Today the buses take us to Galilee, Capernaum, and the Jordan River. It’s a peaceful, relaxed day. Sweltering heat and bright sun. In the slideshow you can see shots of the countryside taken through the bus window.

After a couple of hours in the buses we arrive at the Sea of Galilee. Our first stop is at the Mount of Beatitudes, site of Jesus’ sermon. Benji gives us some historical background, and John Morton does a seminar overlooking Galilee. Even though he is sharing some difficult personal stuff, there is a peace that emanates through it all, dissolving all the bumps of the bus ride and transporting us into the silky, floaty, warm-water feeling of Traveler-World.

We spacily (new word) glide through the gardens and board the buses again and go to nearby Capernaum, where Jesus first taught and selected many of his disciples. Looks like another ruin to me. My roommate Paul later tells me there was a nice energy there but I was just hot. One man’s energy is another man’s sweaty t-shirt, and spirit may be there but my attention isn’t.
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Then we’re on a cruise on the Sea of Galilee, and then on to baptisms in the Jordan River. One of those rare instances in MSIA where the outer beauty and grace matches the majesty of what’s going on inwardly. A little break from the ordinariness that J-R has always promoted as a way of keeping us grounded and de-fanging the ego. For an hour or two we are angels floating in perfect-temperature water, dunking each other, smiling into each other’s eyes, crying, laughing, going for little swims, just floating and being, all dressed alike so that outer personality-distinctions melt. I’ve included a few series of several shots of a single person or pair to convey a better sense of the experience.

There’s no way to completely escape the ordinariness of the earth however, and here it’s thousands of little fishes that harmlessly nibble-kiss-tickle our feet and legs. There’s a photo of them swarming around Brooke Danza’s feet.

Whenever there is some big energetic event in MSIA, like this baptism, I end up, as I’m sure many people do, looking inside myself to sum up and figure out what has changed inside me. Sometimes the change happens right away and sometimes it’s a delayed reaction. No way to predict. This time I come up out of the water and…nothing right away. But a short time later I check inside and…wow, my heart center is different. Something got lifted or taken. It’s several pounds lighter. It’s all different in there. Thanks.
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Unfortunately we have to leave our angel-kingdom but fortunately we are going to dinner, at a restaurant right on the sea. Best salmon ever—line caught, steamed, then broiled over several different kinds of wood, including olive wood.

Towards the end of the meal we get a special gift: A huge, yellow full moon rises over the opposite shore. Everybody scrambles to get photos.

Then back on the buses, where we all zonk out until we get back to the hotel.
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