Wow. What a week! That was probably the best week of my life to date. From the bleary eyed surreal moments of arriving at the resort, taking a shower, and then running into my coach (Baard) and being whisked to the restaurant to meet other navigators and the HBI team (they were certainly efficient getting me to sign that waiver, lol) to the final moments of the goodbye gathering, I loved absolutely every minute of it.  I have never met so many amazing people all in the one place before. So thank you so much to all of those who attended, both the HBI staff and my fellow Navigators, for cramming so, so many beautiful experiences into the one week. I feel truly blessed to have been able to attend.

One of the things that made it such an amazing experience was the way that Eric weaved the seminars that week into a beautifully elaborate tapestry that all built to an incredibly intense crescendo with ‘the tuning’ on the last night. Even some of the Q & A questions that he answered fit in perfectly (as he gave more details as to what T-7 stands for, and subsequently who ‘the Seven’ are, or, rather were) which gave us a deeper understanding of the significance of some of the guided portions of the tuning. What a master artist!

I guess while I’m mentioning Eric’s lectures, I should try and describe them a little. I will try to blog about them in more details later, but things are pretty crazy this week so I just thought I’d try and get something out there for you all.

He spoke about what the darkside is from a science perspective; about how dark matter and dark energy are the darkside in this dimension, and how vacuum energy is the Force in this dimension (he gave a Wikipedia references, which I believe were http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_energy and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_energy ). He said it was important for us to grasp this as our governors are programmed based largely on current science, even though we may not perceive it to be so, and by learning about how science has discovered these things we will be able to interact with them better (ie – to take in much more prana).

He also spoke about 2012, and how the black band in sky (I believe this is the same black band he refers to in the sidereal time discussions available on youtube) is what the Mayan’s refer to as the ‘great change’ in the Mayan Calendar, and how it will mean that there is about 10% less radiation hitting the earth, which will mean there will be a lot less direction for the red cells and less babble for us. Both the Force and the Darkside see this as a time of opportunity to shape the world as they see fit. In the past during these periods, human civilization seems to have turned somewhat savage. When Eric began talking about the Darkside, there was a loud static noise in the speakers, and a wave that hit the room and pushed many of us out of a deeply shifted state of awareness, which we then found difficult to regain for the rest of the lecture.

Eric also went into great length about how God has pushed into this dimension, and how the Darkside is expanding the Universe in an attempt to dilute God in this dimension (this is explained scientifically in the 2 Wikipedia articles I linked earlier).

Eric also spoke about the future of HBI, and the ‘House’ system that will be used . Each ‘House’ will be made up of 3 people, with the vote or opinion of the House Head being equal to the opinion of the other two. He went into a lot more detail, but I am having a bit of trouble articulating it at the moment.

One of my first intense experiences at the retreat happened in the second meditation or so; I was meditating, and my awareness began to be in this other place, it seemed separate from the reality my body existed in, but at the same time I was aware of being in both this new dimension, and within my body. Occasionally my awareness seemed to drop out of this other dimensional place and return fully to my body, and when it did it felt like this great surge of energy would go down my spine that left a feeling of weakness; it felt as if I was going to pass out each time the energy surged down my spine.

The next night, we had a beach party (aka HBI beach rave complete with glow sticks). After the meditation at the beach party, I seemed to have pure love flowing so freely from my chest centre, connecting me to everything through the Force. The entire night was like a collection of perfect moments all strung together in a beautiful pattern. For the whole night, I was just so completely and utterly satisfied with everything just as it was; it all seemed so beautiful, and so perfect, that all I could do was observe what was going on around me. Most of the time, talking seemed unnatural and unnecessary.  

While we were at the beach party, we also took a moment to reflect on all of the Navigators who could not attend, to try to share the dimensional frequency we were experiencing (to the soundtrack of Pink Floyd’s ‘wish you were here’).

Now there were also lots of experiences in between these, in fact the whole week seemed like an extended spiritual experience (and I still feel it now even after 24 hours travelling and several days back in the DO world), but I am just trying to include some highlights.

Then there was the final night, ‘the tuning’. Now, ‘tuning’ (or ‘chuning’) is a technique that Eric taught us, that is named after the way that people effect reality in a movie called Dark City (awesome film, go rent it if you haven’t seen it!). He gave us an introduction on what it is, and said that in the future, there would just be times where we would just ‘know’ that it was time to ‘chune’. He then taught us to hold our hands in a meditative posture (palms folded over each other and knuckles matching up) and feel the warmth that it causes in the chest area. Eric said that to him it feels like ‘comfort’, almost like he is holding a baby, and that he has this feeling pretty much all the time. I think that although this technique may be overlooked as it was followed by the tuning; it is a powerful key that we could all gain a lot from.

After he had shown us the technique for ‘tuning’ (which involves using the hand of hands in a new way), he took us through what he called ‘the activation’. It was a kind of mindscape – a guided meditation that had some similarities to a dreamscape. He spoke of our combined history, and how we were needed to save God. I really look forward to hearing it again on the Mexico DVD as I was fading in and out of consciousness for much of it. After about 20 minutes or so, we got suited up with armour and weapons, and you could really feel the armour being energetically linked to your body. Then we began to take in more and more prana, and shift higher and higher. It was as if something other than myself had taken over, and I was just observing – my breathing had become erratic, and it felt as if every cell in my body was vibrating a centimeter to each side. My whole body felt similar to the pins and needles feeling you get when your leg starts to wake up after going numb, except there was this vibrant electrical current running through me that grew stronger and stronger and made my entire body glow a brilliant white in my mind’s eye. I’m sure that to anyone who was watching I would have looked like I was having a mini-seizure; shaking all over and breathing erratically.

Eventually I felt so charged, so full of energy that I feared I could not hold on anymore. But Eric asked us to hold out a little longer, so we did. Just when I thought there was no way I could take it anymore, Eric said the magic word, ‘Chune!’ and I raised my hands to chune and felt this ocean of brilliant white energy shoot out of my arm and into the Universe, colliding with the darkside in a devastating combined blow with those around me. As the energy flew through me in service of the Force, the Universe, I felt that if I died in that moment it did not matter, all that mattered was this task I had been called on to complete. After all the energy had released, I sat there with my eyes closed and tears rolling down my cheeks. I was weeping in awe, in joy for the magic that we had just experienced.  To finally let out that feeling of almost anger, of passion, that true warrior spirit that has lived within me (as it does in all white cells) for so long, felt so good. To embrace the power I have always denied. I have a purpose. I am a warrior. I serve the Force.

Once I had managed to compose myself enough to stand and talk to others, I found myself laughing almost manically for about 25 minutes. At some point I recorded an audio testimonial, so if you hear an audio testimonial of some guy called Peter from Australia who sounds like he’s been hit by a dimensional mac track, that would be me.

There are many things I have not said, and many things I am still trying to find the words for. In truth, each lecture, each workshop, each meal with fellow navigators, and all those magic moments that happened in-between, all deserve a blog in themselves.

 So thank you. Thank you to everyone. To Eric, to the HBI staff, to my coach Baard, and to all my fellow Navigators out there (both those who were able to attend and those who could not). Thank you for sharing this amazing journey with me.