Co-Creative Gardening 8: Barbara

I’d like to talk a bit about Barbara, the owner of Amity. Barbara, who is 81 at the time I write this, has been living at Amity for over 20 years. She and her husband Jim bought it in order to save the sacred amphitheater that is part of the land; a natural open space in the forest of redwood and madrone where people have been doing sacred ceremony, workshops and contact with nature intelligences since the 1930s.

Barbara is an artist and writer; she has a beautiful studio looking out into the forest, where she paints pictures that emerge from within her. She has a special talent for drawing and painting energies that she senses in her environment. For many years she and Jim were part of an interdenominational Christian organization, and did philanthropic work all over the world, for which they traveled extensively. After living for some time at Findhorn, they led sacred circle dancing in the Amity Amphitheater for many years.

Barbara also dialogues with inner contacts through writing. Years ago, she connected with a being who identified himself as a gnome, and began relating with him through her writing. Over time, she invited him and other gnomes into her life, meaning that she gave them permission to observe and interact with her in order to learn more about humans. In return, of course, she learned a lot more about gnomes! One thing she learned is that although they showed up as “gnomes” they chose that form for her to understand them as beings of the earth; yet they are much more powerful and cosmically connected than she had initially realized.

Besides communicating with her gnome council, Barbara has communicated for years with angelic beings, such as the Angel of the Amphitheater and the Overlighting Angel of Amity. These beings embody the collective consciousness of many “lesser” nature spirit and devic beings, and in turn are themselves part of even greater overlighting and directing intelligences. From them she has learned a great deal about human-angel interaction, the role of humans in the greater whole, and the way in which the natural world works from the inside out.

Barbara’s stated purpose for her life is to go from knowing nothing at first about the inner spiritual life to embodying the emerging consciousness of the future before she leaves. She believes that a large part of that embodiment involves re-establishing our links with the spiritual beings of nature and the inner worlds. She herself embodies love, generosity, graciousness, wisdom and the inner strength that comes with deep personal connection with the divine.

Her dedication to the work of opening out a human-nature intelligence partnership is so deep and profound that, 3 ½ years after Jim passed away (after years 53 of marriage) Barbara gave her engagement ring to the devas and nature spirits of her land as a gift. It is really no surprise that she has now decided to start a garden project in conjunction them.

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