The following article was first published in the Athenaeum 2009:A.  But before we get into it, allow me to direct your attention to the sidebar, where you can download (for a donation of any amount, including $0) a podcast I made of “The God’s Whisper”, the “guest post” of Odin from a year ago, in which he reveals the answer to an ancient riddle.  I was not trying to consciously channel Odin when I was reading his words, but I did rather “get into it”…  I think if I was channeling anybody, it was probably William Shatner.  Anyway, this is the first of several posts I plan on recording, to see if folks like them.  Let me know!)

Well, first, of course, Obama was elected, and he grew up in Hawaii.

And then my friend Slade (of sladeroberson.com) went to Hawaii for angelic training and, as it turned out, met essential people for his life path.

And then I stumbled onto a fantastic podcast called “Jedi trainer” (hunatrainer.com), which is really a tutorial on Huna, a (the?) Hawaiian shamanistic tradition. The podcaster is on a very good wavelength for me, and with a couple of his techniques, I was able to ramp up my manifesting energy enormously.

And then I saw my very first Hawaiian quarter — absolutely gorgeous, too.

And then, it turned out that one of the people in my work group was getting an all-expenses paid trip to Hawaii as a thank-you from the company for basically being an awesome guy.

What on earth was all this Hawaii stuff about? At first I thought perhaps Slade was psychically broadcasting “HAWAII HAWAII HAWAII” after his huge trip, and I was caught in his wake. But I talked with him about it, and he said his feeling was more that it was me, not him. He also mentioned that one of the goddesses of Hawaii was named Pele.

Pele: this name rang a bell for me. My middle name is Paul; it’s also the name of my primary spirit guide. The name bears a phonetic resemblance to the names of two gods I associate myself with: Apollo and Bel. Paul Apollo Bel Pele… bell, pool, peal: energetically, these words designate energy that arises from a source point and spreads out to fill a volume, like water, sound or light.

I decided to reach out to Pele.

Pele! The goddess of fire, volcanoes, lightning, dance, and violence, she lives in the highest pit of the great volcano on Hawaii’s big island. There are a number of stories of how she came to be there, but the most common is one in which she incurred the enmity of her older sister, a water goddess, by seducing her husband. The water-goddess chased Pele to Hawaii, where they did epic battle. Pele lost, but her spirit escaped and took up residence in the volcano.

In meditation, I stood on Apollo’s hill, and tried to feel in what direction Pele might be. I was drawn across the Sun Prairie, over the vast grasslands golden in the evening, to the far west. There the sun sits in perpetual sunset, a mighty disk blazing behind the throne of Bel, the Celtic Sun God; and at Bel’s feet is a simmering pool of fire…

And in the fiery water, Pele swims.

Whenever I meditate on a Godhood, I am filled with warmth and boundless joy; and seeing her swimming there, she seemed beyond beautiful. As she swam in the pool of fire, it appeared to transform into a tremendous pool of red and white blossoms. When she saw me, she grinned and hopped up on the edge of the pool.

“Thank you for meeting with me,” I said.  (In my experience, It always pays to be polite to volcano goddesses.)  She said she was delighted.

“What is going on?” I asked. “Obama was just elected. My friends are going to Hawaii, and I’ve had all these ‘coincidences’…”

“People are receptive to me now,” she said. “I am not personally pushing anything, but many, many people are coming to a place where they can hear me.”

“And what is that place?”

“I am the fire-in-the-water. I am the burning of passion, the burning of creation, but surrounded by water, dissolution, and disillusion. I am the candle in the darkness and the star in the night. I am the belief in the face of doubt. Obama — yes, his message, ‘Hope! Change!’, that’s what it’s all about. He tapped into that power…

“Often the whole United States takes on this feeling. The US is a passionate nation, and it often feels like an island, like Hawaii. A passionate nation surrounded by a non-comprehending world. The Melting Pot — there is the warmth and heat again. The torch lifted by the Statue of Liberty in New York’s harbor.”

I thanked her for her words, and for watching over us.  Before I left, I asked whether she had any advice for us in these difficult times.

“Oh yes. Don’t let the fire go out; keep it burning. The fire will never conquer all; you cannot win against the ocean. And that’s as it should be. But the ocean should not win against you, either! There is no winning and no losing. There is just the burning: the passion: the creation. The beauty. As long as you keep the fires burning, you have won.”

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