CHRISTAL
TEMPLE
is
both a vision
and
a now-functioning mixture of
different
modalities within
Self-development,
Complementary
and Spiritual Healing,
Shamanic
Practice,
Music,
Ecstatic
Dance,
Prayer
and Worship,
Ritual
Celebration
and
Sacred
Sexuality.
We
hold group workshops,
take
on client “projects” both private and business,
and
coach those who come to us in
the
finding and using of transformational tools.
John Overton writes
The aim of Christal Temple is
that our clients and all those who work, play and pray with us, become
more self-empowered in their lives, and that from there may see the
Oneness of All things, knowing that their own re-discovered Light
empowers others to shine. It is our passion to encourage inner and
outer journeys towards more satisfying and joyful lives. Our work
begins on the journey into the innermost soul, to the divine as known
within, as well as from without; and it is our desire and purpose that
this work ultimately flourishes in practical outreach on a renewed
Earth.
Some of what we do is described
in greater detail on the links at the bottom of the pages on this site.
As our own understanding expands
and intensifies, and as we allow the Spirit to guide us into deeper
Truth, there will be more written about each of the “jigsaw-pieces”
that go together to form this work. In deeper reality, all the pieces
are part of the same idea – to access that innermost flow in us which
will enable us to be gentle, generous and powerful goddesses and gods
of Life, in joyful and willing wonder and co-operation with the Source
of all Being.
We are
multi-disciplinary and multi-faith, while honouring and
expanding our own Christian background, drawing wisdom from it and its
particular way of guiding, nourishing and strengthening us.
This is the vision…
In the Holy Scriptures of
different religious traditions, it is interesting how many of those
vibrant moments of Cosmic Silence (where angels minister to women and
men, prophesies are foretold and instructions given on new, liberating
Ways of Life) occur under trees or upon mountains. It is as though the
depths and heights of Earthly Existence are being shown to be the
prerequisite and starting-point for deeper change. Often these Cosmic
moments happen after seemingly long periods of apparent hardship,
failure and despair; sitting under a tree, Elijah cries “It is enough!
I am no better than my fathers!” yet his life is not taken, he is
succoured and given a new vision that fires him with boundless energy.
Just as in waiting to fall in
love, it is easy to imagine that such visions only happen to others, to
those “chosen” or “lucky” in some way. But when the transfigured Moment
comes to pass in one’s own life, everything can swiftly
appear to become radically different - the shape, the value, the feel
of things have been transformed in a holy instant, and there is no
possible “return to how it was before.” And yet, looking back later,
hindsight will almost certainly show how all things were coming
together to that point, and that the deeper seeds of the vision were
already in place – it only required a new perception, as given through
the transfigurative experience.
Which came first? The
willingness to listen and receive, or the transfigurative moment? Who
can tell?! In my own case, it was in my sister’s garden under a tree,
in the early summer of 2004, that the Inner Divine Voice showed me the
following. I had asked for direction, but harboured few hopes of
receiving guidance; now I found myself suddenly scribbling madly,
breathless, unable to keep up with what I was being told. It was new,
yet extraordinarily familiar.
This is a short version:
“Build up a guruless spiritual
community and network of people (especially friends, therapists,
musicians, shamans, sacred ministers, artists and artisans, and others
who wish to live day-to-day in holy multidimensional Truth,) aligning
yourselves by Earth-energetic and prayerful means to other similar
communities around the world, for the sake of inner and outer Joy and
Peace, and so that you may connect ever more deeply with the Divine.
Bring together the deepest Earth Sensuality and Sexuality with Cosmic
Wholeness and Holiness, pray and worship together, make ecstatic
Music, find new forms of Artistic Expression that proclaim the
deeper Truths of the Paradigm Shift now taking place, Dance, Heal,
Celebrate in ritual Pleasure, Meditate and share Christ's Essence as a
token of your Divinity, open yourselves to deeper Energy Attunements
from realms beyond, affirm the Manifestation of New Physical Reality by
pure Intention, make a place to welcome guests and course-participants
to eat and stay, and then, build a Christal Temple where you may affirm
these truths and support one another in Ecstatic Joyful Community. This
is Christal Temple Divine Ascension.”
The vision stressed the
necessity of letting go of conventional limited 3-dimensional "wisdom"
so that all might be better able to live abundantly on Earth in the
months and years ahead, and to prepare for whatever the next 5 to 10
years may herald. The transfiguration of individual lives was the
pattern for the whole of Earth, “so below, so above”. It emphasised the
regular coming together in community to pray, eat, celebrate
and experience life-transformation. Doing this we would experience an
ever-deepening awareness of our ultimate intimacy with God, our deepest
sensual Earthiness as humans, our Starchild Cosmic connections, an
expanding com-passionate love for our planet that would be the basis of
authentic, Earth-friendly lives, and an intensifying Shamanic Energy
coursing through our bodies - a profoundly Divine Sensual Community at
all levels.
Since the vision came, there has
been a wonderful synchronicity of people coming together, there have
been meetings, buildings have been seen, mountain views and the inner
process match well what has been shown on the inner planes. As one
might expect, there have also been difficulties and inner blockages and
expectations to release; Christal Temple is first and foremost the
journey, the relationships, the gained insights and the inner
transformation! Yet, the growing need for a community of those prepared
to live this way makes the eventual building, in whatever form, our
highly desired and intentioned goal.
The quantum physics aspect of
what has happened pleases me greatly: people who do not know one other
have "happened" on this same idea, envisioned it in the same part of
the same country/countries, as though the photons in different “realms”
so far “apart” have manifested identical outcomes. A further aspect -
though perhaps speculation, and certainly disputed as "pseudo-science"
- is that Earth may be moving ever more centrally into the light of the
Photon Belt, with increased divine synchronisation (or sacred
co-incidence) as a result; whatever the truth of this, there is an
accelerated longing for the manifestation of Light whereby darkness
will less and less be able to hide. The increased level of prophesy
going on in these times is also pointing to a level of Divine Guidance
that we may never have ever known before.
Our Divine Purpose at Christal
Temple, then, is to reassume our mantle as Co-creators for an
all-embracing Life in Abundance, in willing service to God,
the Earth and all humanity, resolving all hurt and fear by choosing
Peace, Joy and Boundless Ecstasy over the lies of Scarcity, Menace and
untimely Death, so beloved of those in so-called power, who would keep
us enslaved!
Profound Joy will always
prevail. It is the Source-Connected Life in Boundless Joy, in
whatever circumstances, that is indeed the purpose, and the
deepest wellspring of bounty, of divinely empowered communities. Our
Christal Temple community is intended to live and flourish in this way.
This is the vision of Christal
Temple.
John Overton revised 11
September 2008
Some people may be surprised by the
"mixture of activities" here.
Others may be challenged by the
sensuality and sexuality practices
that are referred to in the same context as God and Christ.
It is our deepening belief that today's
spiritual and practical malaise
is much due to the sidelining of parts of Earthly existence.
(This disempowering of targeted parts of
human existence is a preferred way to keep slaves in place,
by denouncing such parts as tainted, and
thus without real worth.
When applied to specific groups of
people, witch-hunts ensue and nazi regimes rule.)
The marginalizing of some body-parts and
their created-for-passion uses,
has long been systematically
practised in the name of the Jewish and
Christian God;
this is seen by us as idolatry!
(We believe Her to be passionate, as in "com-passionate" -
and supportive of complete living as a Divine
Being on Earth -
after the model of Jesus
Christ.)
Earth religions and Indian/Tbetan
tantric practices show
how ever-deepening sexuality is used to experience the Divine.
Our mission is to bring back together
that which man
(for it has usually been the male of our species) has separated,
so that we may again celebrate our wholeness.
PS When I was one
of the moderators for the Active Indigo Yahoo Group, 2004 - 2005, I
shared the Christal Temple vision with a fellow moderator. She
suggested that we call the centre Crystal
Temple, since this would be less likely to "put
off" those who had been alienated from Christ by their church religious
upbringing. I asked on the inner planes about this and was clearly
shown that Christal
Temple was both
the name and the spelling. Ultimately we are about the
coming together of Heaven and Earth, the Return (the Coming) of the
Cosmic Christ, within us and without.
There is a
Crystal Temple in Portland, Oregon. Despite some parallels between
their work and the work we do at Christal Temple, we are not "related"
- we are organisations completely independent of one another.
