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Journey to Spain 7 – The Journey back

Wednesday, June 19th, 2024

Coming from Cordoba with Ursula and Jesus, we had an overnight stay at their home in Murcia. Next morning, we drove along the coast to Denia north of Alicante, where we met the travel group with Guru Prasad and the members of Denia group for lunch at a Greek restaurant in the old town. The group has a beautiful meeting space two floors above the restaurant.

While the others were taking a nap in the early afternoon, I wanted to go back to our car to fetch my camera and to cover the windows – we had quickly left the car on a big parking at some distance and it was very hot. I did not have a mobile but thought I would find the parking. There were many little streets and somehow I took a wrong direction and lost the way. For quite some time, I searched in a large area and then decided to go back but didn’t find that way either. A young man with a mobile showed me the way back to the restaurant. When arriving, I felt dizzy from the heat. A doctor and other group members took care of me, and I spend the afternoon and evening prayer lying down. My friends went to the parking with the mobile. Then we went to the home of Alejandro and Alba from Denia group, where we spent the night and enjoyed their hospitality and some nice talks.

I slept in the room of their youngest son Tiziano, 16. I had already talked with him in Cordoba, since he was much interested in my paintings and in the subtle world. And now in his room, I met again the gnome with the baby which I had taken a photo of in Cordoba, not knowing how this gnome had come to the May Call 🙂

The next day we continued our northward journey to Blanes, a town at the Mediterranean between Barcelona and Girona. We stayed in the house of Isabel. She is offering her home to WTT group activities. 11 years ago, I had met her when I visited the Minakshi project in the Girona area; it had to close. The new house in Blanes started on 7 November 23, the birthday of Master KPK; it is in a way a continuation and a very beautiful place. We received a warm reception by Isabel, her partner and a friend, and we communicated with an automatic voice translation app German-Spanish.

The entrance
Isabel showed us a big diagram about Salomon’s Temple and we exchanged about the symbolism
Joining the other groups via zoom meditation
We took our meals on a beautiful verandah with view over the countryside
View from the bedroom – and early morning visitor.

In the evening, Isabel and Domenec gave us a foot reflex zones and polarity massage, and I went to bed in a state of very profound relaxation. Next morning after breakfast, we started the journey back. When we approached the border between Spain and France, we saw helicopters “standing” over the highway area and wondered why. As we came nearer, we saw many police cars.

The motorway was closed. All cars and lorries were diverted onto an ordinary road. I tried to get back to the highway at the next access – also closed. As we crossed the pass in the Pyrenees via the side road, we saw many tractors in a row on a motorway bridge. Obviously, farmers were blocking the highway and a demonstration was going on, just before the European elections. We made slow progress. It was only after crossing Perpignan and with a delay of 3 hours that we got back on the motorway and headed fast towards north.

Journey to Spain 6 – May Call Day Celebration at the Castillo de Maimón

Monday, June 17th, 2024

The next day, together with part of the group, we moved to the Castillo de Maimón at the outskirts of Cordoba, the site where the May Call Day celebration was going to take place.

Backside of the Castillo with view over the countryside

The name of the castle refers to Maimonides, a medieval Jewish rabbi, philosopher, astronomer and also physician of great renown, who was born and lived over years in Cordoba but later had to flee. We had seen his statue in the old Jewish quarter of Cordoba.

Statue of Maimonides (1138–1204)

Inside the Castillo, there was a beautiful hall with a little fountain in the centre, where we met for some rituals.

The general group meetings, however, were in a smaller hall where the Cordoba group had arranged a beautiful altar and decorations. The group opened the May Call celebration by singing some songs with the fiery temperament of Southern Spain.

Spontaneous musical contributions were going on outside and in the evening, also with dancing. The enthusiasm caught the entire group.

There were inspiring talks by Guru Prasad and other group members, which were simultaneously translated into 3 other languages and broadcasted via Zoom. And there was also a video talk Master Kumar had given at the same place in Cordoba in 2015 – it was like seeing him live again.

The May Call Day celebration was indeed a day for reception and distribution of the Energy of Synthesis, the day of group initiation started by Master CVV in 1910 and celebrated since then.

Master KPK in Cordoba 2015

Guru Prasad giving a talk

The assembly hall

Publication of the Shambala book in Spanish

For the fire ritual on May Call Day and the water ritual on 30 May, we gathered in the big hall. It was an intense experience of group consciousness and togetherness.

Fire Ritual in the big hall

All members joined in the Water Ritual

Besides the general group meetings, there were exchanges in small groups, like coordination of audiobook publishing or preparing the next year’s European May Call celebration. Above all, there were plenty of exchanges with old and friends – days of great intensity.

When we left the place in the morning of May 31st, full of joy, we suddenly saw in front of us a Jaguar having a number plate with KPK – the initials of Master KPK. We smiled about this greeting from the subtle planes.

Journey to Spain 5 – Cordoba

Monday, June 17th, 2024

Sunday, 26 May. The highway took us from Murcia through rugged and arid regions and slowly climbed higher and higher. We passed Granada and went over a mountain range up to 1400 meters. It was hot, but there were patches of snow on the mountains.

On the route to Cordoba, pink oleander bushes bloomed for long stretches on both sides of the road – it looked a bit like “Barbieland“. The temperature rose and the countryside looked desert-like; as we approached Cordoba, it was 35°C. It got even warmer over the next few days.

We arrived in the afternoon and stayed at the Hotel Delicias for the first two days. Late in the evening, part of the group members from Germany arrived and also the tour group with Guru Prasad, the son of Master Kumar. For Monday, the Spanish members had organised a guided tour to the old town of Cordoba and the Mosque-Cathedral for our group.

Guru Prasad during the tour in the Jewish quarter

It was a very interesting 3.5 hs tour through the old Jewish quarter and the “Mezquita-Catedral” and the tour guide gave many interesting and humorous insights.

A friend holding a mobile with the picture of Krishna

After the tour, the group met for lunch in a restaurant. In the afternoon, members of Cordoba group offered us a ride to the group centre some kilometres outside the city. A surprise:

Through an avenue of palm trees we came to a beautifully arranged building surrounded by plants and flowers and a little fountain at the entrance.

It felt like being in an ashram. Inside, there were numerous objects of spiritual symbols and mandalas an artist-group member had created. The name of the group is Karuna_a – Karuna is a Sanskrit word for love and compassion. And the _a stands for anahata, the heart centre.

The group gave us a warm welcome, sang some songs with vibrant dynamism and offered some sweets. You could feel a great commitment. Outside, the temperature had come up to 38 °C, but the many plants around the house created a cooler and serene ambiance.

The entrance to the house

Later, group members drove us back to the hotel – the impressions of the visit continued to resonate inside.

Journey to Spain 4 – The First Days: Murcia. The Paintings arrive at their Home

Monday, June 10th, 2024

From Onda, we went further south and arrived in the afternoon at Murcia, reaching finally the place where I wanted to bring my paintings. As we drove around the city on the motorway and approached the area of the farm of Jesus and Ursula, we suddenly saw a huge statue of Christ on a mountain reminding of the Christ on Corcovado mountain in Rio de Janeiro and like blessing the surrounding.

We drove through some small streets and then saw the farmhouse of Ursula and Jesus.

They gave us a warm welcome. There were also a brother of Ursula and a Dutch friend from the office of Jesus.

We parked the car in front of the house and started unpacking.

Unpacking “Levels of the Logos” – The only big painting having “remained” from my “Early Paintings” 35 years ago
The room at the ground floor – a room of the same size at the first floor will be renovated for the paintings.

I felt very happy to see the beautiful space very well suited for the paintings. Jesus showed me the house and the room where the images are now stored. Then we had some hearty talks.

Jesus and Ursula together with her brother

After evening meditation and dinner, Jesus and Ursula showed us the area. There was a great sunrise behind the mount with the statue of the Christ – a sublime moment.

Ursula in front of the house
The street
The mount with the statue of Christ
Dusk over the mount

Early next morning, after morning meditation and breakfast, we started towards Cordoba together with Ursula and Jesus.

Mathilda and me after the morning meditation

Journey to Spain 3 – The First Days: Onda

Sunday, June 9th, 2024

The next part of the journey began with a surprise: Friday morning, when we arrived at the highway at Girona, I could not speed up the car – the motor was not fully working. I immediately turned to the Girona exit and drove to the nearby petrol station. We invoked Ganesha and whoever might help… And it worked.

A man at the petrol station told us with hands (we don’t speak neither Spanish nor Catalan as it is spoken there) that just around the corner there was a garage – a big one. After short waiting, probably the head of the garage, who spoke a little English, had a look at our car and the spiral alarm light. He then electronically tested the system, did a test ride and gave a little all-clear: The problem had to do with the diesel turbo injection which might return during the journey but we might just restart the car after a small pause. Everything went well with the car during the entire journey – and we gave a big thank-you to Ganesha 🙂

The rain from Girona ended while we drove southwards and it became much warmer. We arrived in Onda in the afternoon. Teresa and Manuel gave us a warm welcome. It is the home of the Muditha group of WTT, and I had visited them already in 2012. (You find more about this group and the others in the Annual Report of WTT-Global, PDF.) In the 1990s, Sri Kumar had installed a Krishna statue in their garden. Two of their sons joined for a group photo with Sri Krishna. We spread some rice grains around as a blessing for the birds – next morning, it was all gone, and some more rice was spread.

Manuel is responsible for the book publications of Ediciones Dhanishtha, the publishing house of WTT-Spain, and they have published plenty of books, also a few new ones this year. I smiled when I saw the Spanish Sripada biography published last year on a shelf in their home. (You find much more about adventures around Sripada and his biography in this blog.)

They have a beautiful meditation room …

… but we sat downstairs for joining the zoom evening meditation of WTT-Global followed by a special prayer of the Great Eagle Garuda, related to reviving the spiritual impulse of Spain.

A hearty evening dinner and talk…

…a morning walk with their beautiful meditative dog through the nearby forest area (while all the dogs of the neighbourhood were wildly barking, he kept quiet, and also during meditation) …

… and then we had to leave for the next stage of the journey. But we met them later in Cordoba again.

Journey to Spain 2 – The First Days: Rupià

Saturday, June 8th, 2024

Although the journey was long, it was a very precious time. Mathilda, a group member from Berne, accompanied me. She had the audiobook ‘Autobiography of a Yogi‘, and while driving to the south, our minds dwelled in the stories of the book. And often, associations to our lives brought up conversation excursions. I had prepared the different stages of the journey by contacting Spanish group members on the way. I had done a similar journey in August 2012, and we came now again to part of the places or the people.

The first stop was at the home of Mar, a dentist we had visited in 2012 in Girona. Now, she was living with her husband since a few years in Rupià, a little village in the province of Girona, in a beautiful old renovated house.

The entry

At the entry, there was a beautifully carved brass plate (you see handing at the wall in the picture above), like cosmic inter-relationships

In the meditation room, I met again the Krishna statue we had seen 12 years ago:

A beautifully carved hanging meditation altar

We had evening and morning meditations together and some intense talks. Then we had to bring the luggage back for the next stage of the journey.

Journey to Spain – Preparations – A Home for my Paintings

Friday, June 7th, 2024

In August 2023, there was an announcement that a European May Call celebration would be organised by WTT-Spain, and shortly afterwards, I heard that it would be in Córdoba, Southern Spain. At first, I thought, oh, that’s a long way. But then an idea developed: I was in contact with Jesus Rosauro from Murcia, Spain. I had met him and his mother Ursula at group lives in India. In a zoom call, Jesus showed me where he and his mother and grandmother were living – a huge farmhouse and a renovated barn house with long rooms which previously had served as a chicken hatchery. It now serves for meetings of groups of the catholic church – but they have no relation to it.

An idea came to me: Could this be a place for all the physical paintings which I had once produced for an exposition in Berlin 2015-16. Since then, the paintings had been ‘sleeping’ in our basement, together with some other artwork of earlier times. The idea was warmly received by Jesus and his mother Ursula. Plans developed for a car ride to Córdoba (about 2000 km each direction) with several stops on the way at homes of group members. Last January, the plans became concrete. I assigned all paintings and the related material to Jesus for 1 Euro to avoid custom and tax issues. Before starting the journey, I documented the material – the paintings, the books and the photo albums which I kept as scrap books

Albums and collections
Books about poems and paintings
Extract of the list with the paintings, titles in Spanish, from the 2015 customs declaration
Wrapping and packing the paintings

I felt very happy that I now could give all the work with “warm hands” to a place where the paintings are well received. I had waited since long for this moment. There was no interest in the work within my family. And time and again I noticed that for appreciating the paintings, people need to have an occult understanding and feeling for these “Images of Synthesis“, giving a visual expression to realities of the Wisdom Teachings. I also gave a stick with all digital high resolution material, presentations and videos about the paintings to Jesus and to Joan. A seed for the future.
On 23rd of May, the journey started.

Heading towards Spain – on the highway after morning meditation at a parking in Romandy

CVV Sharing Group Living 2024

Monday, March 25th, 2024

Since several years now, we have been meeting for “CVV Sharing” group livings around the two equinoxes of the year. Like in the last years, we met springtime at the Seminarhof Drawehn in Kassau, in the Wendland region of northern Germany, for a four-day group living from Monday, 18 March to Thursday, 21 March, 2024.

The seminar place is situated on the edge of a small village and it has grown out of an old farmstead. Its centre is a beautiful 12-angular building with a spiral roof. Its large windows open a wide view over fields and forests. Meeting there physically for the group living itself is, in a way, just the end of a preparation work we did with a team over the last months.

We came from Denmark, Switzerland and different parts of Germany. We were 23 adult persons and a child and we were brought together in the spirit of the One Master Energy.

We followed a rhythm of prayers / meditation times each 3 hours, exchanges and group activities for tuning in to experience the energies at work and for sharing our impressions. “Experiment – Experience – Expression” is the motto of our meetings. And it was giving joy to all who participated, to meet again, to experience the group interactions and to express.

In the welcome round, members brought something from themselves, and the objects and symbols were arranged on a table as the group altar. We exchanged in smaller and bigger groups about what moves us and how we live with the influences of the present time.

There were little inputs and exchanges about “Where am I being unfaithful to myself / Where do I want to be more at peace with myself? / Which inner truth am I (not) living? What truth am I sure of?” And there was a contemplation/group work on “What has inspired me in the last six months?”

There was a concert and a presentation about “The magic of the voice”, and a talk about the Odyssey and qualities of the present time.

Wednesday early morning we met for an equinox meditation around the precise time of the Sun entering Aries (4:06 am). And in the afternoon we did a group walk through the nearby forest.

Thursday morning after meditation, there was a small fire ritual. And in the closing round, we spoke about the experiences during the group living. All felt this year’s meeting as very harmonious and well-balanced.

You can read about the journey to the CVV Sharing in a separate blogpost.

En route in northern Germany

Monday, March 25th, 2024

From 14 to 22 March 2024, I was en route in northern Germany, meeting my brother and sisters and WTT group members and participating in the CVV Sharing meeting at Kassau. It was a long drive, but these visits are best means to keep bonds of friendship. There were many exchanges – too much to tell here. But I’d like to share here some impressions from the journey.

In Ahlen:

In front of the house where I grew up
Garden in the backside. My room was in the middle of the upper floor. One of my 3 sisters and her partner are living there.
Buddha at the entrance to the garden
As children, we used to play here – but we also had to work to keep the garden intact.
My middle sister Roswitha has created many “corners of beauty” in the garden.

From there, I did some excursions, visiting brother, sisters and friends in the surrounding – including a quick visit to Münster to meet Doris, Günter and Yavaline. On 16 March, I went to the eldest of my sisters, Birgitt, living on a cottage in Malgarten north of Osnabrück. In the 1990s, she had created beautiful paintings.

The cottage
The cabin where I spent the night
Birgitt with some of her paintings

A gorgeous sunrise

Sunday, I visited Christina and Ernst on their farm in Pr. Oldendorf. They had created a spiritual centre , where many group activities of goodwill and healthy living had taken place. Even in their old age, they are still active in the garden, growing vegetables and flowers.

Later, I continued to Bünde, where I stayed overnight at the home of Reiner and Julieta, where meetings of the regional WTT-group take place.

Reiner in front of their house
In their garden, Master Kumar had once installed a Krishna statue.
There, you also see big spiritual symbols cut with the lawnmower.

The next day, I went from there to the CVV Sharing group life (see separate blogpost). And after the group life, I first drove to Kassel to stay overnight at the home of Dorle and Dierk – friends, I had often met at WTT seminars in India and elsewhere. The final stage of the journey back to Switzerland began the next day, with some hours stop in Baden-Baden at the home of Brigitta and Paul, both long-term members of WTT. In the early 1080s, Paul had invited Master EK to their home in Munch for the first seminars of the Master in Germany. It was a beautiful close of a very intense journey.

Evening walk with Paul and Brigitta – a little castle in their neighbourhood with flowering trees.
Sunset behind the hill

Journey to Group Livings of WTT in India, Part 8: The Essence

Tuesday, January 23rd, 2024

It is now a week ago that I started the journey back home from India and nearly five weeks since the start. Through the fog of inner and outer impressions, the contours of what I experienced slowly become clearer. In this mist, there is a light shining through which becomes stronger when I contemplate on it, and I might call it the essence. It is inside but it is shining into the outer as well. It has been impregnating me and keeps doing so.

The journey itself is like a multi-dimensional cinema experience – I go in and I go out again. And the intensity fades when the cinema show ends. With a cinema show, there is mostly no lasting impact. And it is the same with many things I encounter in India – they are not of relevance for my life in the West and face away again. But each journey is like a “reset” of my life which is not possible when I stay comfortably at home. It is a transformation experience. Such a pilgrimage journey helps me to better align to the purpose of my life. And gain fresh vigour and determination.

Abu Dhabi airport

There were many exchanges, I saw saw many forms of community/communities and coherence/being together. With the group members and other people I encountered, I perceived an intense striving for divinity, expressing spirituality in daily life. It was much stronger perceivable than in the surroundings of my Western life. And this was very inspiring. Although I cannot and do not want to live and work and express myself in a way I saw in India – and I also saw forms which kept me at a distance and were disgusting – it gave me fresh resolve to express divinity and spirituality in my life and through the ways and forms which are possible in my surroundings. It is a matter of inner attitude. This fresh impulse is most essential for me.

The Triangular Book of Count Saint Germain

At the beginning of the journey, on the very first day, Sri Joshi showed Mark and me photos from a manuscript which he and Shreya had taken at the Getty Research Institute in LA, the Triangular Book of Count Saint Germain (Master CSG). I was very thrilled to see the beautiful drawings and writings in perfect handwriting mostly in cipher language. It was a touch of the great Master who had built a bridge of the wisdom of Hierarchy from the East to the West – although it still remains a mystery. I didn’t know about this book but we are reading in a German study group the “Most Holy Trinosophia” of Master CSG, which Master EK had mentioned, and Sri Joshi wanted to send the photos. I didn’t receive it but the information came in other ways, by sharing with group members and some further search: the entire book is scanned and online; it is translated into English here. There are two manuscripts of the Triangular Book, one dated 1775, the other 1750. There is a very interesting website about it, “The Triangular Book“, by an anonymous author, giving an aura of mystery. He hinted at a book and he might be the author himself, since he writes about “my publication of Triangular Book of St. Germain (Ouroboros Press, 2014). So, it is probably Nick Koss, who produced an exquisite limited edition reproduction published in Seattle, from where my friend Mark Ray came and where he passed over at return of our journey, completing his cycle on earth.

I do not know which is the relevance of all these impressions and all information about the “Triangular Book” of Master CSG for me. But I mention here this story because it shows well how mysteries reveal themselves when the time is ripe, even if it takes centuries. I learn not to rush but let things develop themselves.

And this is, where the end of my blog-posts about the “Journey to Group Livings of WTT in India” touches the beginning. The mystery of the extremely intense experiences of this journey.

Drawing of Master CSG, from the Manly Palmer Hall heritage collection, manuscript 209, at Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles (c)