a purpose for life

April 28  – Last day of the Gathering

Today I was still a little upset and confused about how to go about getting the meditation going. In the bus on our way again to the Dead Horse Ranch, one our group suggested to get together that evening to share our stories. Perfect, I asked to start with the meditation and also to have some space for others to bring something. Yes, everybody was very open to this, so I felt happy that a time was set.

On our arrival, Margreet and I spoke to the Apache chief who was there, Larry running turtle. He told us that the elders were performing ceremonies day and night, even after we were gone for the day. He only had three hours of sleep that night. We were impressed by this dedication and realized once more how important this gathering was for changing the energy in the world. He also said that he was thinking of our country and that he sent his blessings to our people. Then he blessed us by putting his hand on our heads.

Adam Yellowbird

We set down to listen to Adam, the initiator and organizer of this gathering. He told us that the gathering was too short to really create a new life’s plan for humanity, but it was a good start. It will take all of us to get it going. We had gathered much wisdom and try to understand everything from the heart and not by using the mind. There were representatives present from different nations, each with their own culture and their own ceremonies, but basically the same. This gathering was going to take us to the next level and we were to be her messengers. We had witnessed what had happened here and he asked us to be united in this work. A lot of healing happened between the tribes, the cultures and the governments with fire as the main focus. There will be a next gathering.

Don Alejandro Cirilo Perez Oxlaj

Don Alejandro took the stage and he thanked us for being there. According to the Maya calendar, today was the day of the four directions: the 4 pillars of the earth. They represent the four prophets who came from the Pleiades. He asked us to take the messages from the fire to everyone. Today was the last day and we have experienced joy and memories. The work for this gathering started long before, many months. There were other gatherings before this one. The first took two years to organize because of politics, when in effect only spirituality was needed. Sometimes people asked for money to come to the gathering and missed the point of what it was all about. The prophecies said that it was now time to inform the people. We need to teach our children and keep us alive in our memories. Now is the return of the ancestors and the men and women of wisdom, the teachings are to flourish again. It is not only the indigenous people who carry the love, but everybody here.

We understand the teachings and the world is realizing where we are now. The path of tears is over, we are now leaving the period of the 13 heavens. Let the morning come for the nations to find peace and be happy. Continue on your path and you will see the city where we came from. In the Grand Canyon there is a Kiva, an ancient city of the ancestors. They travelled into the galaxies and knew how to measure the sun and time. We are contaminated now, how can we purify ourselves? We need the sacred fire, we want to talk about our needs. Fire is spirit, it is the heart of the heavens. The great fire will illuminate us in the year zero. 

Grandmother Margarita Nunez Garcia

An small older woman took presented herself to talk to us. She had a spicy personality which becomes clear immediately, when she spoke her first words. I had already heard of her and knew we were in for a treat. She is one of the Elders and lives in Mexico. She works with the feminine energy and is an advocate for women. She had already threatened to walk out of the Gathering on the third day, if the balance between men and women would stay in favor of the men. She was of the opinion that the men dominated the gathering and was not pleased with this. When she started her talk, she did say something about the balance still not being as it should be. Then she called out for the mother of Adam Yellowbird to sit with her and she called for a sweet grandfather, also from Mexico. Then she talked:

You have all the power, knowledge, passion and realization to take with you. Mother Earth is floating in the cosmos. Our power and our intention are very strong. We are here to remember that many years ago, we were not yet on this earth. One day the Great Spirit manifested his spirit in a human form and from that relation we were born. Thank you father and mother. Our soul is cosmic and the divine is manifested in all of us. Live it! Great Spirit has not left us, we have forgotten our divine knowledge which is always in us. We have to look at it again, we need to feel it once again. Nobody can do nothing, if you do not feel it inside you. The wise one, he knows who he is, directs the stars.

Grandfather Tlakaelel

You have heard for the first time, the words of a Mexican woman. The feathered serpent represents infinity and cosmic intelligence. Ometeo is dual energy: female and male, light and dark, positive and negative. It appears that they are opposite, but they should complement each other to create life. We need more dreamers to create harmony!

Then Grandmother Margarita starts singing and does not stop / she has the stage now and she is keeping it. Everybody loves it, maybe not so the organization, but it is funny to watch. Then she says: the 4 elements are in us. I watched over a fire for one week and the fire started talking. We have more than 80% water inside us and this represents our emotions. If we are good spirits, then we have good feelings and thoughts. If you change your way and feel and think that you are not going to die, we will elevate together to the cosmos. Many tribes in Mexico have ascended to the cosmos already. You just open the maternal universe an walk in / you can leave your body when you are dancing and singing. I know of a grandmother who did this. I am between 65 and 78 years and in the cycle of awakening in which I can create anything we need. We need ceremony for the youth: teach them the love and not the pain we have felt. The circle of the young make their own sound. Welcome home their children. In your heart is the fire, let no one put that out!

She goes on for a longer time and some others speak. Then it is the end of the Gathering and everybody hugs another: we have learned so much. We have felt depe love for one another, this had taken us to the next level. This gathering has brought about new energy that will be felt all over the world. I come back as a different person: my heart has been opened and I feel the fire. Together with some of my friends from the group, we walk back to the bus. I do not want to leave, I want to stay in this loving energy. I am afraid I will lose it again when I return home, but then I promise myself that I will not lose this, never.

Final evening

 We returned to the hotel in very good spirits. That evening we were going to do our final farewells to each other by sharing our feelings in all sorts of ways: meditation, poetry, dancing and singing. We arranged the meeting room of the hotel to have some space and started our small gathering around 8 pm. John brought his lap top and music, Sylvain smudged everyone who came in and I just waited to get started and welcome everybody.  The meditation was about passion, love and sexuality and after this, we some of us shared what they were passionate about. Suli then introduced us to her passion: poetry inspired by the Goddess. It was lovely that way she read it, what a power.

Then we had a dance led by Magali in which we were allowed to get crazy: making faces, exaggerating our movements and laughing a lot, but we were not allowed to speak which made it more interesting. Then Magali let us do a beautiful exercise: we looked in each other´s face and said I am you and you are me! This way we connected on a very deep level like a soul family. Then there was singing from Anne Kristina and later together with her daughter, very moving. We shared some feelings and the said good bye. It was a night I will never forget. I found my soul family. Thank you!

Was this really the end of the gathering? Actually no, we stayed on in Sedona for two more days and on the second day we run into Adam and some of the South American Elders in a supermarket ( a healthy one). Lovely to say goodbye to them one more time. I told Adam about our own idea to organize an Earth Awareness Day in the Netherlands and I hope some of them will come there too. Only the Great Spirit knows! Aeyo.