Spiritual Energy in Experiential Learning

1. Spiritual Energy in Experiential Learning Rod Walker, Chile ICEL 2011 tocatierra@yahoo.com - www.tocatierra.cl

3. Does ‘spiritual energy’ exist? If so, where does it come from? Seeking it can seem elusive, complicated

4. Yet finding it is often easier: a sudden, simple ‘happening’ at an unexpected moment, right in the here and now

5. Is it possible to bring such energy into conscious awareness … perhaps transmit or radiate it, and help others do the same?

7. Colin Mortlock’s 3 books on adventure (A Alternative – Beyond A – Spirit of A) the ‘bottomless keel’ Kendal Mountain Festival, UK, 2009

8. CEAL ‘The Bothy’ Lagunillas, 1967 – 2000 where did the ‘magic’ come from?

9. Where did the ‘magic’ come from? 1st course: Rafael (now 52) Lagunillas 1967

10. Then came Cañi, a ‘transforming vision’

11. on the Cañi summit … “Walking up these trails, you go becoming sort of transformed in PART of all this ... It’s no longer a matter of reaching this rock, getting to this summit, but of simply walking and suddenly you’re HERE ... and feel as if you’ve ALWAYS BEEN HERE ... You look at all this and say to yourself, Hey, it’s as if it were MINE!”

12. Social ‘innovation’: training rural youths as ecotourist guides

13. Deities (Summits) Apus We all ‘converse’ Mother earth Pacha Mama Humans Nunas Indigenous Andean vision ‘I’ – participate intimately in an integrated spiritual dialogue that permeates the everyday

14. “Toca tierra … toca alma” Touch the earth … touch the soul Cristina Robin, Argentina 1999

15. We tried writing, translating books Walking meditation - a spiritual practice, Argentina, 2000 Out of Doors: Parks and Trees Teachers’ Manual for Education Ministry, Chile, 1996 Council of All Beings deep ecology, 2006 Forest magic, 2002

16. ‘We saw beyond our egos – energies of salvation came welling up – the love that lives inside each one of us …’

17. ‘I am my own sister forest, my own great teacher …’

18. Ways of touching Earth Unity, Infinity

19. unity and infinity in the way life works: a Reiki energy healing class Surya Holistic Health Center, Villarrica, 2006

20. Reiki healing … simply works

21. for energy is what we are

22. and what we transmit to other people …

23. Universal spiritual principles

24. ‘Spiritual’ energy: • Is by nature inclusive, positive, life-supporting • Elevates awareness beyond the ego-mind • Adds transcendence to everyday experience • Connects the individual with totality, unity • Enables creativity to occur • Is accessible through focused breathing • With practice, its benefit can be projected. This makes it a powerful facilitation‘tool’, depending upon consistent practice

25. Symptoms of Spiritual Energy • Synchronic ‘coincidences’ • Creativity, intuitive inner knowings • Equanimity, the ‘inner smile’ • ‘Hearing’ other people’s thoughts • Acting without remembering why • Propensity to manifest generosity and love

26. If ‘spiritual energy’ still seems an elusive concept, an alternative is emerging in ‘hard’ modern science

27. It’s wonderfully explained in … By Dr Amit Goswami A clearer way to see reality … upside down – ‘do-be-do-be-do’