A friend mentioned Russell Boulding’s Earth Energy Healing work last Thursday and I finally got around to checking his website out. Russell says this of himself: “All of my life I have been inclined towards a left-brain rational approach to thought and action. I have a BA in geology from Antioch College (1970) and an MS in water resources management from the University of Wisconsin/Madison (1975). From 1977 to 2003 I worked as a free-lance environmental consultant, specializing in environmental problems related to coal mining and contamination of soil and ground water.”

That was before the winds of change blew Boulding beyond his intellect.

It certainly might be that the human intellect is overrated.

Machaelle Small Wright’s procedures for gardening with nature spirits blew the winds of change for Russell. You can visit his website to read the amazing details of his life-changing experience after he blurted out without forethought, “I’m ready, take me as far and as fast as you can.” (See: Russell Boulding/Earth Energy Healing.)

Late in the spring of 2004, a mother robin built her nest in the crook of the downspout just outside our bedroom window. On May 22 of that same year, a 2.5 mile wide F4 tornado tore through Nebraska with its 200 MPH winds of change. The storm damages totaled $160.22 million. Our friends, Roger and Sharon, survived to rebuild their home when their entire town was blown away.

In the 40 years John and I lived at 4230 Lincoln Avenue, only that once did a robin built a nest in that location.

When the storm system that had devastated Nebraska raged through Southwest Michigan, John and I watched out our basement window as the wickedly wild winds blew trees near horizontal to the ground. Our beautiful bluff a few miles away was cleared of its majestic mature trees, hundreds of roofs were ripped off area homes, and tens of thousands were left without power for weeks.

Four baby robins weathered the storm in a secure nest.

We can be sure it was not “intellect” that guided the mother robin to place her nest in that unusual location.

Boulding says, “It has been necessary for me to develop my understanding of the larger reality that lies beyond our physical world primarily through intellect rather than through direct experience.”

Once you know beyond a doubt the source of the winds of change is Divine, like Russell, you and I are able to say, “I’m ready, take me as far and as fast as you can.”

Daily the world grows smaller, leaving understanding the only place where peace can find a home. ~ Huston Smith, author of The World’s Religions

P.S. — A core benefit of the Imagine Healing process is the “evidence procedure.” Because you can see something you know is following its natural progression, you can pair up something else with it. Since late yesterday I am watching the progression of healing of a very sore little toe. Healing is natural. As that heals, I am saying to the whatever it was that moved the mother robin, “Take this healing as far and as fast as you can.”

P.S.S. — Imagine my surprise to see my friend, Dottie, in the photo with Russell Boulding. He had come to Friends Lake Quaker community to give a workshop.