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Shifting Grids in Yellowstone Park
By gia combs-ramirez | July 3, 2008
Note: This is 3rd in a series on 10 Days with a Guru.
Recap: It’s taken me longer to get this series done then I had anticipated. For those of you who have been following the story, but might have forgotten it by now, here’s what’s been happening: In early June, the CCT teachers were studying the element of fire in our teacher training. We invited a fire ceremonialist to join us and share his insights about his world. Spiritual teacher or guru, Mohan S. Jadhav, is a teacher of agnihotra, a 5000 year old Vedic ceremony done at sunrise and sunset, every day. Mohan Guruji has been honoring this practice for 35 years. Each day he performed the agnihotra ceremony on the ranch as well as shared his wisdom with us. The teacher training was also being conducted during that time, so we had a lot to assimilate. Nevertheless with the help of Crystalline Consciousness Technique, we were able to stay balanced and stabilized. There was tremendous amounts of personal and spiritual growth for all of us at this time.
Now on with the story finale:
During the week long, Crystalline Consciousness Technique, Teacher Training, there is always a break from our routine on the 4th day. This gives us all a chance to assimilate and catch our breath before finishing and closing. This time, we chose to spend the day in Yellowstone Park. Mohan Guruji had received intuitive information at some point in the past, that it was important to do ceremony in Yellowstone. He was excited to be going there, and we all wanted to be a part of it.
The day dawned sunny at the ranch. It took a while to get two cars filled with people and food, but we finally took off only an hour later than we had intended. As we headed south, the skies ahead of us looked ominous. I had warned everyone to be ready for snow, sun, rain and everything in between so they came well dressed. Sometimes I am able to shift weather, so I began setting up energy grids with the nature spirits to do that.
Driving through the park, everyone was enjoying seeing the bald eagles, buffalo and other animals that graze by the roadside. It was, however, seriously snowing. I was preoccupied with where to do the ceremony, where to eat and how to get home in time for the sunset ceremony. The weather was not responding to my energy work. It’s difficult to get a fire started when it’s being pelted by snow. One of the CCT teachers mentioned how excited she was that it was snowing, because her family had always wanted to spend a Christmas in Yellowstone. Suddenly it dawned on me why my energy work on the weather wasn’t working…I had included all of the CCT teachers in the energy session. And they weren’t all on the same page about the weather intentions. So I redid the energy work and this time just did it with myself and the nature spirits.
In about 10 minutes the skies opened up above us. And this was the pattern that we had the rest of the day. Before us was snow and behind us was snow, but above us was always clear skies. Thank you, Yellowstone Nature Spirits!
After eating (and warming up) in a lodge, we visited the south rim of the Yellowstone Grand Canyon. From the lookout point you can see the enormous falls of the Yellowstone River. Leaving this site, we began heading south to Yellowstone Lake (where the super volcano that underlies Yellowstone Park has been pushing upward). Mohan Guruji decided it was time for the ceremony and we pulled into the first pull out available. There in a grove of trees, the copper pyramid fire vessels were set up. Ghee (clarified butter) is used as the starter for the cow dung. Both of these elements are considered sacred and life enhancing in India.
The ceremony of agnihotra always reminded me of the pioneers who crossed the prairies in their schooners and burned buffalo chips for cooking and warmth. Now, we were burning cow chips in the sacred land of the Native Americans, standing near buffalo. It was all a bit surreal.
I’m not sure what the ceremony was that Mohan Guruji performed that day. I do know the power of it was very palpable. The lodge pole pines around us began swaying, not from wind, but from the power of the chanted mantras. Since there was snow in the boughs, it began pelting down on us as we continued with the mantras and ceremonial offerings to the fire. The spirit of the Native Americans came in strongly as well, and it felt like all the ancients from all cultures gathered to witness and to participate. To be strongly at one with the Earth and all elements is rare for most of us. That day and that time, we were once again connected in all ways to the web of life, to Earth, and to rhythms of the planets and stars. The mantras and we became the one verse…the Universe.
When read intuitively, the ceremony seemed to serve two purposes. One was laying a foundation of energy throughout the Greater Yellowstone area. Because of the geology of the area, the crust is very thin in Yellowstone. In my perception, energies of light and transformation for the planet were sent down through the crust and into the mantle, which like whale songs, spread throughout the whole globe. Simultaneously there was also a flash of light sent out into the universe. Light carries energetic information. Who and what we were communicating with is not known to me, but we sent important information on to those who are helping Earth from the other side of the veils of perception.
The rest of the day, we became tourists again. We looked at boiling mud, watched Old Faithful spout its power, gazed at endless skies and vistas, and then raced back to the ranch for the sunset agnihotra ceremony. The sweetness of that day is still with me and when everything around me becomes a bit crazy I can retreat into the inner stillness of that day.
Shortly after the ceremony, we completed our teacher training and our discourses with Mohan Guruji. One by one, over the course of three days, everyone began to leave, returning back to their homes.
I know we all grew spiritually and personally during our 10 days with Mohan Guruji.
I also know Mohan Guruji changed as well during his 10 days with Crystalline Consciousness Technique teachers. Time will tell the results of it all.
Topics: Agnihotra, Autobiographical, Energy Healing, Energy Science, Evolution of Consciousness, Personal/Spiritual Growth |
July 5th, 2008 at 12:35 pm
Gia,
I just discovered this post after I put up my own called The Unexpected Guru. I love your description of this particular event!
In your previous post which I also had not read, you said you would discuss the importance of discipline, but I do not see that you specifically mentioned it in this one, although your whole post embodies the essence of it.
I did specifically take up the subject of discipline in my post about Mohanji and his work, as that was something that caught my full attention.
I am glad you wrote this series as it says a great deal about that particular set of experiences.