Starting Local
Showing up in service the next morning, I arrived in the same Temples location in a very amusing way - in classic ‘superhero landing pose’ (as Google called it); left knee on the ground, left arm extended down, hand flat on the earth, right knee bent at a right angle and right arm extended to the side for maximum stability. It was all switched the other way round from any pictures you search, as I am left-handed. It was pretty funny and even I, who can be incredibly intense, deep, and serious, paused to smile. Clearly, my Temples also has a sense of humor. That is a very good thing indeed.
Home
As soon as I landed and gathered myself, empowering need and mission further, bright white healing light came out of my left hand and into the earth. It started traveling far and fast, lighting up myriad branching pathways everywhere in the soil. I realized the light was traveling through the mycelial network. First up was the one acre of land that we love and tend, and I saw and felt the whole garden receive the energy and take it in happily. Our soil is relatively healthy, so the light moved easily, quickly, and freely. It kept going until everything was saturated and lit up, as if somehow awakened or nourished by it, and then it was ‘enough’.
The healing light kept going in the same way and moved south, to a site nearby about 6-7 miles away, where a few remaining old-growth redwoods and a vast habitat are being lost to a logging company’s THP (approved timber harvest plan).
Enchanted Meadow
The land was known by the native Pomo people as Tobah Teyah (toe-buh-tey-ah), land of the crooked river. It is now known as Enchanted Meadow and there is a small band of dedicated people fighting to preserve as much as they can. Despite all attempts to stop it, recently there has been further logging and habitat devastation nearby, including the felling of several old-growth redwood trees, also endangering important wetlands and coho salmon runs.
The healing light was sent to what felt like the site of the most recent logging activity, and the feeling could not have been more different. It was like a war zone field after a battle. I could feel and see a few half-dead trees torn and leaning heavily but still standing, everything else above the surface was chewed up and ravaged, and much beneath the surface also. The healing light was moving in the soil like nurses entering and scattering across a battlefield hospital; healing, soothing, comforting, reconnecting, triaging, and reversing the damage done in all ways possible. Deep beneath the soil, there was still hope and strength. Not all was lost and life was very much wanting to come back quickly, it just felt like it could really benefit from additional help. So the land and all of the organisms and the root networks of the still-intact trees nearby all soaked up the healing energy for a long time, more and more and more until it had enough, and there was a clear shift towards empowering regeneration.
Enchanted Meadows Wetlands Sanctuary
Trees across the river, scheduled to be logged
Mill Site
Lastly in this session, the healing light flowed about 12 miles north to an old logging mill site in the Northern CA town of Fort Bragg. The lumber mill operated for 117 years from 1885 to 2002. Some of it then became a public ocean headlands park for the town, with the remaining acreage up for grabs. Most of it has been undeveloped since the mill stopped and is just flat, barren, ex-industrial land with a small coastal trail. Toxicology and environmental tests were made and some restoration work done, and now, much of the land is at the center of a private versus public development battle. Meanwhile, I was shown that the land at the site is still toxic and in need of deeper healing.
The healing traveled once again lighting up and radiating out in every direction, using a mycelial network still deep below the surface to carry and distribute the energy. It took a long time and quite a lot of further empowering to saturate the land and move to a healing shift. The soil felt quite empty and barren and polluted, but still with the potential for new life deep inside. Unfortunately, the land is now owned by a company and almost all of it is slated for human development. Given that, I was not sure why I was sent to this location, but that became clearer the following day, as I share in my next post.
Georgia-Pacific mill site
Location Notes
Further information and ways to help if called -
Enchanted Meadow
The Albion River terrain was known to the native Pomo culture as the Tobah Teyah, (toe-buh-tey-ah) land of the crooked river. Redwood forest, mostly mature second growth, with scatterings of old-growth and massive firs inhabit the ridges, the river winds through 52 acres of wetlands, known as Enchanted Meadow. - Friends of Enchanted Meadow
Recent logging concerns -
The Mendocino Redwood Company is presently logging uphill and adjacent to the beautiful 52 acre wetlands sanctuary called Enchanted Meadow in the heart of the exquisite Albion River. As described by local witnesses, bulldozers have been grinding their way down Slaughterhouse Road pulling out the oldest, mature second growth redwoods and leaving toppled trees, strewn slash debris and gouged out bulldozer tracks. October 2021 -Local Witness Reports
Enchanted Meadows needs your help - Ways to Help
Fort Bragg Mill Site
For Marie Jones and the city of Fort Bragg, Noyo Headlands Park and its portion of the California Coastal Trail is just the beginning. “I do want to be clear,” said Marie, “that we’re not finished. That’s just one-quarter of the site, the Coastal Trail. We still have 300 other acres…and we’re looking at rezoning the remainder of the site for a mix of uses. What Does It Take To Turn a Former Lumber Mill Into a Public Park?
Seizing private property for public use - 'We're f—ked': A popular Northern California tourism spot's 'land grab' ignites fight with town
