What I can offer.

What would you do to help Gaia? Many would give their lives just for a country or even a nebulous thing like an ideology? I won't ask that much, but we have to do something to change the current self-gratifying mindset of the world before it wipes us out along with the planet. For every change, when you bring something new into your life there is always a sacrifice of the old. What are you willing to sacrifice to make this world a place we will find all the good things in?

All I ask, for now, is that you dismiss prejudice.

It is my intention to bring people closer to the Earth and all the life on it.Through these rituals They will learn to understand what it means to say, "All things are connected" Its easy to hear something like that and even to agree with it, but it is only when they have experienced it that it will mean anything to them. Then and only then a whole world of living opens up and every day will contain mystery and magic. I will do this through a weekend workshop.

In "My Story" posted earlier, I related how I discovered a whole world that people live right past without being aware of it. I can raise that awareness.

We will take a day in nature isolated and with none of the comforts and things relating to home or office or the workaday life. Nothing from your everyday goes with you. No cellphone, no books, magazines nothing. .

Not even your clothes. For a few hours it will be only you and nature. This is intended as a kind of shock therapy. To remove you from all the material things that hold you back from opening up and receiving nature.

Why naked? I'll tell you and then I'll change the rule to accommodate those whose fear is so great that they really cannot do this.

Firstly your skin is your largest sense organ. It is there to feel. Not touch, touch is an action that you do with your skin. You touch someone. Your skin feels. Just as your eyes see to give you sight, so your skin feels to give you an intuition. (This is one point that as far as I know only I have made. I might be wrong, but my intuition tells me that I am on the money.) Our years of prudery over our bodies have created a strange relationship between the soul and its counterpart in the physical world. Releasing your skin from its customary shroud makes it hyper-aware and it is much easier to completely dismiss your history and all the prejudices to give yourself entirely to the moment as if the dance we will perform is your first experience ever. If you can try standing naked in a secluded spot where no one can spy on you and just close eyes and feel the air move across you skin. You have been gifted with a sensual body for a reason. It is the only way you can experience being alive and being yourself. Children's games involve the full sensual spectrum. Running, jumping and wrestling. Toddlers on the beach are the lucky ones when they can paddle naked in the sea without themselves or anyone else condemning them. I want you to have such an intimate relationship with Gaia.

Secondly, It is about the commitment you make to the experience. YOU have to want it and by overcoming the hurdle of disrobing you make your commitment. If the experience is only half-heartedly attempted then there can only be a half-hearted progress. It is necessary to give (this will recur later, too) to open up to the Spirit. I have found that being naked makes that surrender to life more complete.

Thirdly, being naked is the true expression of self. This is who you are, no deceptions or cover-ups. It is imperative that the exercise is done in good faith with no sordid agenda for self. Being naked expresses that. You can hide behind clothes but you can't hide behind nudity. This is your state of grace.

And lastly, because you will be surprised how a simple action like taking your clothes off obliterates any stress that you might otherwise bring with you and interfere with your perception of your intuition. Stress fear prejudice are all negative emotions and they need to be put aside in order that you hold nothing back in the dance.

So you are terribly self-conscious and cannot under any circumstances be naked and especially not in the company of others. Strangers!. OK cover your body only with a sarong or khikhoi. Air needs to be able to blow over every bit of skin and that at least allows that to a degree. Underwear or swimming costumes, no matter how tiny are not on, we are not trying to look or be sexy, save that for the pool or beach.

After our sojourn in the arms of Gaia we go through a cleansing ritual that involves all four elements - earth water air fire - the last being the sweat lodge. Then I will lead you in a trance dance.

The world of trance has always been right on your doorstep and you indulge in it daily, mainly through dreaming, but also when, as sportsmen say, they are 'in the zone' I find that I go into trance states very easily. I need only read a book to completely lose track of the 'real world' and even forget where I sat myself down so waking comes as a surprise. The word has all sorts of connotations attached to it and many fear the trance as being dangerous. I haven't found that at all. It is in fact a natural thing to do. More natural than some of the stuff we readily accept on TV, like the politician's spin. As long as the trance is done with the right intent it is perfectly safe because you create it. If you are going to try this by yourself be warned that your intent needs to be pure. When I take people on a trance journey we explore the spirit world on our Earthly level, where we have the animal and plant spirits and guides before venturing to the rest. It is best to be guided by someone who does trance work. The spirit world that you visit in your dreams and trance is divided into three aspects, which Shamen have described as a tree. The trunk being the Earth, both the physical and spirit Earth. The branches are the upper world of positive spirits and the roots being the under world where the negative energies are. Negative is just that. It is not evil. That is a part of the judgemental prejudice created by the Christian Church who butchered anyone who thought differently. You cannot eradicate evil, but it needs to be balanced. These days that balance is way out of kilter and it needs to be readjusted. Evil is evil only because the church has taught us that it is and then instilled all sorts of fears in us that we will not question it. But as the wind is beneficial and cools us on a hot summer's day, spreads pollen and seeds that new life may grow so too it is that the wind destroys huge cities as Katrina did to New Orleans. Yet if we fear the evil we also lose the benefits of the wind.

The dance is done blindfold to cut out the primary sense and allow yourself to find within you the world outside. You have to look inward to find that which is not tangible in the world beyond your being.