The Power of the Pyramids

I'm not sure that words can describe the experience that we had today. I'm getting emotional just recalling it for this blog. I guess I'll just go in order of the day because beyond our pyramid experience it was a fun day.

We woke up and went for a morning camel ride - that was fun! My camel was HUGE but he was sick. We've been calling the stomach/diarrhea sickness most of us have had "adventure safari" because at one of the pharmacies we visited it had a small portable toilet for kids called "Adventure Safari." One of us joked about how we might need that and the name stuck. Anyway, my camel was adventure safaring all over his legs, poor guy. He would not gallop for nothing, which makes sense. It was fun to lazily lank along the sands of Giza. We got some amazing pictures and the Mids are just amazing. I even got to ride a spirited horse for a spell after my camel ride. Then we went to the Giza Plateau for more pictures, then we went to the museum of the solar boat that they found next to the Mids. 5 of them buried all around - looks just like the boat shrines do in the glyphs. Then it was time for our private pyramid time. Seriously, they kicked everyone out of the Great Mid and let us go in for 2 hours of uninterrupted time!

What would you do with 2 hours of private time in the Great Pyramid of Giza?

We climbed to the Queen's Chamber (it's called that but the Queen wasn't really buried there, only the King) and did the power belly dance - it was amazing. Very powerful, very moving to be dancing in the Mid. Then we went to the room with the great stone where the king's mummy was placed. This room, if you can even imagine it, is all granite and only a small 2 foot crawlspace to get to it then it opens in to a large room with a granite sarcofagus (sp?). The sounds in this room bounce right off the walls and the acquostics (again sp?) are like no other - this room cannot be duplicated. So we just started doing what felt natural for us. Some danced, some prayed, some simply sat there. Soon we were all moving and dancing to whatever inspired us and the music, just one simply drum, was amazing! Some of us even got down to the bare bones - it was an experience of a lifetime. Just as we were really getting in to ourselves and the spirits were high - a creepy guard came down asking for more money!! When we almost bit his head off he demanded we hand over the drum. We refused. We had paid a lot of money for our private time and we were told we could sing, dance, whatever. This guy would not leave and all of sudden we were yelling and a lot of negative energy was swirling around us and within us. Some girls were crying, others were yelling at the creepy guard (he wasn't even in uniform) and even though Eric, our drummer, left with the drums to go find our guides and clean this mess up, the guard insisted there were still drums and would not leave. We practically forced him out screaming and yelling. Then we were very startled, sad, and worked up. We decided it was time for the grounding dance, the same one we did in Dendara.

This is more of a stretching, spirtual movement where we mime (if you will) gathering the earth's energy and love and capturing it in our hearts then giving it back to the universe. At one point we make a gesture where we open our hearts to the ____ of the East/West/North/South (we do it in all 4 directions). And each of us got to call out whatever we wanted to open our hearts to and in that granite room it was amazing - we sounded surreal, a thousand voices all calling out names and places and people that we held dear. Very eery but very beautiful. At the end of the grounding dance we end on the floor and someone started drumming on their belly - then we drummed on the floors with our hands, then the walls, then we started omming in with our voices - they can take our drum, they cannot take our voices and bodies! So we started making music with our bodies and the sounds and noises almost seemed to summon the ancients! What I am saying may sound crazy but even Mr. Logic (Dane) himself was mesmerized by the sounds and even ommed in himself. I have to say that was one of the most powerful moments I've ever felt. To have our fun, a simple little drum, taken from us, and then to turn it around into a positive and make our own music was just breathtaking. An experience I will never, ever forget.

I'm out of time. We have a party to go to at the foot of the Sphinx and then it's off to America. I love you, friends and family.