Initiation, Ancestors, and my Grandma

My Dear Friends,

Thank you for being patient with me as I move through the different levels of my process (all of which have been "out of my comfort zone" as you may be aware from status updates). The truth of the matter was that I planned to journey to Peru between June and July and instead ended up in Sante Fe with wonderful community and a very supportive teacher.

Shamanism and shamanic ideas are ripe and alive here. I have really enjoyed my experience here, usually in retrospect because of all the discomfort. I sense that I am learning exactly what I am ready for. I have processing so much. More than I could have ever imagined here.

To my amazement, learning divination (which was what I planned on doing) has become this very HUMAN process of finding clarity and feeling into my past, my family, my future intentions with Business and Community, my ancestors, my daily body pain, and the healing of my ancestors.

I have chosen to look at the Teachings I embrace and embody and ask "why." Much to my dismay, the answer is always "because it was a lesson that was serving you then and is no longer serving you now. Trevahr, are you ready to let go?" Through frustrated tears and insane commitment to my life goals, I always say "Yes, I choose to let go."

There is a picture (well there are lots of pictures) where I am staying. This one particular picture is of an indigenous Meso-American woman carrying a boom box through the Sonoran Desert in a white dress.

This photo struck me as a reminder of my first teacher of Spirit...Grandmother Amalia E. Acuna. From this space of realization, old information (some older than I) came pouring through me. I recognized some much of my lifetime and how it intermingles and twines with my genetics and the traits of my Bloodlines. I know now that my healing is the Family's healing...and an opportunity to Heal my Grandfathers-literally. I have resolved to spend more time and patience with my family in order to know thyself/myself.

Oddly enough...so much crazy shamanic shit happened to me growing up, and now in this new awareness, I have begun to scratch the surface. My friend Abeja- the Oracle of Initiation- did a reading for me last night that brought me to tears.

I cried of past experiences that were buried and "sent away" from my ego based experience. I knew the joy and frustration of communicating with dead/spiritualized family members...I mean fuck...these people I knew as a child... and loved...and still see when I visit my Grandma because she keeps pictures of them.

I am crying as I write this because I know there is some much to BE now that I am aware and that I have strong spiritual allies...many with genetically linked connections.

I am fully commited and engaged in my life's work...and as always I know where I am going and where I have been. Sometimes though, like many of us, I hide the past and present...and even the future...in trade for some petty comfort.

During this Journey (to Sante Fe and now the Rainbow Gathering), I have been stranded in the desert, stomach sick, surprised by friends, scared out of my mind because every time I hike I see spirit animals, and covered with Earth and Mud and Tree/Plant Stuffs.

Safe Journeys,

Yogi Trevahr R. Hughes,
Shamanic Alchemist Adept
www.facebook.com/Trevahr
www.meetup.com/alchemy

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P.S. The spirit animals I have been seeing were on two consecutive nights in which I was hiking with Abeja in the light of the moon. I saw (and when I say "saw" I mean I sensed it, my neck hairs stood up like a dog, and it moved it's ears and head to look at me) a Cougar/Mountain Lion on a pile of rocks as we walked by. The next night, I saw a Bear in a tree, which also looked at me and moved its ears.

My Magnum Opus

Dear Friends and Students,

It has been my life's work since my becoming a man and learning about my path through Shamanic Initiation and rite of passage, to seek the truth and the origins of man and the spiritual experience such that others (of similar intention and commitment to truth) will learn about who they are and where they come from.

Hence, as many have before me, I seek the Tree of Life in Shamanism and the Philosopher's Stone in Alchemy. If you are on this path of seeking with me, I welcome you to share as I am an open source for the information and truth and faith I have experienced. Thank you for your interest in our community and our growing Order of Sacred Spiral members.

Here is some good information about the Tree of Life and other relevant items:

Wiki Tree of Life:
"As buds give rise by growth to fresh buds, and these, if vigorous, branch out and overtop on all sides many a feebler branch, so by generation I believe it has been with the great Tree of Life, which fills with its dead and broken branches the crust of the earth, and covers the surface with its ever-branching and beautiful ramifications." -Charles Darwin

Wiki The Fountain

Shamanic Santa Claus

Wiki Full Metal Alchemist (anime/cartoon)

Wiki "The Philosopher's Stone"

As within, So without...
Yogi Trevahr,
Shamanic Alchemist Adept
www.meetup.com/alchemy

May Angels lead you in...to the sleepless space between

Dear Friends,

It has been about 36 hours since I have had a normal sleep cycle. Some of my community members and I went to see the Hugging Saint in LA on Friday night (june 19th). We were up all night while Amma hugged person after person, body after body. Our hugs were given and received at about 5am and we arrived early (like 5pm and the event opens officially at 7pm).

The energy:

In that room,in that place, in the company of all those people with the same intention for progress and peace there was no sleep or being tired. I had no trouble meditating and experienced (through my usual body pain and tension) a withdrawal from senses and the usual distractions. The room was loud and the was constant movement, and still I was alite with divine fire and experienced peace and purification.

I am certain of my path and joyful in the answers (or rather confirmation of the inner wisdom) that I received on that night. I recall sitting where I was in the audience meditating and experiencing a glimpse of of grateful for the pleasant experiences of my life and how amazing things can be with I surrender.

May you all surrender in a way that opens you to grace...

Yogi Trevahr, Shamanic Alchemist Adept

Waking Within, a Community for Holistic Health
Order of the Sacred Spiral

Let Me Talk To Lisa

"Let me talk to Lisa...No, not Lisa Simpson--Lisa Starr"

As in the Starr of my Life, at the centre of my Heart & Soul.

Existence...-***

Or be it the Starr (in an early deck of mine) as a woman washing her hair-

STARK- in the Nude-Underneath the Starrs and the night sky

And of course,
Lisa has two daughters with/living/running

Flowing down by the stream-creek-stream by their home...

Going home... home to sisters and women and cooking and eating and feeling

same/safe in the Kitchen

In the Winter and warm always warm. Thank You.

(reader takes a long deep Breath)

So Lisa,

you
you are
YOU ARE
the one that started this
That staRRted (with two r's) this.

Your kitchen, your womb, your invitation=
Shaman on Facebook,
Neo-Shaman whose feminine force (especially at home) makes me put my long black hair down

To hang freely in your presence

Like the presence of God as a Lion+Leo= C.S. Lewis
_________________________

Starred Started me with the Dreaming
Starred Started me with the Oracle
Starred Started me talking/speaking of Intiation

Knowing and Trusting for San Diego.
San Diego Circle. As we sit, in circle, in council with Elders
And Masters and Apprentices
For the betterment of The All-

All that is, Infinite,
All that is, all relations,
Aho,
Ahem,
Amen,
Aum.
______

From a place of purity and strength and from where I am (amen) and to a place that and from which/with- you have brought me-
Borne me,
Birthed me,
Mother,
Love,
Goddess,
Earth
(thank you, No Body, Choked up, Love)

Lisa

See the stars from this Sanctuary.

NOT to be READ (silently or slowly)

So this is what's really gonna Happen...

...the internet is dead and the world wants me to write. rite. right...

Of Initiation or the beginning sometimes

the beginning happens every two years although because it does and we talk about it (Def.)

Differently every time, we name it something else (like my name that has changed consistently every two years) as if the old has no meaning or rather can and will be returned to the earth.

My name is initiated (as an Initiate)

is (Def.) different and is/was (reminder -there is no time)

V(a)*r*y*n.

I wonder if as the life changes and I move through everything (IE. "the wanderer"/"the apprentice"/"the artisan"/"the master") if things

will ever slow down or stay the same

as I pass from v(a)*r*y*n* to (the) Trevahr to trevor-ryan-hughes to Acuna.

Or will they simply call me Master or Elder like before...

like I am used to~but I am alone as...
___________
We want to be known, accepted, loved, and Heard. Her. HERD

Here ('ed)= past tense

TRIBE

TriBal NOW

I am,

We are,

Movement

Cosmic Energetic flow of Truth

Be Heard, Be Said, Be Spoken!

Open: Just like the concoction of Oracle Cards, Nutmeg, Cinnamon, Rice Milk,
Teo*******(dio), Chocolate, and honey from the Sweet Queen Bee...

that I have taken within me.

To know truth. To Know Birth. To know Death.

No Death...

And their end.

There is no end to this experience (like you know experience spelt with a "B" so that the word becomes "exberience").
_______________

Also I sent a package for the first time today.
Furthermore I sent a package to Hawaii...to a Girl (that I hardly know and that I met on facebook-through "mutual friends")

I hope she likes it and that those items are useful.
Each item is artistically and pleasurably selected to cater

to one of. the. 5. senses.

* * *

So she wanted a package and I delivered...
and in that parcel (as requested) was my favorite music CD
-Compact disk, disc, record, album, informational device

to be translated via "player"
using most likely electricity
ELECTRICITY
(Shocking!)

I know that when this gets read for the first time- an eight year old will appreciate it.

Love LOve, LOVE.
in San Diego @ 1103pm (2303hr) on a Monday (moonday)+ MoonTime=Intiation
June 8th 2009

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Bio for Member Trevahr Ryan Hughes

Trevahr was born and raised in Southern California, has since childhood taken to science and spiritual studies. Beginning at an early age and without aid from his parents, young Trevahr began studing yogic meditation at the age of 9.

Directly following his High School Education in Carlsbad, Trevahr attended college in San Diego where he started a rigorous study of Hatha Yoga and Eastern Philosophy in 2004. In 2005, Trevahr made an active decision to become a teacher of Yoga and Meditation to help others on their path to joy and awareness.

While teacher training, he created a business as a Yoga Instructor and Entrepreneur. His path continued to evolve and a steady practice of Shamanic arts continued to influence his life goals and path from the years of 2003 to present.

Trevahr Hughes intends daily to create new yoga practices infused with the old ways of Alchemy and Shamanic wisdom by being a channel for Source energy. Thus as a teacher of yoga, he teaches so that one class builds upon the previous and gives people the opportunity to recreate their body, mind, and spirit on all levels.

Since the completion of his yoga teacher training in February of 2005, Trevahr's daily practice is community building and the redesign the energetic relationships between people, planets, and the universe.

Through love of being, ritual and research, Trevahr has created a passion for combining Yoga, Tai Chi, and Taoist Alchemy in his classes.

His focus and direction follows a calling to South America where he currently takes interest in building community and practicing the spiritual traditions of the Amazon and the Andes. For San Diego, the intention presently is to create bridges between communities of people interested in Healing, Consciousness, and Holistic Progress.