This is a tribute to a life changing experience I had at the 2011 Photosynthesis festival on the Makah Native American land. Thank you to the Makah tribe and the Photosynthesis family for facilitating such an amazing moment.
“The view looking out across Makah Bay was amazing that morning.
As we sat watching the sun rise and the fog lift the island that appeared directly in front of us looked like the beginning of life… of time.
I commented that Mother Earth was “clowning” because no one but her could have created the epic scene we were looking at.
That comment sparked my friend to start laughing uncontrollably which in turn made me start in. I laughed so hard I fell backwards off the log we were sitting on which made me laugh even harder. So hard that I started to cry.
I then felt a deep sadness when I recognized I had forgotten what it was like to laugh so hard I cried.
With my head in my hands, my eyes closed, and tears falling from my eyes I felt myself dropping down inside myself. Going down into deeper layers of my being. Unconsciously seeking out the source of my pain.
My crying became harder and the pain felt deeper. Driving to my core.
Once there, a stillness set in and and it was then that the vision started.
I heard my friend’s voice saying “and now you are ready to be introduced to her” only it wasn’t my friend speaking to me but rather a different entity using his trusting voice to make me feel comfortable for the introduction I was about to have.
It was at that moment that my being left my body and I was handed off to her. To Mother Earth. I felt a warm, feminine, being lovingly inviting me towards her. As my energy merged with her I was told, “Come with me… I will show you everything.”
It felt as though we were a part of the wind as she took me from the left side of the bay across the skyline towards the island I had just been looking at with my physical eyes. The light emanating from it was blindingly beautiful. The closer we got to it the more love, light, and knowing I became filled with until I was centered inside of it… emerged in universal consciousness and feeling the most loving, awe inspiring, moment I have ever felt in my entire life. Feeling and accepting everything.
It was then that she told me “We all have our time” which filled me with a deep sense of relief as I had been unknowingly carrying the burden of human sorrow on my shoulders which was graciously lifted from me at that moment.
I was submerged in this light of universal consciousness for what seemed like a split second before being tugged away from the warm embrace. Pulled out of the oneness. Guided, by her, towards the south end of the bay and gently released with the waves crashing on the beach. Hearing her last words of wisdom echoing in my head… “Now go live your life”.”
– Chewy Lewis (aka Zach Stone)
