This is the first in my tales of energy investigations in the land of Egypt. Whether you plan a visit there or not I think you will find the tales interesting, and the findings got stranger as I became more embedded into the feel and culture of the land where Pharaohs and Pyramids haunt our imagination. Here’s the first account.
Cairo is a hustle of overcrowded people, and a smog of battered cars ferrying them around. In between the dinted cars wary pedestrians and bored donkeys dodge through the gaps with breath-taking complacency. In this torrid environment it is difficult to know where to begin to look for sacred sites or energy centres. Luckily, on our two-day venture into the heart of this madness we had a guide who was as unfazed as he was educated. Emad, a young local man with journalistic ambitions, wove together a tapestry of sites that were in the top ten of every tourist visiting Cairo for the first time. For him, this was an easy task. For us, it was a whirlwind of back streets and chauffeured limousine rides that left us dizzy and exhausted.
I only had two ambitions for the two days. The first on my list was to confirm the stories as to whether the pyramids of Giza really are as powerful as they ought to be, considering that they are considered to be at the “navel of the world” by so many scholars of earth energy lore. The second task was to discover which of the many tourist sites we would visit would actually have strong energies – the expected places or the unexpected? As it turned out it was the unexpected. I will spare you the many details of each tourist attraction in Cairo even though the temptation is to offer you as much information as I received during my whirlwind tour. Instead I will restrict this blog post to the places that any energy-aware visitor should consider including in their itinerary.
The Coptic Church of Saints Sergius and Bacchus Church (Abu Serga)
Our first place to visit on our first morning in Cairo turned out to be the best place energetically. There is no way we would have found the small entrance to the inauspicious church of Abu Serga – a small wooden door down a few steps in one of the back streets away from the busy hustle of the main streets. The church was identified to us as the earliest Coptic Church in Cairo. Our guide, Emad, gave us a brief history of the church’s construction, showed us some of the architectural and artistic highlights, and then led us into an area that he described as the oldest part of the church where it is rumoured that the “holy family of Jesus” took refuge during their flight to Egypt from the Holy Land.
Now – I’m no Christian believer, but something was vibrant in that church, so I set about trying to find the source….
Myths and historical information aside, there was something palpable in terms of the energy of this part of the church. Both M and I noticed it upon entering the space that was behind a curtain to one side of the front of the church. Sure, there were icons and other pictures and artefacts around that space, but the energy was coming from the crypt below us. We were not invited to enter that part, and it looked sectioned off, but this was the origin point for the strong flow of energy that was emanating from underground and flowing to fill this small space like pipe smoke fills a room. As I stood at the top of the steps leading down to the crypt I could feel the strong flow of energy emerging from it. It was palpable and made my hairs stand on end!
No photographs were allowed in the church, so I can’t show you the exact spot, but I can draw the layout for you. See below:-
So, what was this energy and did it have a human origin or something else? Subsequent dowsing suggests that the origins of the energy are not anything to do with earth energy. In other words the energy is not inherent in the ground or the crypt due to some emanation or emergence of an energy arising from the earth. Did the energy originate from any humans who lived in that crypt? The rods indicated not. If it wasn’t a natural source, and it wasn’t due to anyone living there as the ‘holy family’ were supposed to have done, then did it originate from some human source subsequent to the idea of the holy family living there? Yes! I had my answer.
The energy found in this church is one of those energies that is unique to places that are sanctified for human worship – it is devotional energy. It is the energy given freely by the willpower and emotional outpourings of people who believe the idea that this holy family visited this place and stayed here. This investment of energy has created an energy that now permeates the very walls of the crypt in the Abu Serga church. How powerful our minds are, especially when we collect this energy over time!
This goes some way to convincing me that we could each do some good if we focus our intent upon the problems we see around us. A sustained collective focus might just tip the balance in our favour. If nothing else this demonstrates the principle. Perhaps we might turn our attentions to good works and harmonious relationships instead of pouring it into dead spaces and groundless mythologies?
Gwas.
Thanks so much for your kind words Gwas, I’m so pleased my little thoughts have resonance with you (…and Kal too I hope!) I’ll add my two shekels on your latest post later, I’m not having the best of times as my poor old moggie has just had her hind leg amputated and she has cancer, I’m sure you can imagine how I’m feeling being dad to four of your own. Any suggestions about healing for her would be very gratefully received. 🙂
Liz
Oh Liz, I’m so sorry to hear about your cat. Cancer is such a difficult thing to work on. I’m sure whatever healing you offer will have some alleviating effect. Making an energetic connection can only help the situation.
Wishing you wellness and comfort,
Gwas.
Hi Gwas 🙂
Lucky you going to Egypt! I’ll look forward to your up and coming posts about the rest of your trip, I imagine that it would be a place that could disappoint as much as it might throw up unexpected things! I understand that Cairo is encroaching steadily towards the valley of the kings, one day it may become part of the city, which is a bit of a scary thought! I can quite envisage the sort of power you contacted in this beautiful little church, from my very limited knowledge of foreign climes (!) I’ve come to feel that devotional power is much stronger in churches of the Mediterranean, perhaps because there are more active worshipers there than there are in our more secular northern Europe, where churchgoing numbers continue to dwindle. I remember being thrown into a spiritual ecstasy when I sat in a tiny chapel in Crete. There was an icon on the wall and when I touched it, a huge current of power coursed from it. I came to the same conclusions as you, that it was the power of belief that people had put into its efficacy that had brought it to life. Maybe it’s a bit like voodoo in some way, imbuing objects with power and making them into fetishes? I think most churches have that sense of being hallowed ground, there is a very visceral feeling to that energy, its so very quiet and gentle, often times I can sit in a nice old church and find my heart a little more peaceful, than when I entered. It also serves to remind us how those old ancient sacred sites must have felt when they were being regularly used by people who understood the mechanics of them.
I’ll be very interested to hear what your thoughts on the pyramids are. I’ve been discussing of late with my group of ladies, about many of these circles being sound stages in some way, I know this is covered in various books, but I think it goes deeper than that. I believe the pyramids acted as huge sound amplifiers (clearly they’re not tombs) where a constant harmonic sequence was produced with bells and goings, and whatever instruments they may have had, that we don’t know about now. This may sound like hokum to you, but I found a really fascinating lecture on Youtube about this possibility and of the vast age of the civilsation, which suggests that it was once not exactly ‘Matriarchal’ but mother-centred and honouring of the feminine. There may have been Queens rather than pharaohs, this is certainly suggested in the succession rules of the later kingdom, which stipulated that descent from the mother determined the line. A friend of mine who teaches archaeology told me in a recent email, about a sect of monks in Ireland that kept up a constant round of chanting and banging bells. She had always thought this might be harking back to a much older tradition, so she quite liked my idea and some of my more outlandish theories about Cornwall!
Liz 🙂
Hello Liz,
I really look forward to reading your responses. As always you are both “on point” and “prescient” – seeing clearly into the current situation, and yet again predicting what is to come with devastating accuracy.
The Valley of the Kings is way down near Luxor and separated by The Nile in a very clear East Bamnk/West Bank cultural division, so there’s no worries about Cairo reaching it, but the edges of Cairo are steadily marching towards the Giza Plateau. I don’t think it will engulf it, though, because they have too much of a reliance upon tourism to want to jeapordise that for the sake of construction. Saying that, any amount of disrespect is possible in these times of “low civilisation”!
In the past I had never considered that objects or places could really become infused with energy. What a simpleton I was back then! Of course they can. Now I know this for sure. My experience in the Coptic Church was yet another instance of energy remaining in place. Under normal circumstances such energy would dissipate back into the environment to become diffused until it became immeasurable, however when humans continuously feed the same frequencies of thought into a place or an object then it seems that it can become a powerful place. Kal and I have found that if you do this at places where earth energy nodes are present then you can “pin” the energy in place and it can last a great deal longer than it would normally. Hence, megalithic sites placed on earth energy centres can retain powerful energies for long periods of time. It also means that whatever frequencies (emotions, thoughts, devotions) are done in such places can have powerful effects, and we spend some of our time trying to harmonise these back to a state of benificence, utility and “agreeableness”. Only when required to do so, however, and never at our own whim.
As for the pyramids, well, you’ll have to wait a day or so for that post. It’s pending. Then you will see how I got on, and what I found. As you say, Egypt has the potential for surprises and disappointments. I would love to hear your opinions on what is coming soon. It gets increasingly interesting!
Ever thankful for your contributions,
Gwas.