I am developing the Ocean View Creative Arts Festival Hawaii… the OVCA Festival…

My vision is to bring the powerful process I have experienced in Bali with the creation of the “Ogoh- Ogoh” and the way they absorb negative energy from the island of Bali annually.

…For more info on the Ogoh-Ogoh… please read “The Original Burning Man”

They are created by the village, and then burned after they have absorbed all the demonic energy floating around the island.
I want to bring this process here to Hawaii and teach the kids in Foster Care how to build these monsters from bamboo and Paper Mache so they can absorb all the demonic energy on the island. Especially the energy created and sustained by the use of the drugs like Meth which is sadly epidemic on the island of Hawaii.

This could be very powerful magic by the people for the people…

In the creation and then the burning of these effigies of darkness we can do a great service to the energy of the whole island chain.

There will be crystals on exhibition and for sale, art competitions and sale.
An “Earth Oven” baking bread, live music carried on the wind… good feelings all round.
Healing modalities of all sorts

A Sound healing Stage with Crystal Bowls, Flute, Chanting, Brass Bowls, Guided Meditations…
Renewable energy ideas showcased.  Alternative building materials and techniques displayed, recycling and zero carbon footprint intention…

Food stalls from all over the world, organics and honey, bee keeping workshops…
Stage for live theatrical pieces, Dance performance,  Poetry Out Loud performances,  Live music, guitars… perhaps a song writing competition? Gardening competitions throughout the district… tours of the winning gardens…

I have so many ideas I am going to burst, if there is anyone out there in my audience who has experience with such things or would like to come and spend time in Hawaii helping me get this together for August 2011 please do not hesitate to contact me and let me know how we can work together to make magic happen in Hawaii .

Blazing tales of wonder remembering all we have ever been and are about to become

Your sister through chaos and comfort

Shankari the Alchemist

I am becoming more conscious of  in every way how much my parents love or lack of it created who I am today…

The universe abhors a void so every time something is removed or deemed ineffective or unworthy, something else of a higher frequency appears to replace it…

I had a vision the other night… it was 3am on my roof grid in the Balian Palace…
A vision of the universal polarity, between male and female…
A wild visual experience of expansion, contraction, enmeshment and liberation.

Vivid colors accompanied the images as I watched what seemed to be The Divine Feminine and Divine Masculine struggle through the erotic, outrageous dance of relationship… the journey to the bliss of integration…

I had a revelation of forgiveness.

How to free myself from the grinding process of humanization, forced upon me by my parents obvious (and some not so obvious) dysfunctions… Since I am not of this earth originally, I find the process of humanization daunting!

The integration process… a mystery…

Then I had a clear awakening.
It does not need to be a process of intellectual analysis… it can be a transpersonal experience beyond mind…
How to achieve this?

Ceremony and ritual…

Do it the way it has always been done… It’s worked for centuries…
Experience the marriage of the dark and the light, the male and the female…

Imbue the Ogoh – Ogoh with all the dysfunctional patterns of your parents…
Of yourself…
See them married and integrating in the ever Divine Ceremonial Dance of life death and rebirth…

Load them up with all the pain, frustration, rage, grief, disappointment, and resentment you can find inside you, then set the whole thing ablaze… on the river beach in the dark of night, at the perfect time for liberation!

This year in March leading up to the Equinox…
We are laying the groundwork for a new experience on Earth!
A new form of relationship that will clear the way for each of us to experience true love and devotion from a worthy partner….

If that is your ambition or your quest, I highly recommend this incredible event….

Nyepi 2010

Bali… a land of deep healing and infinite wisdom, ancient ceremonies support the evolution of modern mystics… Come and experience this for yourself…
You will not be disappointed!

Shankari the Alchemist is a master magician, trained in many traditions, she has worked with the priests of Bali for 22 years.

She has a deep understanding of the elemental powers and how to harness them in service to the healing and ‘enlightening’ of your Being.

Dance laugh and sing… long into the velvet night

Experience the integration of your child-self with your adult-self…

Be present for the marriage of ‘the dark and the light’
The integration of the positive and negative, the past and the future….

Within yourself and the greater cosmos…. Experience …Magic in action…

There is the extraordinary opportunity here… for 22 individuals… to learn and practice powerful magic for transformation…from a master teacher and practitioner of the arts.

Individuals who are willing to step forward and explore the mysterious terrain of personal alchemy….’The Alchemy of Enlightenment’ with Shankari, your humble servant in the dance….

All profit from this event will be used in the creation of the Sacred Dance Mystery School and Divine Mother Soup Kitchen, Big Island Hawaii…. Ah hui ho!

It soothes the soul and reconnects the human spirit to the natural world.

I feel so blessed to be here and to feel the healing power of the earth… here in this spot, by the river, looking down to the sea.

When you arrive in Bali as a stranger you will be surprised how warm, happy and welcoming the people are…

They are genuinely loving and inclusive… how can this be so…. after centuries of slavery and mistreatment, by their own Maharajah’s, the Dutch plantation owners, the Japanese invaders and now the abusive Multi National Corporations?

I believe it’s because the Balinese have a secret.

As a culture (not Indonesia) the Balinese are truly the last Magicians on earth working in the old ways….

This is why we understand each other…. this is why it is such a healing environment for me…

Do you remember the Bali Bomb Attack?

One year, one month and one day after 9/11…. Manufactured by the same force as 9/11 for the same purpose…. to get the troops to Iraq… to protect the oil owned by some very greedy irresponsible individuals called corporations who have the power through control of the media to command governments…

After that bomb which killed 220 people and engaged 88 countries in a huge international interconnected healing process….

The Balinese Priests found in their ancient records a prophesy, about  just such a catastrophic event and a clear list of instructions for the priests on how to ‘space clear’ and ‘restart and heal the heart’ of the island!

It was transcribed six hundred years earlier, from a vision by a priestess while praying in the Temple high up on Batu Karo, the nearest volcanic mountain to the retreat center.

Yes that’s right! Bali is truly a land of organic magic.

The priests of the old land based religion found the instructions for the ceremonies to be performed to restart the heart of the island…

Everyone joined in….. for months large groups of men clad in black shirts and a black and white checked sarongs (the black and white checked sarongs representing the integration of the dark and the light,)  walked the back streets of villages with big wooden bells on their chests, holding them with both hands, in unison they would shake the bell and make the sound of an enormous heart beat that traveled out over the land through the villages, the rice fields, the coconut plantations and down through the rivers onto the beaches….

The sound seemed to reactivate all parts of the island….

It was a truly thrilling experience, to be in the midst of such single minded devotion to the energetic health of mother earth, ‘Dewi Sri’ in Balinese.

As an active alchemist and ritual magician I was fascinated by the highly organized ceremonies prepared and carried out in a rolling fashion across the island… by a cultural system dedicated to the energetic health of their land and the inner health and harmony of their people.  Such love and devotion with no promotion or advertising or resistance was amazing to watch…..

How do the people of Bali stay so calm and so clearly happy despite being enslaved and abused in all manner of ways for centuries?

There are perhaps a variety of answers to this question….

One of their secrets,  is they have developed annual space clearing rituals as a context for whole communities to express their creativity coupled with rage and fear appropriately… rather than in petty ways, against each other and more importantly they wisely created ‘time’ to integrate the outcome…. A change in frequency… How amazing is that!?

The time of year they chose to perform this profound social ritual for peace by expressing creative rage aligns with Easter in the Christian experience, the Passover for the Jewish community, it includes the ideas of the Wicker Man and in more recent times the modern American Mystics of ‘Burning Man’…. in US underground culture.

The rule is … if you don’t let loose once a year, your negative energy will overcome you and disturb the harmony of the village…
Now we all know that’s true!

I have been thinking about this for a while and now I am going to do something about it!

I’m going to stop trying so hard and relax, play, dance, sing and swim in the sacred dance of ceremonial life in Bali for ten days….

We get to build two giant size bamboo puppets from all local materials. They are known as ‘The Ogoh Ogoh’ (literal translation ‘more than one Ogre’). The night of the burning…. On the river beach…. We get to scream and rage with the village and set them on fire…..

By the end of the “Night of Fires”, ‘The Ogoh Ogoh’ have finished their important work… they are a cosmic sponge for all forms of evil, all forms of disharmony in the body, mind and spirit of communities and the individuals.

Join me… let’s find out what we can do together…
Nyepi 2010… read all about the workshop, what we will be doing and how to join in here…

I’m ready to have fun, play and create with my soul family, I’m ready to express my feelings and find a new level of inner peace on the day of silence… are you interested?

Blazing tales of wonder,
Remembering all we have ever been and are about to become…… S xxx

This is a very potent time of year because it’s when the energy of nature has reached a pivot point of equilibrium… Night and day are the same length and after that moment the energy begins to recede once again.

It’s a solar event…

The moment when day’s journey reaches the moment of equality with the night…
It’s a marriage of equal yet opposite energy….
A time of change and integration…

Lately I find that I have become a burden unto myself as my fear of the future has made me blind.

Now I understand!

To be blind is to be forced to begin to use your other senses.
To awaken to the whole of yourself and not to focus on the small part that lives in fear of lack.

I am ready…

As I sit here in my garden in Hawaii… it is such a beautiful evening.
I can feel the energy of the Goddess lifting me up…
The stars are so bright I feel inclined to sing to them!
With my imagination I stretch out my hand, take a few and pop then into my mouth.

As I swallow, I actually feel a sparkling effervescence inside traveling down my body and through every cell.
I am filled with stellar energy and ready for the next step…
The equinox when used properly can support your life into great change…

The autumn equinox leads into winter so it is a time where you are naturally contracting and taking stock of your stores for the winter ahead.
A time of preparation for hibernation…
But not forever…
In only six months time everything will change to the reverse position and the energy is awakening and preparing for the joyous nature of summer.
I will be in Bali!

My students and I will have made monsters — Ogoh-Ogohs from bamboo, leaves and jeweled paper…
We will dance in the streets with them… attracting the negative energy that surrounds us, carrying it in a theatrical procession followed by the members of the whole village and what seems to be a hundred screaming children… to the river’s beach… their faces alive with anticipation and adrenaline…

When we reach the bank of the river the monsters will be burned down in preparation for the day of complete silence that follows…
Nyepi, a sacred event in Bali.
An experience of a lifetime…
The whole island of Bali goes into silence so that they can clear the energy in preparation for the year ahead in gratitude for all the blessings already received.

Come and join me in Bali for the next equinox…
Pray with me and be cleansed by the sacred waters of the crocodile temple…
Meet the wonderful old women that are the priests of this amazing jungle temple and ancient sacred space.
In the coming weeks I will be sharing more information about how you can participate and prepare yourself for the coming journey.

The equinox…
Such a great inspiration!
With mother nature, nothing ever stays the same because to be alive we will always experience the OPPORTUNITY FOR CHANGE…
Use it wisely!
How are YOU going? Are you feeling inspired?
Have you found some solutions? How can I help?

Blazing tales of wonder remembering all we have ever been and are about to become.
Riding the lightning bolt of change in the new millennium
Your sister through chaos and comfort
Shankari the Alchemist xxx