My recent sojourn in Peru and Bolivia has left me with much to ponder within my conscious centers.  One of the most intriguing experiences in the Peruvian Altiplano was the unique differentiation of the atmospheres.   Spending the better part of the journey to Peru and Bolivia at or above 11,000 feet resulted in the condition known as hypoxia, which involves the low pressure in high altitudes resulting in difficulty in oxygen moving through our vascular system. …

Look about and see,
  they are all gathering and coming to you.
As I live, says the Lord,
  you shall be arrayed with them all, as with adornments,
  like a bride you shall fasten them on you.
Though you were waste and desolate,
  a land of ruins,
Now you shall be too small for your inhabitants,
  while those who swallowed you up will be far away.…

“In each of these crises, can be rediscovered to a certain degree the primitive image of all emergencies, namely birth. In that primitive experience, the whole organism had to readapt itself completely to save itself from immediate death. The lungs opened with a cry of distress.…

“Essentially the conscious circle is an intense zone of imaginal interchange in which advanced beings on both sides of the form/formless divide –i.e., some still in their physical bodies, others no longer so—join hands across the realms for a mutual exchange of wisdom, tempering, blessing, protection, and occasionally course correction. …