"Zen Awakening – Garden of the Gods" – November 18, 2017

2017-11-18

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2017-11-18 – "Zen Awakening – Garden of the Gods"

"…I return to the Americas to fulfill my promise to Niekko Chin and share wisdom at his Zen Awakening gathering, where I see evidence of the Mythica once more in the arrival of an avatar of Anubis as we stand in the Temple of Mystery between the worlds …"

The Eastern Coast

Returning from the Isle of the Gods, I fulfill the agreement with Niekko Chin during the 2016 episode “God Loves You” of the Journey Home.

Here, I intersect with Yeshua in the Orlando airport on the eastern coastline of the Americas.

Flush with the grounded energies of Bali and still humming with reception of the Opening Tone from the deva of Australia, I feel the nature of the rainbow bridge more deeply than ever. Though we had barely any money between us, we knew this was the way to Heaven on Earth, tracking our way along the underlands of the Mythica.

“They’re ANGELS” she whispers, her eyes catching the wings of our aura.

Gods of Sound

Entering the tent, we come into a sacred sanctuary filled with gongs and other instruments of tone …

Yeshua lies down, allowing the Guardian to work his sound magics over his prone form. The sense of delicacy, of potency of vibration rings through the air, cleansing the space as I watch the guardian’s prowess unfold, kissing the edges of Yeshua’s aura awake as ripples of bright resonance move across the ethers of the Akasha through his form …

He looks at me then, and speaks.

“Thank you, Shiva.” he says, and bows to me deeply, sending ripples of impressions across the substance of the akasha.

Garden of the Gods

Niekko is a true brother, granting us a complimentary tent near the Gong Temple nestled in the Garden of the Gods. Such is a beautiful sanctuary for my Fae senses so recently arrived from the similarly themed Island of the Gods.

Vimeo

Jewel of the Woods

As we round the corner, I sense a vibration. One I hadn’t felt in many years. That of my fellow guardian, Julie Woods, whom I had intersected with only rarely along the quest. Julie and I had met in 2003 during the "Call of Mercury" episode of the Journey Home, and again at "Illumination", both within the hermetic realms of the modern magician stewarded by the magickal workings of Jeff and Abigail McBride. To encounter her here in the realms of the Zen Awakening held great meaning, reminding me again of the skein of synchronicity which connected us all in service to a brighter world.

Not-a-King Niekko

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I said, I'm water. I lead everyone to the source. That's it. Let them flow, follow the flow, and then they get here and they discover their own true path.

Exclusive Report * – King Niekko denies Kingship. The people claims they feel "lost" and "leaderless". This reporter calls bullshit.

We catch up with Niekko, endlessly busy organizing the event, at the headquarters, where he grants us a space to set up our laptops and work on the Mythica within the space. As we enter, I share with him my appreciation of what he is embodying, the virtue I regard as Kingship in the octaves of the Mythica.

In such context, the naming of the reflection pond is an invocation in and of itself, one which suggests another layer to reality, where the simple reflection of one's image in the water may lead to revelations of inner knowing. Here, the simple placement of a sign belies something deeper, a structure of ideas held together by threads of etheric light around the groundign point of Niekko's bright intention.

The Badlands

We continue our journeys through the realmscape of Zen Awakening, the Path leading us down a back trail where we are suddenly inquired by a hidden voice …

What makes a realm after all but the container of consciousness that defines it? A desert is a desert. An empty lot is a lot. Yet what appears on the surface of our perception is but the tip of the iceberg of something much deeper, something defined by the shape and structure of the ethers of consciousness itself. In this context, the scrawled sign of the Badlands is indeed the Badlands, it's fiefdom defined by the radiance of consciousness emanating from the figure holding the flag itself.

Serving the People

The Modern Mystery School

The arrival of the temple is proof-of-concept for me of the geometries of story which appear in all of our lives yet which are particularly transparent in the thin veils of transformational festivals. It is the landscape of legend, the placement of objective architectures which occur in the subjective experience of the people upon their lives and legends.

A vision comes to me as we approach the temple of the underlands, the feeling that Joshua and I are moving through the landscape of myth playing itself out in the geometries of the world and in the synchronicity of moments on the quest

Vimeo

As we wander through the realms, we discover that the tent we had been assigned to give the workshop is not set up. Trusting the Universe, we invoke that we are led to the most appropriate place, and listen for the way forward …

As we approach the pyramid, I intentionally remind Yeshua of the nature of the realms of the Mythica. How we are arriving on the surface expression of that mythopoetic landscape, it’s window made clear in the invocation of the Zen Awakening.

It is in these moments that the magic of the Mythica truly reveals herself as we open the sacred space within the pyramid and invoke the teaching.

… mere moments after I spoke the words, a figure arrives at the front of tent, clad in an Anubis mask with the sigil of wings upon his chest. I can scent the magic immediately, the embodied God-ness of his Aspect.

“I felt the energy call me here” he says, proving the Mythica to form.

(discovering) – He tells me his name is Navi Ethereal, and he is a wayshower, an opener between realms.

I smile. Of course he is. Such is the substance of our Stories.

(Later, along my timeline, Navi will appear again, intersecting with us in perfect synchronicity during the ‘Return to Cascadia’ episode of 2018 …)

The Realms of Fire

So many times have I walked around the Fires of the Flickering Realms, those places of momentary incarnation, sparks of dawning light playing out on the surface of the Worlds. Where we stand in community and collaboration, witnessing our inner magic more clearly in the Fire of our free expression.

We are led into my realms, those of Fire and endless Dance. Of the magics of the incandescent transformation, the lightning and the light. Here, Yeshua sees me in new light, recognizing my Aspect and how different it is from the tones of Earth that make up his legend.

The energy leads us forward, to a cul-de-sac overlooking the ritual space. Here we encounter the guardians of the realm, a pair of magicals named Alex Ariazza and ……

For we are the dancers ’round the Fire. The Stories and the Songs made manifest. Remembering ourselves in the flickering shapes of our Awakening.

The Temple Burn

And she is vigilant. So vigilant. Every watchful in service to her people. In sharing the message of her noble service.

It is a beautiful thing to see her in her power. Flush with integration, a mirror to my own healed essence. Like Shanti before her, I saw the energies of

Julie Woods speaks, sharing her sacred Voice. I am so proud of her, to have seen us both come so far in bringing our teachings to the people. As I witness her, she bears the glyph of Pink Floyd’s album ‘Dark Side of the Moon’, with light passing through a prism casting it’s rainbow through the darkness.

Such is so apropos for me, as I witness her in the Mythica, an angelic avatar devoted to the service of the people, walking her way through the human World. That she bears a glyph which shows the pure light of awareness moving through the prism of the self and the rainbow of it's expression is equally fine, for beyond it's mortal association to the Pink Floyd album 'Dark Side of the Moon' it's essence speaks to the very core of the Mythica herself.

Yet even the fire is made of the threads of energy, woven from the cause and effect of the elements of life dancing with life.

The Butterfly Magicians

The Christ Within

What she tells me is majestic. The essence of the liberation from the old paradigm, wrought within the substance of her own unfolding myth. It is a beautiful thing of True Faith and Surrender to her personal savior.

This was momentous for me, for I interpreted it as the movement from the state of realization when one projects Christ outside of themselves to seeing oneself alongside the ideal of that consciousness, an equally loved and cherished being in the eyes of God.

Clearing the Land

As we wait, almost all the other avatars leave. I sense that our aid is required by Niekko, that we are to help him clear out the trash and detritus left in the aftermath of the many challenges that he faced in the invocation of the Zen Awakening.

As we continue to clean, Niekko shows his dedication. Despite the burning to his foot, he insists, the three of us working together to clear out the headquarters.