For all of you Facilitators out there we want you to know you are all "present" here at the Gathering!!! Today saw a slide show of all of your beautiful faces, mirroring our tribe, and we hollered out your names calling your spirits here to join us (in case your ears were ringing this afternoon, that's why!).
After a fantastic and full day we enjoyed an evening of ritual and song. Vinit brought a group who led us in a beautiful Wiccan/pagan ritual welcoming in the spirits of the directions, connecting us to the elements and presencing us to our embeddedness in Pachamama. We were guided to tune into our own hearts to connect to what brought us to partner with The Pachamama Alliance and The Awakening the Dreamer Initiative. A beautiful song followed honoring our deeply loved Pachamama herself.
A guest of Ruel's, Doug Von Koss, lead us in an amazing journey to discover our voices and innate rhythms. We launched into a variety of chants and songs which brought our voices out aligning them together in a beautiful choir. Doug invited us to join him in his ecstatic praise of the sacred, of one another, of our world. Each song brought me deeper into my core, each breath striving to share my voice more fully, every word opening my heart and body more. This process brought me into a resonance with our community at a cellular level that further weaved us together.
At one point I reflected on how important these experiences are in bringing us closer to our ancestors who sang and danced together in community for tens of thousands of years. This is part of our remembering of our roots, the discovery of new levels of our connectivity and the joyful expression of our affection for one another. I also noted that these activities are growing in our culture and we are participating in the evolution of our culture globally. These activities are also an alternative to our consumer culture, a practice in furthering our sustainability as each of us could have been somewhere else in the world engaging in the typical mainstream activities on a Friday night. For a few hours we stepped out of our hurried world and stepped into ourselves, our connection to one another as a community and our deep connection to spirit.
Today was a powerful context to build from for the rest of the Gathering together this weekend.
Dreams and blessed rest await, love to you all,
Eve
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Hello fellow facilitators,
THANK YOU for creating this blog site and the YouTube site - it is an amazing way to keep us connected with what is happening there, and proof in action of the power of the internet as a global democratic voice! There are many of us who wish we could be there, and are there in spirit, and thanks to your generosity we can still be a part of it! I was so moved to hear that you had acknowledged and called us all in to be there, how powerful. That explains why I was feeling a bit disconnected yesterday :o) Hello to all of you, Jon, Ruel, and the Australian contingent (my adopted country), and Nick from the UK (my compatriot). Thank you and bless you all for the work you are doing there on behalf of all of us.
Jackie Buckingham (FaKaWi tribe, Australia)
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