Crystals

I am not an expert in the Tibetan pracitices, but I do well enough that I wanted to explore other areas. The magic mirror from the Lady in the Woods' house told me to stay with the Tibetan Monk. I refused.

So I wandered around the Rock Garden that is next to the Sun Palace. There is a circle of large rocks, separated by distance. It has some look like Stone Henge. The stones were tall but oddly shaped. They had a grain to them, as if they were petrified wood. Each Rock was colored, and in the stones of the plaza in front of the stone there was a word carved. The words were like: Love, Trust, Beauty... The colors were dark green, purple, yellow,... I do not remember the associates of which color goes with which attribute.

I went up to the second level of the plaza and found some shops. The first shop was an activity using 6 hand-sized pieces of crystal, each on a plate. Behind them were 6 pillars, containg the hame of the attributes of Love, ... The activity was to match them up using the mouse. When You completed the activity, the stones appeared in your magic bag.

I remember seeing a pedestal in front of each stone, that would be just the right height to hold these crystals. So I went back down to the ground level of the plaza, and put the stones on each of the pedestals. My point of view changed, as if I was flying up to float over the center of the plaza, and off tothe side a bit. There was a circle in the center of the plaza that issued streams ot steam straight up. Then it began spewing forth bis of paper or ribbon in the six colors, and let them go in the wind. There seems to be six different winds, because each batch of colored paper were floating and flitting in completely different ways. Then they all came together over the center stone of the plaza and made a bright light which grew out, as it dissipated, there was a women sitting on a cushioned seat. She was dressed in bright colors. She spoke with an american accent, but her face indicated she was Japanese. Her hair style was definitely a generic Anime hairstyle, marking her as Japanese for sure.

She called her self the lady of compassion. She said as we practiced what she was going to teach me, we would develop compassion. She taught that there was something called "the compassionate breath". It is a breathing rhythm coupled with a mental image. We breath in for 5, out for 5. We imagine the breath going into and out of our hearts. As we do this, we should begin to feel a warmth near our heart. When we were in activities that required that kind of breath, one would see the outline of a heart appear in the center of the activity for a brief second once the activity started.

She said she was going to another temple to help many others, which she would do spiritually. Her body would be a rest. When I see her later, I can wake her up with a compassionate breath. (A modified Sleeping Beauty Quest). Then she faded away.

I went back up to the second floor to see what else was up there. There was a watch maker. There is a beautiful grandfather clock in the middle of his show room. The clock maker told me that Sophia had told him to expect me. He taught me that people experience time differently from each other, based on what they feel and how well they have prepared themselves to take advantage of the time-dialation or time-shrinkage. He told me to set the grandfather clock's arms on its face to twelve. Then he disappeared saying a lame joke that only an engineer would laugh at.

I entered the activity to move both clock fave arms to noon. I had to become extremely excited for it to happen. Guess what, it was hard for ,me today. Breathing fast, moving my hands, dancing, didn't do it. Only one thing worked for me - LAUGHING. So I shuckled, then giggled, and then laughed, and then laughed like I was being vigorously tickled, and ZIP - both colck face arms raced to NOON. I was then transported tothe clock machinery to a different place (SHADES of the Last Unicorn). The activity asked me to pick a place in the world, someplace where you have never been, and then with eyes closed, try to imagine as many things as possible as if you were in that place.

I choose Hawaii. I was amazed at how much I saw. It wasn't like I was looking at fotos, I was actively doing or watching something. I went snorkling and saw cool fish. I flew in a helicopter over the lave beds. I took a boat ride to see the lave beds. I rented a car and drove all the way around the island, I went to many shows. I met many people, both tourists and natives. I saw the native workers. I saw how they were treated, somethings I didn't like. The list is real long.

When the 60 seconds were up, we were asked how long we thought it was. I really felt it was more like 10 minutes. The voice of the mentor said for some people, it would seem like hours, days, weeks or years.

Then he gave me a pretty green ball. I have 3 balls now. Don't know what they are for.

I didn't want to stop, so I wen to what I thought was one more activity. It was an activity designed to use the compassionate breath. I couldn't get it to work at all. I will try again tomorrow.

There was a spiral stairway on either side of the compassionate heart activity center. The stairs took us to the roof of the center. The first activity was starting a rotary part of an engine. The did this by breathing. I got it to work easily.

This lead to a huge telescope. It would spin as I breathed. I finally figured out that if I began the breath at a certain point on the circular track that supported the telescope, and did a count 7 breath, the telescope would spin in a complete circle smoothly. If I then breathed out in the same way, the telescope would spin in a complete circle again. There is a yellow ball on top of the machinery that started the telescope to spin. When I clicked that ball, the scene changed to show an image of the universe. It would remain for about 10 seconds, and then we would have to spin the telescope some more before we could see another picture. I recognized the fotos. They are from the Hubble Telescope, except one. The also had a foto from one of the Apollo missions of the Earth. They were all beautiful.

I descended the stairs feel excited and awed.