PART 2 - Two day workshop for experiencing the spiritual landscape
of Cape Town and environs with Marko Pogacnik –
20th and 21st October, 2007

Two days of preparation preceded the workshop — Marko, whose first visit this is to Cape Town, began to seek out the spiritual landmarks and to employ his amazing intuition in discovering how they interact.

	We begin with an acknowledgement of help from Terry de Vries Nel, Debsalem Bloom, and Karin Fry and who gave indications of some important sites around Cape Town, including Jonkershoek Nature Reserve, the great dome of Paarl, the cave at Lion’s Head and the granites of Logi‘s Beach.
PRELIMINARY VISITS
	The golden stream of Jonkers.
	The great “black pearl” – harking back to an upheaval in a very ancient past. (Regarded by many local people as an important sacred site).
While honouring the past, Marko feels it is important to create new paths for the present and into the future.  However, many old sites can be renewed in the spirit of an increasing presence of the Christ forces of consciousness and the in-streaming of new life which is now arising within the etheric realm.  (This is regarded by many as the preparation for the Aquarian age and the consequence of the Second Coming.)
Day One
	Marko and a group of willing participants begin work on Signal Hill.
	To unite the group we sounded together, each one contributing their own voice to the weaving of a  group harmony. The Guinea fowl joined in with gusto and were also silent when the sounding came to an end.
	After some exercises to loosen the etheric body from the confines of the rational mind, we opened our hearts to the great Heart centre of Cape Town – Table Mountain. This was a moving experience. She is a wonderful mountain!
	Marko, who has experienced so many different and amazing parts of the world, commented that Table Mountain is perhaps the most classic heart centre he has encountered.
	Our next step was to acknowledge the vital role of Lion’s Head as a focus of incoming forces of a spiritual nature, which are drawn in via the “Head”.
	At the foot of Table Mountain close to “Devil’s Peak” the three-fold nature of the landscape was consciously acknowledged and brought together in a group sounding.
We united in our hearts and minds the spiritual forces of the Lion’s Head, the streaming of the heart forces of Table Mountain, and the upwelling creative energies arising from the depths through the so-called “Devil’s Peak” – (which we re-named, “Angel’s Peak”, or peak of transformation. This peak presents many different “faces” to the perceiving eye. The threefoldness in this dramatic landscape resonates inwardly with the human being in the chakras of the head, heart and solar plexus area. By uniting the consciousness of thought with the wisdom of the heart and the up-welling forces of growth and creativity from the unconscious, we can harmonize the forces from these vital aspects of being and experience a source of creativity and wholeness.
	After this we followed the path of the Twelve Apostles, jutting like a giant dragon’s tail, and yet with each peak so clearly individual in its expression. Marko speaks of balls of light creating a chain reaction above the linked peaks – bounding towards the sea and maintaining a connection between Table Mountain and sea.
	At Logi’s Beach we scaled some of the granite boulders, their rich quartz content sparkling in the sun, their shapes carved by centuries of sculpting by the elemental moods of the sea.     A great place for a picnic!

	Speaking of quartz, Marko mentioned the role of minute quantities of quartz as fundamental to the global IT, making possible the explosion of communications.  Here, in these rocks, the abundance of quartz indicates the presence of  extraordinary energy and sentience radiating from the Earth.
	Here we see the “tail” of the dragon, and follow a serpent-like ridge which connects the mountain landscape, through the scattered, sea-washed boulders with the vast Atlantic Ocean.

At this point the group participated in consciousness of the essential working together of mountain and sea.  We forged in our hearts and minds a strengthening of the harmonious inter-relating of land mass and the great expanse of the sea.

While we work with the elements of the Earth we receive also a personal enrichment;  a synchronous consciousness arises within of our own fluid streams and our own mineral, bony structures. We get glimpses through this work, of our cosmically resonant bodies. The voice of the great psalmist, David, comes to mind, “My God, how fearfully I am made!”

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