This
is a practical guide to healing the earth based on the Aboriginal leylines or songlines. It's about a journey around Australia following a walkabout predicted by an Aboriginal elder. The spiritual experiences which came from the land and the insights and healings that followed.
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Healing Energies, Planetary
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CONTENTS
Earth Healing Walkabout
Glastonbell
I had been told this was a magic place, a place of birth and all sorts of things, before I actually went there and found out for myself. It was the first place I’d tuned into the land and painted it. It was Easter 1995.
All bookings had been cancelled for the weekend I was told when I arrived. I hadn’t heard this and had turned up unexpectedly. I was there to paint and I was keen to stay, so they relented. It was the first psychic painting of the land that I’d done and it was out of mouth before I could stop it.
When I arrived at the Dreaming site, I sat there overlooking the Megalong Valley. As my breathing slowed down I saw that there were two archetypal beings there, an Aboriginal man and an Aboriginal woman. Between them flowed a stream which fell into the valley over a waterfall. I made some rough sketches and was aabout to leave when it began to rain. There was a cave I felt, but could not see it. I found the cave with a hole in the roof into the rock. I stuck my head and shoulders through and could hear all kinds of sounds, including a girl singing. I felt the harmonic of the space was important in some way and I was tuning in to other dimensions. It seemed unlikely someone was out in the bush in the rain singing. After a while the rain eased and I made my way back to the house. There I picked up a book on Glastonbell which describes the story of the Waratah.
`The waratah loves fire. Within its heart is another heart, it is not the fire of earth it loves, but the fire of heaven. Born of fire in the circle of Lightning Man, oh waratah Sky Woman may you see the flowering of love on earth.’ I was not the only one to read the story of the land, in this place – others have read it too I discovered.
At Sunset Rocks I stuck my head into a hole in the rock and the harmonic of this space was somehow important in accessing the two beings that I sketched there, beside the little stream where it fell into the valley.
I was shown impressions of places I needed to see: a deep well with a rope. Later I found it. I went down into a valley where I wandered along a stream, crossing it and ending up high above the water. This was obviously wrong, so I back tracked and decided to follow the stream. It got narrower and deeper, so first, I rolled up my pants, then I took them off and put them in my pack.It was lined with ferns and mosses. When it got narrower and the cliffs closed in on either side, I threw my pack onto a `safe’ ledge below, and then had to jump in and rescue it as it rolled into the water.
I could not go back, it was steep and difficult, I had to go on. I threw my pack onto another ledge and slipped…Down I went, down onto a slippery slide and into a perfectly round pool. Water was brimming over it. There were no footholds and I couldn’t feel the bottom. As I plunged in the water it took my breath away. I came up gasping for air and freezing. I had to lever myself out of pool by the arms, not easy with no footholds. I was immediately in mind of a birth canal and this was my rebirth.
I was cold and tired and wondered what else was in store, I gave myself time to warm up and dress, then had to tackle the climb out of this `well’, which I’d seen in my mind’s eye earlier. I climbed up through a sphagnum moss forest to a rope ladder and a rickety wooden one and up another hundred or so metres. I had been in the bush for 5-6 hours by this time and I was just about exhausted. I needed help. I sat down and asked for help to get back to the house. The prospect of a night in the bush did not have any appeal. I breathed deeply and a young monk came to me. He had plenty of energy and he shared it with me, giving me strength to continue.
I had been worried before I went on this `marathon’ how I, a grandmother recently, was going to do this trip around Australia I was being asked to go on. I was given the answer that weekend : I had only to ask, everything is provided. It was Easter Sunday 1995.
That afternoon flushed with the energy of the young monk, I was painting in the house when my companion saw me transform into a wise old Chinese Man and a young monk. It was confirmation of the message, I could bring in the energy of either by consciously asking them in.
Later I found others had similar experiences. Philip Simpfendorfer’s book descrbes one.
`Foot is reborn through the birth canal of Earth
The stream of life flowed as a series of pools and trickled through moist rock walls. On his own legs Foot was carried through. As he moved he began to realize that he was moving through a great birth canal. He slid into a deep pool gouged out of the rock floor of the stream. Coming up from the depths he returned to air and gulped a breath.
It was his first breath as Nataraj Foot.
He went on a few paces and lay in a patch of sunlight and slept. While he slept he dreamed once more, and on recalling the dream, it seemed confused. In the dream he had ridden a bicycle from his home. He was going to a city on the border. The he seemed to re-dream that segment. He was driving a truck loaded with bricks. As he came to a hill overlooking the city, he stopped. Then he was standing with his bicycle watching the truck going along the road towards the city. “This is a warning,” he mused. “I must stay with the truck loaded with bricks. I am no longer He with a bike, but Nataraj’s Foot driving the truck with bricks to build a new paradise among these god-carved stones.’
Philip Simpfendorfer `The Dreamspace: Glastonbell, the garden of Dargan in the Blue Mountains, Australia.
The lesson of Glastonbell was, in realizing I had gone to the limit of my physical resources, I began to channel energy. As I asked for help, I was able to climb the rope ladder and make my way slowly back, getting closer to home base. I had only to ask – unlimited help is available – that was the lesson Glastonbell taught me on Easter Sunday. My rebirth was a cyclic process of growth and renewal. The energies of the feminine are available when you offer the Grail cup for replenishment.
Firewalk
`Awakening the Dream' it was called, a workshop to introduce firewalking. It was mentioned to me in Sydney as I was on my way home from a funeral. I felt I should go. I was going past anyway on my south, so why not stop in and see. I had no intention of participating, I was the unbiased observer reporting the facts.
I found Tapitallee near Nowra and slept in a train the `Moonbird Lodge'. It was 1994. I did my first Sharmanic Journey that weekend. It was all very new to me. We were smudged with sage and cedar, and I saw Michael transform into White Eagle his guide. I saw the crystal island and went inside the cave of a dolphin., There I felt the sonic resonance of the underwater parts of the island – all in a drumbeat. I went into one of the crystals and there I met While Buffalo Calf Woman who was standing on a mountain. I saw her lodge a log cabin, and followed her in, under the Buffalo Head above the door. I entered and sat in a circle in the place reserved for me. She welcomed me and showed me the contents of her medicine bag, including crystals and herbs. I was given a mandala of goose feathers surrounded by down feathers in a spiral which as I watched it took me from the crystal to her lodge. I told her I had been asked to return with a gift.
She showed me a bamboo pipe. It was stretched across a little stream suspended on two poles. I thought it was a pipe, but it was also a bridge between realities. I learned that White Buffalo Calf woman was an ancestral being who brought gifts of fire and smoke to the American Indians. She also brought the pipe to them. This sacred object symbolises the Great Circle of Life and is made of Catlinite an opaque terracotta stone known as `pipestone’. The sacred pipe has the medicine of oneness and holiness and the medicine gift she gives, can be singing or counseling or story telling or something else.
I had chosen Raven in the Medicine Wheel cards. Raven, being magic, meant that I could do this. I saw monk’s feet walking across coals. Perhaps I’d done it before! Raven I learned is always present in a healing circle and also earth healing ceremonies.
Firewalk
All evening we built a fire
Collecting wood from bush as tinder
A bed of logs laid lengthwise in rows
Then crosswise a bridge, then another
Until the fire stood a metre high
Paper we rolled and placed in cracks
Firebrands made from paper to start
Walking clockwise around the circle
Fire dancing high, leaping high
Blown around by wind
Demons blown and chased by those
Running out by the heat
Flames leaping 6 metres high
Reminder of a funeral pyre.
We wrote our fears and gifts
And as the flames died
Threw them into the fire as it died
Drums beat as we raked
`nd tilled the fire, until a bed of red
Coals lay before our eyes.
Walking through fire
Oh Great Spirit may I walk
Through the red hot coals
Yes the reply
Sent energy coursing through my veins
That step across the abyss
A rite of passage into the Dreamtime.
Wow what an experience! Really until the last moment I didn’t think I’d do it, Then I felt I just had to walk – a compulsion to walk forward into the fire.
At the end of each walk we placed our hands on pressure points behind the knees to prevent any `zingers’ or blisters, while channelling white light. At the end of each walk, we walked several times, we gave a yell from the solar plexus to anchor the energy. Some people stood for 5 minutes or more in the center of the fire. It was just amazing.
All my beliefs about what was possible, just vanished in the fire in that one moment. I was no longer limited by my beliefs. I felt the ceremony honoured the Great Spirit (God) and could see it as a recognition of spirituality in the world.
Later I had an energy balance, an amazing vision of `Yellow ray to Quod’ and was given a message that after many lifetimes of faithful service, my job was done and I was coming home. The gifts I was given were the Grail – the cup, the Sword and the book, symbols of love, power and knowledge. I was told I was one of the few in this country to attain this initiation. I was connected to the Logos from my heart.
The journey was there through the trees. I saw waterfalls, rocks, earth trees, and man in the midst of nature as controller of the forces of nature. The colours given to me were not to have come ‘til much later but for the destruction about to begin. I felt these were Lord Maitreya’s energies.
He said something about All Mother/ All Father and that I was connected to All Mother. Then he said someone else wished to speak and Sananda came in and congratulated me. He was channelling through my shoulders and head. I could ask for anything now when I needed it. And in return I was asked to connect to the logos every day, to have joy in my life and love, and I was to be in the NOW moment.
When I came back to normal reality I said: I’m glad to be here. For a long time now, I haven’t wanted to be here, but now I’m glad to be. I felt very emotional. My companions said, I’d really changed. `Look in the mirror at your eyes’ I remembered how Dad used to call me ‘Bright Eyes’.
After this I went into a retreat for some days travelling down to Depot Beach on my own. I was shown plants for my medicine bag along a trail to Durras Lake. I could feel the parts of my body where they were to heal. I think this was a personal validation of the powers of plants to heal the body, mind spirit. When I came home I blew the electric light bulb as I walked into the house.
So I wanted to know what other people’s experience was of firewalking, and I turned two one of the few scientific attempts to study it by Larissa Vilenskaya and Joan Steffy. (Fire Walking a New Look at an Old Enigma).
The majority of people who have firewalked (80% of the study group) felt that they were significantly changed by the experience. One described it as a breakthrough to total knowing. Many felt it a demonstration of the power of the mind.and that we do indeed create our own reality.
Firewalking is related to peak performance and 85% used linguistic descriptive terms relating to peak performance, such as altered state, insulated state, alteration of time, joy and ecstasy, surrender to the action, no conscious thought, consumed by the event.
Most feel differently about themselves as a result of firewalking accomplishing the seemingly `impossible ‘. Over half reported a change in their ideals about God and the nature of reality, feeling God’s presence in their lives, as well as the realization that God is within each being rather than ‘up there’.
The areas of major change were in self confidence, personal power, and self esteem with less fear about other events. Sixty per cent claimed they took more risks and were able to deal more positively with their fears.
Earth my body, water my blood, air my breath and fire my spirit!
This chant in Cmaj was taught to me earlier. It came to mind when thinking about the myths associated with fire. Fire is the symbol of creation energy, inspiration passion, purification, divinity and the visionary state. Fire is also symbolic of the Diving Mother. Fire to the Hindu is Agni and ceremonies to honour fire as Agnihotra. The God of Fire, the Divine Will and Love.
In the old Hawaiian beliefs fire is associated with Pele, the Goddess of Fire who lives in a volcano. She will appear in human form just before each major volcanic eruption. Legend has it that Pele came to Hawaii by boat. After a fight with her sister, the ocean, Pele took refuge in the fiery cauldron of Mount Kilauea where she rejuvenates the souls of the dead with fire. She is revered by Hawaiians even today, Pele carries the volcanic force with its molten lava flow which creates new land. Pele is the molten fierce aspect of life, that is unable to do anything by halves. She reminds us that in the midst of fiery eruption there is creation and new life.
According to the Polynesian myths of the Creation of the Cosmos. In the beginning was the Void, chaos, space, Night or Darkness. It was called Po, the passive element. Light Ao, was the active element. It is through the union of Po and Ao that the world was created.
Fire gives the faculty of sight as in clairvoyance. Some people experience the awakening of the kundalini as a result of their firewalking experience, or have an experience of heat. Or of blowing electrical appliances and electric light bulbs or sometimes, even of light in the body or bioluminescence.
`I noticed something completely new. My blood was getting luminous and I saw its circulation throughout the body. I soon then became aware that it was not the blood; a light, a bluish-white light was running along another system. The light came out of the body and re-entered it again at different points. Observing closely I could see that there were countless points of light, like a luminous web encircling the body inside and out. No bones existed; the body was built on the web of light.’ Tweedie (1979) The Chasm of Fire p. 68
The Fijians are the most famous firewalkers. They place large round stones in the fire and walk on them. I had a Fijian friend from the island of Beqa famous for its firewalkers, who said dietary and sexual restrictions are practised before firewalking.
Firewalking was part of other Polynesian rituals including the Hawaiians who walked on hot lava and also in the Cook Islands. In Bali I photographed a fire walking ceremony where they used straw for the fire. It's also practiced in Japan at Mt Takao as a Buddhist practice and on Sri Lanka as a Hindu ceremony and in Greece and Bulgaria. So it is widespread among traditional cultures.
Traditional cultures prepare themselves before firewalking and may observe strict vegetarian dies, abstinence from all stimulants and celibacy. Western preparation includes abstinence from medication, and altered state, induced by rhythmic means. One study found using EEG that theta brain wave states occurred during the preparation stage, but normal brain wave patterns were evident during the fire dance proper. Temperatures of the coals ranged from 180 degrees C to 450 degrees C. What is important is the power of belief itself. If you believe you can do it, you can.
Personally I highly recommend it. It created a paradogm shift for me. I moved beyond the limitations of my scientifically trained mind and into a realm of unlimited potential. I could accept alternative approaches to healing as another way of looking at things such as acupuncture and kinesiology. I was certainly able to accept the events that happened later with an open mind. I may not have understood them at the time, but I knew that sooner or later I would.
The dual experiences of the firewalk and the Glastonbell experience had prepared me for the trip around Australia on my own.
`It is wise to try to find a balance, because you do react to the stimulation of your nervous system and the aura and it will affect your body. Just remember when you are at your lowest peak it will only move up because it goes like that in your development and its because of the energy that touches you, it affects your emotions. Some days you think you are going crazy. Mediums those in contact with the other dimensions, should only work with trance if they are really balance. The pressures of life mean people are not able to cope so well with the emotional changes from the other dimensions. It is important to detach from that emotion, if you allow the emotion to come from the other side, you are no good to the person you are helping, so its important not to get too emotional. With spiritual development psychic unfoldment you work with the heart chakra, it's a doorway, as the heart chakra opens up it glows and you start to change the way you handle your own lives, you start to change the way in which you handle other people around you. You are guided to gather more information as well but you must have the heart and the mind balanced to do spiritual work well. If you work on the head and don't connect with the heart chakra, your energy is head intellect energy which is spiritually dead. What you are learning and giving out is knowledge and you're not growing.
`We are all souls journeying in this light. We are together in the love. Feel the need to experience love outside the human form to increase our awareness, to feel us to nurture us, feel the connection in our own life, we are not alone here. We form groups, honour the love emanating from the guides. To reach out beyond this planet, to know more about our own journey, to reach out and touch a part of our soul to make us become conscious of our force, our own being our own neglect of others, in this earthly world. It awakens and nurtures us and connects us to the divinity of our spirituality. In the folds of our garments which shroud us, gather the light in the folds. We call it the auric field, with the etheric attraction it brings in great strength and connection and the auric field brings in all these things that you need to develop your spirituality. Look at your connections, are they earthly or spiritual or material. Are you aware of your planetary needs?
`Do you need to reach out and touch Mother Earth? Do you need to renew your concrete connection with the power source to inject the memories of the energy cycles of the universe and the planetary systems. We search for many things we search for souls, light, the consciousness of all planets, where these souls will take themselves on their journey. To bring back the balance we inject a great deal of knowledge of the various energy connections that are available to us in this universe. We do not have the power to connect and interfere with the light in your world. We can impart a lot more knowledge than we have in the past. It is often in fear that it is disconnected. It becomes a power source to allow their ego to be used for adultation. The knowledge is given to be used in the proper manner according to the laws of your world and the laws of the universe'.
