Toltec Twist

Okay, here's the deal:

I'm way behind in this blog and still have a number of entries that I will probably backdate in if I ever get around to writing them. (I'll make sure to post notifications of anything I backdate.)

But for now, my walkabout is taking a serious detour to the South. (How can anything be a detour when I don't have any destination?) South, as in Mexico.....specifically, the Yucatan. Yeah, really.

After quite a bit of wrangling, my friend "Shine" here in Austin has convinced me to accompany her to the ruins at Chichen Itza and probably some other ancient sites as well. You see, although she's working on her Ph.D. dissertation here at the University of Texas at Austin in the field of Rhetorics (say what?), she's also been developing some kind of crazy healing abilities over the past few years too. It's all quite complex, involving colors, shapes, pyramids, energy fields, visions, and a whole bunch of other stuff that goes over my head....or at least in one ear and out the other.

Last year Shine felt "called" to Oaxaca, Mexico where she spontaneously learned various aspects of her healing system at different ruins. Now she's feeling called to Chichen Itza and possibly further destinations that may be revealed as the trip unfolds. I've already been to the Yucatan and seen some of the ruins, but that was a long time ago, so I'm looking forward to the trip and the inevitable lessons along the journey.

And okay, so I'm a skeptic at heart, but I know that a good skeptic realizes that there are also times to be skeptical of skepticism. So I will do my best to maintain an open mind and an open heart.....and try to keep my snarky comments to a minimum.

We leave tomorrow morning! Adios, muchachos!
Woohoo!



"Ever notice how "What the hell!" is always the right answer?"
---a friend's refrigerator magnet

"Use the Force."
---my Burger King Star Wars Yoda action figure, responding to my query, "Should I go to Mexico?"