It stung when I was asked to resign from the board. After all, I had been the founding president of this charity and had worked very hard for its formation. Adding injury, my spiritual teacher affirmed the board's decision by saying, "You are not Board material. You are a great mechanic."

A few years later, I received a clear message from my higher self:

I am a mechanic.

I like to fix things.

Now, I'm taking on the world.

Wanna help?

It may take us a few lifetimes.

"Oh," I thought, "that kind of mechanic. I can get behind that!"

In 2015, I had an experience that relates to all of us. During my prayer time one morning, an image of our spiralling universe appeared along with the words "Love Is Round." Instantly, I understood three things:

1. Love Is Round is the design of our universe and, therefore, our design.  

2. Love Is Round explains our experiences when we connect our spirit with the spirit alive in nature. 

3. Love Is Round is an empowering context for our spiritual/healing journey. 

I will say more about Love Is Round as it is not a common understanding. When we see an image of our universe, such as the one at the top of this page, it is clear that universal energy is spiralic. Planets and stars formed in this spiral energy are round or spherical. When we think of 'round,' we understand a sense of inclusivity, equality, and belonging. 

The love part of Love Is Round is trickier. Love needs to be experienced. If not, it remains a concept that could be argued. Love Is Round became the context for my work, which since 2000 has been teaching people how to connect their spirit with the spirit alive in nature. That experience is a mutually loving one, which makes sense when we understand that Love is the field in which we are formed and dwell. It was common for participants in my workshops reporting on their experiences, often through tears, to speak one of these phrases; 

"The tree/plant/rock was in me, and I was in the tree/plant/rock." 

"The tree/plant/rock loved me and I loved the tree/plant/rock."

"The tree/plant/rock and I were in relationship."

A particular deity gave me the great gift of this Love Is Round experience. This deity, a sacred mountain in California, invited me to become a pilgrim to receive Its help with this work. I knew the shaman who led these pilgrimages, so I applied and was approved for this multi-year commitment.

Like us, mountains and all beings have a purpose. This sacred mountain's purpose is "Protector of Creation." This deity protects our love-is-round universal design and does so through human participation!

While on pilgrimage in 2019, I received this message several times: "Start a movement or continue a movement already started." I call this movement "Love Is Round, Aligning Ourselves With Universal Design," and I am so deeply grateful to have such important work! This universal round-love design is ever present and available. It is what we are made of and dwell in. We need only access it. Doing so helps us heal from the illusion that we are separate, alone, and unlovable, gradually shifting our worldview and our world. We increase our capacity to live harmoniously with our higher selves and with our Earth relatives. We increase our round-love frequency and become more of who we truly are. We open ourselves to the guidance our world has for us to help us fulfill our divine purpose. We find our passion and joy. Nature wants to help, waits for us to ask, and cries out for our relationship!

Here is where you come in. Will you join me in amplifying this round-love creation we call home? Doing so helps you, everybody else, and all our relations. We do so on behalf of a more harmonious world. Please find programs, suggested practices, and a growing list of resources on this website. 

If you would like to be a part of this epoch-making movement or to send any other message, please do so here.

 
 

Highlights of Sherry’s Spiritual Path

What is it to be a pioneer?

My recollection of how the head of Shambhala Buddhism defined a pioneer in a 2009 event, was something like this: A pioneer is someone who sets off on a path with no role models, mentors or teachers to show the way, a path no one understands and few are in agreement with. Yet 30 years later, these pioneers have lead the way to a more effective world on behalf of the generations to come.

When I heard this definition, I felt seen. I knew no one I could turn to for help when I set out on my spiritual path. Now there are many following their spiritual paths and discovering their joy. I follow my spiritual calling to help you follow yours.

  • A spiritual calling experience in 1982 awakened a need for spirit and set Sherry’s life on a new and surprising trajectory. Prior to this, Sherry had worked in banking, accounting and human resource management.

  • Pursued extensive personal growth work from 1982 to 1995, which tenderized some rough edges, opened her heart and culminated in healing an inherited familial dysfunction.

  • Studied Macrobiotic healthcare and obtained three levels of certification, 1988 - 1990.

  • Taught macrobiotic cooking classes and offered health consultations, 1990 - 1995. Sherry discovered that she loved teaching!

  • Studied professional ontological coaching through The Newfield Network and was certified as a professional coach in 1993.

  • Rigorous spiritual training from elders and elder shamans in three indigenous traditions (Huichol, Nahau, and Ojibwa), 1997 - 2022.

  • An elder in the Ojibwa tradition became Sherry’s first teacher of an indigenous form of prayer - prayers of gratitude to nature. This led to a profound shift in her experience of prayer, connectedness and relatedness with spirit. This elder also led Sherry on a vision quest, after which she received many messages: “Teach people about prayer.” 1997-1998.

  • The elemental Fire (our heart energy), known respectfully in English as Grandfather Fire, transmitted prayer teachings to her through an elder Huichol shaman, 1998.

  • Initiated as a Quiapaquiz (Weather Worker) by an elder Nahua shaman in a remote village in Mexico in 1998. Sherry learned much about prayer and our reciprocal relationship with the divine through many years of ceremonial work connected with this tradition.

  • Completed a 5-year pilgrimage cycle to a sacred mountain in Mexico, 1999 - 2003. She learned that this mountain had provided the calling experience in 1982 and that she had a past life connection to this sacred being roughly 500 years ago. This mountain reminded her of her commitment to return when the time was right to help our people return to our sacred relationships.

  • Awakened a sacred mountain tradition connected with weather in Ontario, Canada, and continued as Ceremonial Leader twice annually from 2001 through 2012.

  • Designated Matron of that sacred mountain tradition in 2013. Her work fostered a healing of the trauma from the genocide of those ancestral peoples by colonizers a few hundred years ago.

  • Founding President of Sacred Fire Foundation, now called Seeds of Wisdom, a 501(c)3 US charitable organization that supports sacred ancestral traditions worldwide, 2005 - 2010.

  • Author of “Prayers of Gratitude, An Ancient Context for Prayer and Healing,” published in 2023. See Prayers of Gratitude.

  • Taught the phenomenon of prayer in five countries since 2000.

  • Love Is Round, Protecting Universal Design is the title of Sherry’s forthcoming book and the name of a global movement Sherry is being asked to lead.