The Experience

This isn’t going to be about individual experiences I had in Hawaii. It is going to be about the broad strokes of this event, mt first, that made it the experience it was. Not to say that Eric’s teachings and Dreamscapes weren’t amazing. They were the cake but what I am going to share now is the icing that make it complete.

The experience of meeting someone you have known your whole life or lives for the first time:

Showing up at the airport in Hilo and being instantly drawn to a group of Navigators waiting for the shuttle. I had walked by other groups of people waiting at the curb but when I got close to this group I just knew. It was an experience that was carried through the whole week. Many times I had great with people only to later realize that you forgot to introduce yourself and had no clue what their name was. You didn’t need introductions since you already knew them. At least that is what it felt like.

Which thinking about it now is well sad. I know not everyone there is active on the Nav. Site or if they are what they go by. So if you are here remind me of who you are.

The experience of being with other White Cells and Navigators:

Sitting around the tables at the dinning lanai during meals or late at night, around the pool, in the Blue Moon room before and after events, down at the point or along the shore, or any other place that people gathered. It was amazing to talk, joke, laugh, discuss, share, listen and just interact with other. You could say it was like being with family but even that doesn’t feel right it is closer that. It was really cool watching the coaches interact with everyone and each other was great. Seeing them in their everyday “I” outside of coaching or filing orders on the phone was a treat.

The experience of group meditation:

This being my first retreat. The amount of energy that was built up and how in sync everyone was it was incredible. I am told that the syncing up so early in the week was new at this retreat. The babbler didn’t have a chance. There was so much energy that my body didn’t know how to deal with it. I often found my body trebling and/or weeping during and afterwards. It can be described only experienced.

They did auction off a flash drive with all the meditation music on it. It would be awesome if that person decided to share it with the rest of us.

The experience of the soundtrack:

I am not talking about the meditation mixes or the dreamscapes. Which were all amazing by the way. What I am refereeing to is the music that the coaches and Eric play before and after each event. It really set the mood so to speak.

Hopefully we can get them all to share some playlists with us. That way we could put together an Across the Universe Soundtrack. You would have to find a way include Tim’s violin pieces though.

That's what I got for now. I am working on the individual experiences. It is kind of hard to do I am finding out. Words seem to be failing the experience but I am trying.

Interrupted Flight

My wife and I were on our way out to Minnesota to spend a week on Lake Koronis with her extended family. As we have for the past couple of years we stop and stayed in Bismarck, ND on the way out. Helena is not very big and doesn’t have much for shopping. So one thing that she really likes to do on the way out there is stop and look for a new swimming suit. So Friday night, the same weekend of the HBI Summer Gathering, I find myself in a Kohl’s in Bismarck, ND searching through a never ending sea of racks of clothing and more importantly swim suits.

I normally try to take of advantage of these situations by scanning other people in the store and generally just feeling everything out. This there were very few people around and I was bored to tears. My wife was on her second trip to the dressing room and I was leaning up against a wall near by listening to the elevator music over the store speakers. Then out of no where a song that I know very well comes on, words and all. It was Solsbury Hill by Peter Gabriel. It brought a huge smile to me face and my heart. I closed my eyes and thanked the universe for the gift. I felt a warm glowing buzz come over me and my thought shifted the summer gathering and how I wished I was there.

Then I was hit with a rush of energy and I wasn’t standing in the store anymore. I was floating somewhere unknown to me, basking in a warm loving energy, and being carried by a very loud and strong tone. I had for the most part for gotten where my body was until I was reminded by my wife when she got out of the dressing room.

It took awhile to come completely back down. I had the strong buzzing energy and tone in my ears for at least the next hour.

That night I was laying in bed in our hotel room reflecting on the experience. I couldn’t help but feel that I missed out on taking the experience further. If I had been better prepared I feel like I could have gone anywhere from that point.

To say the least that song holds a whole new feeling to me.

Click Here to download or listen to Eric Pepin explain what the lyrics of Solsbury Hill mean to him.

My Navigator & Time Stepping

This past weekend I was outside putting up Christmas lights along the roof of my garage. After all the strings were put up I plug them in to find the one of strings was only partly working. It had worked just fine until I put it up.

Well first thing to check is to see if one of the bulbs is out. Not really that fun to do hanging over the edge of the roof. I grabbed an extra bulb and climbed back on to the roof and started to check the bulbs one by one. This is a good time to mention that this string of lights are colored. I cycle of four different colors down the length of the string. I got tried of this process very quickly then I notice this. Crap now I am going to have to go back down and grab the right colored bulb once I find the bad light.

I looked at the extra bulb I had to see that it was a red one. I had the thought that I should just trust myself that I grabbed the right bulb and just check the red bulbs.

So I did.

I was right! Another 4 or 5 red bulbs down the string I switched out a red bulb for the new one and the whole string lit up! I managed to turn checking 16 to 20 bulbs into 4 or 5. I wish I would have thought to feel this out earlier.

When I got off the roof time stepping popped into my head so I sat down and quickly sent back to grab a red bulb and only check the red ones to myself.

I definately think that by listening to my navigator and receiving a little information from my my future self was at play in those events.