Googlemancy

Ok, so recently I dreamed I was floating outside a trailer full of people singing kirtan with words about manifestation. I was looking at the underside of the trailer where there were rainbow wave interference patterns that danced along with the music. They were beautifuly entrancing. I then floated down into a peacful temple garden in front of a wooden statue of a god or goddess that I couldn't quite identify. When I turned to look around the area a black and gold cobra was right behind me poised to strike, and before I could react, it bit me in right in the balls! I pulled it off but I looked down at the fangs still lodged in my nuts and thought, "I'm full of cobra venom...FUCK!" Later, while I was sharing that dream with my dream group, ’d received an e-mail from a fellow dream teacher in training who had just moved to Bombay. So I decided to do some “Googlemancy” and I googled golden cobra + Bombay and the first hit was this article about a musical fundraiser to preserve an ancient holy spot.

He explained the significance of the sacred spot: "When Lord Chaitanya first adopted the outward dress of a sanyasi monk he travelled down the east coast of India to the holy town of Puri, accompanied by Nityananda Prabhu, who broke his bamboo sanyasi staff and threw it into a nearby river, protesting that God Himself should not have to carry a staff of renunciation. There is a prediction written hundreds of years ago that the wooded island where this pastime took place would be a source of spiritual strength for multitudes of devotees and that Jaganath would come to live there.

A holy man living on the island recently had a dream of a specific tree in a distant village from which Jagannatha would be carved. Upon reaching this village the holy man and his group saw that this tree was being worshipped by the villagers. On enquiring he was informed that the tree had been planted hundreds of years ago by an associate of Lord Chaitanya who predicted that one day in hundreds of years time someone would come and ask if the tree could be used to carve deities of Jagannatha. The villagers had been waiting for this day for generations! As if to further confirm that this tree was actually for Jaganath, a golden cobra was discovered sleeping on the tree the morning after it was ceremonially felled. A golden cobra is said to appear very near a 'Jaganath tree' that is seen in a dream". The link between seventies pop stars and a sacred spot in India may seem tenuous, but the plan of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu for the worldwide spreading of the sankirtan movement can involve every single man, woman and child - each of us in our own special way.

So it was wild how this mysterious post tied together all of the elements of my dream: the kirtan singing, the wooden statue and the mystical golden cobra…Someday I’ll have to go to Jagannatha temple in Puri and see what magic happens. For now, I'm honoring the dream by diving deeper into kirtan music and keeping a watchful eye out for venomous ball biters....Also, the golden and black cobra recently popped up in an interesting way in Tom Kenyon's book the Magdalen Manuscript which I got for Christmas. According to this channeling, the golden cobra was the symbol of the Isis cult that Mary Magdalen was initiated into. She used her sex magic training to help Jesus raise his kundalini and charge his KA body up so that he could do what he did. I much prefer this jucier version of how Jesus raised his game. The book also mentions that in Indian Tantra the black and gold cobras are the two kundalini serpents spinning the chakras, the two currents ida and pingala that when turned up the spine and raised to the crown enlighten us with liquid singing starlight...