Two September Sundays have provided me with four initiations: two in the Hindu tradition and two in the Q'ero tradition. Both sets were delivered by humble and loving people, one a long-time friend and guru, the others two residents of the Andes.
Taking a pill so I could drive (my first lengthy expedition since right knee replacement) with two unlicensed friends to Beaverton to see my long-time mantra Guru Namadeva. He was in the last stages of cancer. I had been told my Guru was committed "to [his] last breath" to helping others along their spiritual path. A supreme, quick-witted teacher with the proverbial patience of Job, Namadeva held Satsang so we could ask our last burning questions as well as enjoy a few jokes and jibes. Then he moved to another room to initiate eight people, even though he'd not eaten for three weeks and could only occasionally sip water.
The pair of initiations were the Guru Jyoti and Pancha Dasi. The first is directed at realizing one's inner guru as well as becoming a channel for the love of the guru to come through one to bless others. Though I had experienced my upa-guru's energy, the Atman, at one of Namadeva's workshops a number of years ago, I took the initiation hoping I might learn to call forth the upa-guru for myself. The reason for taking the other initiation is self-evident: acting as a channel for unconditional love. The purpose of the Pancha Dasi, among other things, is to awaken one's Kundalini Shakti.
The private moment was an opportunity to say goodbye for now and to receive Namadeva's blessing; "One in Spirit." Namadeva's shradha, held this past Sunday in Beaverton and wherever his students gathered, was a celebration for a Guru who positively touched many lives around the world.
The Q'ero Indians of Peru number only 400 full-bloods. They live above 12,000 feet in the Andes. But their traditions pre-date the Hindu. As descendants of the Lemurians, Q'ero seeded the Lemurian spiritual traditions throughout the Americas. According to Q'ero history, Lemuria sank 26,000 years ago at the time of a planetary conjunction similar to the one we're headed toward about 2012. Atlantis sank 13,000 years ago, the Atlanteans seeding Europe, Africa and Asia with similar sacred teachings.
For information on Q'ero prophecies, check http://www.qerofoundation.wordpress.com/. There you will also find information on the Hatun and Munray Karpays that I and 11 other participants received over the course of a weekend workshop. These initiations had never been given outside of the Andes or under 12,000 feet until this weekend. It was interesting, perhaps significant, that 13 people sat in the opening circle.
Personally, what was most meaningful was that Namadeva appeared to me on Saturday morning at 4:08 a.m. before the workshop. Following his appearance, my kundalini, Satyamama for the Q'ero, kicked five times like an unborn infant. I expect it would have been visually detectable had I been able to see my lower back. By the second of the Karpays on Sunday afternoon, Satyamama had risen, and I sat with my Lakota pipe and Q'ero mesa in my lap, shaking like a Quaker.
As with most of my spiritual journey, a book has confirmed the connection between the Q'ero and the Hindu traditions and much more. Daniel, the workshop's English-speaking leader and translator, says, "[Pinkham's book] is 99% correct." I recommend reading it since it provides the world's pre-history for 2012 and the background for and underlying truth of indigenous religions, including Christianity: The Return of the Serpents of Wisdom by Mark A. Pinkham. If you want to know more about the Q'ero, Dr. Alberto Villoldo has written a number of books about his shamanic training in their tradition.
One of the questions Namadeva asked his students during Satsang was whether we ever thought about our mantra practice as part of a "spiritual mosaic" we are creating. It's certain that this intense Ouroboros weekend following the autumn equinox was the snake's putting its tail in its mouth. It was also a unification of my experiences with a Lakota teacher, the Eagle's flying with the Condor.
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Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Knee Post-Op
At just past eight weeks from my knee replacement, I'm doing fine: achieving almost to 120 degree knee flex, going up and down stairs without assistance, losing weight, exercising. There's still some achy pain if I don't rest twenty out of every fifty minutes or so. But, I did manage at six weeks to pack and move from one side of town to the other--cheaper and nicer digs. In fact, I joked with my outpatient PT that he ought to advise all of his patients to move since when he measured my flex it had gone from 105 degrees before the move to 119 degrees at the end of the move.
My recovery has been aided by metaphysical tools I acquired from Alton Kamadon's Mechezedeck Method training. The night before and the morning of surgery, I activated the Kamadon Healing Temple. Thereafter, I activated it each night. Verification that the temple aided me in my recovery has come from comments by CNA's in rehab, PTs, and from a shamanic rock reading. While in rehab, I continually heard encouraging words. CNAs noted that my wound was dry whereas others' might be weaping. My outpatient PT said, "That's the best knee I've seen all year." That's no small thing since my other damaged knee prevents me from attempting some of the exercises. And, when I attended a class in shamanic rock reading, my counselor said of my rock, "I see a temple. It's good."
Just yesterday my alarm clock, which was not set to awaken me, went off at 7:13 a.m. I have a habit of checking numbers that come to my attention. In Doreen Virtue, Ph.D.'s little book of Angel Numbers I read that the Angels and Ascended Masters were helping me in my "healing and manifestation." The piece also advised me to "stay in touch." Nightly, I ask for healing of my knee when I set up the Temple, and I have noted that even though I don't religiously do the PT exercises, my knee's performance has shown improvement at the bi-weekly PT sessions. One night a guru whose workshops I've attended appeared in a white-on-white scene just as I closed my eyes and after I made my nightly appeal for assistance through the healing temple.
Although I am crediting the Kamadon Temple with it's help, the caveat is, as Namadeva (Thomas Ashley-Farrand) repeatedly reminds us in mantra work, that we need to be open to guidance. All metaphysical tools affect the third dimension. Prayers and mantras said by friends, my own use of mantra, and other practices have helped shape when and how this surgery has occurred along with the results. It became clear to me in rehab that I moved to Eugene, in part, to have this surgery performed by Dr. Brian Jewett, an outstanding surgeon from the Eugene's Slocum Center for Orthopedics and Sports Medicine. Similarly, several people whose knees Dr. Jewett had replaced recommended the Lutheran's Good Samaritan rehab care--even the food was good. I was led and arrived because I asked and trusted.
Driven to River Road Hospital before 5 a.m. by Sheila, my good friend and supporter during this ordeal, I felt trepidation but also confidence that the surgery would go well. In part that was because from a woman I spoke with at an art event in the fall to knocking on a stranger's door at 11 p.m. one March night because I had locked myself out while taking out the garbage and needed a locksmith, I heard nothing but cudos for Dr. Jewett. When I asked at my pre-op appointment if I had anything to worry about, he said, "Lots. But, let me do the worrying." When the surgery was over, he told Sheila that it had gone very well. When I heard that I knew that neither he nor his team nor I were alone in the operating room. Having called upon them regularly, I trust that both surgery and recovery have been aided by the Ascended Masters and Angels. After all, the guru who appeared recently is a direct descendant of the Buddha and a king who has renounced his Indian throne in this life, no doubt an Ascended Master.
I trust the Kamadon Temple and those associated with it will see me through the second knee surgery as well. I give thanks to both corporeal and incorporeal beings for their loving kindness.
My recovery has been aided by metaphysical tools I acquired from Alton Kamadon's Mechezedeck Method training. The night before and the morning of surgery, I activated the Kamadon Healing Temple. Thereafter, I activated it each night. Verification that the temple aided me in my recovery has come from comments by CNA's in rehab, PTs, and from a shamanic rock reading. While in rehab, I continually heard encouraging words. CNAs noted that my wound was dry whereas others' might be weaping. My outpatient PT said, "That's the best knee I've seen all year." That's no small thing since my other damaged knee prevents me from attempting some of the exercises. And, when I attended a class in shamanic rock reading, my counselor said of my rock, "I see a temple. It's good."
Just yesterday my alarm clock, which was not set to awaken me, went off at 7:13 a.m. I have a habit of checking numbers that come to my attention. In Doreen Virtue, Ph.D.'s little book of Angel Numbers I read that the Angels and Ascended Masters were helping me in my "healing and manifestation." The piece also advised me to "stay in touch." Nightly, I ask for healing of my knee when I set up the Temple, and I have noted that even though I don't religiously do the PT exercises, my knee's performance has shown improvement at the bi-weekly PT sessions. One night a guru whose workshops I've attended appeared in a white-on-white scene just as I closed my eyes and after I made my nightly appeal for assistance through the healing temple.
Although I am crediting the Kamadon Temple with it's help, the caveat is, as Namadeva (Thomas Ashley-Farrand) repeatedly reminds us in mantra work, that we need to be open to guidance. All metaphysical tools affect the third dimension. Prayers and mantras said by friends, my own use of mantra, and other practices have helped shape when and how this surgery has occurred along with the results. It became clear to me in rehab that I moved to Eugene, in part, to have this surgery performed by Dr. Brian Jewett, an outstanding surgeon from the Eugene's Slocum Center for Orthopedics and Sports Medicine. Similarly, several people whose knees Dr. Jewett had replaced recommended the Lutheran's Good Samaritan rehab care--even the food was good. I was led and arrived because I asked and trusted.
Driven to River Road Hospital before 5 a.m. by Sheila, my good friend and supporter during this ordeal, I felt trepidation but also confidence that the surgery would go well. In part that was because from a woman I spoke with at an art event in the fall to knocking on a stranger's door at 11 p.m. one March night because I had locked myself out while taking out the garbage and needed a locksmith, I heard nothing but cudos for Dr. Jewett. When I asked at my pre-op appointment if I had anything to worry about, he said, "Lots. But, let me do the worrying." When the surgery was over, he told Sheila that it had gone very well. When I heard that I knew that neither he nor his team nor I were alone in the operating room. Having called upon them regularly, I trust that both surgery and recovery have been aided by the Ascended Masters and Angels. After all, the guru who appeared recently is a direct descendant of the Buddha and a king who has renounced his Indian throne in this life, no doubt an Ascended Master.
I trust the Kamadon Temple and those associated with it will see me through the second knee surgery as well. I give thanks to both corporeal and incorporeal beings for their loving kindness.
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