We are sick on many fronts, and when we peel off our masks, our layers and our onion skins, we find all kinds of wounds still in the process of healing itself.
The simplest notion of healing is this. Leave any unhealed part of you alone, without trying to cure it or attempting to solve any problems that are caused by it. Leave it resting in the light of the day and in the moonshine of a starry night, and simply watch it. Look at it without judging it. Do not try to control it, but simply, let it be.
You will see yourself in it, and realize that it is seeing itself in you. In this, it is a mirror.
My most practical insight during my two years in Kalipay beach is that everything heals itself, in the light of true perspective.
There is but one true perspective. Oneness.
I’ve just finished Tom Robbins’ first novel where the Chink left the writing on one side of the wall of the clock-work cave: “I believe in nothing, everything is sacred.” And on the other side is “I believe in everything, nothing is sacred.”
When you live in the natural kingdom long enough, the Bible, the Koran, an Archie Comic Book and The Brothers Kamarazov are all holy texts. Everyday is the Sabbath, and the sea turtle as well as the beach’s kingfishers act like holy teachers of men.
The Ascension path is literally like climbing a ladder. When I left my life one day in Boracay five years ago, I was still a meat-eater. During my Mindanao pilgrimage, I was vegetarian. In Kalipay, the ascendancy was from raw food to breatharian.
Breatharians are those that believe that man can live on free energy. Light, water, and air. After my first year in Kalipay, it was easy to fast for an entire week, then live on coconuts the next week and vice versa. This is difficult to believe, yet I seldom got hungry, and even more unbelievable, I gained weight. I am posting some of my old Kalipay photos on the innerdance multiply site to show you what I looked like then.
Here are the physical manifestations of living a life of light. A time came when I stopped sleeping for many days without feeling any kind of fatigue. Sleep is a requirement of the mind and body to digest the stressful absorption of food and noisy inputs fed into the brain. A time also came when my feces had turned to white matter, it I had to go to the bathroom at all. If I had body odor while detoxifying, I later found my body developing a fresh scent, and my skin softened and cleared up so much, considering I was spending so much time in the forest, the sand and the salty waters.
I had tremendous bursts of energy mainly in the early mornings before the actual dawning of the morning sun. I could run and exercise for around eight hours straight and the only reason for stopping was out of boredom.
My body was agile, able to climb high trees with little effort, much like a cat would move. A cat represents unpredictable liveliness and power beneath its languid swagger. It is more akin to the hunter archetype, unlike a dog’s more lethargic energy that likes to depend on its masters for food.
Even more important though, is the positive outlook one begins to develop once enough toxins and negativity are withdrawn. In the context of the figurative beach, anything is possible, and we have the power to change our lives when we find enough energy to do so.
