Welcome to my website! I hope you will enjoy exploring the subjects and activities I hold most dear. If I were to put in simple terms what I do, I would say that I am a creator of sacred space. This means I intend through my thoughts, words and actions to influence this world in ways that enhance beauty, truth, love and matters of the Spirit. My dream is to create spaces in this world, whether physical, emotional or mental, which resonate with, and radiate the sacred. I will not rest until the world we all share becomes a world of love and laughter, of abundance and wholeness, of respect and of health. I don’t have a separate public and a private life - this website is me. What you see here is the magical Ivan (warts ’n all) that interfaces with the world at large.
 
Rainbow Warrior
     
     
 

In February 2006 my mom died. Realizing she had terminal cancer, she settled her affairs and simply stopped eating and drinking. Her whole remaining family was present, holding her hands, as she slipped peacefully into the next world, reborn into Spirit. I always thought she was a little needy, and I worried about how her death was going to be. There was no need to worry - my whole attitude towards her has radically changed. I now have a deep respect and admiration for her; for at the end she gently and firmly took control of her life and became her true, authentic self.

Her last action was to leave me a small inheritance; it was sufficient to buy Dreamland, an exquisitely beautiful area in the foothills of Vermont. It is 70 acres of mixed forest with a large pond and extraordinary views of the mountains. Springs abound on the land, and a fair-sized brook burbles its way down the hill towards the North Branch, which enters the Winooski River at Montpelier. Happy, healthy water! From Dreamland no other houses can be seen, and no sounds of traffic or lights at night pollute the space despite being only 8 miles from Montpelier, the capitol of Vermont. Here Fearn and I intend to build our home, off the grid, and send down our roots into the fertile, magical land. It will be circular, of cordwood, and will have a living roof (grass, with wild flowers). And a hobbit door! Dreamland will become our Earth temple upon which we will become stewards of Gaia, our wonderful planet.

Life has given me many blessings, and I am deeply grateful for simply being alive. Anything else is a bonus! My experience of life has been a varied mixture of pleasure and pain, light and darkness, good and evil. The duality of it all is a price I willingly pay in order to be part of an ongoing, evolving existence. Those skills I have developed throughout my life I now offer in service to others and to this wonderful planet. I am excited to see that the joy I now feel in my everyday life is so much greater than only a couple of years ago, and my aliveness is rapidly increasing. My heart is constantly opening as I take more risks in exposing my inner self, and the love I receive from those around me makes it all worth while. I can only conclude that the way of life that I have consciously chosen is bearing fruits – fruits of consciousness, for these are the only true lasting and worthwhile gifts there are.

I have recently reread the prophecy of the Rainbow Warriors. Apparently, after a long time of suffering and disempowerment, a new light will come from the East, and the Native Americans will once again begin to find their strength, their pride and their wisdom. The legend says that they will also be joined by many of their light-skinned brothers and sisters, who are in fact the reincarnate souls of the Native Americans who were killed or enslaved by the first light-skinned settlers. It is said that the souls of these first people will return in bodies of all different colors: red, white, yellow and black. Together and united, like the colors of the rainbow, these people will teach all of the peoples of the world how to have love and reverence for Mother Earth, of whose very stuff we human beings are also made.

Under the symbol of the rainbow, all of the races and all of the religions of the world will band together to spread the great wisdom of living in harmony with one another and with all the creations of the Earth. Those who teach this way will come to be known as “the Warriors of the Rainbow”. Although they are warriors, they will carry with them the spirits of the ancestors, they will carry the light of knowledge in their heads and love in their hearts, and they will do no harm to any other living thing. The legend says that, after a great struggle, using only the force of peace, these Warriors of the Rainbow will finally bring an end to the destruction and desecration of Mother Earth and that peace and plenty will then reign through a long, joyous and peaceful golden age.

It is now absolutely vital that these ancient teachings are spread right across the Earth. I am feeling an inner urgency to change my life in preparation for the changes I can feel approaching. My spiritual practice has spilled over into my everyday life and it seems as if it is here to stay. I am leading two new presentations and two new workshops both singly, and together with Fearn, which deal with these intense, accelerating times. I am not a scaremonger, wallowing in doom and gloom, but I do believe things will get very confusing and overwhelming if people deny what is already among us. I believe we simply must prepare for the new waves of consciousness that are already lapping at our shores, preparing to envelop us with their promise of high-energy, wholeness and dreams realized. If your feelings resonate with this, get in touch and I would be delighted to come and share my beliefs and feelings with you.

The intent of this web site is to offer my skills to people like yourself, and invite you to come out and play! In the time I have left on this wonderful planet, I would like to touch, and be touched by, an expanding number of souls. I want to make a difference in humanity’s – and ultimately this wonderful world’s - evolution. A secret I have recently learned is that there is an infinite amount of energy in the universe. There is not only enough, but an abundance of energy, and it is ours to play with as we wish. I hope that creating this web site will attract this infinite abundance so that we can play more, radiate higher quality energy back out into the world, and share our good fortune with all beings everywhere.

I wish you a magical journey through my reality. Welcome!