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It is worth it. Love, Narelle xo
Once upon a time, I walked a memoried landscape of sand, saltwater and tannin. A flow that moved through me as surely as the potentiated field of consciousness that I am; entangled, One, with this place. My body, my breath, my fluid form, merging with the time fields; indistinguishable.
Once upon a time I came to earth, my body slithering and merging with Hers. Leaving trails of space-time, warped and folded and spiraled:
becoming Here
becoming Now.
Whispering traces, in the everywhen . . .
of sound echoing through your
dreamtimed-Form.
The Room of Release - Public Preview
As many of you here are aware, the vast body of work that is The Saltwater Songlines New Dreaming has been in active creation since 2018, and in focused devoted curation since 2021. Contained within a dedicated website, this virtual immersive exhibition experience, brings together the distilled essence of my lifetime’s walk. Albeit, profoundly abbreviated.
As you approach and enter this space, imagine it housed (literally embodied), as its own living Gallery. A cathedralic bio-organic building embracing you into a soaring luminous Atrium, branching off into desire lines of two Halls each side, and held by the centrum of an Altar - its beating heart.
A vessel of the Sacred. A breathing oscillating temple of Light.
An archive of Language.
Language in Image.
Language in human written script.
Language in the spoken shaped vibration that is Sound; Word.
The two Halls speak a Something;
the first, a Series of 4 Rooms, each a visitation to 4 different coastal biomes and interior ecosystems walked during 2018-2020. Four different aspects of consciousness:
Room 1 - The Room of Inception
Room 2 - Rooms of the Star Ancestors (Room 2 also has an Alcove)
Room 3 - The Room of Release
Room 4 - The Room of Sanatorium and Healing
The crafting of the design and exhibiting of Images in the First Hall is ready.
Know that the Images within each Room - and their Story - interweave one Room to another. This is part of the multidimensional nature of the dreaming; not a linear telling or pathway. Echo and loop and rhythmic-layered tidescape.
The Images speak the language of deep Story. Whilst some of the words are indeed present on the Page, most of the stories, with eco-somatic practices and their audios are still being written and recorded.
Just know that.
Once, this creation was going to be made available as a 9 month Program, complete with community Gatherings, and individual Mentoring. Its initial taster Programs were indeed offered similarly during 2018, 2020 and 2021.
But our world has changed.
And so have I.
I am no longer capable of stewarding and being available live (albeit virtually) for 9 months, reliably hosting online Gatherings or 1 : 1 Individual Sessions. My body, my health, is speaking different tongues now.
Sometimes I cannot speak anything.
Sometimes, I struggle to swallow and to breathe.
The being who is Earth, is shifting.
Our society is in great crisis and birth-death throes.
The deepest turning and evolution ~
Yet the One who actually IS this work still needs to breathe. To speak.
To be birthed.
To be in the world.
With you.
So, I am working with what I have. With what is available to me.
I am working with what is real for me at this time and what I am capable of.
Be Welcome
On Saturday November 18 Australian Time, I am opening the Preview of the Room of Release - Room 3. With images made on Gubbi Gubbi Country in Queensland, during February 2020. A long sand beach. A tannin creek in flood.
This is an experience I invite you into devoid of a pay-wall.
That said;
I do ask that you exchange something. An honour system, you can offer your reciprocity of your choice, as a gift to me as I offer mine to you. You can leave your offering after you have walked through the Room, via a button at the bottom of the Room’s webpage that will take you to my secure Stripe account. If you are unable to leave a reciprocity without hurting yourself, that is fine. I want this to be an inclusive space for all of us. Reciprocity is set in USD, with the lowest setting of $10. This is not a model of ‘transaction’ or extraction; you are not being asked to ‘pay for’ what is being previewed and offered; in essence, you are supporting the work’s life and development, and me. More information about this can be found here on my Appreciation Page.
Whilst a website doesn’t house physical wall spaces and opalescent journeyed hallway meanderings for images, you will see that the images are not simply a random collection, and are certainly not merely an image dump:
My website was specifically designed as a Prayer;
This uniquely particular offering.
This precious bespoke design.
Holy ground
For viewing on a computer;
not, your phone. Please.
If you use your phone you will miss a very great deal:
formatting, multi-image layering, the experience itself.
As you enter the living organism of Gallery-Chapel, please enter with Quiet.
Take your time. Breathe. Notice your own body.
You are being invited into relationship.
Contemplative Space
This Project has asked my Everything.
It is, in essence, the breath of my life.
A tannin creek. In flood ~
There is a link to 3 sister films at the bottom of the Room of Release Page.
The celebrated film Weaving New Songlines among them. As I showed the film to First Nations Elder and lore woman, Grandmother Mulara, she immediately offered me these words to share: “This is a masterpiece of pure devotion and compassion, that captures the sands of time immortal on our beautiful planet as she transcends into a new wave of consciousness, co-creating new songlines and unparalleled majesty. The New Dreaming is upon us.”
The soundscape for this film is by the much loved musician, David Parsons.
Due to the sensitive nature - and vulnerability - of this birthing, I have turned the comments off. You are welcome to email me, first connecting with yourself, and speaking quietly what you would share with me. Thank you.
I hope to release the preview to Room 2 - The Star Ancestors - early December. This is also when The Atrium becomes available.
Credit: Images of Narelle by Mark Quinlan.