Spiritual Energy in Experiential Learning
Rod Walker, Chile
tocatierra@yahoo.com
ICEL 2011
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www.tocatierra.cl
Reflexive
questioning
Intuiting
Understanding
the process
Practising
Incorporating
experiences
Applying them
for others
Touching
the earth
Does ‘spiritual energy’ exist?
If so, where does it come from?
God(s)?
Avatars?
Great spirit?
Electromagnetic
energy?
Chi, Prana,
Reiki?
Tao,
Kundalini?
intelligence
of universe?
Seeking it can seem elusive, complicated
Yet finding it is often easier:
a sudden, simple ‘happening’
at an unexpected moment,
right in the here and now
Is it possible to bring such energy
into conscious awareness …
perhaps transmit or radiate it,
and help others do the same?
Colin Mortlock’s 3 books on adventure
(A Alternative – Beyond A – Spirit of A)
the ‘bottomless keel’
Kendal
Mountain
Festival, UK, 2009
CEAL ‘The Bothy’
Lagunillas, 1967 – 2000
where did the ‘magic’ come from?
Where did the ‘magic’ come from?
Uncertainty
Peace
Silence
Identity
Indigenous
culture
Simplicity
Exploring
1st course:
Rafael (now 52)
Lagunillas
Then came Cañi, a ‘transforming vision’
on the Cañi summit …
“Walking up these trails, you go becoming
sort of transformed in PART of all this ... It’s no
longer a matter of reaching this rock, getting to
this summit, but of simply walking and suddenly
you’re HERE ... and feel as if you’ve
ALWAYS BEEN HERE ...
You look at all this and say to yourself,
Hey, it’s as if it were MINE!”
Social ‘innovation’:
training rural youths
as ecotourist guides
Indigenous Andean vision
Deities (Summits)
Apus
We all ‘converse’
Mother earth
Humans
Pacha Mama
Nunas
‘I’ – participate intimately in an integrated
spiritual dialogue that permeates the everyday
“Toca tierra … toca alma”
Touch the earth … touch the soul
Cristina Robin, Argentina 1999
We tried writing, translating books
Out of Doors:
Parks and Trees
Teachers’ Manual for
Education Ministry,
Chile, 1996
Forest magic, 2002
Walking meditation a spiritual practice,
Argentina, 2000
Council of All Beings
deep ecology,
2006
‘We saw beyond our egos – energies of
salvation came welling up – the love
that lives inside each one of us …’
‘I am my own sister forest,
my own great teacher …’
Ways of touching Earth
Laughter
Sitting on
the earth
Holding
Councils
Barefoot
walking
Unity,
Walking
at night
Water
Infinity
Solar/earth Experiencing
cycles
solitude
unity and infinity in the way life works:
a Reiki energy healing class
Surya
Holistic
Health
Center,
Villarrica, 2006
Reiki healing …
simply works
for energy is what we are
and what we transmit
to other people …
Universal spiritual principles
Traditional
in India
Peace
Equivalent
in Nature
Balance
Opposites
Non-violence
Harmony
Violence
Rectitude
Consistency
Inconsistency
Truth
Interconnectedness
Separation, falsity
Love
Abundance
Meanness, fear
Instability
‘Spiritual’ energy:
Is by nature inclusive, positive, life-supporting
 Elevates awareness beyond the ego-mind
 Adds transcendence to everyday experience
 Connects the individual with totality, unity
 Enables creativity to occur
 Is accessible through focused breathing
 With practice, its benefit can be projected.
This makes it a powerful facilitation ‘tool’,
depending upon consistent practice
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Symptoms of Spiritual Energy
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Creativity, intuitive inner knowings
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Synchronic ‘coincidences’
Equanimity, the ‘inner smile’
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‘Hearing’ other people’s thoughts
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Acting without remembering why
Propensity to manifest generosity and love
If ‘spiritual energy’ still seems an elusive concept,
an alternative is emerging in ‘hard’ modern science
Non-local
quantum
consciousnessSpiritual
God,
Great spirit
energy,
awareness
Intelligent
energy of
universe
Vital
energy
Intuitive
understanding
Reiki,
life force
It’s wonderfully explained in …
By Dr Amit Goswami
A clearer way to see reality …
upside down – ‘do-be-do-be-do’