Chapter 49: Beholding The Sacred Vessel

​A vision of The Holy Grail Way was revealed to me in a dream, in the Fall of 2018. My birth parents were visiting for our grandson Nevin’s baptism. The dream came to me on the night before we walked in the Balavaud Alpine pasture where the oldest Larch tree in Europe is rooted.
 
Later, I discovered that the Holy Grail is a treasure in the St. Lorenzo Cathedral in Genova that I have since visited twice. The Holy Grail is also a powerful Arthurian legend that has inspired Western Civilization. It brings together legend, Christian symbolism, and the different stages experienced in mystical life. I have come to understand that the The Holy Grail Way takes us from brokenness to linkedness. Within this framework of understanding, writing to transform relations is a form of narrative repair. We can restore and transform that which has been broken-experiencing wholeness and well-being. Writing emancipates, makes whole, and sets us free, while connecting us to living wisdom.
 
The Holy Grail in Genova was taken by Napoleon. During its transportation, it suffered a break. Later, it was returned to Italy restored. The Holy Grail’s hi-story is a metaphor for restoration and restitution. There is a symbolic connection with my own story. Though the Giveaway Girl was taken away from her birth mother and offered to another family on the sacred alter of life, her place was eventually restored within her biological family circle.
 
As we walkthrough our conflict and illness narratives, we participate in a sacred pilgrimage of becomingness. Storying our process allows us to participate in narrative transformation and narrative repair, as we find our way walking through the Medicine Wheel, making meaning of the different stages of our life. Here, we create an aesthetic pathway by interweaving stories, articles, artwork, films, and photos that incorporated together elicit the Jungian transcendent function.
 
My autoethnographic process grew to become a teaching story that has taken form through my blog posts and website, sharing what I know through this “glovircal” space-the global and local linked together through virtual connectivity. Each blog post is part of a stepwise quest on a glovircal expedition. The quest has become a glovircal pilgrimage, using mediatorship as a vessel of transportation.
 
My Medicine Wheel is an artform that has taken the shape of a story mandala. It has been inspired by Native people’s concepts of health and illness. Designing it has contributed to my health and healing, as well as my self-realization. Movement in the Medicine Wheel is guided in a “sun-wise” direction. Transformation occurs by walking in a “sun-wise” way through the wheel of perception. This transformational process takes us to an inner space that opens to the experience of narrative coherency. On this vision quest, I have been transported to a place on the Medicine Wheel of life where I can see a new vision of living in/on Earthship. From this vantage point, we can see how our sacred vessel Earthship is holding us together in a loving embrace. Behold!

Here is a link to Native Voices that presents Native People’s Concepts of Health and Illness:

​Here is a picture of the Holy Grail in the St. Lorenzo Cathedral:

​Here are pictures of our trip to Berlin with Jessica:

​Here is a picture of the Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi that I visited in the summer of 2021: