At the end of July, I returned from a three-week journey in Peru. The journey didn’t always run as planned: our local tour guide called in sick when we had just arrived, and most of the things we had planned didn’t go as expected. Very soon, my partner and I found ourselves dealing with all the logistics that a trip like this requires on our own, and let’s face it, who likes logistics? We realized we’re going to have to just go with the flow, it is what it is, as I always say to myself when things go “wrong”. I realized there is no way to change the situation, but there is certainly a way to change the way I look at it and the way I manage it.
Peru is a very special place with strong energies. The whole purpose of this journey was to take us a level up in our spiritual understanding and abilities. Journies like this are very likely to be quite challenging, as they require a very strong mind and a pure capability of inner observation. When I realize that I can’t just walk away from the path the journey brought me to, I recruit all of my energy, my strength and my faith in order to overcome the challenging moment and move on. I am in a given situation that I cannot change and so I accept it: it is what it is.
Truth is found where there is space
One of the significant moments of this journey happened when we arrived somewhere with a beautiful lake and a breathtaking view. We got off the bus and started taking pictures and just stared at the stunning scenery we were at. A few moments later, we physically felt like something is pushing us back to where we came from, away from the lake. This experience was extraordinarily powerful and we all agreed that we’d never experienced anything like this before. Then, a tour guide that was also there approached us and asked us why did we break into this place. We were all quite shocked by his attitude, as we didn’t break in anywhere, we were just standing there, taking pictures and looking at the view.
“You did not ask permission from this place to walk into”, said the guide and we could all notice the slight anger in his voice. At this stage, he pulled out some coca leaves out of his bag and started an energetic ceremony where he is asking permission from the place we went to walk through its gates. As he was doing that, the guide was calling the names of the mountains surrounding us: Machu Picchu and Veronica. On the rest of our journey, we met several guides who used the same ceremony of asking for energetic permission to enter places.
In Peru, there’s a lot of meaning to the respect you pay to different things. As they see it, a person should not bring his own energy to the place where he’s going, but connect to the energy this place already owns. The visitor is only a guest at the places he visits and so he should act. When we understand the big difference between these two different attitudes, we know that we can’t just walk into every place we desire, we must be mindful and respectful of the energy that was in this place before we’ve reached it. This is why the guide reacted the way he did and then, when we went to see Machu Picchu, we got an opportunity to deepen the meaning of this important message.
Before we went to Machu Picchu, we received a message: “Don’t only look at the mountains, but at the spaces between the mountains, between the stones. These spaces contain energy that allows us to move from one place to another when every place has a gate, and every gate has a meaning.”
These spaces mentioned are the ones that let me do some movements and transformations in my personal life, which means I don’t only exist in one place, but move from one place to another and at each place, I go by a different energy I should pay my attention to and to notice.
We are so used to going in and out of places and moments without giving them a single, tiny thought. The Peruvians say: “The moment before I move into a new place, I observe the space that has been created between the place I’ve just been to and the place to where I am now heading, and i make a request to prepare my body for the new energy it’s about to take in”.
These spaces between the mountains, which we were asked to observe before we arrived at Machu Picchu, are the gates to where the truth is. The mountain is telling us “here’s a mountain”, but what it’s really trying to tell us is “you cannot ignore the problem”. The space that’s between the mountains is telling us “you have the option to change the result if you could only look at the spaces between the mountains and not only at the mountains”.
Have you ever known a couple that’s been together for ages, then separated because they felt something just didn’t work out for them anymore, and then after spending a while on their own, decided to go back together? The example of a relationship between couples is a good way to explain the theory of spaces through things we can actually connect to. The important thing for us to take out of all that is the understanding that at all times, we have a constant relationship with the energy that surrounds us and with other processes we go through during life.
If we take a look at this relationship between this couple who went through a crisis, we should stop and ask ourselves what was the thing that didn’t work out and what could the couple do to change it. If there was anything this couple could have done in order to change and improve their relationship- well done. But if not, they must admit it and understand that this certain way they’ve already tried is just not working. The only question left now is: what can make it work? after we have the answer to that, we might succeed to achieve this thing or we might not. What we really need to do in such a condition, is to not only observe the problems in the relationship but the spaces between them and the places where we might have could find a creative solution that was impossible to be found, as by looking only at the problems it has never been looked for (at least not in the right places).
This is exactly what happens to us in our lives. When we wish to figure out a situation, we’re requested to take responsibility for our own issues, which means that we should not only look at the problem we have, but at the options we have in order to solve it and make things better in a way that is beneficial for us and the people around us.
A very important message I received when I just got back from Peru was to look at the spaces between the stars, because this is where the creation is. When I look at the sky I automatically start gazing at the stars. If we looked at the space between the stars, we will notice a black space of darkness. In this darkness, in these spaces, in this place where I can’t see or understand, That’s exactly where the creation is. As long as we can see these spaces we can feel safe, knowing that these spaces hold everything that we will ever need to overcome whatever is on its way to us.
The creation isn’t something we can easily define with words, and it’s within all the other things we struggle to define or give meaning to.
The creation is an infinite source of frequencies, connections and wires. When we’re at a pick of a transformation or at times of change and we can’t feel safe, we are physically standing in the middle of the space between one phase to another, which means that in this exact certain point, we are absolutely safe, even if we struggle to feel this way. Because the range of change is the space between the transformations. Whether it’s about moving to a new house and whether it’s about the process of pregnancy and waiting for the birth, there is a space where I can find the creation. Most of the time, we’re scared of these spaces of time because this is exactly when we need to make some big decisions. But exactly at this undefined space of transformation, there is a promise that says that as long as we can notice the creation we will be safe.
When we’re going through changes we might feel small as we lack the stable ground we’re looking for. Observing nature and everything around us allows us to understand that we are also part of this huge existence. When I look at the sky, I feel big and small at the same time. This observation makes me realize that I am a great power and this realization makes me connect to the great power that is within nature. Just then, when we’re going through changes that make us feel insecure, we are told: “Open your eyes and realize you are part of this thing called the creation”. The creation is huge, the creation is everything, and so are. We are luckily part of this great, miraculous thing.
