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26 A Journal of Contemporary Shamanism VOLUME 6 ISSUE 2 FALL 2013 energy from the Cup of Heaven or Big Dipper that revolved around the North Pole and was the Source of all knowl- edge. In ancient China the symbol for the Big Dipper was a pig or boar and the explanations for the hexagrams all began Boar says meaning Big Dipper says. Indeed the Big Dipper was considered to be in charge of karma and the life force as well as all natural phenomena including natural disasters and disease the four seasons and the balance of Yin and Yang in the universe. The Heavenly Cup also known as the Jade Balance of Fate was considered to be the heart of the celestial world. So Yi was the Big Dipper. 8 Interestingly I thought given this discovery it could be said that the Yijing was the Book of the Holy Cup or Book of the Grail. And so I realized if for ancient shamans in that part of the world the Big Dipper was the primordial Source of all knowledge and universal Qi as used in healing which would also make clear connection between the Grail and Usui Reiki via his familys guardian the spirit of the North Pole it would make sense that these could be attained by invoking the Big Dipper or Graal perhaps with a ceremony the Sangraal. So I began thinking that while I might have sought to link Usui to Christianity when he said Keep looking he was perhaps pointing toward shamanic Taoism and the North Pole and its two Dipperstwo Heavenly Cups. It was not difficult to believe that some Taoist Christians might have em- braced this practice. Surely I mused it was Usui who had guided me to Master Wus writings. The Jade Balance of Fate I real- ized must be an allusion to the green Northern Lights that result from the interaction between the solar wind and the Earths magnetic field at the North Pole. And here was another reason as well I realized for the ancients to equate the North Pole with a pouring cup that was the Source of all knowledge about nature and universal energy indeed the Earths magnetic field poured out of the Earths axis at the North Pole circled downward and around like a doughnut shape or toros and reentered at the South Pole forming a cup or chalice- like energetic shape along the axis. The Big Dipper would have symbolized that cup-shaped electromagnetic field that poured out of the Earths core at the North Pole. Interestingly human beings who in Taoist China were considered the microcosm of Earth had similar mag- netic fields pouring out of the head and reentering at the base of the torso. And the magnetic field of the heart formed an additional toros it made the shape of a medieval chalice with a round bulge on the stema second toros shape if you will. Furthermore in shamanic ancient China it had been established that there were energy centers on the human body that corresponded to the seven stars of the Big Dipper and these continued to be activated by Taoists for healing as well as for becoming immortal. The Earths core energy then spilled out into a cup made of seven far-away stars. So I realized these must be the mysterious energies I had been intended to connect with when I was sent by the spirits to Greenland to do a Grail ceremony for Mother Earth. For in fact the polar tradition where the Big Dipper and Pole star were central had originally come from the far North and would have traveled across Mongolia to China. Those people moreover had left no known written records. Conclusion And thus the Big Dipper for sha- mans in ancient Asia had been consid- ered the Source of Heavenly knowledge and universal Qi or energy. All these pieces supported the understanding that I had come to that the Holy Grail Graal or Sangraalthe Source as a holy primordial cupwas a shamanic tradition brought to Europe from the area of the world that Mongolia and Chi- na occupy today and it meant the Source of Heavenly knowledge and universal Qi with Christina Pratt shamanic healer teacher author Upcoming Classes Ancestral Healing Nov 13 2013 Chicago TBA Spring 2014 Boulder Actual Energy Cleaning Jan 1012 2014 Rowe MA LAST MASK CENTER FOR SHAMANIC HEALING Transforming the growing mountain of unresolved ancestral issues is one of the shamanic challenges of our time. Join us for this experiential teaching release the lifeforce bound in the past and bring healing to your own ancestral lines. This training is open to experienced journeyers and is the initial teaching of our professional training for Healing the Ancestral Lines. Mar 1416 2014 Portland OR at Whole Being Health Healing the Ancestral Lines For registration and more information visit lastmaskcenter.orgcalendar