Monday, April 20, 2009

Grandmother Drum Arrives in the Holy Land


Our April 3, 2009 Israel Tou
r staff, White Eagle, Tymoreye Elliot and John Peck arrived in Tel Aviv after 24 hrs of flights and were welcomed by our wonderful Israel Tour Coordinators Dvora Pearlman, Timna El Sharon and Norga Yerushalmi. After a few days of rest, we awaited Grandmother Drum’s arrival. Apparently she was delayed, hung up in freight in Cologne Germany. Our host Dvora Pearlman was getting a bit nervous as we had our first festival to perform at by the coming weekend. She called the freight service in Germany. We could not help but think Grandmother Drum had decided to do her own healing work with the people of Germany on the way to Israel. Finally on April 8, 2009 GrandMother Drum landed in Tel Aviv, Israel while making additional airfreight stopovers in Copenhagen, Denmark and Istanbul Turkey! April 8, 2009 in Israel is Birkat HaChama - The SUN BLESSING that happens every 28 years. Once every 28 years, the Sun returns to the position it occupied when it was created at the beginning of the fourth day of creation. The SUN BLESSING is an auspicious time to plant seeds for a better future, to THANK our Creator, who provided us with this vital and crucial source. Grandmother Drum arrives in Israel aligned with this sacred New Sun and at the beginning day of Passover!


Her plane landed just an hour before the holiday of Passover was to begin and the freight and custom offices would be closed for the week. Our custom’s officer was ready to head home for the holidays when we arrived at his office. At first he was not very happy that we did not have a carnet (specific passport paperwork for the drum) and that the office was about to close. In the first few minutes of our interaction, the officer looked at me frustrated and said, “ You people worship God, I worship money.” In my silence, I saw his pain and frustration and we just remained in silence sending him our love.I then wondered why the Grandmothers specifically told me not to purchase these carnet papers for the drum. It would be revealed over the next two days the magic that they were just beginning to brew for us. So without the carnet paperwork, Israel customs required of us an $8,000 deposit to assure that the drum was only a temporary import. Our small Israel host staff did not have this kind of money nor did we. Due to the holidays, the banks were now closed for the next two days. We were sent back to our Hosts Timna and Norga without Grandmother Drum. 

In the next two  days our whole team got creative.











We held a session with the Grandmothers and Grandfathers with 30 women and men to receive more guidance. An Israeli woman came forward who had met us in Israel last year during our film premiere in Tel Aviv and wanted to support our work. Her business “All Jobs”stepped forward to put down the temporary $8,000 USD deposit so that the Grandmother Drum could be released to us and we could still make it in time for our first festival in the south of Israel. Our Israel crew was ecstatic! We knew the Grandmothers were doing there routine magic!
And there would be much more….

Our custom officer also had begun to melt in the presence of the love our team kept exuding to him. By the end of the customs inspection, the officer was smiling and wanting to bring his wife to our Prayerformance so that she might receive some healing. He told us how she had PTSD from some violence that she witnessed and had a lot of anxiety. What happened in those two days at the customs office we cannot even describe in words. It was truly remarkable! This same officer is now offering to help us when we ship Grandmother Drum back home at the end of the tour to make all paperwork go smooth!

Our Hosts Timna and Norga had already arranged a special trailer to be welded for Grandmother Drum. The trailer was pulled by a deluxe van and on April 10ththe six of us headed five hours south to the Zorba Festival where nearly 2,000 people gathered in the desert for sacred music, meditations, and healing workshops.

On Sunday morning Grandmother Drum was blest by the local Elders. The community welcomed her with hands clapping to a Hebrew chant as Grandmother Drum was lifted from the crate and off the trailer touching the soil of the desert in Israel for the first time. In the wonderful desert heat, Grandmother Drum exuded a thunderous heartbeat to the Israeli people and could be heard for miles as the land and people welcomed her healing into their hearts and their lives. It was truly the fulfillment of a instructions and prophecy the Grandmothers had given us in the very beginning of the project in 1999 bringing the Grandmother Drum to the Holy Lands. Ten years later, we are here!

The Grandmothers and Grandfathers continued to guide our specific medicine work as we meet with medicine people, healers and peace workers in both the south, center and north of Israel. We are in awe by the courage and strength of these people to heal and unite.

2009 Grandmother Drum Mayim H'ayim Tour, Israel

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