ROAD REPORT: Days 25-26 By Neale Donald Walsch from his Blog:
http://www.nealedonaldwalsch.com/blog.cfm


The Humanity's Team World Oneness Tour got underway yesterday with a wonderful welcoming ceremony in New Zealand from the Maori, the indigenous people of this island nation, who are called the "Home People."

Immediately upon arriving in Auckland we were driven straight from the airport to a Meeting House of the Maori, where elders of the community greeted us. We were told that the Spirits of the Ancestors filled the Meeting House, and we were welcomed with warm speeches from several elders in the room. I was invited to say a few words as well, and I thanked the community for the honor of beginning our World Oneness Tour in the Meeting House of the Maori.

A representative family of the Waitaha people -- who, legends say, are the first natives of this land -- also was present, and he and his family sang a tradition Waitaha song for us, and then later, in a quiet, private ceremony, gifted me with a pair of beautiful big white books, one called Song of Waitaha and the other titled Whispers of Waitaha. These volumes contain the history and secret wisdoms of the Waitaha, a people who lived in the Matriarchy, without violence or conflict and in the Spirit of Oneness, which they now seek to share with the all the people of the earth. Until now, most earth civilizations were demontrating that they were not ready or willing to accept this wisdom and knowledge. Now,during this special time in humanity's history, is appears as if people everywhere -- in every land and culture -- are opening to a new idea about themselves and each other...a "new idea" which turns out to the Ancient Wisdom revisited.

I was humbled and grateful to receive these wonderful books -- and plunged into reading them as soon as I made it to my hotel room last evening.

The Maori people have a wonderful way of greeting each other -- and total strangers as well. Men approach other men and bring their faces close together and touch noses and foreheads, looking deep into each other's eyes in closest proximity for a long moment. This conveys an extraordinary feeling of "I have nothing to hide from you. Look into my eyes as I look into yours, as close as eyes can be. We are touching foreheads. Our thoughts are traded, clearly and cleanly. We are brothers. We have trust."

Women greet others with the same face-touching, but then add a gentle kiss on the cheek.

This Maori greeting is at once moving and disarming. CWG says that the eyes are the windows of the soul. I have never experienced this so profoundly in public before. In private, intimate moments with my beloved, yes. But never in a public place, with many people around.

It is virtually impossible, I would think, to fight with a man or to try to manipulate or maneuver with a man or to think of being or remaining in a conflict with a man whom you have just looked in the eye so deeply.

The indigenous people here have a saying: "Family, forever and ever and ever." It is quite a remarkable culture, and I was incredibly moved and deeply touched by the welcoming ceremony -- the second Maori welcome I have experienced here. (On my last visit to New Zealand I received a similar greeting.)

Following the ceremony we were invited to break bread together with the community members and elders. Sharing of food is, of course, a common custom among all peoples of the world who wish to say, "You are welcome here. You are family here." It added a marvelous final touch to our Maori greeting ceremony.

I have much to say about all of this...and I will.

 

 

If you would like to join the Humanity's Team World Tour at one of the Tour Stops. Please visit http://www.htworldtour.org there is a contacts link on the website.

 

George E Lockett

Humanity's Team Marketing Programmes Coordinator