21/05/2026 Divinicus Update: Merkabah Activation

We had the most stunning day yesterday, here on the Divinicus retreat. It's the pinnacle of the event, always an apex moment in the Openhand Academic Calendar - the Sacred Sweat Lodge Day.

The Sweat Lodge is like going into the womb of the Earth, where the darkness, closeness and heat sweat up the layers in profound primal ceremony. There's simply no escaping your shadow. In illuminating it, we work to break it down. It's always the most purifying and cleansing of events.

To be clear, you simply cannot 'raise your vibration' (as is often the mainstream spiritual meme) without this intense inner purification work. Activation of our Merkabah for 5D Ascension simply requires it. You cannot forge the diamond without the fire!

Openhand has developed its own deeply moving ceremony, combining ancient Tibetan mysticism with First Nations shamanism. The day begins by creating and expressing our "Icons" - these are avatars that we create to represent the old self we're wishing to purge. The icons are created from items we find around us that synchronistically speak.

"Wait, Zoe's got a brick forming hers!"...

Actually, the brick went onto the Sweat Lodge fire, heated up and was served as a burning red cube (it had broken in half), which in a flash, sparked awareness of the cube constellation that is part of Andromeda. Fascinating then, that Zoe has a strong Androemdan vibe!

Mine was an old dragon layer that I wanted to shed - that of my time in Glastonbury. I even found two eyes for it (but they didn't survive the fire!)...

Next is the Tibetan Agni Hotra ceremony, where we burn holy cowpat (from the Glastonbury Tor) and cast rice into the crucible, signifying our commitment to purify the inner self...

The flames purify...

Heartfelt expressions of deep divinity...

The flame, and the energy, are carried to create the Sweat Lodge fire. You can see the Sweat Lodge behind us. In front, the fire is heating up rocks (including Zoe's Andromendan brick!), which get served into the lodge to provide the heat.

The fire is 'danged' hot. The fire deva blew me a kiss, which singed my beard, which is now a good centimetre shorter! But it was a tremendous, peak experience of the day for me personally. Because as the flames wafted over my face, then everything went quiet, and the deva whispered to me. It was the most profound experience...

It requires some warrior spirit to push yourself for the lodge, in readiness to break down the layers. Fortunately, we have Joy on hand, the Openhand facilitator, whose developing the Openhand "Haka" - an ancient Mauri warrior ceremony...

We also happened to be greeted by a curious Ram, that wandered up to the fire. Which is fascinating, because before coming here to the retreat, I drew the Ram card from a treasured old shamanic deck. Ram medicine means breakthrough! This one indeed had big horns and a huge body (but sadly, we didn't get a photo).

The Lodge turned out to be simply marvellous - deeply challenging and purifying. But when we all came out, the sun burst through the clouds and shone down on us all, stretched out on the ground, basking in its rejuvenating rays. Following which, there were cold plunges in the stream all round.

We were tired. But ecstatic!

Bright blessings to all tuning in.
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