Gatherings of Light Beings..... Sacred Relationship to All has been a challenge and a blessing in my life. I have struggled with trust, issues of privacy and empathic overload.

There is much to be said for solitude and solitary seeking. I have been baptised into many realms, while retreating and totally apart from other human contact.

Yet, as I review my spiritual path so far, it is the times of community and group ceremony that have provided my most powerful lessons and greatest gifts.

I wrote this article after a decision to go back into spiritual community by way of gatherings and fairs. I am grateful that there are still those who have the vision and dedication to preserve land on the earth that is dedicated to ceremony, healing and Sacred gatherings for the purpose of spiritual acceleration.

“There is too much emotion, too much negative emotion: frustration, hatred, anger. I think that’s the great obstacle. So I think as a first step this should be cooled. Reduced. Forget these things. And I think for the time being, we need more festivals, more picnics. Let us forget these difficult things, these emotions and make personal friends. The we can start to talk about these serious matters.” Quote taken from 10 Questions for the Dalai Lama

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I used to participate in new age fairs, both as an intuitive reader and a healer. I found them rewarding but intensely challenging as well. As an empath, any situation where there is a gathering of conscious seekers is intense. To feel all the energies of the other vendors, readers and healers was one thing......to feel all the questions, emotions and desires of the thousands who came through the room was quite another.

I've also attended my share of festivals and ceremony over the years and, while I enjoyed most, I typically also found myself energetically overwhelmed at times. So, when my life fell apart around 2001, I just stopped seeking out Sacred Relationship, stopped offering myself in service at festivals and fairs, and retreated into a very private, almost hermit-like existence for 7 years.

I don't recall how I found out about the Renaissance Faire at Heartwood Sanctuary, in Mentone, Alabama, but the knowledge came at a time when I was open enough to follow it. I attended the very first of their Spiritual Renaissance Faires.

I can't say this event was without challenge for me. I had been living a very secluded existence for years and to open myself to the energy of so many at one time again was not easy.

Looking back no that decision now, I know that choosing to attend this spiritual event was the beginning of my greater choice to come back to life, come back into Sacred Relationship with others, and celebrate in community.

If you look within and find that you have retreated from service, from community and from Sacred Relationship to others, one way to step back into the world of Spirit is by attending spiritual festivals or ceremony. There are groups of Light Beings all over the earth that are holding space for you, and people like you and me, to emerge again into spiritual community.

About Heartwood Heartwood Sanctuary is located on 40 beautiful acres of dedicated land and is Sacred Space for ceremony and healing.

What makes land more Sacred in one place than another?

I believe all land is Sacred but that human choices, made by all of us, to pave paradise and put up parking lots has weakened the the healing vibrations over much of Mother Earth.

Conscious spiritual stewardship of land is now needed to encourage the land to dance again and breathe with Sacred Breath into those who walk upon it.

Cathy and Ted, the caretakers of Heartwood, have taken their stewardship seriously and you can feel it when you step onto the land there.

The next Renaissance Faire is coming up on October 13. I'll be there. maybe I'll see you there too?

Spiritual Health Disclaimer: I would be the last to say that solitude and retreat, even for very extended periods of time, cannot be a vital and fulfilling spiritual choice. How could I say that when I've spent years of my own life alone. Yet, I would also say that it is dangerous to remain alone out of fear, woundedness or empathic overload. This, I have also done. In times when I just felt that my spiritual being was akin to raw skin exposed to fire, I retreated to balance, heal and strengthen. The danger for me was getting comfortable with being comfortable. I had to come back into life, into community, and into group ceremony. Otherwise, the lessons I learned in solitude would help no one, not even myself.