Shifting purpose and mission for Companions Circle
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Jun. 30th, 2008 | 08:45 am
Visions and messages of more drastic than usual changes are becoming or seeming more probable: I am being shown pictures and sung songs by Spirit and Spirits in the summer tree branches and leaves, hinting that the purpose and mission of Companions Circle - Shamanic Shift Center here in Milwaukee is shifting radically. I am percieving a new purpose and mission and maybe a move, though probably not a physical move from this rented space.
There has always been a calling to incarnate a 'circle church' here - but not an institution, not even a tiny one, and not an authority-source, not even a flexible one. So why live as a circle-church at all and why live here?
The underground and emerging 'church' paradigms did attract me in years long past, but only fleetingly as I realized that whatever I am being called to (and now whatever is called for here) is more subtle and even farther off the mainstreams of religion, spirituality, and community. It is also flowing away from the newer mainstreams of spirituality and religion, including the western revival of shamanic ways.
This energy-flow spirals into new territory at a new-fangled angle. This energy-pattern and mission is leaning farther and further out and away from even the alternative mainstreams of the 'post-' and 'new' and 'complementary and 'alternative' and 'emerging''.
Will this dream-seed that has been growing skyward and earthward and spreading gradually here really shift and pull up roots and walk onward instead of just bending and swaying at this crossroads? I do not know yet if this is a message these new shamanic sights and sounds are vibrating between earth and winds, interpreted and passed along to me by the trees around here. I seem to be hearing 'stay' and 'go' at once!
I must gaze and listen longer to understand these messages.
