Love and Gratitude

Copacabana is only a “two hour” drive from Puno, which in reality means about 3 - 4 hours.  Everyone says everything is two hours from Puno.  We naturally made a day of it and stopped for a two hour ceremony at Amaru Muru, the last of the gifts from Lemuria.  It is an ancient wall with a portal and the energy there is sublime. 

We entered with reverence, removing our shoes and socks and Roberto and I asked for permission to enter.  I brought my poncho this time to act as some padding for our knees.  After breathing in the violet flame on either side of the portal we knelt in the centre and put our third eye into the “plate” (or what used to be a gold plate) and journeyed.  It is interesting to see how far one can travel into parallel dimensions.  For me it was a light show of gold and purple swirling with a kind of magnetic pull and energy pulsing up through my body.

After connecting with Roberto who was guiding this ceremony we each found a place to lie down and wait for the others to have their own journey.  It was a brilliantly sunny day and we were all happy to lay there absorbing the earth’s energy and catching some rays.  I kept the rattle going until everyone had had a go.  Group hugs followed.

The Lake was so incredibly blue and beautiful we had to stop just to take pictures of the brilliant diamond like sparkles shining in the sun. 

We fed a random donkey what we had left of our snacks from the car.  Finally we stopped for lunch and had wonderful “trucha” which technically means trout, but Susie thinks it is a generic name for fish.  Whatever it was, it was very tasty.  Our plates were filled with an abundant of a variety of potatoes including black ones, that were even black inside, and tasted more like beans to me.

A van with a bunch of sheep tied to the roof and even more inside of it pulled up.  We were all moaning thinking they were dead, but soon realised they were alive!  They bought the sheep and were simply relocating them to raise them.  How many sheep can you get into a van?

We continued on the road until reaching the boarder of Bolivia.  This was a bizarre experience, walking back and forth across the road from one office to another getting random stamps on papers until finally getting to the main office where they charged me $135 just for the privilege of being American.  Thank you Great Britain for not giving me a British passport even though I’ve lived here longer than in the states!  Nobody else had to pay.  At least it is good for five years.  The whole boarder control event took a couple of hours and we had to walk across even though Raul had the car.  

We drove around Copacabana lost in search of our hotel but that was rather interesting too as there was so much happening in the market filled streets.  Finally we found our hotel, a beautiful eco lodge that is all solar powered right on the edge of the Lake.  We each had individual little houses, the girls and I were in a kind of hobbit house made of adobe mud bricks with a thatched roof.  

Across the street was a beautiful stone laden beach.  The waves lapped gently at the shore, while stars glistened above.  I thought, “Wow, I am laying with people I love, watching the stars appear after a brilliant red sunset.  We are all together on Lake Titicaca in Bolivia!  How cool is that??  I am so filled with love and gratitude for my friends and my wonderful life.”  How many people take time to lay and star gaze with their friends, sharing silence yet so united?  Be in the moment, that is living.

We had an extremely festive dinner and Carlos informed us that if we wanted to invite all of them for drinks now was the time to do it because the exchange rate for Bolivianos is very good like $6.70 to 1 Boliviano.  So we bought a case of 12 bottles of beer and had a bit of a party.  Once back at the hotel we put the music on in the car and all of us danced together with all of the spirits in the high altitude until midnight or later.  

The next morning we took a slow boat to the Island of The Moon and then to The Island of The Sun.  We all sat on top but wished we hadn’t because it was freezing!  The only ladder down was precariously on the side. The Temple of the Moon was very beautiful and had soft feminine energy, yet with a deep strength and the stone I received from there has very fiery energy to it. Later still, and back on the boat only inside this time, we arrived at the The Island of the Sun.

There in the Temple of the Sun Carlos led a very moving meditation for all of us to go back in time when we were all there together, building these temples leaving symbols to help us remember why we have come back this time.  I found another kuya (mesa stone) that was also in the shape of the Southern Cross like the one I had from the Temple of the Moon.  Different energy, it felt much more subtle.

Another evening of watching the sun set and the stars emerge, while breathing in love and gratitude and breathing out connection and integration.