The Sarcophagus of Lord Pacal is the most remarkable burial artifact ever unearthed in the Americas. Identified as an astronaut in a space ship and as a man falling into the underworld and being swallowed by the jaws of death, the sarcophagus portrays a man and a civilization in the moment of ascension. The sarcophagus was unearthed in 1952 after three seasons of work removing the rubble and boulders that had been pushed down the tunnel by the Mayas. The archaeologists discovered at the bottom of the tunnel a 30 ft long x 13 ft. wide carved slab that appeared to be the floor. Inside the corbel vaulted tomb was a "fantastic, etherial sight, a huge magic grotto carved out of ice, the walls sparkling and glistening like snow crystals. Stalactites hung like tassels of a curtain, and the stalagmites on the floor looked like the dripping from a great candle."

These startling visual effects were created by the lime issueing from the walls and ceiling. When the archaeologists lifted the slab from the coffin, they were greeted once again by a fantastic sight as they gazed upon the Great Green of the Cosmic Ocean, the thousand pieces of jade covering the king's body. "The great man--he was probably a priest--had no gold ornaments, but here were quantities of jade objects--beads, rings on every finger, bracelets, ear ornaments, and exquisitely carved figurines. These were in the form of flowers, little gourds, bats, snakes and heads, and human figures with the characteristics of certain Mayan gods. The buried man had a jade ornament in each hand and another in his mouth; his neck and shoulders were covered with a huge collar-and-breast ornament of jade beads. On his face were the remnants of a mask of jade mosaic."

The explanation currently being offered regarding the ocean of jade covering the king's body is that he was a great king, highly esteemed by his subjects. And this is true, he was a great king, highly esteemed, but the reason for the quantity of jade is more complex and far more fascinating.

"Three, seven, eight thousand was the creation of the world, when he who was hidden within the stone, hidden within the night was born." (The Book of the Jaguar Priest, Maya)

According to the symbolism displayed on the sarcophagus, Lord Pacal believed the cosmos was preceded by a time when Nothing Existed. This Nothing, which Existed before the material universe was emanated, before anything existed in the sense that we think of as existence, was Creator and Created, Thinker and Thought existing in the Primal Realm of Silence in the primordial state of undifferentiation. The Primal Realm of Silence is portrayed on the top portion of the sarcophagus, as recorded in the Mayan creation myth of the 16th c. CE, 700 years after the sarcophagus and the Temple of Inscriptions were completed.

"Before the world was created, Calm and Silence were the great kings that ruled. Nothing existed, there was nothing. Things had not yet been drawn together, the face of the earth was unseen. There was only motionless sea, and a great emptiness of sky. There were no men anywhere, or animals, no birds or fish, no crabs. Trees, stones, caves, grass, forests, none of these existed yet. There was nothing that could roar or run, nothing that could tremble or cry in the air. Flatness and emptiness, only the sea, alone and breathless. It was night; silence stood in the dark.

In this darkness the Creators waited, the Maker, Tepeu, Gucamatz, the Forefathers. They were there in this emptiness, hidden under green and blue feathers, alone and surrounded with light. They are the same as wisdom. They are the ones who can conceive and bring forth a child from nothingness. And the time had come." (Popol Vuh, Mayan)

Atop Pacal's World Tree is the green and blue Quetzal bird, the sacred serpent-bird. Hidden beneath the green and blue feathers of the sacred bird are the round faces of the Forefathers, who are "the same as wisdom." They are "there in this emptiness, hidden under green and blue feathers, alone and surrounded with light." Below them is the serpent, and again in this civilization as well as others, the serpent-bird kundalini symbolism. Out of the gaping jaws of the serpent, and nestled within kernels of corn, emerge the maize gods, the Energy-Intelligences and occult forces of the Mayan world.

The Maya deified the spirit of the maize, their main source of food, regarding it reverentially with love. Maize is the gift of the gods, and the jade stone is the Mayan symbol for the ear of corn before it ripens. They say the green corn, green like jade, is hidden within the stone. When the stone is smashed, the maize is born and becomes divine. The jade and the corn are different but complimentary aspects of the same Form or archetype, represented as maize gods.

When the Maya placed Lord Pacal's body inside his sarcophagus beneath the temple and covered him with jade, he became "hidden within the stone, hidden within the night." After his death, Pacal and the jade and the maize gods, all different but complimentary aspects of the same archetype, all returned to oneness, to Source, and Pacal acceded to his divinity. Lord Pacal, wearing kernels of corn and long hair like the maize gods, long and flowing like corn silk, is shown ascending his coffin, transcending death to rebirth within the pantheon of Mayan gods, and taking with him his civilization.

The Mayas say there are two universes, described by them as Ca-bala, meaning "two hidden." There is the universe of heaven (The Boundless Light) and the universe of earth (space-time and energy-matter). The Chinese call these Earlier Heaven and Later Heaven. On the sarcophagus Pacal is positioned between these two worlds. Beneath him, in the universe of earth, is his coffin, decorated with a stylized water lily monster. Lord Pacal is the Divine Child brought forth from nothingness by the Maker. He is a boy who became the great Mayan king, the man who became the brilliant Mayan mystic, the Shield Guide who came to guide his civilization onto the ascension path. Lord Pacal died at age 80, but his influence upon this planet has only increased since his death. Many are the people who are guided by Pacal Votan.

"I was born like a lily in the garden, And so also was I brought up. As my age came, I have grown up. And, as I had to die, so I dried up. And I died." (Incan King Pachacuti, 1475 CE)

In various civilizations can be seen the attempt to create more powerful geophysical portals in support of the metaphysical portals. The geophysical portals at Palenque are in the temple-pyramids. At the top of each pyramid is a temple containing an interior with an antechamber and three rear sanctums. The center chamber, called the "pib na," is a miniature house, the portal to wacah chan xaman waxac na -- World Tree House of the North. This subtle structure, the central focus of initiations into the Mayan mysteries, is in the dimension inhabited by the Maya. Beside the astral house is the astral World Tree, seen on the Sarcophagus of Lord Pacal. This World Tree, as we see it on the sarcophagus, is the Mayan conceptual equivalent of the Kabala Tree of Life. Kabalists write of the ascension experience of rising on the spheres of the Tree of Life, and we see Pacal ascending the stylized spheres of the Mayan World Tree.

The pib na is the physical portal and the equivalent of the metaphysical portal. Inside the pib na is the geophysical portal into the supernatural realm, called Otherworld by the Maya. The portal to Otherworld could be opened when an individual achieved an altered state of shamanic consciousness. To achieve this state of consciousness, many of the Central and South American Indians drink an hallucinogen. The Mayas used drastic measures, inflicting physical pain upon themselves and drawing blood, in order to enter the trance-like state of consciousness. The men used an obsidian knife to cut the penis, and both men and women ran a rope of thorns through the tip of the tongue. When the portal opened, the Energy-Intelligences from Otherworld entered and exited the body through the fontanelle, the soft spot at the top of the head at the crown chakra.

The Mayan portal rituals were done to invoke the "Vision Serpent," referring to the kundalini serpent/spirit tunnel of the metaphysical portal and referring to the 3rd eye chakra and remote viewing. They would travel through the portal/tunnel and "become the sky," or become Och Chan (invisible), the perspective gained by the Vision Serpent experience. Inside the House, of both the temple-pyramid and one's consciousness, exists the portal to Otherworld. Macrocosmically, the House of the temple-pyramid was accorded a special place in the center of the Mayan universe, exactly between the universe of heaven and the universe of earth, and connecting them. Microcosmically, Lord Pacal's position on his sarcophagus expresses this divine architecture, and the sarcophagus itself is designed to be a portal.

Everyone has a portal because portals are predictable openings in the curtain of space-time and energy-matter. Portals typically are sited near water, although they don't have to be. In the home the portal usually is part of the bathroom near your bedroom. The portal is near the bedroom because that is where you sleep and near the bathroom because that is where the water is. In my bedroom are two portals; one occupies the same space as the doorway to the bedroom and the other is the doorway to the bathroom. A portal "path" runs between them.

There may be something in your room that is marking the location of the portal for you. I have a ceramic of the planetary Shield Guide Gillian, who stands atop my sound system of my dresser and turns always toward the bedroom door portal all on its own power. There are two quartz points at the base of this Guide, and these pieces of quartz turn the Guide toward the portal. Gillian looks directly at this portal and if I turn the Guide to face forward, in a few days the Guide has turned back to look again at the portal. Investigate your sacred space carefully for such signs.

Quartz rocks and crystals are helpful in finding the portal and necessary in opening it. There are many varieties of quartz and probably all of them will work. Milky quartz has been, for me, the best. It is the most common quartz, but also the most mysterious. We still do not fully understand how milky quartz is formed. Place the quartz on the floor in different areas of the room and find the place that seems to respond somehow to the quartz. Don't worry if you can't find it right away, or even this time! We're just looking. Many people have quartz crystals but if not, the quartz in your jewelry will work. Just place the jewelry on the floor and try to find the portal. If you think you've found it or if you are not finding it at all and you have questions, please ask. I will email you again about what to do next. In this Mayan ritual it is appropriate to use jade, the sacred stone of the Maya. Also appropriate are all kinds of blue stones, to symbolize Maya Blue, the special color of the Maya.

Quartz varieties:

Rock Crystal - clear; Amethyst; Citrine; Brown Quartz; Rose Quartz; Milky Quartz; Quartz Cat's Eye/Tiger-Eye; Aventurine Quartz; Chalcedony; Jasper; Agate; Sard, Sardonyx, Onyx; Chrysophase; Carnelian; Opal

The Mayas are here already, a week before the ritual! They will be here for at least two weeks. Tune into them and you may begin to experience them. I have hundreds of Mayas here in my home. Lord Pacal is here and he has brought with him an astral dormitory of initiate priests, young Mayan men who are following their spiritual paths. They have come for the ritual and they have come early to prepare themselves and us for this momentous universal activity. They are setting out their ritual objects, putting up posters, preparing their ritual drinks, and there is generally a flurry of organizational activity. The energy is very high here, as you can imagine!

This powerful event we are involved in is Light of the Cross, the Light produced when Spirit and Matter come together. Light of the Cross is beginning to occur right now at a planetary level, as the planets prepare to come into conjunction on January 23rd. The Mayas perform their rituals during planetary conjunctions. The planets will align to form the hexagram/hexagon, or 6-pointed star and Star of David. From the Emerald Table of Hermes Trismegistus, the hexagram/hexagon, sign of the Merkaba, of the light-body, is the most powerful of configurations, made even more powerful when the energy is alchemically transmuted.

By performing this ritual we will be grounding this celestial energy, transmuting it, or changing it, "into earth." All over the planet people will be focusing on love, compassion and understanding, the highest of virtues. During Ritual of the Portal we will be adding to this focus the intent of interdimensional communication and interaction - of bridging the worlds of existence. This ritual is therefore interdimensional in purpose, and just as we hope to interact with the Maya in their dimension of existence, they will be performing the ritual with us in hopes of interacting with beings in other dimensions of existence, creating a great chain of being.

If you would like to begin interaction with the Mayas now, no need to wait until the ritual. Verbally invite them to your home by asking them to come through your portal. It is a rare opportunity to spend time with the brilliant people who built one of the most astonishing civilizations we will ever see and who are still actively working to elevate this planet to its highest potential.

Friends of mine have been urging me to tell to my friends on the internet the story of how I became a Shield Guide specializing in grounded ascension. I am taking this opportunity to do so because this is the Mayan ritual and I have a special relationship with Lord Pacal.

An unusual series of events led me to become the lightwork project leader of the Ritual of the Portal for Planetary Ascension. This is how it happened, and I hope when you read my story you will gain a clearer vision of how and why Ritual of the Portal found you. I also am hoping, through Ritual of the Portal, to introduce you to this spiritual path by showing you levels of spiritual mastership available to you.

After living many lifetimes, most of which I am aware, even the details, I was born a Taurus in the United States in Georgia in 1948. I grew up here and have never traveled outside this country. The part of Georgia in which I live is a swampy, primeval area. In fact, I live between two swamps, the Okefenokee and the Altamaha. These are Indian names, I live on Creek Indian ground. In the pond in my backyard are alligators, Great Blue Herons, all kinds of wildlife. The pond is a protected wetland. So I am an Earth sign living in a wet, earthy place. After many years of meditating on water lilies and pond bugs, little wonder I insist on groundedness.

I have a Master's degree in English Education and I once owned and operated a karate school in Atlanta. I was always a physically active person, keen on fishing and hiking, and also a voracious reader. Many of the books I read are modern metaphysical books, but I also have read many of our great modern philosophers, the great Hellenic philosophers, most of the Perennial Philosophy, and the great and not-so-great literature of the Western World. I speak English only, except in light-body I am fluent in Italian.

Several years ago my life changed when Spirit began to manifest in my life. I lived in Atlanta, Georgia, I was single (I am still), I worked as a commercial real estate leasing agent and legal assistant and I played tournament bridge professionally. This was my life and had been for many years until one day my close friend and bridge partner unexpectedly lost her 51 year old husband to a heart attack. He was straightening his tie one morning, getting ready to go to work, and dropped dead. The paramedics revived him six times, and he was dead on arrival at the hospital. But he didn't go away, immediately. He remained behind in spirit because he had something important to tell her.

Three weeks after his death, my friend called to tell me of a strange, vibrating place in her bedroom. She believed her dead husband came in and out of her room through that spot. With my tarot cards I went to her home to see if I could contact her husband. I had never done anything like this before but I felt very hopeful. My friend showed me the vibrating spot in her bedroom and we called it a portal. It was intensely electrostatic and we could not stand in it for more than a few seconds.

I laid out the tarot cards, and she and I called for the forces of the universe, elements of the universe and beings of light to come and help her communicate with her husband to see what he had to tell her. Through the portal came 30 or 40 beings, it was hard to say how many, and they brought with them great joy and love. The room filled with a gossamer haze, and we had a party, we laughed, we joked, we were so very happy. That night after the spirits left, my friend had a dream in which she spoke at length with her husband. In this dream he told her of a mortgage life insurance policy he owned that had been mistakenly paid to his ex-wife. They held each other close and kissed and said goodbye one last time. Then, he was gone and has not returned. She has since remarried.

The next day my friend's attorney contacted the life insurance company, who wanted to wait until they had recovered the money from the ex-wife before paying benefits to my friend. Of course, the attorney threatened legal action, and the insurance company sent her a check for close to $100,000.00. The same night my friend spent with her husband, I experienced a psychic event in which a brilliant white light went bang in my biofield. From that moment on I had spirit guides who have never left me for even one second. My friend and I had such a wonderful portal experience, we wanted to repeat it. The second Ritual of the Portal involved my friend and I, two married couples: my cousin and his wife and two good friends who lived near me. We held a conference call portal ritual to see if we could interconnect at the spirit/astral level.

We realized by the amazing things which occurred during this ritual, that portal ritual could be held world-wide to the benefit of many people interested in spiritual self-development and self-empowerment. To accomplish this, I went online the middle of August, 1996, and in September I emailed Ritual of the Stonehenge Portal. I sent one of the emails to Rene Mueller at Spiritweb, and he responded by posting the ritual on his website. Rene is instrumental in bringing awareness of Ritual of the Portal to the international spiritual community on the internet. After Rene's action, several websites began posting the rituals and other related texts.

In September, prior to the email of Ritual of the Stonehenge Portal, the Shield Guides appeared in the inner planes, initiated me as a Shield Guide and began Ritual of the Portal for Planetary Ascension with Fire Ritual to Invoke the Shield Guides. The Shield Guides assist in selecting the planetary vortex-portals we link to, the series in which we activate those portals, the dates and times when would be most beneficial to establish heightened planetary consciousness, and the rituals to perform. We have so far performed fire, fire water, and earth rituals. We will perform air ritual during the Sarcophagus Portal and then Concourse of the Forces - Fire Water Air Earth - during Ritual of the Cathedral Portal. The Shield Guides are teaching us how to channel earth energy with the chakra system, and how the chakra system is fundamental to personal and planetary ascension.

With the exception of the Shield Guide material that follows at the end of this biographical, I do not channel these guides in the popular way of channeling today, but we work together in a most interesting way that is very fulfilling for all of us. They make many sounds around me, and whoever is present can hear them. They ring bells, they ring chimes, they tap on my computer as I write to keep me on the right path. If I am making an error in my writing, they make a tap that I have learned means "no, not quite." If my writing is good and correct, they make a tap that means to me, "well done." When they are very pleased with my efforts, they ring the astral bell. It is a deep, resonant sound. Most of the time they ring it for the heck of it and because I like it and because the sound keeps our portal here in my bedroom open all the time. When my computer is off and email comes in, they tap to tell me. They can tap syllables loudly or softly so that I have some idea of who the email is from and I can decide whether I need to respond right away. They release a beautiful aroma of spring flowers in the room. This is quite an experience for people who come to visit me.

Using lit candles I can see my guides as shadows against the wall. I can see their hands make the candle flames sway and jump. They can produce electrical phenomena and are able to move physical objects with force. They move objects in my room from place to place. At night I see my guides face to face, and we talk and travel the universe together. They tell me directly many things for me to write word for word. They physically touch and move in and out of my body at will through the top of my head at the fontenelle at the crown chakra. They perform complex inner alchemical operations on me to keep my crown chakra and my back of the head chakra activated. My guides are very diverse and come from all parts of the physical and spiritual universe. Some of them are human, some are alien, some are pure light, some are pure consciousness, some are bird tribe, and some seem like a mixture of all of the above.

I have been through many inner plane initiations and received many initiatory awards in group activities at the astral/light body level. These awards represent levels of spiritual mastership corresponding to the chakra system, or the seven seals of Solomon. Solomon's Knot, symbol of fusion, describes the nature of this spiritual path.

Also in astral body I made a Divine Marriage with Lord Pacal of the Maya and was married in a ceremony at Chartres Cathedral. In this "marriage" I accessed a part of myself capable of time travel. I am known to the Maya as "Pacal's Bride." In Palenque, Mexico where Pacal lived and ruled as king, are two hieroglyphs depicting me. One is in the Temple of the Inscriptions, where the Sarcophagus of Lord Pacal is buried. The other is in the Temple of the Sun placed there by his son Chan-Bahlum.

A series of hieroglyphs tell the story from the Mayan perspective of my life with them during the 7th century CE when I held the throne as one of only two queens to have ever done so. I claimed the throne on October 22, 612 CE, (March of 1993 in our time) 202 days before the end of the ninth katun, when Pacal was nine years old. Known to them as First Mother, I held the throne for three years for my spirit husband until he attained the age of twelve. He could not keep the throne without my intervention because too many powerful family factions were vying for it. The Mayas interpreted my appearance as divine intervention. Now Lord Pacal is here with me through "divine intervention." I was there for three years their time, but in my own time in Atlanta only one week passed, and I remember all of it very clearly as "dreams." The hieroglyphs in Palenque tell the story of what I did there, saying "she materialized and crowned herself."

When initiated as a Shield Guide, I received from three Shield Guides a silver chain-link necklace and a silver shield attached. The following is the material I channeled:

The silver shield is the symbol of the Shield Guides. They are a vast organization of diverse beings from all parts of the universe who are organized to assist those in lower evolutionary domains. They disperse themselves throughout the universe, sometimes in physical bodies through physical births. When they take on physical bodies, they also take on a forgetting of themselves so that they can learn the people and place and where they are. Then, as their lives continue, their fellow Shield Guides come to awaken them to their higher purpose. They come to remind them of the reason they are here.

The Shield Guides lead civilizations onto ascension paths. When a Shield Guide has reached a certain level of awareness and re-awakening, that guide is given the symbol that they once wore. The symbol of the Shield Guide is a silver shield, sometimes attached to a silver chain-link necklace. The chains in the necklace symbolize the vital links between the guides and the people they guide, and how both are dependent on the other for their fulfillment in existence. The shield symbolizes the planetary organizations that the Shield Guides represent. This is an interdimensional organization of life systems throughout the phenomenal and neumenal universe. This is a winged body of planetary systems, symbolized on the shield by a winged being.

To receive the silver shield of the Shield Guide is the way one knows of their identity as a Shield Guide. This is the awakening part of a process over a long period of time in which the individual is given the opportunity to grow spiritually and to learn of their Shield Guide identity. Only Shield Guides present the silver shield to a Shield Guide. The Shield Guide is a bridge from this evolutionary domain to others that require the guide's presence. The Shield Guides will come when they are called. To summon them, perform Fire Ritual to Invoke the Shield Guides at Stonehenge ritual.

Page 1 - What is A Portal | How to Locate Your Portal

     Keeping the Dreamtime Journal

     Ritual of the Stonehenge Portal

     Definition of Ascension | Spiritual and Physical

     Fire Ritual to Invoke the Shield Guides | Ritual Results

Page 2 - Rock Eagle Portals | Dreaming the Eagle | Burning Man

     The Eagle and the Serpent | Eagles and Angels

     Banners of Dan | Moon void of Course

     Setting Up Your Portal | Portal Disk

     Fire Water Ritual to Call Forth the Wings of Love

     Fire Water Ritual Results

Page 3 - Pyramid Portals Keys of Love | Jungle Dreaming of Egypt

     Pyramid of the Sun, Teotihuacan | Great Pyramid of Cheops

     Portals of Eternity | Inner Plane Journey

     Passwords and Gatekeepers

Page 4 - The Game of Life | Isis and Osiris | Setting Up Your Portal

     Earth Ritual to Empower the Spirit-Soul

Page 5 - Earth Ritual Results

Page 6 - Sarcophagus Portal | Time Lords

     A Civilization Ascending | Ca-bala - Two Universes

     Portals of Palenque | Locating Your Portal

     The Mayas are Here! | Pacal's Bride

Page 7 - Personal Planetary Stargate | Setting Up Your Portal

     Air Ritual for Spirit-Soul to Walk the Sky | The Free World

Page 8 - Air Ritual Results

page 9 - Air Ritual Results 2

Page 10 - Chartres Cathedral Portal | Concourse of the Forces

     Toward the Divine | Celestial Orders of the Prophets

     Retrograde Energy | Light-Matrix in Stone

Page 11 - Knights Templar | Sophia, Queen of Heaven

     Setting Up Your Portal

     Aether Ritual to Install the Great Cross of Light

Page 12 - Aether Ritual Results

Page 13 - Aether Ritual Results 2

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