This past weekend I went to a place called “The Rainbow Temple of Whatever”. I met heaps of different people, from enormously diverse walks of life. Travelers, locals, Australians, Germans, Venezuelans…But out of all these people, one person in particular stood out. Guy Feldmann. He came up with the idea of the Rainbow Temple:
“a place where like-minded souls can share with each other their dreams and aspirations…a place where we can collectively and individually grow to a greater understanding of life, and to celebrate the many, many gifts that life on Earth offers. A place devoted to the raising of consciousness so that we may evolve out of ignorance and ultimately move away from suffering to a greater enjoyment of life.”
In hindsight, it is truly unbelievable what I learned about myself and the place I occupy in this world in relation to others.
On one particular night, Guy was sitting across the table smoking a cigarette while I finished a drawing. Since arriving, I had tried to suppress my curiosity of discovering what, how, who or why had led this extraordinary character to build such a magical place. What he told me is a beautiful story of wonder, amusement, connecting, discovery, awakening and above all, adventure. It is a story that I don’t dare tell you, for it is his only. Suffice to say that it marked me, not only because of the story itself, but because of that personal moment Guy and I shared, sitting opposite each other surrounded by people enjoying the bonfire, some singing, others playing musical instruments and others partaking in a challenging game of chess. For the next two hours, Guy captivated my attention to a point where I could feel us connecting. His words were like music to my ears, and my emotions danced to the rhythm of their melody. The last day I went to his house to say goodbye and he read me a few poems he has kept, from a guy that ‘changed his life’. Ironically, Guy changes a lot of people’s lives too, including mine.
Guy inspired me to want to know the world. To travel to places without fear of becoming lost, because doing so could, in the end, mean finding yourself. One should never hold back on learning from people’s experiences to build your own enriching life. Something Guy said really stuck with me. He said that we are all connected; all originate from the same source. Today, I reflected upon this and thought that perhaps I liked Guy so much because in him, I saw a part of me that I would like to be. Could you imagine? That each of us is simply a reflection of one another and that whatever you are vibrating into the cosmos, can ultimately ‘infect’ someone else’s energy?
Viewing things from this new-found perspective has allowed me to reflect on the unforeseen circumstances that I have experienced in my life. What if, for some unconscious masochistic reason, I manifested experiences that at the time seemed unbearable, but that (and it seems so clearly now) I needed them to grow, to evolve as a conscious being. And so slowly, we all attract into our lives exactly the experiences, people and situations that we need, because doing so might help us see ourselves mirrored in each other and slowly work towards improving ourselves. If so, I am grateful to the Universe and to myself for attracting the people and situations that ultimately led me to meet Guy.
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