The following contains the transcript of the Energies of Easter Island Video that I created using mostly photos from my recent journey to this special place. The link to the video should be attached below. I welcome you to follow my journey...In Love, Service & Wisdom.
Tracey L. Ulshafer
Easter Island Video Voice-over:
Located in the middle of the
Pacific Ocean, south of the tropic of Capricorn, sits “Rapa Nui,” or more
famously known as “Easter Island.” The island itself is only about 64 square
miles with a large portion of it uninhabitable due to various issues that they
experienced throughout their history. 2250 miles from the nearest Polynesian
island of Pitcairn, and 2340 miles from the Chilean South American mainland, it
is often referred to as one of the most remotely inhabited islands on planet
earth. The local airport receives just two flights a day and it currently hosts
no ports for transport ships along its shoreline. Reaching Rapa Nui is no small
feat, and not for the meek or inexperienced traveler. For some reason I had
this pull - a calling - to go there.
Most
people had no idea where Easter Island was when I told them where I was going
or even afterwards when I returned home did they understand where I had been.
But as soon as I showed anyone a picture of any one of the monolithic statues
found there, every person realized that they had seen these famous Moais
before…somewhere…
The
Moai are a fascinating part of the history of Easter Island and one of the main
reasons that I did want to travel there. With somewhere between 800-1000 of
them created, the history and intention behind them still remains quite vague.
Most archeologists agree that the majority (about 95%) of the Moai were created
of Rano Raraku tuff, mostly from the volcano of the same name in what is
referred to as “the quarry” there. There are about 55 other Moai that were
created from a more dense white stone found on a different piece of the island.
The Moai range in size from 6-33 feet high and could often be found on a
platform called an Ahu were as many as 15 could be found aligned in a row.
Most
of the Moai were originally erected to face into a village; with the exception
of a few that faced the sea. But all of the statues hold the gaze of their eyes
slightly upward – looking towards the sky. Another name for the island is
Mata-ki-te-Rangi, which means “eyes towards the heavens.” Some say that the
Moai were created in the images of past kings. Others argue that they
represented different important people of the villages. None of them are said
to have had the name of a deity. Much of these facts surprised me because my
thoughts before going to Easter Island were that the Moai faced the sea in a
way of protecting the island and that they did take on the image of a god due mostly
to their size and ambiguity. One thought that an explorer named Geiseler
reported about the Moai in 1882 was that they were highly respected and thought
to have special attributes and possess great powers. Why else would a people
create and move so many similar monolithic statues in such a short period of
time, completely deforesting their island in the process? The only explainable
reason is that they were highly significant to the ancient people. But the real
reasons behind the creation and placement of the Moai still remain somewhat of
a mystery. And that completely fascinates me.
The
fact is that Rapa Nui is an enigma. Although it is a highly respected theory by
historians that the early Polynesians found and populated the island, there
remains little hard evidence to prove when or how this may have happened. Much
of the history of the island has been wiped out - largely because of the
Christian Missionaries who came and removed much evidence of their prior
culture, partly due to the Peruvian slave traders that at one time kidnapped
all but about 100 Rapa Nui and forced them into slavery, and also due to
various catastrophic events such as earthquakes and tsunamis. And that’s just
what we know of and is agreed upon by mainstream scientists and historians.
There
are many other more recent theories about Rapa Nui that are not being grandly
accepted, but warrant a deeper look nonetheless.
Popular
theories say that Easter Island was formed by three separate volcanic eruptions
on the ocean floor beneath the Nazca tectonic plate between 1 million and
100,000 years ago. The last of the volcanoes is said to have erupted some
10,000 years ago. And it is thought that the island was not settled by humans
until sometime between 600 and 900 AD, with most of the Moai being carved
around 1000-1600 AD. This is the popular historical opinion.
But
what if the history that we are being told is only a portion of the story? Or
better yet, what if it is simply untrue?
Back
in the early 1920’s, a topographer named Sir Alfred Watkins noticed when he was
surveying the prehistoric landscape in Britain that there were certain
alignments, which he termed as “ley lines” running through the planet. He found
that a huge number of archeological sites from different periods were formed along
these ley lines. And he went about mapping them out on the planet, creating
what is now referred to as a planetary energy grid. The same ley line that
tracks through Egypt and the various sites of many ancient Egyptian
archeological sites travels straight into Easter Island. In fact, Easter Island
is situated on a major energy vortex connecting at least 10 other ley lines on
the planet! The Name “Rapa Nui” translates to “Naval of the World.” The lone
found archeological reference to this naval is a circular stone found on the
island that legend says was brought by the first settler and king, Hatu Matu’a,
who brought it from a mythical island. The stone is said to possess much manas, which is spiritual powers
bestowed by the gods, and thus bears the secrets of the Universe inside of it.
It is said to be “the one who collects the most important spiritual energy of
the earth.” Unfortunately today the rock, with the four other smaller stones of
similar matter, is contained in a rock wall and guarded by someone from the
National Park. So that you cannot touch it to feel any energy that it may
contain.
Regardless,
it was my personal experience that the island’s energy is extremely potent and
palpable from all areas and those who are sensitive to energy will no doubt
feel various different sensations – from heat to vibrations and more –
throughout their discovery of the island. My friend and travel companion, Suzy,
felt immense heat generating from the core of her body for our entire stay on
the island. For myself, I felt my own being vibrating with the island. Certain
sites, and particularly the Ahu where many fallen Moai were left abandoned,
radiated a vibratory energy that completely disoriented me at times. I was
careful to respect the National Park’s warning not to touch the Moai directly.
However, whenever I had a chance to get up close and put my hands on the rocks
surrounding it, or on a similar unmarked stone formation found randomly in a
field, I was quick to do so. Each location did offer its very own sensation to
me, validating my feelings that it was more than any of my own physical issues
such as low blood sugar or headaches that I had been experiencing since a
concussion. The fact is that I left the island healed of any lingering issues
that I had from my accident. There is
vital and healing energy in the island, my friends, and there is much more to
discover, for sure.
Some
theorists suggest that the island was used as a location site by
extra-terrestrials, and point to evidence such as the upward gaze of the Moai
that appear to be looking at the sky, or the fact that how these monolithic
statues were actually moved without destruction to their relatively soft
material. Regardless of one’s feelings on the idea that extraterrestrials
visited or were a part of creating significant statues on Easter Island, I
found it interested that NASA extended the airstrip to be able to receive the
space shuttle, and also has a facility there that they supposedly used to use
to monitor the movements of the Nazca tectonic plate, which creeps
approximately 2 cm closer to the South American mainland every year. This NASA
facility has been completely abandoned and holds another eerie mystery as to
why, if the Nazca plates are still moving significantly each year, they decided
to abandon the monitoring of this movement on the island. Or, was there another
reason for their presence there?
Other
scholars such as Graham Hancock and Colin Wilson now also suggest that Easter
Island may have once been part of a far larger island and that the original
discovery and use of the site may actually be thousands of years earlier in
time that predates the great floods. The theory states that twelve thousand
years ago when the great ice caps of the last glaciation were still largely un-melted,
and sea level was 100 meters lower than it is today, it would have formed a
chain of antediluvian islands as long as the Andean mountain range. If this is
true, and Easter Island was a part of a much larger landmass, then it could
have been the site of an astronomical observatory of an ancient and forgotten
civilization. Even more interesting is the theory that the melting of the ice
caps also occurred with several cataclysmic events such as crustal
displacement, which changed the actual topography of the planet, so that sites
such as Easter Island would have very well been located at quite a different
location on the planet several thousand of years ago. If this is true, then the
evidence of such ancient civilizations could have been lost into the sea…forever…
…which
brings me to just that. The sea. The relentless pulsation of life energy that
crashes upon the shores of Rapa Nui daily, offering no sign of relief is
hypnotic, to say the least.
I
spent time every day – several times a day, in fact – gazing into the sea just
as I imagined the earlier Rapa Nui had done. I imagined living on the island a
long time ago when there was no way on or off, and that the 64 square miles
would have been all that anyone living there would have known of as the world.
It literally was their entire world. They would have spent a lot of time
watching the sea, the sunrise and sunset, the moon and the stars, wouldn’t they
have? I know that I did.
In
fact, being on East Island allowed me to retune my body to the earth’s energy
because it was literally all that I had. The five elements are heartily
available on the island. And if there is one constant in my life it is my
continued focus on living my life in tune with the natural elements of our
planet.
The
first element is Fire, which is represented as the entire island. Fire created
this volcanic island, after all. Fire is the spark of creation, the energy of
transformation. What was once hot, liquid fire hardened over time to create the
land that I was sitting on – the land that stuck out of the sea in a sacred triangular
formation. Fire is an intense energy that is associated with heat, of course,
which explains my empathic friend’s complete absorption of heat the entire time
that we visited. The sun is also related to the element fire. And as I have
said, we spent every day attending to the appreciation of the sun, probably
just as the ancients had done. We always watched the sun set. We sometimes
caught the sunrise. We always knew were the sun was. And although we were not
there long enough to notice any significant transits, I realized that the
ancients must have done just that. They would have recognized any
differentiation of location of the sun immediately. Many of the Ahu where the
Moai are set up align to the rising sun of the equinoxes or solstices. So, yes,
they were aware and they acknowledged this ball of pranic fire in the sky by
erecting great statues in its honor. Yes, fire is ever present.
The
second element is Earth. The hardening of liquid fire is earth, but it is also
the foundation of our entire planet and associated with all of the life that
exists on it. Because of the remoteness of Rapa Nui and the deforestation that
devastated much of the land, there are very few native animals or birds to the
island. Upon arrival, our host told us that there were no bugs. While we did
find some, the fact was that there were not many. There are also no snakes or
reptiles, except for one small lizard. There are some birds, but not as many as
back when the Birdman Cult thrived on the island. As for other mammals, wild
horses and cattle roam freely about today, but all animals have been brought to
the island from the mainland. Wherever life comes from, the reality is that you
notice it when you see it. At home back in NJ most people do not stop to watch
the wildlife or better yet, to honor it. In Easter Island I found there was
never a time that I did not acknowledge life when I saw it, for it was so
special. And special also is the rock that jutted out of the ocean upon which
we stood. Were it not for that peace of rock/earth being there, the island
would not exist at all. There is a major conservation effort to bring back
areas of the island and I want to say that at least half of the island is in
that active rehabilitation zone. Many historians and scientists refer to Easter
Island as a cautionary tale for our planet, calling it a microcosm of planet
earth and using it as a perfect example of what can happen due to
overpopulation and pillaging of the planet’s natural resources – things that
many have warned us about for years – and today what many more are now very
concerned about as a growing reality seems to be emerging that we are closer
than ever before to needing to find a new planet in order for our specious to
continue to be. I strongly feel that every person on our planet should have an
experience such as living on a remote island like Easter Island to fully
appreciate what the earth has to offer us, and to understand the significance
of needing to know how we can work together as beings on this same rock to ensure
that its life continues for eons to come.
Air
is the third element. Air is much prevalent here for it is windy just about
everywhere that you travel. There was never a moment when I was outside on the
island where I did not feel the existence of air. From a small breeze to a
gusty wind, air is there to remind one of flow. While the earth may provide a
stable foundation, the air reminds us not to get stagnant. Air or wind is the
breath of life. Without air in our bodies, we would not be alive because there
would be no breath. Rapa Nui’s breath is ever present, inhaling and exhaling
all around you – breathing you in and breathing you out – there is no escape
until you hunker down inside a residence or establishment, and even then, the
presence of air can usually be heard rapping against the building. I did a lot
of deep breathing on Easter Island. And as a yoga teacher, I knew that this
would keep me present in the moment – grounded and centered. But what I did not
fully understand until after I left was how connected I had become to the
pulsation of the island through the air. It’s essence literally blew into me - and
I became one with it.
The
fourth element is water, and that is certainly present since as an island the
sea surrounds the entire landmass. Like the wind, this element is relentless as
it pounds the shore on every side daily. This has no doubt caused a change in
the shape of the shoreline, since the volcanic stone is relatively soft and carve-able.
No matter what part of the island you are in, if you are near the shore, you
can hear the roar of the sea and watch the spray. As waves crash in and flow
back out, producing a trancelike state when you allow yourself the time to sit
and watch. This meditative state brings calmness amongst the raging energy of
the sea - and this dichotomy creates a surreal feeling like no other I have ever
experienced. The rational mind or ego may want one to be afraid of this unapologetic
energy, but the presence of Oneness that is felt reminds he or she that all is
just fine. In fact, all is freakin’ amazing!
And
that brings me to the final element: Ether. Ether is that ever-present, mystical and magical energy that connects all: this is the embodiment of Rapa Nui
itself. From the first site of the island from above, as the clouds parted, God
was present. At sunrise and sunset, God was seen. Every Moai and Ahu – whether
it had been re-erected or was still lying facedown and fallen in pieces, held
an undeniable essence and energy. The palpitations and vibrations of the place
inspire a feeling of love, compassion and appreciation for all. It is truly a
magnificent and life-changing experience to have been there. I am forever
grateful for all of the pieces that landed in place in order for me to be able
to visit. One of the most famous explorers and historians to have spent time on
Easter Island was a woman named Katherine Routledge. In 1919 she wrote, “In Easter Island…the shadows of the departed
builders still posess the land…the whole air vibrates with a vast purpose and
energy which has been and is no more. What was it? Why was it?” I myself,
felt this same vast purpose and energy, and know that it will one day reveal
much knowledge that will be helpful for us as a species.
I
hope to one-day return to Easter Island. I feel that I will. There are many
mysteries that still surround the place. I am confident that we are on the
precipice of understanding more than ever before some of the ancient origins –
such as the Rongo Rongo language which survived on only 25 tablets, all of
which have been removed from the island, and of which today are still mostly
undecipherable.
The
island still requires tender loving care. Mass tourism threatens the
archeological sites as well as the life of the island. I understand the recent
regulations to keep people off or limit access to certain sites. Perhaps if we
became more loving as a species, more understanding of our place on the planet,
this would not be an issue. It was my personal experience that spending time on
Easter Island certainly assured me of the understanding of my place on our planet.
“Naval
of the world.” That is for certain.
In
much gratitude…and until I return again…
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