> Greetings Dear Friend!
>
> Greetings from the snow covered hills of the Wharton Creek Valley in
> New York. I am excited to announce that I will be returning to San
> Francisco and will be there about a month from Wednesday, Nov 17
> through mid-December. In this email you will find class and session
> announcements as well as some tales of my trails.
>
>
> I look forward to seeing you either here, or somewhere along the
> unfolding paths of our lives.
>
> Many, Many Blessings,
> DhamiBoo
> "One should never never doubt
> what nobody is sure about!"
>
> --Willy Wonka
>
> SUMMARY OF TRAVELS
>
> My travels have been interesting and varied since leaving San
> Francisco July 2. I took the train from SF to upstate NY near Utica
> where I spent several weeks with family working on some genealogy,
> transcribing my Great Grandfather's diary from 1867. I toured by
> bicycle throughout New York's Leatherstocking Country, Mohawk Valley,
> and Finger Lakes. In mid August I was off to New Mexico for the Faerie
> Shaman's Gathering where I facilitated six work shops on Reiki,
> Erotic Energywork, and Intuitive Energy Medicine; I think I spent more
> time in non-ordinary reality than in ordinary reality for those two
> weeks. One of the peaks was a spirit nagual shifting my assemblage
> point. From New Mexico, I spontaneously went to Burning Man in the
> Nevada desert to celebrate my 40th birthday. That was an amazing
> experience -- being part of a 40,000 person ritual. After "the Burn",
> I journeyed to Tennessee to visit my faerie family at Short Mountain
> for the remaining three weeks of September. In October, I spent
> several weeks packing and moving boxes helping my parents move out of
> their house of 38 years, and then my sister and her family move into
> my parent's old house. I spent a week in New York City which was
> fabulous; I witnessed one of my friends projects:
> www.theskullproject.com which is a living peace memorial honoring
> those dying in Iraq. And finally, I have been a week here way upstate
> in New York visiting blood family again and enjoying snow covered
> hills.
>
> SPIRALS THROUGH TIME
>
> Much of my journey seems to be parsing out the old dreams of the past,
> whether that past is a few minutes, hours, months, or years ago....
> learning to be present to my passions of the present. It is our
> passions through our unique egos that lend us our divine course
> through this experience in the physical body.
>
> I revisited blood family and dreams of living in upstate New York, and
> then friends from my time as a horsefarmer... when I thought farming
> was in my blood. It was challenging to see something I loved deeply,
> and realized in ways I still love it deeply... but that my spirit
> calls me stronger in a different direction now. It is easy to choose
> between something we hate and something we love, but to choose between
> two loves, becomes more difficult. Although, there is always the
> option of doing both!
>
> (One of my friends suggests a letting go ritual... to consciously let
> go of the old dreams and goals that no longer serve you.)
>
> The guided vision I keep getting is that I am to wander for a bit. I
> thought when I left that perhaps I would just re-settle and create a
> home someplace else... but what I am finding is that I have many homes
> across the country and many "families" where I can stay. It is a great
> privilege to be able to "crosspolinate" sharing gifts of one part of
> the country with another, visions of one family with those of another.
>
> RE-ALIGNING THOSE KNEES AGAIN
>
> In August I manifested severe knee pain as I toured on my bicycle. I
> was grinding up a hill and my right knee "went out". Knee realignment
> is nothing new to me... in 1998, I suffered some knee pain that kept
> me off my bike for almost two years. It was energy work, in fact the
> Intuitive Energy Medicine treatment, that finally brought them back to
> comfort. Over the years, they occasionally bother, usually when I am
> stuck in my perception of a relationship. Hesitant to move forward in
> life. Usually, I have been able to realign them by simply asking
> myself to let go of the pattern creating the pain and take on the
> pattern of comfort. So this summer when they acted up, I wasn't too
> worried. I consulted Spirit with my pendulum... and the message was
> keep going.
>
> LEARNING TO TRUST BEYOND ALL REASON
>
> I tried to Reiki my knees. I was about 12 miles from one of my
> "homes"... a horse farming family... but my plan had been to go to
> Oneida... 40 miles away. Spirit said keep going... so I did. Well,
> along the level and downhill, I was fine, but then I'd hit an uphill
> and the pain would kick in. I'd stop and Reiki myself and pray and ask
> for guidance. Word was: keep going. Well, the knees never got better,
> and soon I was 40 miles further from my known resources of friend and
> family. I prayed for some human angel to appear to provide a place to
> stop and rest. I prayed he would be cute too! And I ate pizza in
> Oneida... and no angel appeared. So I moved on, towards Ithaca, my
> next destination, keeping an eye open for lodging. I kept working on
> my knees. I'd think they were fine, then an uphill would come along.
> Guidance kept telling me trust... keep going. Well, I ended up riding
> all the way to Ithaca all through the night... probably near 100 miles
> total for the day. My knees didn't seem very happy at all, but I was
> at one of "my homes" with friends. I visited with a powerful healer
> and friend, and we kept working on my knees to no avail. I couldn't
> quite believe that they could heal instantly, even though I felt a lot
> of energy realigning in them. And, actually, there was part of me that
> didn't want to ride the 100 miles back to my Aunt's and Uncle's in
> Edmeston. (One of the challenges of learning to shift realities
> quickly, is that they do shift quickly with every thought!)
>
> REMEMBERING THE INTENTION
>
> So I got a ride back to Edmeston. My knees were quite painful, even
> sitting. So I realized I had to try something else... and I went to my
> "fail-safe" method of healing myself and put out a prayer request on a
> prayer list based on a yearly ritual I participate in. The next day, I
> got on the plane for New Mexico... and my knees have not bothered me
> since. So through the simple act of a prayer, I went from one day
> being in pain while sitting to being pain-free the next day. And I
> realized the metaphysical cause of my knee pain was agonizing over
> moving forward in life on many levels... from indecision about which
> way to go on my bike travels... to indecision and holding onto old
> roots in my life goals about farming and home... I was tearing my
> roots up literally.
>
> LEARNING TO FLOW
>
> Most of the places I have been in my travels are places of personal
> history for me. And, regardless of my personal history with a place, I
> always find myself dreaming of what it would be like to live there...
> seeing the good and potential in a place.. and letting my roots grow
> into it... fearing moving onward from place to place... all issues of
> trust and flow. Spirit has given me timely messages along my way.
>
> In September, I read The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho. The story is of a
> shepherd boy who's vision is of going to Egypt. He falls in love on
> the way, and settles with his lover, yet he is restless as his vision
> of seeing the pyramids beckons him. He sees others that have given up
> on their personal visions and quests out of fear of passing something
> else up. He eventually leaves his lover to fulfill his vision,
> trusting that she will be there for him when he returns. The message
> of the story is that we trust ourselves to move on in fulfilling our
> personal dream... that on our journey we will pass by things we love
> and must trust that if they are meant to be, they will be there when
> we return... and it is important to fulfill our dreams, rather than
> living with unrequited yearning.
>
> THE GYPSY WIZARD
>
> Last week I was in New York City and loving it, thinking of calling it
> home. Yet my constant recurring vision has been of myself of a
> traveller. I had been praying for guidance. Well, I happened into
> Barnes and Noble to pee, and there was this cute guy I noticed
> perusing a rack of books. I checked him out as I passed, but his back
> was to me. I went about my business, peed, and looked at a couple of
> books, and there he was walking towards me. Our eyes met and
> acknowledged attraction. I turned back and saw him go up to his
> friend. I turned and walked back part way, pretending to look at some
> books. And he turned back and walked towards me. I let me eyes look at
> him unabashedly, letting him know of my interest. As he got near me,
> we mutually introduced ourselves. And before I knew it he asked where
> I lived, and I replied that I am nomadic. "Ahh..", he said, "... a
> gypsy! I am a gypsy too. Most people don't understand us because they
> get too attached to the things that don't work for them... and even
> the things that do work for them." I nodded in agreement, and, yet I
> realized that his words were for me. I keep getting this vision of
> being a wandering wizard, and yet I think, "What of my art, my
> paintings... I love that... perhaps I need to settle down... for how
> can one have gallery representation and be a gypsy.... and what of my
> Reiki practice... I love that.. but don't I need an office... a home
> base..." and my fears keep me from letting go and following the vision
> of the wanderer.
>
> And so I am learning to trust my passions, what glows, and trust that
> the art, the homes, the Reiki practice, will be "here" when I return.
> And I am learning to be "innocent" as Deepak Chopra talks of in The
> Way of the Wizard ... to forget all the stories and judgments of the
> past... so I can be present and see myself and the world anew... to
> create the next step based on my feelings Now... not my feeling and
> judgments of a moment ago, or 10,000 moments ago... but Now... and
> take those feelings of Now, and my intentions of Who and How I would
> like to be Now and Who and How I would like to be in the next moment.
>
> So that's a taste of my spiritual adventures... I am excited to be
> moving forward and learning to be more unattached, more present. I
> look forward to sharing the Present with you, and bless you to see
> yourself anew each moment and grow more fully into yourself with every
> step.
>
>
> Blessings,
> DhamiBoo
> "One should never never doubt
> what nobody is sure about!"
>
> --Willy Wonka
Nov 21, 2004
Dear Friends,
It's been exciting back here in SF. Now that I am clear on my path of the
wandering gypsy wizard, synchronicities happen all the time. My first day in
SF, I walked out of the house and about a block a way ran into an old
client/friend. Turns out he has been wandering too... the Netherlands to heal
his ancestry... and he does CMT work as he goes. At a tea gathering with
friends, one announced he may put things in storage and travel come Jan 1. And
then, friends I'd hoped to travel with, but had no way to contact, appeared in
Oakland. So it has been exciting and a time of great trust and presence for me.
I was also quite excited to learn that the distance reiki chair I implemented
at the St James Infirmary has worked quite well. People who wish to receive
Reiki simply sit in the chair and receive! One friend said she sat in it about
3 minutes before she got so warm with energy she felt she had to get up!
