Tales from Gorwallt Fach
Tales of Abundance - Lesson Three: Coming Home
Whenever I return to the valley, I remember just how beautiful it is here.
Especially at this time of year, when all the different greens shine in their early summer brightness and the blue of wild violets still coats the hills. Some days, there is a feeling of peace so profound as to be blissful. It seems I may have found my special place here.The Welsh (we Welsh?) have a word for it: “Hiraeth” – the feeling of connection to a place so strong that to be absent causes deep longing. For me, simply BEING here feels abundant. It is a huge privilege to have found the place that called me “Home” – and to be able to live here.
Many of us feel a close connection to certain places: as if “this is where I’m meant to be”. If you’ve found yours, and the “Abundance of Place” brings you Peace, then you’re probably right where you need to be to achieve your Purpose (Law One of Manifesting Abundance) and you will keep on meeting “Everyday Miracles”.
If this is the case, and you haven’t yet clarified what your Purpose is, then it might be worth doing some research to discover:
o The practical, logical, academic ‘exoteric’ spiritual history of the place, and
o Its spiritual, intuitive, empathic ‘esoteric’ story
In order to discover your own inherited, invisible connection, untangle the woven threads that drew you, and discover why it’s called you home.
I hadn’t done that until last year; when three events coincided.
Firstly, my well-paid work with organisations completely dried up. I eventually recognised this as a strong indication that I was being stubbornly “Off Purpose” – (another of those “Laws of Abundance” I keep discovering!).
I had been so focussed on achieving my Vision:
“I serve, and am recognised and well rewarded,
as a Life-Enhancing Coach and Friend”
I’d forgotten “that Purpose takes precedence when external factors change” and was then able to re-energise my life and work by re-focussing on my Purpose:
“To be a Source of Healing Energy”
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding"
KAHLIL GIBRAN: The Prophet
The second situation followed from this awareness.
I invited some good friends to do their Reiki 2 here - the “Fifth Transformation”. They were more spiritually advanced than most of my Reiki Students (Even Reiki 2's) – and they were to be the 8th and 9th ** people I’d taken through the transformation attunements here – so I wanted to do some research to honour this next step in their development.
(** N.B. The 8th and 9th 'ray' chakras are situated above our heads and, transiting our inner aura, increase our ability for self-actualisation and Ascension - we become transcendent).
When I set out, consciously, to manifest “My Home” back in 2002, I included “A perfect place to give and teach Reiki” as one of my key criteria. Within a week, someone had made an offer on my former house, and my offer on “Gorwallt Fach” had been accepted.
It wasn’t until I moved here that my Australian Reiki Master, Valerie Ives, told me that she had done her 18-month Reiki Master apprenticeship with Marta Getty just up the road in Oswestry, and that she had taken on the Reiki Master Energy in this very valley; her transformation attunement took place at the 200ft high “Pystyll Rhaeadr” waterfall.
So, having consciously ‘manifested’ my home here, in this valley with the magical waterfall at its head, I wondered if there could be some ancient Western Celtic Christian form of spirituality and healing that resembles the Reiki “Source of Healing Energy” and what it teaches.
Intuiting that this was closely connected to my ‘Purpose’ here - when the Universe manifests that quickly, there must be a very clear ‘purpose-full’ link - I felt excited about unravelling threads.
The third event had started that Spring. In April 2008, I started to learn Welsh.
Through some weird pathways on the Web, I discovered that there are more Hebrew words and sentences in the Welsh language than in any other (outside Israel, obviously).
I traced the source of this back to the Silk and Tin/Copper trading routes of the 5th Century, and the fleeing of Essene Jews from Alexandria around 450 AD on the ships that plied those routes to the North and West of the Mediterranean (giving rise to the Cathars in Southern France) and into the Western Atlantic, where an early form of Celtic Christianity was established on the Western shores of both Ireland and Wales.
In the 5th Century AD; there was also a large contingent of travelling Bhuddhist monks - (whose teachings and practices have long been seen as similar to those of the Essenes) – and whom, we are told, have been teaching the healing power of ‘Chi’ for millennia.
(Just 'Google' "Essenes Alexandria Bhuddhist monks" and "Hebrew Welsh").
Celtic Christianity has strong links, also, to ancient pagan rites and rituals, including the making of holy places next to important natural sources, such as waterfalls. Tin, copper and gold were found here, and the remoteness of this place would also offer refuge to a persecuted faith.
It looked as if discovering those connections would be a great story to tell.
A lot has happened since last summer, as the many journals of my quest to clarify the “Laws of Manifesting Abundance” testify, and I hadn’t taken the time to answer some questions that had been bothering me all year, and had limited my confidence in telling my ‘connection’ story.
In my mind were two conflicting dates:
- 43 AD, around the time when Joseph of Arimathea is said to have visited Briton, when Hebrew traders plied these shores.
- 415 AD, when the Israelite Essenes were driven out of Alexandria, fleeing to Southern France and the western shores of the Atlantic.
It took a Radio Programme last week (BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour on 21st May) to bring me back to that search for connection here.
The programme included reference to ‘Hypatia’ who both studied and taught at the ‘University of Alexandria’ early in 5th Century Alexandria. According to various sources, ‘Hypatia’ was alleged to be a ‘pagan’ and a “Female Theraputae”.
This term was also applied to 'Essene Buddhists' who were known for their therapy - the 'laying on of hands'.
(Perhaps this healing art of the 'Theraputae' is the "ancient Western Celtic Christian form of healing energy" for which I was seeking at the start of this 'tale' last week.)
Whilst writing that section on the two conflicting dates, I have, literally, just ‘Googled’ “Joseph of Arimathea” to check the spelling and added “Wales” (go on, just try Googling “Joseph of Arimathea Wales” !)
I was going to suggest that Joseph of Arimathea may have visited the North West coast of Wales, and the Isle of Anglesey (Innes Mon), after the leaving Glastonbury on the Isle of Avalon. But, even more exciting than that, I discovered within an item in the BBC News for North East Wales, dated 10th May 2006, there is a reference to the Holy Grail that, unlike Dan Brown's assertion in his "Da Vinci Code", Joseph came to this part of North East Wales. The news item says:
"Steve Blake, author of the Arthurian book “The Keys to Avalon” says there is evidence from modern Grail myths that Joseph of Arimathea was in north Wales.
He said: "These Grail romances actually state that Joseph of Arimathea landed in Nor Gales, which is North Wales, and was captured by the King of the region Crudel.
"On being rescued by Avalwch, after whom Avalon is reputedly named, he travelled to Castle Corbenic where the Holy Grail was kept for safe keeping.
"Corbenic is French for crow or raven which, when translated back into Welsh, becomes Castell Dinas Brân, the spectacular ruins which overlook the town of Llangollen"
So, that means there’s even more to this story than I had ever imagined. I’m off to find out more!
But, just to keep this within the context of “Everyday Miracles”; that is, consciously Manifesting Abundance in line with our Vision and Purpose, I need to be honest, open and trusting – and share mine with you (as a ‘worked example’ of “The First Law”)
“We love, live, heal, build and grow together, here
Happily, healthily and easily
In Peace, Joy and Freedom (from Fear and Pain)
Trusting in the knowledge that we need DO nothing more
thanFocus on our relationship with the Divine
And BE a Source of Healing Energy
So that I serve (and am recognised and well rewarded) as
A life-Enhancing Coach and Friend,
Bringing more Love, Light and Laughter into our Living”.
May your Journey to Abundance be as joyful and exciting!
With love
Dee
Dee Ramsayer
“Living with Vision” 27th May 2009