Why The Gathering Is So Important
At a time when we all have to question what is governing us, where do we turn?
We turn to those that have held all that is most sacred for so long. Those that when they stand and speak they're entire motivation comes from a place that is ok. That is soft love and peace. That is true understanding, that is a genuine call to brotherhood and sisterhood.
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Gathering Of Sacred Hoops
The Gathering is an artwork I have created to support the real life collective of the Gathering of sacred Hoops.
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The Gathering artwork is a story of some rather magical ancestors. It is a way I have found of bringing back and sharing ancient wisdoms that have been lost over time through the severing of our connection to them. I do this by tapping deeply into myself and the earth.
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The gathering of Sacred Hoops is a collective that was born from a prophecy that came from an ancient line of lore men passed down through time called Wirrijin. Black fella white fella working together.
A first nations prophecy from a long time before the white colonisation in Australia. Carried and shared by Karno Walker from Raminjari nation in South Australia.
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The deeper meaning of the wirrijin prophecy is.
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All the 4 nations of man.
Yellow, red, black and white need to work together, and understand, and love each other, and realise we are all the same blood.
We are all the universes children.
We must look past our differences and see our similarities.
Work with love peace and harmony so we understand each other's teachings so we can all become balanced people in our own traditions and see similarities in others to evolve into people of the planet. United. Working together so we can grow and evolve into people that can explore deeper into our planets past and travel further out into our planets solar system and beyond.
In a good and loving way.
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So Gathering of Sacred Hoops is the banner where people of all nations can come together and share ceremonies, peace and love for all human kind.
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​The Story Of i
In 2001 at 18 I sat alone on a beach in western australia. There was a huge storm coming in on the horizon, a dark grey wall that split the long empty panorama of the beach in two. There was noone else to be seen or heard in any direction. Mesmerized by the beauty of it, knowing I would never have the words to express the incredible experience and having no one there to share it with. I decided to put it in my eye.
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The Start and the Opening
There will be many chances to start this story. They come again and again. Enduringly, neverendingly, with each breath, each action, each word or set of words. Each time you see me or anyone else. Each time you blink, open and close to the world you see around you. There is never only one chance or moment, never one person or place. Our opportunities come again and again. You can start anywhere at any time at any position, in each moment our senses gather, we are formed, we are here, we are living and we can change. We can grow, we can formulate new paths, and as we step into this ever brighter future, what's not needed will gradually fall away. We can be seen as the loving warriors of light that we are. That hold the staff, dance with the staff, share with the staff. Not to injure but to imbibe roots of love and life, energy and power into our surroundings, into the soil. As we harmonize with the plants, the trees, the animals, the water, the rocks, each element that exists turning and opening for us like a flower into our future. Dance that ever enduring dance of each moment. Start again and again and again and again. Love again and again and again, get up again and again and again, grow again and again and again. Become yourself once and forever.
Heeling - An Alternative Health Dialogue
​- Both a Language and a Space
There are many ways to look at what health is. For me it is where our heel touches the ground. Where we walk our talk.
As an extra to support the gathering, as a way of raising money and awareness for the gathering. I am offering personal and group crystal therapy sessions. Like most alternative therapy sessions it is a place where you can address any blocks, limitations, disorientation, isolation, anxiety, sadness or depression, etc, that may be causing illness or inactivity. That may be stopping the forward motion of your sole journey. It is a space to explore options. It is a place to look at and express personal issues, affecting the daily routine. For better or worse, for richer or poorer, it's a journey of the heart and soul. As we bind and unbind, entangle and disentangle. What are you really married to or divorced from? Let's heal our hearts together and separately, individually and collectively.
Taking part in an alternative health dialogue is accepting a chance to move forward. Steps are individual and always different for each person each time they are taken. By having the dialogue together we share the step together. We are each uniquely and simultaneously propelled on both our combined and individual journey. An alternative health dialogue is the unique dialogue you have with your own personal healing journey, rather than the commonplace preconditioned narrative we are everyday exposed to from health professionals and their governing bodies including pharmaceutical companies. Taking responsibility for this journey rather than giving that very incredible power away is the juncture point of true health, of walking your own journey, for yourself, of yourself, to yourself.
Antonia Layzell 1 - 1 Crystal Therapy Sessions.
​ I offer crystal therapy sessions as a way of raising money and awareness for the gathering, as a conception, an integration process, a self healing tool, a womb and birthing place. A private circle is made where you can meet yourself, calling in any ancestors you may like to be part of your journey, creating your own private unique gathering. A place you can return to and interact with as much as you like into the future.
Crystal Therapy sessions are just one of the formats that an alternative health dialogue can have. I have chosen to use crystals because I have an ability to listen and work with them.
You can bring crystals you may want to find out more about or learn to use. I have crystals around me that like to be used, some for very specific things, some can change their roles or choose to work in more of a general manner. Crystalline matrices are everywhere including in our body. It is not necessary to have any physical handheld crystals present to have a crystal session. As part of our surroundings we are in constant communication with crystals whether we are aware of it or not. The most important crystal structure used is water, The sacred geometry of which is able to stretch into the past and future and hold an intelligent store of ever changing information. Water is the antenna with which we connect to people, places, objects, stars etc. Through water we give and receive messages to those in and of the environment around us, both close and at a distance. The magic of water is fundamental to us all. Confidence in our own ability to receive and interpret the messages of the water inside our body has in part been lost, however the ability will never be lost. It is fundamental, just like the water itself is fundamental to your experience of this world.
In crystal sessions I offer a space for listening to the smallest, most dynamic and beautiful parts of ourselves, our microorganism. Address areas of physical, emotional, mental and spiritual pain, tension, heartache, loss, daily grievances, confusion, disorientation, etc. The often invisible ways in which we work. By clearing the way and connecting to these deeper parts of ourselves we also connect better outside, to the cosmos, to each other, to the world, to life. We feel and perceive life differently, and function differently. We become more alive to possibilities and opportunities available.
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Get to work: on self healing, bearing and life orientation.
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​​Get creative: build new paths, join in more often.
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Antonia Layzell 1-1 Crystal Therapy sessions, are a supportive environment in which to explore your physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health as a means of freeing up personal and community creativity.
Traditional and cutting edge techniques using crystals in self healing processes that clear, align and form the body systems.
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Included in each session:
​Mark your journey: Visual diagrams of issues and solutions included. Charts that explore your physical mental and emotional bodies, as well as linking how they work and interweave together, through different organs and systems of the body.
​​Optimize your water. Our first priority for a better way of healing. Explore crystalline properties of water and its multiple roles in the healthy sustenance of life. Explore the multiple functional uses of water as a communication bridge to healing.
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Become part of the movement life. Open up to the creative potential of your mind, body and spirit.
The Many Meeting Points of Life and Death
When Roads Cross
You may see the many beautiful leaves of the heart opening. When you do. Remember the past, present and future.
The book of leaves is currently buried under the vatican. They stole it from the people, like they stole the knowledge of the apple. Like they stole the thunder of the dog, they reached into your heart and altered your choices, your understanding of the world. They synced your life with theirs so they could control it and you. They synced an opening so big it tore the world apart. They twisted the dog so much that what could be seen, heard, and felt before could no longer be. Divided people from themselves into a connection with a false god, a false state, a false rift. How do you put your soul back? How do you reclaim it? How do you lose what isn't lost and reclaim those parts of you that have been given away in misidentification.
The book of leaves is the second initiation of the elders from the old times. From the people that care and love their surroundings. From those that love now and those that love in the future. It is the knowledge of the book of the dead; the book of life. It is a book about the interconnected whole. The book of the sea that is the book of light. It is a book about communication; it is an initiation into community.
Open and you shall see the truth, in the container that is the vessel of your heart. The power of your being. That which they sought to destroy but couldn't. The power of your heart is mighty as the sun, and true as the words spoken from the lips of a new born baby.
So hear my cry, the cry of life, and becoming. That is ravishing as the stormy winds of rain and silt, burning as the sun on the equators march. Trusting as the breath that empties into the unknown.
Material Dialogue
I have a regular ongoing daily conversation with my materials.
Sometimes I find that the ingredients and materials I am using want mostly if not entirely to talk amongst themselves without my involvement at all.
When I first discovered this I found it very humbling, I even felt a bit rejected. Over time though this situation has made me so happy. I like the fact that the materials I am using have a deeper bigger conversation with each other than I can have with them. It leads to many happy discoveries and lessons when those materials do eventually open themselves up to me. It is an earnt and respected friendship, containing such a texture of light and love. That warm feeling that comes with an unpressured natural companionship. This only really developed to its full potential when I gave the conversation space over to the materials and ingredients entirely removing any importance I had given to myself in what was being created. So as much as possible I continue to remove myself, watch, listen and wait. Until I learn enough about what is naturally occuring. Once I have gone through a process of listening and trying to understand what the ingredients want to do or not do with each other. I can start interacting with the materials and they do sometimes respond. I am constantly astounded by the amazing things that can be birthed into form in this way. Objects, products, and sculptures come out of this place where I meet different sets and conjunctions of materials.
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I find it is always about becoming aware of the very very small. Being very quiet and moving in very very small ways, hardly at all, if at all. In this way, being so quiet and so careful. You can start to hear the fabric. Once you can hear the fabric you can align with the fabric, even more than that you can help each other. befriending and growing in alignment with each other as you journey.
This is why I offer a space for listening to the smallest most dynamic beautiful parts of ourselves, our microorganism. Why I do everything I can to clear the way and connect to these deeper parts of ourselves . That in turn connects us to the cosmos, to each other, to the world, to life. We feel, breath in, exhale out, perceive life differently. We function differently, we are more alive to possibilities and opportunities.
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Remove trauma, pain and mistakes, by giving yourself space. Become part of the recurring movement of life. By removing in those closed and confining places.
Open up to the creative potential that exists when you give the world a gateway in, to sing.
This writing, is the space I go to speak to the ancestors it is the place of 'The Gathering'.
The Gathering is many things, and one thing. All and nothing. The point without a point. It is a sun dance, a salutation, a becoming, an emptying, an eye and why. It is complete, fullness, a whole, equalizing truth, a reflecting point. A paradox, an original, copy, birth and death.
The gathering is inside and outside of time. Real and not real, true and false.
The gathering is an equator, an equalisor of people, in other words it is wirrijin, balance.
Its over the top and under the bottom, excessively to much and to little, strange and normal, its what you leave and what you write. The mistaken misunderstanding, the comprehensive arc that connects and disconnects all things. It's an electric, framework of choices that have been made, in the past, in the present and in the future. It's a demonstration of how the holy grail works. Karma.
With open arms, I give you, the deep well, beings of my past, present, and future, my inheritance, my legacy.
The many beings that join me when i write.
When I am at home I have a small black cat and a large grey cat that join me when I write. Their company and undulating purr has become part of the gathering as I write it. Animals bring an extra dimension to our environment. Their presence gives something special not easily understood or explained, but nonetheless very real. We can feel the addition of them. Sometimes we can sense them even if we are not in the same time and space as them. For example you may be able to sense them now as you read this and I share my experiences and memories of them with you.
Next to me as I write this is a fig tree that nearly reaches to the ceiling. It has a steady presence that dilates the space. Sometimes I go outside and write. Out into the woods, where I am surrounded by the singular and joint presence of the many trees that grow there. I don’t underestimate the presence of trees at the gathering, they can talk across time and space to other trees and beings in other places. It is like a doorway or portal opening to a multiplicity of worlds. I have seen this ability being used by a Mermaid. You can meet the mermaid to which I speak at 'The Gathering'. There are some strange unexpected ancestors that have come to the gathering. Ancestors that to be honest I may not have believed in, in quite such a real way as I do today, unless I had actually met them.
Meeting things at the gathering somehow has some magic way of putting everything in perspective, and you get to understand much more than you ever thought would have been possible. This is because everything has a place at the gathering. The ancestors and other beings of the gathering are far bigger and more real than what I could dream up myself. The ancestors are part of an eternal space that crosses over with this world. They are fundamental to its existence. A bit like the undulating living pulsation of a cat or the otherworldliness of a tree, they are not something you notice unless some sort of conscious focus and acknowledgement is made of them. To think of it this way, cats are everywhere bringing life to the environment. It's not something you think much about, they are mostly just out there living and doing their thing. You only notice them if they come up to say hi, or sit on you. Then you feel their company. It is the same with plants and ancestors and other beings you may meet. Some of them have an energy that you wouldn't be able to necessarily recognise enough to put a name to. Some are so old the names they have been given in the past have been forgotten, some are so new that no names have even been associated with them yet. There are a whole range of reasons why you may not quite be able to put into words a presence that you sense. The more familiar with them you get the easier it becomes, because you get to know each other, and understand each other better. Even when you are unfamiliar with sensations and experiences they are all still a very living part of the environment, the spaces and places we occupy. Some are so subtle you have to be very quiet and sensitive to notice they are there, others are very dominating and railroad your environment creating lots of brash noise and visual stimulation. All of which can be quite distracting and unbalancing unless you remember those other subtle energies and hold it all in balance within yourself at the same time. All of these things big and small, loud and quiet, shiny or dull, are part of the gathering, part of the story that can be shared and learnt from.
Before, during and after I write, I am conscious of my environment. Sometimes I close my eyes and I see many things I wouldn't have seen with them open. Sometimes when I open my eyes after closing them I can still see all these things. I do the same with my ears, I close them to some things which opens them to others, the same can be done with all that can be sensed, for example touch and smell can also be used.
Closing and opening are one and the same thing, they work in equal and opposite synergy. By closing one way of seeing, hearing, smelling you open to other ways of seeing, hearing and smelling. In this way a lot can be gathered from your surroundings, the objects people plants, every single thing in the whole environment in which you live, breathe, and continuously function in.
There is a huge amount that can be known if we are quiet enough. If we listen, open our ears, eyes and other senses, and have a go at understanding how it all works together.
There is a lot of magic available to us in this way. Magic can often be misunderstood as something very mysterious by those that don't take stock of their environment. Those that don't see others and their surroundings in a multifaceted way. Life is multifaceted, yet simple when you know it all comes down to a matter of connection and communication. When the excessive noise that may otherwise dominate our senses is put into perspective, everything can be touched equally. What may seem out of grasp in one moment may be through your heart and stamping over your whole body in another. A bit like a good luck dragon.
What I am offering in this space is a multidimensional understanding of how the mind works in conjunction with its environment; its culture and growing space, the many worlds, textures, sights, sounds and spaces that come together at the points which are you and eye meet the madrid of other beings that are out there living today, yesterday and in the future.
There is so much more that can be understood about time when we close and open our mindseye. When we use the internal and external space and that which is in between. the undulating net of both. The material that is the surface. That we really can touch, smell, taste, see and hear. And even shape.
The gathering is something uniquely personal to all. Everyone is going to see, hear, smell , taste and touch something different about it, that is the whole point. And why it means so much when each new person takes part and joins in. Everyone has their own unique patterns and formulations, things they have worked out, seen, heard, experienced and learnt from. We are so rich in colour, texture, and love.
There is so much we can share, that noone else is going to have an idea about unless we do.
And sow the gathering is a unique one of a kind place to share who we are, in the very broadest and direct of ways. There are no limits to what can be gathered. There will always be a natural pressure regulation that happens with any opening and closing. This is the undulating pulse of the gathering.
We all come to the gathering for a safe open and closed space so we may be exposed to new ideas, that come from different places, people including the animal, plants and other beings that you may not usually take note of, that you may not have heard about or seen before, for a multitude of practical and impractical reasons. In the space of the gathering everything is taken into consideration by all that are there. There is quiet and there is voice for all at various times. It is a space where one grows in richness. In texture and sensitivity for self and others. It is a place we all inevitably come to, each in our own way, if we are to learn about ourselves and about others. This particular gathering story is just one gathering amongst many across time and space. It is open to all these other gathering points, that includes you and I being one of them. A place where you join, I join, we join. A meeting, greeting, welcoming place where we can all belong.
As i sit here, i send love to the ancestors, i write to the gathering.
The Gathering
A Story for all Ages
Past, present and future
1. A story about belief and love,
2. an opportunity for healing,
3. a teaching tool
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​A Manuscript
Investigating the decompression point of parallel dimensions. A walk between the worlds.
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The gathering is a journey into the building blocks of life. What forms us and what makes us tick. It is a deep dive and a high rise into and of our existence. Where we get to meet the ancestors that sit in the seat of eternity.
It is our growing becoming; a connection, remembering, activation and integration of our potential. It crosses the boundaries of time and space. It questions what is normal, what is in us, of us and beyond us. It is a diaphragm of life, as we meet the point, challenge the point, become the point, flow through the point and empty the point. It is all we can ever be and have been. It is us in our wildest truest glory, all our pain, our tears, our hope and our love piled in and upon itself in one glorified whole. The becoming of ourselves is the becoming of each other as we explore different journeys, different times, different ways of dealing with things, and we find unity amongst it all. The similarities, the places we all come and meet together.