Welcome to Sacred by Nature. A store for exploring the yoga path and spiritual awakening via inspirational blogs, original cartoons, poetry books, yoga theory books, products and artwork by sisters Rebecca and Rachael Somerville.
The name for this website was coined several years ago in response to the ongoing assault on sacred biological life that seems to be happening to humanity and to nature on an unprecedented scale - everything from gene therapies that alter our natural DNA sequencing, to GM and synthetic foods and medicines, to virtual reality and screen or phone based human 'connection', to microplastics in water, to atmospheric spraying of nano-particles and graphene oxide into our ecosystems. The final straw came after watching a TED talk by a young PhD who was telling the audience that humanity ‘needed an upgrade to Human 2.0’ because we were not keeping up with technology, as if we were EVER an operating system called Human 1.0. I was repulsed by this idea, particularly how universities were grooming young minds to view humanity as an outdated operating system that would require updating to stay relevant.
I decided to start writing about yoga and the mystic traditions again because, throughout history, these wisdom schools have offered practical methods to realise our full human potential. Humanity doesn't need an upgrade it needs an education about its own true nature and to be encouraged to plug in to the world wide web of life, as a vibrant and connected part of the whole.
Throughout the ages these wisdom traditions have always existed at the fringe of society, because of the symbiotic arrangement between those in power — who want to syphon our energy and attention to sustain their dominance — and the masses who would rather avoid facing their demons and the discipline required to become fully awake. As a result we have accepted a life of distraction and extraction, instead of getting on with the job of tapping our ‘superhuman’ capabilities on the way to reaching our full human potential. Some of these 'superhuman' faculties that are latent in all of us include direct perception, extra sensory perception, direct cognition, remote viewing and listening, distance healing, spontaneous healing, clairaudience and clairvoyance, levitation, trance running, astral travelling, photographic memory, to name a few. These abilities are not the goal of yoga or any spiritual tradition, however, through genuine yoga practice that opens us to higher frequencies, they can be naturally activated in all of us.
In yoga these 'superhuman' capacities are referred to as ‘siddhis’. Our education systems have ignored them in favour of overdeveloping the cognitive mind and intellect. Socially we stay on the hamster wheel of giving our time for money to buy things and experiences that distract us further. What yoga refers to as the higher mind (the vijnana maya kosa) eclipses our clunky cognitive function. When consciousness is seated in this mind, we experience direct cognition - knowing without having to apply reason, logic or sensory input — we know via direct intuitive perception. Compare a muddy, turbulent pond to a still, crystal clear lake. When we awaken to this level of mind we cannot be manipulated. And so, in order to keep us as small and dependent as possible societies gaslit those who accessed this higher mind state, referring to them as freaks, dangerous threats, quacks and pseudo-scientists. Through history this mastery was tortured, burned, drowned or exiled which sent a strong message to the rest — defer to external authorities instead of relying on your own intuition, instinct and inner knowing. Play it small and conform.
On top of this we have also been habituated away from nature into a progressively more unnatural reality. We have also lost our 'primitive' animal instinct which is deeply connected to all living systems. This instinct knows by feel and is programmed for survival. Our highly curated reality with its ever more automated lifestyle has led us to atrophy our greatest gifts in favour of a life of enslavement to all forms of exploitation — our time, our energy, our money, our attention, our creativity, our brilliance. All this in the name of progress. Chat GPT and Grok have taken this to an entirely new level again, where creativity is outsourced. I fear that when we lose our creativity which is at the heart of our humanity, we become robots, waiting for input in order to respond in a predictable and desired way.
We now face the possibility of destroying this sacred human nature that has so much unrealised potential. We now risk dissociating further into transhumanism, where any interloper in control can simulate a ‘creator being’ and where humanity could become permanently enslaved to that will. We are a step away, with our attention and data currently being harvested by social media, MSM and consumerism as a mass distraction. We are a step away with mRNA gene altering therapies that can recode human biology towards this agenda. If we become antenna for frequencies that keep us in high beta brain wave states, we will never be able to realise the goal of yoga and the human condition, which is to still the fluctuations of mind completely, so that we can access the unified field - our entire reason for being born. The opening aphorisms of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali state that 'yoga is defined as the cessation of the fluctuations of mind, then the seer (you) abides in his (her) own essence. This is known as self-realisation, and liberation from the limiting filters (wounding, prejudice, greed, apathy, fear, ambition, separation...) that we otherwise interface with the world through.
From a spiritual perspective Earth is our awakening ground. We need the suffering and the duality in order to transcend it. This is a remarkably nuanced mystery that we are a part of - one that has had the life sucked out of it by an increasing level of control over our lives - how we think, what we think, how we spend our time here, what is deemed relevant and valuable. We have handed over our sovereignty to those who cannot see the big picture. Those who feel safer in tightly controlled narratives where outcomes can be predetermined and worse, those who seek to manipulate our nature to create a 'master race' where 'undesirable' genes are literally edited away. This is death to those of us who remember why we’re here and who understand that those 'undesirable traits' are character building, they teach us humility, patience, compassion, they balance the karmic books, and so much more.
We hope that our offerings to humanity will help with this remembering, as we make the journey back to heart consciousness, where Source informs our thoughts, speech and actions and where we act in symbiotic harmony with the whole of life.
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With love and wishes for your awakening from Rebecca and Rachael Somerville.
We are all Sacred by Nature.