I saw visions of a tropical
island, and felt the warmth of the sun beaming down on me, even
though I was "really" sitting in a wooded area on a cool
autumn day. I saw black, volcanic rock, the sea, and then I saw
this most beautiful vision of our Earth.
It appeared to be a future vision,
and it was as if I were watching frames from a movie. I saw peace
in the Middle East, in Africa, in China and Tibet. In fact, I saw
glimpses of many areas of the world which frequently experience,
political or religious turmoil, or war. All of these areas were
at peace. I saw politicians, and religious leaders, and world leaders
from all walks of life working together. I saw all people with an
abundance of everything they needed, food, clothing, shelter, and love. I saw all the children, being nurtured,
feeling loved and secure. I saw all people of the world giving back
to our Mother Earth, more than they take. I was seeing visions of
perfect peace on our planet and I was
experiencing the essence of peace in that very moment . . . in the
now. I was told in this meditation that the tropical island was
the Big Island of Hawaii in Hilo, and that these visions and certain
energies were to be anchored into the heart of the Earth by a group
of healing channels, and that I was to see that this work is done.
Interestingly enough, I am probably the only
person on the planet, who had absolutely no desire to go to Hawaii.
I love tropical places, but all my life I had an aversion to traveling
to Hawaii. I never quite understood it, I thought perhaps it was
a past life experience I was not ready to touch into. I now know
it stemmed from a major spiritual healing that I was to personally
experience when I went there. There are many legends of Hilo, and
especially of Pele the Goddess of the volcano who is considered
the great destroyer and creator. It is said that she puts certain
people through tests when they visit the island for the first time.
Let me just say she chose us for many of these, and some great spiritual
healing resulted from them.
I learned long ago that when I have meditative
experiences like this which are so clear, I must follow through.
So I began to set the wheels in motion. I meditated on what was
to be done in Hilo, and was inspired to develop a Reiki Master Training
program and retreat. I called my friend and colleague, Duff Cady,
a Reiki Master Teacher who had lived in Hilo. I asked him if he
would be willing to co-teach with me. He eagerly agreed, as Hilo
is one of his favorite places on Earth. He knew the logistics of
the island and could help plan activities and healing trips to power
spots.
Pay close attention now, because here is where
the synchronicity begins. We were to set the date for the retreat.
We decided on one date in February, but the next day something changed
in my schedule which required us to change the retreat date so that
it would take place February 24-March 1 in 1998.
One of the events that we wanted to plan was a world peace meditation
inside the house which was formerly Mrs. Takata's Reiki Clinic.
The house is now owned by Dr. Klein who is a chiropractor. Duff
tried for several months with no success, to reach
Dr. Klein to obtain permission to do this meditation. On February
22, Duff and I were very weary after two days of travel as we waited
in a crowded Honolulu airport for our flight to Hilo. We turned
around for some reason and Duff said "Hey, I think that is
Dr. Klein over there", as he motioned to the desk at our gate.
I felt a very familiar rush of Reiki energy flow through me in that
moment, and knew that it was indeed Dr. Klein. So we began to talk
with him and he casually said "You can have your meditation
in my office, either Thursday or Friday, just call and confirm the
time".
Well we were thrilled, and we decided that we needed to determine
how the experience would best flow into our class schedule. As we
outlined all the material we needed to cover, it seemed
that Thursday, February 26 (pay attention now), would be the best
day to plan this. So it was decided. The retreat began on Tuesday
the 24th, and in the grand scheme of the week to come it was rather
uneventful, except for the amazing attunement experiences in the
wooded area overlooking the lava rocks and the Pacific Ocean.
The morning of the 25th was a field trip to
the open market in Hilo so everyone could purchase some fresh food.
Five minutes after we began our drive into town, I spotted a magnificent
double rainbow over Hilo bay . . . and pleaded with Duff to stop
so we could take photographs. It was such an incredible sight .
. . the rainbow seemed to end in the center of the bay, yet I could
see it even below the surface of the water . . . it appeared to
be a never-ending rainbow. What a welcome, and we all felt it was
a significant sign that our week would continue to unfold in miraculous
ways.
That afternoon I was lamenting that I had
not followed my intuition by bringing my professional recording
deck with me. It was just too much for my luggage and it had stayed
behind. (Little did I know that I actually was following a higher
form of guidance). On the afternoon of February 25th we began to
look for a sound engineer who could do on location recording of
the meditation. Not only did we find one at this late date, but
we found one who had considerable experience recording meditations
and Gregorian chanting. Had I brought my recorder, we would not
have met this talented engineer.
Being the e-mail-aholic that I am, I made
my nightly trek to the cyber cafe in Hilo, and that evening was
reminded in an e-mail that it was the new moon and a solar eclipse
on the 26th. I smiled to myself and thought this would certainly
enhance the quality of the meditation, healing and chanting we were
to do. Just before I went to sleep that night I sent Reiki to the
recording session and the tapes that would be produced, intending
that powerful healing would take place for the Earth, and for anyone
who participated in the meditations. I also intended that the healing
would be for the highest good of all concerned, and that anytime
one listened to the tapes, they would be able to tap into the power
of the energy in Mrs. Takata's clinic and the astrological energy
of the moment.
I awoke very early that morning, and my first
thought was I needed to research the internet for more information
on this particular eclipse. So I was knocking on the door as my
new pal, whom I affectionately called Cyber Dave, was pouring his
first cup of coffee. I intended to do some very efficient research
because class was to start in an hour. I signed on, and poof, right
before my eyes was an e-mail that someone I do not even know had
sent me. It was full of details about the eclipse. It said that
the earth, sun and moon were in a more perfect alignment than they
had been in the past 1,000 years. It also said that world peace
meditations were taking place around the world on this day, and
it told us much more. I returned to the retreat and shared this information with a very enthusiastic class.
During our morning practice session, Toshika, a student who is from
Japan was practicing her healing attunements. I noticed that tears
were in Toshika's eyes and at the very same moment, her class partner,
Marie, said "I feel someone's hand on my heart chakra".
No one we could "see" was touching Marie. We soon learned
that Toshika was brought to tears of deep love because in that moment,
Mrs. Takata had appeared to her and had touched Marie. She came
to comfort Toshika because she was feeling a little unsure. Even
though Toshika speaks and understands English fairly well, the translation
of the class material was somewhat difficult for her, and she had
been concerned that she might make
a mistake. Mrs. Takata came to her and said she was there to guide
us, and that Toshika had indeed understood my instructions. She
told her to just relax, and let Reiki do the work. The very amusing
thing about this was when Toshika said, "She was speaking Japanese
to me, but she must have come from a different prefecture than me,
because I didn't understand everything." Mrs. Takata was speaking
Japanese to Toshika in a different dialect!
After this experience, we went to Mrs. Takata's
clinic, and set up for our meditation. We pulled into the driveway
at 11:11 (for those of you who are into the 11:11 gateway), and
although there were only ten in our class, our dear friend Cyd from
Hilo joined us, so our group consisted of 11 people. Those participating
in the meditation and chanting were from North America, South America,
Japan, and Hawaii.
This was a powerful experience for each of
us; we knew in that moment we had been called to that place and
time because we were needed to anchor the energetic essence of perfect
peace into the heart of the Earth. Some say that the Big Island
is the solar plexus, power center, of the planet. Others say that
the Hilo means new moon, and here we were on the day of the new
moon, planting seeds of peace.
What an honor, blessing and truly humbling experience.
For me that was probably the highlight of
our retreat, yet the week unfolded with a trip to the Volcano National
Park where we made offerings of leis and prayers for peace into
Kilauea.
One other especially moving experience for me was our trek to a
remote sacred sight, where there are volcanic steam vents. We carefully
climbed down into one. It could only accommodate five of us at a
time.
Once inside, we began to chant as we were
bathed in volcanic steam. I was guided to chant one of the Karuna
Reiki healing sounds which is for Earth healing. We all joined in
chanting and singing this to the Earth. In a few moments, Pele began
to respond by sending out huge blasts of steam, as if she was acknowledging
and thanking us for our healing work.
As this happened I looked up toward the top
of the steam vent where there was an opening in the rock. Through
the opening I could see a bit of a hillside, a tree and a sliver
of the moon. I could also see moisture glistening off the black
volcanic rock as steam touched the rock and seemed to vanish. I
became mesmerized by this sight, and suddenly began to slip into
another time and place, I was seeing myself back in Kentucky that
crisp autumn morning, and realized that this moment had been part
of my original vision.
A deep sense of peace and completion came
over me. I knew our mission here was finished. We said a prayer
of thanks to Pele in her native language, and a prayer of thanks
to the Creator for the honor to serve in this way.
I hope you enjoyed this journey in synchronicity, and I wish you
peace, blessings and many great adventures with Reiki.
In doing some additional research, Duff found
an ad in a 1941 newspaper at the Hilo library. It was an ad for
Mrs. Takata's Reiki treatments, and the date of the newspaper was
. . . you guessed it, February 26th.
Laurelle Gaia is the founder of the Infinite
Light Healing Studies Center, and Dir. of Teacher Licensing for
the International Center for Reiki Training. Laurelle can be reached
via email
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