Oracle and Temples of Humankind

Dear friends, 

I wrote this part Yesterday, sending it now while connecting to the internet again. 

Today and Yesterday were both amazing days for learning to understand more about the true heart and culture and vision of Damanhur. I’d like to start with today. It is already almost 2am and I am still so exited that I don’t want to go to sleep before I have written some things down regarding my experiences of today. Every full moon they do a ritual of the Oracle in Damanhur. The Oracle is a group of people educated to connect to the divine in such way that they are able to answer questions that people have posed (you have to pose the question a month in advance). The ritual of the evening includes offering to the fire, sacred dance, drum rythms and more. And the theme for this month was using your talents to inspire others. Up forehand they had already said that everyone would be able to feel the presence of the Divine. That’s quite something to say and to expect, because you can imagine that it makes you uncomfortable in a way such as thoughts of ‘oh..I must feel something now.. am I concentrated enough..is everyone feeling something now..am I supposed to..’etc. After I had gotten these kinds of things out of my head and had just started feeling, seeing, experiencing, I was really caught by the events. And the amazing things unfolding before me. Insights mainly. The rituals have moved me deeply. I feel so much respect for the Damanhurian people. The way they have constructed the rituals, the way they developed the translation of the sacred language into dance, the ways to contact the spirits. And all of that in an open way. The evening was accessible to all visitors, to everyone basically. And that while what they were doing was so sacred, so profound… It is a challenge finding words to what I have experienced!

After the rituals had started I became emotional, I started crying (in a way that no-one seemed to notice ;-) and moving to the drum rythms. It felt like I became to really understand why I am here. I felt like being so very on the right place for me. A feeling of home. But not as a home such as my family and friends in Holland, which is the only concept of home I have had thusfar in my life, but rather a feeling of coming home to a place in space and time where I can connect to divinity, to my past and future. Home in myself, on the same journey as others who understand that same principle. I saw past lives connected to this ritual, I intuitively understood the principles of the synchronic lines as highways into space and time. I felt as if being in an airport within space and time. Somewhere in the Universe. All of the people I spoke afterwards (or most..there was one exception who found it a little tedious) had similar experiences. So that was today.

And then Yesterday.. the visits to the temples of Humankind. A network of temples under the ground, dedicated to telling human history and honoring all religions of the world. You cannot believe the intelligence, the details, the work, the cleverness, the dedication that has been put into this place. It is just a sacred place. And the same, it feels like coming home. For everybody. It is your personal history being told. The challenges you face as a person in the different phases in your life are reflected in the art work. The challenges of your age, of your life, of being in relationships, with others, with yourself, with material things..are put into perspective of time and wisdom and history, spirituality.. It is truly amazing and again a very emotional experience to be visiting. And one of the biggest things that struck me was the common effort that has made this all possible. The community spirit. The being part of a grand work making personal efforts blend in to something that exceeds human capability as we are as individuals.

I already had a good time here, but now, after having visited these two events/places, I begin to understand some more about the tangible magic that is going on here. I have thought of all the people I love today during the ceremony. In different ways. Firstly I feel you close to me and I thought of some of you who would also love it here and whom I wished to transport to here too. And secondly I thought of feeling at place here and what that would mean to people who haven’ t been here and who are not so much interested in spirituality as myself. They might think it is some kind of strange and dangerous place where you are brainwashed. I am brainwashed alright, so it feels, but then in a way that my brain feels challenged and refreshed in an authentic way. I feel challenged to confront myself and to take responsibility and to co-create.

Well, that will be enough for now. It’s just past 2am..and I feel ready to go to sleep now, now that I have shared these thoughts. G’night!

With you, Karin