By Elisa Novick
I am not going in sequence in reporting my travels, but with what is going on inside me, having returned from Europe and moved into the Hermitage at the Omega Institute. Outwardly life seems to proceed from past to future, but when we read it from other dimensions of awareness, actually we zig-zag around most of the time, and so that is the privilege I take to myself here.
As I look at the months leading up to the first leg of the Thriving Planet World Tour in Europe and the six weeks I just spent there traveling to eight places in four countries, facilitating six workshops, I am already looking for meaning and I suspect it will come forth in layers over time.
This journey for me began with a set of purposes: to do the Lightwork as guided, to bring more people and trees into the work I/we had already been doing, and for me to have a new adventure in my life. All of this took place, but there have been some unexpected learnings as well.
I look now at the many times in Europe I felt that I had gone past all endurance on the physical level, and the thousand little shocks each day of learning how to negotiate the various cultural aspects of each place and each person I was with. So many nights I fell into bed wrecked, only to resurrect myself the next morning.
I believed at the time that most of that fatigue was from dragging a heavy suitcase, walking further than I normally can walk with my somewhat arthritic body and the general assaults on my immune and nervous system, from being out in freezing cold winds on much of the trip, and cigarette smoke (Paris), diesel fumes, industrial chemicals, and bicycles whizzing by (Amsterdam), even neurological switching from the cars driving on the other side of the road in England. I knew also that being an instrument of transmutation of negative energies was part of it, and shifting plans and moment-to-moment decisions, as well as the business end of holding workshops.