Map showing Bali within Indonesia

May 31, 2005 - From my friend Pat

I've just returned to New York City after spending 11 days in Bali where I embarked on a sacred journey with 19 other woman from around the US. As a world traveler, I must say I was dually impressed with the Kuala Lumpur airport. It is the most technologically advanced airport I've ever seen. The main lounge has showers, massage chairs, or massages for weary travelers, and a variety of food and drinks.

My two friends, and I, finally arrived at our first destination, Ubud after 32 hours of traveling. There we joined the rest of the women and our teacher. And so our spiritual journey began ... far from the noise of the city and the pace of human experience, someone in another part of reality.

The Ubud Inn and Spa was reminiscent of old Hollywood Beach, Florida where I spent much of my youth. The gardens are lush with tropical plants, lots of Hibiscus and different kinds of palm trees. Three times a day, the cleaning staff at the Inn, would leave lovely floweral arangements outside our rooms. As an offering to the gods they also left fresh fruit, flowers, palm leaves in a design to hold the flowers, and burning incense. I will always remember Bali when I smell Frangiapani!

The massages at the Ubud Inn were wonderful, costing 100,000 rupia which comes to approximately $10 US. Much is done out in the open including baths and showers which are open to public view, which I didn't realize at first. What a surprise to have a group of people walk by as I took my first shower there. Ooops!

Unlike massages given in the US, Balinese massages are done on the front of the body as well as the back, including the stomach and breasts, which may not be 'comfortable' for everyone, but can help clear stomach and breast problems, the part of the body where people hold onto negative energy.

Let's begin with the drive up to the temples ... We traveled by taxis and buses. Everywhere in this serene paradise, they drive like lunatics, on the left hand side of the street. This was very 'hairy' for me as I and am a great driver at home, used to the chaos of Manhattan traffic, but not expecting the harrowing experiences we encountered along the way. The city streets are filled with motor scooters competing with taxis, which result in lots of accidents. The mountain roads were totally scary! But you forget all of that once you arrive at your destination, the breathtaking temples.

Bali is sometimes called the "Island of 10,000 Temples" or "Island of the Gods" and this is not exaggerated.

There were large temples set around the island, positioned at specific places for different reasons. Our tour guide, Dharma, explained that it had to do with the sacred geometry of the land, ley lines, and major grid points.

Temples are erected everywhere.Some of the temples are to keep the character of a person, good, as Dharma explained to us.

Throughout the trip, every member of our group was aware of the spiritualness of the Balinese culture and people because it is such a natural part of their everyday life.

The Balinese people live in family compounds, several homes within gated areas, each having at least 3 temples which serve different purposes.

95% of the people use only 4 names given to their children at birth, although they usually have an affectionate nickname inside their family. If you have more than 4 children, you start over with the same names. The first child is always called Wayan, the second Mada, third child Nyoman, the fourth child Ketut. Male or female it's the same.

Bali is very much a caste system each with its own set of names. 5% is the Ruling or Warrior Caste. Other castes include the priest/priestess caste and the skilled tradesmith caste.

The Balinese religion, Hinduism, is very much alive. Each morning in Bali you see everywhere groups of men and women bringing offerings to a temple. It often felt like a scene in a movie or a step out of time.

Important festivals are celebrated by everybody with large processions to the temple that are accompanied by gamelan musicians.

Every village compound has at least three large temples: the Pura Desa, where religious festivals are celebrated, the Pura Dalem for the Goddess of Death (this is the place where the funeral cremation rites start), and the Pura Puseh that is dedicated to the Gods of Heaven. Temples are everywhere, on the mountains and in the valleys, in the ricefields (they are small shrines for the Rice Goddess), and on the seaside, and every temple is different.

There are generally between five and eleven temples inside the gates. Every temple in Bali receives several offerings each day. It is a natural part of their daily experience, like breathing the smell of incense everywhere we went in the villages.

Everywhere, you see people all day long making offering containers in a flowery design out of palm fronds. Every store has one or more containers on the sidewalk, just outside the store, with burning incense. It is such a wonderful part of the Balinese culture.

High in the mountains, our group arrived at Tirtagangga,
where we stayed at the Water Palace
which is close to the Mother Temple.

The Mother Temple

We entered through the opening on the right, which is a doorway.

There we met the High Priestess who made us headbands.

Inside the Mother Temple

Inside the temples we took part in sacred dances.

Fire Dance

In honor of these dances we all wore kabayas which

consist of a long silk or cotton sarong with a long sleeved

intricate designed top with a belted scarf around the waist.

I met some incredibilty spiritual women along the way. The woman on the left is Kutera who owns a spiritual center in Kauai, Hawaii and organizes the trips to Bali.

The Water Temple is actually a private residence (compound) with beautiful water gardens and a stone-water labyrinth. It is located next to the Prince's residence.

The Water Palace was built by the last king of Karangasem, Anak Agung Anglurah Ketut, in 1947. Much of it was destroyed by the 1963 eruption, but the famous bathing pools remained intact. This is a place of great cleansing, peace, and connection to creational forces.

We stayed there for five days and swam in pools filled with holy water from the main spring. The water felt cleansing and wonderful; the energies were amazing as if not being in physical reality. We meditated, practiced yoga, swam, and shared our lives.

Everything is done in three's including the pools. The first pool, the highest one, is called 'Heaven'. The second pool is 'Mid-heaven'. And the third pool is the 'Underworld', as they celebrate all 3 aspects of life.

Mystical Paradise

Joglo

Sacred Pool at Water Palace

Family Compound

Water Palance Grounds

People sit in front of the temple to receive a blessing under the Tree of Life. The tree is so large, its base is the large brown area behind the temple. Water flows from the base of the tree into sacred pools after which it is released into the rice fields.

For 11 days we traveled to the temples raising our spirtual awareness in this majestic land. Much was about the return of the feminine energies and messages received from god and goddess.

On the last day, as we sat in a circle, I remembered Ellie telling me that Z would be part of the trip. I telepathically asked Z for confirmation. A woman in the circle stood up and asked if we would do a prayer linked to Zoroaster. I laughed out loud, though no one knew why!

There was much discussion about the earthquake and tsunami of December 26, 2004 in the region and its symbology on a spiritual level. These events were metaphors for the flow of the collective unconsciousness, reawakening in the quake of time. Those events realigned the Time Grids and introduced a different planetary code. Events are about planet Earth and the souls, terraforming themselves.

Here is a fascinating true story, told to us during our journey, and linked to the return of the feminine energies.

At the time of the tsunami, December 26, 2004, on an island in Indonesia that is Moslem, the only remaining safe building was a Mosque. Survivors fled to the top of the mosque when the tsunami hit.

As the giant waves crashed down, creating destruction in their 'wake', a pregnant woman watched as her 3 young daughters disappeared into the sea. Prepared to meet a similar fate, out of nowhere, a large water buffalo lifted her to the top of the mosque, where she went into labor. Among the survivors on the mosque was a mid-wife who delivered the woman's healthy baby girl. [Metaphors abound, 4 daughters, 3 were gone.] The woman's husband also survived the tragedy.

This story is looked upon as a prophecy about the rebirth of the feminine energies. This clashes with religion doctrine which has little meaning for evolved soul.

When I read Ellie's World on May 27, I had to laugh, but was not surprised that she had mentioned the Birth of a White Buffalo and its prophetic link to White Buffalo Calf Woman and the rebirth of human consiousness. It is all connected by synchronicity and design.

We learned much about animals leading people to safety during the underwater earthquake and tsunami last December. Animals know ... they bring messages. Look at how the elephants helped during the tsunami.

May 31, 2005, Times Online

The little Buddhist sage sits underneath the tree only yards from the sea from which he was plucked, a whimsical smile upon his face.

Villagers gather before him with offerings of incense and food.

"We must look after him," Gajendram, a fisherman, said as he knelt to light a candle. "He was sent 1,000 miles across the sea to protect us and he will stay with us for ever."

A few miles up the coast at Mahabalipuram, a group of day trippers marvel at the weathered carvings on a huge rock sitting in the middle of the beach.

To one side lie the ruins of a temple in the sand. "We used to come here many times but we never saw these before," Vinod Kumar, a student, said. "It is a gift of the tsunami."

When the giant wave crashed into coastlines across the Indian Ocean, it took thousands of lives with it, erasing villages, destroying bridges, roads and fishing fleets.

But on this little stretch of the Tamil Nadu coast, it brought treasures too, unearthing ancient ruins and sending unfamiliar idols into the arms of the faithful.

At Mahabalipuram, when the tsunami fell back from the shore it took with it tonnes of sand from the beach, laying bare the forgotten ruins of a 7th-century temple and a rock covered with beautiful carvings of tigers, elephants and horses.

Archaeologists say that the new find indicates a giant superstructure that once stood on the beach, dating from the Pallava period from which Mahabalipuram's other temples also date.

While important, however, they are causing nothing like the fuss of the other tantalizing glimpse into the past that villagers here believe the tsunami showed them.

As the waters of the sea receded 500 metres from Mahabalipuram's beachfront temple, mesmerized observers say that they saw very clearly on the ocean floor a series of pagoda-like temples apparently swallowed up by the sea in the past few hundred years.

Archaeologists believe that the ruins could be part of the mythical city of Mahabalipuram, which legend says was so beautiful that the gods sent a flood that engulfed six of its seven temples.



The myth was first written by J. Goldingham, a British traveler who heard the story when he visited in 1798.

Experts have long been divided between those who believe in the ancient city and those who think it is a myth.

But the sightings, claimed by scores of witnesses, have led to a treasure hunt. Underwater photographs show stone structures covered in algae and barnacles, lending credence to the story.

Those who say they saw it, however, have no need for science.

"After seeing it I thought God is doing something wonderful to save our lives, I knew then we would survive."

But no one is more convinced of the hand of God at work than the villagers of the tiny fishing village of Meyyurkappam where the little Buddhist idol arrived so unexpectedly ten days after the tsunami struck.

In all, the journey was amazing.
The return of the feminine energies, in the dawn of a new humanity, is emerging.
Hopefully you can find it within your soul experience.

My next trip will be in August when Ellie and I travel to Germany. I have dreamed of 'time travel' and Germany since we created the original plan.

When I finally picked up my email, in Indonesia, on Friday, May 27, strangely the text came through in German for no apparent reason. That was at the same time Big Ben stopped for 90 minutes. This was also unexplained.

I remembered one word from the email written in German Bundscheit as it repeated several times. Ellie and I googled it and discovered Heinrich Bundscheit a Nazi soldier who won the War Medal of the German Cross in Gold in April 1943. We laughed at the synchronicities of it all. The swastika symbol appeared in many places in Bali. There were also images of the American eagle, which links with the Masonic Program and Eye symbology.

October 1, 2005

Indonesia has been a place of unrest for some time, especially with the earthquake and resulting tsunami on December 26, 2004.

As we experience in the Age of Technology, we process and realize the events and patterns that play out in the world, far more quickly than ever before. Our ability to grasp the 'bigger picture' will grow exponentially as we move to Zero Point Experiment.

We are able to see events and their global repercussions as they unfold before us and focus into view, each soul processing at their own level of comprehension. We watch the patterns of the program and speculate about future probabilities. Conclusions are based on fact, but also on intuition or something remembered. This is all part of our growing awareness and the ascent back to creation. The Internet did not happen at this point in our history, by accident. There is a method to the madness, which many of you are watching, as if 'out of the box'.

You may recall my file about Pat's spiritual journey to Bali. There, she met women from around the world, questing for peace, balance, and focus. One of the women is an American, Sohana, my age, who has lived in Bali for many years, where she works as a healer and makes jewelry out of crystals. She often travels to the US, Hawaii and the mainland, to visit friends, family, and sell her jewelry. This summer Sohana visited Pat, in Brooklyn. While here, we spent time together, wherein I gave Sohana a reading. I saw her spending less and less time in Bali, then moving away permanently.

Many people are being, and will be, guided to move to another location for reasons unknown to them until they get there. This has been going on for years for those seeking answers to their greater destiny. For some, the reasons are readily available, but for others, it may take some time before they understand their truer purpose. Be patient. Life is not always fair and many of us are in 'waiting mode'.

This pattern has always been part of the human equation, to migrate and follow the ley lines and shifting grids that guide one and align them with the matrixes of their next grid experience.

Monday night, as Pat and I talked about her trip to Bali, she told me, that when she was there, the US State Department sent an email issuing a warning for Americans to leave Indonesia due to information received about potential acts of terrorism aimed at tourists.

Pat, and her group of spiritual woman, felt secure where they were. That feeling turned to anxiety on their last night in Bali, when they stayed in the tourist area. Pat reports that every vehicle, in and out, of the hotel grounds was checked for explosive devices. Mirrors were placed under all vehicles and car trunks were searched. The thought of being part of a terrorist attack, after 16 days of spiritual balance with the land and the Balinese people, seemed very remote ... though one could sense that it was inevitable.

Planet Earth is heating up in more ways than one. Follow the patterns and alignments!

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