Yesterday began the start of The Forty Pilgrims Project, a collective creation in the realms of time and space. It involves my old friend Simon Welsh walking the Camino de Santiago for forty days, clocking in over 900km on foot.
I read about his venture some four weeks before and was
compelled to take an interest. His idea is to take on board a spiritual journey
of sorts. A vision quest and a clearing, a pilgrimage of quantum proportions;
not just for himself but for others too. He is wrestling with some demons and
dancing with angels. Some I have no time for, some I have met and some I
have probably yet to meet.
As he embarks on this quest, he is taking with him
the prayers and intentions of forty pilgrims. He bears their weight, if it can
be said as so. To assist him in this odyssey he has called upon twelve guides –
we could call them spiritual guides, energetic support, light warriors – yet in
reality, they are human beings, offering their strength, love, compassion,
energy and most likely, healing, reiki or some such other long-distance magic.
In any case, we are all connected amid the quantum field so can easily offer
him support, love and daisies.
I am one of his guides. I was compelled to add my focus and strength that I have been gathering over the last few
years. This is not to brag that I am magnificent, but to affirm that I am,
indeed part of a magnificent continuum of energy of which we are all
magnificent within. Once we can focus upon that part of ourselves, we begin to
realise this magnificence and can use it for the benefit of others. It is this
role then, that I chose to offer Simon, and in joining into the collective, I
add my energy to a grand circle of 53 – one courageous walker, poet and
visionary, forty pilgrims with dreams and intentions bound up in his pack, and
twelve spiritual guides supporting his energy, holding intentions and making
conscious changes as the footsteps and days go by.
Simon, as far as I know, interviewed all forty of the
pilgrims and wrote a specific poetic portrait for each of them. Within this
portrait is held issues, hopes, intentions, and energy needed for transmuting
into new paradigms for each of the pilgrims. They are not physically walking with
Simon. That is his undertaking, and his journey into his own unknown. He is the
physical anchor and catalyst for helping himself, the pilgrims and guides to manifest
and make changes within their lives; the eye of the storm so to speak. Each day he will focus on one pilgrim,
walking an average of 25km, reading their prayer somewhere along the way. At
the end of 40 days, on day 41, he plans to reach Finisterre, ‘The End of The World’, where he shall read his own prayer and burn his clothes, shoes and words in shamanic ceremonial offering. Hopefully he won’t burn all his clothes
as I am sure he'll want to come back!
The twelve spiritual guides are primarily there to assist Simon
in gathering his strength, offering support and adding to the circle. Again, as
far as I know, we were all interviewed and I identified a key issue within my
life that I would like changed and added it into the circle of creation that is
carried within Simon’s reality bomb backpack! I am sure each of the other
guides has gone through some such process. I told Simon what I would be sharing with him and the circle in terms of support, giving him free access to my
channels of reiki, violet flames, munay-ki, white fire, rescue flames, heart
and violet flame chakras and diamond seed chakras.
Whilst this all sounds a little woo-woo and out there, there
are some fundamental quantum happenings going on here. I believe that we live
upon a quantum field of pure love, potential and possibility, and that reality
as we know it is co-created out of this field by us, by our imaginations,
thoughts, words and actions. It all comes back to thought and being. There are layers and
layers of amazing reality interwoven into us. Layers of light, matter, emotion,
thought, atoms, molecules, quarks, bosons and auras, chakras, energy, and
creative possibility.
As we wake up to ourselves, we begin to see the effect that
we have upon our reality; that we are not random fluctuations living in a
random universe, but that we are meaningful and purposeful focal points of
Universal consciousness, creating pure experience out of pure potential using
mechanisms such as thought, perception, genetic memory, imagination,
generational patterns and influences such as parents, school, television and
newspapers.
We are vast beings of thought, capable of projecting our
imaginations from the dawn of time into the vastness of Space and beyond. We
are composed of a history of all our lifetimes and all our connections to life.
We are beings of Earth and beings of the stars. We are children of nature and
of love. We are locked into a duality, the yin yang of existence. The up-down,
left-right, black-white, mine-yours, virgin-whore, hero-cad, happy-sad see-saw
that we call life on Earth.
We have the choice to live by default, on a
seemingly out of control roller coaster, that is terrifying and exciting, with
no way of getting off, subject to the chaotic storms of life, subject to
horrors, fantasies, hopes, and disasters. We have a choice to feel powerless. We
have a choice to feel helpless. Of course, when we are here, we often don’t
think this is a choice.
We have the choice to stop and take stock. To start
questioning our reality. To start asking questions about why things are the way
they are. We have a choice to delve deeper into the reality of nature and the
darkness that resides within us and thus 'without' us. We have a choice to try
and discover the nature of that darkness, whether to embrace it or fight it. We
have a choice to see the darkness outside of ourselves, the darkness that
dwells in plain sight, in economic systems, politics, corporations, education
and society. We can see the poverty, disease and pollution in our midst and
wonder where it comes from. We have a choice to wonder whether there is a link
between our own inner darkness and that which we see laid out upon the green
grass of the quantum field.
We have a choice to explore, to experiment, to play with our
thoughts and emotions. We have a choice to wake up to ourselves… slowly
realising that we are not so powerless after all. We have the choice to stand
up and claim our creations. We have a choice to search for silver linings and see beauty and majesty within it all. The
process begins with self-love, expands into compassion and maybe has no end…
So that is where we are in humanity… in three places. Once
upon a time we were only at the first stage. Now people are bridging all three
ideas. The darkness, the awakening, and the empowerment. It would be trite of
me to try and lump all our experiences into such small boxes because humanity
is vast as are our collective experiences. We all count and we all matter. All
our dreams expand the Universe as we step into joy. All things benefit from
more smiles in the world.
Here we are then, upon the threshold of a dream. A new cycle
of experience. A paradigm shift so vast, people are rapidly awakening all over
the world, slowing piercing the veils of illusion that have long hung over
humanity. We are awakening to our true potential and power and The Forty
Pilgrims Project marks one facet of this grand experience. The circle of 53 touches not just the 53 people directly involved, but the people Simon
meets along the way. It touches our loved ones, our friends and family. It
touches the people we tell and the people that are affected by our own internal
changes. It touches all who witness the new smiles we create within us and
others. As we transmute our own barriers and realise our own potential, it will
inspire yet more to seek their own awakening. A light in a room of darkness is
a source of light none the less. Our beautiful planet, society and individual
communities all have the potential to change through elevated thinking,
compassion, love and dreams made manifest. This is the power of thought,
spirit, love and transformation and maybe the point of existence itself. Hmmm…
ahhh…
This is a journal of one of the twelve. An account of the
journey from outside the focal point. A documentation of the changes, insights
and connections made throughout the forty days of Simon’s quest. It may be
personal to me, or I may be led outside of my own experience as I meet and
converse with other pilgrims and guides, my social network, community and of
course, Simon himself. Above all, I hope it to be an honest portrait of self-inquiry
and a joyful adventure into the biggest co-creative experience I have ever
embarked upon. Happy travels dear friends. Happy, happy travels.
Love, love, love...
Love, love, love...
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'The Forty Pilgrims Project' series is a blog inspired by a journey. Simon Welsh, poet, writer and new paradigm adventurer is walking the Camino de Santiago - a simple mission to put one foot in front of the other. Carving
out a journey over 1000km of trails, roads and pathways, he is heading
for Santiago, and further yet to Finisterre, the ‘End of the World’. He carries
with him 40 prayers, one for each day, one for each pilgrim that is
energetically walking with him. He is supported by 12 guides, energetically
supporting him from afar.
This
is my journal of his 'Forty Pilgrims Project' - an observation from the
outside, as one of his guides and friends. An exploration of my own
journey by his side, as we connect in the quantum field.
Matt
is a singer/songwriter, musician, poet and writer of words. He is
exploring the forests of consciousness, time and space, and surfing the
waves of thought, love and being. Getting lost and wiping out are
adventures in themselves!
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