... seemed to present a pattern for [the] preparation we are all going through now. In the two days of our trip from Tulum to Palenque, we all experienced a cohesive series of experiences and ceremonies that seemed designed to take us all to the next level of being.

As we realize, the major aspect of polarity consciousness has been represented in our evolution as the duality of male and female. And so it was natural that, in the healing of this aspect, our group became whole.

As with all initiation ceremonies, it began with cleansing. It ended with the releasing of the negative side of the female energy that has been so prominent down through the ages.

When we came forth from the final integration ceremony at Chicanna, which for many was the peak experience of our journey, we would truly be ready to shoulder the responsibility for assisting the world to integrate all polarities and move into Oneness.

Preparation: Beginning at Becán

As we headed out from our hotel that morning, there was not one of our entire group, except perhaps LionFire, who knew how totally life-changing this day was to be for many of us. It was he who had chosen these three temples, and he alone of our group seemed to have a premonition of what was to come.

LionFire had been deeply connected with the huge energetic events that were happening within our group concerning the Dark Side of male-female energies. He carries in his own shamanic being an energetic manifestation of the dual energies, a kind of kachina that is wholly dark on one side and wholly light on the other. It is part of his journey in this lifetime to harmonize and balance these two sides, and his presence helped to coalesce this energy in our group to the place where the negative aspects could be released.

We spoke earlier of the woman who was being held in thrall by an energy of the Dark Side. LionFire just happened "by coincidence" to be standing next to this woman when that entity made its first (unsuccessful) attempt to break our circle. He also was by my side when we performed the entity release I spoke of, the night before the Grand Solstice Celebration at Chichen Itza.

And here it is perhaps appropriate to mention something we did not speak of earlier. It happened at Dzibilchaltun, where we watched the sun appear in the keyhole of the solstice temple and were shown the white Crystal Skull.

While the members of our group were gathered around, touching and communicating with this amazing artifact, the entity in this woman suddenly took over her body and attempted to smash the white Crystal Skull. Remember that this was the very skull that contained within it the Eternal Lovers and the Grandmother who had been guarding them for eons. LionFire saw what was happening and he and two other very strong men were needed to prevent tragedy.

There were other less traumatic manifestations of attempts of this Dark Side energy to disrupt what we were doing. I speak of them here only so that you will have some idea of what was happening — how obvious it was to all of us that something specific still needed to be released.

Our beginning at Becán had within it the spirit of fun and play. It was a perfect preparation for the ceremonies we would do later.

Becán itself was a regional capital of the ancient Mayan empire, first built around 600 BC but most active between 600 and 1000 AD, and is one of the most important architectural sites in Campeche.

This ancient city is sorrounded by a ditch that is unique in the Mayan area. In fact, the word becán in Mayan means "ravine formed by water." It is believed by some that the ravine served as protection in the event of war. Others feel that it represented a social class division: The elite built their monumental structures within the area encompassed by the ditch, and the lower classes lived outside.

A surface tunnel, made of stone, links the two main plazas of the ancient city, and in one place there are amazing painted masks (protected now by strong glass — you can look, but you cannot touch). Standing on one altar, we could "feel" that it had once been used for human sacrifice. Whether that's true or not I don't know, but it is true that the Mayan culture was led astray at one point into this horrific practice.

For us, Becán was the temple site of Male-Female Integration, a place of balancing. In LionFire's words:

As many of us talked to Drunvalo at the Male-Female Integration altar, others went off to play and dance with the pyramids.

Earlier in the trip, at Coba, I had talked about how each pyramid was like a musical instrument, and that they were meant to be "played" in different ways, depending on how you "danced" them. When we left the altar and wandered through the courts, to my amazement, most of the group were dancing up, down, around, and on top of the pyramids.

What a joy! This was exactly what we needed: the fun, the child. This was the preparation. The group had walked through fear. Atop the acropolis of Becán we could clearly see the temples of Xpuhil and Chicanna, the sites where we would perform the ceremonies honoring the blending of the Masculine and Feminine energies within ourselves.

Interestingly, it was at Becán that I was introduced to the Amazon elixirs, all of which have to do with balancing the male-female hormones and activating natural sexuality. One of these elixirs turned out to be an almost miraculous herbal extract for balancing female hormones. There are women of my acquaintance whose lives have totally been changed by using this extract.

Xpuhil and the Ceremony of Male Integration

Xpuhil means the "place of cattail reeds." Its stunning towers depict Itzamna — Creator God and First Shaman — as a celestial serpent. The main building in Xpuhil has three enormous towers, with twelve rooms and platforms. In the center is a recess surrounded by the head of a serpent. This complex integrates low, middle, and high masculine energies, focusing on Cosmic Sex and Love.

However, we were on a short time schedule at this point, so we would not have time to explore. From Becán, we drove the short trip to Xpuhil and all walked quickly along a rocky path through a forest, finally coming out in a grassy compound at the temple of three towers, where we would do our ceremony.

The Male-Energy Integration ceremony I was about to do, like the Female Integration ceremony that would follow later, was something I had never done before. I didn't know how it was going to work or what would happen. I was just allowing myself to feel what needed to be done and said, with no preconceived ideas.

First, I found a spot out in the grassy field in front of the temple of Xpuhil, and there I asked all of the men to get together in a group and sit down on the grass, while the women formed a standing circle around them. The women held hands and set the energy of the group.

I then felt called to construct Sacred Geometry forms around the men, with terminals leading up into the sky and down into Mother Earth. I told the men that they would be releasing all of the negative side of masculine energy. I asked them to visualize this energy leaving out through the points of the geometric forms. The mental energies would go up through the top and be released out into the sky. The more physical energies would go deep into the Earth.

And then I just became silent and let it begin.

It was hot today in Xpuhil, and we were standing in the sun. Before the ceremony, we were very much aware of the heat, and afterwards it came back to assault us with its almost tangible presence. But while this ceremony was happening, I don't think a single member of our group was aware of anything but the spiritual energies that were moving and changing.

We could all feel what was happening as the men let go of the negative masculine aspects from all of our history, represented in their own bodies and energy fields at this time and place. At first, it went slowly. Then, as the men got into the flow of what was happening, the release became easier and faster.

At one point, there was a shift. You could almost hear a kind of collective "sigh" going up from the group as a whole. And soon after that, it was done.

I would like to say here that this was as strong a group of men as I have ever been with. There was a larger proportion of men to women in this group than is usual, and the men themselves were extremely powerful, many of them being high-level shamans and healers in their own right.

At the same time, because of their spiritual level, these incredible men were extremely open. They had not only the insight but the capacity to actually do what I had asked. When I said, "It is finished," most of these men, sitting in the center of the circle of women, were crying.

I asked the women to hug the men, and this hugging went on for a long time. The men went to one woman after another, tears in their eyes, embracing, silently thanking Woman for the love she still holds despite the gulf between the sexes that has existed for so many millennia. Silently asking forgiveness. Allowing themselves to feel vulnerabile. Allowing themselves to be nurtured. Letting go of the core of rigidity and aloneness that has been the masculine burden down through the centuries.

We all spoke of feeling that this release had been done not only for ourselves, but for the entire Earth. That we had in some way created a pathway for others to follow, in a process that would continue and grow over the coming days, months, and years — until the integration was truly complete for all mankind.

As we walked back to the bus, we were all very quiet. No one could have predicted how powerful the integration ceremony was going to be. And everyone seemed to know that coming to this experience had been one of our major missions in this lifetime. Every single person belonged there. Every one was unique and precious and necessary to the whole.

In this atmosphere of silent Oneness, we drove to the temples at Chicanna, not even dimly realizing the explosion that was in store.

Chicanna and the Ceremony of Female Integration

Still on a tight schedule — for we needed to reach Palenque that evening — and still feeling the residue of emotion from the ceremony at Xpuhil, we all walked the rocky, leaf-strewn paths at Chicanna in search of a place to do our next ceremony. It was even hotter out, by now, and so we wanted to be in the shade.

LionFire told us that Chicanna was very different than other Mayan sites, featuring an elaborate, baroque style of architecture. As we saw, the buildings are small, with doorways portraying the mouth of Itzamna, this time in the form of the Earth Monster whose gaping mouth represents the gateway to Xibalba, the Mayan underworld.

It is said that initiates often feel dimensional shifts, here, and the sensation of walking among the stars. It is a place of intense Dark Feminine magic. Chicanna balances and integrates the Feminine and Masculine Energies within women. It was here that we would do the Female Integration ceremony.

We all came to a small pyramid with a courtyard in front of it, and a low, hemispherical stone wall near the forest's edge and thus shaded by trees.

I asked the women to gather in the area along and in front of the wall and to sit comfortably there. Then I asked the men to stand in front of the women in a straight line, from edge to edge of the wall. We were now arranged in the shape of a long, shallow, lidded bowl, with the women inside the bowl and the men forming the lid.

The men held hands and we sealed off the energy of the space. I constructed the Sacred Geometry forms around the women so that they could release energies upward into the heavens and downward into the Earth.

And then I began to speak. I did not know what I was going to say. At first, my directions to the women were pretty much the same as those I had given to the men. And then it came to me to ask the women to use this opportunity to let go of all of the unspeakable things that had been done to women down through the ages of civilization. To release and forgive.

As I said those words, there was a gasp from many of the women. Something changed in our energy field, as though there had been a kind of crack in this human bowl we had made.

And then I became silent and let the process begin.

It was quite different than what had happened for the men. The women were trying to allow themselves to contact pain and horror that they had never before been able to look at or feel. One by one, they entered into the reality of what life had been like for womankind in the ages when she was treated as chattel — and worse. So much worse.

It was not over yet, but the women needed help. So I intervened, asking the men to go to the women, caress their faces and look into their eyes, and give them the tenderness and love and understanding that they were needing at this time. I joined with the men, as we went from woman to woman, comforting them, helping them to get through the huge assaults of emotional pain and grief that they were experiencing and trying to release.

This went on for a long time. Women were screaming, sobbing, with the kind of deep, soul-wrenching grief that they had never before been able to look at. And the men were holding them, consoling them, loving them. A couple of the women went into a fetal position, and they were held and comforted with unbelievable tenderness, like little babies.

One woman told me afterward that she spent the first ten minutes of this process wanting to throw up. This was a new experience for her, she said. She had never understood why people in books talked about feeling nauseous at the sight of desecrations of the human body, but now she realized her lack of understanding had been because she had never, ever been able to "go there" before. On this day, with the amazing support of the others — the women who had the courage to make first contact with their true feelings, and the men of our group who had just come into their own strength — she had finally allowed herself to face and experience feelings that had been shoved aside for lifetime after lifetime. When the full emotional contact finally happened, she was doubled up with it, overwhelmed. And then, as she received comfort from the men, the grief was released and she felt whole — for the first time.

In Conclusion

And so we piled into the bus and headed southwest to Palenque and the final ceremony our group would perform along the spiral of sites that had been given to me by Thoth.

But I think that the integration we performed on that day is still happening. I think that our allowing of the full experience of male and female energy, the release of all the anger, fear, and hatred, is still going on. On that day in Campeche, I truly do believe we created a pathway for others to follow — a pathway that eventually leads to a new way of being for men and women on Mother Earth.

In Love and Service,

Drunvalo

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Next time: Beginning of the End of Time, Part VII

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