The sacred Pipe
But I think I need to kind of back track a little because when I first got this work through I was told it wasn't to have a name...it wasn't to be limited by names and given boundaries. It was to be limitless...because it was a limitless world.
So here I was teaching something without a name...and working with people with this process without a name. And it was very difficult, but I had to trust it. About 12 months before I came to this country, a Native American woman gave me a pipe, a sacred pipe. And I didn't realize the significance of receiving one. I thought it would be rude, actually, not to have taken it so I took the pipe thinking I could hang it on the wall in my house and it would look OK.
But I didn't realize the significance at the time. So when I came to sell all my things when I left Australia...and give them away...nobody would take the pipe...and no one would buy the pipe. And here I was going to the airport with my suitcase and the pipe sitting there. And I didn't want to throw it away in the trash. My girlfriend who was taking me to the airport said she would take it...and I said "Just give it away or do something with it, but I don't want it".
So I went off to...came here...and she came to visit me about 8 months later...and she said "Oh, did you get your pipe...I posted it to you". And I said "No, it hasn't arrived". She was very concerned and I said "Not to worry...because I didn't want it in the first place". So, she left to go back to Australia and three weeks later the pipe arrives. And, of course, Pat, who is a partner in this work...who runs the school jointly with myself...and the workshops...was in Shasta visiting.
We were just acquaintances at that time. And she actually drove me down to pick it up at the post office. And I was just impatient...I wasn't even going to get it, but I thought "Oh, I'll get it", but I just wasn't interested. I unwrapped the pipe and held it and I was immediately transported to a sacred lodge setting. It was very shamanic...very powerful...and Energy started pouring through me. It was very strong...and I was being asked to take a pledge of the pipe into my heart.
And the feeling of responsibility around this was so overwhelming that I just threw the pipe down and I said "No, I'm not doing this. I don't know what this means." I didn't know what I was being asked to do. And I was scared. So the next morning I woke up about 5 o'clock and I knew that was my next step.
So I took the pipe and we had a sweat lodge out the back overlooking the mountain...and a tipi...and I took the pipe into the tipi and I took the pledge of the pipe into my heart. And at that time...in that moment...I was filled with a tremendous Energy...and a language started coming through me. And I didn't understand what the language was saying...what it meant...but the Energy was so strong...and it really overwhelmed me.
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