WE ARE THE LAND CHANTING
WE ARE THE LAND
DANCING
Ceremonies and rituals bring us to that point of
stillness that we may connect with our greater self. Most indigenous
ceremonies are elemental based which connects them to the land over, and
over again. This connection to the land is how they keep their power. They
do not read it in a book or see it in a movie they just listen to the
dreaming of the land. Their Ceremonies are full of chanting and dance.
Chanting has to do with sound. Sound has to do with the
vibration of the spirit that is in the land. In ceremony, we are the land
chanting, we are the land dancing. Vowel sounds are the powers that travel
along the pathways determined by the consonants. Consonants have their own
deeper level of meaning. When chanting we connect with the absolute
essence of the vibration by chanting just the vowel sounds.
Every word has its own vibration and when used in thought
or word it calls that energy into the world. For instance, if you were by
the water's edge and you saw a frog you would think 'FROG', or say 'FROG',
so the vibration you would be calling into the world would be Faith
Radiating Innocence and Goodness, which is God! Primarily the essence of
frog is Innocence. Frog when viewed in metaphor looks and feels different.
When next you hear your name called, understand what vibration circles the
world. Know the world, has been infused with the vibration of your name.
Often, I am asked, "how does this infusion occur, how can a mere thought
impact upon the world"? Well, consider this, with each inhalation you
breathe in the world and with each exhalation you breathe out invisible
minute droplets of vapour. These tiny droplets contain the sum total of
your thoughts, words and deeds. These droplets evaporate, mingle with
other droplets and eventually they form a cloud. This cloud travels
endless miles before raining down feeding the land with your thoughts,
words and deeds. We are people of the land who eat the resonance of the
land. We eat the rain and sun, the fields where scarlet poppies run. The
ripples of the wheat are in the bread we love to eat.
This then becomes the story of the land, your story and
mine. Everything that exists on the land is an extension of the land. The
vast land expresses itself in cyclic Ceremonies of seasons filled with
heat and cold, colour and vibrancy. We feel these Ceremonies and know that
the land is in some state of purification. Whether we acknowledge it or
not, the vast land reflects us in her floods, and raging storms, her fires
and freezing snow. The vast land is in constant movement breathing out its
magnetic self and breathing in the heavens. Off all that exists upon the
earth, trees are the symbol of greatness, connecting the earth and the
sky. They have all the elements within their being. Their feet are rooted
deep within the land holding it together while their heads reach up into
the sky giving refuge to the birds.
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