What's in my NOW? — Editor Edition
issue #262
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Hi! I’m Claudia Dawson, Editor of What’s in my NOW?, co‑writer of Recomendo, and writer of Many‑Worlds Vision, a newsletter of shamanic dreams, visions, and channelings.
I also write poetry, play with altered states, facilitate psychedelic and dream integration, and practice energy healing with sound and light touch.
PHYSICAL
Full Body Red Light Therapy Mat: This may be my most expensive “tool,” but it is definitely the most magical item I own. Just 10–15 minutes on this full-body mat reliably induces euphoria and a deep sense of calm in my system. I often pair it with meditation or Meditative Mind music to deepen the experience. There are no strict prescription instructions—you can use it any time of day for mood enhancement, to help balance circadian rhythms, and to support muscle recovery after working out.
Solfeggio Body Tuner Set for Chakras & Meridians: These are weighted tuning forks designed to be placed on acupressure points so you feel the vibrations moving through your body. They’re color‑coded to correspond with the chakras and tuned to Solfeggio frequencies associated with energy balancing and deep relaxation. Like the full body red light therapy mat, using these tools affects me on what feels like a cellular level. The visible, felt effect is that I’m deeply relaxed and in a more energetically coherent state after using them. I also use them on loved ones when I do Reiki, placing the forks on specific points so the vibration can support release and alignment.
Portable Massage Table: Sound healing and light touch are not a business for me, but I love creating healing, soothing spaces for the people I care about, and having this portable massage table makes it easy to do that. It’s affordable, low‑commitment, and sturdy enough to hold about 200 pounds. I also really love that it’s pink.
DIGITAL
AudioPen: I was an early adopter of this app, and I believe it’s still run by one indie developer named Louis, who has always been so responsive and helpful. I use it frequently to transcribe my dreams, gnosis channelings, and newsletter drafts, especially when I’m thinking out loud and don’t want to type. You can create folders to organize your transcriptions and choose different writing styles to clean up your ramblings—Academic, Technical, Descriptive, Casual, or whatever tone you want. I even created a custom writing style based on my own writing samples, so it sounds like me, just clearer. There are other features, too many to list here, but it’s seriously my most used phone app, right up there with iPhone Notes.
ACER Integration Online Community: ACER Integration is an online community and yearlong program that moves through twelve tree archetypes using guided imagery, music meditations, online sharing circles, and other practices rooted in nature connection. Over the course of a year you get to know the trees and their medicine while deepening your relationship with yourself, the natural world, and other humans from all over the world. It’s not a substitute for therapy, but there is an application and selection process, along with clear protocols that keep the container safe, which makes it a very safe place to integrate transcendent and altered experiences alongside the very real stuff of life. I participated as a community member during the first year of its launch and have been a Sharing Circle and Dream Circle facilitator with ACER now for almost three years. It’s a very sacred space for me, and my favorite place that exists only online.
INVISIBLE
Ubuntu Philosophy: “I am because we are”
Ubuntu is an African philosophy of relational personhood and shared humanity, often expressed as “I am because we are” or “a person is a person through other persons.” Ubuntu reminds me that my becoming is not a solo project—it happens in the space between myself and others. When I feel challenged in relation to someone, I remind myself of this, telling myself some variation like, “I become a person through other people.” This helps me remember that growth in this lifetime often means participating in uncomfortable relational dynamics, even when I’d rather detach or dissociate.
I don’t think I’ve ever been a fully embodied person, having spent most of my time in etheric realms and dreams. But now, in my forty-second year of life, I realize that spiritual growth doesn’t happen only in the higher realms or with the angels—it happens here, in the 3D, in the mundane, in the uncomfortable, in the relational.
I’ve learned to love sitting with people in shame, guilt, and fear, in the mud and in the hard stuff, because life is hard and it takes effort just to remain a hopeful, happy, loving person. If I can stay in that state while deepening my capacity to sit with sorrow, misunderstandings, and these human injury games we play, then I’m also deepening my capacity to love.
That was really sweet - thank you for the more intimate share. I resonated with your healing journey and got some ideas about how to move forward in mine. Thank you, you ve got yourself a new subscriber:)