Awakening

Our final rite was the Spirit rites’ where we ask the presence of Great Spirit (God) to be with us.  Before we entered the room where the ceremony was to be held we first waited outside the door, there was expectancy and excitement in the air, we were each smudged before we entered into the sacred space and the presence of Great Spirit.  As we quietly entered in to the room I saw a beautiful alter of candles, and two circles of chairs facing each other, I sat down feeling quite nervous, this was the big one! Was I going to “meet my maker”? The last rites had steadily gotten stronger and stronger and more and more powerful “what’s this one going to be like!?” Sacred space was opened and already you could feel the tingle of power in the room, then a small ceremony was performed by four people who had already received these rites. In a circle they stood, arms raised up to heaven calling Great Spirits’ presence, all four of them did a group hug so all four foreheads touched and that was it…….the air became thick with electricity, the nervousness rose within me more……..It was my turn to receive the rites………….I didn’t feel much, not at first, in fact I was almost a little disappointed, I didn’t expect to levitate off the chair while beams of light shine from my palms, but I thought there must be more to this, then I was aware I didn’t feel much at all, nothing, I was at peace, such a beautiful peace, almost alien to me I didn’t recognise it, yet around me I saw in my head the biggest storm all around us, I could feel it, a storm so big it filled the sky for hundreds of miles, and we were right in its centre, calm and still, timeless.  The energy became so thick the IPod blew up!

Giving the rite felt again quiet and still, almost like I no longer existed, I did not matter, insignificant, yet I was a part of something so great and wonderful that it was more important than anything else. I had a feeling, Like a quiet and gentle realisation, I remembered I was god.

These rites gave me grace, the understanding that I like everyone else, is a co-creator of the infinite, Spirit gave us this garden, it’s our job to finish it.  Spirit is everything; us, the trees, the whales, the ants, the IPods…..there is only Spirit/God…..therefore that is what we are…spirit….you and I are god, masquerading as you and I.  This rite gave me the consciousness of this realisation, and looking around me at all the other faces I saw the many faces of the One.

It got a bit too heavy, or light? So we ended this rite by dancing wildly to hard core drum and base music! Which was ecstatic! We pounded our feet into the earth, anchoring this light into our reality, bringing heaven down to earth….