My Encounter with the Ancient One

✏️CHAPTER 1✏️

Touching a Zuni petroglyph for the first time, a jolt of indissoluble energy travelled up my spine, and penetrated the deepest most reaches of the pineal gland. I closed my eyes as if in lucid trance, and let my mind wander into the world of the brave ones who lived with Nature immersed passionately in Nature. They respected the Earth in the purest sense, they to me, were and are the real custodians of Earth. All ancient tribes were meant to inherit the Earth. Earth and Mother Nature are God. You can worship anything or anyone, but the fact remains that once your flesh has melted and been eaten away by the worms, you will become food for MOTHER EARTH. You will become what you were always meant to be- ONE WITH EARTH.

✏️CHAPTER 2✏️

An icy breeze pinched my cheeks as I stood alone atop the red mountains, where the twilight mist rising from the Zuni ruins whispered and echoed strange secrets into my ear. They told me to ‘find peace in chaos or else the mist will swallow my mind and I shall wander the Earth aimlessly in a state of perpetual anxiety’. As I stood atop the ruins allowing the ancient dust to enter my lungs, I felt a gentle but urgent tap on my heart. As I opened my eyes, I saw a flight of color dance before me. A hummingbird suspended in air like an elegant ballerina of the wind, hovered close to my face, looked me in the eye, and dissipated into the roar of silence that confronted me atop the lone cliff. Was it the spirit of the ancient one urging me to say a prayer for humanity? Have we hurt our planet beyond repair? Have we torn out the heart and soul of Mother Earth so that we can drink the blood of life itself to appease our greedy human heart? Are we vampires of existence?

✏️CHAPTER 3✏️

I still keep the rocks that I had found lying near the ancient ruins close to my bedside. When things get tough, I touch them, inhale the ancient dust and close my eyes waiting for the hummingbird to dance upon my heart again, telling me that there is still time to save the Earth.

My Hiking Diaries

~©Ansul Noor~

New Mexico, 2012