Sacred Sites, Soul Initiation, Journey to Remembering
How exploring sacred sites enriches our spiritual growth and expansion
Many spiritual communities promote retreats and sacred journeys, but why would one consider one. A sacred journey is more than travel; it’s a dedicated spiritual practice and an opportunity to connect with places on a deep, soul level. Across cultures and history, seekers have entered sacred sites for meditation, soul-searching, initiation, and transformation.
What happens on a sacred journey?
Soul retrieval: Journeys can trigger retrieval of lost soul fragments and rekindle memories, skills, or patterns from past lives. As we are now reaching new earth energies and frequencies times are moving faster. By walking on these sites, you may begin remembering past lives or ancient soul memories speeding up in picking up skills or knowledge
Land-based healing: Connecting with a place can lift planetary consciousness and support personal and collective healing work.
Calling and destiny: Many people feel drawn to particular sites as if called — and frequently do visit them during this lifetime for a specific soul purpose.
Energetic activations: Travellers often report heightened awareness and expanded consciousness.
Solo versus group travel
When it comes to sacred journey or retreat doing solo is a brave and courageous adventure as well as a possible one that can also be enriching and fulfilling. On the other hand, travelling in a group you are multiplying the energy and container of the cohort. You travel together, you may have past lives together, and a soul may have signed up to be together for this special event to support one another, raise consciousness and heal. For those who are called to go on a sacred journey there is always a soul reason for why you are going to the site and it ranges from each individual, to do grid work, to connect with the land, to connect with the ascended masters or deities connected to the place, to find answers, to grow our spiritual evolution and the list continues. A sacred journey will usually involve some form of initiation that can be sometimes stirred up a lot of inner wounds, or held challenges, or held perspectives that is ready to be seen, and shifted. When entering into a sacred journey together in a group, it further opens your opportunity to receive and serve for yourself and the group to form unity and oneness.
Who to go with…
There are many benefits in doing a group journey together, and for those who are drawn to sites, I always recommend to go with a group or a leader who is knowledgable of these sites and places, because the message, and the information given can offer you a deeper insight, connection and relationship to each site. As someone who went to Egypt twice, once with a historic Egyptologist that goes by the history books and another who is spiritual (Emil Shaker) and have led many spiritual journey birthing esoteric books of notable writers such as Gregg Braden, Normandi Ellis and Nicki Scully. Going to Egypt with someone who has raised consciousness and spiritual practices, raises the connection and awareness of these sites and I leave with a deeper reverence and appreciation for these sites. Some temples further support my ability to make deeper connection in spirituality, while having a deeper connection to certain divinities or expanded consciousness and awareness of the cosmic construction and balance in values and deeper wisdom.
Furthermore, there are certain sites that one needs to be mindful when entering, in life and spirituality we live in duality that shows up as light and dark. Certain sites one should be aware and have the diligent practise or be advised by the teacher or leader what to do or how to protect themselves. In the event, one does become or be connected to lower frequencies or vibrations or spirit(s) or even entity(ies), one will be guided or supported in returning back to balance.
The Mystery and Magic of Egypt
Egypt is a land of mystery and a powerful energy vortex — often described as the Earth’s throat chakra: a place for speaking truth, restoring balance, and clarifying how we relate to others. In mystical systems, of trinity or such like the Kabbalah, the threefold flame of will, wisdom, and love finds resonances across sites that form a spiritual triangle: Mt. Sinai (receiving light), Mt. of Olives (seeing truth), and Giza (embodying and speaking truth). These places connect Egyptian practices, Essene teachings, Kabbalah, and Christianity.
Giza Plateau, 2025
Forms of sacred practice
Sacred journeys can be explored with different modalities: sound work, breathwork, energy healing, ritual, shamanic practices, meditation, and symbolic math or remembrance exercises. My path felt most aligned with the Auset Temple Healing lineage taught at The Blue Lotus by Sri Mulyadi, because of its breadth and depth of the energy healing practise.
Auset Temple Healing and my path
I was introduced to Auset Temple Healing (formerly Isis Lotus Healing) through the late Elisabeth Jensen — a celebrated psychic, nurse, and spiritual teacher — during a challenging period in my life. After an initial channelling and a suggestion from a friend, I began training in 2002., but only in 2023 did I take my first sacred journey to Egypt.
Auset Temple Healing — lineage and purpose
Auset Temple Healing is rooted in ancient Khem (Egyptian) practices as remembered and transmitted by Elisabeth Jensen. Many participants discover past-life resonance as ancient temple priests or priestesses; in this lifetime their souls are reclaiming that memory and skillset.
The path of our journey
Our work began with the ancient “opening of the mouth” ritual. Historically associated with mummification, in the Auset lineage this ceremony opens one’s channel to receive higher energies and raise consciousness (these practises were also recorded by Magic and Tradition of Egyptian by Rosemary Clark, and Egyptian magic by E.A. Wallis Budge) Elisabeth Jensen taught that this work connects with the Queen’s Chamber and the Sirius star system.
From there we traveled the Nile, activating energy centres along the way, and returned to the Great Pyramid’s King’s Chamber and the sarcophagus. In Auset practice these rites are experienced as a symbolic democulizing and rebirth — a clearing and reconfiguration of energetic patterns. Ancient texts and modern researchers (such as Gaia series’ “Ancient Civilisation” King’s Chamber Stargate) describe similar themes: the highest temple priests and priestesses conducted rites that opened deep portals within the initiate through the pineal gland for expanded spiritual experiences.
A sacred journey can be a potent invitation to remember who you are and why you came here. Whether drawn by history, mystery, or an inner calling, participating with an informed lineage and a supportive group can deepen the impact — opening pathways for healing, embodiment, empowerment, and expanded service to ourself, community and planet.
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