The Pool of Abraham

The city of Sanliurfa was our home base for the last few days of the trip.  It was the birthplace of the Prophet Abraham.  How appropriate for us to visit a very sacred historic site named “The Pool of Abraham”.  It is a popular destination for tourists and locals alike and is located in a Muslim neighborhood in the southern part of the city.

Indeed, this place was very tranquil and serene, even when crowded with people. 

Shortly after we got there, the tourist police arrived to ostensibly “protect” us. 

As we gathered for a group photo with the police, a bunch of other people joined in.  What a fabulous experience!

 

Hattusa

I had been to Hattusa in 2018, and was very happy to get back.  The energy there is fabulous.  Always remember that most ancient ceremonial sites were built on existing high energy locations.  Hattusa was the fortified capital of the Hittite empire from 1650 to 1200 BC.  Most tourists, as did we, visit several memorable places there .

We first visited the Yazilikaya open air sacred site featuring rock carvings of the Hittite’s gods and kings.  Upon arriving and as we were standing in a meditation circle I saw a 20 foot tall energy being come out from an alcove to observe us.

He told me that he was a guardian of the site.   I don’t know if anyone else was aware!

We then drove onto the actual site.  The first stop was at the very fabulous and mysterious Green Stone of Hattusa.  It is made of nephrite, which is a form of jade.  No one knows how long it had been there, or where it originally came from.  My sense is that it was levitated into place, and may not have been there when the Hittites occupied the area.  It feels much newer to me.  A powerful vortex is there that one can feel when you put your hands on the stone.

Next we drove to the Lion’s Gate to experience the potent and highly elevated energy.  Clearly one experiences some sort of dimensional gateway when walking through the gate.   There are also polygonal walls around the corner.

Added information.  I wrote the above yesterday and posted today.  After I got back from the trip, I acquired a piece of nephrite jade.  In the early morning hours a little while ago, I sat with it in meditation with the intent to imprint it with the energy of the Green Stone.  I traveled to the stone and put my new stone on it, right in the center.  I laid my hands on the Green Stone, and could literally feel the smoothness of it.  Suddenly, a brilliant star like formation appeared and opened up into a portal.  In the portal I could see many little round faces all looking back at me.  This is what they told me.

They were from an ET race that were galactic explorers.  They visited earth only once thousands of years ago.  This was after Hattusa was abandoned.  Where they got the Green Stone, I do not know.  It can be found in Turkey.   They levitated/floated it into place where it would be obvious to anyone who passed that spot. (It can be seen from where cars are parked!)

Their purpose was to gather information on earth’s inhabitants.  When people touch the stone, their vibration is transmitted to this race via the vortex, in addition to the DNA left from the skin cells on their hands.  I have to say that is a very clever way of gathering information from the people around the world who visit there and touch the stone!  Thousands of years ago, they must have known that this was a great spot for their information gathering project.

These ET’s felt very benign, friendly and curious.  They have long since moved on, but we are still transmitting to them in this way. 

Hierapolis

 

In the following posts I will be highlighting some of my favorite places from this trip to Turkey.  Luckily, there were several of those in spite of the trip being kind of a bust.  I do not wish to go into the ongoing drama around the financial misdeeds that occurred.  Those will be continued to be addressed for some time to come.  Instead, please enjoy my photos with a bit of commentary on the higher energy sites that we visited.

Hierapolis is an ancient Greco-Roman spa town.   It is situated on a plateau overlooking the town of Pamukkale.  For our group, the ruins were not the attraction.  We were more interested in experiencing the magic of the hot springs, which are laden with calcium and have created the pools, walls and terraces that you see here.  People still come here to wade in the healing waters.

Some of the ruins. 

 

The hot springs. 

Looking towards the valley below.

Ancient water channels that were used to distribute the mineral laden water to those below the hot springs.

Turkey

 

A few days ago I returned from a pretty challenging 2 week trip to Turkey.  It was created and led by Patricia Cori, author and spiritual channel.  She has written about 15 books and has been interviewed on many of the more popular radio shows and podcasts, in addition to leading trips to sacred sites around the world for many years.  After a problematic trip to the sacred sites of Peru in 2015, I had vowed to never go on that kind of trip again.  Nevertheless, I felt confident in choosing this one because of Patricia’s reputation and the itinerary that she created.  I was excited to visit Gobekli Tepe again, and also see the excavations at Karahan Tepe.  I had been to both in 2018.

Unfortunately, things did not proceed as planned.  There were travel delays, missed activities, some very late nights, and unseasonably cold weather with some snow.  The “spiritual” aspect of the trip did not quite materialize.  We had some good hotels, and a few not so good ones.  Food was not a problem, but meals were sporadic and poorly timed.  As the trip progressed, I made a joke about seeing what kind of daily screw up would happen!  And they certainly were daily. 

Clearly Patricia had a lot of problems with time management.  You cannot lead a trip with 24 people without giving some time frame for the daily activities.  So we were running late a lot of the time.  Also, I had never been on a trip where the tour leader chose not to participate in a lot of the group activities.   She left that to our Turkish tour guide, Emre. 

Speaking of Emre, at the end of the trip, we found out that he had appropriated a lot of our money that Patricia had transferred to him that was supposed to be used for prepayment of our hotel rooms, among other things.  For example, upon arrival at our last night’s hotel in Istanbul, we found out that in addition to not having prepaid for our reservation, Emre did not make a  reservation at all.  Luckily, Patricia was able to pay for those rooms out of her own funds so that we were not out on the street.  At that point, Emre dropped us off and promptly left.  So efforts are now underway to recoup some of the stolen funds.    

On the positive side, Turkey is a lovely country with much to offer a visitor.  The people are friendly, the food is good, and the scenery is gorgeous.  They are very fond of their cats, which are outside all over the place.  I have a fascination with very old archaeological sites, of which there are plenty with more being excavated all the time.  It is near the cradle of civilization and where hunter gatherers turned to a more settled agrarian way of life. 

I really enjoyed the fellow travelers on this trip, as we all had much in common, having previously traveled with similar groups to similar spiritual destinations.  It was fun to compare notes on past adventures.  That made the trip worthwhile.  I was happy to revisit special places that I had experienced on a prior trip, but disappointed that visits to new places did not pan out as I had hoped.  Luckily, the trip home went well and was uneventful, which is usually not the case for me.   In the following posts, I will share some of the special places that we visited. 

Last Night

I just thought I'd post these photos of last night's sunset.  The first one is from my back yard and the second one is from the street in front of my house.  Enjoy!  

Happy Equinox

 

Today, as I write this post, is the actual date for the Vernal Equinox here in the Northern Hemisphere.  Last night, I drove up to the Parowan Gap for my usual viewing of the sun setting into the gap at this very sacred location.  As we are currently having a heat wave here in the SW United States, the temps were in the mid 70's when I arrived.  Very pleasant.  Because of the ongoing warm temperatures, there were at least 8 or more campers parked around the area with people taking advantage of the nice weather.  

I never know who I will be encountering when I go out to the gap for equinox or solstice.  Perhaps because I was there a day early, there were no other participants.  I like that as I can tune in without distraction.   As the sun set. I intended that the focused and very powerful rays of the sun penetrate and activate my body.   Below are my photos.