About Serena Newhall
My Purpose
My soul's purpose is to embody divine love, and help others to do the same. I am called to be a healer of healers, of leaders, and those on a path to enlightenment. When we cultivate our own personal and spiritual development, this has an impact on our organizations, the world, and the future of humanity.
Background
I have been exploring various pathways of spirit for over 20 years. My intuitive powers began awakening shortly after a Near Death Experience (NDE) at age 12.
My personal and spiritual path has included tai chi, studying developmental issues related to the spiritual psychology of Reichian bio-energetic character structures, chakra and core healing, soul retrieval, past-lives, shamanic journeying and dream interpretation, tantra, working with the Akashic records, bodywork, massage, peer counseling, thawing trauma, non-violent communication, theta healing, and many forms of ceremony such as dances and sweat lodge.
Professionally, I worked for many years in non-profit grants management. As an Analyst at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, I worked with international leaders and executives, advising on organizational development, business strategy, country policies, contracts, logistics, monitoring & evaluation, and financial management of multi-million dollar portfolios of global projects in agriculture, education, policy, and nutrition. As an Executive Assistant, I spent several years as the right hand to top leaders and scientists, partnering with them to manage organizations, projects, innovation, people, start-ups, non-profits, and change.
I hold an Executive Masters in Public Administration from the Evans School of Public Policy and Governance at the University of Washington, and a Bachelor of the Arts degree from Reed College. I am a graduate of the Port Townsend School of Massage, a certified Theta Healer, and an ordained minister of the Universal Life Church, which honors all religions.
I am the author of one and 3/4 books: Collective Guidance: Spiritual Guidance for Innovators and Ascending from the Ashes: How to Thrive When Your Life Goes Up in Flames by Embracing the Fires of Spiritual Transformation (to be published soonish).
My personal and spiritual path has included tai chi, studying developmental issues related to the spiritual psychology of Reichian bio-energetic character structures, chakra and core healing, soul retrieval, past-lives, shamanic journeying and dream interpretation, tantra, working with the Akashic records, bodywork, massage, peer counseling, thawing trauma, non-violent communication, theta healing, and many forms of ceremony such as dances and sweat lodge.
Professionally, I worked for many years in non-profit grants management. As an Analyst at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, I worked with international leaders and executives, advising on organizational development, business strategy, country policies, contracts, logistics, monitoring & evaluation, and financial management of multi-million dollar portfolios of global projects in agriculture, education, policy, and nutrition. As an Executive Assistant, I spent several years as the right hand to top leaders and scientists, partnering with them to manage organizations, projects, innovation, people, start-ups, non-profits, and change.
I hold an Executive Masters in Public Administration from the Evans School of Public Policy and Governance at the University of Washington, and a Bachelor of the Arts degree from Reed College. I am a graduate of the Port Townsend School of Massage, a certified Theta Healer, and an ordained minister of the Universal Life Church, which honors all religions.
I am the author of one and 3/4 books: Collective Guidance: Spiritual Guidance for Innovators and Ascending from the Ashes: How to Thrive When Your Life Goes Up in Flames by Embracing the Fires of Spiritual Transformation (to be published soonish).
Beliefs
My faith includes all faiths. I respect that all religions and faiths are avenues to God or Oneness. I started out Catholic, but have always been an avid explorer of spiritual paths and have celebrated ceremonies or visited churches and temples that were Christian, Jewish, Sufi, Zen Buddhist, Hindu, Nichiren Buddhist, Native American sweat lodges and dances, New Age, Goddess-oriented, and Shinto. My childhood included visits to the Mayan Temple of the Jaguar at Tikal, the great Buddhist temple Borobudur, a Shinto shrine for ninjas in Japan, and half-buried Hindu temples in the Indonesian jungles.
In my cosmology and personal spiritual explorations, I perceive hundreds of dimensions of spirit, stacked like floors in a high rise building, ascending upwards into greater formlessness and light, and descending downwards into deep undifferentiated darkness, and then, like a toroid structure, ultimately revealing themselves to be One, and returning to what the Taoists call Wuji, the limitlessness of non-duality. One might call these levels celestial realms and hell dimensions.
I perceive that Oneness, whether you call it God, Source, Wuji, Enlightenment, etc. as a pure and perfect light. In an enlightened person, this light "descends" from the Ultimate Source down through all the dimensions, including the dark ones. There is no distinction then as one becomes One with all of creation, and embodies the awareness that everything that exists is love.
In my cosmology and personal spiritual explorations, I perceive hundreds of dimensions of spirit, stacked like floors in a high rise building, ascending upwards into greater formlessness and light, and descending downwards into deep undifferentiated darkness, and then, like a toroid structure, ultimately revealing themselves to be One, and returning to what the Taoists call Wuji, the limitlessness of non-duality. One might call these levels celestial realms and hell dimensions.
I perceive that Oneness, whether you call it God, Source, Wuji, Enlightenment, etc. as a pure and perfect light. In an enlightened person, this light "descends" from the Ultimate Source down through all the dimensions, including the dark ones. There is no distinction then as one becomes One with all of creation, and embodies the awareness that everything that exists is love.
My Level of Development
Developmentally, I am in the process of transcending duality. I alternate between living a somewhat ordinary life, complete with continued life lessons and challenges (some are real doozies!) -- and experiencing states of the utmost love, bliss, and grace. Various psychologists and philosophers have developed frameworks for different states of consciousness. Using Jenny Wade's framework found in her book Changes of Mind: A Holonomic Theory of the Evolution of Consciousness, I am making a transition from Transcendent Consciousness to Unity Consciousness, or, in the Spiral Dynamics color-coded framework, I'm somewhere in the Coral to Indigo range.
In the past, I reached a certain level of worldly achievement, then I gave up that life and most of my possessions in order focus on releasing my ego and let go of the boundary between self and Self (union with the divine). I wish I could tell you that I just had an epiphany and gracefully handed it all over. There was a little bit of that, yes, like when I gave away most of my possessions and my cars. And there was also a bit of figurative kicking and screaming as I clung to my old way of life and pretty much had to be forced into a state of grace and self-realization by a series of successive losses, some deliberate, some absurd, and some excruciatingly painful. Now that I have come to a higher level of clarity and happiness, I would like to be of service to those making a similar transition -- in hopes that you will make the leap with greater grace and ease than I managed it!
In the past, I reached a certain level of worldly achievement, then I gave up that life and most of my possessions in order focus on releasing my ego and let go of the boundary between self and Self (union with the divine). I wish I could tell you that I just had an epiphany and gracefully handed it all over. There was a little bit of that, yes, like when I gave away most of my possessions and my cars. And there was also a bit of figurative kicking and screaming as I clung to my old way of life and pretty much had to be forced into a state of grace and self-realization by a series of successive losses, some deliberate, some absurd, and some excruciatingly painful. Now that I have come to a higher level of clarity and happiness, I would like to be of service to those making a similar transition -- in hopes that you will make the leap with greater grace and ease than I managed it!