| The Flower of Life
The Image

To the
untrained eye, the flower of life (Fig. I9-1) looks like an interesting
pattern. Closer inspection reveals nineteen perfectly interwoven circles,
truly a geometric miracle. But would you ever guess that this image is the
blueprint for all of creation; that contained within this pattern is
literally everything—all laws of physics, all biological life forms—
including all of us? Probably not. Dan Winter has conclusively shown that
even emotions have geometrical shapes associated with them.
Figure I9-1. The flower of
life

The image of the flower of life
contains all of sacred geometry, the geometrical patterns that Nature uses
to create everything in this reality.
One of the images contained
within the flower of life is known as the fruit of life (Fig. 19.2).
Thirteen systems of information come out of the fruit of life. Each of
these thirteen systems produces a set of geometries that delineate and
describe in detail every single aspect of our reality.
Figure I9-2. The fruit of
life

You get to
these thirteen systems of information by combining female energy with male
energy. In sacred geometry, curved lines are female while straight lines
are male. One of these thirteen systems is created by connecting the
centers of all the spheres in the fruit of life. If you do, you come up
with a figure known as Metatron's Cube (Fig. I9-3).
Figure I9-3. Metatron’s Cube

Contained
within Metatron's Cube are the five Platonic solids (Fig. I9-4). The
criteria for Platonic solids are that all their edges are equal; they have
only one surface and one angle; and their points all fit on the surface of
a sphere. There are only five known shapes that can do this.
Figure I9-4. The five
Platonic Solids

These five
figures are of enormous importance, as they are the key to many patterns
found throughout our reality. They are also the components of the energy
fields around our bodies. One of these fields around our bodies is in the
form of a star tetrahedron, and it is contained in Metatron's Cube (Fig.
I9-5 and Fig. I9-6).
Figure I9-5. The star
tetrahedron extracted from Metatron’s Cube

Figure I9-6. The star
tetrahedral fields around our bodies
There is also a
tube that runs through the center of the body, connecting the apexes of
the star tetrahedral field.
Before we fell
in consciousness I3,000 years ago, we breathed prana through this tube.
Prana simultaneously comes in from the top and passes through the pineal
gland, and enters from the bottom, meeting in one of the chakras.
Remembering how to breathe through this tube, combined with rotating the
fields around the body, produces the merkaba, a vehicle of ascension.
There are
actually three star tetrahedral fields superimposed over each other around
the body. One is the physical body, one is the mental body, and the third
is the emotional body. This is literally so. The fields are rotated by
linking together the mind, the emotions, and the physical body. The mental
field spins to the left, the emotional field to the right, and the field
for the body remains stationary. When these fields are rotated at very
specific speeds and in a certain way, a disk pops out at the base of the
spine for fifty-five to sixty feet and a sphere appears. It looks like a
flying saucer.
This field is
known as the merkaba. It is the original creation pattern of the universe
on all levels of existence. It is how we got here and it is how we will
leave.
The word "Mer"
means counter-rotating fields of light; "Ka" spirit; and "Ba" is body or
reality. So the Mer-Ka-Ba is a counter-rotating field of light that takes
both body and spirit with it. Once you know how to activate these fields
you can use your merkaba to travel throughout the universe.
The bottom line
on the Flower of Life workshop is the teaching of the merkaba and the
activation of this field so that it can, at the appropriate time, be used
as a vehicle of ascension.
The Workshop
In the
"Completion" chapter in my first book, I told of my experiences in
attending the Flower of Life workshop in April I994 in Austin, Texas, led
by Drunvalo, and what an incredible experience of unity consciousness it
was. This was the last time Drunvalo gave the workshop.
I also told of
Drunvalo's decision to turn the workshop over to trained facilitators, and
of my interest in becoming one. I realized that I was well qualified to
give this workshop. My many years as a rebirther and workshop leader had
pre pared me in leading people through the many changes I knew they would
go through in the course of such a workshop.
From my own
experience and from what I observed in the Austin workshop, I know that it
puts you through many changes. The key is to provide a setting of
awareness, safety, and trust in order to facilitate for people the process
of moving through and integrating these changes. That is fundamentally
important. Without that, there is no workshop.
So I returned
to Austin in June of the same year and took a nine-day facilitator
training. But I waited almost one year before I gave my first workshop.
I had decided
some time earlier that instead of sitting back and wondering what I could
do that I would make it my personal business to ensure that our transition
from one world to the next is a gentle one. That meant taking an
all-inclusive approach; it meant finding a way to be effective in a
you-and me world to, as Werner Erhard said, "discover what is needed and
wanted and then to produce it. That meant finding a way to empower
others. I wanted to be sure that giving the Flower of Life workshop was
the right vehicle.
I was also in
the final stages of letting go, of moving from conditioned motivation into
divine motivation. I wanted to wait for my first book to come out, and I
also wanted to see if what I was doing was real. If it wasn't, no amount
of forcing the issue would work. If it was, all I had to do was sit back
and allow it to happen.
I remembered
Drunvalo discussing how when he first gave the Flower of Life workshop,
Thoth told him to pick a remote location. That way, people with one
hundred percent intention would be there, while those who weren't ready
wouldn't even know there was a workshop. I liked that idea, and knowing
that what the participants bring to the workshop is everything, I decided
to make my workshop known primarily by word of mouth, and to those who had
read my book and written to me.
It was Arnold
Patent who said, "The Universe handles the details."(2) He also said,
"When you are on purpose, the phone rings and you don't have to dial." The
phone did begin to ring. People called and wrote to me from everywhere,
and from that, I began to give the workshop.
It took me
three workshops to get the kinks out, and to learn how to manage my own
energy. I was totally wiped out after each of the first three workshops.
I didn't think
it was possible to re-create the experience of unity I had seen in the
Austin workshop, and I didn't even try. But some powerful seeds were
planted, and by the fourth workshop, it just began to happen. Then it
began to really happen, and it has since gone off the scale!
The workshop is
a three-day experience. About four hours is spent with Drunvalo
transmitting his information via video. I initially had some
doubts about this much of a workshop being on video, until I realized that all the
pieces were in place, and that it was actually possible to do it better
this way.
I have worked
with many partners in the past and have had many good experiences working
this way. But Drunvalo, as it turns out, is the best partner I have ever
had. Even though he is on tape, his style comes through in a way that
enables everyone to have a delightful and complete experience of him.
Furthermore, I know exactly what he is going to say and when he is going
to say it (he is on tape, after all), so I can work with him to maximum
benefit.
This creates an
excellent foundation, because the workshop really happens when the video
is turned off. It is the sharing, the group discussion, the individual and
collective processing of energy, the teaching of the merkaba, and the unity breath where the workshop really happens.
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