by Dana Taylor

Are you part of the Great Awakening? Through my association with Spiritual Awakenings International, I meet people who have experienced Near-Death Experiences, After-Life Communication, Out-of-Body Exploration, Past-Life Regression, the list goes on and on. We are living in a time of expanded consciousness, where the past weaves into the present and angels come a’callin.

Personally, my spiritual awakening is an ever-evolving process. 2024 took me on a spiritual adventure in early November to a retreat in Arkansas. I’m finally able to share and articulate what happened to me during that retreat, led by Dayna Dunbar, a spiritual counselor and author I’d met during my years in Oklahoma.

When I saw Dayna’s autumn retreat announcement at a small, refurbished center in Arkansas, spirit nudged me “go.” I was the first to sign up and sent Dayna my deposit. As the deadline for signing up approached in September, Dayna called me on a Sunday and gave me the bad news that she was going to have to cancel, due to lack of response. She returned my money.

😩On Monday I felt strangely bereft. Incredibly sad all morning, like I could break down and weep. My rational mind was incredulous at my emotional state. It was only a retreat, for goodness’ sake. Something else would come along. But I couldn’t kick the deep sense of grief at not going to Arkansas.

📱Around noon, my phone rang. It was Dayna.

Dayna: “Send me back the deposit. It’s a strange miracle. The whole retreat filled up this morning and came together. I think it’s all for you.”

Me: 😍My spirit soared. “I think it is too. I’ll see you in November!”

🍁Autumn colors were on full display as I drove through the winding Ozark hills to the Arkansas retreat in a town near Eureka Springs. The car rumbled over a bridge rising above a sparkling river. The quaint retreat center sat across the road from the shore. My first “mystical moment” was discovering the water was part of Beaver Lake. Some thirty years earlier, I’d driven through the area and later had experienced an unforgettable dream of Beaver Lake and an intelligent, huge full moon hanging over the water. The dream sparked the opening scene to my second novel Devil Moon: A Mystic Romance. As it turned out, our retreat coincided with the rising of the great Beaver Moon. Each night we sat in silver moonlight around a fire pit at the adjacent campground, creating ceremony and community.

As the week unfolded, we enjoyed morning yoga and meditation, followed by interesting outings organized by Dayna. The meditations included deep breathwork that triggered altered states of consciousness. It was during the meditations I experienced the visions and energy activations that unfold in my latest meditation, VISIONS UNDER THE BEAVER MOON.

The visions revealed a past-life in a Native American society and an association with a female shaman in the White Buffalo Calf Woman tradition. For details of the visions, please listen to the meditation. Evidently, I had some sort of “spiritual appointment” at Beaver Lake. Something not in the meditation is verification of one detail. In the first vision, I was led across the water to a small cave. The roof of the cave was common stone, but there were also pockets of geode crystals embedded in the stone. They sparkled and glinted. On the last day of the retreat two young participants kayaked across the water and found a small cave with the crystals in the roof!🤷‍♀️

In the months that have passed, I’ve developed a deeper kinship with Native American traditions, such as flute music and ceremony. I was also led by spirit to read Return of the Bird Tribes, a popular 1980’s book channeled by Ken Carey. An entire section covers the legend of White Buffalo Calf Woman. A shaman and storyteller, Yellow Hand Spirit Woman, has recorded it on YouTube for all interested in the tale and prophecy, White Buffalo Calf Woman by Ken Carey.

My ability to connect with spirit feels quicker and more spontaneous than before. My body jolts with energy and my connection to nature feels stronger. I often pray about weather, fires, and the earth’s cycles.

I invite you to join me on my spiritual journey through that week recreated in VISIONS UNDER THE BEAVER MOON. I encourage you to follow your spiritual nudges to discover personal revelations as we all explore this Great Awakening.

Bright Blessings, Dana

VISIONS UNDER THE BEAVER MOON can also be found on the Planet Meditations Page.

To learn more about Dana’s spiritual journey read Ever-Flowing Streams: Christ, Reiki, Reincarnation & Me