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Sacred Earth Journeys\u2019 participant and travel writer Lori Erickson shares her recent experience of travelling to Mexico & Guatemala in this week\u2019s feature guest blog.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Tour Leader Freddy Silva exploring sacred Mayan sites with the Sacred Earth Journeys group<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For years I\u2019ve been getting press releases from Sacred Earth Journeys<\/a>, a company that specializes in trips to spiritual sites around the world. So much about the company appealed to me\u2014its focus on spirituality, its expert guides, and the locations of its trips. But the timing was never right and there was always a good reason I couldn\u2019t go.<\/p>\n

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Bob and I spent a week on a Sacred Earth Journeys tour of Mayan sites in Mexico and Guatemala<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

But last month, I finally got the chance to travel with Sacred Earth Journeys\u2014and the experience more than lived up to my expectations. A tour called Maya Temples of Transformation immersed me in the culture and spirituality of pre-Columbian Mexico and Guatemala. During the week we visited three major Mayan sites: Palenque, Yachxilan, and Tikal. Along the way we trekked through jungles, took part in ceremonies with ancient roots, and listened to howler monkeys in the treetops above. It was a marvellous trip! And over the next posts I\u2019ll be telling you about what I experienced.<\/p>\n

I was accompanied on the tour by my intrepid husband, Bob, and our equally intrepid friend Brian. But during the week I also got to know our fellow travelers, who hailed from Australia, England, and Canada as well as the U.S. Some had been part of Sacred Earth Journeys before; others were newbies. All of us shared an interest in the spiritual side of travel, and all of us wanted to truly experience the places we were seeing, not just skip across the surface.<\/p>\n

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Misol Ha Waterfall in Mexico (image by Cronoser, Wikimedia Commons)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

My week with these people made me realize that in all my years of spiritual journeying, I\u2019ve missed one of the classic elements of pilgrimage: being put together in a group with complete strangers, fellow pilgrims who during the course of the journey become friends. Though we hailed from far-flung corners of the globe, we quickly formed bonds. During conversations over breakfasts and dinners, on bus rides, and walking down forest paths, I heard their personal stories and learned from their insights and wisdom. It was a little like Chaucer\u2019s Canterbury Tales<\/em>, a moveable feast of spirituality and camaraderie.<\/p>\n

Bringing like-minded pilgrims together is one of the missions of Sacred Earth Journeys, according to its founder and owner, Helen Tomei, who also was part of our group. \u201cTraveling solo can be wonderful,\u201d she told me. \u201cBut there are things that happen in groups that you can\u2019t get when you travel on your own. When you travel to sacred places together, you benefit from hearing about other people\u2019s experiences, and they can help you process your own experiences. You learn from each other.\u201d<\/p>\n

Helen sees many transformations among the groups she coordinates. \u201cMost of us live in a world of endless distractions, especially because of the overwhelming presence of technology,\u201d she told me. \u201cOn trips like this, we\u2019re given the chance to disconnect, slow down, and look inward. I think that\u2019s one of the reasons why interest in spiritual travel is growing. My hope is that people will come home from a journey with us changed in some way, and that their lives will be better once they return to their ordinary routines.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Freddy Silva (Photo: Lori Erickson)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

During our week together, we were fortunate to have two leaders with great experience in guiding people through spiritual transformations. Freddy Silva<\/a> is one of the world\u2019s leading researchers of sacred sites, ancient systems of knowledge, and the interaction between temples and consciousness. His books include First Templar Nation<\/em> and The Divine Blueprint<\/em>. And Miguel Angel Vergara is a native of Mexico who studied for 17 years with Mayan elder and wisdom keeper Don Vincente Martin. Today Miguel teaches seminars in Mexico and abroad on Mayan shamanism, traditions, and culture and is also the author of The Sacred Knowledge of the Maya<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The two were a powerful combination. Miguel led us in ceremonies and provided a deep background in the spirituality of the places we were seeing. And Freddy was our trickster teacher, making us laugh, inviting us to consider new possibilities, and sharing his knowledge of similarities between sacred sites around the world.<\/p>\n

As the week went on, I especially appreciated Miguel\u2019s deep kindness and his unassuming way of teaching profound truths. One day as we entered the jungle on our way to the Guatemalan site of Tikal, for example, he made an off-hand comment that is one of the most profound pieces of spiritual wisdom I\u2019ve ever heard. \u201cYou know, the most important part of a ceremony is the love in your heart,\u201d he said. \u201cIf you don\u2019t have that, it doesn\u2019t make any difference what rituals you do. And if you have that love, all the rituals will work, no matter how you do them.\u201d<\/p>\n

During our trip, Miguel did a masterful job of leading us in rituals designed to open our hearts to the spirit of the sacred places we toured. On our first day, for example, we visited Misol Ha Waterfall, a gorgeous cataract in the forest near the Mayan site of Palenque. On the bus ride there, he told us that many sacred sites have a cave of some sort associated with them. They provide a direct connection to the divine spirit of the earth, the mother who sustains us all.<\/p>\n

\u201cSurrender your ego and be humble,\u201d he told us, echoing the message that spiritual teachers of many traditions give. \u201cAsk yourself: what do I need to give up? What do I need to heal?\u201d At the site, we got out of the bus and walked down a slippery path leading to the waterfall, then passed behind its torrent on our way to the cave itself. In darkness lit only by a few flashlights, we made our way into an inner chamber, where another, smaller waterfall cascaded into a pool.<\/p>\n

\u201cWater is a connection to the Spirit,\u201d Miguel told us. \u201cEnter the water if you\u2019d like. Ask for healing for yourself and for others.\u201d<\/p>\n

I watched as most members of our group slid into the water. Fighting a cold, I felt it would be unwise to join them, because as much as I believe in the power of the Spirit, I\u2019m also a believer in the power of a virus to make a trip miserable. So I sat there with my feet in the pool, savouring the sounds of the waterfall, watching as my fellow pilgrims immersed themselves in holy waters that have drawn seekers for millennia.<\/p>\n

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Miguel Angel Vergara is a master teacher of Mayan spirituality.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It was one of my favourite moments of the trip. And if I\u2019d had some paint supplies with me, I\u2019d have drawn animals on the walls, just like in those French caves covered with prehistoric paintings. It was that kind of moment, a time-out-of-time when I felt I could have channelled something wild and mysterious.<\/p>\n

In my next post I\u2019ll take you to Palenque, one of the greatest of the ancient Mayan sites. But let me leave you with another comment made by Miguel, one that summarizes much of his perspective on the world. He told us that the traditional greeting exchanged by the Maya translates as, \u201cHow is your sacred path today?\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s a question we all can ask, whether we\u2019re in a sacred cave in the middle of a jungle, or sitting at a desk in Iowa.<\/p>\n

~ Lori Erickson<\/p>\n

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