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Avalon Springs by Maria Yraceburu quero apache diiyin & author I was taught by the elders to seek out the quiet places where traces of what was once there, can still be found. The old hot springs resort is still at Avalon. But if one takes the time to look, arrowheads carved from Native flint, that have survived their makers can be uncovered in places that once echoed with the sounds of sacred celebration. 
And on certain evenings when the wind is still and the moon is bright, it seems as though the Ancestors still dance on the site of the last Ghost Dance held in California. Shadows dance across land, and seven hot springs align as a mirror image of the Pleiades. The power of the magma flow that connects the seven, of which Avalon is fourth, flows from Cobb Mountain, producing an earth hum that makes the waters healing, and the area a portal to the spirit realm. Everyone is effected by the energy of eetawyomi, or 'the hot place.' Everyone sees the shadows dancing across the waters. Many have stopped here over the centuries to enter a trance state, and see between dimensions. It is a place where truth is to be found, exposing all that needs to be healed. To those whose hearts feel the energies, whose ears recognize the calling of the Owl and whose eyes are willing to open to everything, the Ancestors of the past ask us to remember. Everyone can see. The secret is so simple. Although this land belonged to the Lake Miwok, Pomos, Wappos and Wintuns gathered during regular EarthRenewal Celebration. Now these teachings span all cultures. The healing is for all human beings and all can benefit from this place. This earth sees only people, who, if they allow themselves, will learn to live in peace with each other, and in harmony with their surroundings. What I tell you is good. It is what the elders, like Aunty Ester Pinola from Middletown, use[d] to teach. The history stories have come down generation to generation. Very drastic things have happened to this place. Allow yourself to profit from what the Changing Mother has to offer. Find comfort here. There is a coolness, a sense of being. The land is watched over by the Ancestors, and I think it is as it was before, a place of stepping in between time. Spirit and changing Mother Earth have created an edifice, and invite us to endulge in possibility. yalin intin... good journey Maria & Lynda Yraceburu San Marcos, CA 92078 http://www.followingancestors.net Church of EarthWisdom diiyin, Maria Yraceburu is a pioneer in the field of ecopsychology and a Quero Apache ceremonialist and the author of Prayers and Meditations of the Quero Apache and Legends and Prophecies of the Quero Apache. Her groundbreaking works blend ancient earth healing and philosophy, cyclic time and spirituality, the wisdom of her lineage and cutting-edge evolutional vision with dynamic results.
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