Walking Eagle

I met a man called Walking Eagle on my National Express coach journey to Glastonbury last Friday evening. Walking Eagle, a Sioux Native American, turned out to be Walking Talking Eagle, scarcely pausing for breath for five hours as he divulged to me his mission of global healing through a kind of intercontinental geomancy.

Jetting tirelessly around the world, Walking Eagle, or Wombli Moni, digs up collections of stones from a sacred site in one country and buries them in a sacred site in another, making spiritual ritual with the native inhabitants in their own tradition. Through this activity, he believes he is aiding the activation of the Earth's own energy (or "chakra") centres, which itself stimulates humanity to develop a sense of global identity. Well, they do say "leave no stone unturned"...

Wombli's journeys so far have taken him as far afield as Antartica, South America, Greenland and India and, having been given £1000 cash the previous day by a woman he'd known for just half an hour, he was due to fly out to Mongolia on Sunday, there to work with the native Shaman. He talked about moving beyond the seven "bodily" chakras of the Earth to the eighth and on to twelve and then thirteen—he obviously has his work cut out.

I do find this stuff fascinating in relation to my own project to create a global online/offline social and creative network ("i-together"), and particularly pertinent was Wombli's idea to get kids living around these sacred sites hooked up with each other over the net, sharing ideas, learning and creativity with each other.

I got his email, so watch this space!