September 22, 1998

I spent most of the day working on the part of the story of Sarah and Alexander where she goes to Atlantis to meet Tehuti, the creational force of Atlantis.

Needing a break I decided to take a drive along the parkway near my home. The parkway runs parallel to the Atlantic Ocean.

I parked my car in one of the pull-off areas and got out.

It was late afternoon. The air was cool - a small breeze blew by shoulder-length hair back.

I walked alone the esplanade then down along the beach.

Few people were there at that time as the summer was over and people were busy with other earthly matters.

The energies were serene.

There was something about the ocean that I needed to connect with.

The ocean - the ebb and flow of the collective unconscious - linked to the creational forces.

Here I was - as always drawn to the Atlantic Ocean - Atlantean energies all around me.

Thought of Atlantis entered my mind. Sarah had to return to Atlantis on the final leg of her journey. Her answers were there in the collective unconscious.

Where and when did Atlantis exist?

If all things are parallel - and different programs co-exist - then the Atlantean program is happening as you read this.

Somewhere the Atlantean aspect of my soul was connecting with me in the same way I am thinking of her.

Perhaps in her reality - she too is drawn to that which we call the Atlantic Ocean and is walking beside it - looking for the connection between our realities and our storylines.

I walked back to the esplanade and sat down on a wooden bench.

I closed my eyes and looked to link our energies and how to approach the Atlantean aspect of the story.

What I saw was the image of wings - a symbol for transcendence.































Suddenly I looked up as I felt I wasn't alone.

Sitting on the bench next to me was a very large black bird.

Most of the birds at the shore are sea gulls and pidgeons.

I wondered why this bird felt so comfortable with my energies that he flew over and sat down. Perhaps humans came to the shore to feed him. But I had no food with me.

I sent him a message that I had no food.

He didn't move.

After ten minutes I started feeling uncomfortable so I got up.

The bird flew to the ground near me and stood there looking around.

I decided to walk back to along the shore as he would surely fly away by that time.

Oddly, he followed me like one who was out walking their pet dog.

There were no other birds around which was also unusual.

The beach was almost deserted.

A young couple - off in the distance - were kissing!

It was time to send this bird a telepathic message . .

I asked him if he was really a bird - as opposed to a shape shifter.

There was no reply.

Yet I knew he was not there by coincidence.

There was something symbolic going on.

I stopped and watched the water.

Both realities seem to co-exist.

i saw a shoreline simliar to this one.

It was a place of high energies.

I could move my consciousness into that place. It felt peaceful and serene.

Was this Atlantis?

I saw a woman walking alone by the shoreline in this other reality.

She was tall and slim. Her hair was very long and dark. She wore a white flowing garment and no shoes.

Did she actually exist somewhere? Is she an aspect of my soul? Is she Sarah? Did she 'see' me as I saw her?

Nothing was exchanged between us - yet the connection was there and seemed needed at that moment in my timeline here.

In the blink of an eye both the black bird and the image flew out of my consciousness - each into its own reality.

I knew what I was to write in reference to Sarah and Atlantis. Sarah will come to know the truth when her reality and that of Atlantis merge.

It was time to go Home. I had done what I was guided to do. On a soul level it felt good.

This journey was more of transcendence of the mind than the body.
















I emailed the experience to three metaphysical friends. This is what they wrote . . .

Steve in Holland

"Your story of the bird reminded me of another object I found recently. It's a bronze amulet.The amulet is fairly large, at least one and a half to two inches in diameter. On one side of the amulet was Mary and child. On the other, there were two holy persons, unlike angels but more like adult men who were elevated in the air, facing down, holding a crown over the head of a young person who is seated down under them. Above these three persons, there is a large, black bird, wings spread faced down."

[Interesting as Sarah and Alexander share an amulet].

Chelsea in New Jersey

"In the Native American Bird tribes -Black Birds and Ravens are the two most powerful symbols for Transformation and Initiation. In Atlantis - which is why you were drawn to go to the Atlantic - it refers to Ma'at - the consort of Tehuti. (Z)"

Chelsea has since moved to San Diego, Ca. She works with Native American energies.

Raven, and black bird, like Mink and Coyote and other spirit beings of the Northwest mythology, was as fickle and unpredictable as nature and its seasons. Raven was a shapechanger, who could assume any form - human or animal. Raven was a glutton and trickster, but he showed pity for the naked people he found in a giant clamshell. His trickery brought them the essentials for existence in a harsh world - game and fish and fowl, fire, clothing, shelter - and with them the rituals that would protect them from the dark spirits lurking about.

Ravens are known as the 'keeper of secrets' in several native tribes, and are the teachers of mysticism. They have been wrapped in a wealth of myth and lore throughout many cultures and ages. Their black color and diet of dead associates them with the vast void of darkness, which is representative of the unconscious. Raven flies to us with heightened awareness and greater understanding of our consciousness. It is with this new perception that we begin seeing into the hearts of others and experience their feelings. Raven asks us to experience the transformation it brings within our multidimensional self, and be reunited with the mysteries of the universe so we can expel our inner demons.

'Blackbird' means 'Gateway'. This bird teaches us that standing in a gateway without action is a denial of our responsibility, our power. Its call beckons us to become more self aware ~ to see the ways we can discover more of our hidden potentials, our motivations, to seek spiritual truths. In discovering new depths of self, we discover new ways of healing. The song of the blackbird is varied and unmistakable, it is most often heard in those magical twilight times of dawn and dusk. They are associated with existing in dream time where 'time' does not exist. It teaches us the song of balance, to regenerate within and without. The blackbird ride upon the winds of change ~ teaches us of camouflage ~ a door is open, will you take it...?

Michelle in Virginia

"Ma'at is considered the wife of Thoth and the daughter of Ra. By various traditions, Ma'at's name implies "truth" and "justice" and even "cosmic order", but there is no clear English equivalent. She is an anthropomorphic personification of the concept Ma'at and as such has little mythology.

"Ma'at was represented as a tall woman with an ostrich feather (the glyph for her name) in her hair. She was present at the judgment of the dead; her feather was balanced against the heart of the deceased to determine whether he had led a pure and honest life."

Symbols of Transcendence

Egyptians, Atlanteans, and most other ancient civilizations worshipped winged gods and goddesses.
Egypt
Sumer
Meso-America

THE PHOENIX































ZOROASTER

In the center of the figure is a circle which represents the soul of the individual. For the soul to evolve and progress, it has two wings. In each wing there are five layers of feathers. These can represent the five Divine Songs - Gathas - of Zarathustra.

THOTH

Dhouti, Tehuti, Thout, Djehuti, Zehuti

God of the moon, drawing, writing, geometry, wisdom, medicine, music, astronomy, and magic.

Scribe of the Gods.

His sacred bird was the ibis.

He is represented with the head and neck of an ibis and carries a pen, tablet, and palm branch.

On his head he wore the combined lunar disc and crescent.

Thoth's name means 'He of Djehut', which was a province in Lower Egypt.

Thoth's priests claimed Thoth was the Demi-Urge who created everything from sound.

It was said that Thoth wrote books in which he set forth

a fabulous knowledge of magic and incantation,
and then concealed them in a crypt.













And so it was written. . . .
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