I spent all of December in Las Vegas, Nevada, assisting with a new wellness center.

I have only been to Vegas, a couple of times before… when I was in my 20’s and 30’s, and only stayed on the famous Vegas strip. This time I experienced being a local, staying on one of Cary Grants old homes.
I have traveled many countries in the world that are considered dangerous, and I found this place to be the first I ever felt afraid. I like to walk around the areas I am exploring to get a good feel for the place. It was a beautiful, morning and looked forward to take a stroll. I walked for about an hour, and within that time I had one guy follow me in his car, even getting out of his car to start a conversation, and as soon as he left another guy walked up behind me yelling out to talk to me. I started walking very quickly, to almost a run, crossed the street and turned the corner to escape.

When I returned to the house, my friend told me this area is considered old Vegas, which is now overflowing with drug users. We discussed in depth about why people go to Vegas, and the energy pull it has on many. In addition to the normal reason to let loose and party all night, attend a conference, or the flux who moved there during  the 80’s for a chance to own their own home – there are also many highly advanced in the realm of spirituality and expanded consciousness who moved to Vegas… like my grandfather who was the founder of the Institute of Cosmic Wisdom, and moved there from Hawaii in the 60’s.

The insight of this discussion was Vegas challenges and test people with their vices and addictions; like sex, drugs, alcohol, gambling, overindulgence, greed, escapism, need for power – weakness in their psyche. For the ones who feel they have reached a high level of spiritual/consciousness advancement, it seems they experience the last temptation.

I believe most humans are constantly challenged with some distortion of mind. We are a species plagued with mental instability…. And the remedy to this condition, is to re-mind humanity of the eternal, fully empowered magnificent beings that we truly are.
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“Carefree Scamps like you and I go through transition stages from time to time, and one of the exceptional things about life's challenges is that we get to discover what we’re truly capable of. You, my friend, are more spirited, resolute, and fearless than you can ever imagine. And on the flip side you’re more immoral and foolhardy than most people could ever dream of being.
Isn’t that great?”
― Karl Wiggins
 
THANK YOU FOR BEING YOU

I first heard of the dark room retreat experience in Sept 2020, and said, “I have to do that”!
 
Here is a great article describing the experience: https://medium.com/@donny313g/down-the-rabbit-hole-how-a-dark-room-stimulates-dmt-and-profound-experiences-7faac6d0d547#:~:text=Dark%20room%20therapy%20is%20simply,higher%20states%20of%20the%20mind
 
I spoke with friend of a friend who did it in Guatemala, and highly recommended doing it there, while at the same time, made it very clear the dark room experience is “very intense” and not for everyone.
 
I started researching more about it and where it can be done. As it turned out the Hermitage, Solitary and dark retreat center in Guatemala, seemed like the best option. The only problem was Guatemala was not allowing visitors in the county due to Covid. Also, on the Hermitage site it says there is usually a 3 month out wait list for the dark room.
 
Well, life wanted it for me as much as I did, opening Guatemala’s borders days after I was researching… and miraculously, I was able to get in within a couple of weeks, before others on the list had time to make plans 😊
 
My original plan was to stay in for 7 nts, but I had a feeling the day before I entered the cave, I would want to stay 9 nts. Again, they said usually they would not be able to honor this last-minute request because of a tight schedule of people, but it ended up working out perfectly for me.
 
My experience of complete darkness and solitude felt like a mind/body/spirit boot-camp. I spent the entire time in a continual state of mediation… while eating, stretching my body, sitting, standing, and laying.  I did not allow my mind to hold on to any thoughts - Just constant awareness of the connection and feeling of the Source Field.
 
The ultimate experience during that time was while standing and doing Qigong type of movements through the darkness, and the blackened room filled with light particles. I came to tears of gratitude for what I perceived as a witnessing of Source particles popping in and out of existence. PURE AWESOMENESS!

“The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.”
― Thomas Paine
 
THANK YOU FOR BEING YOU

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The first week of Oct, I went on a planned 1-2 night trip to Shasta for a short full moon adventure, that turned into a fun last minute road trip with a friend.

My friend who recently moved to Mt. Shasta, really wanted to see Medicine Lake, Glass Mountain, and Crater Lake. I have already been to Medicine and Crater lake, but never Glass Mountain… and since I love road trips and new places, it didn’t take much to convince me to join her on a little adventure….and of course I had to make sure we stopped at some other cool waterways on way 😊

First stop was Medicine lake, a place of special spiritual significance for local Indian tribes, that sits in the caldera of the ancient volcano, Medicine Lake Volcano. We went for a quick brisk dip in the lake before heading to the remains of the last eruption on Glass Mountain.

I couldn’t stop saying “WOW”, as we entered the shiny glass-like black Obsidian filled terrain. I have been to many volcanic areas, which all tend to give the feeling that you are on a different planet, but this one tops them all. I really wish the pictures could portray what it felt like there… unfortunately they do not. We hiked around a bit and meditated for a while. I really like it there. It is interesting how fragile the Obsidian is at certain stages of its hardening…. Some of it is just like thin, sharp glass.

We drove on to Klamath Lake where the blue-green algae is formed that I take daily as a nutritional supplement. The lake was way too thick with the alae for us to swim in.

We spent the night in Klamath Falls, and continued to Crater Lake the next morning.

As always, that lake is breathtakingly spectacular. We both swam in the pristine and very cold lake, and even though it was freezing we found it very difficult to get out.

THANK YOU all the lakes and water of our planet FOR BEING YOU!

“You are water I’m water we’re all water in different containers that’s why it’s so easy to meet someday we’ll evaporate together.” ― Yoko Ono

“In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.”― Leonardo da Vinci
 
“They both listened silently to the water, which to them was not just water, but the voice of life, the voice of Being, the voice of perpetual Becoming.”― Hermann Hesse
 
“A drop of water, if it could write out its own history, would explain the universe to us.” – Lucy Larcom
 
“Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.” – Lao Tzu
 
 
 
 
 
 

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