Walking the Land: Grassy Knolls-Marchiene Reinstra, Part I

Copyright 2009 Marty Reinstra

NOTE: I asked Marty to pen her own version of our dual experience as we searched for and found Grassy Knolls from Nicholas Mann’s book, Sedona, Sacred Earth. Since this is a team effort, I felt it only right Marty should share from her perspective on that magical day last week. Here’s her story:

“Wow, it’s going to be hard to beat our experience at Rainbow Bridge,” I said as Eileen and I sipped our coffee at lunch today.

“Expect nothing, receive everything,” replied Eileen with a wolfish smile. “Whatever happens, you can bet it will be something other than what you might expect.”
How right she was!

On another beautiful, bright, mild and sunny day we drove out Long Canyon way. We had decided over lunch that we both felt drawn to first explore the Grassy Knolls near the Long Canyon trail. It is the third eye or brow chakra area in Nicholas Mann’s geomantic chakra pattern. Isis rock in Long Canyon is the crown chakra, but we felt it we should go to the brow chakra first.

Here is Marty getting ready with Eileen to search for Grassy Knolls. She’s carrying her double flute in the bag around her neck.

Over lunch, Eileen had described some of the insights that had come to her since our Rainbow Bridge hike. She said that she had seen the red earth circle open up like a cover, revealing a snake hole. She had followed it to the tip of South America, but stopped there. Eileen intuitively feels the tunnel circumnavigates the world and returns to the sun circle to complete its journey. Thereby completing a major energy corridor. Another journey will have to be taken to prove this or not. She felt the tunnel would go to Uluru (Ayres Rock), Australia, home of the rainbow snake of the Aboriginals and on to Tibet and the Himalayas. Where else it goes, she hopes to be shown when she performs the shamanic journey.

I immediately saw the snake energy continuing to the Himalayas, and said so. She agreed and said she wanted to go back there to ask more about this area.
She feels something huge has happened in awakening the Rainbow Serpent energy, which is global, and that we are part of the awakening of energies that will shift us into the New Age of promise! With this in mind, we took the road to Long Canyon. We looked for the grassy knolls, described by Mann as being on the right near the entrance to Long Canyon. We didn’t see them. So we parked in the Long Canyon trail head and got out of the car, crossed the street, and snooped around until we spotted a faint trail heading upwards.

We remembered he had said he could see Isis Rock and Rainbow Bridge area from the top of one of the knolls, so it had to be a little past the trailhead. We followed the path upward, keeping a sharp lookout for anything that looked like a grassy knoll. Finally, just off to the left beyond some junipers I spotted what looked like one. We headed towards it and sure enough, there was a clearing with some grass in it, and not much else except a bit of cactus. We stopped at its southern gate. We could feel the energy. We offered birdseed in the seven directions, asking for blessing. Then we stood and listened, asking for some guidance.

Eileen was told to keep looking for the other knoll. I was told to walk into the knoll where we were and rattle and play my flute. Eileen got that there were seven grandmothers in the circle, the ones from the Grandmother’s Cave at Boynton canyon. I noticed that when we stepped a little down from the circle, we could see the huge male face that loomed over Rainbow Bridge trail. I knew that it was not a monk, but the visage of first man, Komwidapukwia’s grandson Skaatakamcha. Then I noticed that his face was in perfect alignment with Isis Rock in Long Canyon, which to me is a form of Grandmother Komwida. When I stood with arms outstretched, one pointed at one, and the other at the other.

Eileen noticed the powerful energy of the tall, creamy stone-topped pyramid shaped mountain that dominated the scene.

It rose to the left of Skaatakamcha’s face. She walked into the nearest grassy knoll to our right and saw that there too, S. and K. were in perfect alignment, and that where she stood, the grassy knoll was in an exact line with the Apu. After laying down my double-flute bag (it also had a rattle in it Eileen had given me years ago).

I went towards the place where Eileen stood. I also saw the alignments she had seen. She decided to stay there and drum while I went on the other grassy knoll and did what I was led to do. But when I made my way back towards it, I lost my bearings, and wandered around, not finding my bag, my hiking bear staff, or the knoll we had been standing by! I looked and looked, asking for help, but nothing. Finally, I called to Eileen and asked her to help me find my bag. I really didn’t want to lose the beautiful flutes I had just acquired, or her rattle.
I remember silently reproaching the grandmothers for allowing this. They knew I just wanted to honor them! Eileen and I combed that hillside, looking around every grassy knoll and then some. Nothing. Nada. We were both getting tired and losing our sense of direction. Eileen felt we were in a strong inter-dimensional vortex which was discombobulating to say the least. And she thought “they” might have taken my bag and staff since neither of us could find it after looking and looking and looking. I kept looking though, asking for the grandmothers’ help, and my guides too. Nothing.

Finally Eileen went back to her knoll and began to drum. I whistled the Zuni sunrise song to honor the spirits regardless.

Then I went over to her. “Are you ready to surrender it?” she asked. I realized this was a test. Was I willing to give up something I cherished so much (and was pretty expensive and newly acquired, i.e. the double flute)? I realized and remembered that we really own nothing, and that surrender of all we have is the price of spiritual devotion. So I gave up looking, but not without using Unity principles and thanking the grandmothers, in advance, for helping me find the bag again sometime.

Eileen and I started tying strips of towel around trees so we could find our way back to these knolls. We were very disoriented, and Eileen wasn’t sure we would ever find the place again without some markers. I made a mental note to put RED yarn in my turtle! Then I turned to go down the path we came up, (if our guess was right!) and there they were—-the bag and staff!
Eileen laughed and then said “I know those were not here before. I think they took them and blessed and worked with them and then gave them back. There is special magic in those things now. They would never steal them for good. But you were being tested! Those grandmothers are coyotes!”

I smiled and got out my double flute and played a song of gratitude at the edge of the knoll. Then Eileen went back to her knoll, and I sat by mine, and we both drummed and played and flute for quite a while. Finally, we sat in silence, communing with the place. I asked for its purpose: The answer came. “Vision Quest, of course.” I asked for a symbol of the spirit of the place. I saw a pyramid with a sun in it, and in the sun an eye. Then I saw a rainbow stretch from Komida rock to Skaata’s face opposite it. I sensed a connection between the red earth circle near Rainbow Bridge and the knolls on which we sat. I saw a bridge of energy stretching from the apu’s summit to the Himalayas, Nanda Devi, to be exact! Wow.

Eileen reported she had just worked with the energy, which she saw as a rainbow encircling the whole area, and then a black snake undulating half way around the area.

We continued to compare notes as we shared a mocha latte at DEELish Deli. Then we went to the well-read coyote bookstore and while in it heard the song “Somewhere over the rainbow.”

Double check and chuckle! We both agreed there were probably seven circles or clearings in the area, not just two grassy knolls….one for each of the grandmothers! We need to go back, discern them, and sing, play, offer, listen, etc. We will aim to do this on Tuesday Feb. 10. Aho. Maybe we will name the place Chakra Hill: or Vision Quest Knolls. Or???????