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Feb 17 - Mar 1, 2008 Tour:
      Mysteries of Egypt
         & The Yuga Cycles Of Time

Re-Awakening our Ancient Wisdom:
Mysteries of Egypt & The Yuga Cycles of Time

Ancient literature and modern archeology reveal that human civilization on this planet has gone through many phases of development and disappearance.  Through grand cycles of time (Yuga Cycles), both profound spiritual teachings and high technologies have often blossomed and died away leaving almost no traces.

We are now again at a critical juncture where it is possible to benefit tremendously from delving into past wisdom, and to emerge into a higher realm of grace and understanding.

India has provided access to valuable teachings through the world’s oldest-known written texts whose profound insights are increasingly validated by scientific discovery, and through a living, unbroken tradition of mastery in consciousness evolution.  Egypt, however, provides access to such ancient wisdom through an unparalleled profusion of living monuments that are well-preserved by a combination of forces: many are recently excavated after being buried for centuries by the periodic flooding of the Nile; the dry atmosphere of the desert causes very little weathering and acts to preserve the original energies; the present culture maintains the sites as they have been for centuries with little cultural overlay, significant interpretation or distortion. Thus, through linking the mysteries of Egypt and India, we have access to an ancient wisdom that can stir deep, inner remembrances of our souls’ true purpose.



Paramhansa Yogananda (center on camel) on his 1935 trip to Egypt.





Like the meridian system of the human body, the Earth has an energy crystal grid system through which the life-force of the planet flows.  When one is part of the “circuit” in the primary energy centers, the practitioner and temple, as well as the planet, benefit from the healing life-force. Masters living in an ancient “Golden Age” understood and modulated these energy currents through the use of megalithic structures and through re-patterning the earth’s surface.

In ancient China, acupuncturists placed needles into the energy points of the human body to redirect the positive and negative currents of energy of the body into healthier patterns.  In the same way “dragon current” practitioners placed structures or modified the earth’s surface, in order to change the intensity or directions of the earth-energy currents.

In Egypt, especially, architects were aware that enclosed spaces create vibrational frequencies, as does the sounding board of a stringed instrument.  In temples utilized for meditation and initiation, certain chambers produced wave-lengths attuned to the mind in the alpha and theta states, aiding in the initiates’ entering into higher level of consciousness.

To the Egyptians, energy/form architecture was a most exact science.  They knew how to change the frequency pattern of any space, to produce or amplify a desired effect or phenomena.  Were the Great Pyramids really scientific monuments from a higher age, or, as some believe, were they created as temples for meditation and higher knowledge?

In our classes on this trip, we’ll examine some of these theories and link them to our studies of the Yuga Cycles of Time.  For instance, there are writings that claim the temples along the Nile were carefully designed parts of an exquisite mystery school system.  The temples prepared initiates for their eventual entry into initiation in the planet’s most extraordinary example of earth-energy technology, The Great Pyramid of Giza.

The purpose of our journey is to (re) connect with these ancient energy sites through study and attunement, (re) awakening ancient memory so the wisdom may be utilized in the Yuga period of planetary initiation into which we are entering.

Byasa Steinmetz and Celia Alvarez, will combine their wealth of teachings each day, in classes and/or on-site experiences.  These classes will be enlivened by visualization, meditations, chanting, and “distant-memoried” songs from ancient Egypt. 

Advance Reading:

Once you have registered for the trip, you’ll receive an advance reading list, as well as special reading material to prepare you for your trip.

       



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