RIVERS IN THE SKIN
(previously known as Blue People), is an intense trance/initiatory shamanic-style experience..
Earlier presented at–
Byron Bay Spirit Festival, NSW, Australia, 2016
Blue Flame Dreaming Indigenous Festival, NSW, Australia, 2016
Evolve Festival, Nelson, Aotearoa 2018
Motueka Community, Motueka, Aotearoa, 2018
Piyura Kitina (Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre), The Conjure Tour, 2019
Based on de Angeles book Priteni | The Decimation of the Celtic Britons,
RIVERS IN THE SKIN is a shamanic, initiatory and trance experience will shatter your ideas of spiritual and kinship isolation. We indigenous priteni Celts are invariably written off as being a past tense people, mistakenly assuming that we have died out.
The invasions and slaughter, and subsequent colonisation of indigenous people and their lands, worldwide, have seen the attempt to eradicate the lore, law, customs, language, culture and spirituality of us all. In many instances through attempted forced assimilation, removal from family or a breed-them-white erasure program.
To people of other cultures, likely decimated by invasion, murder, disenfranchised and an attempted forced assimilation this is just one offering of cultural healing and mutual recognition. Finally. All are invited, and welcome, to participate.
The sharing of deep story and acknowledgment of injustice adjusts a seeming inability to communicate a true and honest accounting of the intergenerational behaviour that has separated us with what is called Shifting Baseline Syndrome, a sad and intolerable forgetting. Of calling us home.
PROCESS
1. Ogham fire smoking ceremony.
2. Once indoors, you will find a space to lie down, get comfortable with pillows, blankets & water.
3. Audio/visual understanding of deep, ancestral time, before experience proper.
4. Tatuage ink dot (optional), meet, questions, dinner, discussion, fireside conversations.
THE EXPERIENCE
A gruelling but astonishingly rewarding and life-changing experience, you are firstly guided through the smoke of the twenty ogham associated with the druid alphabet before finding your lying-in space, claiming it and setting it up with water, cushions and whatever brings to life your intention to go the distance of this journey.
Your initial experience is that of understanding the meaning behind the many megaliths that cover the lands of Albion and beyond, to realise the vast distances ancestors are able to travel, trade, invasion, slavery, exile or imposition, and how knowledge of this has been hidden or ignored as inconsequential under the regimes of genocide or erasure in the years following our humiliation.
We will assist you to relax. To enter a theta state of semi-consciousness. To become fluid. Then you will be included in the experiences deep within your genetic pattern. What you do not consciously know that has caused you inexplicable feelings of grief and loss throughout your life. Not only so that you know it, but so that you can also advise your young.
HOST
Some of us wander. We carry dust on our boots, from place to place, with stories of ships drowning and the tragedies of confused forest ghosts. We tell history from the raggedy strands of exploration and if we are awake, we do so with awareness of what is received alongside—lovers in a way—with land and sea and sky. Nothing is without purpose. Remember.
Ly de Angeles and has been in print for over thirty years. She is a linguistic hairsplitter, poet, human rights activist and rebel. She has studied the history, lore, mythology, customs and cultural affiliations of the priteni (painted/tattooed) Celts for over 40 years only to be informed, through extensive genealogy, that the strongest taproot in her own genetic heritage links her directly to an ancient grandfather, Caradoc ap Cunobelinus, chieftain of the Catuvellaun. She also has a two thousand year long Celtic tapestried genealogy. With this information she has encapsulated the knowledge of years into a concise, albeit brutally honest personal experience, never taught in schools but hidden in plain sight, written of by both Caesar and Tacitus.
VENUE: TBA
DATE: TBA
TIME: 11:30 am – 5:30 pm
COST: Full $160, Concession $90
NOTE
- Wheelchair access is available
- This is a total alcohol-free event
- Your own food is necessary
- Religious or personal spiritual affiliations and dogmas are to remain absent
- No scents are to be worn
- Overnight camping is suggested at Mt Franklin, but otherwise it is not our responsibility