Grandmother Drum on Tour

OPEN HEARTS OF ISRAEL AHAVA

2009-07-06T04:23:00.000-07:00

Grandmother Drum closed her 2009 Mayim Hayim (LIVE WATER) Israel Tour at the Desert Ashram in the south of Israel on June 25-27, 2009 the very location of the very first ceremony at the beginning of April. We all gathered at the Festival of the Heart Song and then completed the third Portal Ceremony in the primordial desert in Timna, Israel. Each time we have done the water ceremonies and songs, unexpected rain has come to parts of Israel, a very rare occurrence indeed this time of year. During our Portal Ceremonies in June at the Sea of Galilee, a river that had been dry for many years started running again and in another area further north an aquifer was discovered. We are happy to create this collective prayer for the LIVING WATERS and to be a part of the everyday miracles they create AHO!.

Grandmother Drum held the opening ceremonies to the Festival of the Heart Song and even in the rising desert heat of nearly 40C, our family rocked, sang and danced in Grandmothers Living beat of Oneness. We were able to host the third Gate of Grace Meditation, the one we received earlier in the Tour in Clil, Israel.

Later in the weekend, Grandmother Drum received the honored invitation to play with the Friday evening Shabbats Ceremony with many, many talented musicians and an audience devoted to the sacred music of Shabbats. Since my first visit to Israel last year, I have been in love with the devotional music of Shabbats and it was certainly the closing exclamation point of the tour for me to be able to light the Shabbats candles (which honors the descending presence of the sacred Feminine Shehkinah at sundown Friday) and play the soothing pulse of Grandmother Drum with the beautiful Hebrew Chants I had learned during the tour.

Then at 4am we headed on to Timna to do a sunrise Portal Ceremony to complete the assignments of the Grandmothers and Grandfathers and to activate this sacred vortex. Timna is known for UFO sigtings. The landscape surely was straight out of Close Encounters of the Third Kind and that is exactly what we experienced! We were ushed in by the Hathor billboard statues at Timna Park and the rest, well, you had to be there!

We had an amazing day of personal and planetary healings and many visitations at the Portal and in our dreams in the days after. Wait to you see the videos!

NEW LIVE WATER CD!

We extended our LIVE WATER Israel Tour to complete over 22 tracks of water chants from around the world for our new LIVE WATER CD!

This was recorded in THE MOST RESONATE water cistern under the Holy City of Jerusalem very close to the Holy of Holies! The production should be finished by Sept 1, 2009. Many thanks to the talented recording artists that joined us and will be featured:White Eagle Medicine Woman www.whirlingrainbow.com Carlie Fairburn, www.carliefairburn.com, Aliza Hava, www.alizahava.com, Nikki Williams, www.timeofthesixthsun.com, Dvora Pearlman, www.loversofjerusalem.org, Eliana Gilad, www.voicesofeden.com and Ruben Von Den Breck, kunjabihariji@gmail.com

Jerusalem Hug and LIVE H20 Weekend!

2009-06-24T23:21:00.000-07:00

The Heartbeat of Love Drum Wave with Grandmother Drum and crystal bowls set the global 528 pulse at 4pm Israel time under the hot sun at the Jaffa Gate of the Old City of Jerusalem joined by over 30 venues worldwide. I welcomed thousands around the world through Livestream TV. Grandmother Drum was encircled by hundreds holding hands including Israelis, Egyptians, Palestinians, Americans, Canadians, Japanese, Russians, Africans and countless family from all over Europe ( to name a few!). All in all we had between 500 people who joined in the Jerusalem events. In our " Hug Around Jerusalem" ( http://www.loversofjerusalem.org/ ) people made a huge chain holding hands for unity and peace of all nations, religions and cultures from the Jaffa gate all the way to the Damacus Gate of the Old City. Later that evening, I saw several Israeli women crying with overwhelming joy as they watched Palestinians and Israeli youth join together to drum and dance and celebrate ( you have to understand how monumental this is!). The Global Prayer for the Living Waters was said by all in English, Hebrew and Arabic.

The response all night long was that participants felt so much love, gratitude and warmth from each other and all facilitators. Everyone sang and played Grandmother Drum singing Hebrew, Arabic, African and Native American chants until midnight! Our team all gave huge amounts of time and dedication to make it a huge success. ( Special thanks to Shai, Amit, Dvora, Rob, Eliana, Helen, and many more more.)

We are so over the top grateful and in love with one another!!! This event of coming together in The Jerusalem Hug as lovers of the Holy City with the Heartbeat of Grandmother Drum to activate the Living Waters of one of THE MOST POWERFUL PORTALS in the WORLD ( The HOLY OF HOLIES FOUNDATION STONE) was beyond beyond!

We even had coverage from the Associated Press and local Israeli TV and newspapers. And to top it off we had wonderful hugs and support from the Police and Municipality!

WE ALL DID THIS WITH ONE THING.............. LOVE AND GRATITUDE. (Its definitely contagious!)

To read the newspaper article in Hebrew go to:

http://www.epochtimes.co.il/news/content/view/11701/123/

Nine Pointed Star Over Galilee

2009-06-16T02:13:00.000-07:00

On June 5-6, 2009 we held a special Nine Pointed Star Portal Ceremony at the shores of the Sea of Galilee with 25 of our Israeli family. Grandmother Drum was in rare form and our portal was held through a series of activations with Grandmother Drum over the two amazing days. After each wave, our hearts were washed clean.

We had found the correct location from messages we received from the Grandmother and Grandfathers. I even found my first eagle feather in Israel there, a very, very rare find indeed. It was a Golden Eagle feather, to symbolize the Golden Cord into the Nine Pointed Star!

As we continued to work with the tour’s theme of LIVE WATER, we were all laughing and joking, as the tissue box became the main talking stick of the weekend. With the help of Grandmother Drum and the waters of the Galilee our hearts were pouring open. We were praying to bring more waters into the Sea of Galilee and to bring the rains to green the desert. The Grandmothers told us when the hearts of the Israeli’s open it will green the desert and raise the waters of Mercy and Grace. Well the flood in our hearts and eyes had started!

As our ceremonies began we blessed each other with the waters from the Micvie in Jerusalem that I was given just a few weeks prior. We washed and blest each other in the three Hara’s of the navel, the heart and the third eye. Then we laid under Grandmother Drum for a journey through the 22 chakras of the Light Body to our Divine Godhood. We opened to our Higher Purpose that we came to earth to ground it through these ceremonies into the portal, the Earth Star under our feet.

In the evening, after the heat of the day, we began our sacred Nine Pointed Star Portal.

In this medicine dance, people danced back and forth to Grandmother Drum and reconnected themselves to the core of the earth through the sacred portal rock on the north shore of the Sea of Galilee. The north shore of the Galilee is known Biblically as where many of the miracles of Jesus occurred including the miracle of the loaves and fishes,The Sermon on the Mount, the Mt of Beatitudes (blessed are the peacemakers etc) and where Christ walked on the water. The actual portal vortex is located underneath a rock well known in the Bible. It was this rock that Christ said to Peter, “ on this Rock, I will build my church.”

We realized that this rock was over some kind of vortex of water, much like the Foundation Stone in Jerusalem. We were beginning to understand the instructions we received before this tour to activate three vortexes in Israel. One vortex was here in the north of the Galilee, the other being the "Holy of Holies"in Jerusalem and the third one in the south in the desert near Timna.

As the moon grew full over our heads, our ceremony went late into the evening hours. Many souls crossed through our portal as this location had also been the area of the Six Day War in 1973. A special ceremonial staff was used, given to me by a group of Israeli women peace workers. The staff had been carried into peace work in Israel for the last thirty years. Recently they received the message that a peace worker from oversees would be coming to Israel to open the Heart of Israel. The group presented the staff to me upon my first week here in Israel and now we used it to ground ourselves to the portal and open the Living Waters of Mercy into the hearts of Israel.

The following morning we continued with talking circles and more drumming. People from the campground area where we stayed were coming around us now. When a group asked to join us, a few members of our group did not hear them over the drumming and a misunderstanding took place. A man named Jeffrey, walked over to our circle very anger, thinking we were not aligned to the meaning of Shalom and were not including all as one and so he started to scream and yell. He grabbed a drumstick and began smashing on Grandmother Drum, yelling and screaming and cursing. Our group, men and woman alike, were shocked, but well prepared as we were deeply unified in the heart. Though he even pushed me and John and a few others, we all remained silent and enveloped him in our love. After he vented his anger he stormed off. Our group felt the shock waves for a while as this brought up memories of war and violence in Israel for several women. We held a circle to share the teachings we had just received from Jeffrey. As the heat rose to midday, we decided to do a healing ceremony in the Sea of Galilee with two amazing crystal bowls. As we floated in the cool water, toning and saying the Living Waters Global Prayer, we saw that Jeffrey was also swimming nearby, trying to cool himself down after the rage he displayed in our circle. With him was a beautiful painted horse. Because of the heat, he was also cooling the horse down in the Sea of Galilee. We could tell he was walking towards us in the water and wanted to be part of our ceremony and somehow to reconcile with us. Slowly he drifted over to our large circle holding hands. As he neared, I opened the circle and reached out my hand to him. I kissed his hand, he, trembling, kissed mine back. He was now enveloped in the healing of our group. Some of the women that had been activated by him earlier came over to pet his horse. No words were said and yet the healing for everyone was phenomenal. Later as we went back into the grass gazebo for our afternoon circle, Jeffrey came walking up to gift our group, a large watermelon in his hands. We all received it and him with gratitude.

The afternoon was filled with more song, sharing and Ho'oponopono ceremony. We were even serenaded by one of our participants, Carlie Fairburn, a beautiful singing songwriter from Australia. She reminded me so much of my 2002/2003 Australia Tour Coordinator Amrahla North who died in 2003 from a snakebite. The day Amrahla died, another well-known Aboriginal Elder, Auntie Alice Kelly, also died. Auntie Alice had told me of when I would return to Australia. “ I will sing you back,” she said. That afternoon, Carlie decided to sing for me the only Aboriginal Chant she knew. I began to weep, knowing this was my portal moment. The chant was the very one Amrahla had taught me that I had forgotten. After six years I might now be being called back to Australia. As I looked in my hands at the new staff given to me, it has three branches; one with an eagle painted on it and the other branch with a snake and the third is a mounted antler. The message of the healing caduceus shows itself again, the awakening of the kundalini and the flight of the spirit.

The moon was now full over the Galilee. To close the ceremony we brought the Grandmother Drum to the exact location of where seven underground ancient springs meet the Galilee next to St Peters Rock. We took video here and were in awe to see what appeared on the screen. Look for the Pyramid of Light, The Star of David, the red triangle turning into a face, an angel and others that appeared. This video is as is taken with a cheap Sony 800x. Check it out! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOgC5vdyk04&feature=related

After the weekend Portal Ceremony we were told two amazing synchronicities. From a recent drilling project, a pristine reservoir north of the Sea of Galilee had just been found that weekend. This water is now going to be pumped into the Sea of Galilee to raise the water level! Another river in the north, that has been dry for a number of years, just started to run that weekend. Aho! Miracles are always part of Indiana Jane’s adventures!

Check out the other You tubes from the weekend at:

White Eagle Grandmother Drum Portal Sea of Galilee, Israel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOgC5vdyk04&feature=related

Global Prayer for Live H20 Israel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpstMzhp9SQ&feature=channel

White Eagle Grandmother Drum H20 528 hertz Sea of Galilee, Israel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdKHcu-eGVE

Journey to Center of the Universe

2009-05-31T02:50:00.000-07:00

Oreit Angel and I spent four hours in the tunnels on the Western Wall in the Holy City of Jerusalem

this week, meditating and recording the incredible sound of the vortex beneath the Foundation Stone. This vortex is considered the Center of the Universe under the Western Wall of the original Solomon's Temple. From a serious of synchronistic meetings that day,

the spot where I am standing in the photo is where Grandmother Drum will have special permission to play at dawn on LIVE H20 weekend June 21, 2009.

With me in one photo is a man that took our tickets by the door. After we exited the tunnels, he came up to me, seeing how I spent so much time in meditation/chanting and saw immediately that I was on some sacred mission here. So he looked around to see if anyone was watching him and then waved me to follow him. He said he had something special to share with me ( though he was not suppose to bring me there) and brought me to the NEW excavation site of the MIKVE (no one is allowed here at this point) where the sacred purifying waters are surfacing. He said to me "the archaeologists are not sure where this water is coming from."

This MIKVE had held the waters where the temple priests would purify themselves before entering Solomons Temple into the "Holy of Holies" ( where the Arc of the Covenant was said to be kept). I felt like saying to the guard, "Well, we all know where the water is coming from!". I couldn't help but feel that Spirit was guiding me here and asking me to bath myself and purify before bring the Grandmother Drum down here on June 21st to activate and amplify this amazing planetary vortex. The guard allowed me to bless myself with the healing waters of the Mitzvah and take some in a small bottle with me. WOW !!! Humanity is becoming a Holy Temple and is rising up in consciousness. This is the time prophesied indeed! Prophecy below.

-Indiana Jane on the trail in Jerusalem

In the Old Testament it is written that the Jewish Messiah will come into the Old City from the Mt. of Olives, riding on a donkey through the Eastern Gate and he will bring the thousand years of peace. When this would happen, water would begin to flow for the first time from under the Temple. (today's Dome of the Rock or Temple Mount is built over the original site of Solomon’s Temple where the Ark of the Covenant is said to have been housed).

On June 19-21, 2009 Grandmother Drum will hold ceremonies from the Mt of Olives, Eastern Gates, under the Western Wall, on the Temple Mount and at Jaffa Gate to activate and awaken the consciousness of this vortex. To join us read more on the schedule at to http://whirlingrainbow.com/newsletter.htm

Sea of Galilee

2009-05-29T03:23:00.000-07:00

Well I have to tell you a story from the first week of the Israel Tour. Its important now so you can understand the ceremony we are about to do next weekend. During our first week in Israel, after a channel session with a Grandfather Zion, he told us of a special portal to activate at the Sea of Galilee. We plan to activate this sacred spot on June 5-6, 2009 weekend. He said, "This is our covenant to complete. Place this Holy Arc (the drum) from whence the sea meets the catacombs and we shall rise. "

Our hosts Timna, Noga, Anat and Kochav took us on a journey to the Sea of Galilee to check the location that Grandfather Zion described and where, while in trance, I had seen clearly in my inner sight. Now Indiana Jane and her crew of sisters must go find it.

The Israeli women were in rare form that morning for a 3 hr drive north, talking and laughing the whole way. It was Anat's birthday and they made her a lovely crown of flowers that she wore on her head. They took John, Tymoreye' and I to a special place on the north of the lake where there is a beautiful cave and an underground river that comes out into the Sea of Galilee. Maybe this was the place where the "catacombs met the sea." As we parked and walked down some stone stairs to the beach area, I suddenly smelled frankincense burning, whafting on the light breeze.

My mind flashed back to a message we received in a session with Grandfather Magi before we left Alaska.

" Follow the star to Bethlehem, follow the star in the east. You can smell out the location. You can smell them out. Go sniffing like dogs in my lands for the gold, frankincense and the myrrh."

I suddenly got the feeling come over by body when I am on the trail of one of the Grandmothers or Grandfathers clues. It’s that energy that runs my spine and makes me tingle and I become extra alert and present.

I look to my right and there are a group of Bedouin women sitting by a round stone well. In the center of the women is a very old Grandmother sitting on the rock bench and staring at me. They wave me over. I am feeling strange, but somehow know this is important. I follow the smell of the frankincense. Since I cannot speak Arabic or Hebrew, Timna follows me and begins to interpret as the old grandmother grabs my hand and stares at me. She is 96 and her eyes are rather mystical as she stares through her cataracts like a looking glass.

I knell before her and look into her ancient eyes. I suddenly have another flashback to a dream I had before I left Alaska. In the dream, I was in some kind of market and a beautiful woman in Middle Eastern dress came up to me, took my hand and with an oil lamp in the other hand guided me to an old grandmother. Sure enough the old grandmother I was kneeling before right now was her! The granddaughter standing next to her was also the younger woman in the dream with the oil lamp! Suddenly I became even more alert because when I woke up from that dream I had months ago, I could not remember exactly what the grandmother had told me. I knew somehow it was an important message. Well it seems like she had come back in my living dream to help me remember!

My attention comes back to the moment and the grandmother is looking me deep in the eye, holding my hand with her feeble but firm grasp. She is talking on and on to me in Arabic. Her granddaughter interprets in Hebrew to Timna and then Timna tells me in English.

Where is your man she said? ( she seems to know I am not married anymore, but have been told I will meet a man this year.). This question seems a bit strange as my relationship these past ten years have been focused around the Grandmother Drum and the medicine work of the Grandmothers and Grandfathers. I haven't really given too much time to what I want aside from this service and I am surprised that this is my important message!

I then explain to the Bedouin grandmother, that the man for me has not showed up yet. Then as if she knows my mind, she says. "Do you really want to get married?" ( I have been talking about bringing a man back into my life this year) I look into her eyes knowing that she is asking me if I really want what I have saying I want.

I feel the question like an arrow, direct and poignant. I think to myself, "Well yes I guess I have to really want something, not just sort of . So I reply to her" Yes I do."

She then says, "Then stop traveling all over the world to find him. Go back home to your own land and plant your roots and he will come.”

She tells me I must go down the steps to the river flowing into the Sea of Galilee, remove my clothes and cleanse myself in the waters. After that I cannot hug or touch anyone for an hour. Then the ceremony will be complete. We mingle with the women a few more minutes, and then I head on down the stone stairs alone to the river. I am still rather stunned that this is the message I came here for. I expected it to be some great mission of service to the people of Israel with Grandmother Drum. Well I guess maybe it is!

At the end of some kind of spiritual baptism under the waterfall of this river, I find a gold bead shining under the water. I pick it up. It’s a small fruit they call Dimom. I hear a voice inside say take this and eat.

I come out of the river and sit on the rocks where all them women of our group are now gathered. The Bedouin women have come down to the beach with a bowl of these very same fruits and offer them to me.

The fruit is known as “ Eves Apple” and is good for the settling the stomach. The Bedouin women were now laughing and sharing with the Israeli women and Timna told me this exchange is a rare gift.

The granddaughter wanted to tell me that her grandmother had not been to the Sea of Galilee in a very long time. She had told her granddaughter, " We must go today, because there was someone she had to meet at the well. " That someone was me.

Before we leave, I recall yet another session last fall with the Grandmother Ana Maya saying to me, " Jesus met the women at the well. Go meet the women at the well and she will tell you everything!” I remembered this line so clearly because it echoed the old Peter Paul and Mary song. The next line of that song felt like my truth today, “ And he told her everything she’d ever done.”

As we drove home and around the lake we pass the original site of the town of Bethlehem and I ask Kochav, our driver, what her name actually means. She say’s it means “ star”. Now it dawns on me the repeated phrase the Grandmothers and Grandfathers kept giving us about the work here in Israel. “Follow the star in the east, follow the star to Bethlehem!”

So here we are in yet another amazing day of synchronicity with Indiana Jane and the crew at the Sea of Galilee!

Power at the Heart of Grace

2009-05-17T22:50:00.000-07:00

On May 16, 2009 twenty five women and men gathered for a full day workshop Power at the Heart of the Medicine Wheel with Grandmother Drum in Qadima, Israel.

We shared teachings of the Grandmothers and Grandfathers about the attunement of the Light Body and the importance of being our own note in the music of the Uni-Verse. As the Grandmothers and Grandfathers teach us about the new octave coming into Mother Earth from the Sun and the center of the Milky Way, human consciousness is taking a quantum leap. To go through this deep transformation consciously, they have given us detailed instructions on cleansing and purifying the body, the emotions (the waters) the mind and the spirit and reminding us of the correct Human Design of Energy of our vehicle, the sacred temple of the body we have been given. (For more information on the complete instructions and teachings of the Grandmothers and Grandfathers to date go to:

The Language of One online course: http://whirlingrainbow.com/online%20language.htm

The Heart of One online course: http://whirlingrainbow.com/online%20heartofone.htm

During the day, we underwent two sound attunements to prepare for the Prismatic Fire Light Body journey with Grandmother Drum. The most recent sound attunement was given to me in a dream a week ago in Clil, Israel. The Grandmothers came in the dream and I asked them, " How to we open the Gate of Grace in Jerusalem?"

They instructed me to teach everyone to use the Ha Breath before an after tuning each chakra or energy center through the vowel sounds. The Grandmothers and Grandfathers called this the Gate of Grace or Gate of Mercy Meditation. This expands and deepens the work of Ho'oponopono, and the Ha Breath we bring to Israel from our work in Hawaii in March and gives Israeli's a Golden Key for opening the Gates of Mercy. This technique has been a profound combination to assist each one of us to take responsibility of our piece of the peace work for Israel. We will culminate this work in the Holy City on July 19, 2009, bringing Grandmother Drum to energetically open the Gates of Mercy. See our newsletter for dates and details at:http://whirlingrainbow.com/newsletter.htm

The 2009 Israel Tour has been named Mayim H'ayim, LIVE WATER, to continue our work since 2006 as the new Marianna waters of the Mother Earth break open and begin the birth of a new humanity. We have been focused on bringing together the Universal Solvent of Water together with the Universal Language of Music ( in particular the 528 hertz of Grandmother Drum) to produce the Universal Healer "Love" and infuse it in all Mother Earth's waters including our bodies which are 80% water..We are deepening our knowledge of the healing power of Water as we realize that the word mercy in the Hebrew language translates to " womb or spirit of the water." The healing waters, our tears and our emotions are the gateway to mercy and grace in our world.

Our Israel Tour Coordinator and Elder, Dvora Pearlmen says it best,

"There is one clear way we know our heart has opened. Only if the heart is touched deeply and opens, then our tears (the waters) will always flow from our eyes."

In the upcoming ceremonies here in Israeli we are focusing on giving this Golden Key method to open this Gate of Grace in Israel. This will culminate in the LIVE H20 Concert for the Living Waters televised live with Grandmother Drum activating the Holy City on June 19th

(Gates of Mercy) and June 21, 2009 (Jaffa Gate). For more details on LIVE H20, go to www.liveh2o.org For more details on the Israel Tour schedule go to:

http://whirlingrainbow.com/newsletter.htm

Watch the Video below: Ah Ha Va (Love)

All Jobs in the Qadima Forest

2009-05-17T12:24:00.000-07:00

On May 14, 2009 the staff of All JOBS, the largest employment firm in Israel, gathered in the forest of Qadima for a special private Prayerformance with Grandmother Drum. White Eagle, Tymoreye and John were welcomed by All Jobs Director, Revital Hendler who has been instrumental in supporting the Grandmother Drum's 2009 Israel Tour. Since the Grandmother Drum was a surprise for the staff, everyone opened the crate together and welcomed the gift for the celebration...Grandmother Drum.

I shared with the staff how important it is at this unprecedented time that we support people in finding the work that they truly love. If everyone did only the work they loved, the world would transform overnight! Grandmother Drum brought to them the potent power of heart in remembering to live the life you love. Over eighty staff danced and sang as the sun went down in the Qadima Forest. I am thrilled when someone takes the microphone and leads the group with Hebrew songs. I have learned a few now and I am determined to learn at least six Hebrew songs before we leave Israel. Thanks again to Revital and Alex for all the work it took in bringing us all together!

In the Olive Trees of Peace

2009-05-08T09:29:00.000-07:00

On May 7, 2009 we made our way on the road again, this time to the oldest settlement in Israel, Nahalal. Compared to most

of our world tours, the travel here between communities seems minimal as the country is only 800 kilometers in length. Israeli’s are stunned when we tell them we are from Alaska and that it’s so big it could fit 73 Israelis in it! Oh vey!

We met our hosts, Rhonda Joy Eagle and her friends Varda and Yoav place who have an amazing garden named " soil and Soul" with over 600 medicine plants. Tonight we would host a special ceremonial Prayerformance between two olive trees holding a sacred stone circle of power.

The garden is built in the shape of a human man and has seven chakra of gardens. Tonight Grandmother Drum would activate the Base Chakra (feet) of the gardens, opening a new vibration of our luminous body into the body of Israel.

Varda reminded me of the Old Testament story of how the olive branch in the mouth of the dove became the symbol of peace for Israel and the world. It’s the story of Noah and the flood and how Noah sends the white dove out to see if there was land anywhere. The dove returns the first time with nothing. He sends the dove a second time in another direction and again the dove returns with nothing. The third time the dove is released, it returns with an olive branch in its mouth. It told Noah there was a new land to begin their new life. Somehow this seems so symbolic. I reflect on how, even now, Grandmother Morning Dove is whispering to us from this place too.

At 6pm, Yoav towed Grandmother Drum ‘s trailer to the gardens with his John Deere tractor. Sixty passionate family gathered for an evening of ceremony, prayer, healing and renewal. I love watching their faces of the Israelis, especially the children as we opened the crate and they get to unwrap the love present of Grandmother Drum. We have been telling the Israeli people that the whole world is watching Israel and that we were brought here with Grandmother Drum to assist in strengthen them on the path of heart to usher the world into the thousand years of peace.

After a month of ceremonies its becoming tradition here for the Israelis to sing

Grandmother Drum out of her crate, off the trailer and onto the land with a Hebrew Rainbow Tribe song. I love singing it with them again and again watching as they sing it louder and louder, clapping their hands and lifting Grandmother Drum over their heads and onto this Holy Land. Some people even commented at the last festival (without knowing about our research) that when they carried Grandmother Drum that they felt like they were carrying the Ark of the Covenant! As the nearly full moon shines through the draping olive branches,

I have a intense moment of heighten awareness and get “Spirit Chills.” I know deep within me that somehow what we are creating together here in Israel with Grandmother Drum’s pure crystal tone on these sacred sites is something so spiritually momentous. After eight years of touring across the world, the journey here seems a palatable turning point. We seem to be making the shift now from the Hopi prophesized time of Purification or Biblical Tribulation into Revelations, the spiritual awakening of a Divine Humanity. Or maybe its just what’s happened within me over these years. Suddenly, I am whisked back to the moment by the song and I join in passionately.

Adama Veshamaim (earth and sky)

Ch’om Haesh Tzlil Hamain (the heat of the fire, the sounds of the waters)

Ani Margish Zot Begufi ( I feel this in my body)

Beruhi Benishmati (spirit and soul)

Hey Ya Hey Ya Hey Ya Hey Ya Hey Ya Hey Ya Hey Ya Ho

During the ceremony we gifted Yoav and Varda a medicine bundle of blue corn seed given to us by the Maya during our extensive 2007 Eagle and Jaguar Tour from Alaska to Guatemala. As we take our first steps of our luminous bodies from the base chakra of this Garden of Eden, we are told by the Grandmothers and Grandfathers of the importance of pure super foods to feed the Light Body. We shared how important corn is to our indigenous peoples and how on the 2007 tour we worked to preserve this original seed corn from the threats of genetic modification (GMO). On that tour we were able to bring the original seed from both the Tarahumara tribe of Mexico and the Maya of Central America to be preserved with three major seed banks in America and Canada.

The evening in the olive grove culminated with everyone joining in their own verses of the Gratitude Song. Some women and men made very ethereal sounds and it as if they were channeling the very voices of the garden divas. The night ended with our group smiling widely in a divine drunkenness (what I have repeatedly termed as that “Grandmother Drum Glow.”) The Israeli’s then led us in an encore of sacred Hebrew chants. Tonight we are one in the Garden of Eden. Toda, Toda, Toda raba ( thank you, thank you, thank you very much!) Lila Tov (good night).

On May 9, 2oo9 we shared a one day workshops with sound, breath and medicine wheel teachings to strengthen the Light Shield of the Heart. Thanks to our hosts for a wonderful deepening. HAAAAAAAAAAAAA.

Gates of Mercy Open Within

2009-05-08T02:29:00.000-07:00

After the three-day Janana Festival we took a few more days of rest and integration at Dvora’s quiet Clil farm. We took walks to pick fresh Sage and even visited Clil beautiful Peace Garden funded by an Australian woman that Dvora said met me in a Sweat Lodge while we toured in Australia in 2003. What a deeply restful place on the hillside with a rose quartz triangle in the center of the gazebo. I meditated and then asked the Grandmothers about what was happening in my right knee and hip since I have had some swelling since I have been in Israel. I found it so amazing that the woman who built this was in the very Sweat Lodge where my Australian Tour Coordinator Amrahla had gone into a Como after an unknown brown snake bite. Was this part of the answer to what was still healing in my cells?

On Wednesday, we hosted an introductory evening on our medicine work for the local families of Dvora’s community. Thirteen of us gathered for the evening. As we had now been guided to hold a ceremony to vibrationally open the Eastern Gates of Mercy in Jerusalem in June, I had asked the Grandmothers to guide me the night before in my dreamtime to how to do this. That night in dream the Grandmothers gave me a meditation with specific tones to open the gates (chakras) of our Inner Temple to wash the body clean, creating within all centers of our being a luminescent state of purity and grace. I shared this for the first time with the Wednesday group, chanting each tone three times together with the HA Breath. WOW!

The Grandmothers were once again perfectly accurate when they told us this HA Breath combined with the tones would activate the Quantum Yin of the heart within each chakra infusing it with this divinely gentle and soft vibration. I then remembered in the Heart of One Lessons how Grandmother Morning Dove called this her “feather soft” breath. This breath could penetrate very, very deeply and heal some of the deepest traumatic memories in the body, in particularly to the terror that lives in the cells from such events.

This technique proved to be extremely potent and all four of our staff when through an intensive healing in the next few days. In my own cathartic release, it felt I was releasing some deep terror from my cells. Was this from that night in 2003 in Australia with Amrahla? Was I picking up memories of all the wars on this land? It didn’t matter. I just know I was able to release the energy from my body. The next day I began to understand how valuable this healing salve could become to the people of Israel. Thank you Grandmothers for once again guiding my every step perfectly.

“I am manna. I am the Morning Dove. I ask you to know the manna of the Morning Dove. I ask you to feel the manna of the Morning Dove. I wish for you to know me. I wish for you to feel my breath upon your face. I wish for you to know my peace.

I am this very soft breath across your face. With this breath, I touch and realign your spine. I will open the beacon on your crown and it will become soft, like a baby. You will be born again only with this gentle breath.”Grandmother Morning Dove, Heart of One Lesson 3 Part 1

The Heartbeat at Janana

2009-05-04T00:09:00.000-07:00

On April 30, 2009 Grandmother Drum was joined on the stage by some fabulous djembe drummers including Eyal of the King David Peace Drummers Army as we conducted the Opening Ceremonies of the Janana Festival. It was a beautiful evening with over 250 people gathered at Kibbutz Inbar for the three day festival celebrating the heartbeat that connects us all. An organic pulse of life continued to waft from the hilltop over the local farmlands and everyone seemed in such a joyful and happy mood. The sun was shining and hearts were glowing. We even received an email from a German woman who in 2001, joined our building team in the tipi in Alaska to assist in the final stretching of the hind onto Grandmother Drum. When she found out we would be in Israel she flew from Germany to be part of the Opening Ceremonies of the Janana Festival. I recognized Andrea instantly and we threw our arms around each other. It had been eight years since we had seen each other in the tipi and hundreds of thousands of miles under my feet. She said she had followed our tours all these years hoping someday to see Grandmother Drum again. The weekend was life-changing for Andrea and its great to have her back in our family.

We were also honored to meet many healers, musicians and artists from around the world dedicated to sacred music and the healing it bring us all. We had a chance to meet with one of our hosts Rhonda Joy Eagle and Monica who both have worked as Moon Mothers in a sacred medicine dance known as the Dance of One. This dance was given in vision to a woman named Jean White Eagle who worked with Joseph Rael (Beautiful Painted Arrow) and his work with sacred sound healing chambers. Since the Grandmothers had given me the design of building a sacred sound chamber in Alaska, including all the specs, nearly three years ago, I was excited that I must be connecting with these women for several projects that are becoming ripe to begin.

Also every year during our tours, we hold one or more Portal Activation Ceremonies which I would learn from Rhonda, was similar in some ways to how J ean White Eagle leads the Dance of One. Knowing that we both received these visions from Spirit, I was very curious and excited to meet Jean. In the last two weeks alone, I have met seven women that have worked together with Jean and one gave me a book just written on the Dance of One. Jean and her husband John have even recently taken the Dance of One to South Africa. So synchronicities abound. During the festival weekend, Monica, a woman from Mexico with the help of a group of musicians and healers, led a small dance and the power of the healings that took place were beautiful. I was able to assist in the healings and we all felt a deep closeness developing. These women will be hosting Grandmother Drum in the town of Nahalal next weekend and I have a feeling Spirit is doing some sacred weaving of medicines for work to come.

At the festival we had a chance once again to participate in the Hebrew Friday evening Shabbat’s ceremony, a beautiful night of sacred music and prayer. am even learning some of the Hebrew songs. I keep telling everyone that I may have to move here just for Shabbat as it’s the most sacred space of music I have ever participated in. The waves of love, tears and deep meditation are led by angelic voices in deep praise of the divine. This is true bliss!

Check out the article on Janana at:

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3703707,00.html

White Gold Rush in Clil

2009-05-03T23:47:00.000-07:00

After our weekend workshop and ceremony in Yavnee’l was completed we were picked up by our new driver Mufid who would be carrying us and Grandmother Drum over the hills to the Kibbutz Inbar where next weekend we will conduct the opening ceremonies for the Janana Festival. Each site that hosts us sends ahead the truck to haul the trailer with the Grandmother Drum and bring our crew of three (John, Tymoreye’ and I ) to our next location while our Israel host Dvora follows behind in her small car named“ Rita”. We will be opening the three-day world drumming and dance festival uniting over three hundred drummers in the heartbeat of Oneness.

Located at the top one of the beautiful rolling hills of the valley, Kibbutz Inbar was a perfect setting to send out Grandmother’s healing vibration through the valley known to be the most fertile farmland in Israel. After settling Grandmother Drum near the staging area, we headed further north with Dvora in her car to first spend a few days of rest and renewal at her quaint farm in Clil. Her wooden home set on seven acres of fruit, herb and vegetable gardens reminded us of so much of homesteads in Alaska. Homes made of wood are unusual in Israel and Egypt. Due to the extreme heat of summers, most people build their homes of stone and concrete.

Eating fresh fruit of loquats, strawberries and lemons off the trees, harvesting fresh herbs and vegetables for dinner each night and viewing the Mediterranean from this hillside allowed us to breath deeply and drink in the quiet stillness of this land.

After a few days of rest we met about our upcoming Israel Tour Schedule and all the recent invitations that continue to request our work. Living on the farm

with Dvora is her son Hanaan and friend Yael. Yael would be helping organize a weekend in Clil in June so we decided to all meet. We decided to do a group Spirit Walk Sessions with the Grandmothers and Grandfathers so we could get their guidance on the upcoming medicine work. What was given to us in the next two hours with Grandfather Sheyba was a deepening of the message received from him during our weekend in Yavnee’l.

He talked about the importance of activating three main locations in Israel. He spoke about energetically opening all gates of the Holy City and asked Dvora if she knew how many gates there really were. He gave details about activating the Old City of Jerusalem at least three times Since Dvora has done peace work in the Holy City for over ten years, she asked him more detailed questions about the instructions. He told her of the nine gates into the Holy City and he particularly wanted us to energetically open the now closed Eastern Gate, known as the Gate of Mercy to the Hebrews and to the Christians as the Golden Gate. The word Mercy in Hebrew is Ra Hamim. The meaning of the word translates into womb(s), or the smell or spirit of water. This is another powerful message and confirms the guidance of our 2008 and 2009 Living Water World Tours as well as the Grandmother's coursework focused on the purification of our emotions, of the earth’s waters and opening the birth waters of a new humanity. Everything is making now making more sense. Then Dvora tells us the story of the Eastern Gate from the Old Testament which confirms this work even more.

The Eastern Gate was closed a thousand years ago by a Muslim ruler who was advised that in the Old and New Testament it is written that the Jewish Messiah will come into the Old City from the Mt. of Olives, riding on a donkey through the Eastern Gate and he will bring the thousand years of peace. It was understood that it would be a Jewish Messiah. When this would happen, water would begin to flow for the first time from under the Temple Mount. (the Temple Mount is built over the original site of Solomon’s Temple where the Ark of the Covenant is said to have been housed). To prevent this from happening , the Muslim ruler sealed these gates. A mosque was then built on the inside of the gate and a cemetery was built on the outside. The Eastern Gate is closed to this day.

Then Dvora shares with us her deeper understanding of Jerusalem.

“Just like the heart has four quarters or chambers so does the Holy City. Whenever we look at the Holy City of Jer

usalem we see it as the microcosm reflected in the heart of the whole of the world. The Gates are like the arteries and veins of the heart. The main gate, the Eastern Gate, the Gates of Mercy are now closed and blocked. The Eastern gate represents the male and it also represents all the connection of the East to the West. So with it blocked or closed, there is not a good flow between the East and West between the Male aspect of the Global Heart and the Female Aspect. Opening the Gates of Mercy then, is a message to the world to open the gateway for the flow of world peace. “

Now with all the additional information from Grandfather Sheyba, we begin the plans for at least three activations of Grandmother Drum around the Holy City, including a ceremony at the area of the Eastern Gate .

In addition, Grandfather Sheyba spoke more about the new food, the manna recipe he gave us in Yavnee’l and how this must be taken to feed the new Light Body. He kept speaking about the manna and the Ark of the Covenant. Now I was filled with even more questions.

What was the Ark of the Covenant really? How come the Bible speaks about the Ark emitting a “Fire of God?” What is this Light? What role did sound and vibration play in the coming down of the Walls of Jericho? What does Grandmother Drum have to do with all of this and why were we brought here to sound the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem near the Temple Mount? And what about the miraculous stories of this mysterious white powder of manna linked to levitation, teleportation and communication with God? How is that connected to the Ark of the Covenant and the Messiah?

So after the session. I hopped on the Internet and began googling to see if I could find some links. To my utter amazement, I was brought immediately to a one and a half hour video that would put together the answers to all my questions and all the channeled information I had received from the Grandmothers and Grandfathers for the last ten years!!! Lost Secrets of the Sacred Ark video shows author Lawrence Gardner sharing the documented research of his recent book of the same title. The recent ( in the last five years) rediscovery of the power of monatomic gold or white powder gold known as manna in the Bible, Mufkzt to the Egyptian Pharaohs and the Philosophers Stone to the Greek alchemists will change our reality of life on earth forever. After watching this film I am utterly speechless and in tears. The potential of this is staggering and shatters everything we have known up until now. Get ready for revelation beyond revelation as the truths of how, in our lifetime, humanity on earth will travel far beyond all of the science fiction movies of this era!

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2129165010048711403

This is Indiana Jane speaking to you on the trail of the Lightworkers ….Clil, Israel.

Yavnee’l, Israel: Building the Temple Within

2009-04-26T07:05:00.000-07:00

We just completed two full days of workshops here in the north of Israel, in a small farming community of Yavnee’l. Joining us were peace workers, healers and spiritual seekers.

There was a woman from France who now wants to bring Grandmother Drum to France. Another woman is from Germany and does peace work in Jerusalem bringing together Jews, Germans and Palestinians…Wow. Now this is truly a healing triangle. Another woman is from Switzerland. As everyone speaks English as a second language, it was good that the Grandmother Drum could speak to everyone in their Mother Tongue…. the heartbeat!

The first day were welcomed by our host Dorit Bat Shalom and held ceremony at her Center for Sacred Arts and Healing perched on the hillside overlooking the patchwork landscape. In the dry heat, Grandmother Drum played her deep, resonate heartbeat over the valley activating the recently planted fields below. It was a day of journeying with the heartbeat, healing circles and chanting sacred music until our hearts overflowed.

On the second day, we shared some Rainbow Fire Medicine Wheel Teachings. We had a group Spirit Walk session and received guidance from the Grandfather Sheyba, talking with us about the new manna of the Israelites and eating this new manna to maintain the Golden Orb of our awakening. The recipe was given in detail, which included gold, (monatomic and white powder) frankincense and Myrrh, Palladium and a tree root that was called the Sieb tree. These are made into “ cakes” and eaten as super food to feed the luminous body and to maintain the Golden Orb (Halo).

We were also taught to use clear quartz crystal to superconduct our drinking water so that it will once again be alive. He also taught us about a new cleanse for the body.

There was a tremendous amount of healing and insight gained for many people here who are still experiencing PTSD from the holocaust to the more recent wars and bombing. It’s such a delicate place in the heart to be working and I feel tremendously humbled by the people’s intense passion and courage to heal and to plant peace where fear once lived.

New Grandmother Drum to Be Built in Israel 2010

2009-04-24T11:25:00.000-07:00

An Israeli women named Shany came to us for a Spirit Walk session with us a few days ago having visions and dreams regarding a large drum being built in Israel. This was the third woman who proposed their recent visions to us of the making of a Grandmother Drum that would stay in Israel. Now being the third time, I decided it was time for me to share the original instructions of the three Mayan Grandmothers, Ana Maya, Cheeanea, and Chenoa who came to

me in a dream in 1999 to begin building Grandmother Drum. They told me back then that eventually there would be a Grandmother Drum on every continent. At the time I could not even comprehend this idea as I was just completing a yearlong process building Grandmother Drum in a small tipi in Chickaloon Alaska, and the spiritual and physical responsibility of bringing this enormous medicine drum around the world was totally encompassing my every waking moment. That prophecy, I was convinced, must be speaking to a time far into the future.

But now, 10 years and 150,000 miles of touring later, we sit in a living room outside the Holy City of Jerusalem. Tymoreye' assists me as the three of us enter prayer and intention for guidance from the Grandmothers on the timing of this message. As I enter into the trance like state of the session, Grandmother Ana Maya comes to visit us and begins to give us the full detailed instructions of a new Grandmother Drum to be built in Israel.

The two hours of her transmission was packed with details. From a ceremony of preparation to be held in the north at the Sea of Galilee, to the nine women instructed to be AS ONE core Drum Keeper. She spoke of how the Grandmother Drum as well of the new Israel Drum with the crystal inlaid matrix produces a perfect Arc of Sound between the heart, inner ears and third eye to resonant the Cosmic Tone of Oneness of Spiritual Illumination. The information she gives details how this new Israel drum will be used to bring healing and harmony to the three main religious groups in Israel and that this will be done through working specifically with the children of Israel. They spoke of a second group of nine women that will encircle the first group of Drum keepers and these will be made of Palestinian, Bedouin and Egyptian women.

At the close of the session we realized this vision was given on April 22nd, Earth Day. We were also amazed when Shany told us her name in Hebrew means the color scarlet and also referred to the color of the robes worn by the priests that guarded the Temple where the Arc of the Covenant was originally kept!

Now this immediately made Tymoreye' and I drop our chins in amazement. ( The theme from Twlight Zone plays in the background of our heads). We thought back immediately to the March 2008 History Channel Special on TV that we happened upon watching in a hotel one night while on tour last year in the US. The Lost Arc documentary film was about a man named Parfitt in the 1980s who lived with a Southern African clan called the Lemba, who claimed to be a lost tribe of Israel. Colleagues laughed at him for backing the claim; in 1999, a genetic marker specific to descendents of Judaism's Temple priests (cohens) was found to appear as frequently among the Lemba's priestly cast as in Jews named Cohen. The Lemba — and Parfitt — made global news. ( This is the same year, by the way, that the Grandmothers came to me in dream guiding me to begin building Grandmother Drum).

Parfitt started wondering about another aspect o

f the Lemba's now-credible oral history: a drumlike object called the ngoma lungundu. The ngoma, according to the Lemba, was near-divine, used to store ritual objects, and borne on poles inserted into rings. It was too holy to touch the ground or to be touched by non-priests, and it emitted a "Fire of God" that killed enemies and, occasionally, Lemba. A Lemba elder told Parfitt, "[It] came from the temple in Jerusalem. We carried it down here through Africa."(For more details on Parfitts theory go to the TIME article

at:http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1715337,00.html or order the Lost Arc History Channel show on DVD and watch it.)

What is so very interesting about the film is that the Ngoma lungundu, claimed in the film to possibly be the Lost Arc of the Covenant is shaped exactly like the Grandmother Drum. It is a wooden kettle shaped drum that was carried on poles.

Is the Arc now returning to the Temple Mount? Does the sacred sound of the crystal inlaid Grandmother Drum really produce a perfect Arc of the Cosmic Tone of the “ near –divine?” Could this women Shany be a direct descendant of the original priests that guarded the Arc? And what should we make of the synchronicity that now, hundreds of generations later she receives a vision to build a large kettle shaped drum for Israel?

For now we keep our hearts and minds open in deep gratitude for this meeting with Shany, and just allow Grandmother Drum’s voice to answer these questions directly to the people.

In the meantime, this is Indiana Jane signing off ….

White Eagle meets Eyal of Kind David Peace Drummers

2009-04-21T03:26:00.000-07:00

April 21, 2009

Yesterday we had the wonderful chance to meet with Eyal of King David Peace Drummers Army.
http://www.kingdaviddrummers.com

Eyal and his group have conducted peace drumming circles through the world and have travel as extensively as the Grandmother Drum Project in their mission. We enjoyed sharing stories of blossoming hearts through drumming and our life on the road. ( we have both traveled about 150,000 miles of the earth spreading the heartbeat) We laughed as we exchanged names of other drummers for peace people we both knew throughout the world. There are now thousands of us who understand that the first Song of the New Earth, the first note of the Thousand Years of Peace will be sounded by a worldwide wave of the heartbeat of the drum, alignment us with the heart of our true Divine destiny. LOVE

Eyal works with religious and political groups of all kinds, from the Dalai Lama to the Israel's Prime Minister, bringing all political and religious groups together under what he calls" the heartbeat of the first man."

We are extremely excited about collaboarting our work together during the Grandmother Drum's 2009 Israel Tour, performing together at the upcoming April 30- May 2, 2009 Janana Festival of world music http://www.janana-festival.co.il/
and preparing for uniting hearts at the Hug Around Jerusalem http://www.loversofjerusalem.org/
for all faiths to encircle the Holy City in peace together on June 21, 2009.

Eyal and the King David Drummers will be in the USA for a two week tour in May. . Check out their website for details!

Grandmother Drum Ensemble Visits the Holy City

2009-04-21T02:43:00.000-07:00

April 20 and 21, 2009.

We had two full days walking the Old City of Jerusalem to get a feel for the work we will be doing here in June. We stepped through time in the foot prints of Christ and into countless sacred sites of so many of the world's major religious groups. You can enter the Old City through the gates of the Christian, Hebrew, Muslim, and Armenian and each quarter of the city is a world rich with meaning for each. Shops, culture, foods and religious ceremonies are ongoing on held with passion and purpose.

We wanted to visit a new sculpture, said to have just arrived from Poland a few weeks ago. For the first time ever in the Holy City, a sculpture of the Black Madonna has been placed in a small chapel between the third and fourth Station of the Cross in the Christian section of the Holy City. She arrived just two weeks ago and is the first time that the Vatican has allowed a stature of her in any Catholic Church and the first time making any acknowledgement of the Black Madonna and her universal healing power.

This was by far one of the most profound art pieces I have ever sat before. It is transpersonal and truly depicts the Light Body of the Divine Heavenly Mother.

It actually cannot really be described, it has to be experienced as it is truly not a sculpture as we might understand. It is a modern day art piece made of crystals, glass and various metals and it radiates a rainbow light from all directions. We were even more moved to see the room filled with two nuns and a priest kneeling before it in deep devotion. This is truly a transformation of the framework of the church and was deeply moving to witness this image not only being visited but deeply revered.

We also visited the church of Santa Annna, St. Anne, Mother of Mary and birthplace of Mary. The church was filled with a clear emptiness,like a womb of pure potential. The stonework and circular nature allowed for amazing sound reverberation and we sat and chanted experiencing a deep state of inner peace.

Later we visited the Jewish Western Wall ( of the Original Solomons Temple) to honor the Divine Presence and to send continued prayers of healing for the Jewish people as today is Holocaust Remberance Day and there are countless ceremonies going on throughout the country to honor family, continue the long raod of healing and to make a deep commitment that this atrocity never happen to any people on earth again.

We are experiencing so much energetically from the land and the people here. Every inch of this land is packed with memory and meaning. We are honored to bring Grandmother Drum as a messenger of the strength of the heartbeat to empower us all in our spiritual evolution toward a true compassion and the Grace of the Heavenly Mother.

Grandmother Drum Arrives in the Holy Land

2009-04-20T23:12:00.000-07:00

Our April 3, 2009 Israel Tou

r staff, White Eagle, Tymoreye Elliot and John Peck arrived in Tel Aviv after 24 hrs of flights and were welcomed by our wonderful Israel Tour Coordinators Dvora Pearlman, Timna El Sharon and Norga Yerushalmi. After a few days of rest, we awaited Grandmother Drum’s arrival. Apparently she was delayed, hung up in freight in Cologne Germany. Our host Dvora Pearlman was getting a bit nervous as we had our first festival to perform at by the coming weekend. She called the freight service in Germany. We could not help but think Grandmother Drum had decided to do her own healing work with the people of Germany on the way to Israel. Finally on April 8, 2009 GrandMother Drum landed in Tel Aviv, Israel while making additional airfreight stopovers in Copenhagen, Denmark and Istanbul Turkey! April 8, 2009 in Israel is Birkat HaChama - The SUN BLESSING that happens every 28 years. Once every 28 years, the Sun returns to the position it occupied when it was created at the beginning of the fourth day of creation. The SUN BLESSING is an auspicious time to plant seeds for a better future, to THANK our Creator, who provided us with this vital and crucial source. Grandmother Drum arrives in Israel aligned with this sacred New Sun and at the beginning day of Passover!

Her plane landed just an hour before the holiday of Passover was to begin and the freight and custom offices would be closed for the week. Our custom’s officer was ready to head home for the holidays when we arrived at his office. At first he was not very happy that we did not have a carnet (specific passport paperwork for the drum) and that the office was about to close. In the first few minutes of our interaction, the officer looked at me frustrated and said, “ You people worship God, I worship money.” In my silence, I saw his pain and frustration and we just remained in silence sending him our love.I then wondered why the Grandmothers specifically told me not to purchase these carnet papers for the drum. It would be revealed over the next two days the magic that they were just beginning to brew for us. So without the carnet paperwork, Israel customs required of us an $8,000 deposit to assure that the drum was only a temporary import. Our small Israel host staff did not have this kind of money nor did we. Due to the holidays, the banks were now closed for the next two days. We were sent back to our Hosts Timna and Norga without Grandmother Drum.

In the next two days our whole team got creative.

We held a session with the Grandmothers and Grandfathers with 30 women and men to receive more guidance. An Israeli woman came forward who had met us in Israel last year during our film premiere in Tel Aviv and wanted to support our work. Her business “All Jobs”stepped forward to put down the temporary $8,000 USD deposit so that the Grandmother Drum could be released to us and we could still make it in time for our first festival in the south of Israel. Our Israel crew was ecstatic! We knew the Grandmothers were doing there routine magic!

And there would be much more….

Our custom officer also had begun to melt in the presence of the love our team kept exuding to him. By the end of the customs inspection, the officer was smiling and wanting to bring his wife to our Prayerformance so that she might receive some healing. He told us how she had PTSD from some violence that she witnessed and had a lot of anxiety. What happened in those two days at the customs office we cannot even describe in words. It was truly remarkable! This same officer is now offering to help us when we ship Grandmother Drum back home at the end of the tour to make all paperwork go smooth!

Our Hosts Timna and Norga had already arranged a special trailer to be welded for Grandmother Drum. The trailer was pulled by a deluxe van and on April 10ththe six of us headed five hours south to the Zorba Festival where nearly 2,000 people gathered in the desert for sacred music, meditations, and healing workshops.

On Sunday morning Grandmother Drum was blest by the local Elders. The community welcomed her with hands clapping to a Hebrew chant as Grandmother Drum was lifted from the crate and off the trailer touching the soil of the desert in Israel for the first time. In the wonderful desert heat, Grandmother Drum exuded a thunderous heartbeat to the Israeli people and could be heard for miles as the land and people welcomed her healing into their hearts and their lives. It was truly the fulfillment of a instructions and prophecy the Grandmothers had given us in the very beginning of the project in 1999 bringing the Grandmother Drum to the Holy Lands. Ten years later, we are here!

The Grandmothers and Grandfathers continued to guide our specific medicine work as we meet with medicine people, healers and peace workers in both the south, center and north of Israel. We are in awe by the courage and strength of these people to heal and unite.

2009 Grandmother Drum Mayim H'ayim Tour, Israel