One Giant Leap For humankind

 

I sat, one of eight million people who watched Austrian born Felix Baumgartner jump from a height of 128’100ft above New Mexico.  Felix was born on 20.04.1969 which in the Mayan calendar means ‘Muluk’. ‘Water’. Deep torrents of emotions, and mysterious undercurrents mix with playful adventure… that sounds like someone who would jump off a space shuttle! The day he jumped was 14.10.2012 the Mayan day sign of ‘Eb’. ‘Road’ which means community, future generation and taking a Giant Step… guess you could say he did that… As I have written before, the Mayan calendar is a map of consciousness,  split into nine levels of consciousness, we are currently at the end of the final level… ready to jump. What I find interesting is it took Felix 9 minutes to fall back down to earth. I watched as Felix went up, he was sat in a tiny specially made space shuttle attached to a giant helium balloon, I had images of Icarus rising towards the sun. As he went up I could sense the whole world in trepidation of the jump.  All people, the earth herself, the land, the trees… all waiting with baited breath, watching him climb higher.

What struck me as I watched the door fly open and Felix manoeuvre himself to the edge was how frightened I was feeling, I could barely watch! In an interview Felix said “On the step, I felt the whole world was watching. I wish they could see what I saw, it was amazing”

His skydive for me symbolises the jump we as evolving humans must all make, as we ascend to a higher frequency level of consciousness we are Now at that point where we veer nearer to the edge and take that step onto the platform, ready to jump.  The fear that we all felt as he looked over the edge of the platform is how we are all generally feeling in our day to day lives; fear, dread, terror, excitement, awe, wonder, humility...

Standing on the edge of the shuttle, Felix said “Sometimes you have to go up really high to realise how small you are”.  I know this feeling, I feel it... I re-member it in the dream. During spirit flight, during that moment of infinity you see how small and insignificant you are and yet how significant and precious we All are honoured and humble.

Just before he jumped Felix saluted to the Earth, it felt like a great honouring to watch this. An honour to the Earth Herself, to our brothers and sisters, to our ancestry... Col Kittinger, who with Red Bulls help, co-ordinated the space dive, said “Our guardian angel will take care of you”. What a wonderful gift to See the Earthkeepers around him, around us... as he stood on that platform he stood shoulder to shoulder with them, holding space for us, with his fellow Earthkeepers, the Angels of the Earth.

The whole world held its breath... the stillness of space mirrored the stillness on Earth as we watched him stand on the edge of the space shuttle. Infinity touched us all in that moment. Then with the greatest of ease and grace he took that courageous step into the unknown... towards home.  Nine minutes later he was home. He broke three world records, and no bones!

I believe this jump is a poignant symbol for us today, honouring and saluting where we have come from, not just our place of birth, but humanities story, our ancestry, our linage, saying thank you and letting it go. The time is NOW that we take that giant leap with courage in our hearts into the unknown, into who we are becoming... on the edge, our hearts will beat faster, beating together, we will feel scared and confused, we already are feeling those things... and excitement, and wonder.... we will each of us have as moment in our lives where we will find that infinite place.... a stillness inside where nothing makes sense and yet everything becomes so clear...and we jump...we may freefall for a moment in the ‘not knowing’ trust it. The world will reveal itself in time as we hurtle at the speed of sound! A sonic hand pulls us forward from our future so we can be informed by who we are becoming and Not by our pasts, our history, our DNA. When we land, we celebrate, and the world celebrates with us!

When we go to that place of infinity, during spirit flight or during a shamanic healing for example, often we come back with a message, a new map, When Felix came back from infinite space and landed he brought back with him a message

“Let me tell you. When I was standing there on top of the world, you become so humble, you don’t think about breaking records anymore, you don’t think about gaining scientific data. The only thing you want is to come back alive!”

At this moment of human consciousness, we learn that nothing matters apart from Being, being Alive, Awake, living the life You chose, a life you deserve... destiny.

Take that jump...

The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you.
Don’t go back to sleep.
You must ask for what you really want.
Don’t go back to sleep.
People are going back and forth across the doorsill,
Where the two worlds touch, the door is round and open,
Don’t go back to sleep...

Rumi