Tuesday, April 29th, 2008 ~ Delphi, Greece
(this is the continuation of a travel journal that began with the April 18th entry further below.)
Dear Friends,
Thank you for journeying along with me. Writing to everyone occasionally is such a special way of sharing my experience as it happens, and so often the amazing things that occur when we travel are too quickly left behind when we finally return home. Now you have all traveled with me in some way…somehow you are here in this internet cafe drinking the iced espresso with me (sounds good doesn’t it…) on a street in the small town of Delphi, built on the legacy of a site where women went into ecstatic trance and spoke to goddesses and gods. It is a place tens of thousands of people visit every year…maybe more…one of the most famous sites in all Greece. The energies in the sites and the land are alive and incredibly magical. One feels high just being here. All that is missing…are the Oracles.
I came here for these few days after Egypt to prepare for the workshop I will teach here in the fall. Originally I looked for a spiritual center to bring people to…some kind of meditation retreat space. I had no idea that no such place exists here. In fact the memory is silent here, just as the Oracle said of the “voice of the spring” in the last prophecy she made about 300 after Christ was born when the temple finally closed its doors forever. Now I know it has been silent all this time…or perhaps never silent, only unheard.
There were many springs here, but a couple of importance to the Oracles. The first Oracular site here actually was a spring itself, through which the nymphs would listen to the voice of the Mother…Gaia or Ge…and receive the prophecies in that way long before the temple of Apollo was built.
I have called this retreat I will teach here the “Return to Delphi” and only now do I realize how poignant and accurate a phrase that is…for that is what those of us who come here in the fall will truly be…Oracles returning to Delphi at the time of the Great Remembering. And we…we will hear the voice of the spring again.
We made a contact here, a lovely young woman, who when I told her about what I teach said, “That is nice! Even we don’t know about the ancient Oracles or intuition…we who live right here at the site!”
It is time. This I have always known. It is time to bring back the ancient knowledge. And not just the ancient knowledge that has been passed down for hundreds of years, some of it losing its meaning along the way, but the ancient knowledge that can only be found in the heart…the power of revelation that is the true spring within each of us. No matter where in the world we reawaken that memory we are powerful contributors to the Great Remembering. I want to thank you all…each of you…for hearing the voice of the sacred spring…it is more important than you may know. It is not always easy to hear that voice within, but it is a light beyond all lights.
Love, Jennifer
