In the precincts of Karnack temple, during one of Caroline's tours. We visited the temple of Ptah, a small temple at the side of the outer wall. Inside the first room most of our guests were drawn towards the seven doors, these seven false doors allowed the God's wife of Amun, the High Priestess of Karnack temple to transcend to a higher dimension.
I realized that one of our guests had disappeared into the small chamber at the back of the temple on her own, so after a while I walked towards the room and stood in the doorway and quietly observed her rotating in circles whilst under meditation. It was a beautiful sight, as Rekha's arms reached towards the sky, her hands together in praise, her actions were meaningful and precise, soothing and calm, she had connected to the energies within the temple, and I was grateful to have observed this special moment in a tiny room that she had been personally drawn to.
When Rekha finished her meditation, she asked me why I thought she had been drawn to this small room, and why she had felt compelled to rotate in a circle during her meditation, as she had never done this before, it was just a 'feeling' that she needed to turn during her meditation. The room she had been drawn to had been overlooked by the rest of the group, it was tiny and it did not have any obvious significance, but I realized the main image cut into the wall was The Tree of Life. The ancient Egyptians believed that the Tree of Life was the centre of the universe, its trunk was the pillar of the world, the Axis of the Mound (Axis Munde) around which the heavens revolved. The tree itself grew from out of the Sacred Mound; its branches reached out and supported the sky and stars, and its roots reached down into the watery abyss of the netherworld.
When the god Osiris was killed by his jealous brother Set, his body was chopped up and thrown to the far corners of Egypt, one piece was thrown into the River Nile and became entangled in the roots of a Tamarisk tree at the edge of the water, the tree grew and evolved around Osiris, encasing him in it's trunk, and so Osiris became as one with the tree, he became the World Pillar, the link between the terrestrial and celestial worlds. He held the heavens in his outstretched arms, and he soaked up the word of God from the waters of the Netherworld, the home of the Neter (Gods) The waters are symbolic of the cosmos and the milky way, Egyptian temples are a re-creation on Earth of the heavenly cosmos.
I realized that Rekha had instinctively been guided and connected to the earth and Cosmos through her meditation in front of the tree of life, she had rotated like the axis Munde, her rotation was her bodies reaction to intuitively go deeper within herself, like Osiris wrapped within the tree, to experience a glimpse of a higher level of consciousness and spirituality, in that one moment she became one with the earth and the heavens, and left her body and material realm behind, becoming a part of the gifts of nature creation and conscious thought. Thinking about it afterwards i realized that her rotation also reminded me of the soulful whirling movements of the Sufi, the Egyptian holy men whose dance expresses the soul and mind of God.
It was a pleasure to have Rekha as a part of our group, and we hope that our Spiritual journey to Egypt helped her to answer some of the questions she has been seeking. Best wishes from Caroline & Lorraine
see carolines websites: www.triadetravel.nl
