I did something called "healer camp," which was meant to be a theme camp but ended up more an installation, sort of. The idea was to provide a place for people to focus the already very present spiritual energy there.

I used some bamboo that I cut a few months before to build a simple pyramid structure, same proportions as the great pyramid in giza. I put my orgonite energy cleansing devices at each of the 5 corners, and had some of that white camo tarp with fractal hole patterns in it.

Two guys, Alan and Lumos, did most of the work and thinking about and putting up the bamboo and hanging the tarp, and Lumos who sells crystal put 8 GIANT quartz crystals around the structure. Emily who didn't even come this year had seen the idea on the forums and made 2 beautiful sheet sized paintings which I hung in the pyramid.

Pearl brought 2 led light nets with programmable flashing, and those went in too.

I had a power cord and a CD player for the space, and Bunny/Billy brought this interesting music from some traditional morroccan musicians he said were in a direct lineage from the people that played in the Eleusinian Mystery rites. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleu..._Mysteries

So already it was pretty cool in there. Literally, actually, as Kathy noticed the cooling effect from the orgonite that we had previously seen in the merkaba.

The last ingredient, as you may glean from this bit in the wiki entry [Since the Mysteries involved visions and conjuring of an afterlife, some scholars believe that the power and longevity of the Eleusinian Mysteries came from psychedelic agents] also came from the community. That's one of the beauties of kiwiburn now-- I don't bring any d**, they just get gifted to me when I am there.

So that night was totally amazing in a lot of ways. I spent a lot of time with Kathy travelling around, dancing, checking out cool art (yes, kiwiburn now has cool art!), running in to people, acting as back up at the lake where some locals were trying to sneak in by boat, see above picture but that's another story, playing with a flourescent tube under the power lines (it lights up, but quirkily)... eventually as is often the case with me I got separated (or separated myself) from everyone else and ended up in the healer camp pyramid, just as Pearl, who brought the light nets, remember, was starting the music CD. The music was trippy and a bit jarring. Very trance inducing. The light nets were pulsing in a way that made the paintings totally come alive, pulsing and vibrating and moving. It was cold that night, and Pearl and I just lay down under my old school man sewed double layer green fleece elf cloak and listened to the music and watched the lights for a good half hour.

I felt like I was at the spot I had wanted to be, that I had in some way created, but had not foreseen, and which had been made by all the contributions of everyone else. It was like, welcome to your unscheduled magical initiation. But it was scheduled, I just wasn't consciously aware of it until it was happening around me and in me.

I had some very good moments-- one where I felt I had the attention of this vast and benign intelligence. The attention of an angel, if you will, which is a hard word for me to use. And as it shifted away the feeling that it was as much a state of mind in myself that was this occurence, or a receptivity to it. Like it is the shape of my being where this other being fits, and that like in a figure/ground drawing, one creates or implies the other.

After that I went and dragged some other people from the green fairy back to the pyramid and hung out with them for a good long time. Discovering among other things that Shelley, our co-organizing friend we had stayed with in Auckland while finding our 4x4 a few months ago, is a life-long boogie boarder and invited me to her favorite beach...

Much later that night/morning the whole site was covered in mist. I took a dawn ride on the pirate ship out onto the lake, had another ecstatic moment, finally went to bed...