Master's Training July 2006

Fourteen participants, two training masters, two staff and the cook.

We worked and played and trained together for 10 days. My husband, Another's wife, and a friend came on the seventh day to add their energy. We stayed busy with various lectures, exercises, and role playing for the drills we were tested on. There was the Preparation For Contemplation meditation and breathing exercises each of us lead along with the mini intensives we mastered and monitored. I kept receiving Images of birthing women, midwifery and a tall metal grounding pole. The relational dance of separation and connection absorbed me. I realized that that there was no right or wrong in the steps to this dance. My purpose was simply to be aware. Insights inundated me and explained my yearnings in this push and pull dance of life and love.

As usual for me at Intensives, I was on walking contemplation when my breakthrough to enlightenment came. I squatted on the rocks and moaned loudly as I gave birth to this knowing of myself and my connection with Another. I felt our deep connection in source. I realized the grounding pole as part of myself and my connection to source. I am source and the grounding pole is awareness. I am aware of the connection, aware of source, aware of Another. I am aware of awareness. I am aware of that which I am and that which Another is. I saw myself dance the dance of illusion, dancing the dance of the ego, dancing with nature, against nature, aware, unaware but always awareness. I understood my blended beingness of both physical and nonphysical self.

I also know the Whoness of myself as a rock more intimately and I know the Whoness and rocklike nature of Another also. I know The Great Mountain that we come from--the Mountain that birthed us and set us free. The mountain that made us One. I know the trees and their roots that travel deep into the earth. I know my own roots that travel deep, my awareness, my grounding pole. I know that which I AM.

After graduation and the celebration ringing of our master bells, 13 of us hiked up the mountain and swam in it's lake. As I entered the water I was filled with an organic, orgasmic pleasure. I was bathing in source awareness with Another. Me and my beloved others, my birth mates, wet and naked we had returned and were swimming in our watery womb home