Journey 133 - Final Farewell to Friend's Mom

12/3/04: Our dear Friend’s Mom passed back to the Spirit Camp this morning around 3:30 AM, and I had been intending to take a Journey to ensure she got totally free of her Body and the Astral Plane upon the news of her leaving, and so I did so this afternoon, right after notification. Recall I had taken on her Disease and cleansed her Spirit several times in the past months, the most recent just a few weeks ago when I drained her Chakra sludge into a small pool of Water with several of her Helpers and her Parents there. She was therefore Spiritually ready to pass, but word came to me in the past few days that her Mental Body was still as stubborn as ever, hanging on stubbornly and refusing to accept the inevitable..quite typical of people schooled in Western thought. In preparation for the Journey, I smudged the Room, Rattled in Sacred Space, and lit the Sacred Candle. I focused on my intention, to ensure easy and total passage of both Mom and her Disease Spirit into the Goodness of the Great Spirit, while breathing Shamanically and awaiting the Drum Loop..a 10-minute Trip. As I focused, I saw Snowy Owl approaching me, and saw a vast Arctic landscape before me. The Stars above were quite bright. As I started the Drums and lay down, the Stars became bright colored dots of Rainbow light. As Snowy Owl and I waited on the Snow, our friend’s Mom came toward me. Her Golden Room, seen in a prior Journey, was alight in the Sky, well up behind her. Well beyond her on the distant snow hills were her Helpers. Mom approached me, looking quite a bit younger than I had even seen her in this Life. She came up to me and kissed me on both cheeks. She thanked me for cleansing her and preparing her Spirit for her. She then told me she now understood once more that all is made of Love. She said to tell her family left behind that they are all made of this same Love, and they should use this Knowledge to heal themselves and others around them. Being made of the same Love, she added, meant she would always be reachable by her Family, and vice versa. In other words, she would always be “in touch.” She then slid backward into the crowd of her Helpers. I watched as they all merged into a rainbow colored shaft of light, conical in shape, with the point touching the distant gold Room. The cone then retreated quickly up into this room, and then the Room faded from view. This was the last I would see of our friend's Mom for a while if not for Life, and I fell to my knees and began tearing up as I felt both intense sadness and joy at her departure. Snowy Owl then turned my attention to the Disease, now running loose. He grabbed me in his talons and took off into the Sky. We were suddenly flying over a forested area of the town they live in, and down below me I could see the dark shape of the Disease Spirit lurching frantically through the Woods, bouncing off Trees. It was seeking a new home! Owl gave me a golden Hoop of Mana to throw down onto the Disease, to trap it. As the Disease Spirit became aware of our presence above, it stopped and looked up at us. Recognizing me, I sensed it thinking “oh, it’s you. I’ve met you before, when you tried to intervene in my Life.” It had stopped long enough for me to say, “here is a Gift of Love,” and I threw the Mana Ring down over the Spirit. The Ring then turned into a mini-tornado, totally engulfing the Disease Spirit, with the swirl turning from bright gold to a deep dark gray. It then turned Blood Red, then Flesh, then White. The tornado subsided, and I saw a small white Spirit Mass slowly dissolving into the Ground..returning to Mother Earth to be used for Good. I was then taken to my 5-Stone Altar in my back yard, but back in time to when I used that site as Rains Again. I was shown that one of my great failings to my People back then was when I found myself too busy to perform a Spirit Release Ceremony for a Tribe Person who had passed. This failing was one of the reasons I had returned to this Life to reclaim a Shaman Mantle. I then saw my Shaman Symbol being drawn into the ground within the boundaries of my 5-Stone Altar, and it was suggested that I do this in this reality as well. I then looked up at the Sky and saw the same Galaxy of Light above me that was present at the end of my Shaman’s Dream several years ago. My Shaman symbol was forming within that as well. This told me that my work for Mom had been very fruitful and appreciated by the Spirit Helpers! I was then zoomed back to the Arctic where we had said goodbye to Mom. Snowy Owl asked me if I wished to visit that part of Space where the Gold Room had been. I did, and so up I went. While I was floating within this Space, I felt so calm, at peace and secure. Not a care or worry in the world. This is what our friend’s Mom had felt in this Room. I then asked to be brought back down to the Snows. From there I was quickly transported to my back yard as it is today. Standing there were Eagle Claw, and others of my Helpers and Guides. They told me this assist for a dying person was the first of many I would perform in this Shaman’s Walk, news I was glad to hear, as I really love being the portal for Spiritual Involvement from the Camp. I then found a Sacred Pipe being passed around. When it came to me, I looked at the Stem and saw our friend’s Mother’s name had been etched into it. Eagle Claw told me to keep this Spirit-based Pipe, and hang it on the wall above my own Pipe, as a remembrance of my Help. At this point, the Call Back sounded and the Journey was over. Afterward: this evening we have tiny snow grains falling gently from the Sky..a reminder of the Snowy Field upon which I said goodbye.