I know I'd planned to share some thoughts on Free Will in this week's entry, but time got away from me and so instead I'm going to post a explanation about what it means to work in co-creative partnership with Nature and Spirit that I wrote as a sidebar for my home page.
Happy reading  and until next week – Namaste,
Julia

To work in co-creative partnership with Nature and Spirit means connecting to and directly communicating with not only one's Spirit Guides, but also with the Intelligences in Nature that are responsible for providing the "matter, means and actions" needed to bring all soul-initiated intentions into form.
 
That's really not as complicated as it sounds! It simply means that if I, as a human Soul, want to create something – like a business, or a book, or a vegetable garden – my creation will be more aligned and in balance with my Soul's purpose and with the Laws of Nature, if I receive input and guidance from both my Spirit Guides and from Nature.

Another term for working with Nature and Spirit in this way is co-creative gardening. To Nature a garden is any activity or creation initiated and directly by human intent and for a specific human-determined purpose. So gardens can be based in soil, like a vegetable garden, a flower garden or a field of alfalfa. But they can also be "soil-less": books, businesses, a watercolor painting, a website, a car, a planet, a job, a science experiment, etc., etc.

This makes more sense once you realize that Nature is more than rocks, rivers, trees, insects, flowers, etc. Everything that has form – whether we can detect it with our 5 senses or not – is NATURE! The means the computer I'm writing on is Nature, the carpet on the floor is Nature, the plastic of my keyboard is Nature.

Nature is a specific expression of Conscious Intelligence and Nature's specialty is balance and form. And so when I consciously bring Nature into my work, I am guided on how to best ways to create balance at multiple levels in my work. I do this so that I'm not creating "unintended consequences" that can throw other parts of my life off balance or that negatively impact the balance of the other "wholes" that I participate in, including Universal Consciousness.

In essence, Nature and Spirit are my business partners for the "Center for Healing Partnerships." And we communicate through something called a coning, created by Nature for multi-level communication.

A coning is not only like a secure conference call, it's also the conference room. Only those who are part of the coning are participating in the "meeting." I'm the one who sets up the coning and the one who directs the meeting. When in a coning, my partners and I communicate through the use of simple yes/no questions via applied kinesiology. And, because I've also developed a close relationship with my partners, communication also happens through intuition, which I actively work to cultivate and expand.

Nature and my Spirit Guides do not dictate what I am do or don't do with my business or my life. It's still my creation and it's still my responsibility to decide what is right for me and when, but my experience over the past 16 years of working with Nature and Spirit in this conscious, co-creative way tells me that I sure want to get their input if I want to "do things up right." I cannot image doing life or working in any other way!

How did I learn about co-creative partnerships and soil-less gardening? From the work of Machaelle Small Wright and Perelandra Center for Nature Research. Check it out for yourself at http://www.perelandra-ltd.com/index.cfm.