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J.J's Egypt Spirit Tour

J.J.'s Egypt Spirit Tour

Of all the spiritual adventures I have taken over the last decade—and believe me, there have been a lot—my most recent trip to Egypt was the most life-changing of them all. I have never before felt so much energy shift and consciousness expand in all levels of my being. Each of us is called to different practices, techniques, and places to help our spiritual awareness explode. There is no right one. No right way. No single rule. Trust your gut. We are all unique beings making up a unified whole here. Egypt was my star-origin place on Earth, much like Bali has been, where everything aligned in the weirdest, most fluid and perfect ways. If Egypt is calling you, please go. This was the best trip of my life.

There are a million stories I could tell you about the outer-body experiences and extra-terrestrial guidance I received in Egypt; one day we’ll get there. But for now, here is the nitty-gritty on where we went and why.

These sacred sites, as well as their order, were all meticulously and methodically chosen by Mystic High-Priestess, Dee Kennedy, to activate our own energy points in logical succession, much like Kundalini energy travels from the base chakra up to the crown.

In other words, you aren’t going to have a head-exploding crown chakra moment in the Great Pyramid if you didn’t energetically clean out your womb and gut down in Aswan first. Each temple was located on the east bank of the Nile, and each was associated with a specific god or goddess, which provided a certain spiritual property, energetic amplification, chakra activation, and deeper learning lesson.

We did meditations, prayers, and intention work in each temple, literally stepping into and breathing in the invisible “light codes”—an energetic imprint or sacred language that is still encoded in these sites from the ancient civilization that built them. Think of light codes like a new computer program for your brain, received within your soul star (that’s the chakra point 6 inches above your head), and then flooding down into your nervous system. They hook into and can expand your light body and spiritual consciousness. Believe me, they are there! These temples gave me a series of aha moments, physical confirmations, visual images, and new awareness on my spiritual path. Lastly, we also made offerings at each temple, burying stones that were imprinted with our own private intentions; an act officially prohibited by the government, but that we did on the down-low anyway.

If you visit these sites blindly, you’ll enjoy them. If you go with awareness, you can vastly expand your own consciousness. If you do them guided by a high priestess trained in the Ancient Egyptian Mystery School, well, then—you will get the full energetic activation and spiritual initiation Big Bang. Trust me, do the latter.

ELEPHANTINE ISLAND

Elephantine Island is oval-shaped like a womb and spreads across 150 acres on the Nile in Aswan. We reached it by renting one of those fabulous, carpet-lined and pom-pom fringed wooden boats that are cheerfully stationed on every bank of the Nile. It is said that it was once the resting place of the Ark of the Covenant, but we went for the temple ruins there that are dedicated to the god Khnum, a creator god who molds his creations from clay. This is a site that activates the root chakra—the body’s base and anchor. Meanwhile the elephant, in Hindu mysticism, is associated with Ganesh, another powerful root-chakra ally and the opener of gateways. We can invoke the energy and spirit of Khnum (and Ganesh, of course!) to help us every time we take our spiritual work to the next level. My shaman friend Nena and I did a ceremony together under an ancient portal, placing our stones together in an altar and reciting intentions together. Nearby is a Nubian village that you can visit, filled with brightly painted mud-brick buildings, colorful stacks of textiles and robes, and piles of beautifully hued spices and herbs. Not spiritual per se, but joyful and uplifting.

PHILAE TEMPLE

There are two temples dedicated to Isis that I could not wait to visit. The first, built in the 7th or 6th century BC, is the original site that was flooded with the creation of the Aswan Dam, and is now underwater. It took UNESCO ten years to move and faithfully reconstruct the entire exquisite temple to a safer site 1km away. You want to start at the original site, as this is where the ley line is—you arrive by wooden boat and all you see now is a crumbling stone portico doorway submerged in watery marsh, but you will receive the activation anyway—it works! Then you take your boat to the second, full-scale site. Isis is also a major root-chakra activator. She is a teacher, a healer, and holds the codes for resurrection, as it was Isis who faithfully collected the 14 scattered pieces of her husband Osiris’s body and brought him back to life with her magic. She’s also highly relatable as a single mother raising a child (Baby Horus!) and mending family strife by embracing her brother, who murdered her husband. I don’t know many women who could do such a thing. She is a potent divine mother figurehead. Though there are many bold, gorgeous rooms, my favorite was the small, humble-looking resurrection chapel, where I lay down on the cold stone floor, put my hands in the holes in the walls, and rested my forehead on a carving of the goddess—inhaling and merging with her frequency. This temple is a must-do.



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KOM OMBO TEMPLE

This is a special temple dedicated to both shadow (Sobek, the crocodile god) and light (Horus the Elder, son of Isis and Osiris). The two temples, connected to the sacral chakra, mirror each other, as we carry both shadow and light within us. The lesson here is to explore our own duality. The crocodile symbolizes our reptilian self, and it was worshiped and revered in ancient Egypt as the fiercest creature on the Nile (check out the 39 crocodile mummies in the museum next door!). The message of this temple, a practical one, is to let Sobek have his rightful place in our life. We don’t have to stomp out our shadows completely, but we do need to bring our awareness of them to a much higher consciousness. Horus the Elder, symbolized by a falcon, has the great gift of sight, which helps us with this (he sees everything from a higher plane of perspective). We can remove the ego, swim through our inner crocodiles without disturbing them, and channel their power for transformation and courage. We were given a honey calcite stone as a gift at this site, symbolic as a motivation for change, and I buried a beautiful tiger’s eye in the dead center of both temples, representing the balance between light and shadow in my own life. It was here that our Egyptologist showed me Seshat—consort of Thoth, goddess of writing and fashion—on the wall. It felt eerily prescient that she should lead me right to Seshat, as if this goddess’ (and my own) gifts of creativity come forth once the duality within is resolved.

EDFU TEMPLE

Edfu, completed in 57 BC, is dedicated to Baby Horus in his juvenile, ego-fueled phase. It is connected to the solar plexus, our 3rd chakra, which is associated with the element of fire. On good days, this is our inner sun, a powerful motor that allows us to plug into our true power and free will. But sometimes the fire in our bellies stimulates agitation, aggression, and the desire to fight or destroy rather than to power up peace, union, and service work. Alternatively, if it is not lit, we lie passive throughout our lives, unable to take action. I have a very powerful, sometimes overactive 3rd chakra, so this was a very meaningful temple. As I walked through it, I noticed swarms of birds and bats tucked into its lofty ceilings. There was a room dedicated to ancient Egyptian perfume making. Later, I wandered into a remote back chamber of the temple with a wet white towel draped over my head to shield against the suffocating heat. I held a bright sparkling blue stone in my left hand, closed my eyes, reciting prayers and intentions about letting go of control, allowing life and the universe’s gifts and consciousness to deeply penetrate my cells. I bowed my head, kneeled, and buried this magical bright-blue sparkling rock under the dirt and rock floor to seal the intention.

ABYDOS TEMPLE

A lot of people resist the path from the 3rd to 4th chakras. Moving from the belly to the heart is the most difficult leap to make, and the most important portal. Part of you must die—your ego, principally—for you to be able to jump into the tender but powerful heart space. This is about surrender, and we learn to embody it through Osiris, who was torn into 14 pieces by his brother, Seth, and brought back to life by his wife, Isis, only to become god of the underworld. Built by the Pharaoh Seti in 1279 BC,. Abydos temple is dedicated to Osiris’ meaningful death and resurrection. Inside, as I walked around and later did group meditations (without getting kicked out!), I felt acutely aware of my control mechanisms melting off of my bones and muscles and slipping down my feet into the dirt. I looked at Isis in bird form—who, according to the story, literally fucked Osiris back to life—and I marveled at what we can allow to die in our lives and what we have the power to bring back. With Dee’s gauzy white shawl on my head, wandering the rooms, I began to see all of the moments that my own ascension process got blocked right at this point. I have a very open throat, third eye, and crown chakra. But my 3rd chakra is almost always being a bully and preventing the fire from reaching my heart, and therefore enabling the higher realms to anchor inside my body. It’s a team effort and everyone needs to be on board. In the Horus chapel here, Dee did a meditation channeling Horus and Seth—the King of Shadow—coming into peace. As I felt into this union inside my 3rd chakra, my head got very activated and began buzzing like crazy.



Interestingly, right behind the newer complex is a 4,000-year-old subterranean site known as Osireion, the oldest temple known to civilization made from 100-ton granite blocks and featuring the earliest known depiction of the Tree of Life in sacred geometry. It is also deeply tied to the Atlantean civilization (more on that later, guys!) in which many healers and psychics have always told me I had several past lives. I stood in my own meditation, cancelling all karma, density, and destruction ever created there, asking for forgiveness, and throwing a giant malachite stone down one of its crevices. As we stared at the Tree of Life in silence, I visualized it illuminated like a crystalline bed at the center of the universe where everything was created, pulled it down into each chakra, and through my feet. I gifted the tree of life back to Osiris, but when I gave it to him in my right hand, a paradisical garden had popped up, covering its illuminated grid with lush green, bright blooms, and exotic trees. Yeah, a lot was happening in this big portal!

SEKHMET’s CHAPEL AT KARNAK

In Luxor, everyone goes to the giant Karnak temple, the world’s largest holy complex. Please go there, get lost, ogle the amazing obelisk, and put your feet inside the lake in the center that doesn’t look like much at all, but has some of the holiest water you’ll find on earth. The high priests of Egypt used to purify themselves daily here. At Karnak, we contemplated the habits and self-love rituals that we can use to re-wire our own inner temples of heart and mind to allow for more expansion. Just off a dirt path leading away from Karnak, we found the small and sacred chapel dedicated to Sekhmet, a fierce healer goddess, awakener, and speaker of truth. This is one of those locations that seems like nothing to 3D eyes but will blow you out to the 5th dimension of consciousness with a trained high priestess. Dee gave each of us a special initiation with her prayers, toning, ankh (the Egyptian cross or key of life), and energy moves. This is an energetic upgrade site and massive throat-chakra portal opener. If it’s not a billion degrees out, take the lion-lined walk back to Luxor temple, following in the footsteps of an ancient pathway that has recently been restored and reopened.

LUXOR TEMPLE

This temple, built around 1400 BC, is laid out in the exact proportions of the human body. You enter at the feet past a row of colossal statues. As you walk through each successive courtyard or columned chapel, you stay completely silent and focused on the corresponding body part in your own physical shell. Bringing awareness to each and walking slowly and silently opened up windows of consciousness inside my body. The very last chapel is a humble place known as the Holy of Holies. Here, we held a beautiful night-time group ceremony in which Dee blessed and activated each of us with prayers, energy work, and her ankh, sealing in the heart openings we received the previous day.

UNAS PYRAMID

From the outside, this 6th dynasty “pyramid” looks like a pile of unexciting rubble. But do not be deceived by the dilapidated exterior. Climb down the steep steps and suddenly you’re in a sophisticated maze of stone tunnels, where you finally arrive at two pitched-ceiling chapels that feature the first carvings inside any building on earth. Every square inch of the walls is covered in the world’s most ancient spiritual texts. This pyramid confuses mainstream academics. They can’t understand the symbolism. It’s really a shamanic site: you go there to absorb the light codes that are embedded on the texts etched on the walls and to further activate your throat chakra. They are doctrines for continuous ascension, dying and rebirthing in all aspects of your life. They speak to how to become illuminated while living and how to help humans pass over. What do we need to refine? Clear out? It is very difficult to do any kind of ceremony here. But as I hovered my hands over the symbols, my arms began to vibrate in concert with the energy. Later that night as I lay down and closed my eyes, I began to see these light codes descend onto my body like an illuminated matrix filled with both numbers as well as hieroglyphs.

SAQQARA: ZOSER STEP PYRAMID

Saqqara is an ancient complex 10 miles from Giza with three major and six small pyramids. The Zoser is the first stone construction in history, dating to around 2600 BC (everything else before it was made from mud brick). You can go inside with a permit, but we did not. Instead, we went to the far-right side of the pyramids, where a row of chapels were once used as a sound hospital. Here I found beautiful little niches, where I practiced my own sound toning and mantra singing. This is the place to contemplate the 5th or throat chakra further: how does our voice give rise to gossip, control, and judgment? And how can it be purified and used for healthy communication and creativity? Further along there is a colonnade of polished sandstone that is so bright it looks like sheets of gleaming gold.

THE SPHINX

There is a specific alignment of the temple spaces in Egypt; the coordinates connect to the solstices or different star constellations and rare celestial alignments. The Sphinx is an antenna that is connected to the star Sirius, a very evolved stellar consciousness that is way beyond what humans experience here on earth. “The light beings won’t interfere with you,” Dee told me, “but they are sending love, light, prayers, and healing through portals like the Sphinx, and you can tap into this. There is an enormous amount of light language”—high-frequency language that sounds like jibberish but is actually filled with consciousness and connected to your soul’s method of communication—"encoded at the Sphinx, and you’re only able to receive it where you are at in your own consciousness. But the vibration of those codes is still received. So, in two years you might be able to receive more as you evolve more, because you’re opening to receive that information.” Spiritually and energetically attuned individuals can sense and tap into what’s known as the Akashic Records here (a virtual library of all souls’ journeys). My group went to the Sphinx at the beginning of the trip, but I went at the very end, renting the space for a two-hour ceremony at 5am with both Dee and my friend Nena.

THE GREAT PYRAMID

The final stop on our tour up Egypt’s energy body was inside the belly of the Great Pyramid—which, once everything else is cleared and open, activates the crown chakra, our connection with the Divine. I went twice: first with our full group, then on Easter Sunday with just Dee and Nena. You need a special permit to visit the subterranean and queen’s chambers, or to visit the king’s chamber privately (so you can lie down in the sarcophagus), and it’s completely worth it. We woke up at 4am and started at the deepest underground level in the secret subterranean chamber, which is accessed by a long journey straight down a steep slope of dusty wooden boards. We crouched as we walked for 10 minutes straight, our thighs pounding, our heads smacking the three-foot-tall ceiling. We slithered on our knees through a narrow tunnel of sand and dirt before finding the great birthing canal of the pyramid: a giant rocky dark hole that seems to drop to infinity. The pyramid may be academically categorized as a tomb, but spiritually it’s a temple and a sacred initiation site for some of the world’s greatest sages. The king’s chamber was an initiation site for great masters like Jesus and Pythagoras, while all priestesses of the priesthood finalized their initiations there. The three chambers that you can access by special request all act as spiritual activators on the body, mind, and soul. We started in the underground void where we cleared our own wombs energetically and sent blessings and healing to all women’s wombs around the world, then made our way to the Queen’s chamber, symbolically a vortex for pure feminine energy. We ended inside the King’s chamber, each of us entering and lying down inside the sarcophagus as the others chanted and sang, creating a cocoon of divine sound. This was both a potent mystical as well as a shamanic experience.