So, what is the significance of global prayer? What did the vision of Shelly Yates, and the visions of all those before her who marshalled together large groups of the spiritually aware, to pray for the transformation of earth?
....My Fire the Grid Experience
I See Light Beings * Being in the Flow
Shelly Yates and her "fire the grid" story: Shelly and her young son were in an automobile accident that landed them both at the bottom of a lake, trapped in their car. Estimated to be dead for a half an hour, they both survived in what appear to be miraculous circumstances. While in the between state of life and death, Shelly received a vision and a spiritual instruction from Spirit, to do something she called "firing the grid".
Her spiritual vision called for a global prayer effort toward energizing a vibrational grid of spiritual energy that would beam focus to save the earth. Literally. To save the planet from extinction.
My Grid Experience: I was on vacation in Gulf Shores, Alabama. I got up early on the morning of July 17, 2007, to fire the grid. I walked along the beach, looking at a beautiful ocean peacefully lapping against the sand. It was a pristine, perfect day where I was at the time.
I started out praying and attempting to connect in with those also praying in this global prayer network. As I attempted to form prayers, I became unable to do so. Each prayer that I began to utter seemed to feel like an opinion or a judgment to me.
I struggled with this for, maybe, 10 minutes. If I prayed for peace, what about all those who prayed for holy war and righteously believed in the necessity of it?
If I prayed for an end to hunger or disease, what about all those who had lessons to learn from coming into lifetimes of poverty or enduring the challenge of illness or deformity?
If I prayed for the entire earth to shift frequency and accomplish enlightenment, didn't that take away the sovereign right of every other being, past present and future, to also decide the same thing? Aren't we all in this process together?
Does Earth Need Us to Save Her?
And if I thought about praying to save the planet, that was almost laughable to me. I looked at the ocean, the pristine sky and knew.....Earth's existence does not depend on whether we save Her or not. She's here for us. She's here for us to have whatever experience and exchange with her we want.Does God and Goddess hope we will make progressive choices? I believe so. The Earth is our home and just as we care for the home where we sleep and eat and share family time, we can make the choice to care for our bigger home as well. To care for the Earth as She has cared for us.
But whether we make this choice or not, I believe the Earth will stand til She is ready to go, regardless of what we do or don't do.
What I finally saw, walking in joy and peace on the beach that day, is that the state of the Earth is really just a reflection of the state of Her inhabitants and each inhabitant is sovereign soul, master of their destiny. As such, the only person I have authority to pray for in an opinionated and judgmental way is myself. I am the only one that walks my path.
So what is the real strength of global prayer? It focuses attention and intent toward a common goal. It is powerful but the power of it depends on unity, not division. So the question for me became....how do we achieve unity in global prayer when so many of us want so many different things to happen? For every person praying that abortion is abolished, there is another person sending equal energy toward right of choice, for one example. Aren't we just fighting etheric battles when we pray that way?
What About Our Inner Conflicts?
As long as any of us are praying for an end to hunger, but walking around hungry for something in our own lives, that is divided prayer and impotent.
As long as any of us are praying that "they" change, into something we want them to be, that is a dishonoring of individual sovereignty and free will, and impotent.
As long as any of us pray for an end to child abuse, but still abuse the child within us by hurting our tender selves or allowing others to hurt us or by not honoring our innocence, our creativity, our loving hearts and our capacity for extreme joy, the prayer is impotent. As a straggled along the beach and struggled with words that wanted to be prayers, I finally shifted into a different expression in prayer language.
The Evolution of A Prayer
After walking meditation on these thoughts, I voiced a new prayer....."May we make the choices most in alignment with the Highest Light that we are".
I felt I was getting closer to the truth of something huge but that I had not quite arrived.
Then, I realized that we always do that anyway...make choices from our Highest Light.
My footsteps on the beach got heavier and more plodding for a bit as I came to this awareness again. I had danced with it before but it had slipped from consciousness and I had drifted back into the collective mindset that says we make mistakes.
This was a hard knowing to fully embrace when I looked, through my human eyes and from my human perspective, at brutal genocide, war, animal abuse, child abuse and other behaviors that exist.
Yet, to believe anything else would negate a core knowing that I AM is in all that is. We are all related and what is possible in one of us, is possible in all of us. I cannot divorce myself from the experience of another, anymore than I could look at my own hand and say it is not mine.
So, how do we ever affect the shifts and changes that most spiritually conscious beings pray for? Peace. Healing. Harmony. Love. Compassion.
In thinking about the ocean, I begin to see.....each drop of water, each fish, each particle of sand changes the ocean in some way. And every action that anything in that ocean takes, changes the entirety of that ocean, in some way.
Some changes are big (like Tsunamis) while others are only noticed by those involved at the time (the shark and fish it just swallowed, for example). Other shifts are so miniscule that they seem to matter not at all (one particle of sand shifting three feet on the beach seems to affect nothing and no one) but that still cause change.
Add spiritual consciousness to that mix and you've got our world....the world of the human, in a sea of other humans.
If spiritual consciousness is the main difference, how to we utilize that consciousness in a way that creates harmony instead of discord in our Earth sea?
By utilizing spiritual consciousness and, specifically, the ability to be self-conscious. It is the consciousness of our third-dimensional, chosen division from the sea of "other" into an individuated humanly incarnated "self", in relation to the whole, that can shift reality. We pray for and work with the only being we have true consciousness of, which is ourselves.
"May I make the the choices most in alignment with the Highest Light I AM".
Almost there. One more tweak.
I end up with, for my current state of spiritual awareness, the most effective prayer, for doing my part to help the world shift into a Higher Vibrational Frequency. It isn't really even a prayer, but an affirmation of the Truth, a reminder of who I AM:
"I make the the choices most in alignment with the Highest Light I AM".
If I consistently remember who I AM and make choices from that place, then the I AM that I am will affect change in the world, as surely as the grain of sand affects change in the sea. And it is only by looking at the entire ocean that I can see this change at work.
Did you fire the grid? I would love to hear about your comments. Please visit the wellness blog and post it under "general comments". Please note that, while I welcome diverse views, flaming, argumentative or negative responses will be deleted. This is a sharing blog, not a debate blog.