An Encounter With Ancient Souls (SWC)

in #jerrybanfield7 years ago (edited)

This is in response to Jerry Banfield's
Supernatural Writing Contest.

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(Art by Pilar Zeta)

I have had many supernatural experiences in my life. In fact, it is safe to say that my experience of the world is likely what many would deem supernatural. I read minds often (not by will, but by receiving spontaneous messages), synchronicities are frequent fare, many times have I met just the right person at the right time or had someone come into my life in an unbelievable way, and I pay attention to my dreams to get information about my waking life.

Yet I am someone who doesn't see a divide between what we call natural and what we deem supernatural. I actually think a lot of these things are capabilities of humankind, but that we've limited our scope on what we can see and experience on the daily. There are many stories I could (and would love to!) tell, but I'm going to focus on the first one that game into my head as it's an important story for humanity, as much as it's a supernatural story.

Eye Gazing

When I lived in a college town, one that many described as a Spiritual Vortex, I had a good friend that I would spend a lot of time with. We would spend countless hours in his kitchen and sometimes outside or at various events staring into each others eyes. Doing this for periods of time is known as eye gazing, although I’m not sure where we got the idea to do this at the time. It sprung up naturally between us. We would sit in his kitchen after he prepared delicious natural & simple foods for us and eye gaze. As we stared, the space between us would become smokey & blurred as the edges of what we call everyday reality receded and we made space for the fantastic to sharpen. We would do this for hours. Often I would see multiple faces within his face, perhaps from past lives, we conjured.

One time we tried this on a playful afternoon outside. We ran around, climbed trees and chased each other through brambles in the forest yard behind the house I lived in. We laid on the ground and laughed, and as we did so, it started to rain. Very suddenly it started to lightning and I didn't want to go inside as he pleaded with me. I felt held by everything and didn't feel fear, but stayed out there enjoying the feeling of being one with it all and therefore safe.

Faces at Sacred Hill


But the story I have to tell came a bit before this play and laughter. A very interesting thing had happened on a place I began calling the Sacred Hill. As we ran around, we stopped in a grove of trees on the edge of the property which abutted a cemetery. We stopped in our tracks and stared at one another, into one another’s eyes for a time. I'm not sure how long it was - it seemed like a good half hour. Our feet firmly planted on this sacred spot of earth, we gazed into each other's eyes and suddenly

hundreds of faces started to pass over my friend’s face,
one after the other
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Something was coming home within me as I recognized faces that one moment appeared, looked back at me, and then disappeared only to make room for more faces. These were not people I had ever met or even people that looked like the majority of people who inhabit this college town. These were the faces of indigenous people, of Native Americans.

It was as if from the ground countless indigenous people reflected to me through my friend's face. In each moment, face after face transitioned and looked at me. I saw faces with extraordinary pain complementing deep, deep strength. One in the same. I saw and felt through their eyes the deep atrocities brought about from the oppressive dominator cultures come to their lands, exploiting existing people & place, killing, raping, stealing. While I stood there on the earth, looking at my friend, I experienced the feelings they encountered in this devastation, this travesty, this theft in the horrendous relations with the oppressor.

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I am in no way claiming to have experienced the depth or totality of the pain they did for that would be impossible and disrespectful, but I felt a shred of it through my witness and what I saw changed my perspective forever. I saw the sadness and felt the ache. What I most remember feeling inside of myself was total awe at the strength in those eyes. Some of these faces were the strongest I have ever seen, the wounded warriors. Yes, wounded by the atrocities of the non-earth-based exploitive peoples, but strong and resilient of spirit. Strong from their connection to the land and from their relationship with Great Spirit. No one could truly and permanently take that from them.

It is painful to see the atrocities committed to indigenous peoples and it is something our culture and society still glosses over to this day through the stealing and exploitation of land and resources and rape of indigenous women. There is still total lack of respect & power plays, lies, horrible stories which are largely hidden from our cultural framework which enforces the stories we tell about ourselves. We need to have dialogue to listen to the indigenous perspective which is so pressed-down. We need to look into the Native Americans' eyes and hear their stories, read their books, witness them.

Of A Place

Indigenous is a term we give to people groups and yet indigenous simply means of a place. Since this time with my friend, many things have happened in my life, but because of this experience I have always felt a connection with the indigenous plight and so I have set myself in the way to learn about Native American culture and ways of being. I firmly believe that the ways of the Native Americans who lived here prior to the colonizers can teach us how to get out of our current planetary crises. I believe these faces came to me, a sensitive open person, so that I could really see and change my ways to be more open to an earth-based lifestyle. One where I care for the earth and hear her cries of pain as the dominator culture continues to heedlessly exploit for short-term monetary gain.

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Because of this and many other experiences, I have been called to live close to land and to revive old traditions and make new ones in these same veins. To become a storyteller and to speak and give voice and make space for indigenous people and to myself become of a place. What I saw on that hillside was miraculous and it taught me that we must revive the indigenous perspective within ourselves.

Call of the Earth

This is a call to return to the earth.
Can you hear the stirring inside of yourself?

Many are feeling the call to live a more earth based lifestyle, whether through homesteading, gardening, picking up old skills and spending more and more time in nature. We as a people are being called back to the land as an intimate part of the evolution of the human species. For a time we have forgotten and now we return, revive, create, story-tell and listen from our hearts. We hear the indigenous perspective, we research the suppressed histories, we do what we need to do to heal and make amends.

This is how a better world is created,
one that we can hand to the next 7 generations.

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It seems like you experienced all that there is. Have you also noticed how synchronicity and Deja-vu are precursors to these mystical experiences?

I’ve never intentionally tried eye gazing with someone but I do look deeply into people’s eyes in day to day life and it’s just as you described. You can feel happiness, joy, or the lack of if you look deep enough.

Great share and read!! Thank you!🙏🏼😌🍀

Deja vu is really crazy. Have you had any mystical experiences? I think they're fun to read about.

yes i have-- have you? hopping over to read your entry now :)

@mountainjewel and @nomadicsoul 👋🏼😀 I’m still learning to track all the comments here. I’m growing my wings.😄

I will write a full entry on mystical experiences very soon. I’ve been through 2 super traumatic experiences in the last 17.5 years. Both times I felt like each one could have ended my Earth journey.

Instead what I experienced was an ego death. If not eternally, it has brought me 99% more clarity about my purpose here.

I’ve been using juiced fruit, vegetables, (concentrated life force energy), teacher plants, fasting and meditation to take a peek behind the veil of reality.

I’ve been able to have memories of the future, visually see people’s energy fields, see glitches in “the real world”, slow down time and I spend time with a brother who passed away almost 18 years ago (in dreams).🙂

Lots to share here. I’m giving you a follow too MountainJewel.☺️

I’ve been using juiced fruit, vegetables, (concentrated life force energy), teacher plants, fasting and meditation to take a peek behind the veil of reality.

That's awesome! I'll look forward to hearing more about your journey. Seems super powerful and so glad you have such a strong sense of purpose -- it's one of the most important things in life. Much love!

Thank you🙏🏼😌 I’m glad we connected and I’m sure we have much to share and learn from each other!!💚♻️

Hi @nomadicsoul!! I just saw this comment! Yes I have. Maybe too many to write in a comment post. I’ll write on this topic soon. I gave you a follow! 🙏🏼🙂

thanks @anthonydigital1 for your thoughtful comment. Yes there does seem to be a correlation between synchronicity and deja-vu... I think when we cross over into other states of being the normal ways of perceiving reality start to fall away only to have these really aligned seeming events take over. it's really cool!

thanks! <3

Yes!

Many are feeling the call to live a more earth based lifestyle, whether through homesteading, gardening, picking up old skills and spending more and more time in nature.

I loved reading your story and will resteem it tomorrow morning because I want to share the experience I had seeing the faces with you through your words! I "discovered" eye gazing at Steemfest in the way you describe and thank you for reminding me of it!

thank you @jerrybanfield. I'm honored! Yes,

Many are feeling the call to live a more earth based lifestyle, whether through homesteading, gardening, picking up old skills and spending more and more time in nature.

this is the heart of the message. Glad to hear you related to my story of Eye Gazing.. These very simple things can indeed be so powerful at reaching deep inside of us and helping us see <3

Thanks for all you're doing to spread and raise awareness around the supernatural!! Since writing this post I had a powerful dream to cultivate the supernatural within- a potent message pointing to transformation. ultimately, what is inside us determines how we view what is happening "outside of us"... that is where the transformation takes place. much love <3

Thanks for resteeming. That's how I found it, and I'm also loving reading all of these stories! @Jerrybanfield this is the most interesting contest I've seen so far....I'm going to spend WAY too much time reading all of these haha

Interesting.
During my college days I got interested in reading paranormal books of a local author here in the country, named Jaime Licauco.
With little meditation at that time, somehow, I learned something magick.

very cool @guruvaj... thank you for sharing. would love to hear of the little magick that you learned :)

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Awesome! Eye gazing is powerful stuff. I was part of a group of people who did spiritual work to assist the buffalo in crossing from something akin to purgatory to the spirit world. Essentially, when they were slaughtered so mercilessly, they made an agreement to stay close and hold the sacred until people showed they were willing and able to take it back. That time came, and several groups of us were asked to help the buffalo cross to the light. There were so, so many. It was really intense and incredibly powerful.

wow, this is a really touching story @solarsupermama... it helped me remember some things i'd forgotten... about life... so thanks for sharing... i would definitely be interested in hearing more about that story...

thanks for sharing and stopping by. much love

I'm so glad that blessed you. Perhaps I will tell that story some day. It was really important. Maybe I'll put it in what I write tonight. Much love.

I feel really blessed reading this, thank you for posting such an amazing story

That's a very interesting story @mountainjewel, thank you for writing it and submitting it to the SWC. I am sending a bid to the bot for your upvote.

Thank you so much @gmichelbkk, and for stopping by my blog. Thank you and @jerrybanfield for all of the good you're doing on the Steemit platform. Strength to you as you get through the 100s of entries! <3

is really amazing i would like know that place

this is a beautiful, profound story. thank you for sharing it with us.

<3

I love the way you write and express. I have never tried eye gazing but it appears to be a deep connection leading to oneness. I do feel the call back to nature and marvel how at peace one can feel and centred. Thank you for sharing

thank you @lovelivinglife <3 eye gazing is a powerful and very simple thing to do with people we trust that can lead us to extraordinary moments. if you try it, i'd be interested to hear your take on it. so glad you feel the call to nature, so many of us are... blessings <3

I will try this and let you know how I go - thanks again .