Mark A. Shryock: We are Standing on Bare Soil

I want to share some of the things that have come up this morning, not so much to channel this but just to speak it. So that is what I am doing, based on my own understanding of it and what is coming in.

All of us at times feel great fear of what is occurring right now, even if we cannot name what the hell it even is. We all feel that something is happening and that great change is afoot.

I have written a lot about how I see the world getting ready to change a great deal, and that in fact it is already changing, and that the old narcissistic 3D structures on every level are in collapse already. I want to talk about what that means and what it does not mean, and I want to share with you one of my experiences of watching one system completely collapse and another being born, which is what is occurring now.

I was the first person in the world to academically document the re-creation of a tallgrass riparian prairie, over multiple years, on land where it had been completely destroyed.

Through working with the prairie daily, often from sunup to sundown, through the days and the changes of the seasons for years, I began to see and to understand that there is a force in the universe that plays a part in every single thing that is created. Part of that force works through the devas. The devas are the intelligences of nature that hold the pattern, the blueprint, of every living thing, from a single blade of grass to a whole prairie.

Machaelle Small Wright, who cofounded the Perelandra nature research center in Virginia, wrote about this in The Perelandra Garden Workbook. She teaches that a garden is a living, conscious partnership between people and the intelligences of nature: the devas, the elementals, and the nature spirits. Every act in a garden, and planting most of all, is an act of energy done together with nature, and frequency governs it. She also points out that people tend to see only how destructive they can be, and do not have the confidence to see how constructive they can be.

This is my experience as well, and I often receive channeled messages from the devas. I am not even sure channeled is the right word. They just talk with me when I am out in the garden or when I am in nature.

Nothing grows by accident. What comes up out of the soil follows the pattern the devas hold, and physical matter arranges itself around that pattern. A seed carries that pattern packed tight inside it, the blueprint of one particular frequency. When I put a prairie seed mix down on that destroyed ground, I was bringing in a much higher pattern than anything left in that worn out place, and the new pattern began to take over the broken one. Rudolf Steiner saw the seed as a return to cosmic chaos, the point where the old form breaks down completely so that a new one can be shaped out of the cosmos.

I watched thousands of times in my own prairie work how one thing would die, and even give part of itself as it fell, in the exact place where something else would rise and take form. The tallgrass prairie is a constant dance of death and rebirth to a song as primordial as the stars.

By the third year of the prairie, the roots had gone deep into the ground. The old system, the annual weeds, the packed down soil, the low energy that had held that place for so long, could not keep itself going under the rising vibration of the new prairie. The weeds died off because they could not live on the frequency the prairie was anchoring. The new coming in and the old dying off were one and the same change.

The devas do not work from human feelings or from step by step human logic. They hold patterns and they manage frequency. They hold the blueprint of what a prairie, or a planet, looks like when it is in balance.

To work this way, I had to step out of the old way of gardening, where you force the land to do what you want, and into a partnership where energy, intention, and being in tune with the land decide what happens in the soil. Working with the devas meant bringing my own consciousness into line with the steady frequency they hold. The nature spirits look after the life and growth of the plants, and they move one plant community into the next according to those blueprints.

The elementals and nature spirits also handle the whole life of matter, including taking apart, breaking down, and clearing away whatever is out of balance or has finished its cycle. When the old growth dies off during a change, they are overseeing it, clearing the space, in energy and on the ground, so the new pattern can take hold.

What looks like death and chaos to us is compost to them. The old matter is broken down and recycled to feed what is rising.

The Earth is going through the same thing right now. Its frequency is being raised. The 5D energy coming in is like wild perennial seed dropped across the whole planet. Two things happen at once. Heart centered, sovereign ways of living take root fast, while the old 3D institutions and the false structures built on them decay and die off. They cannot live side by side, because they run on entirely different frequencies.

There is a divine hand in how the old falls and in how the new is reborn. Our real job at this time is to surrender to the new energy coming in, to follow our joy, and to attune to it.

Every change within creation happens under the same blueprint. There is a divine hand playing out exactly how things dissolve and how they are being born in this hour.

The devas are the keepers of form. Every form in the physical world is held in place by an intelligence that carries its pattern. Matter has no intelligence of its own. It takes the shape of whatever frequency is strongest around it. A deva cannot walk away from a form while that form is still needed.

But when the frequency of a place, or of a whole planet, shifts, the deva pulls back the blueprint that was holding the old structure together. Once that blueprint is withdrawn, the old form breaks down fast, into what looks to us like chaos, because the intelligence that organized it has moved on to anchor the new pattern. The elementals of earth and fire carry out the breaking down. Nothing is wasted. Everything that was in the old form is taken back and used for what is rising.

The new frequency does not bargain with the old form. It changes the field around it. When the field changes, the deva holding the old form lets go, because what held that form together is gone. Pulling that support away from the old is what releases the energy that feeds the new.

Alice Bailey taught that when a higher vibration comes in, it burns out the old form. Shakti Gawain wrote that when a new template comes into our lives, it flushes out whatever cannot match it. The same thing is happening to the whole planet now.

The caterpillar shows this same law in a living body. While the caterpillar is still eating and consuming everything around it, special cells called imaginal cells begin to appear inside it. They carry the blueprint of a completely different creature, the butterfly. The caterpillar’s immune system sees them as foreign invaders and attacks them.

The imaginal cells do not fight back, and they do not try to fix the caterpillar. They hold their own frequency and they find each other, and they gather in clusters. When there are enough of them, the caterpillar’s body can no longer hold together, and it breaks down into what is called the imaginal soup. Nothing in that soup is wasted. The same matter and energy that built the caterpillar is used by the imaginal cells to build the butterfly. Ervin Laszlo and Bruce Lipton have both written about this.

The seeds I put down on that prairie were imaginal cells dropped into broken ground. We are in the soup now. The institutions built on scarcity, control, and separation are in their third year, and they are dying off.

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