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INDIGENOUS STEWARDSHIP OF LANDS WE LOVE

Apr 22
3 min read

Updated: 3 days ago

Collaborations for the reclamation of the lands we love are underway across southern California. Community care is essential. It involves cultivating connections, healing, and giving back what was stolen. Asking for forgiveness and atonement through reparations and good policies is part of the process. We strive for harmony with the earth and its many interconnected ecosystems.

Gratitude for Leadership

Special thanks to Lázaro Arvizu, a Tongva culture bearer. His vision and leadership have set a path forward. We appreciate The BirdHouse for introducing us to land back movements and their stewards. Their gracious guidance helps us stay on the biophilic path. We aspire to serve our native leaders, listen to nature’s call, and heed the whispers of the wind for our highest good on earth.

It’s true. We know very little about many things. Yet, our curiosity drives us. We show up for our earth, for the plants, for biophilia, and for each other. We support stories that heal our consciousness. We nurture the arts and ecology within us, connecting to verdant land and spirit. It’s about discovering new ways to exist without predefined answers. We do this in support of the original stewards of the lands we cherish.

Yes. It requires concerted effort. We need collaboration with cities, counties, states, and federal bodies. This involves a mindset shift to return, repair, and restore our lands, air, and sea. Our hearts cry for new, loving systems as we witness outdated ideas falling into obsolescence. It might be easy to assign blame to corporations, lobbyists, or other individuals. But life demands more resilience. It requires loving action, less knowing, and more experiencing to move forward. Ultimately, it is up to all of us to expect more.

Growing Together for Healing

Recently, we joined our dear land charmer, Indy Rishi. He is a builder of strategic systemic metamorphosis for farmers, teachers, and healers. In one of his community events, we uplift each other and serve our urban neighborhoods. We participated in his native plant labyrinth build at the Lopez Urban Garden in Pomona.

Just beyond a tree planted in the last century, we began creating a native plant labyrinth in a patch of dirt at the far east corner of Lopez Urban Farm.

Under the stewardship of Mama Tree Farms’ Abudu Asaase, a labyrinth was designed with native plants donated for this offering. The community united to clear the land, dig holes, and follow the planting plan. This sacred symbol aims to bring healing to Southern California. We recognized that native plants are only a beginning. Tending to the garden with love while listening to the wisdom of land, soil, air, and water is just the start.

Growing a collective space fosters possibilities for nature's peace and prosperity. What's beneficial for our land, air, and sea benefits all of us. Indigenous communities are restoring nature's grace. They are reclaiming knowledge lost through trauma, destruction, and neglect.

Embracing Our True Home

Enter the sacredness of your truest home. It is the space where love and forgiveness meet. An open heart can become a soulful force of nature. Today, strive to be someone rich in spirit and free from past judgments.

Have a Vision for Your Work

Give yourself fully to what brings you alive. Tend to things that spark joy within you. Live in the light of who you are. Enjoy communion with your inner strength.

For many of us, we don’t know what we don’t know. We have no definitive solutions, only the call to listen to our hearts. Taking the needed loving action is essential.

We make strides toward our all-systems love practices every day. We develop stories from a healed, loving perspective. Local connections are vital. We purchase from women-owned businesses. Our communities build economies in collaboration and harmony.

Engaging in permaculture, community care, and mutual aid activities is part of our commitment. We participate in initiatives like the Hollywood Orchard, focusing on urban ecosystem restoration practices. Our efforts extend to regenerative agriculture. We tend to spaces in need of soil and soul restoration. We work tirelessly to clean areas tainted by toxins and neglect. With the knowledge gained about native plants, species, and water flow, we can pave the way for a healthier environment.

Andiamo.

Melanie Lutz

All Systems Love

Writer/Producer/Love Activist

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START A NEXT100 DAYS OF LOVE

EXPLORING THE POWER OF THE HEART. PUTTING LOVE IN ACTION

Apr 8
6 min read

LOVING SIGNS ARE EVERYWHERE

Love helps us experience signs, glimmers of recognition. Love maps our heart song's work with our soul's code destiny. This loving unifies our fields of possibilities as signs reveal no matter how nuts, lost, stuck we may feel, the path, the work we are doing is aligned. Signs are life's connections, reconnection, remembering with the constellation of our being. Signs are multi-dimensional because they bridge time and space. It's a Peacock squawking at the cemetery when you are thinking about your dead loved one. It's two crows, going nuts, causing you to stop before crossing the road, saving you from being struck by a driver texting on their phone missing blowing through the stop sign. Whether in losing a friend, ending a cycle, completing a course of study, radically accepting the completion of a major life event. What has been is done. Something has the appearance of separation. What was is gone. No longer be with us in a physical way, moving forward...

Death makes a crown of love,

A mantle to take across the threshold

As a sign of accomplished living:

You are loved,

You have loved,

You have lived."

—Greg Gilbert

We love signs. It affirms our interconnections. They remind. You are loved. Always. Completely. Whole Heartedly. Consider this a sign to connect to the dreams of your heart, to accept and flower in the necessary loving work required and to step boldly into the darkness to meet everyone you've every loved and have yet to love. It is your time for connection, reflection and the joy of being in worlds of peace, creativity and love.

CONNECTION, COLLABORATION, CARE AND SUPPORT

The world is full of signs, guiding us, aligning us and showing us we are in connection with our deepest truth. No one is here to be alone. Everyone is loved. We are all in connection to all that is. Our signs include hearts, everywhere in every form. You seek what you find and in the way of practicing loving actions, love is always found. We invite you to join us in a NEXT 100 days of loving action and music. We shout it from the highest hills. Love is the way for the 21st century. Become someone whose heart is open, who continues to grow in connection and care for the worlds we inhabit. Let's find the ways that bring us to the center of our beingness and alight with our eternal joy.

Now is always the time to do your necessary loving work. Do not be afraid, let not fear stop you, let it inform your processes and practices and let's be a light for the ways we return to our loving inner power, sacred, eternal home, and to each other.

FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION

Our NEXT 100 Days of Love brought us into deep practice of loving our lands (with care and work.) It comes from dreams our neighbors had to build and connect communities coming together to garden, harvest our neighborhood fruit trees, to share ideas, practice mutual aid, be alive to the soul and soil nourishment of our local lands, the homes that sustain and connect us. It is the care and necessary work of cultivating the conditions for our loving to thrive, to remember the truth and to connect to the heart and lift each other up in community care. We joined together in ideas of permaculture, biophilia and It is through the biophilic practices informing our communities, our neighborhoods and our ways through. In our work with the heart, we’ve seen a lot of synchronicities in taking loving action. In the space of loving connection in action all time collapses into the present, releasing the past, freeing up the future, full of possibilities. We invite you to participate for your own NEXT 100 days. Consider the possibility there is another way and be a loving force for good.

RESOURCES, READING MATERIAL, COMMUNITY RESOURCES, SKILL SHARE

Wisdom used to develop a recent cosmic labyrinth at the Lopez Urban Community Garden in Pomona, California. From across California folks came together to build out a cosmic labyrinth with native plants to nourish folks souls.

Urban Garden Cosmic Labyrinth Native Plant Build

In the meantime here's some further thought medicine, books, insights for your consideration:

BOOKS TO CULTIVATE INNER POWER HEART KNOWLEDGE

Dive a bit more deeply into the science and power of the heart. Here are a few books, as part of a PHD of the heart work study.

1. Science of the Heart -- Book by Rollin McCraty

Exploring the Role of the Heart in Human Performance:

An Overview of Research Conducted by the HeartMath Institute

2. Resilience from the Heart: The Power to Thrive in Life's Extremes -- Book by Gregg Braden -- The single eye of the heart—the state of harmony that we create for ourselves in heart-brain coherence—accesses what’s true for us in the moment of a given situation. Rather than thinking through a list of the pros and cons or weighing out the probability that an experience of the past will re peat itself in the present, our heart intelligence knows instantly what’s true for us in the moment. The truth is: whether we’re tall or short, and regardless of the race or nationality we call our heritage, for all of us the average distance from the center of our brains to the middle of our hearts is the same: 18 inches.

But the short distance can be deceptive. Depending on the beliefs of our families, our communities, our religions, and what happens in our life experiences, it can take months, years, or a lifetime to learn how to make the shift from the logical thinking of the mind to the intuitive wisdom of the heart, and when it’s appropriate to do so.

“If the 20th century has been the Century of the Brain . . . then the 21st century should be the Century of the Heart.” — Gary E. R. Schwartz, Ph.D., and Linda G. S. Russek, Ph.D., Authors of The Living Energy Universe

3. Whole Body Intelligence: Get Out of Your Head and Into Your Body to Achieve Greater Wisdom, Confidence, and Success -Book by Steve Sisgold

the body--not the mind--is the most reliable and effective pathway to realizing your innermost desires and achieving success.

4. Body Intelligence: Living a Heart-Centered Life in a Mind-Centered World: a New Paradigm -- Book by John L. Mayfield -- Activate your bigger intelligence.

5. The Heart-Mind Matrix: How the Heart Can Teach the Mind New Ways to Think -- Book by Joseph Chilton Pearce

Activating the compassionate intelligence of the heart to reconnect to the universe and our spiritual future • Shows how the heart is connected to our prefrontal cortex and offers a balancing counterweight to the calculating intellect of the lower brain • Explains how we are stuck in reactive behavior loops resulting from the loss of the nurturing culture of our ancestors • Reveals how the Heart-Mind Matrix connects us to the universe and is the engine of spiritual evolution Expanding the revolutionary theories of mind explored in the bestselling The Crack in the Cosmic Egg and The Biology of Transcendence, Joseph Chilton Pearce explains how the heart provides the balancing intelligence to the brain’s calculating intellect, an innate system of... Source: Publisher

YOU GOTTA HAVE HEART AND MUSIC, TO GET ALONG

When you begin processing the world with your heart, focusing on connection, taking the necessary loving action, you call in more love. Consider the possibilities of what love will do to your worlds. Everyday is an opportunity to wake up and begin again.

We often work with music and showtunes playing in the background. It is the soundtracks of our loving movement and theater kid joy of story, song bringing the magic and miracles. Enjoy one of our favorite musical theater songs from A New Brain. You gotta have heart and music, you gotta have heart and music, to get along. Enjoy.

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Melanie Lutz

All Systems Love

Writer/Producer/Love Activist

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Of the Original Documentary Series:

MEL'S LOVE LAND:

WHAT IF

All Our Thoughts

Were Loving?

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Website: https://www.melsloveland.com

START A NEXT100 DAYS OF LOVE

The Artist and the Psyche in Collaboration. A Testament to Transcendent Loving Storytelling.

Mar 13, 2024
4 min read

Updated: Oct 21, 2024

As our world shifts to loving alignment in service to a 21st Century storytelling renaissance. It helps to consider the recognition of shadow work involved in ascension.

To put us into the field of possibilities for this loving insight, we introduce the Jungian exploration of art and the psyche because, our collective shadows are being projected before us, obscuring the way. As we collectively move through decolonizing our thinking, healing, organizing, taking kind action, realizing a new timeline for the world, returning to all earth mother energies of biophilia, we're highlighting the work of Carl Jung.

Jung says "genius lies beyond the wound." Art is an instrument to move beyond our wounds, projections, and traumas. It acknowledges the care and work required to heal them within a wholeness pattern. The muses are mechanisms for storytelling, as our greatest victory of 'self' lies on the other side of the shadows, what we can't see, sometimes referred to as fearful perceptions 'shadows' born of past patterns. Perception is different for everyone, because it changes with the perceiver, shifting based on experience, the lens we use to access it, and, it can be healed as perception of it shifts in connection. Truth in this way co-creates new pathways sourcing the deepest alignment of our soul's code.

If your heart is beating, you are connected to the electricity of life. All of it. Each beat sends messages to your bodies cellular systems to activate, regenerate, operate and grow. In this way, the heart beat is an evolving expression of our loving conscious aliveness to make manifest our soul's code.

The Psyche and Love as Constellations of Possibility

From Jung on the Artist.

The unborn work in the psyche of the artist is a force of nature that achieves its end either with tyrannical might or with the subtle cunning of nature herself, quite regardless of the personal fate of the man who is its vehicle. The creative urge lives and grows in him like a tree in the Earth from which it draws its nourishment. We would do well, therefore, to think of the creative process as a living thing implanted in the human psyche.

It is like a deeply river-bed in the psyche, in which the waters of life, instead of flowing along as before in a broad but shallow stream, suddenly swell into a mighty river. This happens whenever that particular set of circumstances is encountered which over long periods of time has helped to lay down the primordial image.

The moment when this mythological situation reappears is always characterized by a peculiar emotional intensity; it is as though chords in us were struck that had never resounded before, or as though forces whose existence we never suspected were unloosed. What makes the struggle for adaptation so laborious is the fact that we have constantly to be dealing with individual and atypical situations. So it is not surprising that when an archetypal situation occurs we suddenly feel an extraordinary sense of release, as though transported, or caught up by an overwhelming power. At such moments we are no longer individual, but the race; the voice of all mankind resounds in us like Wordsworth’s discordant elements that move in one society

I heard the guy who edited the Carl Jung's Red Book talking about how anybody who has been in therapy can attest that no one knows anything but somehow everything is revealed. The unconscious is at work and wants to be known, to be created in every encounter. It is the grand universal experience of our processes on earth, always spinning, breathing, growing, dying, changing as the possibility miracles of call response, love, connection, can be born in each moment.

Decolonizing your Art with your Breath Practices

For those working with their connected breathe and energy workouts, we go all the way back to the beginnings of the last century. to activate Jung's work with the 'breath of fire' yogic practices.

"Carl Jung’s seminar on Kundalini yoga, presented to the Psychological Club in Zurich in 1932, has been widely regarded as a milestone in the psychological understanding of Eastern thought and of the symbolic transformations of inner experience. Kundalini yoga presented Jung with a model for the developmental phases of higher consciousness, and he interpreted its symbols in terms of the process of individuation." Collected into The Psychology of Kundalini Yoga by Princeton University Press.

Kundalini and Bioenergy are expressions of the same energetic reality in humans. Through social conditioning and emotional traumata, this life energy is usually suppressed and blocked in chronic subconscious muscle tensions, which have their psychological counterpart in emotional blocks and ego-defenses. When this “muscle armor” (as bioenergy calls it) is softened or broken and/or the live energy is amplified by strong emotion or in life-endangering situations, the body begins to shake and vibrate involuntarily, and the Kundalini energy starts reanimating formerly repressed psychosomatic areas. If this development is not suppressed again (or even supported), the resulting Kundalini rising will bring old traumata of body and psyche to the surface in a sort of natural healing process—partly very intense as well as radically changing.

We've entered these realms to work in a new form of biophiliac story-telling. Biophlia is defined as the love of all living things. Eco/Bio/Energies, the frequencies of the universe. Grow. Create. Practice the muses. Live artistically. Express your loving. Work with your hands as an expression of the heart. Do it. Now.

Every day the unconscious thoughts unblock as the work of radiating harmonic loving broadcasts. The necessary work continues to bring about miracles. When our practice of peaceful alignment with the source of all thing in love is in balance, we get to experience God’s great wonders working through me. Loving thought heals perceptions to a divine inner state of vision and peace where we are in full knowing of heaven on Earth.