Welcome to the April edition of Raising Vibrations!

April is an exciting month for me, as I prepare for a Spiritual Adventure to Peru on the 20th of the month!

I AM SO EXCITED!

There was a very special event that took place there last month on the Solstice at Lake Titicaca (http://www.earthworksforhumanity.org/ for more information and pictures/video clips.)

Below you will find an article, which will give you some background and also integrate you to some of the events that are coming this month in Nanaimo. Consciousness is speeding up, and there are earth changes that are happening in our world that demand our attention and our understanding. Mostly it is our love (higher vibration) that is requested, and not our fear (lower vibration). As we inform ourselves about what is happening, we can begin to see these changes as opportunities and integrate them into our experience instead of fearing them. There is no mistake that several movies are being presented this month in Nanaimo on the Mayan Calendar. The Mayans of Central Mexico/Guatemala and the Incas of Peru are not the only ones that have prophesies of up and coming events in our world. The Anazazzi of the Southwestern USA as well, see the Eagle and the Condor coming together as the beginning of a world of Peace and Harmony.

There will be some great news and insights about my adventures in Machu Picchu and the Amazon Jungle in the June Newsletter, but there will not be one for May.
Have a wonderful spring. I will be back online in early June. Here is a link to another movie that I hope to be showing when I return. There is a lot of information to look at and a beautiful trailer of the movie. Click below for more info and to view the trailer http://www.shiftingages.com/about.html

Warmly, Ev

The Eagle and the Condor

by

Barry Fraser

In the first few pages of the book “Spirit of the Shuar” co-author Shakaim Mariano tells how he and his wife are saddened to see “how little they have” as they got to know the North Americans and Europeans who visited his Shuar village in the Amazon rainforest.

Were someone from North America to visit a Shuar village, they would see what might look like a materialistically impoverished people. They would see strong and healthy people who do not want for food and other basics, but who have very few “comforts”, living in simple shelters with no electricity. Interestingly, they might say exactly what Shakaim Mariano said about that of the North Americans who visited his home.
But visitors would also see something that is sadly missing in our culture that we so desperately long for. They would see a people who have a profound spiritual connection to the earth and an indelible bond to each other and to their ancestors. They would see a people who spend their daily lives working three hours a day with the rest of their time spent playing, enjoying family, friends, and the beauty around them, experiencing the ecstasy of feeling their oneness with the earth and all living creatures. They would see a people who live joyously and have time for all the truly important things.

We have so much to teach each other.

Many of the indigenous cultures of the world share a two thousand year old prophecy about the eagle and the condor. In the Andes it is expressed as the coming of the new Pachacuti, an interval of roughly 500 years. The prophecy foretold an unbalance and tremendous conflict throughout the Americas from around 1500 to 2000. During this time the eagle, representing the mental and materialistic, has driven the condor, representing the spiritual and heart-centered, almost into extinction.

The eagle represents the modern, technological world, and the people of the eagle have developed the intellect at the expense of the heart. They have developed technology to an extraordinary level, bringing them material wealth beyond their wildest dreams. But they also find themselves spiritually impoverished to their peril.
The people of the condor represent the indigenous people of the world living close to the land, with the heart and wisdom that come from being attuned to the natural world. They live from their heart and through their senses, and have an unparalleled depth of spirituality and wisdom that is an expression of their profound connection to nature.

These people are spiritually rich but materially impoverished. The forces of the developed world now threaten their environment that they depend on for their material and spiritual sustenance. They must understand and develop some of the intellectual skills of the eagle.

According to the prophecy of the eagle and condor, we are at the beginning of the “Fifth Pachacuti”, a time when the condor will rise again and will once again fly together wing to wing in the same sky as the eagle and the world will come into balance. It is a time of partnership, love and healing, and a transition out of an era of conflict and turmoil into more sustainable and earth-honoring ways. It will be a time of great transition but also with some dangers. The condor will not soon forget the domination of the eagle. The eagle must also change to help restore the balance.
Our task now is to begin to return to the heart-wisdom ways of the condor; to individually begin to fulfill the prophecy. We need to “come to our senses,” and listen with our hearts to what the earth is trying to tell us. We need to begin to look at and understand how the individual choices we make every day not only perpetuate the destruction of the earth, but also contribute to our own sense of unhappiness, stress, and isolation from each other. We must begin now to help the condor soar.