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Christan Hummel is co-founder of the international environmental seminar company, Earth Transitions. She has travelled world-wide training people on how to establish grassroots environmental clearing programs. She has taught thousands of people how to work co-creatively with Nature to help heal the Earth. In March of 1999, my colleague, Slim Spurling, and I were asked to come to Caracas, Venezuela to initiate an environmental clearing program in the area. They were facing serious threats due to water and atmospheric pollution which was out of controlbeing one of the most polluted cities on the planet. While I was somewhat prepared for the pollution, I was not prepared for what I encountered once I arrived. Unknown to me, Caracas is one of the most masculine-dominated cultures in Latin America. As such, the prevailing attitude is quite neglectful and abusive of Nature and the whole Feminine principle of life. Not surprisingly, almost the entire focus of the workshop was on government connections and the technology aspect of the workshop, and very little support for the aspect of working in harmony with the nature realms. As they looked at me, they instantly "communicated" something to me in a way which was totally unfamiliar. It was not exactly telepathic, but was more like a feeling which contained a whole message within it. The message was that they were thanking us for coming there to help the Earth. They were coming to the edge of their world to make contact with us, and asked for us to come to the edge of ours to meet them. They also conveyed that they were connected to the Amazon. Then they just left as quickly as they came. The next morning, I asked our host if Venezuela had any connection to the Amazon. He replied that the very southernmost region of Venezuela is called the Amazonia region. Then I told him about my visit and he showed me a picture from a book on Venezuela of a tribe of Indians who lived in that region, the Yanonami. They looked exactly like the two who visited me! Apparently few people see them as they are deep in the jungle, and it was rumored that they are only contacted by those who have been given an invitation. When looking at a map of that area, a place called Angel Falls jumped out at me. I was getting a clear and strong message inwardly that if we didn't go to Angel Falls, that nothing we tried to do in the workshop would be successful or of lasting value. When we arrived there, we discovered that the Yanonami live on the plateau of what they called the "Grand Savanna." It is considered the most sacred land in Venezuela. It felt like we'd tapped into a quintessential spot where the Feminine energy was linked to the planet. Once there, we learned that it takes several days by boat up river and then a rugged hike through the jungle terrain to get to the Grand Savanna and we didnt have that kind of time. I was heartbroken. We were able to land within three miles of the falls, at an encampment called Canaima. There, we went ahead with the ceremony we had planned to do at Angel Falls. At the bank of the river near one of the smaller falls we prepared to do our ceremony. Slim joined us with a young man he met at the camp whose father was a Tribal Elder of one of the Indian tribes in the area. Slim invited him to observe what we were doing and bring that information, along with a ring Slim invented, back to his father. This ring was a token to represent our efforts to meet them. So this young man appeared as an emissary able to trave through the terrain which barred us from making contact with the Yanonami in person. As we proceeded with the ceremony, we seemed to "uncork" something very deep from within the Earth that was bottled up at that spot. It was as if it were acting like a central pressure valve for the whole area. The process took about 30 minutes, and when it was over we got back in the plane and got ready to head home. A couple of days later we did the workshop in Caracas. During the last day, which is an outdoor experiential in focussing on how to communicate and connect with the devic life in their area to heal imbalances in the environment, a tall, slender young Indian man came up to me and thanked me for the work we were doing. There was something unique in his demeanor. He was unusually quiet and self-contained, and I hadn't seen him on the previous two days of the workshop. When I asked him where hed been the last two days, he said that he only came for this last day. He then invited me to come to visit their home if I was ever in his area. When I asked where he lived, he replied, "the Grand Savanna." We were not able to physically meet the Yanonami, but they had sent a messenger to meet us. We had gone as far to the edge of our world as we could. And they in turn sent an emissary to us to acknowledge our efforts and let us know that "contact" was made. So these technologies, while seeming new to us today, actually had their origins in ancient times and apparently ancient people knew how to use these tools. Now these people were sending emissaries to meet with us--but why? Perhaps to remind us that the Earth Herself must be included in this process!! And while most of humanity has forgotten this understanding of how to be in communion with the Earth, it is still a part of our genetics. The remembrance of this ancient form of communication which the KOGI have retained, is just one method of re-establishing our harmonic relationship with Mother Earth again, and it is part of our heritage and an essential part of our making our way out of the technological nightmare in which we are presently embroiled. I began to see that through connecting with the indigenous people and their wisdom, that they were able to help us to connect with the Earth. This fit in perfectly with the Huna teachings which said that to reach the Higher Self, one had to first go down to the Lower Self (the connections with the Earth.) So it began to make sense why we were being contacted by these keepers of ancient wisdom. Ive since realized that it is essential for us to proceed with any planetary healing work hand in hand with the ancient caretakers and indigenous people of this Earth. We are certainly newcomers to this scene. We have much to learn from them and their wisdom. Like a labyrinth, sometimes you have to go backwards to go forward. The Messenger Website Copyright © 2005 The Messenger - All rights reserved |
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