The Cura Council: 500 Year Vision for a Quantum Commons

Dear One,
Consider this page a letter from my heart to yours. This is perhaps the most relevant action I have ever taken to gather us. My hope is that my call catalyzes your call for your own life and that gathering in ceremony with us will enrich your own experience as we move into our futures together.

We are held in a faceted matrix of glorious proportion.

Let us remember our place and mend the weave with our Love.

As we move forward let us bring joy, pleasure and possibility into our calls for justice and repair.

Join us for the Cura Council where we are practicing ceremonies that can begin, further, and sustain the sacred relationship of life.

To know how to mend we must first awaken both individually and within the context of the "village". The idea of the Cura, is about people who care for the soul of the village and provide an innate healing presence to tend the wounds and invoke the wonders.

Here I am at Wild Water Creek on Sonoma Mountain. This is a sacred place we are stewarding and being stewarded by that is part of our local watershed. This is the Tribal Territory of the Coast Miwok Peoples. A story is unfolding as we begin to engage with collaborating with the tribe. This land has been used as a 'dumping' ground for hundreds of years and we are a part of mending. Much of the access to Sonoma Mountain, the birth place of creation is privately owned. We are working to have this space be collectively held into the next 7 generations and beyond.

The Cura Council is call from within my Great Work. I have always been headed towards this and many of you have said you are called too! My Great Work is the honoring of the sacredness of all of life through paying attention to the stories Creation is speaking to us all the time; and quite specifically through noticing and honoring space-time as it travels throughout our lives in cycles and seasons. We gather to sing, to paint, to pray, to speak poetry and story, and invite trees to dance with us. We are here to learn from the elements we are in relationship with. We also gather to honor the inter-generational voices of our global community as each one of us accelerates into our futures.

Our ancestors all lived in relationship with creation that honored all life as animated and storied. When we separate ourselves from the ecosystem we arose from, we put ourselves and all of Creation in danger, as is being evidenced right now. But I don't think it has to be this way, or end this way. While we are certainly on a journey towards a big change in life as we know it, what might be possible if a council gathers and begins to awaken ourselves and gather the others?

Ceremony. Continuous Ceremony. Circles upon circles. In person and virtual, a quantum commons. A woven pattern in place and time and space people can depend on throughout their lives. In the age of mounting uncertainty, bring continuity in relationship with the cycles of nature. This is what we have lost and what we must find in order to participate in the Great Unfolding.

Our dates are based in the Wheel of the Year: December 21, February 1, March 21, May 1, June 21, August 1, September 21 and November 1 Every year for 500 years. Add that to your calendar lol! These are based on the pattern of the sun moving throughout the sky in the Wheel of the Year with the Solstices and Equinoxes that our Ancestors have honored since time became time. The 21st dates are the general date of these seasonal cycles of Solstices and Equinoxes and the ones in between, often called Cross-Quarter days by the ancient Celts, we call High Season as they are mid-way between one season and the next and in some traditions the quarter days were the original beginning of the Season. Wherever you live in the world, we welcome you to this circle.

I feel very clear that the inspiration for this vision is informed by my Ancestors. Carmen Baraka, Spirit Warrior, a Native American Elder in our community who walked on in 2022. Carmen says this: "Ceremony, which has been handed down since the beginning of time. It’s like breathing into Grace, into the quantum field. To be in a moment of reverence where you are set free to experience the validity of the true nature of spirit, the sublime nature of beingness. To know you are between worlds, the I am that I am."

While I was praying and asking....I could hear her voice and see the expanse of time move to the 500 year vision from the 100 year vision I have been carrying for the past 18 years. It wasn't something I just invented, it was called forth. This is the extention of the work that Carmen and I created together with our community since 2010.

After the vision, I spent the next few days making the images, then the next few weeks making the calendar and the last few months creating the context and imagery. This message was released on Carmen's birthday 2.22.

I think that hopefulness lives in actions taken one by one to mend our relationship with creation and ourselves in the process. We cannot just say: "it's too late". This is the journey we are on and the first question is:

What part of the unfolding story will I be responsible for?

And the second question is this:

If I say yes to exploring my sacred responsibility, what actions will I take to bring that into life?

And the third question is:

Who will I travel with that I trust enough to explore my part in the Great Unfolding?

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Wheel of the Year 500 Year Calendar Poster
Invitation to participate in the Essential Wisdom Book Project
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Five Things You Need to Know about Painting as Ritual Class
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Ceremony is a fancy word for circle that has structure. Ceremony is a circle, yet it has an intentionality to it that includes ritual and at times a bigger context than circle. Circle may be more casual, while ceremony might have more structure. It all depends on who is leading. Ceremony also indicates there is guidance and may have a theme to explore. Circle, is more about individuals talking while ceremony often has leadership in place offering certain parts. Having said all that - everything applies to both, lol!

Here is a sample Agenda

Opening Song

Prayer/Reading

Teaching on the Theme

Creative Process

Ritual and other Council Members

Sharing in Groups

Closing Song

“So this lets me explain what it’s like to be in Circle and Ceremony, which has been handed down since the beginning of time. It’s like breathing into Grace, into the quantum field. To be in a moment of reverence where you are set free to experience the validity of the true nature of spirit, the sublime nature of beingness. To know you are between worlds, the I am that I am. I am most comfortable here in this place of giving and receiving, in this place of quantum identity, where you find out and can feel this realm in a profound way, an actual view that we are all interconnected, an alignment with the stars. When you can actually experience what you feel is your deepest truth, hold it in your hand and have it be tangible, that is the gift that is pure joy, that is the awakening.

When you can hear the stories of the past, the information of the future and the power of the now, understanding that all aspects are in play at all times, this juxtaposition of realities triggers Omni Presence in a way that can be understood. Everything actually isn’t always fleeting, not if you see it as all aspects in play simultaneously. When we can truly understand the depth and breadth, then we can understand that everything that has been and will be, the knowledge of all time, is already within us. We must move through the Corridors – the portals of our timeless mind, body, spirit, the realm of the oneness of creator, of source, the realms of all possibilities.

Native peoples, Indigenous peoples have an understanding of quantum physics and quantum mechanics but just have different language for it. There is no end to the circle, it is actually the everything and the closely concurring nothingness. That place where time and space are moving through you, and you are the observer and the recipient of cosmic favor. Where is the jurisdiction of truth? It’s in the unfolding of the layers of our existence. And how much in this life can you handle, can you allow, can you embrace without fear? Because the opposite of fear is awakening, and so it is!

I used to think it would’ve been nice to meet you earlier in life, but then I realized that this was our agreed upon space-time where we needed to have our circles connect. We called it in, in the way we hoped it would show up when we made that commitment. The agreed frequency is how we find each other. It’s why you are family to me. Because we were once and are now. That is quantum connection. Aho!”

For 30 years, Curate Shiloh Sophia McCloud has been devoted to nurturing the emergence of conscious community through self-expression. She has published 8 books, taught her curriculum at 3 universities, spoken at the United Nations for 8 years, financed over 7 galleries centering on women’s art and has provided millions of dollars of jobs for women around the world centered in the arts. While McCloud is an artist, storyteller and teacher, she is also a futurist who has founded one of the world’s largest global art movements, serving tens of thousands of students per month called Musea Center for Intentional Creativity®.