The Transfiguration Day 1: Bringing the Holy Mountain to You
Sun, 06/04/2017 - 05:48
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I felt to share where the Transfiguration came from - how was the course designed?
The story began at a mountain retreat centre in Taos, New Mexico, which I was checking out for a potential retreat venue. Going back to my room one afternoon, a book literally fell off the bookshelf in front of me (for some reason they have a tendency to do that with me!). On the front cover was a picture of the Holy Mountain "Kailash" in Tibet, a site of spiritual pilgrimage for thousands of years, and something about it struck a strong resonance in my heart...
Kailash is considered one of the key chakra centres of the planet, for me, it connects to the crown chakra. I find the just the image of it incredibly expanding and enlightening.
As soon as I saw it, I knew I wanted to go, and to connect with it's energy. But how to get there? How to travel? What would be involved? It's deep in Tibet, requires several days by truck to get there, and at that time, the Chinese had effectively annexed that part of Tibet.
Nevertheless I wasn't put off, and so I offered up the questions to the universe and held the space for the answers. Just a week or two later, now back in the UK, a heart-felt pull took me off to a favourite mountain location in the Breacon Beacons of Wales - and the horse shoe pass (named for obvious reasons). It was now Sunday morning and I was greatly enjoying the solitude on one of the misty peaks, when a lone stranger appeared out of the mist, introducing himself as "Rod".
We had a lovely exchange, but I was keen to push on by myself and enjoy the solitude. To my consternation, Rod announced he was doing the horse shoe pass too, and that he'd join me.... "hmmm", I reluctantly agreed. As it turned out though, the horse shoe pass was lucky for me that day - within a few minutes Rod was talking about his passion for Tibet and..... his life-long longing to go to Kailash! He was an absolute mine of information about it - the universe had found such a lovely mystical method of delivering my answers.
In the weeks that followed, Rod sent me a video of a westerner taking part in the "Kailash Circambulation", where people reverently circle the mountain 13 times - which is supposed to bring on Enlightenment". But what immediately struck me from the video, was just how physically demanding the 'Circambulation' appeared, particularly with its altitude above 4,000m. It caused me to question "What was I looking for?" "What was my soul yearning to achieve?"
Actually what I was really looking for, was a wider expansion of the higher chakras, and to ground that energy here and now in this density. Upon this realisation, the phrase "Bring Kailash to you!" landed. Initially I wasn't immediately clear how to do this, but I held the question, and in answer, a few days later, the pull took me once more to Wales, to a secluded woodland that I'd heard about a couple of years before. The guidance was clear - go to the wood for several days, sit against a tree and simply fast. That's exactly what I did.
It took around 36 hours to break through the initial busyness of mind, after which, the hunger fell away and my consciousness was expanding blissfully. It's then that I connected with the holy mountain, and very magically, felt that it was inside of me. What a joy and a blessing - I realised everything is inside of You, and all you have to do, is get very quiet and look.
In the days that followed, I had many profound higher dimensional experiences, and out of it, came the formula and the material for the Transfiguration course - which is all about uniting lower with higher self and finding the wonders of the universe inside of you.
So that's a little snapshot of how the course came into being. Maybe it will inspire you to take some time out, find a quiet spot in nature, even if only for an afternoon, fast for a while, and just sit and feel what wants to arise inside. That's how we've begun this year's Transfiguration, and the participants are getting loads from it already.
It's wonderful that you're tuning in and joining us.
Open *give_rose*
Kailash is considered one of the key chakra centres of the planet, for me, it connects to the crown chakra. I find the just the image of it incredibly expanding and enlightening.
As soon as I saw it, I knew I wanted to go, and to connect with it's energy. But how to get there? How to travel? What would be involved? It's deep in Tibet, requires several days by truck to get there, and at that time, the Chinese had effectively annexed that part of Tibet.
Nevertheless I wasn't put off, and so I offered up the questions to the universe and held the space for the answers. Just a week or two later, now back in the UK, a heart-felt pull took me off to a favourite mountain location in the Breacon Beacons of Wales - and the horse shoe pass (named for obvious reasons). It was now Sunday morning and I was greatly enjoying the solitude on one of the misty peaks, when a lone stranger appeared out of the mist, introducing himself as "Rod".
We had a lovely exchange, but I was keen to push on by myself and enjoy the solitude. To my consternation, Rod announced he was doing the horse shoe pass too, and that he'd join me.... "hmmm", I reluctantly agreed. As it turned out though, the horse shoe pass was lucky for me that day - within a few minutes Rod was talking about his passion for Tibet and..... his life-long longing to go to Kailash! He was an absolute mine of information about it - the universe had found such a lovely mystical method of delivering my answers.
In the weeks that followed, Rod sent me a video of a westerner taking part in the "Kailash Circambulation", where people reverently circle the mountain 13 times - which is supposed to bring on Enlightenment". But what immediately struck me from the video, was just how physically demanding the 'Circambulation' appeared, particularly with its altitude above 4,000m. It caused me to question "What was I looking for?" "What was my soul yearning to achieve?"
Actually what I was really looking for, was a wider expansion of the higher chakras, and to ground that energy here and now in this density. Upon this realisation, the phrase "Bring Kailash to you!" landed. Initially I wasn't immediately clear how to do this, but I held the question, and in answer, a few days later, the pull took me once more to Wales, to a secluded woodland that I'd heard about a couple of years before. The guidance was clear - go to the wood for several days, sit against a tree and simply fast. That's exactly what I did.
It took around 36 hours to break through the initial busyness of mind, after which, the hunger fell away and my consciousness was expanding blissfully. It's then that I connected with the holy mountain, and very magically, felt that it was inside of me. What a joy and a blessing - I realised everything is inside of You, and all you have to do, is get very quiet and look.
In the days that followed, I had many profound higher dimensional experiences, and out of it, came the formula and the material for the Transfiguration course - which is all about uniting lower with higher self and finding the wonders of the universe inside of you.
So that's a little snapshot of how the course came into being. Maybe it will inspire you to take some time out, find a quiet spot in nature, even if only for an afternoon, fast for a while, and just sit and feel what wants to arise inside. That's how we've begun this year's Transfiguration, and the participants are getting loads from it already.
It's wonderful that you're tuning in and joining us.
Open *give_rose*