Month: June 2025

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Support the Crystal Labyrinth Project

As you celebrated the Summer Solstice and the New Moon this past week, our beloved shamans who are South of the Equator were celebrating the Winter Solstice in Cusco, Peru.

Inti Raymi, the Festival of the Sun, takes place on June 24th to commemorate the beginning of the Inca New Year and the Winter Solstice. Originating in the 15th century by Emperor Pachakuti, Inti Raymi was created as major Inca festival to honor the sun god Inti.

Today, the festival honors Inca heritage with traditional costumes, ceremonies, dances, and vibrant music.

Large celebrations embody Peru’s cultural identity in a bridge from past to present time. The primary celebrations for Peruvians and visitors take place in Cusco’s Plaza de Armas, Coricancha (Temple of the Sun), and the Sacsayhuaman Fortress (Lightning Temple).

I’ve sat in Cusco’s main square, wandered through the Coricancha, and communed with the massive, mysterious stones at Sacsayhuaman.

It adds a layer of special appreciation to the celebration of the Northern Summer Solstice knowing my brothers and sisters to the South are dancing in ceremony. 

I received beautiful photos and videos from Pascual which shared a gathering of shamans high in the mountains. Blue tents, dusted with snow, scattered about the stark mountain side. The young men dancing in ceremony adorned with the symbols of the Inca and the medicine gifts they carry.

Pascual playing his role as an elder and medicine man in the Q’ero tradition.

Every month I receive photos or videos of ceremony high in the Peruvian mountains. Pascual, his wife Santusa, his son, and others who climb to the rarified air to honor Pachamama and pray with the Apus (mountain spirits) and etheric lineages. They pray for harmony for the Earth, for humanity, and for all creatures great and small.

They pray for you as they consider the extended family of Soul Sanctuary and the beautiful people who gathered last summer with them for the Seeding of the Light Gathering. 



Pascual and Santusa with their translator, Jose Tomas, are traveling to Damanhur with a group in September to participate in the Crystal Labyrinth Project.

Damanhur’s Crystal Labyrinth radiates harmony and wisdom deposited by indigenous medicine people from around the world.

When asked to travel to Damanhur and the Temples of Humankind to participate in the Crystal Labyrinth Project, the shamans were guided to make the journey.

To explore the power of the mountain, and the Temples hidden within, where four synchronic lines intersect. They’ll engage in ceremony for the benefit of Pachamama and humanity in the foothills of the Italian Alps, waterfalls, and sacred land of Damanhur.

Pascual and Santusa will download the balanced masculine and feminine wisdom garnered from living the Q’ero tradition of the medicine person.

Damanhur was created to dream a new timeline and way of being for the planet. A way of harmony, sustainable stewardship, and respectful relationships with all beings. Now is a time to join and anchor this dream of harmony across the globe as destructive policies, behavior, and rhetoric fill the airwaves.

You can join in support of the Crystal Labyrinth Project which radiates harmony, love, and wisdom throughout the world.

It takes a village to fund the shamans journey to Damanhur and together we’ve identified a way for you and your family to be remembered in ceremony with the shamans.

An Ayni Despacho and fire ceremony will be held in the high mountains of Peru in August and in the Italian foothills in September. During each ceremony, all who have contributed to the shamans’ journey will be remembered. Photos of the ceremonies will be shared with all who have contributed to this group project.

You may learn more about the Crystal Labyrinth Project and how you may contribute to this dream of harmony HERE.

The Crystal Labyrinth page has a flyer and graphics that you may download to share amongst those you know who would be willing to support these shamans. You are invited to share the web link or to download any of the material and share on your own social media platforms.

I have a fond memory of Pascual driving through New Jersey or exploring new places. His enthusiastic “Wow!” accompanied by a big smile and spontaneous flute playing warms my heart. I look forward to sharing the Temples of Humankind with our Peruvian friends, and all of the Journeyers, as they live up to the description as The 8th Wonder of the World. 



Please consider making this dream possible and assisting me in bringing Pascual, Santusa, and Jose Tomas to Peru. Your contribution matters deeply and I am most grateful.

The Crystal Labyrinth Project page has all of the details. Feel free to reach out directly with any questions or if you’re interested in traveling to Damanhur with us.

Peace be with you and with all.  No exceptions. 

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“Superman memory crystals” are the size of a coin and can store up to 360 terabytes of data. This advanced technique consist of nanoscale dots embedded by a laser in layers of quarts. This data is encoded in 5 dimension including 3D placement, orientation, and size. Texts such as the Bible, stored in a quarter size crystal, are found to be stable up to 1000 degrees Celsius. Theoretically, that information can last for 14 billion years at room temperature. Science hasn’t (yet) proven that intent can transfer wisdom into a crystal, I imagine Damanhur’s Crystal Spiral Labyrinth is the perfect experiment to radiate indigenous wisdom throughout the cosmos.

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How to Keep your Heart Open

These past months have been filled with confusion, anger, and fear for many in this country.

Witnessing deportations without due process, assaults on the courts and universities, flip flopping tariffs, and military action have shaken the foundational sense of safety and justice for many Americans.

I’ve been listening to you and engaging in many conversations about how to live in balance during these times.

When the world seems hostile, disrespectful, and unsafe, it’s a really good time is to explore how to navigate with sturdiness, skill, and soul. 

Soul first.

What’s the highest ideal that guides you? Perhaps love, compassion, generosity, or kind understanding? Whatever has guided you thus far is important in this moment of history. The challenge is how you apply that ideal in a practical manner through your energy, thoughts, words, and deeds.

When you’re hair’s on fire or you’re shaking under the covers, it might be a challenge to view people or situations who trigger you with compassion. That’s understandable. 

So body next.

Remember how important it is to breathe. Deep, slow breaths. Long exhales to calm the nervous system. Square breathing. However you choose to practice breathing will be helpful.

Soothing your nervous system with the power of HeartBreathing brings you into greater organization. This means you’ve got full access to the wisdom of your brains (gut, heart, head). Allowing you to return to a centered, calm state to determine how to proceed. This supports emotional regulation so you can tolerate what you’re facing. [The Self Soothe Strategy guides you through this.]

Where’s your mind focusing?

If you’re reactive to the many media news streams (including your inner dialogue or friend’s opinion), it’s easy to get distracted and dysregulated. Frustration and fear love a reactive mind. So does the opposition or whomever you’re getting all riled up with.  

When your mind-body is organized, it’s easier to choose your focus. The intent to do your best as you move through the day with an open heart and strong self care supports your potential to bring compassion, generosity, or love to your interactions. 

Connection. Communication. CommUnity.

Look to those who bring comfort and feel sturdy to you. Connect with others who can engage in conversations that explore without demonizing. Support one another with care and consideration as you process your feelings or concerns. 

If you’re in a family, friend group, or work space where folks think very differently than you or are reactive, it might not be the best place to explore your differences. However, when you’re able to have an honest conversation with those who view situations differently than you, seek to understand them.

Bridging divides in perception, opinion, or lifestyle requires openness and a true desire to put yourself in another’s place. 

Do your best to become peaceful in your mind, body, and emotions. So your interactions throughout the day broadcast peace. Explore where acceptance, understanding, generosity, and forgiveness may be responses that support, empower, and heal. What you choose to share in today’s unrest really matters in everyday interactions. Don’t underestimate the impact of small ripples. Just make a lot of the positive kind all day long.

As the country becomes polarized, seek to keep your mind and heart open.

How do you keep your heart open in hell?

Here’s some advice from a wise man in tune and in balance with feminine wisdom.

I receive succor in this higher understanding of how to be in a world that holds so much pain, destruction, and beauty. 

This may help you explore how to live in the world and keep your heart open. To choose to be spiritually focused without losing touch with your humanity. Herein lies guidance for action that is balanced, coming from a perspective that there is harmony to the implicate and explicate order of the universe. And your experience within it. 

I discovered the wisdom of Ram Dass after he passed. 

I’ve learned a lot from the documentaries about his life and his talks. He offers a richness packed into a few minutes or hours that often left me more willing to live in this beautiful, horrible world with a heart that stays open.

Plus, I like how he talks like a calm, happy hippie. Words like “far out, cool, and groovy” bring me back to my high school days.

Ram Dass taught about courage, how to sit with pain and grief, encouraging an experience of hope within despair, and offered an invitation to face death consciously. He demonstrated what a heart wide open looks like in a person who is clearly human. 

Imagine a country filled with hearts that want to stay open. 

No matter what side of any situation you find yourself on, I wonder if you could begin with calming your body and opening your heart and mind. Every choice, every ripple matters. 

You’ll find the link to Ram Dass’ talk in the HeartWarming News below.

Peace be with you and with all.  No exceptions. 

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Ram Dass’ talk led me to a creative, cool resource: the After Skool channel on youtube. I found some of my favorite teachers there. Listening to their voices while the concepts were illustrated artfully. It’s a visual delight. The intent of this channel is to empower individuals to shift their inner world with artistic presentations of profound thinkers. The idea that the world changes when your internal world changes is not new. It IS empowering and shared by mystics, physicists, and medicine men and women. Here’s the link for How to Keep your Heart Open in Hell by Ram Dass. Next up for me? Allan Watts. He probably says groovy too.