Comments on: CHACO CANYON: Stairway Through Stone (Part III)

By: Robin Easton

Robin Easton — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 02:54:41 +0000

@Debbie Hartman:
WOW!!! I loved reading this. How exciting! I wish you and Forestman were here right now and we could share more experiences about this. I’m going to tell him about your comment here as I think he would love it too. This is beautiful Debbie. And I love how you just put it out there like this. I am going to print out this comment as it is something I want to read more than once. And I want to hold it in my hand while I read it.

As I reread your comment a second time (just now)…I felt in my body, Debbie, the truth of what you wrote here. There is great hope and freedom in that truth. It’s very powerful. Honestly? it moved me to tears. I felt that same rush of truth and goosebumps when FORESTMAN said he knew how to fly.

Thank you my friend for sharing this. It means more than you know….wait…you DO know. That’s the whole point!!!

By: Debbie Hartmann

Debbie Hartmann — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 02:31:45 +0000

This is how I think about it. I figure that people who think they can fly, or have had the very real experience of flying in their dreams or awake, are more tuned into theirs SOULS than some people. Like I mean, more sensitive to what our souls actually do and will do when not in these heavy cumbersome temporary bodies of ours. Because when we (and when I say “we” I mean our true souls that make us who we are) leave our bodies, our souls means of transportation throughout the universe is by flying. And I think some people are more tuned into this experience than others. Like maybe their bodies have a better memory of what their souls did before entering into the temporary human body. I figure our human bodies must really feel like a jail for the soul compared to the freedom of flying around in the universe. Any way, just my thoughts. Sometimes I just sit around and contemplate these things.

By: Forestman

Forestman — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 02:05:38 +0000

Incredible! Please go to my blog and click on the past posts of June 15 through June 22. The post for the 20th showing the seagull riding the wind. This flight feeling is so strong in me but this is the first time I heard of it in another. Also I took flight training for awhile but it just sucked all the life out of the joy I felt. Again, amazing.

By: Robin Easton

Robin Easton — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 01:13:23 +0000

@ Forestman:
It is so “interesting” that this comment came in today. and that I had time to respond to it. I say it was “interesting” because I had the most remarkable experience while sitting at my desk working this morning. All of a sudden I felt like I was a bird. I’m serious. I felt it in my arms and shoulders. I knew exactly how it felt to fly. My arms no longer felt like arms…but rather like wings. I knew that I could fly. (And I was not and am not on drugs LOL) — it was the most amazing feeling. I knew how to push down against the wind to raise myself upward. I knew how to flick the backward edges of my wings so that air could pass more easily beneath them when I wanted less resistance. I have had many many dreams of flying all my life. In fact over the years I learned to fly better with each passing dream and year. I have at times flown over vast distances of the Earth. But today’s experience was the first time I felt the intense urge to fly while awake or not standing on the edge of a cliff. I am very touched by your straight out honest words, “Because I think I can fly.” I know the feeling and the desire. People have said to me that I should take up hang gliding or flying etc. But the desire is to do it with my own body. So…like I said….I fly a LOT in my dreams. Thank you so much for sharing.

By: Forestman

Forestman — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:11:33 +0000

The third picture fills me with the desire for flight! Someone once asked me how I could be so unafraid of heights and I answered truthfully ” because I think I can fly”. I love the southwest art, such living colors! Someday we will visit the area, I love the wind sculptured rock and its such a opposite habitat from our great lakes area. Glad to read of your pleasure of the area I wish more people were so aware of the land around them.

By: bird

bird — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 16:16:57 +0000

I’m going to have to find out more about those pteroglyphs – I find these kinds of art utterly fascinating. And how I wish I shared your fearlessness for heights! I prefer to call my condition a fear of falling as it stems from clumsiness, and I recognise your jittery crawl to the edge of the cliff as something I’ve done many times myself. I absolutely cannot do certain ridge walks due to a lack of sure footedness, but I love to push my boundaries and walk in places that scare me, providing I’m feeling strong and limber enough to do it without killing myself. Anyway forgive my blabbing, I’m just enthusiastic about the photos and view of the settlement from on high. There is something exhilarating about clambering around like that!

By: scott sheperd

scott sheperd — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:40:24 +0000

Great stuff. Whenever I need a shot of life and I’m not out in it myself I go to your site.

By: Debbie Hartmann

Debbie Hartmann — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 02:09:00 +0000

Robin,

I have truly enjoyed reading these posts about Chaco Canyon! The reading is great, the photos are wonderful…I am so happy you got to experience this with someone you love…thanks for sharing your travels with us!

Debbie

By: Nards

Nards — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:41:02 +0000

Awesome Robin! Absolutely awesome! Just about anyone can take pictures, but you (like my husband) have “the eye”. Thank you for taking us “armchair travelers” along with you. The warmth, the beauty and the respect that you have for nature is wonderfully, magically captured for all to enjoy. This is a gift that not all possess. Thanks again for sharing. – Nards

By: Pretty Me

Pretty Me — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 01:39:12 +0000

Very well said as I can see in the pictures… How I wish I can travel in different places around the world… =)