A man from the town of Negua, on the coast of Colombia, could climb into the sky.
On his return, he described his trip. He told how he had contemplated human life from on high.
He said we are a sea of tiny flames.
“The world,” he revealed, “is a heap of people, a sea of tiny flames.”
Each person shines with his or her own light. No two flames are alike.
There are big flames and little flames, flames of every color. Some people’s flames are so still they don’t even flicker in the wind, while others have wild flames that fill the air with sparks. Some foolish flames neither burn nor shed light.
Others blaze with life so fiercely that you can’t look at them without blinking and if you approach, you shine in fire.
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I’d like to start by saying that TV broadcasts that showed Firewalking did not represent the meaning and the deep richness of experiencing this kind of walk. The experience itself of walking on Fire is something intimate, personal and to be protected, not to be broadcasted on television. It is not an act of force but a deep contact with our real nature.
Fire, the element
In this experience walking is not compulsory, it is a choice the person makes when standing before the carpet of hot coals, after a preparation that brings individual energy to the same level as that of Fire.
Fire is the only element that always looks up to the sky, and it symbolically represents the person’s quest for their most intangible, metaphysical and spiritual self.
It has always been used by cultures from all over the world—a follow-up on the history of the element Fire will soon be available—even when the various civilizations were not in contact with one another, and it has always represented the search for contact with the most elevated part of our nature.
From the Pacific Islands to Europe, from Australia to Africa, from America to India, from Bali to Siberia, from Tibet to Indonesia and so on, people have always been confronted with this element. In different realities and cultures it has been sacred to man.
For the current—and very rational—western culture, to accept contact with oneself achieved through this “means” is particularly challenging but also appealing because, despite the mind’s resistance, there is something ancestral and atavistic to it that vibrates inside us when we are faced with Fire, and that draws us closer to it.
The meaning of Firewalking can be summarized as specified below:
Fear
When facing the carpet of hot coals, one gets scared, but once it has been faced, one can tell that a change took place because one has experienced the force in our system. Science tells us that when put on fire, flesh gets burnt. Yet this is not what happens in this ritual, and this is explained by the fact that we are not only made of matter. This is being proven by quantum physics.
Transformation
The principle of life is that we are constantly transforming, we die and we are born again. This is how our body cells work. This is how our living flame produces this continuous transformation, which is different for each one of us and directly proportionate to the power of the individual flame.
Courage
The fear of walking on Fire turns into courage after exposure to Fire and after overcoming it. An opaque matter, when it disintegrates and melts, becomes strength and courage. Just like wooden pieces that, brought together by Fire, turn into light and heat.
Intensity
The Fire our heart hosts has the power to maintain our system, which contains 70% of water, always moving and effective. The motion is directly proportional to how intensely our Fire lives life.
Steam
Fire that turns water into steam symbolically represents the spirit transforming matter and expanding it upwards.
Light
The act of power, in its practical form, is to take all elements that are worn-out, aged, impure and turn them into our light, through to our energy.
Mystery
The mystery of Fire surrounds our very existence, it is the spark of life hidden in our hearts that we often have a hard time recognizing.
Cold and lifeless grey iron does not disintegrate when it touches Fire, yet it becomes blazing, bright and glowing, and acquires new features from the transformation.Fire transforms iron and gives the blacksmith the opportunity to reshape it.
In a similar way, Fire can immerse a person in a certain spiritual state, and thus removes the most discordant and rough shapes in order to gain brighter and glowing ones. And by processing the experience, thoughts not only create new perceptions of themselves, but they also produce new chances, experimentations and creativity.
… After having raked the embers, one by one we all went barefoot on them. I tried it and it didn’t hurt at all. It was a great experience.
A six-year-old girl
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