SOUL BIRTH : 71 HORSTLEY STREET, DISTRICT SIX
by Ghairo Daniels
Swathed in golden fleece
White Light dancing
Cigarette smoke twirls
Waters break and gush
Bright as the nearby ocean
To say hello to the midwife
Preparing the birthing table
A violet spirit comes
A birthing through channels and layers
The room becomes vast
Souls linger about
Radiant and receiving
Onto Earth Dimension
Task complete
Melancholy sits here too
Cradling the unknown
Too delicate to hold
Waves dance in rain and white wind
Ice cold separated by time
Here I sit in a District in the South
Watching myself being born
And red blood
Flows......
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Saturday, October 27, 2012
Spiritual Questions Answered 2 : Ask Ghairo
ASK GHAIRO :
SPIRITUAL QUESTIONS ANSWERED 2
QUESTION : I LOST
MY SON IN A TAXI HIT AND RUN ACCIDENT 3 YEARS AGO. I AM STILL GRIEVING AND
SWEARING. I SMOKE INCESSANTLY AND DRINK MASSES OF COFFEE. HOW DO I START A
PROCESS OF FORGIVING AND HEALING
Losing a loved one before one spent sufficient time with
them or enjoyed their company as much as we would have liked to, is not easy.
If this is a child it is very, very painful. No amount of advice or any
recommendations can take away this pain and the wound can bleed for many years.
The pain however becomes harder to bear, when one runs away from it by
embarking on strategies which do not allow one to fully feel the pain, sit
through it and then release it.
One has to touch pain and loss for it to be released. There
is no other way. More often than not, persons who have gone through similar
turmoil and turbulence will cross your path to hold your hand or the presence
of friends and family will offer strength when yours is flagging. Accept this
assistance. There is no point in appearing to be strong, when actually one
feels overwhelmed.
As a human being, one has to experience all kinds of
emotions from the severest pain to the heights of ecstasy. These are all the
colours of God. One has to be with all of them and sit tight, knowing that
through all, God is the stabilizing, trusted Source of everything including
what is known as death. This All Encompassing Being puts out what we need to
grapple with for us to grow and expand, for us to release fears and to enlarge
our Hearts. Death is the movement to another form of Beingness.
It is useful to let go gradually, if a loved one passes on.
For example, it often is more painful to surround yourself with images of the
loved one or material things that belonged to him or her. Acceptance is a very
high form of consciousness and in releasing the person, we Accept God’s will.
In moving towards a state of acceptance, release the images, the possessions,
the products of the person. This will also allow the being to move further into
space, timelessness and freedom and closer to God. When release does not
happen, the loved one remains tied to Earth realm and imprisoned in space
through non-acceptance and grief of family members or friends.
Grief is a low vibrational energy. One sits with it for a
while, know it and the heartache it brings and then move on, to the next
emotion we have to learn about. Coffee, certain foods, addictive relationships,
nicotine are all crutches which hold us together. Leaning on these will always
keep one in a state of dependence and away from Spirit and One-ness with God.
When we become aware of this, we can use our will and effort
to relinquish the crutches. Set the intent to let go and God and other unseen
helpers will assist. For example, as soon as the urge for caffeine arises, know
that it is a crutch and do something more invigorating, like going for a walk
or having a shower. The urge will leave. If it comes back, its hold on you will
be less. Each time one overcomes a desire, its hold lessens.
A grieving process needs to take its full course, then pass.
One cannot sit in it forever, or it creates havoc in the physical body and in
the inner workings of cells. It can also affect one’s immune system. It is
useful to talk to a healer when you suspect that you are in grief. Sometimes we
are in grief and do not know this. Or we might be grieving about one thing or
person and think it is grief about something else. A very intuitive healer will
be able to lift this out and facilitate the letting to.
In the end, everything and everyone belongs to God. We are
only the guardians of material things for a while, including loved ones like
children. When we keep reminding ourselves that we enjoy the company of others
so that we learn from them and they from us, it becomes easier to let go.
Giving gratitude to God for the time spent with a child that has passed on,
assists to put our relationship with the Divine in the centre of our
consciousness.
Know also that all souls choose their time spent on the
Earth realm. Any soul knows beforehand how it will pass over. A central understanding on a spiritual path
is that no-one can make choices for others. This is so when beings change their
form as well.
Passing on is only moving into another form of existence.
Life goes on in Infinity just as life needs to go on, when in material form.
QUESTION : HOW
DOES DIET AFFECT SPIRITUAL PROGRESS. IS IT NECESSARY TO STOP EATING THE FOODS I
LOVE, LIKE HAMBURGERS AND CHIPS ?
In my experience diet
does affect spiritual progress. You really are what you eat. Food is an
essential part of your material conglomerate, which is one with your spirit. For example, when an animal is killed for
whatever reason a certain amount of hormones are released because of the fear
of death. These hormones remain in the animal flesh even though it is cured and
processed. When eating animal flesh, a human imbibes these fear hormones. The
food becomes part of your make-up, so animal fear hormones becomes part of your
own flesh. Fear attracts fear. With fear not much spiritual progress can be
made. Animals also have a degree of consciousness. When we move to a position
that we are all One Consciousness, how is it possible to “eat” of another with
Consciousness ?
The purer the foods one eats, the purer ones make-up. It is
best to eat fresh fruit and vegetable, preferably organic, when embarking on a
spiritual path. The more “live” the vegetable and fruit, the closer to Nature, the
closer to Divinity. This is also best for one’s physical body as such foods
contain the highest quality vitamins and minerals. The healthier the body, the
better it can be used as a channel for God’s purposes.
Other foods that do not block meridians are sprouted seeds,
grains and legumes, fresh wheatgrass juice, raw soups, nut milks, soaked ground
nuts and seed sauces. Cooking food destroys valuable vitamins. Delicious raw
food recipes are widely available nowadays.
One becomes accustomed to what one eats. So changing a
dietary pattern is possible when serious about walking a spiritual path. Change
your diet gradually, by removing toxins from the kidneys, liver and glands. A
homeopath can make recommendations of how to do this. It is also useful to
consult an Ayuvedic dietitian who will give recommendations based on your body
type.
One can enjoy a high vibrational diet and cleanse the taste
buds over time. Enjoying the true flavour of fresh fruit and vegetables is
uplifting in itself. You will soon not want to eat the usual fried chips and
hamburgers. Frying coats food making it difficult to digest and fat at a high
temperature is known to be carcinogenic.
Cooked food can become addictive, especially if processed
with MSG, and other flavorants and preservatives. Some flavorants and
colorants feed viral cellular patterns,
which make it difficult to reach the cell centre, where Godhead is very
prevalent.
A detoxification diet will energize the body, making one
more zestful and enthusiastic. The mind will become more alert and a closer
connection to Spirit can be forged within a shorter time. So hamburgers and
chips in moderation is OK, if you must, but know that it is not life-sustaining,
neither is it cleansing and it does stimulate cravings towards lower
vibrational stances. Also be aware that a desire for food is one of the five
desires we need to overcome, the other being desire for sleep, sex, money and
fame. Ultimately, these desires trap us and act as lures.
QUESTION : DO
AFFIRMATIONS REALLY WORK ?
It is my perception that affirmations by and of itself will
not work. It can re-programme the patterns of the mind at superficial levels
and move to deeper levels when it is done alongside other methods of bringing
about change in behaviour and habits.
For example, one cannot keep affirming “ I am a valuable divine child of God “
and then keep on smoking cigarettes. This would be hypocrisy as nicotine is
known to destroy lungs. How can one move back towards divinity when one is also
on a path of destruction ?
Affirmations are really about affirming the TRUTH. However,
when working with affirmations, we work primarily with programming the mind.
For such programming to take effect, other older patterns need to be released.
One cannot, for example, repeat, “ I love and approve myself” a hundred times a
day, when deep in the recesses of the mind, and in body cellular memory, there
lurks the pattern of “I am not good enough”.
Ingrained memory patterning needs to be loosened as well as cellular
negative programming existing in body cells. A multi-pronged strategy on a
spiritual path is best. Yoga, massage, regular exercise in the fresh air will
all assist in purifying cells and loosen ingrained memory patterns which no
longer serve, so that affirmations one
works with becomes more effective.
If the mind is very busy, it is useful to repeat
affirmations like anchors or mantras, which can help still the mind and take it
back to a positive focal point. In this way, affirmations are effective.
It is best to design an affirmation programme yourself as you
know best what you would like to change about behavior. Some spiritual specialists say that
one needs to work with a specific affirmation for 21 days, some say 40 days. My
view is that the affirmations you need to work with will come to you or attract
you. Work with it until you feel it is part of you. Sometimes an affirmation
will come, then it will go and come back later. All this is fine.
Work with awareness in the present moment when repeating an
affirmation. In other words, do not repeat it, parrot fashion. I would advise to do affirmations at a
particular time each day, so that one becomes disciplined about a reprogramming
regime and change can be speeded up.
In the final analysis, to attain Enlightenment, all thought
forms, including affirmations, need to be released, the mind dissolved so that
in the state of emptiness, we attain ONENESS with all. Affirmations are useful
as a step on the path, but it does not suit everybody. Affirmations in a
spiritual language like Sanskrit or Quaranic verse carry very high vibratory
force.
QUESTION : I FEEL
FRUSTRATED THAT I AM NOT DEVELOPING FAST ENOUGH. WHAT CAN I DO ?
Often when one is initiated onto a spiritual path, one tends
to observe others on a similar path and judge where you are, based on that.
Judgement is an activity of the mind and frustration could arise from such
judgement. Our mind sets up expectations and goals and then tries to meet them.
Sometimes it tries to force a way and can even become aggressive or obsessive
about making progress whether this is progress on a spiritual path or progress
in the dense physical realm.
On a spiritual path, movement is not based on judgement by
the ego. There are no goalposts and no races to be won. We are all on a
spiritual path, in the end, really. We just don’t always know it. We are guided
by Spirit in totality and by spirit guides who appear from time to time.
How one develops is based on what one’s soul-spirit is ready
to do and be. This is largely determined by Grace based on your intent, willingness
and ego-less effort and service. It carries with it karmic legacies, the karma
of your group, family and even country. It also carries with it a
pre-programmed unfolding.
As soon as you start feeling frustrated, let go. I have
found that the easiest way to do this, practically, is to concentrate on the
breath, the inflow and the outflow. In Zen beginner meditation, one counts from
1 to 10 and start again at 1. 1 on the in breathe and 2 on the out breath. Such
a exercise quickly and easily takes one
to the HERE and the NOW, the present moment. The present moment is actually the
only thing that exists. What one does or do not do, in the present moment,
determines the next step.
Trust your inner self and trust that you are doing the best
you can at any given moment. Feel the frustration, then let it go as a passing
emotion, in the same way you finish a bout of crying or a bout of laughter.
Everything passes. The internalization of this is the remedy to all
frustration.
When focusing on the present moment, and the feelings that
arise in the body in the present moment, one can let go of these feelings. A
way out of judging progress then arises naturally, right in front of us. It is
when the mind WANTS to run ahead or dwell on what is not done, or sets
unrealistic goals, that frustration creeps in.
Everybody develops in his/her unique way. No two paths are
exactly alike. This is the beauty of creation and being on a path. The Path is
your own. You determine the pace. Do this determination without forcing the
way. So it is and so it shall be.
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
ASK GHAIRO : Spiritual Questions Answered :
ASK GHAIRO
SPIRITUAL QUESTIONS
ANSWERED no.1 : THERE IS NOTHING TO FEAR
QUESTION : IF I WANT TO LET GO OF AN
ATTACHMENT TO AN ORGANISATION WHICH I HAVE BEEN INVOLVED IN FOR SOME TIME, WHAT
DO I DO ?
Ghairo’s Answer
Let go quietly, inauspiciously and
peacefully. No need for discussion, no need for formal resignations, unless
this is required, just plain simple letting go without any judgement of anybody
or of yourself. If you feel angry or pained about this, release these emotions
to God. Surrender. Detach.
Sometimes there are issues in
organizations that need to play itself out in the normal course of events
naturally, on its own. Your concern for an organization or its people is, in
reality, a concern for yourself. This is where healing and evolution needs to
start. Unnecessary involvement in organization is holding onto something which no
longer benefits your personal growth or contribution to society or community.
There is nothing to fear.
QUESTION : HOW DO
I BUILD MY CONFIDENCE AND SELF-ESTEEM TO START SOMETHING NEW
Ghairo’s answer
To build confidence and self-esteem in starting something
new, my view is that one needs to start with small steps, like a baby crawling.
One cannot walk until one crawls and one cannot run and jog until one can walk.
When you have mastered one skill in a new undertaking, take another small step.
Make the steps you take, concrete and practical. Set goals, knowing you can
change these at any time along the way.
Set your intention in regard to what you want to achieve and
by when. Let Spirit guide you. The right way always opens up and things and
people appear that will aid your projects or processes. In the Spirit realm,
intention is the key. The Universal Organizing Force then organizes energy to
make things happen – if the intention is of the highest order, things can
happen fast.
FOCUS and make yourself available to be used as a tool for
God’s purpose, so you do your work to give pleasure to God and in this way, you
give pleasure to yourself and others.
Be PURPOSEFUL when starting something new and see it through
to the end. This will give you confidence to start the next steps on any given
task or on your own evolutionary path. BECOME THE SOURCE, as you work. Make
your inner self the point of contact. Sometimes we think a single specific
person has a resource we need, or has the answer to questions. But this is just
a perception. The more open we are, the more persons or situations we can
access.
Everything you need is always inside of you. You mirror what
you need outwards and then attract towards you the specific part to the jigsaw
puzzle. The Reiki healing mantra, “ Just for today, do not worry.” is useful
when starting something new that you are uncertain of. Say it while working or
when the mind takes over and worries or uncertainties creep in. And be
fearless.
The Nike slogan is a nice one “Just do it.” There is nothing
to fear.
QUESTION : WHAT
ARE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLS AND HOW DO THEY WORK ?
Ghairo’s answer
Spiritual symbols are like keys to open doors. They work in
a similar way to prayers. The more you work with them, the greater the impact,
as they create a vibratory frequency in the quantum field around you. Different
symbols have different frequencies just like different prayers have different
purposes. Some symbols, when used often enough, and if your intention is pure, open up the way to
other symbols which expand and deepen your field of operation for God.
Spirit may reveal to you a symbol in a dream or when
meditating. Most times, though, symbols are revealed to you through a teacher
who is walking on a path before you or has been through the particular forest
you are walking. If enough people work with a particular symbol at any time it
becomes very powerful. Symbols can play itself out and become obsolete as new
symbols are designed by Spirit or if Spirit wants to reveal something different
that one needs to focus on.
Sets of spiritual symbols can also move to different parts
of the Planet as they are needed. Symbols which are used universally can stay
with us for eons, they rest in space, then re-emerge when necessary. They do
change too. Some enjoy changing, some stay the same. The spiral, for example,
is universal. I perceive it will always be with us. But for example, the spiral
used in Reiki in the Power symbol, has a modification which means different
things to different people.
The Double Helix symbol has been resting and is now
re-emerging. It is a spiral in essence, with a much higher frequency indicating
an upward and downward movement as well as an inner and outer movement. There
is more action in the Double Helix as it is a twosome. This symbol is prevalent
now because of our need to focus on the DNA as a locus of transmutation into
Pure Light.
There are many modifications to the Cross symbol in a wide
variety of cultures and religions. Its basis is always, dissecting Man to get
to God.
It is best to work with symbols during or after a
purification process. For example, working
with symbols while fasting is VERY powerful. Or when working in a group
who sets as an intention the send healing energies to a particular war zone,
for instance. Such a practice can create powerful transmutations or openings.
Symbols assist us to work through our fears just as prayers do. There is really
nothing to fear.
QUESTION : I WANT
MY SENSES TO SHARPEN. WHAT CAN I DO
Ghairo’s answer
Making full use of one’s physical senses is one of the
easiest ways to access the Spiritual Realm. Fully utilizing the five senses
also allows one to work with the sixth sense, the level of intuition. Intuition
leads to Knowingness, when knowledge can be accessed instantaneously, without
information. Appreciating what one sees, hears, feels, smells and tastes always
allows the Universe to open ever wider versions of what is available for us to
use and enjoy. Without our wonderful five physical senses, we cannot be fully
in material form and evolve, increase and deepen our Light.
One of the best ways to sharpen senses is to be in nature regularly:
At least for one half hour every day to appreciate the sounds, smells and
colours in Nature. Commune with birdsong, examine intently the veins of a leaf,
gaze vacantly at the ripples on a sea-bed. Really look. Really listen. Listen
and look with the Heart. Focus on the heartbeat while doing this. Breathe in deeply the smell of a particular
herb until the brain is dizzy with the smell. If one sits in nature in
meditation with sufficient focus and depth or sufficient vacancy and
expansiveness or open-ness, Spirit will come along and intoxicate. Messages
from God, or other unseen forces can visit easily and you will get to know the
purposes of the Divine for the day, month or for your life, in the moment or in
the year.
Another useful way to sharpen senses, I have experienced, is
to interchange them. For example, you may see a lovely rosebud. Listen to the
sound vibrations the rosebud is releasing, with your eyes. So your eyes become
your ears. When you hear an ambulance in the distance, taste the sound with
your ears. This will sharpen your ears and the sense of what is happening. You
might taste the blood of an accident in the distance and send healing there
instantaneously. In this way, you assist the Godforce do the work that needs to
be done at any given moment.
In a nutshell, if you want your senses to sharpen use them. Also be present in the
Now, in Awareness with them. When you walk into a room, be aware of the
colours. Be aware of what the room makes you feel like. When you look at an
object, check for detail. When one tries to verbalize what the senses are
relaying, it automatically sharpens the senses as one gives meaning to them.
This will alert you to energies and vibrations in a room or
around an object or in the inner spaces of another being’s heart. The senses is
the first point of reference for the mind to work a way into a situation, work
a way out of a situation or transform a situation.
QUESTION : I HAVE
HEARD OF THE VIOLET FLAME OF TRANSMUTATION. WHAT IS THIS.
Ghairo’s answer
The Violet Flame is a spiritual tool one is connected to,
usually at a second level Reiki attunement. One is connected to this powerful
tool via a Master. One can also be connected to it via Grace or a constant
calling on the Flame with pure intention. This tool assists with the
transmutation of psychic debris or the burning of unwanted karma, once the
necessary spiritual work and preparation has been done. It will not respond, in
my experience, when the necessary spiritual work has not been completed or the vibratory
frequency of the person calling on the Flame is still ego-based. The Flame
works well when it is channeled.
The Flame, it is believed is connected to and protected by
the Angels of the Violet Flame who works with it. It is also believed that the
Flame sits at the centre of Planet Earth and can be called upon at any time
when transmutation of misqualified energy is necessary. It is especially
effective when called upon in a group. I perceive that the Flame vibrates with
Amethysts, the colour Indigo and the Third Eye.
Ghairo’s answer
Psychic debris is debris like any other debris except that
one cannot see it. It surrounds objects, people, places, events, buildings –
anything in the material realm. One picks up psychic debris on a daily basis.
The mind can also manufacture psychic debris by its focus on “wanting” or
emotions of low vibrational status like jealousy, greed, selfishness,
resistance. Psychic debris must be cleared daily and in some cases, more than
once a day.
Psychic debris stick to things, people, places ie. it is
sticky.
I would classify psychic debris as low level energy which
moves in the direction of darkness and non-life as opposed to Light and Life.
Psychic debris, when accumulated over long periods of time can become hardened
thought-forms which are challenging to shift. Psychic debris can also be
carried over from former lifetimes and it could be inherited genetically. It
moves at atomic and sub-atomic levels. Often “warfares” between such debris and
the Light can cause turmoil and illness.
Useful ways to clear psychic debris daily is to be in
Nature, walk along the beach or in forests, mountains, meditate, do breathe
work, immersion prayer, swim in clean
rivers, or the sea, do cleansing fasts,
eat only fresh fruit and vegetables, refrain from participation in mass
activities and so on. Some spaces are high in psychic debris, like for example,
nightclubs – where emotions build up, accumulate and stagnate. Such spaces
should be avoided at all costs when on a spiritual path, unless one goes there
with the intention of doing clearing work.
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
LOVE IS ALL THAT THERE IS : EPISODE 1
LOVE IS ALL THAT THERE IS : EPISODE 1
[copywrite Ghairo Daniels,Knysna, 2012]
How does one reach this state of consciousness, of knowingness that everything that exists is Love. Everything - from the most decadent pollutionary practice, most violent wars, most hardened criminals to the sublime states of aliveness of God’s most conscious sons and daughters who walked this Planet. From the deadliest virus to the youngest new shoot on the cactus on the sill, Love is all that there is. Everything in material form as well as in non-material form is Love. How does one reach this state of knowingness?
SOME ANSWERS FOR CONSIDERATION
1. LIVING IN DETACHMENT : What’s this ?!
We live in detachment when we walk our path, do what is to be done, complete our daily tasks without any expectation or reward : without any fear or arrogance that we might fail or will succeed. We do it because it has to be done, in BEINGNESS. We complete tasks because it asks for completion. We extend ourselves because we feel we need to be extended. We serve others and the evolution of our own souls in doing the work. We expect nothing, we ask for nothing. We surrender the outcome to “ whatever will be, will be “.
In this state of willing nothingness a Divine Outcome is assured. It might not be what our ego wants or desires, but it certainly will be according to a Divine Plan for the greatest good of all concerned. All wants, desires, goals, needs are of the ego. When this ego is not in alignment with Divine Consciousness, what the outcome is, will not fulfill. So we work with devotion, even passion, total commitment – with a consciousness that we are not the task or the outcome.
I once witnessed a young Buddhist monk nearing the end of a three day task of making exquisite sand patterns on a large rectangle table. The completed artwork cannot be described and at the time, I had no Blackberry (!) to capture the image. He was using his fingers, his breath and a straw. An audience stood around admiring the work and he smiled back in admiration of his own masterpiece.
Then after wonder and awe-struck cheers, he unexpectedly took his fore-arm and wiped out three days artwork in one minute. Whoosh, whoosh. At the second whoosh, as our eyes opened wide, a little relative of his, about three years old, ran up to the table, stood in front of the chaotic coloured grains of sand and clapped, clapped and clapped. The monk smiled. What was the purpose of three days of back-breaking work ?
To experience the glee of a three year old : uninvited, totally spontaneous happiness : that something could so easily be wiped out and that a tiny being could express such a thrill of delight and pass this around. The lesson ? A thought to sleep on.
We work, exist, to learn lessons, increase consciousness, move towards BLISS. What the lesson is, we do not always know, neither is it necessary to know, at the point of doing. We do it with love, for Love, to extend our understanding of Love.
2. Love is all that there is when we know that : I AM NOT THIS BODY. I AM NOT THIS MIND. Related to Ego is the body we have constructed. Soul constructs a body according to lessons it has already learnt and lessons it needs to learn. Body then, is a temporary vehicle to hold an amount of Love and Light that we, as souls, accumulated over lifetimes. We use body-mind to grow Love in Soul. Soul cannot do this without material form. Yay, for material form !! I am glad I am in it.
The degree or quota of Divine Essence in each cell of our body including brain, is the degree of consciousness we live by. The body-mind then, is not “I”. The mind with the body is a tool, which needs to take instructions from Heart. Mind gives a plan according to conditions, circumstances, resources, situations, what is appropriate in the here and in the now. The greater the Love and Light within Mind, the greater is its capacity to interpret situations and complete tasks according to Divine Plan. The Mind is not the “I”.
3. Love is all that there is when we are able to REMAIN IN THE NOW : this moment, this instant in time and space. Mind, since it is a tool of Ego continuously wants to move, be elsewhere, escape, go back, go forward, analyze, construct ….This is because Ego often does not want to experience pain or pleasure. Sometimes it does not want to experience reward, success, divinity, etc. for a host of reasons (eg. wants to remain in victim mode, is resistant, needs to assert itself, needs attention, etc.)
When Ego does not have the capacity to hold a range of states, it wants to escape. The state could be physical pain, it could be hunger, it could be satiation, it could be grief, it could be any of four hundred odd feeling states a human could experience. The Ego devises all kinds of methods to escape, from finding scapegoats to manipulating information.
When one has knowledge that the purpose of Ego is to test Soul, to play ones own Soul’s devil’s advocate, one can stand still, sit still, be centered in the now and remain with the state, in the moment. We know then that the play, the movement of Ego-Mind is not the “I”. The “I” is the stillness from which all flows, infinite, timeless, all-knowing, abundant….. We attune then to the words “Love is all that there is…”
Sunday, September 30, 2012
Wilderness : Southern Cape : TEN : Life is just beginning
WILDERNESS : LIFE IS JUST BEGINNING : EPISODE 10 : CYCLE COMPLETE
: THE MEANING OF TEN.
I gathered and priced all my craft goodies nice and early to join the Wilderness Talent Market at noon on a gloriously sunny spring day. I wondered into whose home my recently completed Peace Chain would go. I lovingly stitched Shanti, Salaam, Peace in small chain stitches on every third squared patch of material, with an Om Shanti prayer. It needed a nice cosy room.
The awesomely spectacular views between Knysna and Wilderness never fail to make any downcast soul smile. A downcast soul this time around was my sulking teenager who had to do Math during the Spring holiday break. Tough love. Math is to be done.
The forests of tall staggering pines on both sides of the road, the sea breezes blowing in, the limitless blue sky, sparkling rippling waters, the vastness of Mother Nature….she could not but be affected by this wave of Unconditional Love embracing us as the battered car upped the turns and bends.
WILDERNESS … The word itself conjures up images of man/woman unrestrained, in his-her natural state, delighting in the wild, questing, seeking, exploring, unconfined – This is the area where the TALENT market was to be held, on top of Wilderness Heights, up a curvy, untarred, bumpity-bump road, to Asante Farm. The entrance mosaic to the farm fills one with a sense of peace, of arrival and belonging. It seemed complete, yet incomplete, a riddle that need not be answered.
Stall owners were setting up or putting down colourful blankets, hanging up dream-catchers and T-shirts, setting up gas stoves, putting on kettles. Landi, owner of the farm was there in her farmer’s wife spring outfit, complete with girdle and talent sheets, with warm fat arms and a smile to die for. Competent Mother Nature incarnate, all giving, if ever there was one.
If this was not Heaven, then what was ? Life is just beginning. In the far corner, the kiddies had a bonfire going and were testing their skill at burning twigs to just before it came half-way. I was puzzled at how these kiddies played unsupervised, yet in total control of their game. FIRE was going strongly, toddlers toddled around in bright outfits, barefoot. No fear was evident. In the deep recesses of my mind, the phrase came to the fore – “Fear not, when I am near”, and “There is nothing to fear. “ I remembered to underline these phrases.
I hung up my Peace Chain with the TEN squares, set out the beaded hearts, heart-decorated tablemats, then sauntered to check out goodies at neighboring stalls. I encouraged my teen to have an open air massage, which, to her detriment, she decided against, opting instead for hand reflexology.
Suni did my massage, niggling tight spots along my spine, unwinding the 72 000 nerves up the back, wrinkling out folded lower back muscles, then up to glands behind the ears and points all around the skull. Slowly I released old traumas that had come to the fore, to sounds of Hannelie Khoury’s folk tunes and guitar.
The smell of falafel drifted past, the cock crowed in broad sunlight, the horse neighed, the dogs barked. Where was I ? A hound being fed falafel, a horse nudging the fence eyeing my TEN point Peace Chain. Did she want it as a necklace ? Suni kept urging me to BREATHE. Breathe. “I am opening up your chest “, she urged. I breathed. All was well. Life is just beginning.
Then back to vertical position and a haziness. Ofcourse, this was the material realm and food seemed necessary. The best pizza in the Wilderness, prepared with utmost love in an oven surrounded by beautiful maidens and a pizza-maker who was dishing veggies surrounded by crystals, books, comfy couches, an ambience of relaxed naturalness. The feta melted, yet firm, the tomatoes fresh and blood red, the spinach tasty, the olives spluttering juice which dribbled down our chins. Just the right amount of cheese. Life was just beginning.
Then there was this stall owner, Mark, from Mark’s Delights, who was selling decadent raw cacao cake slices. Its base contained cashew nut and date pressed together with coconut oil, a melt in the mouth delight, which touched no heat at all. Rawlicious to perfection. He handled the cakes as if they were Olympic trophies, which they were !! It was not long before all his cake was SOLD OUT, so was the divine cashew nut cheese.
My Peace Chain happily smiled at all the buyers who oohed and aahed. One buyer, with a smile and eyes matching the Shanti stitches and beyond, so gentle was her aura, and so respectfully did she present her talents and curled up rands, that I could not be more delighted for the exchange. This buyer lived in my previous hometown, Muizenberg of the endless white sand and expansive beach ! She lived in the same street in which I lived a decade ago ! Lo and behold … A circle of TEN years. Ten - the number of completion. Ten – the number of perfection. Ten – the number of maximum achievement. There were ten squares on that Peace Chain. Ten, a spiritual cycle complete, preparation for the next venture, for greater work. Ten – the death of the little ego and a re-birth. Ten, a high emotional stability number.
My buyer said she will treasure the Chain and I, will treasure the smile in her eyes. Life is just beginning.
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