The 5 Laws of Creation

In August I had the honour of watching one of my closest friends get married, here in Nosara. 

The binding of their love concluded a day long San Pedro ceremony. It was certainly the most unique wedding I have ever been to.

San Pedro, also known as Huachuma, is a plant medicine derived from a cactus that has been used in ceremonial practices by indigenous people from the Andes for thousands of years. 

As it’s believed everything in the universe is connected and has its own spirit, when ingested, San Pedro thins the veil between us and the spirit world allowing us to connect with deeper intuition, spirit guides and ancestors. 

The design of the ceremony taught us about the 5 laws of creation, and over the next 5 weeks I will try to pass on these teachings to you in as similarly profound and eloquent way as they landed with me. 

I AM

Your fundamental nature is that you exist.

The chances of you being born were 1 in 400 trillion. Just you being here is a miracle in itself. 

As a unique and eternal being, you are an inseparable part of this infinite cosmic tapestry. 

‘I am’ is a complete sentence. But is often followed by 

a mother/ father

happy/ sade

a mechanic 

hungry..!

I am is a permanent state of being. It is eternal because you are part of an existence that is also eternal. 

I am happy. I am a yoga teacher. I am a daughter are not lies. They just vastly reduce us down to minuscule roles we play meanwhile forgetting that we are inherently interweaved with an entire universe, constantly unfolding. 

This law, I am, urges us to embrace our innate worth and recognise that we already are magnificent, eternal beings.

Personally, it allows me to rest in the insignificance of my human experience, whilst knowing I am a part of this infinite cosmic tapestry. 

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ALL IS ONE AND ONE IS ALL

The second Universal Law of creation. 

This one reminded me of a time I was solo travelling through Rajasthan, India. As is the magical way of India, I found myself in conversation with a lovely silversmith. He read my palm, I taught him how to roll tobacco and we discussed philosophy.

He told me 

‘It’s easy to understand how a drop of water is within of the ocean. But it’s not so easy to understand that the ocean is also within the drop’. 

Life can seem a bit like ‘me’ and ‘everything else’ sometimes. As though everything that is not tangible ‘me’ is separate and outside of ‘me’. 

We’ve been given a meat suit and senses for our soul to reside in so we can experience the world, albeit in a relatively restricted way (turtles use the Earths magnetic field as their own Global Positioning System(!)

This law of creation explains that, whilst we have gratefully been given a vessel to experience life through, we are not separate from other fellow humans, animals, creatures, nature and the cosmos.

We are in fact completely intertwined, interweaved and operating as one. 

It means to hurt myself is to hurt you. To hurt you is to hurt myself. 

It encourages us to avoid a mindset of separateness, often attributed to victimhood and selfish behaviour.  

It means to look after myself is to look after you. To look after you is to look after myself. 

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WHAT YOU PUT OUT IS WHAT YOU GET BACK 

Law of Creation, number 3. 

This is one we’ve all heard at some point. Certainly from my parents whilst studying for my GCSEs. To which I would respond with a very teenager-esc eye roll. 

Turns out they were right. I didn’t try super hard for my GCSEs. Certainly not in subjects I had little interest in. And I didn’t do great. 

My results were equal to my effort. 

It didn’t matter that part of the reason of my not studying hard was because I was dance training every day after school and on the weekends. 

It didn’t matter that, in part, my lack of enthusiasm was a result of feelings of overwhelm, insecurity and hopelessness that most teenagers experience. 

The Universe doesn’t operate in the same binary process that we often do. It kind of doesn’t care, it just matches the energy output it sees.

You also can’t be sure where your karmic charge is going to return back to you. As Eran, the ceremony holder so eloquently said 

‘You might throw shit to your right, and then you get hit from the left’. 

The world is simply a projection of how we choose to see it. 

If you choose to focus on all of the daily annoyances, constantly listen to the news and fear fellow humans, your experience of life will be a reflection of that. 

If you judge others, you will be judged back 

However, if you choose to focus on the beauty, kindness and generosity of this earth and the humans upon it, that will, in return be your experience of the world. 

Neither option is good or bad, right or wrong. It just is and the choice is yours. 

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Last up,

TIME AND SPACE DO NOT EXIST, BUT YOUR EXPERIENCE OF THEM IS REAL 

Ok, this Law of Creation is a bit of a brain tease. But tell me you haven’t experienced either of these.. 

You’re running late for a meeting, sat in your car or on the bus, and that red light you’re behind just seems to be taking its sweet ass time. 

Or

You’re engrossed in conversation with a friend and just like that the whole afternoon has disappeared. 

We are experiencing our consciousness through a created filter of time and space. However, this filter is simply a creation that allows us to experience expansion in a linear fashion.

Time is simply a reflection of change. And from this experienced change, our brain constructs a sense of time as if it were flowing. 

Without change, we’d have no concept of time. 

We love to use time as a marker of when things happened or might happen. It gives us a false sense of understanding and control.

But physicists, yogis & philosophers alike have been strongly debating for some time now (pun intended) that this experience of time is not a reality of the physical world, but rather and artificial construction of human mentality. 

It’s so bonkers, our brains are just trying to make it make sense.

The truth is that everything exists in one place, here, and at one time, now. 

You have a memory of the past, but the past does not exist. 

You have an expectation of the future, but it does not exist. 

The only place you will ever be is right here, right now. And this is where 100% of your power and life force is. 

I know, it’s a tricky one to get your head around. Imagine learning about this with belly full of San Pedro 🤯

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And so we have arrived, the final of the 5 Laws of Creation. 

My favourite oxymoron 

CHANGE IS THE ONLY CONSTANT 

Everything changes. Apart from the first 4 laws that is.

Life itself is an evanescent, transient, fleeting experience. We’re not here for long, and the experiences we have within that time are even shorter. 

Change is guaranteed in every aspect of our lives. We can fight it, going down kicking and screaming, or we can accept and surrender. 

Either way, it’s happening. 

Cast your mind back just 3 years ago. How do your relationships, eating habits, opinions, needs, creative taste, priorities differ now? 

It’s one thing to understand change. It’s totally another to accept it. 

To accept that everything is always changing, is to realise we have little to no control of our lives. 

Really the only thing we can control, is our perspective.

This 5th law encourages us to detach from outcomes and expectations. 

To ease into the flow of life. To choose to live from a place of acceptance, come what may. 

To welcome change and challenges with a smile, rather than a frown. 

This too shall pass. The heartache, the work meeting, the delicious dessert, the best day of your life. 

Experience it, but don’t try to hold onto it. Let it go with grace. 

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And there we have it, the 5 Laws of Creation. Which one resonated with you the most? Drop a comment or let’s chat via email. I love hearing your thoughts on this!

Love always,

Kathy