Star Bear

For years, we have listened to the Land and the way she breathes and moves and provides so bountifully for all of us. Because of that exchange we cannot build our homes and structures upon her without talking to her first. With graciousness, she shows us how and where we can put our shelter in ways that allows her ley lines to run freely, energizing us and the beings around us. She also shows us how to build without disturbing the trees and the animals. Again, how we make our home, right down to its shape, actually creates energy patterns that support us and all the other beings who live alongside of us. And once we are in our house, we continue to listen to everything so that we can constantly choose ways that allow us all to live together in natural abundance and peace. This way of building from inherent respect creates an actual living environment with all who are in relation with it, including the forms of life that quite a few humans would not consider considerable forms of life, thereby practicing the true roots of sustainability from unconditional love and wholeness.

This way of life evolved a business called, Living Spaces. Living Spaces allows us to share what we hear from the Earth. If you want to build like this, then we welcome you to a process where we can build structure in equal co-creation with you and Nature. It is not our path to come to you as “experts” that you must blindly follow in order to get the perfect building or to get the job done “right.” Instead, we offer to you our open hearts. If you join us in that, then we listen to our Spirits together and let the adventure unfold. Each of us will contribute our own perfect gifts in that and truly, miracles will be born.

That may sound scary at first. Some of you are saying, “How will I know how to build like that? What do I know about listening to the Earth? What if I get it wrong?” All good questions to ask. So, let’s put it this way. Whenever you build anything on this Earth, you are calling upon the innate Spirit of creativity in you. It’s in all of us, it’s the core of lifeforce that fuels each and every act and thought we have. It naturally listens to the lifeforce in everything else, offering us the choices and directions we seem to think of for ourselves. If you choose to go to that core creativity to find previously unimaginable dreams to build, call us, that’s how we build- equally honoring you, ourselves and all things. Within that process, all sorts of deep emotions may arise and we also honor that. Acting upon our natural co-creativity automatically brings up everything (including all the choices we made in building ourselves as human beings) along with the constant opportunity to freely be our next, new, true choices, now.

As you can see, building consciously is sacred. For ourselves, we consider all that we create to be sacred structures-living, breathing spaces that will reflect, immediately, whatever you and anybody else working with you puts into them during the building process. Obviously, that feels like a tremendous amount to consider. Probably just the thought of it seems daunting. Stop. If you don’t know what to make of this, just call us. We can narrow down this process to just the elements that are pertinent to you right now. We’ve done this before and we can share our experiences with you directly.

Now let’s talk about possible logistics. We are open to constructing virtually any structure, any design, anywhere AND we also specialize in certain things. We most often design and build domes, spirals, pyramids, Earthships, and dreams. These shapes reflect the organic patterns that nature itself builds in (just check out the structure of a flower). To create and live in shapes like these affirm our lifeforce, instead of deplete it. Also, these sacred geometries will continue to co-create energies that revitalize us and everything around us, long after the initial construction is completed. Birthing that kind of regenerative space for equally sacred geometry-human-bodies is where our building name, Living Spaces, originated.(For more information on our building, see the book, “House as Teacher: Building with the Future, Now, Creating Sacred Space in the New Millennium.”)

Most of our designs come from our dreamtime. We simply open up our hearts to what’s possible and we often awaken with a complete design in the morning (Did you know that Einstein said that he dreamed the theory of relativity?). We invite you to join us in this. Bring us all your wildest imaginings and dreams. We like seeing how the impossible unfolds and builds itself. That sounds hard to explain, but it is wonderful to behold. Let’s just say that at the beginning, let yourself envision anything. Try not to limit yourself and see where your own natural creativity leads us.

We also specialize in construction off the beaten path. It’s incredible to build right with nature, especially in places that someone else said was impossible. Although, we must say, it is equally incredible to build in the midst of the city, with respect.

Finally, we devote ourselves to working with you in whatever capacity best serves you and your living space. We encourage you to actively participate in each level of construction, regardless of your current skill level. It’s your energy that will be built into your house/office/whatever and that is the energy that will imbue your new structure. Just like anything else, whatever you put into something is what you get out of it. We choose to support you in every part of that process, physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually.

As for ourselves in that process, we will design, hands-on-build and/or coordinate all the construction work, as you wish. We want your new space to reflect the balance of your needs and wants in a sacred manner. Likewise, we will honor our bodies and Spirits in all of this and will tell you what we choose to do and what we choose to contract to other laborers, as necessary. In co-creating sacred structure, how we come together and work infuses what we build. So we invite you to call us, see how our energies combine, see what possibilities find us and see if you want to co-build a dream.

People regularly ask us what kind of building designs would work for them in their area. Now that’s really exciting! We listen to the Land and she tells us what will work with her body and the bodies of the people asking us. It’s such incredible wisdom that sometimes we don’t even understand it all until later. But when we do, it affirms us all even more. To design like this increases our creativity, our joy and our unimaginability.

With the popularity of feng shui, people also ask us to help them place their buildings and then their possessions in their buildings for optimal harmony. Of course we say, “Yes.” Again, we listen to the movement of the Earth’s ley lines and her contours to determine specific building sites according to specific desires. All you need to do is to match your energy with the energy running through a particular area. It’s the same with placing objects in your home or office. Listening to the energy lines allows you to put your things on those lines that complement your specific needs and wants. In our experience, this practice is very powerful. If you want to create something specific in your life, you can place sacred objects in your home or office, in areas that intentionally match with the natural energy of the Earth. Then you automatically attract that particular energy into your life and it simply builds from there. To us, this practice means acknowledging and honoring your innate co-creatorship with the Earth- what could be more powerful than that?

None of these things we are talking about here are fixes or solutions to problems. They are all practices. Practices that are constantly changing and growing, just like us. Our way to create new paradigms is to create new paradigms. If we are using old paradigms and just making them look different we are not in the new paradigm. The new paradigm “feels” different. It is a challenge because it is new. It requires more trust and courage of us because it may not feel safe. It takes a few of us to practice the new one long enough for it to become approachable and safe for the masses to tiptoe up to it, claim it for their own, and welcome themselves into what is already there. So be it. There are always challenges on this “other path”. Take them as affirmations that you are creating something new and exciting and lovingly release the fear-based technologies and people who choose them, to their own lives and practices. This way of building in harmony and wholeness has its own sets of rewards and gifts that are exponential and are not guaranteed at the start. They require our own acts of courage and power, first, to then manifest our chosen path. Enough said. You get the picture. Let me leave you here with the words of Spirit as they are presented in our book, “House as Teacher:”

A MESSAGE TO ALL THE CHILDREN OF EARTH

The time has come.
It arrives upon us
right now,
even though some of us will say that it came
without warning.
Not true.
The warning came to all hearts
and spoke the language of love.

The time is now.
We must stop building upon the Earth
as if it were a place of refuse
that someone else will clean up
when there is enough time.

We are the time.
We must join our hearts this moment
and declare that we will build nothing more,
unless
we form our homes and structures
in the language of love.

That is the only future before us
and it rests upon our actions,
now,
now
without hesitation,
now,
now
even if we believe
we don’t have the time, the money or the talents.
For if we do not declare absolutely
that we will only build
with the sacredness that all life already practices around us,
then we create no future
and we erase
Now.

This message is meant for all of us. It is our contribution to the language of love. We looked around at how humans were building upon the planet and we said, “This is not our way anymore.” So we set forth to build anew, even though we didn’t know how it would be done, or how the authorities in our life would receive our intent. We did it because we can, because we choose to speak the language of love.

We knew that if we translated the rhythm and language of love into building, then we would create something that would grow all the time and would harmonize with all the beings of the world. Then we would be making something that would speak on behalf of us, while simultaneously honoring all others.

So that is what we have done. We have created homes, shaped out of our respect. Because of that they are not just our homes, they belong to everybody. They are dedicated to all the children of Earth, since each one in its own unique and even inexplicable way, taught us the language of love. In their/your/our honor, we offer our practice of building as a story for all of us. Listen and find a page and make it your own. Share it with all other children of Earth. This is how we know how to build a future not just for ourselves, but for all of us. Welcome.