Message from Earth: My Experience in a Ritual Sweatlodge (Ancient Wisdom Series) (Volume 5)

This ancient ritual enabled me to enter a supernal realm, a tangible place of living myth and primordial power. Here, suspended for a time in a lost world, I took nothing for granted. Everything became possible. The patterns of my everyday life were dislodged in the immediacy of previously unknown and utterly overwhelming natural forces. Sounds, images, symbols, and scents from a bygone era took command of my senses. Songs were sung in unfamiliar rhythms. Prayers were spoken in an unfamiliar language. In the heat and steam and integrity of it all, an inner vision awakened. My task was to learn to use it to navigate this exotic and sometimes foreboding territory. Over time, it became clear that the setting and instruments of the ritual are tools. Through generations of use, these devices had become lifelines. The rattle, the drum, the incense, the prayers all were a means to reveal the ancient ideas still living within the ceremony. Message from Earth is the story of what I discovered in the ritual sweat lodge. Peter Robert Fenton