my own experience is that i am constantly affirmed and challenged and inspired by my digital associations and connections. the blogs – the emails – the tweets, they are now a daily food group. necessary. and the internet gives me a forum – a convenient one – to offer my encouragement and support to other women around the world.

we all have our metaphors, and i think of the internet as the well where women gather. the well from which women drink. it is a well of abundance – no matter how many women drink from this well, there is always enough. it constantly replenishes itself so it can constantly nourish those who take the time to gather at the well to give and take nourishment.

I think the internet is a key tool in connecting people, for ascension, for 2012. In some ways, I think it was created for the purpose of developing a network. I don’t know of any other tool that could connect us so easily with people all over the world, like-minded people who are on the same wavelength. I think there are also different dimensions. Depending on what you’re interested in, you’ll automatically find references to what you’re searching for. Lots of synchronicities happen on the web. Sometimes I just have to think of something and I’m directed to a site that has just what I need. A lot of magic has happened for me online. There’s definitely some invisible hand at work.

I think, too, that the internet will be less important at some stage and, by that point, we’ll have developed telepathy and other similar abilities. We’ll connect to that oneness.

I like to think of the internet as a version of Indra’s net:

Far away in the heavenly abode of the great god Indra, there is a wonderful net which has been hung by some cunning artificer in such a manner that it stretches out indefinitely in all directions. In accordance with the extravagant tastes of deities, the artificer has hung a single glittering jewel at the net’s every node, and since the net itself is infinite in dimension, the jewels are infinite in number. There hang the jewels, glittering like stars of the first magnitude, a wonderful sight to behold. If we now arbitrarily select one of these jewels for inspection and look closely at it, we will discover that in its polished surface there are reflected all the other jewels in the net, infinite in number. Not only that, but each of the jewels reflected in this one jewel is also reflecting all the other jewels, so that the process of reflection is infinite.

The Avatamsaka sutra
Francis H. Cook: Hua-Yen Buddhism: The jewel net of Indra, 1977

I think about this all the time, daily, hourly. I first imagined the Internet as a metaphor for the interconnectedness of all things; but it seems, very quickly, to have developed into an actual/real interconnected universe, an out-picturing into form of what our minds know is possible. One day, a few generations down the line, I’m guessing we’ll begin to do this w/o internet. Or, as in Avatar, the internet will begin to pulse with life energy and connect to the natural world, and then, the cosmic.

Though I can’t explain how this will happen, I sense that it will.
This is only the beginning.