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Dear Friends
The Daisy Centre is now up and running in Glastonbury and I am doing Vortex healing there on alternate Fridays, with the other Fridays here. I am also intending to run several groups here in the autumn, and perhaps do some sweat lodges in the garden. There are also Evenings of Sacred Sound regularly at the Daisy Centre and the Madonna Ministry is running a meditation group there on the 2nd and 4th Fridays of the month. It is a beautiful venue with good disabled access and a great place to recommend to people who want spiritual B&B in the heart of Glastonbury.
There are several other Evenings of Sacred Sound planned and I will shortly be publicising a workshop in N. Wales and a Magdalene Flame workshop in Glastonbury.
W are hoping to have a trip to Egypt in April 2008. Do contact me soon if you are interested in being a part of this trip. It is a very special experience, guaranteed to quicken your spiritual growth and understanding of yourself as a multi dimensional being.
I hope that the magical sounds of the Bowls and the Gong are still serving you.
All love and gentleness to you
Ammaprema
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A Journey with DAISY FOSS & AMMAPREMA GRACE to DAMANHUR Northern Italy Date to be decided probably September 08
Journeying with AMMAPREMA and her sacred sounds is a spiritual adventure in itself. At Damanhur we have permission to sleep in the Temple on the night of the Equinox in September, when extra terrestrial contact is most likely. Discover this amazing community and the awakening that it offers, to new ideas and find yourself as a fully empowered soul who is clear about your life path and flowing with it. Ceremonies, meditation and healing plus lots of relaxation and adventure is the order of the day.
So book now and holiday with some exceptional people. Places limited, booking closes by 31st January.
Moonbeam Cottage, 70 Lower Bristol Rd, Clutton, Bristol BS39 5QT UK THE PROPOSED PROGRAMME (Programme subject to minor) alterations |
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£100 depending on available offers), plus food. Accommodation is in a self catering house with shared bedrooms. We anticipate that we will lunch at the Damanhurian's café (Breakfast is included in the cost, lunch is approx £7 a day and we will eat as a group in the evenings approx £8). CONSCIOUS DREAMING INCLUDES A NIGHT IN THE TEMPLE OF HUMANKIND TO ENTER INTO CONTACT WITH THE INTELLIGENCES OF THE GALAXY After guided preparatory exercises and a course to open and re-awaken the sensibilities, using our specially developed techniques, you can enter the The Temples of Humankind and live a unique and unrepeatable experience. There you will find the optimum conditions to receive messages that can arrive inside of you or from very far away. A whole night devoted to DEVELOPING CONSCIOUS DREAMING SKILLS with the support and guidance of specialist instructors. Damanhur is situated on the meeting point of Synchronic Lines, the energy rivers that surround our planet and connect it to the Galaxy. The Temples of Humankind, carved by hand out of the heart of the mountain, are a sophisticated instrument for contacting Superior Forces and galactic intelligences, that share with us, the huge project of the re-awakening of humanity, on this and other planets. The Temples are also a huge stellar amplifier, endowed with all the appropriate tools for tuning in with other forms of life: for many years Damanhur has been in contact through the Temples with non-terrestrial intelligences that have followed its social, spiritual and technological development. Synchronistically, at the time of the Solstices and Equinoxes these contacts are opened and Damanhur opens the door of the Temples to all those people who wish to live a unique experience of this kind. |
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From time to time I am moved to do Ordinations into the Madonna Ministry, usually when there is someone who needs this empowerment to work more deeply with Mary.
Someone has called us "a body of folk in association without mandatory dogma where service to humanity and hence to God is the requirement. " The mother of Jesus, Mary is the greatest female example and Jesus the Christ, the greatest male role model of how Spirit can work through us in beneficial ways. Jesus, the Greatest Way Shower to the Father and Teacher of Love and Mary the devoted Mother of our Christ like self, both teaches us to live in the Spirit of eternal Love, in service according to our talents, in alignment with the will of God.
endeavors and received the raw material for his first book, Blessed Among Women, from a "stranger" on the beach. Arnold became a devoted teacher of Science of the Mind, where he received his doctorates. His mystical experiences, his grasp of how Spirit works, and his relationship with the Holy Mother brought him deeper into the Priesthood where he was consecrated in the Church. It was in the later stage of his life that he wrote the Madonna Ministry news letters. Arnold and his spouse Kay did much research on the letters. I asked Arnold how he obtained the information from the Holy Mother. He showed me how he used a pendulum. He would ask Her questions and would get yes or no answers by the direction the pendulum would move, clockwise or counter clockwise. No movement would mean, no answer. I asked him to demonstrate this technique, which he did on a subject important to me. Of course the pendulum is influenced by our bias, the clearer the consciousness of the participants, the more pristine the answer. No movement to the pendulum, meant no answer. I got the answer I wanted regarding my ministry.
process of resigning from my duties of pastoring a Church of Religious Science and as Director of the New Thought Center. Bishop Michael named the church " The Church of the Talking Pines" because Arnold had a mystical experience with the spirits of pine trees while in the woods of Northern Calif., near where he was pasturing a church.
God's Love in all that they do. We understand that by expressing our talents as a conveyor of God's love, is to be ministering. Our folk in association is with those colleagues that are doing the same.
My travels took me to Great Britain, Mexico and other countries to work in spiritual healing centers. It has been our privilege to acknowledge a wide divergence of healing facilitators into our ministry. The ministers we recognize, we feel are doing God's work. Most have degrees or advance degrees in their line of work. Some have been trained by our senior ministers. Some have been mentored. Priests, physicians, psychotherapist, contact healers, shamans, chiropractor, dowsers, ministers, social workers, substance abuse counselor, spirit release Facilitators, herbalist, attorneys, accountants, artists and other occupations are found in our ministry. Some ministers are aware of being assisted by Angels, saints and sages. The one thing we have in common is we understand all healing is a gift from God and the more humble the server, the more powerful the channel. We also have added in the past eight years an additional 141 ministers, ministers, whose practices are specialized. Some ministers have taken a more active interest in the full range of Sacraments, and attended training in San Clemente, Calif. We now have ten Priests in our folk in association who focus more on the entire range of sacraments. Madonna Ministry maintains a close affiliation with the Free Church of Antioch, which grew out of the Church of Antioch. Archbishop Warren Watters was the Director of Esoteric studies for two decades in the Church of Antioch. Archbishop Watters drew unto him like-minded beings that he ordained and consecrated and guided into the establishment of the Free Church of Antioch, our sister Church. Archbishop Ellen Watters is the current spiritual Director. In the Madonna Ministry our purpose is clear --- We are to teach, counsel, inspire and heal by example and through service, and in the process, strive to convey consciously and purposefully the creativity of our Christ-like-self. Geographically most ministers are in the Southwestern U.S.A., with a growing number in Northern California, and a few scattered thought out the U.S.A. We have several in Great Britain, Mexico, Canada, Australia, Germany, Spain, Cypress, Russia and South Africa. In our twenty-seven years of service as a Church approximately 35% of the ministers we have ordained have matriculated to another dimension of life, retired or failed to keep us informed of their work. Of the remainder, some consider the ministry to be their avocation and support themselves in other ways, some minister avocation and vocation are the same. The scope of the duties is determined by the preparation, interest, and inner revelations. To remain in good standing with the Church, we have a few rules like: to love God and your neighbor as yourself, to fulfill your life's purpose with Divine intent by doing simple act of kindness. We understand right where we move and have our being is the temple of the God, therefore our motto is: "Wherever we pray is the house of God."
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EXCERPTS FROM PREVIOUS SASHIVA NEWSLETTERS
2006
June;
The Madonna Ministry conference was absolutely awesome. The energies are so beautiful that you just have to be there to feel it. We sounded in the chapter house in Wells Cathedral with 60 people which is an incredibly beautiful experience. We had incredible energies at the Chalice Well for the ordinations on Sunday followed by one of the most beautiful handfastings I have ever had the priviledge to attend.
If you need a ceremonyfor anything, we now have lots of ministers who can oblige including myself!
March:
Goa is absolutely amazing !!
The contrasts of India are inspiring and challenging to all with an open heart, for that is the nature of the Goan people. Open hearted smiling , positive; whilst all around them is typical third world poverty , pollution and corruption. But through it all the Goans smile as their sundrenched beaches bring in a variety of unusual tourists and they compete to gain your attention to whatever it is they have to sell.Free education to age 12 and free health care, electricity and water to the rural commuities and some sewerage system and no waste collection move it out of grim reaper land to just a rather crazy mix of Indian contradiction, colour, contrast, richness and diversity.
Fabulous beaches looking across endless seas polluted by the twenty seven tankers waiting to be scrapped..... a ship's graveyard.
Fat white English tourists, wining and dining as cows wander past eating newspaper next door to vacant lots of half built concrete dwellings.
Rattle and razzamatazz of the constant hooting of scooters motorcycles ,taxis and buses competing for space to overtake on ribbon thin roads packed with walkers and hawkers. At night the strip coming alive with coloured lights and the rich hues of brightly coloured bags and hangings,lampshades and sarongs, pashminas and jewellery. Odd atmospheres of 60's music wafting with the garlic, tempting one with menus of King Prawn and Pomfret, Lobster and chips.- The paddy fields double as prawn farms.
I read this great book...... the Alchemy of Desire by Tarun Tejpal,
It is a real masterpiece. Madly erotic and fantastic as background reading to an Indian holiday; taking one deep into the Indian psyche and the sexual thoughts of men, and also placing the recent historical context of Indian colonial relationships with the UK in the frame. Really clearly written in the most beautiful erotic prose. A veritable feast of a book.
The Portuguese influence on Goa has left a mark of Christianity and the Madonna is present in exotic array side by side with Shiva and Parvati in exotic embrace and Ganesha overseeing it all.
We met a beautiful African elephant called Saraswati who opened psychic doorways into the land and the coconut groves.
We did a tourist trip inland stay the night in tents in the jungle. It introduced us to the hard labour of the cashew nut factories where women toilo daily moving their right foot to crack individual cashew nuts from husks or to sit for long days grading the nuts by size by hand. I guess it becomes a sort of meditation practice and there were smiling faces there as we broke the monotony with our visit;but I will not eat a cashew again without realising the amount of labour that has gone into producing it.
Then it was back on the bus and a short walk to a village inhabited by the hariyan caste of untouchables. The government has donated land and made laws against discrimination but these geneticall oppressed submissive hardworn people just weave their baskets simply grateful for a few rupees from the tourist visitors for simple fans and plates of woven coconut leaves.It was then on to our camp for lunch, simply dal and rice in the middle of a bird sanctuary where smal heron's observed us , the well fed tasting simplicity.
In the afternoon we headed for the elephant pool and met this great ancient soul in her freshwater pool for her to literally shower us with the blessig of cool water with her trunk. Mounting her from the rear was a feet of agility and her sensitive organ sucked up the water flinging it over us one at a time. It was such fun and afterwards i bathed beside her and she projected images to me of her partner bull elephant and initiated me to connect with the jungle with her assistance. What wisdom, what ancestral energy..... like talking with the dinosaurs..... Later she let me ride her bareback moving her ears back so gently to hold me on her back when I tensed out of relaxing into the rhythm of her great steps, what gentle concern... Her trunk is so sensitive and the joy of her crunching whole watermelons in her teeth was something else........
They also dressed us in saris and took us to a Shiva temple and then to an indian village for tea, and later gave us indian folk singing around a fire.
The next day we visited an ancient waterfall and bathed in the cool freshwater pool at its base with its waters showering us. We finished at cool spice plantation wandering amongst shady trees and communing with them and enjoying the cool....... quite an experience.....
Then there have been days of soaking up sun and sea in faraway places under shady coconuts with fresh orange juice and watermelon. I feel seared through by the sun and recharged anew.
Today in the UK there is a fresh covering of snow on the fields, and I am back in the miasms and illusions of the UK mind veils with its celtic weave and ancient losses......looking for myself while Pluto builds up to go retrograde in my seventh house opposite my sun..... Roll on September......
We have started a Madonna Ministry meditation group in Glastonbury which meets on Fridays every fortnight on 2nd and 4th Fridays, please ring me if you want to come.We are organising an International conference of Madonna Ministers and friends where it will be possible to take ordination on May 12-15th in Glastonbury. DO COME ALONG AND EXPERIENCE THIS WONDERFUL ENERGY !
I have also been involved in supporting my friend Daisy open the new daisy centre retreat house i glastonbury and will be providing Vortex healing there on a fortnightly basis on Fridays.
The news for next year is that I am planning a trip with Daisy & Samarrah to Egypt for the Spring Equinox 2007and hopefully also to Damanhur around the autumn equinox 2007
2005
In January Rick, Magi and I went to the USA to Ojai in California for the Madonna Ministry Star council. This was an amazing trip that really lifted the spirits. 16 new Bishops were ordained including my beloved Rick. It was incredible energy! And what amazing new Bishops we have, each of them are doing some incredible work.
We were all staying at Meditation Mount in Ojai, which is the place where Krishnamurti founded one of his schools and one can really feel his presence, as you sit at the top of the mountain to meditate. The Mount has just opened to outsiders and we were one of their first groups to stay, so we felt really privileged to be in this unbelievable spot, it is a place you must visit if you are in California.I also had to go back to New Orleans for Mothers day, It is an amazing place, with beautiful mature oak trees lining all the roads and lots of musicians on the streets of the French Quarter. Fortunately I was able to stay with a friend working with the Magdalen. She introduced me to the beauties of women belly dancing and this led me to some interesting meditations on the unveiling of the Magdalene and how important the issue of the veil is for Christian /Moslem relations in our society. The history of New Orleans is very bound up with slavery and I found myself reliving past lives and clearing a lot of energy. This turned out to be such a blessing when the hurricane swept away all these buildings and flooded the city. I am so grateful that I had the opportunity to know the city as it was.
Rick and I have been working a lot with Damien Nola who is a young Indigo teacher commanding huge amounts of energy. http://www.gaia-orionis.co.uk
As El'on Damien is bringing in energies to awaken emissaries of the one heart and to help the transition into the post 2012 era. Rick went to Egypt with him last Autumn and for anyone who wants a brilliant Egyptian empowerment, he and my dear friend Daisy Foss are leading trips at the Autumn equinox of great power and light.
At the January star council I was fortunate to meet Bishop Samarah who channels Mary in open eyed satsang; this was one of the conference highlights and she will be in Arizona at the MM star council meeting.
She got guidance that it would be helpful for she and myself to go to Egypt next year and we may be arranging a trip with Daisy for the Autumn equinox, (Sept 22nd in the Great Pyramid anyone?) Her newsletter Lightstreams you can get from her website www.channelmary.com . I hope that some of you will sign up to get it direct from her as her Messages from Mary are impeccable and very helpful. The message she delivered at the Star council was around valuing differences in what we all do. Mary compared our lives to how each one of us might do up boats differently according to our different priorities, and how beautiful that is to see.My own sound work is mainly local this year .
2004
Well what an amazing summer its been! The weather may not be up to much but the events we've had, have been spectacular, must be to do with that Venus transit in June. I've been on the run since then. It actually started in May with our Madonna Ministry trip to Los Angeles which took us to four venues in California, where we made many new friends and connected with the energies of the USA and the heart of the Ministry. ( See the Madonna Ministry Newsletter on Prosperity for details of this trip)
This was closely followed by visits from friends from Damanhur who did an amazing astral travel workshop, and then by the Madonna Ministers conference, in Glastonbury, from 16-18th July at the Pilgrim Centre .
Five people from the USA joined us as well as about 35 people from around the UK and 1 from Poland. We did 10 ordinations of new ministers and two priestess ordinations. The energy was as always with these MM events quite extraordinary as Mary seems to really want us to be working away actively and expanding the Ministry.The energies at this conference built and built and were so intense I could not believe that things could get better, but they just did. We had planned three days of fringe events which actually was a bit ambitious as we were a bit exhausted after five days of earth ceremonies! On the Monday we had a fantastic day playing in a crop circle at Avebury Truesloe. Gonging here was very powerful and the circle was very gentle but very wild and profound.For many of the Americans it was a dream come true to experience these wonderful circles.
We wondered if it could get any better but again it did, and that evening in Stonehenge there was the most extraordinary empowerment! I have been in Stonehenge many times with the gong and various groups but this time was spectacularly special, with everyone channelling sounds, mantras and tones. We were all completely blown away by the experience of taking these energies of Mary into these wonderful stones. It felt like the fulfillment of a soul contract, and most people commmented that they had never experienced such a powerful ceremony.
We went on to travel the next day to Tintagel, where Claire led a wonderful ceremony grounding energies for the Crystal Children into the Merlin Line and we ended up in Penzance. The last day after a hard morning shopping, we just popped into the Merry Maidens and as we started to connect with the enegies there, a coach party of german tourists turned up for Mary blessings! Wonderful how the universe works! We were then really privileged to visit Hamish Miller's land which is very special! After putting the American's on the plane from Newquay, Rick and I enjoyed a few days of real rest in Cornwall! However this was not for long, for the next weekend was a yoga retreat at Gaunts House, and then my friend had a wonderful wedding in Glastonbury where we transformed a football field into a temple and once more the Gong wove its magic and helped me bring in these very special blessings for two great people. Tell me do some people have quiet lives???
I really had decided to take the rest of the summer off, but did manage to make a great festival in Devon called Rivenstone, where I finally got to hear a truly wonderful band called Seize the Day! They come thoroughly recommended, as do Nigel Shaw and Carolyn Hillyer who shared their wonderful space with us for a really beautiful gentle festival (www.seventhwavemusic.com).
Now its back to work co-ordinating the UK Madonna Ministry and with a few sound evenings and workshops coming up.
Winter 2003
On the :Harmonic Concordance Nov 8th 2003. This is a portal moment in time synchronised with an astrological gateway caused by a star of David line up in the chart, as two Grand trines appear in Earth and Water signs. One friend, Damien Nola described it as the ending of galactic night and the dawn of galactic day . An occurrence that only occurs every few thousand years.
So are you ready for the new dawn? What will the new day bring? As I stand in that place of the Dark Goddess I feel like I am at the threshold to the void. My foot is raised and I am about to step forward onto I know not what, What an exciting moment! Anticipation builds as the energies themselves build. may be approaching.
HAPPY LAMMAS 2003
Life continues to weave its rich tapestries, as the English summer unfolds. Long hot days interspersed with traditional rain, roses blooming, trees and plants gasping for the rain showers. It's quite quiet for me on the workshop front, (probably because I've been so busy this year working up to the Wesak. I had decided to take a bit of a break through August although it's so strange to have weekends at home I almost don't know what to do!!
However the Madonna Ministry is keeping me busy at the computer, as we are planning the infrastructure on which to build over the next few years. This includes an afternoon for ministers on November 30th and an international conference next year on July16/17/18th, both in Glastonbury.This has so far been a year of fundamental shifts, due in part to the trainings I have been taking in vortex healing (see www.vortexhealing.com). I was drawn to Vortex because of the power of its healing and its ability to effect change with serious illnesses. Despite having been a fairly powerful healer for many years, I have always been concerned that my healing worked best on the walking well and could do so little to help people with illnesses like M.E. and cancer. Sound Healing too although excellent for awakening people onto their spiritual paths, has not prevented me from developing weight problems. Vortex is helping me to find solutions and helping me to understand why this is.
In the past, with the gong I have been able to reach out into the cosmos to connect with the divine and to bring that connection to other people. However this has been a somewhat out of body experience for many people and grounding the energies has always been a problem. I realise that what I have been doing energetically is stretching my Etheric field and in the process thinning it and creating a very large template, which my physical body has moved in to occupy. Recently Rick Weinman has helped me to ground through the gong and since his work on it, my gong sounds completely different. This feels an enormous relief, as the Divine is now right in the gong, which makes for a very different experience both playing and listening to it. So I now await how the angels are planning to use this.
Meanwhile I have been off to Crete for two weeks studying Omega Vortex and had transmissions to enable me to run amongst other things, an energy called divine fire, which has the capacity to kill viruses. I have also learnt to break time lines or take traumas out of time, which enables a huge release in the body, and is enormously helpful in dealing with stuck issues.
Working on all my own problems on the courses has been intense but also very profound, and I have discovered how many lifetimes I have been carrying karma related to isolation and rejection. Vortex has a remarkable capacity to work with karmic issues that run through many lifetimes and clear the programming and effect change throughout the system. Working with this past life programming seems to be something that I am able to tune into and release. So all I need now is a few clients to practice on! Time is however still something of a problem, as for my part time day job I am currently managing a busy charity providing counselling in 9 counties in the south west of England. It does sometimes feel a bit much even for a Gemini.
There is also a workshop planned in Taunton on 6 December "Sounds of Angels and an evening of Sacred Sound in Westbury on 10th Feb. I am organising some other evenings in Glastonbury, Bristol and Bath
All love and gentleness to you all. Keep Laughing!
Sashiva
AUTUMN 02
"We have just returned from the most amazing week's holiday in Greece where we were fortunate to visit the ancient monasteries of Meteora in the middle of Greece. These ancient temples are built on the most amazing rocks which are like the fingers of God. They used to be only accessed by monks who were pulled up in a basket. We were told that they only changed the ropes when they broke!! Scary. Fortunately nowadays one can drive quite close and climb hundreds of stairs to reach these havens of devotion. The Divine mother told me that they are "Pillars of faith that hold the frequencies of devotion and humility in a very pure form." It was a very amazing experience to sit in the Greek Orthodox church with one's third eye buzzing and then later to just sit in the silence of the rocks and realise the serenity and stillness that prompted the monks to build on these pinnacles. Its a great place to visit."
"After our fantastic trip to Pelion and Meteora in Greece earlier in the year,we were fortunate to go twice to northern Italy. The first time to visit Lama Gangchen's amazing monastery at Albagnano. He has seeded the most incredible peace into the hills around Lake Maggiore and we had a glorious four days playing in these idyllic surroundings. It is well worth a visit even if you are not particularly into Tibetan Buddhism as it is a wonderful place to meditate and visit, and they have a great shop."
ABOUT DAMANHUR
"We have also just returned from Damanhur(half an hour north of Turin in the foothills of the Alps). This trip was in many ways the most exciting of the three trips I have organised to this remarkable community. Each time I go there I am expanded in ways that I cannot conceive of and return feeling deeply replenished and strong. As I get to know and understand Damanhur better, I have a better understanding both of the dynamics of the community and of the importance to all of us of the spiritual work they are doing there, and my part in that, as someone who is not resident there.
Damanhur is a community of 800 very dedicated people, mainly Italian but this is changing and there are a growing number of English and American residents there. It is now well known for its indescribably beautiful and powerful temple, and the work that they do with Selfica. It is hard to accurately describe the Selfs, as they hold such a very fast, almost devic energy, which is quite extra-terrestrial.
Working with Selfica and with spirituality is central to the whole essence of the community and when one first arrives the frequencies are unlike anything that most people have experienced before and can throw up quite a bit of fear of the unknown. However the more that one works with this interdimensional intelligence, the more one realises its joyful and peaceful nature, and the possibilities it offers for positive development and for harmonising groups.
The philosophy of Damanhur is so sophisticated that their work with time and developing a new plane of alternative reality, provides one with a truly unique experience of living in virtual reality which is of course a real reality for those there. Being there for just six days felt like several months. This experience was heightened by the contact with the cosmos programme that we were able to do, which entails sleeping in the temple over the equinox and communicating with other planets through the medium of their technologies, in the temple. I was amazed to have my claiaudient capacities expanded,and to have quite profound connections with planetary systems that I could not have dreamt of.
The other highlights of the trip included the Damanhur Equinox celebration followed by the Ceremony of the Oracle. The Oracle ceremony happens every full moon and was quite spectacular and powerful, taking place in the outdoor open temple which was lit by fires and torches and attended by several hundred people. The musicians and dancers (who danced sacred language dances for about two hours to the sound of drums ) created the possibilities for the frequencies to raise and for the oracle to come through thirteen women dressed in deepest blue and silver. it was amazing theatre but it is also central to Damanhur's philosophy, and it was a bit like being transported back in time to the days of the Delphi Oracle. I leave it to your imaginations to realise how it is to live in a community where oracular skill is so valued and central to life.
I was also able to experience a healing treatment in the temple for the second time.The electromagnetic bath left me again feeling more energised than I have felt for a few years, and I have nothing but praise for their healing technologies. Definitely if I ever succumb to cancer, I will be on a plane to Turin quicker than getting to the local hospital, although with this preventative electromagnetic treatment it seems unlikely that illness will occur.
We were also able to experience amazing communication with the plants trees and animals and I found my telepathic skills increasing beyond belief, being in an environment where the consciousness of the other kingdoms is so recognised. Some would see it as quite pagan or almost Druidic, but the wide and open philosophy of Damanhur embraces all religions and all paths to peace and harmony with the environment and its peoples. It seems to me that here all new age peoples and light workers can find support for their skills and their spiritual calling and begin to find their paths to expressing their own creativity and truth positively.
Coming back to England, one is aware of how much harder we have to work to gain that support and the freedom to practice what we believe, unfettered by the problems of finance and the multitudinius demands of maintaing a livelihood and a comfortable lifestyle in modern day Britain.
It seems that travel is still on my agenda for the next few years (probably prompted by being of the generation with Chiron in Sagitarius,) a trip to swim with the Dolphins and Whales March 2004 and hopefully a trip to Egypt with Daisy Foss. If you are interested in any of these do contact me.
Meanwhile I have also just changed my day job and am busy managing Post Adoption Counselling services in ten counties as well as delivering all the workshops and the next trips. Unsurprisingly the book,the next CD and the sound healing course are still on hold,Somehow I am available for private healing sessions.
I hope that the magical sounds of the Bowls and the Gong are still serving you.
All love and gentleness to you
