Revaluating Egypt Part 1

Technorati ProfileEgypt has always been and I suspect will always be a mystical place. There are so many mysteries associated with Egypt that I imagine they will never be solved and probably more will be added long after I’m gone. It’s been two years since I first visited Egypt although at the time Egypt was always with me in the form of art, fashion, spirituality and entertainment. I never had a desire to go to Egypt but when the opportunity came for me to go two years ago, I couldn’t turn it down. Now once again I am reevaluating what it meant for me to go and how it is still influencing my life.

The beginning of the shamanic journey started with a visit to the Sphinx to ask for safe passage. The Sphinx is actually the guardian of the mysteries of ancient Egypt. In Greek Mythology, if the sphinx asked you a riddle which led to your death if answered incorrectly. On a mystical level, the human head on the animal body represents the spirit dominating the animal nature. There is a huge stone and an altar between its legs that you will never see or never know its there because most of the pictures that you see are all of the side, and rarely ever of the front. One of the interesting things about Egypt is that you are constantly amazed at how big everything really is! One stone of the great pyramid for instance is at least 8 feet high and at least 12 feet long. Now imagine that and imagine thousands of stones like that culminating in a shape that has mystified us all. The second thing you are amazed at is the age of the structures, the temples and the artwork and how well they are kept up (Okay I lied – three things). The oldest thing I have seen in America (outside of museums) was a grave where the oldest inhabitant died in the 18th century, which makes sense since this is a young country. In Egypt, it’s common to see temples that existed circa 2500 B.C. It was wonderful to hold hands and do rituals with people all over the country that you have not met before. This was the beginning of the travels of the Pharaoh or the initiation into the Pharaoh!

The Pharaoh was the ruler of Egypt, the most powerful person in the land during that time. Some people have interpreted the name Pharaoh as to mean ‘Great House’. He was also called the Lord of Two Worlds. Egypt was divided into Upper and Lower Egypt, thus the name Lord of Two Worlds. He (and on rare occasion she) was also considered to be the incarnation of the sun god Horus, the son of the Isis and Osiris who was born out of Osiris’ dead body. Maybe I thought of it back then but now I realize that the lower and upper Egypt on a metaphysical level represents the internal and external worlds, the spiritual and the natural world, the animal nature and the higher nature,etc. So taking the initiation rites of the Pharaoh was an amazing symbolic way of spiritual regeneration!!! Most of the spiritual classes, transformational workshops, and endless self-help books, tapes, cads, etc are really reviewer classes. We all know everything they say to us, but we all get trapped in victimland, blaming, justifying, and feeling overwhelmed and powerless. All we really need is for someone to remind us that we are in charge of our lives!!!! What better way to be reminded that we are and have the potential to be the most powerful people in our lives, that we can create the life we want and are not slaves to the winds of the media, gossip, negative thinking!!! We are and have the potential to be kings and queens of our lives.