Song of the Dove Foundation’s Mission Statement

The mission of the Song of the Dove Foundation is to assist in bringing Heaven on Earth fully into manifested reality, through a variety of projects and trainings that will awaken and guide humans in the knowingness and understandings of holistic living and healing, interspecies communication, conscious community, and earth stewardship.

Focus: To assist in bringing Mother Earth and Humanity from a state of fear based competition into a globally enlightened and loving community between all species in the understanding that we are all one web of life, of creation & of unconditional love, which in our true state of being.

Our website is http://www.songofthedovefoundati0n.org

Best of Mount Shasta Conference on Spirit

August 22nd

Come to Mount Shasta and enjoy the last weekend of the first annual Best of Mount Shasta Conferences. This weekend’s focus is on Spirit.

Here is Best of Mount Shasta’s weblink to the Program:

http://thebestofmtshasta.com/eventProgramAugust22.html

I, Kathryn Ariel,  will be presenting on the Communication of Spirit. Visit this link for more details:

http://thebestofmtshasta.com/presenterKathrynAriel.html

Come enjoy Mount Shasta and connect to your I AM wisdom through direct experience of the area as a whole and guided facilitation at our wonderful conference!

Time To Leave – Interspecies Communion with Spirithawk

As I sit with Spirithawk in our garden, Osiris joins us. Ishnahnay sleeps nearby with St. Francis. Spirithawk is before me and Osiris is behind.

I cam out to speak with Spirithawk concerning his departure to receive any information he wishes to share with me. Silence and the feeling of heart love, deep & strong. I have been struggling with Spirithawk leaving before me as there was time when I thought I would be complete with my soul’s work before or at the same time as he.

Holistic Emergency Care for Horses

(article for Holistic Horse Magazine)

Zella & Maryann

What is Holistic Emergency Care?

What does holistic emergency care mean? How is it different from the traditional way that first aid is taught? Even in emergencies, holistic healing deals with the whole being, not just the part that hurts. It recognizes that all your horse has four energy bodies, spiritual, emotional, mental and physical and the knowingness that to successfully treat or facilitate healing of any illness, injury or trauma, all four bodies must be brought back into balance.

Many health problems, be they illness, injury or other trauma, begin with an emotional upset or imbalance of some type. If this is not corrected it can move into the mental body, and then eventually into the physical, where it manifests as an illness or bodily injury. This is as true of our horse companions as it is of us. It has been well documented that animal companions, horses, dogs, cats, etc., will often take on the diseases or traumas of their humans in order to both assist them as well as mirror to them, to help in the learning of soul lessons.

Building Homes and Communities In Harmony with Mother Earth

Written August 2007 – After Hurricane Katrina

Once again humans and their animals are experiencing the affects of building communities in flood plain areas. A large portion of the Ohio basin is currently under water experiencing a “major disaster” brought on by heavy rains, which have caused Ohio’s rivers to overflow their banks into the surrounding communities.  This is only a “disaster”, because we (humans) have continuously ignored the requirements of the earth to feed herself and her natural communities through flooding, fires, and other “natural disasters”, building our communities wherever we have desired with no heed to the long-term affects that might result. My question is, are we ready to listen to what the earth has always been telling us? Are we ready to build our communities in alignment with her ebb and flow, allowing harmony and prosperity to exist between Mother Earth, the nature realms, and humanity?

For years I (and many others) have watched as our human communities in the United States have moved into river valleys, high fire areas and other natural communities that are continuously in the state of change. We have dammed up the rivers, eliminating earth’s ability to perform regular flooding that brings much-needed nutrients into the soils. These nutrients are for the benefit of all life, and their elimination has been sorely noticed over the years. Soils have become depleted, and riparian habitat, some of the most diversely populated upon the earth, has become in endangered.

Then to top it off when earth and her weather systems do create enough rain to topple over the constraints that humans have placed in their way, we call it a disaster because of the adverse affects the people in the areas affected experience. What is wrong with this picture?  Mother Earth has always provided clear signs, a road map, for those who live upon her to follow in creating community. Many ancient cultures around the world including American Indians observed these signs and honored the flow of the earth, understanding that she is providing for us all.

Many of these regions, such as the Ohio basin, were populated by humanity because of their rich soils and other resources. Then “we” promptly dammed up the very source of that richness, surrounding these rivers with homes and industry. On a recent visit through Ohio and Indiana I had the eye-opening experience to see that the Ohio River is still be polluted by industry and other sources. Polluted to the point of it being unfit to swim in. Now, like the Thames River in England, which massively overflowed its banks just weeks ago, this pollution is spreading to house and home across the land.

Could it be that Mother Earth is not only saying it is time for her to cleanse her own body, but that she is also saying it is time for you  (humanity) to reckon with the huge imbalances and unwellness that we as humans have created upon her body? All of the elements (air, water, fire, metal and earth) and their relationships with the earth are designed work in divine harmony and flow with one another. Humans, as part of the global family of earth are being rather boldly reminded of major imbalances we have created through our desire to do things our way, despite the consequences.

Mother Earth is a schoolhouse; a living library where we come to try out different scenarios and learn from the consequences.  However, now Mother Earth’s divine mission has been endangered and Divine Will is being reestablished upon her to ensure that she is allowed to fulfill her destiny.  We as part of her global family have major opportunities to make positive, responsible and harmonious choices that will allow her and our global community (this includes the nature realms) to live happy, healthy and prosperous lives.

One way to ensure that this happens and to have a great time in the process, is to remember our roles as earth stewards; caretakers of the earth and her creatures. Learning how to listen to and observe the teachings of nature and Mother Earth are of utmost importance in our success. For in order to be her steward, we must understand her, respect her and be willing to co-create harmonious life with her.  This is true of all life. It is true within us as individuals and all levels of community; local and global.

We must learn to listen to the earth and ask where it is for the highest good to build, to grow food, to produce energy centers. All parts of the earth have a divine blueprint, that if followed will allow us to co-create a wondrous world for all. Earth stewardship is also called earth guardianship. It is not about management. It is about being caretakers and respecting the divine light within all beings.  It is time that we learned to ask permission before digging a hole, building a house or cutting down a tree. It is time to say please and thank you to Mother Earth.

Om mani padme hum – Kathryn Ariel

Bringing Divine Community into Being Through Interspecies Communication with Earth and Her Kingdoms

Bringing Divine Community Into Being

We are in a time when the call back to divine community is being heralded across the earth.  Divine community, sustainable community, a way of living where all prosper and harmony is felt by the participation of all Earth life, through the utilization of earth wisdom and technology in a dance of partnership. This new way of living is required by all to ensure the continuation of life upon Earth.  It has been shown to me by the nature realms and those wise ones who have long kept a sacred relationship with nature (of which humans are a key component), that divine community can only truly be achieved through a deep and loving communion and communication with the nature realms and Mother Earth herself.

Love is All We Are!

Love is All We Are

All we need is love, da, da, da, da, da …. I would wager to say that most humans with access to music in the last thirty years have heard this wonderful song by the Beatles.

All we need is love, da, da, da, da, da,

All we need is love, da, da, da, da, da

All we need is love, love,

Love is all we need ….

Now in this time of knowing and understanding the power of words more clearly, we know that the word “need” means that we don’t have it, but really wish we did!  We now also know that what we focus upon, and claim, becomes our reality.

In this awareness a while back I began changing the word “need” to the word “am”. Thus creating the lyric:

All I AM is love, love …love is all I AM.

Ah this singing of the truth of my/our being is quite delicious and fun to sing. It is just as easy to sing it with “you are”, or “we are” to help bring this divine truth more and more into the collective.

It is a wonderful jingle, and can be especially helpful when something that could cause you distress comes to your attention. Rather than getting in a fret about it, bring love into it, and help it shift:

All we are is love, da, da, da, da, da.

It may seem like a silly thing. But give it a go.  You might be surprised! And the fun thing is, it is quite catchy as well.

All we are is love, da, da, da, da, da.

All I AM is love, da, da, da, da, da

All we are is love, love,

Love is all we are, love is all we are, love is all we are

And fade out ….

Thank you once again to the Beatles for all their inspiration and love!

With love,

Kathryn Shanti Ariel

Song of the Dove Foundation

What is Holistic Emergency Care?

What is Holistic Emergency Care?

What does holistic emergency care mean? How is it different from the traditional way that first aid is taught? Holistic health deals with the whole being, not just the part that hurts. It recognizes that all creatures have four energy bodies, which are the spiritual, emotional, mental and physical.  To successfully treat or facilitate healing of any health imbalance all four bodies must be brought back into balance.

Many health problems, be they illness or “accident,” begin with an emotional upset or imbalance of some type. If this is not corrected it can move into the mental body, and then eventually into the physical, where it manifests as an illness or bodily injury. This is as true of our animal companions as it is of us. It has been well documented that animal companions will often take on the diseases of their humans in order to both assist them as well as mirror to them, to help in the learning of soul lessons.  When an injury or acute illness occurs, the holistic caregiver will tend to all four bodies in the order of importance, to bring the one(s) being assisted into a state of calm and comfort as quickly and effectively as possible.

In addition to treating all bodies, the holistic healing facilitator may utilize a variety of vibrational healing tools: herbs, homeopathy, flower essences, and working directly with healing Light Teams or Creator.  Holistic care emphasizes treating the whole being through the understanding of the Oneness of everyone and everything. All things carry a vibration that can be beneficial or hazardous, dependent upon their nature and how they have been created.  In holistic emergency care we are often called upon to utilize the beneficial to remove or rebalance the hazardous.

For example: A child falls off a swing spraining her ankle and cutting her knee open quite severely. She is scared, in pain, and in a low level of shock by the time you are able to assist her. To care for her holistically you will treat her emotional distress, most likely with a flower essence remedy and a hug of reassurance; calm her mentally by talking about something else to get her mind off the hurt; then treat the physical injuries in order of severity with a combination of modalities as described in Sections II and III of this book. Staying in touch with the emotional, mental, and physical states of the person will result in a much higher success rate.

Assisting an injured animal has many similarities to that of a human. As a healer or first responder the holistic approach is to address all four bodies. The focus given to each body and the order that this occurs is sometimes different in animals, because they often deal with injury and disease differently than humans.   In any case, it is our responsibility to treat all bodies to bring complete balance back into the animal, if that is her choice.

It is in the trauma recovery where the rebalancing and deep healing of all bodies can occur.  It is here that the choice is made by the whole being to create a positive reality for itself, or remain stuck in negative thoughts and thinking that will attract more illness.  In providing holistic tools to the human or animal to heal the deeper imbalances, the opportunity is given to return to wholeness and true health.

In an emergency situation we are seeking the stabilization of the bodies, and the correcting or containing of life-threatening situations. But we must remember that if one treats only the physical body and disregards the mental, emotional, and spiritual imbalances that created it in the first place, it is highly likely that continued imbalances or dysfunctions in the higher subtle bodies would once again be projected into the physical body in some form. This applies to humans and animals alike.

In summary, it is with holistic emergency care and trauma recovery that we address the whole by utilizing tools that serve and rebalance the whole. In so doing the causal energies that brought the situation into a physical manifestation may be removed or healed completely, thus eliminating the need for the human or animal to repeat the experience in any form.

Keeping Your Liver Clean

Our liver is the main purification station for our bodies. Be we human or animal, the health of our liver is of utmost importance in keeping us well.  Both the toxic state of our environment and diets (dependant upon what you eat), can lead to liver congestion and a much greater tendency to illness overall.

Along with the toxins that humanity has created in Earth’s environment; local and global, there are many foods that in excess can bog down your liver’s function. Diary. excess sugar, peanuts, and overly spicy foods are examples.  Eating certified organic foods is a big help, but still some foods are more difficult to digest than others.

One indication of the health of your liver, is the clarity of your eyes.  Red or otherwise agitated  eyes are very often linked to a congested liver.

Here are some basics for keeping your liver healthy and operating happily:

1. Begin your day with a glass of warm water & organic lemon juice.  For an added plus, add a tablespoon of aloe vera juice.

2. Drink plenty of purified water throughout the day to keep your body hydrated. The liver cannot do its job flushing out toxins and such, if you are dehydrated.

3. An herbal infusion that is great for cleansing your liver in a mild, friendly way is: milk thistle, eye bright, chamomile, and dandelion. Note that with the exception of milk thistle, all of these herbs have yellow flowers. Yellow is an indication color for the liver, both healers and agitators. (It is also the color of jaundice, an ailment of the liver.)

4. For releasing metal & radioactive toxicity here are some possiblities: Kelp, Cilantro, Flower Essence Yarrow Special Formula made by Flower Essence Society: www.flowersociety.org.

Heart to Heart and Soul to Soul

Heart to Heart & Soul to Soul

In the early morning hours just before dawn, I laid in bed pushing through the illusions of challenges in my life, to reach and receive the knowingness of the many blessings my family have, receive and give each and every day.

It is quiet except for an owl hooting in the darkness. An owl totem gives you the power to extract secrets. Meditate on the owl and things will be revealed. Listen to its voice inside of you. (http://www.linsdomain.com/totems/pages/owl.htm). Hearing the owl always reminds me of the book I Heard the Owl Call My Name, by Margaret Craven  In such, it is a call of my soul back to God; of death and rebirth within my current body form or beyond it.

Today, I feel the owl reminding me of my new choice to no longer let others define who I am, and instead allowing God to oversee my rebirth into the fullness that my God I AM had / has for me in this lifetime. It is never too late, I remind myself. It is in this space of rebirth and allowing I give thanks this day. I will meditate and allow the secrets that my God I Am wishes to reveal to me at this time. To rebuild my sense of self value and self worth, that I have allowed to be blown asunder by valuing others definitions of me over my own.

My gratitude, first and foremost is to God and Mother Earth and all her realms for having me as a resident once again, to enjoy her beauty and abundance and truly remember the depth of its truth.  Second I thank myself for having the courage to return, to release my inner demons and return fully into unconditional love in every way. Then I thank everyone else in all forms who have and are journeying with me in love and integrity. I have so many to be grateful for and to; I just pray you all know the depth of my gratitude whether or not we have every met and had the opportunity to say hello, eye to eye and soul to soul.

However, I know more than anything that we – all of God’s creatures – are connected heart to heart; soul to soul; in the web of Oneness and Unconditional Love. It is there that I meet you, greet you and thank you from the depths of my being. Let us all be the unconditional love that is God, as this is truly Heaven on Earth.

In love and gratitude,

Kathryn Shanti Ariel

Gaia’s Medicinal Garden Pt 1

Four Medicinal Herbs of Northern California

In this time of great change Mother Earth is calling to us top return to her bounty, communing with nature in partnership. One avenue of receiving her bounty is through gardening and wild crafting of foods and herbs. Growing and wild crafting our foods and healing tools are two substantial components of this partnership. This article will be addressing four of the nutritive and medicinal herbs, which grow wild in the Tri- County area, and are easily grown in your own garden using permaculture techniques: Dandelion, Plantain, Red Clover and Yarrow.

A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.

—— Doug Larson

Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale), an amazing nutritive and medicinal herb, brightens any garden with its cheery yellow flowers and seed tuffs that bring delight to the hearts of any who enjoy making magical wishes.

Surprisingly like most herbs, Dandelion has long been tagged as a weed and removed from gardens and pitched in the trash, rather than harvested with gratitude and eaten in salads, soups and as a side vegetable (like spinach). Now with the returning of our awareness to the gifts of the Earth, Dandelion and other herbs have found their way back into the produce section of health food and grocery stores everywhere.

Dandelion in Sandy Soil

Part used: whole plant; Energy and Flavors – Leaves are cool and bitter, the roots is bitter, cool and sweet; Properties – alterative (blood purifier), cholagogue (promotes flow of bile), diuretic (increase flow of urine), tonic (herbs that promote the functions of the systems of the body), demulcent (soothing substances, usually mucilage used internally or externally to protect damages or inflamed tissue; Dose – standard decoction, or 10-30 drops of tincture

Used for: liver problems, urinary tract infections, skin eruptions, stomach pains, breast cancer, beverage

Dandelion can be eaten raw in salads, steamed, used in stew or taken in tincture or capsule form. The leaves are sweet in their younger stages while turning more tart as they grow larger. At all ages they are a blessing to your body and the body of your animals.

Plantain is another wonder of nature, having an abundance of qualities helpful to our body’s wellness.  There are multiple species that grow in our region, Plantain major, which grows in damp areas, near creek and in bogs (i.e. the south end of Lake Shastina), and Plantain (Ribwort) which grows in dryer niches, such as open fields and vacant lots, and has long narrow leaves in comparison to major’s darker, broader leaves. Note: Plantain major is also known as broadleaf plantain.

Narrow Leaf Plantain without bloom

Plantain, along with the other herbs discussed in this article are wonderful ground covers and can be used successfully in permaculture to protect the soil while providing your family with a fresh healing apothecary.

Part used – leaves and seeds; Energy and Flavors – bland, somewhat bitter, cool.

Properties – diuretic, alterative, anti-inflammatory;

Dose – standard infusion; component in salves or poultices

Used for - urinary tract infections, hepatitis, stings, bites and wounds, relief of any type of inflammatory imbalance including arthritis. Also can be rubbed on skin to counter the sting of nettle.

Red Clover (Trifolium pratense) is commonly found growing wild in open fields and as a ground cover in gardens across the land. It is a powerful nutritive herb.

Part used – blossoms; Energy and Flavors – pleasant; Properties – anti-inflammatory, antipyretic (reduce or prevent fevers), anti-cancer, improves visual acuity due to high beta-carotene content, while possesses estrogen-like actions. Dose – standard infusion, poultice, salves ; Used for – cancer prevention and healing, vision balancing, hormone balancing, general good health. Can be enjoyed every day in tea.

Note: not to be confused with Crimson clover (Trifolium incarnatum) or Italian Clover, which is also a beautiful ground cover, but does not contain the medicinal qualities of its cousin Trifolium pratense.

(Sorry no picture at the moment)

Lastly …

Yarrow or Achillea millefolium grows abundantly in the Tri-County area from high desert to the foothills of our highest mountains. Yarrow or Warriors’ Wound is named after the Greek warrior Achilles, for its abilities to facilitate healing of wounds both internal and external.

Yarrow - Achillea millifolium - warriors wound

Known for its snowy white caps of flowers adoring feathery pale green leaves, Achillea millefolium has many decorative cousins that are available in nurseries. It is important to notes that although lovely and draught tolerant, the cousins do not have the medicinal qualities of millefolium. So it is important to be clear what you are buying.  Learn your herb’s latin names, so that you can be certain you are getting the correct seeds or plants.

Part used – whole herb; Energy and Flavors – warm, bitter, spicy; Properties – diaphoretic, anti-inflammatory, antipyretic (reduce or prevent fevers), carminative (relieves gas), hemostatic (arrests hemorrhaging), astringent, and antispasmodic; Dose – standard infusion, poultice, salves ; Used for: colds, flus, fevers, painful or suppressed menses, bleeding, hemorrhoids

With all herbs it is important to grow them in garden environments as similar to their natural ones as possible.  This is one of the steps of permaculture, and helps to insure that the plant’s properties remain true. Yarrow for instance prefers sunny, fairly dry environments with good drainage, in contrast to Plantain major, which prefers damp, boggy soils.

By Kathryn Shanti Ariel -

Song of the Dove Foundation