Dreamtime

Dreams, Dreamtime and Spirit Journeys are ALL visitations to the Spirit Realm of Reality. The Spirit Realm is as much a part of our Reality as this Physical Realm is, however, it is often seen that this Spirit Realm is not REAL.

Dreams:

We ALL Dream each and every night, if we realize it or not. It is interesting to look into what a DREAM really is. To look more deeply into DREAMS we must also look into sleep. When we think of sleep we think of rest, resting our body and our mind from the daily activities.

When we are asleep our body is not as shut down as we often think, our Heart still beats and continues to circulate our blood throughout our body, our Lungs still breath and our body’s cells still exchanges waste gases for oxygen and our cells are still busy working. This is all going on while we are sound asleep and without our awareness. When we are aware of this it does not seem like we are getting any rest, specially our body’s cells. Our body’s rest comes from our body being free of our CONSCIOUSNESS, when we are asleep our CONSCIOUSNESS drifts away from our physical body. When we are asleep we are not even CONSCIOUS of our body or even that we are in a bed.

What really rests during our sleep is our Logical Mind. It is when our Mind is too active that we have problems getting to sleep. We can be tossing and turning in our bed to try and get to sleep and our thoughts can keep us awake. In order to sleep our Mind and our Thoughts need to calm down and come to a state of REST. It is when our Mind shuts down that our CONSCIOUSNESS is free to drift away from our physical body. The question is – where does our CONSCIOUSNESS go?

Our CONSCIOUSNESS is more than our body and mind; it is our sense of SELF and is our SOUL. Our SPIRIT resides in the Spirit Realm much like our Physical Body resides here in the Physical Realm, our CONSCIOUSNESS (SOUL) travels to our SPIRIT when our BODY is asleep, and when we awake our CONSCIOUSNESS returns to our BODY.

Our Logical Mind is focused on this Physical Realm and the parameters that govern this Physical Realm. The Spirit Realm has a completely different set of parameters that govern the world of our SPIRIT. In our Dreams we can FLY, and water can flow UPHILL, we can talk to ANIMALS, or visit with ANGELS, and many other strange things that our Logical Mind has a difficult time grasping and logically we call this as being UNREAL. This is why we often forget our DREAMS almost immediately upon awakening; our Logical Mind sees no value in such UNREAL experiences.

There have been experiments concerning our DREAMS and how our DREAMS affect us. When we DREAM our brains reach a certain state. In these experiments subjects have been observed sleeping and when their brains reach the dream state the subject is awaken. This happens every time they reach the DREAM state to see what happens if we do not DREAM. After 4 or 5 nights of NOT DREAMING the subjects start to hallucinate and have trouble decipher what is REAL and UNREAL. The lack of DREAMING directly affects how our Logical Mind can function in this Physical Realm. We need to DREAM in order for our Logical Mind to function properly here in the Physical Realm.

What REAL value do our DREAMS have? In order to answer this we need to start to REMEMBER more of our actual DREAMS. Remembering our DREAMS can be a real challenge as often our DREAM will quickly fade away as we become more awake. Remembering our DREAM in order to share it on www.dreamcatcher.net can be a powerful tool in remembering our DREAMS, it gives us a REASON to remember.

Dreamtime:

The Australian aboriginal tradition DREAMTIME is when one travels to our SPIRIT while awake, in other aboriginal traditions it is often referred to as Spirit Journeys. Here I will refer to both as DREAMTIME. The process is much the same as when we sleep and dream; except we do not sleep we are awake. We need to relax the BODY as much as we can, and to quiet the MIND as much as we can, much like meditation practices do. Before the process is started one needs to set one’s INTENTION for the journey to the Spirit Realm. The INTENTION is very important and the more precise the INTENTION the more productive the journey is.

When we travel to the Spirit Realm in a more CONSCIOUS state (awake) as opposed to an UNCONSCIOUS state (asleep) we are more able to interact with the Spirit Realm in a more rational manner. When we are asleep we experience the Spirit Realm in what seems to be fragments and we seem to be more reacting to the dream rather than really participating in the dream. When we are awake and visit the Spirit Realm it is much more fluid and we can actual participate as opposed to simple reaction.

When we return from the Spirit Realm we can remember every detail of our visit. I do recommend that one use a journal to record their visits, as often over time the memory fades. Aboriginal cultures around the world have practiced these visitations to the Spirit Realm while awake for centuries and their visits helped to heal the individual and many others. One can do these visits for one self or on behalf of others.

Conclusion:

When we do the DREAMTIME and visit the Spirit Realm awake, we start to see the connection to our DREAMS when we are asleep. We start to remember our DREAMS much more in detail and we also have a better understanding of their meaning and the benefits of our DREAMS.

Love & Fear

Love & Fear are our 2 Emotions that govern our State of Mind. It is from our State of Mind that we experience the many different types of Feelings that we have. It is common to confuse our Feelings with our Emotions and we often use these two terms interchangeably.

The first thing to understand is the difference between Emotions & Feelings. When we confuse these two we often see them belonging to our Hearts as opposed to our Mind. This is not accurate, our Feelings belong to our Heart, but it is our Mind that experiences the feelings. Our Emotions sets the parameters in order to experience our Feelings. Our Emotions belongs to our Mind and it is the Emotions that sets our State of Mind in order to experience our FEELINGS. How we experience our FEELINGS tells us the STATE OF OUR MIND (FEAR OR LOVE).

With only 2 Emotions – Love & Fear – it would seem to be a very easy thing to get a handle on, except there are many, many, different levels to these two emotions.

Love:

There are many different levels to Love – Unconditional Love, Conditional Love, Caring for another, Brotherly Love, Motherly Love, Hard Love, Physical Love and as many different levels of Love as we can imagine. The question is what does it all boil down too?

In many Spiritual Traditions the state of Unconditional Love is the state that is desirable. When asked to explain this state, it is often replied with, it is a state that cannot be communicated but must be experienced, and it is a state of bliss. It is the same traditions that tell us that in order to reach this state we must denounce our Ego. This I understand but do not agree with. The Ego I will get to later.

Love is the state of UNION WITH THE WHOLE. It is when we truly feel this state of being a part of the wholeness of everything that is the state of Love. That there is no separation! That there is a lack of the INDIVIDUAL (Ego). It is this state of COMPLETENESS and experiencing the WHOLE and the LOSS OF THE INDIVIDUAL that is a form of BLISS. This is TRUE, but it is not the DESIRED STATE – IT IS A STATE.

In our day-to-day life and in our society as a whole we are all searching for this LOVE. It is a search for BELONGING, ACCEPTANCE, VALUE, CARING, PARTICIPATING and being a part of...

We go about this search for LOVE as if it is a state from outside of ourselves. As if someone else will give it to us, or that we can find it somewhere out there...

We are searching from a STATE OF SEPARATION, from a STATE OF FEAR. It is really difficult to find our CONNECTION TO THE WHOLE from this state of SEPARATION. This is why many Spiritual Traditions teach us to denounce the Ego, to denounce the Individual, the separation.

Fear:

Fear is the Emotional State of SEPARATION, of the INDIVIDUAL. This state too has many different levels attached – Stress, Worry, Loneliness, Victim-hood, Anxiety, Death, Disease, Accidence, Abandonment, and all the worries of our Physical Life. These many levels of FEAR can range from very mild discomfort to paralyzing FEAR for our very Life; they all come from a state of SEPARATION – IT IS A STATE.

We ALL live our Life in this STATE OF FEAR. It you look at our society we are always worried about our SAFETY – seat-belts, helmets, air-bags, smoke alarms, CO2 alarms, even protection from the SUN is a concern and worry. This doesn’t even touch the issue of diseases – Cancer, AIDS, Alzheimer, and many others. This does not include how we are always COMPETING with each other and with our ENVIRONMENT (pollutants, pests, virus, etc).

It is from this STATE OF FEAR that we are desperately searching for the STATE OF LOVE. At times this seems like a contradiction in STATES – How can we find the STATE OF LOVE when we are in a STATE OF FEAR? It is this contradiction that causes some Spiritual Traditions to denounce our INDIVIDUALITY (EGO) in order to obtain the STATE OF LOVE. Removing the INDIVIDUAL or EGO removes the STATE OF FEAR and reaching the STATE OF LOVE is much easier to be obtained. This has a very LIMITED RESULT, as if ONE state is better than the other, or that it is necessary to make a choice between the two and obtaining both is not obtainable.

Challenge:

The true challenge is to obtain a balance of these two states (Love & Fear). Many will say that this is not possible, or that balancing the two means that you do not fully appreciate either. I disagree. In fact the two are made to be balanced!

As an example, let’s take the feeling of being ALONE.  When we experience being ALONE from a STATE OF FEAR, we SUFFER from LONELINESS, from a STATE OF LOVE we can APPRECIATE our SOLITUDE. We even have different words to describe being ALONE depending on the STATE OF OUR MIND (Emotion).

The difficulty is that we are looking for the STATE OF LOVE, from a STATE OF FEAR. We need to change our position – we need to look for our STATE OF FEAR from a STATE OF LOVE. It is the STATE OF LOVE that we find our COURAGE to find our STATE OF FEAR.

How we change our PARADIGM:

In our search for LOVE from our position of FEAR is due to our CONSCIOUSNESS being focused on this Physical Realm that we define as our Life. In the last few hundred years we have focused our CONSCIOUSNESS on this Physical Realm and we call it REALITY. Science has forced us to tightly focus our CONSCIOUSNESS here in order to more fully understand how our Physical Environment reacts to each other. This has lead to great advancements in Technology and in our understanding of this Physical Realm and in many ways has EXPANDED our CONSCIOUSNESS of this PHYSICAL REALM. This has come at a PRICE.

Note: Classical Science and Organized Religion started to separate our CONSCIOUSNESS into 2 narrowly focused states (Physical & Spiritual) that we now see as being CIVILIZED. It is the time that these two disciplines became primary that we really moved into this current time of the STATE OF FEAR. For the sake of this article I will refer to the time before Science and Religion as simply “UNCIVILIZED”.

Prior to becoming CIVILIZED we were in a much more UNION with our ENVIRONMENT and with EACH OTHER. We saw ourselves as being a PART of LIFE and that there was much more to LIFE than just the Physical Realm.  In the UNCIVILIZED time the REALITY OF LIFE was seen to consist of 3 REALMS – PHYSICAL, ENERGY AND SPIRIT.  In the ancient time Shamans would communicate with the Spirit of the Plants to learn how best to utilize their properties, today we BELIEVE it was done with” trial & error” but it was not, it was done through SPIRIT. In the ancient times “Curses”, “Charms” and “Protective Amulets” were used and this utilized the ENERGY REALM. Today we think of these things as superstition. With our understanding of this PHYSICAL REALM we need to once again expand our CONSCIOUSNESS to incorporate the ENERGY AND SPIRIT REALMS of REALITY. In the ancient time our BELIEF was much more understood in what connected (LOVE) us to LIFE, and a lot less on the INDIVIDUAL (FEAR). We understood our connection with the WHOLE and the INDIVIDUAL relationship to the WHOLE. THIS IS WHAT WE HAVE LOST!

The NEW SCIENCE is beginning to explore the ENERGY REALM that is often referred to as the FABRIC OF LIFE. In the way of Science we have reached the limit of our expanding CONSCIOUSNESS of this PHYSICAL REALM and are once again expanding our CONSCIOUSNESS to incorporate the ENERGY REALM and at some point the SPIRIT REALM. It is the SPIRIT REALM that WEAVES the FABRIC OF LIFE.

When we truly believe and understand that we are an intricate PART OF THE WHOLENESS OF LIFE, we have found our STATE OF LOVE. It is from this state of LOVE that we can start to explore our INDIVIDUAL role in this LIFE. The state of LOVE gives us the COURAGE to face our FEAR. WE CAN BALANCE THE TWO EMOTIONS OF LOVE & FEAR and truly become WHOLE with BOTH of these STATES.

Blue Apatite Elixir

A friend of mine sent me some feedback on the "Blue Apatite" Elixir that he has been using for a few months time.

I think it is best to use his own words. I will keep his full name private as it honors our confidence.

"You really don't notice it at first. The benefits of the elixir creep up on you. Where you really notice it is when you stop taking it. Within a day or two you ate actually putting more effort into mental activities.

I've tested this back and forth about four times now with the same results. People may have vastly different results but I think it may have something to do with the actual problem solving load they put on their mental process daily.

The teachers and artists are really going to like this stuff." ...Brennan

 I find this type of feedback very helpful in that, my friend has taken the time to evaluate the Elixir over a few months time, not a few weeks, and have tried it a few times with a result that is repeated. I find it very valuable.

Evolver

Last Sunday (Feb. 20) I attended an event with a friend hosted by Evolver and the local spore group that had a discussion on the lack of "Rite of Passage" ceremony in our modern society. I found it very INTERESTING but I found it to go around the MAIN POINT. We talked about addictions, death, adolescence, menstruation, menopause, and a lot of the different stages of LIFE. We talked about COMMUNITY about SUPPORT and about how SOME get stuck in the different STAGES OF LIFE.

There is nothing that I heard during the event that I would disagree with or even to do differently. In ALL of the discussion I never heard any mention of SPIRIT. I do not mean RELIGION or any similar topic, but the realization that LIFE is more than the PHYSICAL. We did mention SHAMANISM and the use of PLANT MEDICINES, but without some anchor in the SPIRIT part of LIFE it is very LIMITING in the benefits.

I believe we need to approach LIFE with a broader understanding than just the PHYSICAL. We can go through these Physical Passages with extreme difficulty when we are only focused on the Physical. In some aboriginal cultures when one comes of age, they are no longer children of the adults that raised them. At this time Father Sky and Mother Earth adopt them, in this way they are never alone. Today we would see this as very SYMBOLIC and of very little real value. In the ancient ways this was more than symbolic, there was a much more REAL relationship with Father Sky and Mother Earth.

It is this RELATIONSHIP that we have lost. We lost this relationship when we abandoned our BELIEF and replaced it with PHYSICAL KNOWLEDGE. For the last 200 years or more we have followed the adage “Knowledge is Power” and this knowledge has replaced our BELIEF. In our haste for knowledge we have demoted our BELIEF to religion and/or superstition. I have been told “Facts are more REAL than Belief”. Do you find it interesting that you can have a number of labeled “Specialists” debating over the interpretation of FACTS? Does this not signify that our FACTS are not as absolute as we may BELIEVE they are?

It is not a matter of one or the other (Knowledge or Belief) both has a critical part to play in our Life, one does not trump another. There is a good example where both have a place to play;

A California medical doctor was in a skiing accident and broke his lower spinal cord. The prognosis was that he would be paralyzed from his waist down, for the rest of his life. He was a medical doctor and knew the medical science and the knowledge that the spinal cord does not heal itself. It was over two years later when the doctor was interviewed on the NEWS because he was actually walking around his doctor’s office visiting his patients. In the interview he was asked how he explained his incredible recovery. The doctor responded “Life always overcomes difficulties” he went on to say “He kept sending the message from his head to his legs ‘to move’ and that LIFE would find a way to connect the message to his legs.” He continued sending the message for 2 years before he had any sign the message was getting through.

What is so amazing with the story of the Doctor is that his BELIEF in LIFE took him beyond the FACTS and the KNOWLEDGE that SCIENCE is consumed with. He knew the SCIENCE and it was his BELIEF that took him beyond that KNOWLEDGE. He kept his BELIEF in spite of the KNOWLEDGE and even with everyone (physiotherapist, other paralyzed patients, friends and co-workers) around him BELIEVING he would be in a wheelchair for the rest of his Life. To keep his BELIEF up even with no sign of him walking again for 2 years, it is truly incredible.

We know that Medical Science has immense value, but when we put all of our BELIEF into this KNOWLEDGE we can only go so far. When we can respect Science for what it can do and we put our BELIEF in LIFE we can do the IMPOSSIBLE. The doctor KNEW the knowledge of medical science and KNEW the limitation of this knowledge, he also had a RELATIONSHIP with LIFE and this RELATIONSHIP was his BELIEF that LIFE always overcomes difficulties.

What has this to do with “Rites of Passage”? When we go through the many different phases of our Life in a strictly PHYSICAL aspect it becomes a lot more difficult. We NEED to have a very fundamental RELATIONSHIP with LIFE and then we can truly appreciate the many different PHASES LIFE has for us, to enjoy. Without this relationship we become fearful of what we are losing and what is ahead. We see our self in isolation and more vulnerable to being a VICTIM OF LIFE, and not a intricate part of LIFE.

It is this RELATIONSHIP WITH LIFE that I found to be missing in the discussion on Sunday (Feb. 20).

Carnelian Elixir -1

I started the Carnelian Elixir today and will be taking it daily for the next week. I am looking forward to how the Carnelian energy works.


I will post my observation over the next few days.

Laying-on-of-Stones -2

I did another Array of Stones with a friend of mine last night. It was the "TAU" Array from Melody's book. In her book she recommended that the number of Stones to use is a multiple of 2. I use 16 Crystals - 3 Citrine and 13 Clear Quartz. 


It worked "okay" but I was not happy with it. I really do need to find a proper SPACE to do these layouts in. It is not only the actual PHYSICAL SPACE needed, but also a place where I can set the proper environment in with the time and space to set a proper ritual to set the INTENTION and connecting with the SPIRIT of the MINERAL KINGDOM.

Blue Apatite Elixir - 3

I finished the week with the Blue Apatite and I am now taking a week off from the Elixirs to clear my energy. Next week I want to start the Carnelian Elixir.


The week with the Apatite was a very powerful week. The energy with my Aura was and is stronger, the clearity of thought was very powerful - both with a friend and with working with Laying-on-of-Stones and other thoughts that surfaced. Even my eyesight seems to be brighter and sharper.


With the positive experience with the Apatite it will be exciting to experience the Carnelian...

Laying-on-of-Stones - 1

I did my first Laying-on-of-Stones session with a friend of mine, since the Workshop with Melody. It was stimulating to be working with the Crystals/Stones in this manner [I am just going to use the term Stone for both Crystals and Stones from here on]. It was my friend's first experience with this way of working with the Stones, and was extremely satisfying for her.

This method of working with the Stones is very POWERFUL, but it requires a very SAFE and SUPPORTIVE environment. The recipient of the Array is opening their ENERGETIC BODY to the ENERGY around them (the Stones), the environment needs to be CLEAR of other ENERGIES. The one laying out the Array needs to keep their INTENTION supportive and to keep the space SAFE for the recipient.


The different layout patterns of the Stones are called ARRAYS and the Array I used was a pattern that came to me in a DREAM and is designed to ENERGIZE and STRENGTHEN one's AURA. The  Array worked very well and their are improvements I want to make with this Array. 

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I am really looking forward to doing more sessions of Laying-on-of-Stones and have a plan to do one of the Arrays that is in Melody's book with a friend soon. I will post on it when I have done the array.

Elixir vs the physical Crystal/Stone

I was asked the difference with just being with the physical Crystal/Stone and using the Elixir? 


We are VERY PHYSICAL BEINGS and both our VISUAL and our sense of TOUCH are very powerful senses that we use to define our PHYSICAL WORLD. We become desensitized to the ENERGY that creates our PHYSICAL WORLD. The ELIXIR takes the Visual and Feel of the Crystal/Stone away, so we can concentrate on the ENERGY of the Crystal/Stone.


Another feature of the ELIXIR deals with HOW WE ASSIMILATE CHI (ENERGY). 


Our Energetic Body incorporates Energy into its system in different ways. In the ancient Chinese traditions of working with the body's Chi system there are two basic ways that we do this - our BREATHE and our FOOD. 


When we take a BREATHE IN our body will incorporate some of the Chi in the AIR into our Energetic Body. When we BREATH OUT we will release some STAGNATE Chi out of our Energetic Body. In this way we are ENERGIZING our Energetic Body. When we EAT we also go through this process of assimilating some of the Chi in our FOOD.


To a large degree this process of ASSIMILATING other sources of CHI into our ENERGY BODY is accomplished at a UNCONSCIOUS state, we can increase the efficiency of this process when we are consciously AWARE of this process and we make a conscious INTENTION to ASSIMILATE the CHI. We do this when we are taking the GEM ELIXIRS.

With the PHYSICAL STONES  we need to do more work, with our AWARENESS and INTENTION, in order to ASSIMILATE their CHI (ENERGY). We do not NATURALLY assimilate ENERGY through our AURA for the reason of SETTING OUR BOUNDARIES and our SAFETY. If we NATURALLY assimilated the ENERGY around us we would be very distracted and have a much more difficult time focusing, and we would be much more vulnerable to the influences around us.


With the GEM ELIXIRS we are able to ASSIMILATE the CHI of the CRYSTALS/STONES in a much more NATURAL and EFFECTIVE manner.

Blue Apatite Elixir -2

I have been trying the Elixir and I am on my 3rd day. I can taste a little of the Brandy, which surprises me as there was only 1oz in 2 liters of Elixir. 


The Energy I felt right away, the strengthening of my Aura. I could feel the Apatite energy merging with my Aura and strengthening the edges of the Aura. I have been working with my Energy Body for many years and I know my Energy very well. The Apatite Energy was very subtle but it was there.


Yesterday I had a realization, one of those "aha.." moments. I had been confused and unsure of a dream I had a few weeks ago, and it had been haunting me. It became extremely CLEAR and without any doubts attached, I knew exactly what I had to do. This CLARITY OF THOUGHT is part of the characteristics of the BLUE APATITE. I do not believe in coincidences, so I account this moment of CLARITY to the APATITE.

Blue Apatite Elixir

I have decided that I need to try my own Elixir before trying the others. So I have started taking my Blue Apatite Elixir this morning. The first 2 days I will take a few drops throughout the day (when my INTUITION tells me). After the 2 days I will cut the dose down to 1 or 2 per day for the rest of the week (7 days).


There was a freshness and a little sweetness to the drops I took this morning. Some may credit this to the small about of Brandy, but I do not think so for two reasons -

1. The amount of Brandy is too small to account for this taste.
2. Brandy is not usually SWEET, and it was not a ALCOHOL taste.

I could feel the Elixir affecting my AURA. I have worked with my Energy System (Chakras, Meridians and Aura) for a number of years and know my Energy very well. How the Elixir is affecting my AURA is difficult to say. It will be interesting to see how the week goes, and how my AURA is affected.


I will post more in the next few days.

Mixing Elixir in Hot Liquids...

Mixing the Elixirs in Hot Liquids seems to be a option for some. Although I do not recommend mixing the Elixir in Hot Liquids, does not mean the Elixir is not effective when mixed in Hot Liquids. Mixing the Elixir in coffee or tea will make the coffee or tea much more energizing, how much of the energy is lost in the steam is questionable. One may add a couple of extra drops in the Hot Liquid to accommodate the lose of some of the energy in the steam.


Mixing in Hot Liquids will evaporate the small amount of Brandy from the Elixir. If the Brandy is a concern then by all means mix the Elixir in your tea or coffee. One will still benefit from the Elixir.


Another way of utilizing the benefit of the Elixir is TROPICALLY. One can anoint the third-eye chakra with the Elixir or any other part of the body. Going with one's INTUITION is always beneficial when using the Elixir.


I AM VERY INTERESTED IN HEARING FROM INDIVIDUALS AND HOW THEY HAVE USED THE ELIXIR, AND THEIR EXPERIENCE WITH THE ELIXIR.

Carnelian Elixir

The first Elixir I will be trying will be the Carnelian Elixir. I will start taking the Elixir Monday morning and the first couple of days will take a few drops 2 or 3 times during the day, then just 1 a day until next Sunday.


With all the different Elixirs it will be difficult to try each one fully. It could take a full YEAR to try each one for a week, then a week off to clear the energy. I will pick 6, starting with the Carnelian, and see how these go.


On each Elixir I try, I will post comments on what I FEEL or SENSE well taking the Elixir.

Exchanging the Elixirs

We met at Crystalworks last night to exchange our Elixirs and to receive our Certificates from Melody. Not everyone showed up and some mailed their Elixirs in. It was great to see some of the fellow students again.

With over 15 Elixirs, it will be interesting to try them ALL. It will take a few MONTHS in order to fairly try them ALL. I think I will try each one for 1 week, then take a week off (to clear the energy from me), then try another for a week, etc...


When trying something new I like to give it a few days to really see how it affects me - a week I think will give me a good sense of the Elixir. Taking a week off from the Elixirs gives time for the energy of the Elixir to leave my energy system, before trying a new Elixir.


I think everyone liked my presentation - label and info sheets - of my Blue Apatite. Karen told me that they were very professional and that I should do the Elixirs commercially, no one else is doing them. That she would be willing to assist me in doing it commercially.

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It was great to get the "Certificate" from Melody. Some of my friends and I often have a discussion on the use of the term "Master". "Master of Crystology" is a nice title but are we really MASTERS? 


To me the 2 levels of workshops that Melody gave us, gives us ALL the KNOWLEDGE to BECOME MASTERS OF CRYSTOLOGY. However, to truly BECOME MASTERS, we need a few YEARS of EXPERIENCE with that KNOWLEDGE. It is the same discussion I have with the MASTER DEGREE IN REIKI. The question is - are we really MASTERS without the EXPERIENCE?

Gem Elixirs - working with the SPIRITS

Creating the Blue Apatite Elixir was extremely enjoyable, I really liked working with the SPIRITS of both the Apatite and the Water.


The ENERGY and the PHYSICAL ATTRACTION of the many types of Crystals and Stones have always attracted me to them and I enjoy being around them. However, with my Shamanic training I know that there is a DEEPER level to the Crystals & Stones. The SOURCE of the awesome ENERGY of the Crystals & Stones is the SPIRITS of the many different types of Crystals & Stones. The SPIRITS of the Crystals & Stones are as beautiful and awesome as the Energies and their PHYSICAL MANIFESTATIONS. It is the SPIRIT of the Crystals & Stones that I want to work with!


Making the Blue Apatite Elixir allowed me to work with the SPIRIT of the Apatite and as a bonus the SPIRIT of the Water. The Water was another joy that was a little surprising. 


It is clear to me that I will be doing much more work with GEM ELIXIRS in the future. I have already decided my next Elixir will be BLOODSTONE. Work with the Elixir is a strong way of working with the SPIRITS of the many Crystals & Stones. I was reminded of a book [Plant Spirit Medicine: The Healing Power of Plants by Eliot Cowan] where the author heals his clients with the SPIRIT of the Plants and NOT the Physical Plant itself. I can do this with the Crystals & Stones working with the SPIRIT in the form of ELIXIRS.

Apatite Elixir - 6

The glass-tube did not work. The whole in the tube was too big to create a tight seal with my thumb and I could not keep the Elixir in the tube. I did buy a glass measuring cup and used that to bottle the Elixir. It took a day longer. I ended up with 55.5 bottles - 40-25ml plus 15.5-50ml bottles.


I printed up the labels and it went really smooth, printed the 56 labels in about a minute. The labels lined up perfectly with the printer.


I am now ready to exchange the Elixir with the rest of the class. We are meeting on Thursday and I am getting excited to try the 28 different Elixirs.

Apatite Elixir - 5

The bottles took all week to purify. Today I will dry the last 10 bottles. 60 bottles is a lot of bottles (40 25ml & 20 50ml). I found a glass tube for bottling the Elixir. I had to buy one of those glass bulbs with a long tube that is used for watering plants. I took it to a glass store and had them cut the long tube off. I hope it works....

Tomorrow is the FULL-MOON and I will start bottling the Elixir. If the glass tube doesn't work it will take some time to bottle 60 bottles with the DROPPER.

I will do a ceremony with the brandy and concluding the Elixir process, including a PIPE CEREMONY to bless the Elixir.

I still need to print up the labels and to label the bottles. I hope to have everything finished by Tuesday and to drop off the 30 bottles at Crystalworks on Tuesday.

Apatite Elixir - 4

I started the process of purifying the bottles and droppers:

I used a glass bowl and used the last 2 liters of distilled Water. I offered some tobacco to the cedar tree outside my place and picked some cedar brows.

I smudged the bowl, water, cedar and bottles.

I then sat with the Water and awaken the Spirit of the Water to my intention and asked the Water to work with the Cedar to purify the bottles and droppers.

I then sat with the Cedar and awaken the Spirit of the Cedar to my intention and asked the Cedar to work with the Water to purify the bottles and droppers.

I then put the Cedar in the bowl of Water and was able to fit 20 bottles and droppers in the bowl of Cedar-Water to purify. The bottles and droppers need to soak in the Cedar-Water for at least 24 hours.

With 60 bottles and droppers to purify it will take a minimum of 3 days to do them all. I will keep the purified bottles and droppers in a dark drawer with some SAGE to keep them in their purified state until bottling.

Gem Elixirs

I have really enjoyed doing the Blue Apatite Elixir and I would like to try 2 other Stones before deciding how successful the Elixirs are.

I would like to try it again and see how the process goes and if I can refine the process. Connecting with the Spirit of the Stone and the Water is extremely inspiring. The next Stone I would like to work with is Bloodstone - Grounding, Courage & Blood purifying. It would make an interesting Elixir.

I think I will try to start the Bloodstone Elixir at the next New Moon. I don't know how the time will work out, after finishing with the Blue Apatite, it may not be until the following New Moon.

Apatite Elixir - 3

I have been working with the Elixir and the Apatite over the past few days. Not so much with the Elixir itself, but creating the bottle labels, writing a short info sheet.

I have also been asking for guidance on adding alcohol to the Elixir. At the beginning I did not think I would add any, as I did not see any reason to. The fact that the instructions say to, is not a good enough reason for me, I needed more. I have decided to add one ounce of alcohol to the 2 liters of Elixir. The reason I have come to this, that the alcohol acts as a finisher to the Elixir creation process, it ends the interaction of the Water and Apatite Energies. The alcohol also acts to encapsulate the Elixir to preserving it. There does not need to be a lot of alcohol so 1 oz to 2 L is adequate.

I have been back and forth on this issue of adding the alcohol over the last few days. However, this issue of finishing the process and preserving the Elixir is very strong.

Another strong thought I have had over the last few days is the issue of HEAT and the Elixir. Heat is the result of chemical reaction and it is the HEAT of our Body (37 degrees C or 98.6 degrees F) that releases the Apatite energy from the Water molecules to work with our Body's energy system. With HEAT being the trigger to releasing the Apatite energy it is beneficial that the Elixir not be mixed with HOT LIQUIDS for maximum effect. This does not mean that one cannot mix the Elixir in their Tea or other hot drinks or even soups, but the effect will not be the same.

As I have mentioned earlier I have 2 Liters of the Elixir being made. 2 Liters is a lot more than 30 - 25ml bottles can hold. There is 1000ml to 1 liter, so I bought another 30 bottles - 10 - 25ml and 20 - 50ml bottles. This gives me enough bottles to bottle the 2 Liters of Elixir.