Learning from/with Finn's beloved "magic in the middle"

... I never knew Finn....

It is now some time since Finn's death, and only now I am reading these posts from all of you who loved him.

As someone who never met Finn, but who knew of him through his friends, I would like to bear witness to the fact that during the period you are describing, my consciousness also underwent a radical shift. Completely aligned with everything you describe. Particularly the clarity and the deep presence and knowing/unknowing. And the unquestioning compulsion to act when it matters in a way I have never done before.

So indeed, dear ones, known and unknown. The field most resoundingly IS

Call into deep connectivity

From Anne Dosher, when she read the news about Finn: 

I immediately went to the Pipe and sent prayers to the Great Spirit that all is in right relationship for Finn and all who surround him.   Our meditations for clarity and wisdom, for deepening of our collective field, and our prayers for the soul journey that Finn is embarked upon call us all into deep connectivity.
In beauty all around you may you walk.
Blessings and love,

Anne (Elder, TWC)

Something has been ignited

From Muryah:

Martin,

Thank you for the update and declaring what I am experiencing.  I feel an allegiance to what I have learned from Finn and all of us about consciousness of the field.  And last night I developed my own little meditative ritual for letting go from the perspective of all of my senses and it was and is very effective.  The circumstances are challenging but it does seem to me that something has been ignited in me/us and it is meaningful.

Regards,

 

Holding the field of support and awareness

A note from David (who is doing the attunements):

Hello, Everyone.

This note is to suggest that we continue holding a field of support 
and awareness for Finn for three more days.
…..
I am noticing that the energetic control pattern is now in place and 
that the life current is flowing easily.
….
While there is much more to 
happen yet, I have a sense of increasing stability.
…..
Thank you all for sustaining and being part of the field of support 
and love for Finn.  If you haven't already, please include Tina and 
Martin E. as well; they have been holding the point for Finn during 
this time and that takes energy and focus.
 

 

Shift in social technologies

More words came from Martin E.: 

Hi George

What I see in practice in myself and around Finn this week is a shift in social technologies. I notice how much technology now comes across as old technology, technology that has served its purpose for so long and is now giving way for new, frightening and exhilarating, ways of relating to self and other. I notice in my self a new kind of will power, a will power that does not go against what is, but a power to lean in, to stay standing, to take leadership – the interesting kind of leadership. The power to take the interesting kind of risks, where I don’t hold back when I know I have to speak, even when it means I have to disclose what is actually going on inside of me, at a time when I would prefer to keep it hidden for fear of being outcast or vulnerable to attack. These things also seem to be unfolding in the people immediately around Finn.

This field ... IS

News on the 19th, from Martin L.:

Dear friends

I have just returned from the hospital. This evening Finn has woken up from his sleep. He is still very weakened physically ....

It was good to see life in his eyes and be in contact with him.  ....
 

My friends, I cannot really tell you what is going on here, but maybe you already feel it. I have a hard time finding words for this but there are changes – in me, and in the people around Finn in this circle. The impact of what is going on is untellable most of the time, as it feels deep. Deeper than I can see and understand right now. Forgive my lack of insight and words to you. The strength of this field that is holding, loving and freeing Finn is…. IS!

Please stay in this field as long as you are free to do so - and able.

Transformations

From (another) Martin E. to George: 

"I am in awe to see the transformations that are happening around Finn, and the perspective of freedom that is surrounding him and inhabiting those of us in the immediate physical vicinity of him. I was struck when I read that you see transformations too these days."

Setting free

Martin L. again: 

George and Ria

As you might know and feel, a lot is happening her in Århus around Finn and
the strong, strong field that is focusing and resonating here. We are taking
the 'setting free' very serious and focusing on how and what needs to be
moved from solidity to flow, and where the personal and field responsibilities in this lies.

One ting that Finn has been holding for me, or that I have put on him, is
the initiative and strength to make connections and create fields. At first
I feared that this evolution would stop, now that he is ill, but now I see
that the role of initiative and creation can be shared by e.g. me and Tina
and the rest of the newly established hosting team of Moving the Edge.
Setting this free is to me to embrace it, inspired by Finn's power and
commitment.

.....
 

Finn's teacher is the middle

Tina wrote back to George and Ria: 

I will try and write a little more, I am not so clear but I think you
should know something about the things that are happening here and with me.

I know that whatever happens with Finn we are many to carry on, to keep
and to inquire into the potential that this is offering, and that is a
relieve. I feel that it is far bigger than I can understand and
communicate and a field of C.I. is needed in a way that has never been
more concrete to me than now. I literally feel the field; it's many
qualities; the souls with each their qualities; the bodies that carry
the souls with each their tools to tune in and percept what is happening.
It feels as if a wound that has been in a healing process for years and
became clear to me on moving the edge is becoming transparent to me. I
feel I get to see into the many aspects of being a human being. It is as
if Finn is becoming a human being in the sense: all that is - it is being
taken to another level, is becoming a whole. The body, emotions, soul,
thought and consciousness, it is all one and the same thing.

Still Finns condition is very critical. ...

I am exhuasted physically by now but still I have the sense of knowing and
of clarity. Many people in Finns network, ..... call me or come to partly check me out - worried of my youth and judgement, partly to offer different kinds of help and advices for the process.

....


I feel I have this transparancy towards what is truly felt by these wise
and very conscious persons. I also see that the mental scheme, their
interpretation of the situation is put into a limiting structure. I feel
this urge to stay in the not knowing, to give into the deep knowing that
is offered in each moment. I feel that this IS the richest learning
process, and I feel I know what I need to know moment by moment.
I think that what Finn has been doing the last many years has been to take
from all the wise people and philosopies he has ever met, read or felt,
and tried to create structures in the manifest worlds and among social
systems, so that the guru can be the middle. I feel that what some of
these people have come to try to explain me, holds a lot of truth but that
Finn has taken it to another level in the spiral.

I write you this because I think you will understand and maybe can get
something from it or remind me later. To some of us it makes sense to be
students of a guru in person and to interpret our experiences in a certain
context of understanding and even when the context is the biggest we
now know of so much meaningmaking, allreadyknowing and ownership can sneak
in on us. I know it is Finns vision to create fields
where people with a counsciouness perspective can develop the language,
the process formats, the action and the being, that holds the truth in each
moment and is evolutionary. I know he is working in the field and in the
manifest with this perspective and I know that to some it can seem like a
run-away from deepening, but actually I feel in the years he and I have
been together that he is coming from the dept in this running right into
the world of the manifest, and has dared to let himself be guided by a
sense of either clarity or unclarity in the middle. I think we could say
that Finn's teacher is the middle.

So what I also sit with in these days is a feeling of clarity and the
ability to distinguish between interpretations and ideas and what is here
now. I notice that I take many chances, that I will not compromise and
that my teacher is a deep felt sense from the middle of all the people
that are keeping us.

....

Thank you for your friendship. I love you.

Tina

A chain reaction of consciousness

George's answer to Tina:

Beloved Tina.
 
I am so grateful to you for reaching out and trying to speak of the unspeakable, the sacredness of this very moment.

Your effort to express it is very precious. It confirms what kept us up with Ria, late last night, a deep sense of the shift that is happening in the world, at least in our world. For me, it has clearly started with Finn’s entering a new stage of his work, which has transformed ours too. His example is so strong, that the only way I can live in integrity with myself is by entering the same “no excuses, no vacation from consciousness” space. And that’s what is happening for Ria and me. And not only for us

.....

It’s like a chain reaction of consciousness that the FinnBeing triggered and I am in awe of its magnitude and importance. It shows so powerfully how one person’s awakening can shift the whole field and enable more light coming in the moments when and where we still grope in the darkness of ego. As they say, Jesus “died for our sins,” it seems that Finn’s life showing an example of living for the awakening of our collective field of light. As you, David, his friends in Denmark and around the world re-connect in a circle of commitment to that light, that action can give more meaning to Finn’s suffering.

.....

Meg Wheatley’s words are more timely than ever:
“Our seemingly separate lives become meaningful as we discover how truly necessary we are to each other." Not only we need to connect but Life itself wants us to do that, with increasing frequency and depth.

Being a field of collective intelligence

Tina wrote to George:

.....
I will share with you something that I sense is taking place. It is still
vague, confusing and not yet that nuanced, but I hope to find more words
and accurate expressions as I grow with this process and as I get to share.

I feel there is something extraordinary important to learn from this about
being a field of collective intelligence and from the perspective of one
being. David wrote to me in a mail earlier about my role; that he felt
something was transferred to him. I too feel that something is transferred
to me in these days.

David wrote: "I sense some of this Life energy is moving into the body and
some of it is being used to work at other levels of Finn's being and world.
I can't say definitively what he is working on, though I sense part
of it is arranging to share or transfer what he has been holding
relative to the collective intelligence work.  This is not to say he
is letting go of this aspect of his field of service, but to allow
others to hold it, while he focuses more particularly in the cycle he
is in now.  I mention this because I have a sense that some of that
substance he has been holding and focusing relative to C.I. has come
to me.  I suspect it is being offered to others as well."

I have had this growing sense that some of the qualities that I know he
has sprout in me as an easy or natural process during the last days. I
notice that I am uncompromising, direct and clear and that I have taken
leadership in confrontations and organizing without
doubting my own intentions and without feeling attached to it. There is
something very delicate about it and it is more an energetic motion than
anything. It does not feel like there is anything personal about it.

It makes sense that I will be in a hightened state of a awareness or
consciousness during this process and I write you so more know, should I
not remember or my connection fade. I am also aware that I, due to the
character of Finn's and my relationship as partners in life, I can mix
things and interpretations up. I trust you will find your way in what I am
writing as I am in a state of not knowing most of the time.

There is more but it has not words yet. It has to do with the lonelyness
and longing I sometimes hear Finn express regarding his work and
initiaves.

It makes sense to me that some of the qualities or functions in and for
the collective that I know Finn often holds and channels, is now offered to
more people to carry and channel in a deeper way, since Finn needs peace
to do another work.
The people that I called for this specific work I feel makes a wholeness
itself within the whole. We are all very attentioned about what is
happening in us as the days go by and the intensity grows. It is
especially taking place between the field of Martin E., David and I and a
woman named Karoline that has an energetic and physically approach to
this.

Dear George, I know a dear friend and colleague of you is balancing between
life and death. I know you share vision and I know that you have both put
your lifes in service of the work.

I do not know if what I am sensing has to do with that I am as close to
the center of the process as I can get and project it on the world. But my
sense is that something bigger is happening in the community that Finn and
I are a part of, and it is not fearful but beautiful.


Love and light Tina

The practice of setting free

The hosting team of the World Café Stewardship Dialogue - of which Finn is a member - sent a beautiful message out to all the participants of this Dialogue. This is part of this message. 

"In further support of Finn, some of us are taking on the practice of setting free what we need to in our own lives in order to heal. Consider this another possibility, if it resonates with you. In all these ways, we join our energy and intent with that of a much larger global network of Finn’s friends and colleagues in many different fields, as well as his close friends and loved ones in Denmark who are sitting with him daily in the hospital, letting him know that he is loved and supported."

In friendship,

The World Café Stewardship Dialogue Hosting Team

Waking up to a larger perspective

Tina (Finn's partner) wrote:

"Dear all
I am deeply gratefull for the love and support that is carrying Finn and
us who are close around him in these days. I feel that Finn and we are
being held by a field of love. I have told him this many times, I have
told him that he is loved by all of us for what he is and that he is free
to do what he must do.

Being close to him all the time is extremely powerfull - it feels like
being drawn into an instant meditating condition. I feel peace when being
with him most of the time, feel that he is radiant, strong and powerful,
feel that he is fighting for something bigger than this body.

.....

Friday night I picked Finn up in the airport as he returned from Canada. I
felt that - though very I'll - he was transformed, changed, soulfull and
beautiful. I told him that he looked newborn. He felled at the same time
very physically vulnerable, released and was deeply touched by the
insights that kept coming to him. He was very touched by the love and care
that those of you who were there showed him.  ....

One insight was that he knew he always have had a great love for humanity.
He said he now understood that he is a part of humanity.

Finn told me at the hospital on our second night, when we understood that
this was very serious, that he saw this proces as a soulwork and that
something was not free. He said he knew his heart was free, but that he
was not free mentally and physically.
He told me he want to live.
He said that he would now set free what was not free. He asked me to let
go of what was not free between us. He asked me to tell those who would
help us through this, to do the same.
To me that means to set Finn free to do what he now must do. And it means
to love him so much that I will help him and support him on his way also
if he is leaving.
To love whatever is and to let everything be as it is.

His condition is very critical still tonight. ....

I feel at this time a deep understanding of wholeness, that our meditation
is for the whole. I feel that the work Finn is doing, makes so much sense.
A part of me is painfully sad about that he suffers. A part of me fears
that I will loose him. But most of the time I feel that I have been given
the greatest gift that I could imagine. I feel that I - and many, many other
people tell me as well - am waking up to that a larger perspective on life. It
is not an idea or an experience, it is something that we live.

... I understand,... that Finn is a great inspiration to so many people. I know that Finn has spend most of his life working on supporting conscious social systems to come into being and to develop. I know he truly holds a perspective that is larger than himself.
I see that now when Finn is completely depended on other people he helps catalyzing so much love, so much setting free and that networks of people come into being.

....
 

The work of setting free

Martin wrote back to George:

"Thank you for this message, George. What Finn is going through right now creates or releases so much love, and it touches me a great deal. It is true what you say about Finn being an inspiration. A lot of people are now engaged into the work of setting free, inspired or called to this by Finn and what is happening right now.  ... "

 

Re-igniting inspiration

George wrote to Martin L., who sent the first email out: 

Finn’s love of consciousness shines through your message so strongly that even the bad news re-ignited the inspiration that Finn has always been for me. Last time, just a week ago, on Bowen Island, when his body was already engaged in the battle between his illness and healing forces,  he was so amazingly present to both what was happening inside him, and in our circle!  We felt his pain and felt honored by his gift of presence, when he sat with us and spoke, each time, from a space of deep, undisturbed wisdom and caring for the Whole.

...

It brings tears to my eyes, tears of gratitude to him for being such a role model in the most challenging circumstances. May I and we all stand as solidly in our commitment to love and consciousness when we are tested, as Finn does!

...

 

Field for freedom

Juanita wrote on the 17th:

"... David, Barbara, Ken, and I joined the meditation today since we received the news and were on the phone with Samantha at the exact moment your e-mail was coming in.  Samantha, too, joined the meditation to send Finn our healing energies to create the "field for freedom" that he has requested. ..."

Finn's approach

Chris Corrigan wrote:

"... I was very struck by Finn's approach to his illness when he was with us on Bowen Island, very much using it as a practice.  He clearly knows what he is doing, we could all see it in his eyes and hear it in his voice - steely learning - as he dealt with the pain and discomfort he was in while he was with us.  ..."

Finn at The World Café Stewardship Dialogue, Aug. 28, 2006

 

 

 

 

Love for the FinnBeing

I've been thinking about Finn a lot, and since I'm blessed with a spiritual path that gives me a clear ritual for sending the kind of clear, unattached energy that Finn has requested, I've been doing what we call a 'Wave of Divine Love' for him regularly.

This is a ceremony that can be as long or as short as you want it to be (depending on how many repetitions of the mantra you do), and I thought I'd share it here in case it will be of help to anyone else in supporting Finn. It goes like this:

I light a candle, and, after calling on the Barakath of energy from the whole until I feel it strong in my heart, I visualize Finn there in my heart and send him a wave of Freedom,  as I repeat aloud 'All is Free' a set amount of times (3, 9, 36, or 108 are the standards). At the end of the repetitions, I ring a bell and sit quietly for one minute, imagining Finn receiving the wave of Freedom in his heart.

Then, remembering Finn in my heart, I send him a Wave of Security, as I repeat aloud 'All is Secure' for the set amount of repetitions. Afterwards, I ring a bell and sit quietly for one minute, imagining Finn receiving the Wave of Security in his heart.

I follow the same pattern, sending succeeding Waves of energy using the following mantras, in order, 'All is Love', 'All is Aware', 'All is Light', 'All is Transcendence', ending with 'We are One', and in the one minute of silence afterwards, imagining Finn receiving the Wave of Unity in his heart.

That's it. 

Giving thanks for FinnBeing, and for each of you that helps hold him in this healing, which is a so clearly a healing in the world, too,

Amy 

Our hearts are with you

Written by Juanita, Nov. 17th (part of her email)

....

I want you to know that I, too, had a life partner, who was  stricken with a very acute form of lymphoma in quite a similar way to Finn.  While he is no longer on this plane with us, and he was  not "cured" in the medical sense, he passed to the next plane as a truly "healed" person, and we, as people who loved him had the opportunity to be touched by that healing ourselves. 

..... 

With our love and respect,
Juanita

A vigil for Finn

The first news we received via Martin L.
 
"This Saturday Finn was hospitalized after he came home from a conference or retreat in Canada. He has been ill for some weeks before that, and complaining about pains different places in the body.
...this mail is the first time we tell it into Finns large international circle of friends...
...It is not a secret in any way that Finn is ill...
 
What we are doing is this: We sit with him as much as possible, and there have been one or more of us with him at all times sometimes meditating, sometimes just being there. ...
 
Another thing that is going on is that David, is doing ‘attunement’ for Finn two times a day, where he sits in Copenhagen and tunes in to Finn’s substance. We then sit for 30-45 minutes and meditate and make a field for Finn and helping David by this. This is done from wherever we are and you are most welcome to help and join in this meditation. ... there are a few instructions to this meditation.
 
The first are from Finn. Saturday or Sunday Finn knew that he was very sick.... He asked that the people assisting him in the next difficult time are people who understand what is going on and able to let go. Finn sees what is happening right now as a work. He had a strong sense of this being a soul work and having to do with setting himself free at the soul level. He has asked Tina to set everything free that needed to be free in their relationship and Tina has asked us all to do the same in relation to Finn, so he is truly free to become free. This is what we focus on in meditation.
 
Secondly, and following this, David suggests that we focus on Finn’s substance and not on our wishes for him to do any particular thing. What is happening now is up to Finn and we can only make a field for him to transform in.

 
Later we received the email from David R. to the Danish network on Nov. 16th; later passed on to others.
 
Greetings everyone.

As most of your know, many  have been participating in a vigil for Finn as a way to support him during his health crisis. I understand in Chinese, the character for crisis is made up of two symbols meaning danger and opportunity.  I think it is a good description of what is happening with Finn.

I have been doing some "long distance" healing sessions called "attunement" with Finn twice a day for the past three days.  The energetic field that formed and has been sustained by those in this network has been VERY helpful in these sessions--and between the sessions-- because the field allows the life current to increase.  This is important because it is the life current in Finn's body that does the work of healing.

My sense is that Finn is still in the process of establishing a pattern of energetic control of the physical body in order to facilitate the healing process.  To my perception, this process is developing but is not yet finished.   When the "control pattern" does become established, then the process focuses more in the cycle of healing and repair.  If it can't be established then the cycle shifts to releasing the body.  It seems to me that where the cycle is now is that the Spirit in Finn is still establishing the control pattern.  As you probably can sense, this continues to be an important and relatively delicate developmental phase in which your continued support is quite helpful.

So, I suggest that we extend the vigil ...

If anyone else in the support network would like to tune in during those specific times, it would be most welcomed.  And your ongoing personal awareness of Finn as well as other specific times of prayer, meditation or other forms of supportive awareness are also helpful and important in increasing and sustaining the energetic field surrounding Finn at this time.

And to mention again, it has been shown that the most effective form of this kind of support is with no specific outcome in mind.  The Being that is Finn or the "FinnBeing" knows what to do and with the right conditions he can do what is necessary.

It is such a pleasure to do this work together.  During the attunement sessions, I can feel the strength and quality of the substance of the field we are creating and holding together for Finn.

Thank you all!

In Love,
David
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