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Tapping Primal Life Force
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By Keith Varnum
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When the residents of the Scottish spiritual community ofFindhorn first encountered Pan in the forest, Pan asked them toconvey a message from the Beings of Nature to the rest ofhumanity. Pan said: ¡°Tell them, ¡®We never left¡ªyou did.¡¯¡±
The colorful toucans squawked from within their tiny cage: ¡°Whywould any free spirit ever confine another free being?¡±
The incarceration had rendered the once vibrant birds withdrawnand lifeless captives. Their eyes cried this piercing questionjust as the same bewilderment echoes from the dull gaze of everyanimal in every zoo:
¡°Why would any being with heart ever drive the dagger ofimprisonment into the heart of another being?¡±
The answer is obvious. No being with heart would shackle anotherfree being. No being whose spirit still lives would ever killthe spirit of another being¡ªby any means.
The beseeching toucans were on exhibit at the country inn whereI stayed in Costa Rica. The innkeeper explained he was buildinga huge cage around a tree so the birds would have a whole treearound which to fly and live. But the confined birds told methey didn¡¯t want a larger enclosure. No cage would ever be bigenough. Their spirits needed to be free. After a few days, Icould no longer look into the toucans¡¯ eyes. Before long, Iavoided going near their cage altogether.
Instead of focusing on the plight of the caged toucans, I wasguided by my inner coach to explore the free and untamedtreasures of the stunningly vibrant and beautiful country ofCosta Rica. During my travels, I was blessed by directencounters with wild animals, virgin forests, raging rivers andan erupting volcano. In their natural state, these diverseelements of life were undomesticated, unbridled, unfettered andunspoiled. Every cell of my body felt the raw, free essence ofeach basic kingdom of nature: mammal, reptile, bird, plant,water and mineral.
I connected with a sloth hanging out in its jungle haunt, atabor scouring the forest carpet for grubs, a crocodile sunningin a sultry swamp and a very curious iguana checking me outthrough the mist of a waterfall. I shuddered at the primitiveroar of jaguars too close for comfort. I witnessed reptilescalled ¡°Jesus lizards¡± with so much aliveness they literallywalk on water, skimming across the surface on webbed feet.
I reveled in the unrestrained, exuberant expression of brilliantorchids, enticing mushrooms and outlandish fungi. The beauty andgrace of exotic parrots, wild toucans and resplendent quetzalbirds awed me. I was gratefully battered by the uncontrollablestrength of ocean surf. Standing at the edge of an explodingvolcanic cauldron, I exalted in the undiluted rapture of thefiery, flowing lava.
Soon I began to appreciate my soul¡¯s purpose in sending me tothis lush, virgin land. My spirit¡¯s strategy was for me toencounter so many dynamic examples of the exhilaration of rawnature that I would break through to the other side of my rigid,conditioned, overly civilized state of being. And I did!
Through diverse outer appearances of vitality, I connected withthe inner source that animates all forms of life. I danced withdeer riding waves of natural electricity over grassy hills. Isoared with caracara hawks spiraling with wind currents aboveluxuriant valleys. I clamored with howler monkeys playing in therain forest canopy. I surrendered with meandering sea turtles torhythmic tidal currents.
On the surface, animals, plants, rocks and volcanoes appear tobe solid forms. Through intimate contact, I discovered firsthandthat what creates these seemingly immutable shapes is primallife force, the basic essence generating and driving all formsof life.
A volcano in Costa Rica was the natural element that shared thissecret with me in the most dramatic, effective and revealingway. When the molecules of mountain granite are sped up byintense heat, the true nature of this solid form is disclosed asbeing fluid, moving, alive energy. Universal life force is sofundamental and powerful, it melts granite. It transforms themost condensed form of matter into molten lava, liquid rock.Primordial life force is so alive, pure, wild and basic thatit¡¯s potent enough to liberate the most rigid crystallizedmatter into free-flowing life expression.
My soul arranged for me to ¡°accidentally¡± stumble through thedense fog onto an active lava flow for the purpose of exposingme in a very palpable, tangible way to the true nature of allreality. Walking on this semi-solid river of fire, I absorbedthe raw, innocent, spontaneous vital energy lying at the core ofall physical manifestations of life. I merged with thealchemical power of basic life force¡ªuncontrollable, undilutedand pristine.
The direct transmission I received from the volcano and all theother wild creatures of Costa Rica is that this fundamental lifeforce energy is as available to us humans as it is to them! Ifwe choose to unite with this energy and allow divine alchemy, wealso can become one with the pure, primal, passionate,undivided, unqualified, unlimited expression of life. Thisunderlying flow is referred to by the Chinese as the Tao¡ªtheriver of knowing, the central stream of consciousness, the Godcurrent that is our true nature and essence.
The harsh contrast between the toucans in captivity and thetoucans in the wild awakened me to the magnitude of thealiveness and connection we humans lost somewhere along the wayin our collective life journey. The fact that we cage toucansand other animals in zoos and homes around the world is a clearindication of how far we have removed ourselves from the naturalvitality and joy of freedom¡ªboth our own and that of otherinhabitants of Earth.
Our human quest for love, security and energy cannot be achievedas long as we remain in a state of consciousness in which wesystematically seek to control the freedom of our fellowbeings¡ªhuman and otherwise. In the process of ¡°civilizing¡± ourspecies, we humans have become conditioned to not feel deep,dynamic passion and love for life. Our collective heart, theworld¡¯s heart, has become so crystallized and armored that it isnow as hard and cold as the granite of a mountain. Ourcollective heart has turned to stone. Only a granite heart coulddo what we are doing to the natural expression of life¡ªwithinourselves and on the planet.
The original Old English meaning of the word panic was ¡°of thenature of Pan: wild and free-flowing.¡± But now we humans are soshut down, controlling and cut off from nature¡ªand from our ownvital electric nature¡ªthat we experience ¡°wild and free-flowing¡±energy as scary and threatening. Life¡¯s creative enthusiasmsends us into a panic in the modern sense. Most of us areterrified of living fully alive and free.
How can we humans reverse this process? How can we melt thegranite fa?ades of our public institutions¡ªand our ownfaces¡ªthat so starkly reflect the state of our hardened soul?How can we re-light the pilot light and stoke the cosmic firewithin us?
As I melded with the effusive wildness of Costa Rica, Iunearthed an answer. We humans can re-connect to our naturalaliveness by opening to a force that is more powerful than ourprogramming, more compelling than our collective conditioning.The force that can liberate us is universal life energy, primallife force. This unbridled exuberance abounds everywhere aroundus¡ªand within us. Fortunately, cultural conditioning cannotcontrol primal life force. This raw creative energy is free andinnocent of all human concepts and beliefs. Primal life forcedoesn¡¯t follow its own drumbeat; it is the drumbeat.
Primal life force is more fundamental, more basic, than ourhuman psychological and cultural creations. In reality, thispower provides the lifeblood, essence and juice that sustainsand supports the entire human culture currently existing on theplanet. Primal life flow is the natural energy source thatliterally runs our human creations.
Several years ago, a wall of red-hot lava streamed down the sideof a volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii cutting right through avillage located between the volcano and the ocean. So intensewas the temperature of the boiling lava, its radiant energyvaporized the wood and cement foundations of the humanstructures before the lava physically touched the foundations.All traces of the village and human habitation were annihilatedin the wake of the lava inferno as it made its way to the sea.
Modern science doesn¡¯t know a way to stop the power of theGoddess Pele, the impassioned expression of the spirit of thevolcano. The human structures were not as real, fundamental orsubstantial as the energy of the volcano. Human concepts,beliefs and paradigms trying to overlay and dominate nature areno match for the raw, creative primal power of natural vigor.
The vibration of original vitality, passion and excitement isstrong enough to melt our collective granite heart. Just asprimal life force vaporized the not-so-solid foundations of theHawaiian physical structures, primal life force can dissolve thefoundations of the psychological structure that makes us thinkwe need to control and feel separate from other life in order toget enough energy to survive.
One key to becoming fully revitalized is to reconnect withuniversal life force in such a way that we are not only fed byit, but also transformed by it. If we resonate with the abundantaliveness all around us, divine alchemy will transmute us intothe experience of being that eternal essence of life energy.When we become one with universal life force, we are able todraw our very sustenance, supply and security from our ownsource within. We are sovereign, self-generating, in terms ofwhere we get our energy. Sourcing our own energy, we then haveenough personal power to melt the crystallized granite heartwithin ourselves and our culture. And until we walk with theauthentic sovereignty of natural vitality, we won¡¯t have thecourage and strength to go out and love with true spirit andfulfill our core purposes on Earth.
Another crucial aspect of the message I received from thewildness of Costa Rica is that to be successful on our quest, wehumans need to open to this primordial energy through direct,pure, spontaneous, innocent and fresh means. We cannot approachthis enterprise from an old paradigm or model. For, if we seeknatural, organic vitality in an unnatural, nonorganic way, wewon¡¯t uncover the pure source we seek. To approach aliveness ina sequential, methodical, linear manner prevents us fromcontacting its basic nature. This natural aliveness does notexist within the framework or box in which we currently exist asa society. Pure, free life expression lives outside of ourcultural conditioning, underneath it, behind it¡ªbeyond it.
We can reclaim our natural power only if we approach thechallenge in a manner that is new, wild, free, unexpectant andin-the-moment. If this alive space is sought in any way that isfamiliar or known, it won¡¯t be found. Where we¡¯re going and whatwe¡¯re looking for isn¡¯t located on any existing cultural map.
The way to natural vitality is uncharted because the veryfinding of this energy transforms us and our universe to such anextent that no previous map, blueprint or paradigm is relevant.By the very nature of the goal¡ªaliveness¡ªthe path to the goalremains fresh and spontaneous, impossible to document or plan.
No methodology, technique or structured approach can ever remainvalid for any period of time¡ªor even a second time¡ªto assist usin reaching this vibrant state. This space, once achieved, onceembodied, once lived, is so free, transforming, creative andconstantly changing that any existing map, chart or way won¡¯ttake us there a second time. Strategies previous to this momenttake us to old places and old experiences. Really cool, but notcurrent. Pleasant, but not present. Potent, but not profound.
To undertake this odyssey in the most advantageous way, my innercoach suggests a simple, direct, personal approach. To rekindleour fire of aliveness, we can open to peak moments in our lifewhen we experienced a strong connection to the vibration of raw,creative primal life flow. Many of us can¡¯t think of¡ªorremember¡ªa time when we did merge with this basic life force.Fortunately, it doesn¡¯t matter that our memory of our truenature is blocked by our mind. We can employ our intuition as aguide, instead of the mind. Our intuition knows where and how toaccess this vibration of vitality. Our intuition knows how toremove or go around any barriers or denial. Behind our veils offear, dismissal, distraction, invalidation and misinterpretationare hundreds of firsthand encounters with this universal fire.Within each of us lies a treasure house of direct personalexperiences readily available for the enhancement andtransformation of our everyday life.
The heart of Costa Rica radiated one primal message: ¡°Go for thejuice, the electricity. Forget the form.¡±
If whatever is happening in the moment looks and sounds right,but doesn¡¯t feel intuitively right to you, then it¡¯s not right.It isn¡¯t what you¡¯re meant to be doing at that moment¡ªit isn¡¯twhat is spiritually appropriate or indicated for you to be doingat that precise time.
In regard to any situation, the key question to ask yourself is:¡°For me, in the moment, is there passion, aliveness, heart?¡±
If there is not, then you are not in the right place, no matterhow convincing the outer appearance might be. Let it go.
The spirit of the Earth urges: ¡°Move on. Stay open. Keepflowing.¡±
In an Arizona canyon twenty years ago, a venerable Hopi medicineman named Medicine Cloud shared a keen observation with me:¡°Everything you need to know about life you can learn fromstreams and clouds.¡±
I now know what he meant.
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