Blossoms Unfold In An Age Of Flowers

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Moving Around The Spiral

Ven. Dhyani Ywahoo has spent much time contemplating the traditional calendars of the Americas and the Orient, and the concept of a new cycle emerging.

A teacher in the Etowah Cherokee tradition and also a recognized teacher of Tibetan Buddhism, in the Nyingma and Drikung Kagyu lineages. Ven. Ywahoo teaches from the Sunray Peace Village in the heart of Vermont’s Green Mountains, toward the crown end of the Appalachian mountain spine, along the Eastern flank of Turtle Island (North America).

Dhyani says that many Indigenous people have paid attention to the transition described in Native calendars. “The age ending has been a time when people have gathered information about building and about inventions to make life better,” she explained. “Now it’s time for people to recognize that the inventions are a creation of mind, to put aside such inventions as cause harm, and to bring forth and further develop those activities that benefit all beings and benefit the future generations.”

“We are moving around the spiral, coming again to a place of whole civilization, of true planetary consciousness. What we see now are the fever throes, the end of the fever’s nightmares as the sickness and poisons leave the system. Just how well the culture, the people, go through this time is really dependent upon the calling of the light, because in a time of purification the light makes clear the places of darkness.

“How much the planet will suffer, how much the people will suffer, is really determined by the consciousness of groups. It is no longer a matter of just individuals finding the light within themselves; it’s really necessary to establish a network, to rebuild those areas of Earth’s web that have been harmed by unclear thinking.

“According to the way we are taught, and the seeds that are being planted, the new calendar that has begun is to manifest peace — an age of peace. The elders have asked — this is a large council of elders, so they speak to Central and North American people — that the morning after every full moon at about 10 a.m., we gather flowers and go outside and look to the Sun, to the flowers, and to the heart of Earth. In so doing, we bring more solar energy and flower wisdom to Earth, because the new age is an Age of Flowers.

“Flowers give light and joy. They also have a very subtle consciousness. They have a unity of mind. Flower energy is peaceful, and flowers are great medicine. By meditation on flowers, we can reduce the inflammation caused by aggressive habits of mind. Flowers are our medicine for the next age. In this new time, flowers will become very significant as teachers and healers of humanity.

“Flowers move with the Sun; thus, they have a certain committed solar consciousness. They know the proper relationship between Spirit and Earth. The flowers remind us to look up to heaven and to actualize the solar energy in our own lives — to speak more clearly and to act more clearly.

“Flowers are the medicine we need for balance and tone,” she said. “The old people say that when properly prepared — and some of the preparations can take as long as twelve years — flower essences can widen the frequency response of the human mind. They increase our sensitivity. But they need to be prepared with prayer, right offering, and dedication. Flowers can remove the poisons of incorrect thought and stir the body to its fullest health.”

Jitterbug Perfume

In the late 1980s, best-selling author Tom Robbins published a novel entitled Jitterbug Perfume. The book contains a chapter with a peculiar title: “Dannyboy’s Theory (Where We Are Going and Why It Smells the Way It Does).” In that chapter the fictional characters contend that humankind is about to enter the floral stage of evolutionary development.

Although the book is a novel, within this chapter Robbins offers some illuminating facts about human brains and the quality of their consciousness.

Specifically, through his characters, he notes that reptile consciousness is cold, aggressive, self-preserving, angry, greedy, and paranoid. Of note, neurophysicist Paul McLean has pointed out that within our skulls, we modern-day human beings still harbor a fully intact and functional reptilian brain: the limbic lobe, the hypothalamus, and perhaps other organs of the diencephalon. When we are in a cold sweat or a blind rage, he says, our reptile brain is in control of our consciousness.

Robbins explains that human beings also have a mammal brain, called the midbrain or mesencephalon, and that characteristics of mammal consciousness are warmth, generosity, loyalty, love, joy, grief, humor, pride, and appreciation of art and music. In late mammalian times — the last several thousand years —human beings have developed a third brain, the telencephalon, consisting principally of the neocortex, a dense rind of nerve fibers about an eighth of an inch thick. This part of the brain is molded over the top of the existing mammal brain.

Brain researchers were initially puzzled by the neocortex. What is its function? And why has it developed? In his book, Robbins concludes that this third brain is a floral brain, corresponding to the evolving stage of human development.

Flowers extract energy from light. Likewise, neuromelanin — one of the principal chemicals in this part of the brain — absorbs light and also has the capacity to convert light into other forms of energy. Consequently, Robbins notes, the neocortex is light sensitive and can itself be lit up by higher forms of mental activity, such as meditation or chanting.

Thus, Robbins writes, “The ancients were not being metaphoric when they referred to ‘illumination.’ They were being literal.

Jitterbug Perfume brings forward the encouraging idea that we are moving gradually toward a dominant floral consciousness: “We require a less physically aggressive, less rugged human being now. We need a more relaxed, contemplative, gentle, flexible kind of person, for only he or she can survive (and expedite) this very new system that is upon us. Only he or she can participate in the next evolutionary phase. It has definite spiritual overtones, this floral phase of consciousness…”

“As our neocortex comes into full use, we, too, will practice a kind of photosynthesis,” Robbins writes. “As a matter of fact, we already do, but compared to the flowers, our kind is primitive and limited. For one thing, information gathered from daily newspapers, soap operas, sales conferences, and coffee klatches is inferior to information gathered from sunlight. (Since all matter is condensed light, light is the source, the cause of life. Therefore, light is divine. The flowers have a direct line to God that an evangelist would kill for.)”

“With reptile consciousness,” Robbins concludes, “we had hostile confrontation. With mammal consciousness, we had civilized debate. With floral consciousness, we’ll have empathetic telepathy.”

At this juncture of world history many people sense the compelling forces of change bearing upon civilization–and they may also sense that it is part of their personal soul mission to engage and to help steer the Earth aright toward a clean, just, and peaceful state. For them the Age of Flowers has potential to resonate as an insightful frame of reference, and also as an auspicious soul call audible to the inner ear.

Partial excerpt of Chapter 11 with permission of the author from Legend of the Rainbow Warriors by Steven McFadden (2005, The Harlem Writers Guild Press). Read the full excerpt from Chapter 11 here.

Steven McFadden is an independent journalist based in New Mexico, and the author of over a dozen nonfiction books, including Odyssey of the 8^th Fire, an epic, online, nonfiction saga of the ancient and contemporary Americas.

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