Wednesday, December 06, 2006

Recent trip to Siwa Oasis, Sahara Desert and El-Alamein - story published on Crystalinks (27 November 2006)


http://www.crystalinks.com/alchemy1106.html
(including story and photos)

Raquel from Italy, visits Egypt

Hi Ellie,

I've recently come back from another trip to Egypt and wanted to share with you some wonderful things that happened to us there. It all seems very connected to your own work and to Crystalinks: connecting to the Program, activating ley lines, grids of creation and also time travel ...
Early this month, a group of 8 women, and I, went to the beautiful Siwa Oasis in the Sahara desert, mainly to visit the famous Temple and Oracle of Amun, then spend a few days by the sea near Al Alamein, on the northern coast, not too far from Alexandria. We did some great energy work connecting to the strong transformational energies of Egypt.
We'd planned to go to the Oracle of Amun to ask for guidance about our personal lives and the world in general, following on the footprints of Alexander the Great. While we were inside the Temple and Oracle of Amun, we did a group ritual that involved connecting to the energies there, using inner guidance and following the messages found in the hieroglyphs on the walls. Then I was 'given' some strange symbols that I felt I had to draw in the air using my quartz crystal wand, while standing inside the temple, but looking out towards the sun, as if to activate something there (a scene I had already seen in a dream, on the night before the trip). Our guide, an Italian Egyptologist called Alessandra, told me later that she thought those were symbols used before Egyptian times, Zep Tepi or maybe as far back as Lemuria or Atlantis.
We felt, and had many signs, confirming that ancient knowledge had been kept and hidden in Siwa for thousands of years, an oasis so remote, it seemed the ideal place for it. We sensed a strong connection to an ancient civilisation, prior to Egypt. That night I had another dream about it and saw a beautiful temple on a mountain in the desert, behind our hotel. We all felt that we had activated strong energies of the land around Siwa, and in the desert of Sahara, perhaps linked to ley lines or planetary grids - as if a dormant energetic grid in that area, had been restarted or reactivated. The energies were very high and we felt really connected. Later Alessandra felt that the work we had done and are still doing at a distance is also connected to the god Ptah and his staff, the rod of creation and healing, which she believes was also a tool for teletportation and time travel.
Destiny brought Alessandra back to Siwa, two weeks later where she was able to carry on the work we had started. I keep in contact with her by email and in spirit. Home, here in Italy, I was quickly able to time travel back to the Temple, where I witnessed Alexander the Great inside and sensed the changes in the energetic grid under the Temple and around Siwa.

Thank you again.

Love & Light,
Raquel

Thursday, September 21, 2006

Quintessence - the word...

What is Quintessence?

(From Wikipedia and other sources)

Quintessence is also known as ether, the celestial fire, Divine Energy or the brilliance of God's Majesty... It's at the center of every material thing, as a vertical reflection of Essence into matter.

Even though Quintessence is a material principle because it is a perfect reflection of the Spirit, to become one with the quintessence is in effect to become one with the Spirit. Deep inner Spiritual Alchemy or transformation is about the search for the Quintessence... This is the true journey of the human soul... And that's why I've used it to name this blog! :-)

According to a Thesaurus, Quintessence has 3 basic meanings:

1. Quintessence - the fifth and highest element after air and earth and fire and water; was believed to be the substance composing all heavenly bodies
One of four substances thought in ancient and medieval cosmology to constitute the physical universe; "the alchemists believed that there were four elements".

2. Quintessence - the purest and most concentrated essence of something
choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience; "the gist of the prosecutor's argument"; "the heart and soul of the Republican Party"; "the nub of the story".

3. Quintessence - the most typical example or representative of a type
- an item of information that is representative of a type; "this patient provides a typical example of the syndrome"; "there is an example on page 10".

The word quintessence is used in many different fields.
In ancient and medieval natural philosophy, it's the "quinta essentia", the fifth essence (or element), the material of the stars, forming heavenly bodies and pervading all things; in contrast to the four elements (fire, air, water and earth) in which all other matter was thought to exist. (Page 3 of Lawrence Krauss' book Quintessence).
Basically another term for aether, Quintessence and the corresponding adjective quintessential are also used in the figurative sense of "(a thing) that is the perfect example of its kind". This is seen in the Hamlet soliloquy: "The beauty of the world, the paragon of animals and yet to me what is this quintessence of dust?"

In Alchemy, Quintessence was believed to the fifth or highest element, beyond the four material elements (Earth, Air, Water and Fire). It was believed to be the substance composing all heavenly bodies.
In traditional alchemy, Quintessence is not something that exists by itself. It exists when the 4 elements are in balance in the substance. According to Paracelsus, Quintessence or "quintum esse" meant the nucleus of the essences and properties of all things in the universal world.

For Numerology, Quintessence is associated to the number 5, the five petaled flower and five pointed star.

Similar cultural concepts
The concept of a life-energy inherent in all living beings seems to be a fairly universal archetype, and appears in numerous ancient religions and systems of metaphysics.

Analogies to numina in other societies include:
Polynesian mythology : mana
Australian Aboriginal mythology : maban
Egyptian mythology : ka
Greek mythology : ichor
Inuit mythology : inua, sila
Leni Lenape mythology : manetuwak
Norse mythology : seid
Yoruba mythology : oloddumare

Also related are the philosophical concepts of:
Chinese Philisophy : qi (or chi), Tao
Japanese philosophy : ki
European alchemy and philosophy : aether, (or ether), quintessence
Hindu philosophy : prana

In (Wicca), it is the unifying energy inherent in every living creature on the planet, and in all four elements (earth, air, water, and fire) in nature: Essentially it is spirit: and soul, the all-encompassing spirit energy of the Goddess and God. On the pentagram, akasha is assigned to the fifth top point, and the "other" element.

Aether (also spelled ether) is a concept used in ancient and medieval science as a substance. The aether was believed to be the substance which filled the region of the universe above the terrestrial sphere. Aristotle included it as a fifth element distinct from the other four, Earth, Water, Air, and Fire. Aether was also called Quintessence (from quinta essentia, "fifth element"). Its Platonic solid, according to Plato, was the Dodecahedron.

In modern physics, quintessence is a hypothetical form of energy postulated to exist as an explanation of observations of an accelerating universe. The new buzz word in cosmology these days is 'quintessence', borrowed from the ancient Greeks who used the term to describe a mysterious 'fifth element' - in addition to air, earth, fire and water - which held the moon and stars in place. Quintessence, some cosmologists say, is an exotic kind of energy field that pushes particles away from each other, overpowering gravity and the other fundamental forces.

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"The Law of QuintEssence: You are not your Body, your Mind or your Emotions - what you are is an expression and progency of Universal QuintEssence - and your ability to create what you want and be who you are - is limitless. That "infinite and eternal" part of you that feels most real and tangible to you "as such" ---- is your Mind/ Consciousness (your Creative Imagination and source of creative manifestation) and in your Heart (feeling and love). Your QuintEssence resides in and comprises Your Creative Imagination and in your Heart...." (extract from http://www.greatdreams.com/vision1.htm)

Our spiritual journey is the path of awakening to the higher forces of the Universe, by going beyond our physical body, mind and emotions, following a regular spiritual practice as a way to expressing our purest essence - the Universal Quintessence-, thus discovering God inside and around ourselves.

Monday, September 18, 2006

Journeys of the Soul...


Welcome to Quintessence - an oasis for your soul!

You are about to embark on amazing spiritual journey to uncover your true inner self....

Quintessence is a space for soul retreat and spiritual development, a path to self-awareness... Here we will present and discuss ways of finding and keeping inner peace and achieving deep inner transformation...

Here I will post my spiritual thoughts, inspirational texts and many metaphysical researches and experiences (including articles about healing, natural therapies and vibrational medicine, Yoga and meditation, alchemy, metaphysical studies of ancient civilizations, methods for psychic development, and much more!).

On Quintessence, I will also tell you about my journeys to sacred places around the world (including England, Egypt, India, Portugal, Italy, Bali...) and about the many spiritual seminars that I attend - amazing experiences that hopefully will inspire you as they have inspired me...

Quintessence has a mission - bringing to the light ancient knowledge - so it may uplift us in this special time of transition in the history of Mankind...

This is the journey of my lifetime, the story of my soul quest, and a way of connecting our souls in this sacred moment...

May God be with us always, guiding and blessing this project.

In Love and Light,
Raquel