Sacred Journey 2025 Part 4

Day 7: I woke up and felt awful with stomach pain. I walked to the bathroom at the RV campground and looked in the mirror. I saw an ancient woman, a face full of wrinkles, lacking energy and vitality, worn out and ready to lay down and die.

Upon returning to the camper for breakfast, I was going in and out of altered states of consciousness, while awake. This phasing lasted for one and half hours. During the night, I had dreamt of eight Indigenous shamans around me. Lance said, “They probably gave you peyote in your dream.” At that moment, my third-eye opened and I saw the shamans rolling over, laughing. Yup! That’s what happened. 

My energy and presence of mind returned and the stomach pain stopped. Upon our return home a week and a half later, Quantum Navigation Meditation guide and dear friend, Ron Holt, shared with me the significance of my experience in the Lower Antelope Canyon. I share this for anyone that may have a similar experience and understand it was all good:

“…in my experience, “very few” get to experience this “ultra sacred ceremony” of being accepted and recalibrated by Mother Earth herself. Walking those folds, crevasses as they spiral, twist and flow, places you in the sacred act itself. The closest channel to a women’s heart is via her willing invitation and opening up her most intimate and deep love, pleasure, nurturing and rebalanced empowerment of sharing vast unending mysteries of universal reverence and communion in deeply connecting with her in love’s enchanting embrace and spiritual dance integrating together. 

Yes, she had you experience the ceremony of being accepted and reintegrated on all possible stratum’s. Something we humans have learned to exist without, even ward off, as we feel undeserving. Those “She” chooses, she shares this remembrance in her ceremony of intimate universal love, when she sees ones who can see and accept it clearly for its universality.”

This sacred ceremony had a significant and lasting effect on my physical body, giving me a head cold that lasted for the entire trip, releasing perhaps lifetimes of toxic experiences that we use for our soul's evolution. However, I did not allow these symptoms to deter me from enjoying the remainder of the journey.

Before we left, we saw these UFO shaped clouds to the south.

We broke camp and listened to a Carlos Nakai flute music CD on the drive. We left Page, Arizona and traveled on Road 98, through Kaibito, to US-160 to 12 miles east of Kayenta, Arizona. Here, we found the Navajo National Monument that has the Sunset View Campground. We followed the 9 mile paved road to the monument, and found a campsite for RVs and tents. We parked our camper into the campsite and set our chairs next to the Juniper pine to enjoy the cool breezes.

Sitting in our camp chairs, with a blue sky, puffy white clouds and a gentle cool breeze, felt good. A hummingbird came to say Hi. Camping is free here. It rained all night long. 

Day 8: Lance woke up with a chest cold. We ate breakfast burritos, coffee and orange juice. Afterwards, we drove to Kayenta to buy gas and ice. We tried to go to Monument Valley, but the rainstorms persisted. We returned to the Navajo National Monument visitor center and watched the video about the Betatakin ruins that are sacred to the Navajo and Zuni Elders. The Hopi, Navajo, Zuni and San Juan Southern Paiute lived in these canyon areas until 1300AD. If Lance and I were younger, we would have taken the strenuous one hour hike down to the site. The Navajo elders still do ceremony here every year.

We found several flowers blooming.

Cholla cactus flowers

Globe Mallow

And a heart from Mother Earth.

The next day, after breakfast, we drove to Monument Valley, Arizona. The clouds provided a spectacular backdrop for the beauty of the rock formations…

Continued in Part 5: Monument Valley

To learn more about Shaman Lance Heard, read his book: Life- A Creative Adventure.

To learn more about Energy Healer Barbara Becker, read her books: Enclosure: A Spiritual Autobiography and Expansion: The Journey Continues.