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My good friend Jen (from Durango days) whom I havent seen in over 12 years since her wedding in MN came for a visit last sunday and was staying thru Wednesday evening. She landed Sunday morning and it was SO incredible to see her and give her a BIG hug at the airport. We went to the house so she could meet Steve and Daisy and then we were off to meet Ben, Brian, and Kevin timberkev at the good Egg for a nice Brunch. 
Then is was off to Sedona. Steve had decided to give Jen and I a few days to ourselves so we could catch up and spend some quality time together. I am SO thankful for Steve allowing us this space! Jen and I talked SO much on the way up (the entire three days, for that matter) that we never even really turned on any music except for about three Jellyfish songs. We didnt need it. We needed to just communicate and laugh and be.
We arrived in Sedona just before sundown and headed straight to Red Rock Crossing and to Buddah Beach in the shadows of the base of Cathedral Rock. The lighting was stunning! Buddah Beach is known for then 100s of Cairns that people build out of the river rock there. Its beautiful and magical. I personally built about ten of them. It started to get dark so we decided to head out and meet up with Harley and Lee who's house we were staying at.
For the next 24 hours or so, we ate good food, went on an amazing hike, had a pic-nic, talked, laughed, and just generally had a grand time. Tuesday was the day we were to head back to Phoenix. we got a late morning start and the first stop headed out was the Chaple on the Rocks. I love this place. its a once Catholic church built right into the red rocks Frank Lloyd Wright style. And it sits right on a vortex. The energy there is amazing and peaceful!
Harley and Lee have two big beautiful crystal salt lamps and Jen had mentioned she would love to find one to take home. After the Chaple, we decided to start the hunt for the lamp. We passed the Center of the New Age and right next door was a shop I had gone into before that I liked. I said "Let's pop in here" and quickly turned into the parking lot.
We walked into the store and it had completely changed from the last time I was there. Gone was the shelfs of cluter and was replaced by an open airy nice crystal shop! "Wow! This place sure has changed" I said when I walked in the door. The lady behind the counter welcomed us and said that it was a hands on store and that we could pick up and touch anything we wanted. I turned to notice that they had the salt lamps and they were on sale! Jen picked out two as we walked around the store a bit and looked at rocks and crystals and even played the singing crystal bowl they had there. There was another woman in the store buying four of the lamps. Jen made her purchase and we said our good-byes and went out the door with two salt lamps in hand. As we were getting in the truck, I looked up on the front of the store and saw this symbol:

I was SHOCKED! I asked Jen to look up at the symbol and ask her if she recognized it. She did! "Isnt that the symbol that you made in your backyard?"
Several months ago, I was playing with my heart stones and a crystal as well as some river rocks I used to do hot stone massage with. I was just playing with the heart stones and trying to prop up the crystal in the middle of them. Then I needed the four directions. Then I needed an infiniti symbol. Then I will just put these little stones here representing the 7 chakras in the body and the 5 that are in the etheric body and came up with this:

I was simply going to just get in the truck and drive off. Jen insisted we go back inside and ask what the symbol meant and where it came from.
I walked right up to the counter where the salesperson was helping the woman with the four lamps and I interupted not even thinking twice about it. "What does that symbol on the building mean?" She (The salesperson, Debbie) told us the story of the woman that owns the store was in the ocean and was drowning and had a near death experience when Brother Jesus appeared to her and gave her the symbol in her third eye. She called it the "Utamay". Then I showed her the picture on my phone of the symbol that I had made in the backyard. She immediatly lit up and asked me to email the pic to her that she had to show her boss.
The lady with the four lamps was ready to leave so I offered to help her out with her heavy box. Debbie said that when I come back in, she had something she wanted to show me. I quickly helped the lady out and ran back in to see what it was she wanted to show me.
Debbie brought out what looked like a cloth make-up back, placed it on the counter and I heard a metalic clunk come from the bag. She unzips it and pulls out four metal bracelettes and stacked them up to look like this:

Big, clunky and not really very pretty. But still VERY interesting looking. The four stacked together formed what Debbie called the "Divine Female". My immediate reaction to them was that they were "Galactic" meaning, not from around here or of this earth. Jen had an immediate reaction of awe and a profound feeling she had worked with these bracelettes before. They felt very familiar to her. Debbie told me that she is only supposed to shoe them to certain people and that I (and Jen) was one of those people. She showed us how to hold them and then invited us to stand or sit in the chairs that were inside or we could go outside and sit in the meditation garden whick had this HUGE stone in it with 100s of beautiful crystal point of all shapes and sizes all over it. It was coolish, slightly windy, and overcast outside but we were "encouraged" to go outside anyway. So we did.
Jen was about to burst at the seams walking out the door. I was just like "neat bracelettes" and didnt think much of them but Im open to it. The INSTANT we sat down in the two chairs that were more or less facing each other with the huge crystal between us, Jen looked at me with this crazy "oh shit" look on her face and said: "Chris?". At that exact moment, we both LOST IT! Laughter like I have NEVER laughed before! Jen has a boisterous loud infectious laugh about her. I think they could hear her from across the street! I was laughing SO hard, no sound was coming out, my eyes were tearing up, and my abs hurst so bad from laughing SO hard, I could barely sit up in the chair!
There were only two things I could think of: What the fuck was happening to us and JOY JOY JOY JOY JOY JOY JOY JOY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
For nearly half an hour we laughed HYSTERICALLY!!!! Hard and deep. Joy was pouring out of my body and filling it at the same time. It was one of the strangest yet amazing things that has ever happened to me. There was nothing that was particularly funny or silly. It was mearly the outpouring of JOY as we were both filled and profoundly infused with it. It felt as though something was being activated within me. An activation of deeply profound JOY. Now everytime I even see or hear someone use the term joy, I think to myself, they have NO idea of the deeper meaning of that word. We also tried moving the bracelettes to different parts of our bodies and also putting the two ends together. Each movement prompted even deeper laughter. I then moved my chair over to Jen's and but the four bracelettes end to end and it was WAY too much for that split second. I had to back off and go back to where I was.
Finally, after almost forty minutes, we had calmed down enough to get up and go back inside. Debbie was blown away with our reactions to working with the bracelettes. She has been documenting every person's reaction to them and our's was the most intense she has seen yet!
I LOVED this experince. So much so I couldnt wait to sit with them again. I knew that the second time would not be like the first. The first, I got infused and activated, the second was an alignment that I wrote about in the previous entry.
I have some crazy things happen to me and this one ranks up there with the best of them.
I have a feeling that this year, as energies increase upon our planet, that I along with everyone else on this planet, will begin and continue to see amazing things and experince life like never before. I LOVE this and I want MORE MORE MORE!!!!!!!
Bring it on Universe!