<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Carlie ~~~~~~ 💥 <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>THANK YOU</span><div><font size="3"><br></font><div style="font-size: 16px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>~~~~~~What a joy it was on Tuesday to feel the power of your writing ~~~ The account of your experience from one of the </div><div style="font-size: 16px;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 16px;">Monthly Drum circle events in the yurt ~~~ we did the Shamanic Drum journeys for several years ~~~ they started in the big Tipi lodge</div><div style="font-size: 16px;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 16px;">and then moved into Spirit House when it was built and finally landed for years in the yurt~~~~people came from near and far for those </div><div style="font-size: 16px;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 16px;">and the experiences were very deep as your writing indicated ~~~~ considered to be “ancient healing technology” ~ that Science has proven </div><div style="font-size: 16px;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 16px;">effecting the two hemispheres of the brain (binaural) to induce a Shamanic transpersonal experience, which you clearly captured, brought back </div><div style="font-size: 16px;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 16px;">and of course documented in your “poem”~. Many people also reported such personal experiences that led to a good many insights and realizations~. </div><div style="font-size: 16px;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 16px;">Even to the skeptics who were so often completely flummoxed by their own journey experience in such a short period of time visiting the Lower and </div><div style="font-size: 16px;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 16px;">Higher realms, referred to as the "Lower and Upper Realms” ~ beginners from the “known reality” of our ordinary waking consciousness called the </div><div style="font-size: 16px;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 16px;">“Middle Realm” ~~~~ You are a natural for accessing these realms ~ others had to learn to release/surrender and trust in the </div><div style="font-size: 16px;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 16px;">process of the inward facing path ~ a form of meditation using sound and vibration as a carrier wave into new areas of consciousness~. </div><div style="font-size: 16px;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 16px;">~ Old time honored technology using the drum and other sound instruments to align with ~ to travel into different “planes” of consciousness~. </div><div style="font-size: 16px;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 16px;">To discover we are more than we have been conditioned to believe we are ~ drumming circles offered an opportunity for discovery beyond the </div><div style="font-size: 16px;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 16px;">seeming limitations of this 3rd dimension realm and proved that there is more going on here that simply “the 3rd dimension” other dimensions are </div><div style="font-size: 16px;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 16px;">in effect as well ~ accessing them can occur accidentally and does for everyone I would say but usually a practice is necessary i.e, a meditation </div><div style="font-size: 16px;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 16px;">practice or something such as a drum circle… ~~~~~ Thank you Carlie for bringing this forward ~~~~ perhaps others will be encouraged to approach </div><div style="font-size: 16px;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 16px;">healing from a more expanded perspective ~~~ from the physical (matter), the mental (psychological), the energy (etherial) and the many </div><div style="font-size: 16px;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 16px;">alternative and integrative healing modalities that are vastly available ~~~~… </div><div style="font-size: 16px;"><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 16px;">w/Love and Gratitude, ~Ron🙏</span><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 5 Jun 2025, at 3:50 p.m., Jima Abbott via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div>FROM CARLIE<br><br>Last month Taylor shared a writing she did about a healing journey and it reminded me of a drumming journey I had several years ago about healing the fear, anger and wrong doings I want to heal within me. After reviewing my writing this is the version I shared this week on Tuesday.<br><br>DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE<br><br>I lay on the padded flour in the Yurt listening to the drum beat that will pull me down my rabbit hole and into the center of the earth.<br><br>There is a reluctance in my mind to dive into the unknown.<br><br>Plummeting down the dark tunnel I am hurled to the dirt floor and am met by Crow who pecks at my eyes.<br><br>Bear comes to me and begins to claw and shred the skin from my body; into the muscle and organs.<br><br>Blood and body fluids leave a stain on the virgin snow beneath me.<br><br>As Bear devours my organs she reaches for my heart and tucks it gingerly into her pocket of fur.<br><br>She takes me to her winter cave which is dimly lit by the fire under the cauldron in the center of the room.<br><br>I can see black writing etched into my bones; my numerous fears, judgements and transgressions I so dearly want to heal inside me.<br><br>There is a large pink eraser beside me and I begin to try and rub away each of the writings.<br><br>Bear asks me, “What are you doing?"<br><br>“I am trying to erase my fears, my angers, my judgements; to become pure and clean,”<br><br>She says you can erase each wound individually, but it will take a long time<br><br>or you can jump into this vat of lye and dissolve your bones and all the unsettling emotions and experiences that they hold.<br><br>As I stand on the lip of the large kettle looking down at the caustic liquid, I must now make a choice.<br><br>Will I surrender to the unknown, to be ridden of that which burdens me.<br><br>I turn to Bear and ask “But what about my heart?"<br><br>She says, “I will keep it safe for you. Your heart is pure and loving.<br><br>Your heart is safe with me.<br><br>Your bones will dissolve, but remember that your heart is pure.<br><br>You need to trust yourself.<br><br>Remember, trust yourself, <br><br>you are Love."<br>_______________________________________________<br>Thespiritexpress mailing list<br>Thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org<br>https://lists.mcn.org/mailman/listinfo/thespiritexpress<br></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>