Grandmother Drum Ensemble Visits the Holy City

April 20 and 21, 2009.

We had two full days walking the Old City of Jerusalem to get a feel for the work we will be doing here in June. We stepped through time in the foot prints of Christ and into countless sacred sites of so many of the world's major religious groups. You can enter the Old City through the gates of the Christian, Hebrew, Muslim, and Armenian and each quarter of the city is a world rich with meaning for each. Shops, culture, foods and religious ceremonies are ongoing on held with passion and purpose.

We wanted to visit a new sculpture, said to have just arrived from Poland a few weeks ago. For the first time ever in the Holy City, a sculpture of the Black Madonna has been placed in a small chapel between the third and fourth Station of the Cross in the Christian section of the Holy City. She arrived just two weeks ago and is the first time that the Vatican has allowed a stature of her in any Catholic Church and the first time making any acknowledgement of the Black Madonna and her universal healing power.

This was by far one of the most profound art pieces I have ever sat before. It is transpersonal and truly depicts the Light Body of the Divine Heavenly Mother.

It actually cannot really be described, it has to be experienced as it is truly not a sculpture as we might understand. It is a modern day art piece made of crystals, glass and various metals and it radiates a rainbow light from all directions. We were even more moved to see the room filled with two nuns and a priest kneeling before it in deep devotion. This is truly a transformation of the framework of the church and was deeply moving to witness this image not only being visited but deeply revered.

We also visited the church of Santa Annna, St. Anne, Mother of Mary and birthplace of Mary. The church was filled with a clear emptiness,like a womb of pure potential. The stonework and circular nature allowed for amazing sound reverberation and we sat and chanted experiencing a deep state of inner peace.

Later we visited the Jewish Western Wall ( of the Original Solomons Temple) to honor the Divine Presence and to send continued prayers of healing for the Jewish people as today is Holocaust Remberance Day and there are countless ceremonies going on throughout the country to honor family, continue the long raod of healing and to make a deep commitment that this atrocity never happen to any people on earth again.

We are experiencing so much energetically from the land and the people here. Every inch of this land is packed with memory and meaning. We are honored to bring Grandmother Drum as a messenger of the strength of the heartbeat to empower us all in our spiritual evolution toward a true compassion and the Grace of the Heavenly Mother.