The Awakening
It must have been two years ago when I received the calling to "go to water". Somehow, it was about raising awareness, helping us all to make a loving connection to each other and nature. For the last year I have obeyed that call. I have gathered groups together: Native Americans, and those of African and European descent. Together we have prayed, loved, cried, healed and given gratitude to the spirit of water for all that it has done for us. All the time and in the back of my head I thought that "we were healing water". However, two months into our Water Healing/blessing ceremonies I began to realize that water was in fact the one healing us. Healing the world.
The Sacred Properties of Water
In West Africa there is an annual ceremony where thousands reverently gather at the sacred Osun river to offer up prayers of supplication, gratitude and healing. In the depths of the Ganges the same thing is done, while in Japan regular rituals are conducted where the body is immersed into and cleansed by the spirit of water. What is it that water has always meant to us? nurturing, connection, love, peace, harmony, civilization, wisdom, healing, humanity, the soul, the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle that always fit together. It reminds us, like Narcissus, we are not what we think we are, but the souls reflected back to us in the watery depths of water. A life saving element, not a commodity, water has always been held up as sacred. The trees, birds, grass and the dusty bed of Mother Earth too. During my long walk to "water" I have realized we are abusive, really abusive to the spirit of our humanity. Yet, it keeps on sending us messages of love, compassion and connection, a heightened sense of awareness and sensitivity. One day I received this message from water, "We say that the Earth does not need humans. That is true, but God needs humans on the earth. For humans are no different from the flowers that populate the earth. When they are at one with themselves they vibrate beautiful radiant colours. How could the earth not need humans."
The Child Spirit
In Shintoism we are described as the Child Spirit? why, because it is said Earth is our Mother and teacher. I can understand that concept. For the more I have spent time with water and nature is the smaller I feel. Once upon a time I use to say, "I am an expert healer, a renown this, a great this…" . For that is what many of us, who are in the healing profession say to make people stand up and take note of us. But now I say, "what do I know?" I am merely a child who has only began to glimpse the stars. Is this a retrogade move? far from it. It feels like a movement towards "Involution" as Yoga Master Iyengar so succintly put it. During my journey I have seen that many like to read about an inner connection to self and the soul of nature from books. But I truly believe that we must go to nature in order to experience its miracles. Since when did second hand reports become good enough, anyway?
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