On two occasions while sitting in the deep silence of our Meeting for Worship I sensed contact with two old fellas in spirit.  On the first occasion it was like looking across to the garden area three hundred years ago where a male elder was just in front of his mob and he engaged me.  On the second a younger painted fella appeared.  Both had the same insistent message: ‘You must come up’.  This had a clear sacred masculine energy stamp.  The meaning: you must come up to the scarp.  It wasn’t until our silent day when I had space to respond.  I asked for guidance from David Johnson about how to proceed and he directed me towards the scarp that leads away from the Centre with the words ‘you will find your way’. 

I walked barefoot up the scarp line led by the kangaroos who hopped off well ahead of me, including an albino.  I stopped first to contemplate the elevated scene at a stand of grass trees that looked out across Weereewa.  I first learnt to love grasstrees as a child with my botanist father in Western Australia and they stand as sentinels of stillness and resilience across the Land.  This was the first teaching. That is, to take in the vista, the big view, the long view, looking over it all with sense of protection, perception and anticipation.  Perhaps best described as using the eye of the Eagle with its thrillingly wise gaze and a perspective traditionally associated with the humble tribal warrior. This is portrayed in the painting through a vista that looks over SWQC, lake and out to sky.

Next, I continued further up then down and across a creek line towards another stand of larger grass trees that had caught my eye.  I meandered through the grass trees which were much larger than the previous stand and then explored further up the next ridge before coming to another place of rest under a gum.  The shadows were lengthening and the kangaroos had left me to my solitary endeavour.  I became aware of not only solitude but my total safety and calm as though I had walked into an Eden. I’m not sure I have had a greater sense of safety in bush, the kind that is exquisitely gentle, loving and tender and touching to recollect.  This is traditionally associated with the Mothering aspect of Earth.  This was the second teaching, that the sacred masculine can also embody this energy of absolute gentleness and safety and learn about this directly from the quiet and hidden places of Mother Earth.