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I once had an experience in 1993 which could very well fall into this category. My life at that time was purely focused on studying and practicing shamanism. My friend Sam and I were planning on doing a medicine journey in sacred area near where I used to live.
Prior to leaving, I did a shamanic journey in order to contact a spirit guide for instructions on what we should do. In this journey I met a dwarf that resembled a leprechaun. He was embracing a large cauldron that was filled with dirt. He did not say a word, but I intuited that what he meant was for us to carry a container for us to collect dirt from places that seemed significant to us.
When we arrived at my medicine circle. I literally fell to my knees when I saw a hole to the left of the center rock (altar)of the circle. I was so affected by this because I had seen this hole in a dream a day or so before and it matched the dream perfectly. I realized at that point that it would be appropriate to collect some dirt from around this hole .
After a brief ceremony in the circle we decided to journey onward. Soon I began to have an overwhelming sense of familiarity with the area. It was as if I had spent much of my time there in nighttime dreams. I seemed to know the place better than I could have under ordinary circumstances. I had an indescribable sensation that made me stop dead in my tracks. Then I pulled out my flashlight and pointed it at my feet and to my surprise there was another small hole in the ground. Again it seemed appropriate to collect dirt from around the hole and place it in our containers. I continued to find these holes in the same way with a precision that transcends mere coincidence. ( this “ability” continued for years afterward)
At one point I felt like I was speaking with an authority that was clearly not my own. I don’t recall exactly what I was saying but I clearly remember saying “ there is a dwarf who lives in these woods and I think I know where he lives.”
While we were walking on the side of a hill, the bottom of my walking stick/staff went into a small hole. Immediately I began to feel an immense amount of energy coursing through it and into me. At the time Sam was at the bottom of the hill by a creek. I said “Uh…..Sam…..I think I found our spot!!!
We discovered that the hole was in the center of a small stump. We sat down next to it and I reached for my rattle with the intention of using it to do a shamanic journey through the hole. I was so overcome by the power of this place that I even surprised myself when I said “ I don’t know if I even dare do this!” I am not sure when I started to say this, but I kept repeating the words “we are to be visited” I had a powerful sense that we would be visited, perhaps by an extraterrestrial or something like that.
I took a few deep breaths and shook my rattle about 3 or 4 times and that is when another voice of authority overcame me. It seemed like me speaking, but I had an authority in my consciousness and in my voice that I had never experienced before. I or better yet “It” would speak briefly and pause, and in perfect synchronicity and owl would call out an almost supernatural hoot. Then this process would repeat and then a heron would let out a very loud shriek as if to exclaim an agreement with what this voice/presence was saying.
Sam would start to ask a question and “it” would finish the question and provide the answer and again an owl or heron would speak out in agreement. There sure seemed to be a telepathy between Sam and “it”. I felt as if we were surrounded by animals who were also participating in this unparalleled event. This kind of thing went on for about 2 hours and suddenly I/”it” stopped and said “ you have been visited” I opened my eyes and looked at Sam. He was looking at me in a most unusual way. I asked him: “ did I go somewhere?” With eyes as big as dinner plates Sam said : “ You became something else!” What I asked? Sam went on to inform me that I had transformed into a 3ft tall dwarf who seemed to be able to answer questions that he had not even vocalized yet.
He said that while all this was going on, the hill looked like it was filled with roots of energy and they all intersected at the stump with the hole in it. He said he told the dwarf that he looked like he was a node on one of those veins and the dwarf replied “ I am these veins.”
That was absolutely the most profound experiences of my life. It changed my view of the world in a dramatic way.
Was that hole a legitimate portal? I don’t know for sure, but it certainly was a source of transformational energy unlike anything I have ever experienced. Now there may be ordinary explanations to some of our experience but to that I say:
“There is an ordinary explanation to any non-ordinary event that is invalid, and there is a non-ordinary explanation for every ordinary event that is invalid.”
Explanations are merely the rational mind’s attempt to fit infinity into a warm and fuzzy finite box. Life is a mystery, and yet our rational mind takes that mystery and makes it ordinary just so it can be safe and comfortable in it’s world of illusion.
I recently had a dream where I became aware I was in a dream looking at a spirit being. I asked it: “ Are you real?” It responded “ Is your mind real? Is your imagination real? Are you real?” Then I said “ I just want to know what is real” It responded “ Therein lies your problem.” I did not know what to make of this answer until I thought about it for a while. What is REAL? When we agree that something is real it can be considered real. If reality as we know it is capable of being altered as in the dwarf experience then what? This reminds me of a quote from one of my mentors: “Perhaps calling it reality is our first mistake”
My second question was: Is it possible that all things are being orchestrated by a higher power/intelligence?
My answer to this is : How can it NOT be? The power of this orchestration is being demonstrated everywhere and at all times. This “orchestration” powers the sun, the stars, the wind, the plants, the animals etc. It is working inside of us at all times. It makes our heart beat, our blood flow, our hair to grow (or in my case fall to out!) : ^ )
To what degree does this orchestration control events in our lives? Are we in control of it, or is it in control of us? I would like to think that I am in control of my life, but I know full well that this could be an illusion. I know that my actions could be the result of me acquiescing to forces beyond my comprehension.
Would this “orchestration” have me do stupid things? I think I do stupid things on my own, and I think this happens when I fall out of intelligent cooperation. I know without question that when I am in intelligent cooperation; i.e. aligned with source, incredible things happen that I cannot personally take credit for. When someone asks me how did you do that? I say “I don’t do it, “it” does me!
I remember one night while gazing at clouds with my girlfriend. I suddenly pointed to one part of the sky and said “ Watch that part of the sky right there. Something very important is going to happen” Within a minute or so the clouds dissipated in a circular formation right where the moon was! Twenty minutes or so later I said “ It’s going to happen again” and the very same phenomena repeated exactly as before. Had I been asked at that time how I knew or how I did that, I would have said: “ I have no idea.”
This reminds of me a story from one of don Miguel Ruiz’s apprentices. I think they were in Peru and Miguel was standing on a mountain peak when suddenly he said “ look over there, fog is going to develop right there.” Sure enough, within a minute or so fog developed right where he was pointing! Later on he pointed to another spot and said “lightning is going to strike right there” and sure enough it did!
When his apprentices asked: “Miguel, how did you do that?” He replied: “ I don’t know, it is beyond knowledge.”
It really does not matter how these things happen, what matters is the fact that they do, and they seem to happen to people who devote a lot of their life to spiritual disciplines. I believe that any good spiritual discipline will teach you to be in intelligent cooperation with the powers that be and these powers have a way of making themselves known in unmistakable ways.
To be continued….
Stay “tuned”
Some peoples explanation would be that I am just plain crazy. To them I say : I have never claimed to be sane! If being crazy brings magic and wonder to my life, then I choose crazy! I’ve tried being sane and it quite frankly it bores me! Waylon Jennings sang it quite well: “ I’ve always been crazy but it kept me from going insane!”
One of my teachers once said to me: “Do you know the difference between a madman and a mystic? The mystic knows who NOT to tell!”My life was normal and I was technically “sane” until my experience in 1977. That experience either changed me and/or, it activated my magical side. When synchronicity entered my life in 1984 things began to change. Synchronicity has been one of my best teachers. It has shown me in rather miraculous ways, the interconnectedness and interrelatedness of all things.
In 1988 my friend Al introduced me to the books of Carlos Castaneda. One of the things that stood out to me was the idea of people having different energy configurations. According to Castaneda’s teacher don Juan Matus, most people have energy bodies that have two compartments. Some people can have up to four compartments. Those who have more than two compartments are called Naguals. The configuration of a Naguals luminous body allows them to shift their perception with greater ease and it allows them greater command over the energy fields at large.
If there is such a thing as a different energy body then I probably have one. It might explain a lot about the unique nature of my reality vs. “the norm”
So what does all this have to do with 12/21/2012? As far as I know I have never chosen to see these number combination's. I never intended to create a symbol that pegs the date, and I never asked to be a messenger or any such thing, and yet it seems that my whole life has unfolded in such a way so as to teach me about certain mysteries. 12/21/2012 is one of them whether I like it or not!
On 12/07/07 I had a very unusual dream. I dreamed I was fishing with a high school classmate and he had just reeled in a small Northern Pike. He was laughing out loud in a silly way as if he was proud of this tiny little fish. I said “ Oh yeah….? WATCH THIS!!”
I cast my line out and within seconds my bobber took a quick dive under. I set the hook and suddenly my line went limp. Suddenly we could see my “catch” coming directly at us on shore. It was about a 12ft long black alligator! We started running uphill immediately when this alligator came right out of the water in hot pursuit of us!
When we reached the top of the hill we realized that the gator must have returned to the water. I looked at the end of my line and was shocked to see the skin of the alligator was still on my hook! It’s skin was black and had dozens of eight-pointed stars all over it.
In John Major Jenkins book Maya Cosmogenesis 2012 he refers to an alligator as a cosmic monster that symbolizes the Milky Way! This is so interesting because of the eight-pointed stars on the gators skin.
In my symbology the eight-pointed star symbolizes the Galactic Center. So here is a dream where I am fishing and catch a living representation of the Milky Way that has symbols of the Galactic Center all over it. I was only left with the skin of the gator which seems to indicate that I have only caught the surface of the mystery of 12/21/2012. The real thing is still in that lake (which is a symbol of the unconscious.)
Perhaps the answer I seek is alive and well in the unconscious. I will pursue this monster in dreams and shamanic journey work. I will keep you all posted when anything develops.
Stay “Tuned”