There is very little left to finish this Challenge, I think that’s why today had to happen the best conscious walk I’ve ever had.
Around 12 o’clock I took a train to North Berwick, accompanied by Laura, this small town is touristic, but the truth is that I had never been there. For the last couple of days I felt the need to leave the city and go and disconnect somewhere. I feel that today I have rather gone to connect at the end.
We started our way on the eternal sands of the beaches that leave North Berwick, our final destination: Edinburgh. The weather was windy and sometimes it rained, but without too much intensity. We decided to document everything as a PsycheNautics adventure to create material on the web. We decided to ritualize the adventure to do a little magic with our experience in this Challenge.
I felt inspired and told Laura to pick up stones that caught her attention. Today we would work with the witch of the sea, the queen of witches, who dwells in the waters of the unconscious. Walking for a while we found a small flat pond, perfect. In the background is the sea, which roars slightly, the perfect scene that represents the nature of the mind. We were going to leave a stone with something that we would like to keep forever and that we have learned in this challengeā¦ but two came out for each one, and that’s what we did. A heron was at the bottom, near the sea all the time. This bird is associated with being the guardian of past livesā¦ whenever I see it I try to connect with that line of thought/sensation to flow.
Now that I think about it I haven’t said the most important thing of all, if I could throw one more stone I would throw it so that the willpower, diligence and constancy that have led me to be five days away from finishing something that has really changed me inside.
The Challenge has accelerated my learning and empowered me considerably.
Doing it every day is like training, especially meditation and writing.
The road went on for a bit, it was all full of snails drooling over the wet strands of crushed grass. Birds flew, yellow flowers, purple flowers, white flowers, yellow flowers and purple and green. I have felt the sea, and I have seen it, but sincerely the vegetation has absorbed my attention today on this conscious walk.
Suddenly we found a strange wooden structure. It was a bench, a place to sit in the middle of the walk, a place for people who like to walk. We sat down to rest and improvise some videos. I got a letter from my oracle in Gaia.
We did magic and left a spell there for whoever goes there next time, we sang 3 OM and left to continue the adventure.
Laura had to make a technical stop, and a few minutes later it was a technical stop for me too. I don’t understand how we did it but we split up and lost each other. I walked a bit through the forest as it was raining outside and I thought Laura would have followed the forest inside little by little. I went out of the forest and they seemed to hear screams calling me, I answered with some harmonics and waited a few minutes.
Would it be the wind between the branches?
I decided that if Laura was in the area I would probably pull forward through the forest so I explored more. There were rudimentary wooden structures here and there and it was noticeable that they made bonfires, I think even some kind of magical ritual, since there were cords to delimit the area and decorations with intertwined branches. A bit like Blair’s Witch. I was worried that something had happened to Laura and that she was beginning to experience something like in the film when the forest’s lush foliage lay dormant.
I came out of the forest and soon I found myself angry, for no reason, Laura.
After a while we found some large concrete cubes that were making a path to the cliffs in front of the sea. I did my first 15 minutes of meditation there, feeling the elements with Laura by my side. It felt very empowering and very relaxing. I felt that I was settling into my body, that I was firmly rooted with the earth, that I was nourished from it as well as from the light of heaven.
The walk continued. We still lacked stones to throw, this time of what we want to leave behind and that we have realized during this challenge but we do not like in our lives. We found a small pond and threw two rocks there.
When we found a bridge we got rid of the last rocks in the romantic light of the golden and reddish sunset.
I have 15 minutes of meditation left that I will do now just before I go to sleep.