From Small Beginnings.....
Part Four
A new phase to the work....
I settled down for the winter, in the little cottage at Raumati South, right opposite the beach.....
When I moved north from Wellington city in May 1999, leaving my beloved garden behind,
it felt like it was time to stop making flower essences. It was winter time, and very few flowers
were in bloom, and I was renting a small cottage for the winter, and would have to move again in the
spring, so there was no opportunity to have a garden of my own.
I settled down for the winter, in the little cottage at Raumati South, about 45 minutes drive north
of Wellington. The cottage was right opposite the beach, and at night I could hear the roar of the waves.
This time of winter 1999 was to be a very special time for me, a time when I more or less
retreated from the world, spending a lot of time on my own. Often, many days would go by
when I would be totally alone, seeing no-one and speaking to no-one, apart from the large
black and white tom-cat who had “adopted” me the day I moved into the
cottage.
I soon settled into a comfortable routine. Most days I went for long walks on the beach, sometimes
walking south on the beach as far as Paekakariki, the adjacent town. During these long walks, with
not another soul in sight, I had plenty of time for meditative thought, and over this winter I went
through a process of deep personal and spiritual transformation.
It felt to me at this time that my flower essence making work was more or less
complete, in that when I looked through the list of my “New Millennium
Essences”, there appeared to be essences for every conceivable issue,
and I was using the essences with great success, for myself, and also for a number
of clients and friends. All that was now needed was for the essences to be made
available to as many people as possible, to be promoted widely, and that was it,
my essence making activity was finished.
So, for my first six weeks in the beach cottage, I chose to focus most of my attention on other
things, especially on my own internal healing processes. However, this did not last long.....
On 16th June, 1999, just five days before the winter solstice, I found in the cottage an old
issue of a magazine, “Rainbow Network”. I picked the magazine up and flipped
through the pages, and immediately found a story on the Australian “Shell Essences”.
I had never heard of shell essences before, and I was amazed. Making essences from sea shells!
Of course! Why not? It made perfect sense to me.
I finished reading the magazine story about the Australian shell essences, and immediately
the thought came to me “I am living here right by the beach. Of course! I can make shell
essences too!”
I immediately left the cottage and hurried straight over the road to the beach (I think I actually ran).
There is a sea wall along this section of the Raumati South coast, and fortunately it was low tide,
and as I descended the steps down onto the beach, I saw them. Right at the foot of the steps,
as if someone had placed them there especially for me. Three sea shells, lying on the sand in
perfect symmetrical order.
I picked them up and raced back home. Later that same day, or maybe it was the next day,
I cannot recall, I was walking on the beach, and something made me pick up a stone. Nothing
unusual about that, people pick up stones on beaches every day.
However, there was something about this particular stone that really grabbed my attention.
It was a piece of ordinary grey stone, what I would call “granite”, but embedded
in the granite was a large amount of white quartz. It was a really beautiful stone, as you will see
from the photograph (click on the photo to go the webpage that fully describes this essence).
I knew as soon as I picked up this stone, that its name was “Quartz and Granite”,
and that it was no ordinary stone. It had been given to me by the sea, for the making of an essence,
and the realization came that maybe there could be other special stones on the beach that I could also
make into essences. By the time that I had finished that beach walk, I had found two more such stones,
a small piece of white colored pumice stone, which had a tinge of pink in its color when wet; and a
small fragment of brick, washed smooth by the action of sea and sand.
The very next day, 17 June 1999, I made six essences, ie. the three shell essences,
Cockle,
Ostrich Foot, and Tuatua,
and the three “sea essences”,
Quartz and Granite,
Pink Pumice, and
Brick. I made these six essences using the same wine glasses that I had used to make
all of my flower essences, using exactly the same method as for the flower essences: ie.
the shell or stone is placed in the glass, the glass is partly filled with pure water, and the
glass (containing the water and the shell or stone) is then placed in the sun for about three hours.
At the end of this time of exposure to the energy of the sun, the water (which is by then charged
with the energy of the shell or stone), is drawn off and bottled, along with about 40 percent brandy
to act as a preservative.
I was very excited about this new development, and I went immediately to the local public library
and identified the three shells from pictures in books. I also telephoned my close friend and co-worker,
Lisa, and she helped me with finding the “definitions” of all six of these
new essences.
Of the above six essences that were all found on the beach that day of 16 June 1999, five of them
have turned out to have key roles within the New Millennium Essences (the one exception
being the Tuatua), and within a few days of their discovery I was using all five of them in my
personal healing work, and also in my essence practice work with my clients.
With the finding of these shells and stones, my daily routine at the beach cottage took a different
turn. Whenever I walked on the beach, which was most days, I was on the lookout for more
“treasures”, and over the following months, for the remainder of the winter and
all through the spring, many more such treasures were to be found.
Many of these treasures were for use in my own personal healing work, and were not destined
to become part of the official “New Millennium Essences”, although a good number
of them were. Most of these treasures were small stones, and small pieces of driftwood, all of
which had been in the sea for a very long time. Not many more of them were shells, only a small
handful, mainly because there are not many varieties of shells on the beach in this area.
Among the more important stones that were found over this time of winter 1999, there were
Brick and Glass, for “seeing more clearly”;
White as Snow, for energetically washing away one's dirt and shame;
Wisdom Remembered, for connecting us with the wisdom of our ancestors;
Star Wisdom, for reminding us of our heritage from the stars; and
Indigenous Wisdom, for connecting us with the special wisdom of the type that all
indigenous peoples have.
As winter turned into spring, with the days becoming longer and warmer, I went on many
long walks, and it was on some of these walks that I found some of the most precious
treasures. I was also becoming more sensitive to energies, and better at finding the treasures,
and also at recognizing them for what they represented.
For example, I remember really well the finding of the
Wisdom Remembered stone. As soon as I picked it up, wet from the sea, and with its
distinctive brown markings, I instantly knew it for what it was, with its markings looking
like an ancient map of the world, of the type in fashion around the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries,
and the words “wisdom remembered” flashed instantly into my mind.
Also of special note during this time was the finding on the beach of many special pieces
of driftwood. Many of these were for personal healing work, but some of them held energies
that were to be made into important essences. Among these were two “pairs” of
driftwood sea essences, the first pair being the “doorway pair”, the
Doorway to Infinity, and the
Doorway to Temporal Mastery.
For details of the very interesting story of the circumstances of the finding of the above two,
including proof that “lightning does strike twice in the same place”, read
the information pages of each of the essences, by clicking on their names above.
The other pair of “driftwood twins” are the
Emotional Energy Transmutation, and the
Personality Remodulation. They are twins in that they were found together on the same
day, and also in that they are for similar purposes; and they are also twins in that each of them
has subsequently been replaced by a new flower essence, the
Pink Dahlia, and the
Pimprenelle Rose.
My memory of this time spent at the little beach cottage over the winter and spring of 1999
is of many happy hours walking on the beach, of the finding of many of the “treasures”
as described above, and also of the deep personal work that I undertook at this time.
Around late 1998, I had discovered that the healing energy of flower essences could be used
by being “sent” at a distance, and that, to give myself, or any other person (or animal),
an essence treatment, it was not necessary to actually have the person ingest the essences
physically in liquid form. Essence “treatment” would work equally well just with
the “power of intent”: for example, by writing down on paper the details of what
essences were to be used, and when, and then “asking” that these healing energies
be “sent” to the person (or animal) at the prescribed times, this would have exactly
the same therapeutic affect as if the essences were being taken from a mixture in a bottle in
liquid form.
This discovery had huge implications for me. An obvious benefit of this is that it enabled me to
give people “essence treatment” at any distance, instantly, without having to go
to the trouble and expense, and delay, of sending the essences to them in physical form. However,
for many people, I found that they still need to have a physical bottle of essences, in that their mind
does not believe that something is “real” unless they can actually see it and feel it
in 3D-physical form.
However, in the years since my discovery of the above, I have given “essence treatment”
using this “distance healing” technique to many people, with great success. And, from
late 2001, this technique was to evolve into the “Self-help On-Line Healing” on this website,
which is of huge benefit to many people.
Another huge benefit to me personally of this distant-healing technique was that it freed me up
to undertake very intensive healing work for myself. I was no longer tied to the practical
limitations of needing to make up essence mixes in physical form for my own healing. All that
was needed was to write down on paper the details of the issue(s) being treated, and the details
of which essences were being “sent” to myself.
Over this winter at the beach cottage,
I spent several hours every day working on my own health related issues (at all levels, physical,
mental, emotional and spiritual). At the peak of this work, I was working simultaneously
on approximately fifty separate issues of my own. Some of this was a continuation of the
intensive self-healing work that I had undertaken in late 1998, triggered off by the ending of
my relationship with the woman I refer to as Jane on these pages. And, much of it was the
result of being able to spend a lot of time alone, engaged in self-contemplation and in the noticing
of my feelings and emotions.
To say that this intense self-healing work was “transformational” is obviously
an understatement. At the end of this period, in late 1999, I emerged from my winter and spring
at the beach as a very different person. And, of course, there was a very close connection between
all of the contemplation and self-healing, and the ongoing work of discovery as detailed above. In this,
I feel a close affinity to Dr Edward Bach, as it was when he retreated to the countryside and spent
a lot of time alone, that he was able to find the healing flowers that he had been seeking.
And, speaking of the finding of flowers, it turned out that my work in this was not complete.
Although over this period of the winter and spring of 1999, it was mainly with objects washed
up from the sea that I was to work, there were also a few new flowers found over this time.
Among these were the
Bur Medick, on 5 April; the
Brush Wattle, on 31 July; the
Bermuda Buttercup, on 27 August; the
Giant Geranium, on 9 October; and, on a trip back to my beloved Mt. Kaukau walking track
on 6 November, the
Plantain.
Another activity during this time at the beach was the development of the New Millennium
“Energy Healing Device”, and the story of this will be told separately.
In summary, this time over the winter and spring of 1999, in the little beach cottage at Raumati
South, on the Kapiti Coast north of Wellington, was a time of healing, a time of discovery,
and a time that took the New Millennium Essences project to another level. The discovery of the
“sea essences”, made with objects washed up from the sea (shells, stones, and
driftwood), opened up the project to a much greater potential, a potential which was to be fully realised in
the months and years that followed.
Click here to continue the story of what happened next, when Peter moved
on from the Kapiti Coast.
It is suggested that you also read the parallel story of how Peter and Lisa worked
together on the development of the New Millennium Essences, in the section of this
story entitled
Tale of Two Flower Essence Therapists.
Also, there is the story of Peter's life, from a much more personal perspective,
including his growing up in New Zealand of the 1950's and 60's, and the various
challenges that he faced in his personal journey, and how all of this helped him
in his search for understanding of life.
Click here to read Peter's story of his personal journey.
