Beings Report from Bill Pfeiffer bill@sacredearthnetwork.org 29/10/2003

It's Sunday night. I'm pretty beat but I have that contented feeling
that comes after doing ones utmost to change consciousness on behalf
of the Earth and see the change happen to a group of young people
over a weekend.

I tell you when I first saw this bunch of students at Greenfield
Community College who took a CAB as a elective so "they could get
credit", I thought Cathy's and my work would definitely be cut out
for us. During the early parts of the workshop there were definite
signs of resistance to the process, especially from a few of the 20
year old men.... but the part I feared their ridicule the worst, the
actual CAB turned out to be the point where all the preliminary work
paid off. On Sunday morn when the students filed up the stairs to the
Earthlands lodge to drum beats and sage, they sat down in the circle
and REALLY got into their species/life forms! In fact, it was clear
they were much more comfortable being the following than their human
selves: crystal,tiger,wind, 2 deers,bird,roots,spider,beech tree,
snail( yours truly),Sasquatch,Treebeard,a future more evolved human,
moss, and rock..

Every life form was very authentic with sincere expressions of anger,
fear, hopelessness, and sadness. There were also times they exhibited
a rare compassion and patience for humans fear-driven ignorant
behavior. It was so freeing to step out of my human role and lead
the Council as snail. We shelled creatures have been around for a
long time!

I noticed it was the ritual context that got them really paying
attention. Cathy is so good at this and we went into the POWER of the
present moment. At the end, the future human(who was one of 3
non-students and someone whose heroine is Peace Pilgrim and who goes
all over the world spreading the "One People/One Earth" message) said
there is a BIG change coming and only those who can resonate to the
higher frequencies of love and gentleness to the Earth have a chance
at being in the next wave of human BEINGS. Of course, I have heard
that many times before but the truth of it really hit me in the gut
in a good way.

We ended on that note and sent everyone outside as humans for
debriefing and a personal action plan. My sense was the group would
never completely succumb to the Machine and some would actually work
to dismantle it.

Thanks once again to you and Joanna for an ingenious, shamanic method
for stepping into our ecological Self- our true Self.

Love,
Bill