All members are active participants in what happens in WeSpace. Everyone in the group is a vital part of the shared spiritual experience and mystical field.
We share what significant things have been going on in your life lately. It’s important to engage in the everyday details, as they are a vital part of our lives—but we do so more from the soul level than typical, common social patterns of relating.
This is a place where you can share about something you are learning spiritually, or experiences you’ve been having lately in your own Whole-Body Mystical Awakening prayer/meditation process.
You can also raise a question you may have been holding lately related to the spiritual journey or how you are seeking to live out the evolving journey in your local context.
It’s essential to see the connection time as the beginning of our practice together, not a precursor. Like the rest of the time, we want to approach this from our heart space and whole-being. It is our sacred connection time.
This segment can go anywhere from fifteen minutes to an hour. Though please be mindful to respect the time so everyone is able to share somewhat equally. The facilitator then transitions the group (perhaps after a short break) to the next part.
While many are familiar with mind practices of meditation, or scanning their body from the mind, in WBMA we enter into awareness from the four centers of spiritual knowing in our bodies. Including our heart moves us into the relational, energetic space of love. Including our feet and legs embodies us as we are grounded and rooted to Christ energy in the earth. Including our spiritual womb or gut allows us to be centered in our core, divine identity and fertilely intuitive and creative. We then find that our mind is cleared and ready to receive from the visionary realm of spiritual knowing.
For the first few practices, group Starters lead a guided meditation to introduce and familiarize everyone with the practice. After which, groups are facilitated by WeSpace Guides and participants, using either recorded guided meditations available on our website or their own version. WeSpace Whole-Body Mystical Awakening is the core meditative practice of our groups.
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As this is usually a new experience for most people, it can take a little getting used to—with practice, experimentation, and plenty of grace.
When we pray for one another in this way, we are welcome to silently engage in the flow of love and healing from our hearts toward one another. As we are ready and feel comfortable, we can begin to grow in “speaking forth,” giving voice to the impressions and arisings for each other as we learn how to sense from this state of emergent awareness.
These can arise in our head as images, pictures, words, smells, and more. We can experience the energy of love and bliss in our hearts, sometimes also felt in our arms and hands. From our womb we might sense intuitions or deep knowing. Our feet connect us to the energy of material reality, moving us into a somatic, felt sense of physical sensations.
We may also see and hear from our spiritual guides, which we might experience as God’s motherly/fatherly presence, Jesus, Mary, and others.
This is being in spirit, participating in awakened mystical consciousness much like the early church did. This time in our WeSpace groups is for practicing and learning, offering to one another humbly and within loving space for the purpose of “comforting, encouraging, and strengthening” (1 Cor. 14:3).
We begin by going around the group to focus on each person. Everyone first attunes love, spiritual energy, and healing to them. We call this “engaging in the flow” and it is a powerful expression of transmission and loving prayer in silence.
Then, as impressions arise from awakened spirit consciousness, we can share what is emerging, giving voice to our spiritual knowing. The person being focused on can take a posture of receiving and at the end might offer feedback about what is shared, reflecting back what resonates and what they might need to sit with longer. Anything that doesn’t fit can be released and freely let go of.
We often also sense not just for one person, but something for the whole group. These sensations can be shared at any time, but especially after the individual time has concluded.
During the practice, it is also quite common to have a palpable sense of the group energy field. Many people, if they put their hands up, can feel a pressure against their palms. This is the physical perception of the spiritual energy present. We can interact with this energy of the group by sending more of our own heart love into the virtual circle. We may put our hands out “toward” a member, or perhaps hold the entire group. We can be creative in how we transmit and engage with the group energy. We can also simply rest in the “we” and be held by the group in love.
We end our practice with what we call “The Geyser of Love.” Acknowledging that this loving connection is not just among us or for us, but also for our neighbors, our cities, and the whole world. We use our hands to draw our shared energy and love that we have generated together, raising it up to spray forth as an offering of healing, love, hope, and deep care to the world.
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When those that want to share have done so, the group confirms the date of the next meeting and who is scheduled to facilitate—or someone volunteers to do so if needed.
