Post-infidelity, both you and your partner are on heightened alert. You feel threatened and insecure, but so does he. After all, the house of cards he built has come crashing down around him too. Here’s how to use the medicine of ancient wisdom to move safely yet powerfully into a state of vulnerability with our without your partner, so you can heal fully after your partner’s affair.
Top Three Takeaways:
- The Power of Vulnerability: Visiting the Dendera Temple, often called the temple of vulnerability, opened my heart to the power of softness and release in transformation. While we often want to “dig in” and “work harder” to transform, sometimes it’s by softening and embracing our vulnerability that we become stronger and more resilient, shedding our layers of defense and stepping into new, empowered versions of ourselves.
- Mystery Enhances Understanding: Egypt is filled with mysteries, from the underground tunnels of the Serapum to the enigmatic Sphinx, with rain erosion that suggests it may be older than believed. But not knowing or understanding everything about these ancient monuments only enhances our enjoyment of them! Just as in life, we don’t always need to understand everything. Imperfection and unknowing add richness to life and embracing the unknown can lead to greater self-acceptance and joy.
- Unity and Connection With All: Inside the King’s Chamber of the Giza Pyramid, I was reminded that unity with self, others, and the universe, is what matters most. The past is in the past, and the life of the eternal soul is what matters most. No matter what hardships you face, let the idea of unity be a powerful reminder that you are never alone on your journey.
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Transcript:
Lora Cheadle [00:00:01]:
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Lora Cheadle [00:00:36]:
Hello, and welcome to FLAUNT. Find your sparkle and create a life you love after infidelity or betrayal. I’m Lora Cheadle, and this is podcast number 4 on the lessons that I learned during my sacred sojourn to, Egypt. And I think you’re really going to like and appreciate some of the content in the show because we’re going to talk about vulnerability and joy and healing and movement and about a whole lot of different things that will give you some perspective, not only on life and the whole journey of life, but specifically on your journey through betrayal recovery. Before we get started into the content, though, which is good, amazing, juicy content, I want to remind you of a couple of things. 1st, be sure to like, subscribe, share this show. If you found it valuable, other people will too. And the best way to get the word out is to have you comment, you review, you like, or you share.
Lora Cheadle [00:01:52]:
The second thing is the reason I do this is because of personal connection. I want to talk to you. I want to hear about you and your story. I want to offer support and guidance wherever I can because I’ve been through this and it’s really hard and there’s not a lot of great support out there. So reach out. I will talk to everybody for a free 20 minute connection call. So you can book it just on the homepage of my website, lauracheadle.com. And that’s lorecheadle.com.
Lora Cheadle [00:02:33]:
So hop on my website and just sign up for your free session and let’s talk. Because isn’t that what it’s all about? It’s about the connection. It’s about the community and it’s about the fact that we are stronger together. Okay. To Egypt. Where I want to start is with the, Dendera temple. The temple in Dendera. And when you walk into the temple of Dendera the very first thing you do is you go under like a big square archway, and it’s huge.
Lora Cheadle [00:03:12]:
And if you’ve seen, Egyptian stuff, you might know that there’s the Egyptian scarab, the beetle. And the beetle is a symbol that you see in a lot of different places. Well, on the underside of this stone arch on the underside of the arch is the carving of a beetle, the Egyptian scarab, but it’s not the shell side of the beetle. It’s not the backside of the beetle. This is a carving of the underside of the beetle, the belly of the scarab. This is because this, the Dendera temple, is also known as the temple of vulnerability, the temple of the inner mysteries, the temple of all of those powerful things inside that not everybody has access to. And I ask you to think about that in terms of your life, your journey. What are people seeing on the outside? And what are those inner parts of you that only certain people have access to? Because we all have the public persona and we all have that private persona.
Lora Cheadle [00:04:40]:
And one of the things that makes infidelity so destructive, so challenging, so awful is the fact that all of a sudden, we find out that somebody else has got privy to information that they shouldn’t have. That our partner else our spouse has shared things about us that shouldn’t have been shared outside the marriage. And that’s its own kind of devastation, and that’s its own kind of betrayal because we have trusted somebody to keep our secrets, to see us at our most vulnerable. And then to find that that version of us was shared or the private things that we’ve shared was shared with another is devastating. So as I entered this temple and was seeing the underside of the beetle, of the scarab, I had that 2 part awareness. The one part of the awareness was I’m about to be initiated into some sacred knowledge here. I’m about to be initiated into something that not everybody has access to. And then on the flip side, equally powerful, wow.
Lora Cheadle [00:06:08]:
Other people have, in a sense, destroyed me by sharing that. And I was holding that holding that knowledge, just wondering what to do with it, how to process that all as I walked in. So we walked under that big stone arch, and the first place we went was not into the main temple itself, but back behind it to an older, smaller temple of Isis. And this temple of Isis behind the main temple was 30000 years BC, just just kind of old. And it was smaller and it was darker. But interestingly, there were some designs carved on the ceiling that really struck me. And one of those designs was like 2 arms and hands, like, being held out. So it was just 2 arms on the ceiling.
Lora Cheadle [00:07:14]:
And on the palms, there were triangles. This was also this Isis temple, a temple to water because there was some water right behind the monument. So we sat there and people kept talking about Isis and, you know, divine motherhood and water and that we were gonna do a water ceremony. And I just kept being captivated by those hands with the triangles on the palms. And like with so many things, I started thinking, what am I doing wrong? Why am I focusing on those palms when everybody else is talking about water and ISIS and okay. There’s Hathor in the main temple, and this is the temple of, you know, healing and all of these things that I’m sitting here focusing on these 2 hands and arms with a triangle. And I thought I’m just gonna sit here and do my own meditation. Maybe this is just not a place where I connect in the same way that other people connect.
Lora Cheadle [00:08:12]:
I’m gonna start connecting. Well, it was beautiful what came up in my meditation. I felt very strongly and you’re gonna think I’m crazy. I felt very strongly that Jesus had meditated in this temple before he was Jesus, before he was Christ. I felt very strongly that the human Jesus had come to this temple in Dendera to worship, to meditate, to pray. And I thought that’s interesting. And the voice that I that the the voice that I kept hearing was, it’s Yeshua. It’s not Jesus.
Lora Cheadle [00:08:56]:
It’s Yeshua. And I was like, well, of course. You’re right. That’s that’s who he is. That’s who he was before he became Jesus. So I thought, well, that makes sense that I’m hearing Yeshua. And then it hit me that those hands with the triangles in it and, yes, I’m sure there’s other meanings in Egypt. But for me, the meaning that I got is that’s the foretelling of the crucifixion story.
Lora Cheadle [00:09:22]:
Whether literal, whether metaphoric, that is the foretelling of that story, and those triangles in the palm represent the nail holes. But more than that, it represents the betrayal. And I’ve done some shows on that too about it was the betrayal of Jesus that set everything in motion. But in this meditation, it was that it this is foretelling of the betrayal. It’s foretelling of the palms. It’s foretelling of being nailed to your cross. It’s the foretelling that things are going to happen. And I wrapped that around to 20 minutes earlier when I walked in under the underside of the beetle, and I thought that’s it.
Lora Cheadle [00:10:15]:
That’s the vulnerability. That’s the foretelling. It’s not foretelling the act. It’s foretelling the betrayal will happen. Betrayal will happen to all of us, that the wisdom lies in the vulnerability. And when we are vulnerable, we will be hurt and we will be betrayed. And to me, that was both sides of the beetle right there. The knowledge and the wisdom is on the other side.
Lora Cheadle [00:10:49]:
And then the shell side can only protect us so far. We have that protection on one side, but on the other side, we are still vulnerable. And that even somebody as ascended as powerful as Yeshua who could come in and meditate and pray and open himself up is still going to be betrayed, is still going to be hurt. And to me, that was the foretelling for all of us that we can’t protect ourselves all of the time. We can’t live with a shell that protects all parts of us. We all have our vulnerability. And it’s not about fighting that or preventing that. It’s about dancing with that knowledge that it’s both where our wisdom and our ascension and our pain points come from, that it is both all at the same time.
Lora Cheadle [00:11:59]:
After that, we had a really incredible experience. We were all sitting just meditating on the floor of that temple, and there were a few men on our trip. It was mostly women. 1 man, we would kind of walk up 1 at a time to, you know, the edge of the temple, pay our respects, do our toning, pray, meditate, whatever. We were all sitting around and 1 man stood up to, do whatever it was he needed and wanted to do. And I kid you not without warning, he flew back. I will swear to you. He levitated And this deep booming voice started coming out of him.
Lora Cheadle [00:12:44]:
And it was shocking because that was not his voice and that was not his authority. And it was also not a language that any of us knew, so none of us knew what he was saying, but it felt powerful. It felt like I will follow you anywhere. I understand the power of what you just said and that there is such truth in that. And after that, I kid you not, he, like, fainted. He fainted. And some of the people came over and helped him, and he laid down. And long story short, he he was fine.
Lora Cheadle [00:13:23]:
And talking to him afterwards, he just said it felt like he was so overcome. And when he just relaxed and let whatever I was going to happen happen, that’s when this voice, this huge channeling, this booming voice came through him, and he doesn’t know what it meant. He just knew that he allowed it to happen and that it happened. And it felt like to witness and then to hear that story, it was both a release and a relief. And then also a lesson too that there are so many things that are bigger than us. There are so many amazing things that can come through us and that can be created in our life and in our world. And all we have to do is show up and be open to let it happen, that we don’t have to study. Like he didn’t study whatever this language was.
Lora Cheadle [00:14:21]:
He didn’t prepare meditation. He didn’t do, he just showed up and he was vulnerable. He opened his heart. He opened his spirit and all of this happened because he trusted. And I know how hard it is to trust after you have been betrayed, but that’s what it takes. It takes that willingness to just show up and to be there. And that that is what truly clears the way for all of the greatness to come through, for all of the lessons to come through. So from there, we moved into the main temple, and it was gorgeous.
Lora Cheadle [00:15:09]:
This is one of the temples that’s got the image of Hathor everywhere on the top of all of these columns, and there is so much color. Like, you couldn’t believe the color. There’s these beautiful blue, like, rivers of color on the ceiling. There’s there’s wings. There’s reds. There’s blues. There’s, like, all of the colors. It is absolutely amazing.
Lora Cheadle [00:15:34]:
And what was so fascinating in this gorgeous temple is there’s these huge carved images of people doing yoga poses on the ceiling that almost seem incongruent. There’s this detailed Egyptian hieroglyphs. There’s, you know, the wings, the scarabs, the Hathors. And then along the corners of these temples are these huge, huge carvings of people in yoga poses doing forward bends, doing back bends. And it was interesting because how I discovered these people is once we left the small Isis temple, we came into the big Hathor temple, and I couldn’t get my eyes off the ceiling because it’s blue and there’s wings and there’s colors. And I kept wanting to backbend. And I would walk through backbending, and I was backbending so much that somebody in our trip came up and said, you know, Lora, you don’t have to backbend in order to photograph the ceiling. If you just put your camera on reverse, you can just stand here and take a picture of the ceiling.
Lora Cheadle [00:16:41]:
And I was like, that’s wonderful, but I wanna backbend. I feel physically like I need to backbend, so I’m gonna honor what my body wants to do. And if my body wants to backbend, you bet I am going to backbend. So I did. But then I found it so ironic as I have this whole conversation about why I want to backbend to then start seeing carved images of people back bending and forward bending and side bending and doing all of these bends. And coupled together with the blue rivers on the ceiling and the people in these yoga poses. I kept getting the feeling of flow, that the answer is flow. The answer is to move.
Lora Cheadle [00:17:26]:
It’s to flow. That in that state of vulnerability, sure, we can protect, but we’ve gotta be vulnerable because that’s where the wisdom comes in, and it’s to flow with wherever we are hurt. To accept the wisdom, but to keep flowing wherever we are hurt. And then it’s that flow that will create the beauty for us. Now as I moved through the temple, we got to the back, and it was really kind of odd because there’s the wall. So visualize just a room, a tall room. Well, at the top of the room, there would be a square, like a crawl space, and then they would have a ladder that would go up. And it was like, why is there a crawl space way up high? And then in other rooms, they would have, like, a little side on the wall with staircases going down.
Lora Cheadle [00:18:30]:
This temple was filled with false walls that hid all of these crawl spaces that hid all of these spaces between the walls. And it was a lot of fun because we would go down down down down down down these stairs into these long passages between the walls, and they would say that the priest would do some of the work down there. The priest would prepare for ceremony down there. And then in other places, we would climb the ladder and we would go up into the space between other walls way up high, but there were all these narrow corridors. Again, completely carved because in Egypt, everything is carved. There is nothing that is not carved. But this temple had all of these hidden passages and false walls. And it was like, well, of course it did because this is the temple of vulnerability.
Lora Cheadle [00:19:26]:
There’s beauty on the outside, but there’s this richness on the inside. There’s beauty on these carved pillars that support it, but you go into these tiny little chambers and rooms, and they’re just as beautifully carved. And they’re just as beautifully detailed because there’s beauty within and there’s power within. And there’s balance in having both because there’s wisdom on the outside and there’s also wisdom on the inside. And Dendera was also the temple that there are carvings of wait for it. There’s carvings of light bulbs. Yeah. There are carvings of light bulbs.
Lora Cheadle [00:20:12]:
And, interestingly, there are some passages that go so deep into the earth that there is not enough oxygen to sustain flame, yet they are fully carved and fully painted. So the mystery remains, how is it that ancients could not only dig, but carve and paint every wall and every ceiling in these tunnels where there’s not enough oxygen for light to be sustained. And it’s interesting that then there’s hieroglyphs of light bulbs. Yeah. Several hieroglyphs of light bulbs. And it’s easy to get caught up in, you know, the excitement around like, woo, what does this mean? And that’s so cool. And it’s the mystery of Egypt. But then if you think about it a little bit deeper, if you think about it in terms of what is light, light is knowledge.
Lora Cheadle [00:21:14]:
This is the temple of higher knowledge of hidden wisdom. This is this is where we see the underside of the beetle, and we are initiated into those higher levels of learning and knowledge, which gives us our light. And with our light, we can do the impossible. When we are initiated into higher realms, when we open ourselves up into the initiation of the sacred, we receive our light and we can do the impossible when we have our light. Think about that. I know that sometimes recovering from infidelity feels impossible, whether it’s trying to rebuild a relationship or rebuild yourself. And I just want you to hold on to that underside of the beetle, to that vulnerability, that when you make yourself open, available, vulnerable, when you are not protected. That’s when you receive the higher level of knowledge, and that’s when you receive your light.
Lora Cheadle [00:22:30]:
And when you receive your light, you can do the impossible. The rest of that temple, I just kept sitting with that and thinking about that. On the roof, we went to the roof and they talked about like, oh, you know, the kings could look out and see everything, and this is so royal. And then there’s a room where a whole zodiac was on the ceiling. And, sadly, the zodiac has been taken down, and it’s now in the British Museum, so they have a replica in the temple. But they were talking about the zodiac the way I forgot which which it is because I don’t really do a lot of astrology, but it’s like it’s a way to date. It’s a clock. So when the moon is in and I forget.
Lora Cheadle [00:23:23]:
Was the moon in Taurus or the moon was in Libra or wherever the moon is in, that’s when you can tell when that was built because that was what the sky was doing at at that time. So that’s the best way to date. They said it’s analogous to standing in front of a clock and taking your picture. Like, yeah. Here I am standing in front of the clock, and you know it’s 2 o’clock. So here I am with the zodiac, and we can tell based on where the zodiac is where the planets were at that period of time. And that’s how we know this temple is even older than we previously thought. And there was something about that too.
Lora Cheadle [00:24:05]:
Like, things are older than we previously thought. And, again, relating it to infidelity because it’s all about applying that ancient wisdom to help us right now. I thought it’s so interesting because the issues that led to the infidelity, those 2 are so much more ancient than we’ve thought. And we look at this snapshot in time. Oh, I discovered something, or, oh, the cheating is happening now. That’s not what led to it. It’s older than we think. For our partner, their roots of infidelity might go back to childhood.
Lora Cheadle [00:24:47]:
They might go back to early adulthood. They’re not about you. They go back to your partner and they go back further than we think. And same thing, self reflecting on yourself because this show is about you because you can control you. I really thought I was pretty dang perfect and pretty dang good in my marriage. Like, I tried hard. I was always trying. Nobody could ever accuse me of not trying.
Lora Cheadle [00:25:12]:
Yet I didn’t see those were the roots that led me down this path of trying to please, trying to conform, and trying to perform in my life instead of being in my life. The roots are always deeper than we think they were. So in that vein, once we left the Dendera temple, we went back to Cairo, and we were gonna go to the big museum in Cairo, which is an amazing museum. And they actually had a new one, that is about to be built, and I cannot wait to go back to Egypt and see this one. But in this museum, they have a lot of mummies. They have a lot of stone things. They’ve got oh, get this. They have the stone tops for the great pyramids, like the great pyramids of Giza.
Lora Cheadle [00:26:06]:
Did you know there are huge stone tops that go on those? And get this, the stone tops are made out of meteorites. They are meteors put on the top of those huge, enormous pyramids. We gotta see those. We gotta see a lot of the, just like ancient musical instruments and tools. We saw a lot of the tools around mummification. We saw, I mean, just so much history. But being Egypt, the mummies tend to be really fascinating. And the lengths that they went to to preserve the human flesh, the human body, you know, taking out the organs, letting the body dry, packing it in salt, the wrappings, the different layers of the coffins, the sarcophaguses, the big sarcophagi, all of the things intending to preserve that.
Lora Cheadle [00:27:13]:
And then all of the things that were necessary to go with their people into the afterlife. And I found it so interesting to think about how much that they loved their life, that they wanted to carry it forward. Because isn’t it true that there are so many times in life when we’re like, this is not the life I signed up for and this is not what I wanted And this is not what I expected. And I hate everything about my life. And yet when you really start thinking about it, when you pull back from that perspective, how much of your life really is precious On some of the tomb walls for the, you know, normal people, not the pharaohs, there’s carvings of activities, everyday activities, fishing, having beer, meals, games, playing. There’s just scenes of everyday life. And same thing in the tombs of the pharaohs. All of the things that people wanted to take with them that were that valuable, they would want them in the afterlife.
Lora Cheadle [00:28:32]:
And that was kind of a challenge that I wanted to have you think about. What are the things that you would miss? What are the things that you would want? What would you want to preserve from this life, from this experience? Even though certain things are painful. Even though certain things aren’t what you thought, when push comes to shove, there’s a lot of beauty in life, and there’s a lot of joy. And sometimes it is just seeing the more simple things that I think gives us the most appreciation for what we have. Because the museum after all is filled with relics. It’s all about relics from the past. The museum, even though there’s mummies, it’s not really the people. There’s a different museum on, Egyptian civilization that we didn’t go to, but I that’s much more people focused.
Lora Cheadle [00:29:47]:
Museums are typically relics, the dry pieces that people loved. And even in our daily lives, I think it’s important to have the things around us that we truly love. And I know when I found out about the infidelity, there were so many things I wanted to get rid of in my life. I’m like, I want new dishes. I want a new bed. I want all of these different things. And it was important to me and it really helped. And that’s what I want you to also reflect on.
Lora Cheadle [00:30:25]:
Think about. What are the relics that it’s time to let go of because they’re not who you are and they don’t suit you anymore? What are some of the new things that you want to lean into, and what are the things that are precious to you that you still would preserve, that you would preserve despite it all? And just give some thought to that. From then from there, the next day, we did Saqqara, the Seraphim, and we visited the great Sphinx. Wow. All I can say is wow. Saqqara is like pre great pyramids. Saqqara is really, really old. They’ve got, like, the step pyramid, which they say was the first pyramid, and it’s got some burial grounds of the regular people.
Lora Cheadle [00:31:25]:
We visited a tomb of a guy who was basic basically a judge. And they’re smaller scale than the pharaohs, but they’re still tombs and they are still glorious in their own way. But they were so human. They were so human. And as we went into this to men just started visiting, our guide was talking a little bit about how this is kind of like the valley of reincarnation because the person the energy of the person they thought reincarnated and came back into this body in the afterlife, which is why they stored all the different things for them. But that’s the the the image, the vision of reincarnation. It’s coming back to life. It’s reclaiming your life and reclaiming all the things that you love.
Lora Cheadle [00:32:24]:
And I was thinking, you know, I talk so much about reclaiming your life, reclaiming your identity, reclaiming your self worth, but it really does require that selective choosing. What is it that you’re reclaiming? If you’re packing for your everlasting journey, if you were packing for your reincarnation in the next life, what are the things that you would want to be realizing you can let a lot of stuff go? You could leave a lot of things behind. So it’s that conscious choosing of what you want to reclaim, what you wanna step into, what you wanna move into next. And knowing that we don’t have to wait FLAUNTil the afterlife to do it, we can actually just do it now or anytime. It’s that coming home to our authentic essence. So I’m doing this whole deep dive, and we walk out of this tomb, and there’s a lot of dogs and cats in Egypt. And a lot of the people on our group were feeding them little cheese, bread, things like that because, oh my gosh, these animals are not in great shape. But I didn’t have any food with me.
Lora Cheadle [00:33:29]:
And from across the desert, I see this dog, and this dog’s eyes are familiar. I know this dog’s eyes. And she comes barreling across the desert. And we have our whole group and people have food. And I bend down because I know this dog. This dog is my Brooke, my little golden retriever, Brooke, who I lost in 2020. She had bladder cancer, and you know how hard it is to make that decision to let animals go. And this dog came barreling up to me, and this dog had Brooke’s eyes, and this dog had Brooke’s energy.
Lora Cheadle [00:34:10]:
But this dog did not have Brooke’s fear. My little Brooke was the most fearful dog I have ever had. She was a rescue. She was probably abused, but she was very defensive. She looked like a teddy bear, so everybody loved her and people would come bare running up to her and she’d be like, because she had been abused. So she was defensive and she never really got over that. And her body, I don’t know if her legitimately hurt all the stinking time or what was going on, but you’d hug her and she’d be like, and she was just always in fear, in pain. And and it was really hard because we worked with her.
Lora Cheadle [00:34:54]:
We did the training. We did all the things, but she could never get over her trauma. Well, this dog that came barreling up to me was my Brooke, but without the trauma, without the pain. She was confident. She was friendly. She was free. And, of course, I burst into tears. Of course, I asked some people to take some pictures with me and my little miss Brooke.
Lora Cheadle [00:35:17]:
And it was such an affirmation and a validation of everything that I was just thinking about. Like, what are you reclaiming and what are you leaving behind and what are you stepping into? And then, bam, here comes my dog with all parts of her that needed to be left behind left behind. And she was in her fur full free form. And that validation just really, really hit home. The next thing we did before we headed to the Sphinx was we went to the Sarafum, and this is basically underground subways. There are 6 miles of, like, underground subways carved in pure sand. They still don’t exactly know how and why these tunnels don’t collapse. And there’s these huge tomb like structures that are like the size of a suburban in there.
Lora Cheadle [00:36:14]:
Now it’s interesting because the tunnels to get in aren’t big enough to carry these huge slabs in. So what did they dig these huge things and put the slab and then rebuild the desert around it? Nobody knows. There’s also nothing in these tomb like things. They don’t know what they are, but there are 6 miles of underground subway corridors that looks just like being in a subway with these suburban sized granite tombs with nothing in them. Total confusion. Nobody knows. To this day, we don’t exactly know how it was built. We can’t figure that out, and we’re not exactly sure what these were for either.
Lora Cheadle [00:36:56]:
There’s a lot of theories around that. But what it feels like to me, going back to my first show when I talked about, like, holding that energy, to me, they felt like they were tombs to hold energy, tombs to store power, tombs to preserve life force. And that was just me. And I’d be curious for you to look at some pictures, to see some videos, and just to see what comes up for you. But what I also thought was really interesting about that is 6 miles and tons of space and tons of resources and these big things, and we don’t know what they are. And that just tied it back into so many of the mysteries of Egypt that the mysteries have yet to be uncovered. And that’s that’s what makes it so rich, and that’s what makes it so powerful. And in show 1, I talked and I shared that the message that I got was Egypt, the land of Egypt, was a mirror, a reflection of human consciousness, that 30% of Egypt has been uncovered and that about 30% of human consciousness is alive and well, and that there’s so much more to go.
Lora Cheadle [00:38:19]:
And this seraphim was just such a reminder to me to hold space for the mysteries that have yet to be unveiled, to put huge space, huge time, huge resources for things that are coming. We don’t need to understand everything right now. We don’t need to understand things along the way. We need these huge six miles of storage spaces, and it’s okay that we don’t know because we have trust that things are coming. We have trust that it’s getting better. We have trust that those spaces will be filled and we will have understanding. So that’s that question to you. What can you make space for knowing that it’s coming? Whether it’s this relationship, another relationship, whether it’s a career, whether it’s no relationship and it’s moving yourself, where can you start putting resources and making space for the blessings that are coming in for you knowing that you don’t need to understand them? Understanding is not a requirement.
Lora Cheadle [00:39:33]:
It’s just that faith. It’s that faith and that trust that I’m creating space for blessings that have yet to appear, that I’ve yet to identify yet. I know they will be here. So think about that busy day. But from there, we went off to the Sphinx. Yes. These things that you see pictures of the big, you know, like, cat with a big human head, the head of a pharaoh, and we got to spend time between the sphinxes’ four paws. We took a camel ride from the pyramids across the desert, wound us around, and dropped us in the forepaws of the sphinx, which are huge.
Lora Cheadle [00:40:29]:
And the sun was setting, and we had time to just stay in ceremony, in meditation, in communion with the Sphinx. And before I had gone to Egypt, I had done some some research on things, and I had read some tourist books. And it was interesting because the head of the sphinx that’s on it, they think is not the original head because the body, the paws are much bigger. And the dating of the stone and the weather patterning wearing on the stone is different. So they think the original head, we don’t know, got destroyed or something like that. And that the second head was put on. And it doesn’t really fit. Like when you start looking at it, no, the scale is off and it doesn’t really fit.
Lora Cheadle [00:41:23]:
It’s imperfect. And yet we worship and wonder at the sphinx in all of its imperfection. And how many times do we not go forward and rebuild things because it’s not perfect? How many times do we rebuild something and then it’s not perfect, so we destroy it or we walk away from it. And we have shame and we have upset and it’s not perfect. And yet here we are at the Sphinx, and it is this great wonder of the world, and it is very clearly imperfect. And, oh, I loved that so much. So I went in the 4 pods and I started meditating and I asked the Sphinx, what do I need to know? What message do you have for me? And do you know what she said to me? And she’s a she, She said, know me like a lover. And I was like, what? Know me like a lover.
Lora Cheadle [00:42:27]:
And I said, I’m sorry. I don’t exactly know. And she said, know me like a lover. So I sat and I pulled out my crystal and I looked up at the sun and I looked at the sphinx and I looked at her paws and I started looking at the landscape. And then I felt almost anxious because everybody was sitting, and and I pulled out my camera and I went around to the side, and I started taking pictures of the the landscape of the pyramids and the and that’s when it hit me. That’s what that message means. Know me like a lover. It means I know and I love all parts of you.
Lora Cheadle [00:43:09]:
I know and I love your imperfection. I know and I love the parts of you that don’t fit. I know and I love the parts of you that are incongruent. I can walk all around you, and I can see you in different light and in different circumstances, in different areas. And I can love all of that because it is you. So with that knowledge, I came back in, and I sat down with the people again who were doing their own ceremony. And I just allowed myself to drop in. And the message was thank you because that is you.
Lora Cheadle [00:43:50]:
And it’s knowing yourself like a lover. Loving yourself, seeing yourself, being present with yourself and standing proudly like the sphinx and all of your incongruencies and in all of your imperfections because it’s the incongruencies and it’s the mystery that makes you so special and makes you so perfect. There are so many different mysteries of the sphinx. One of them is there’s very clearly water patterning on the pause, like rain, which would make this things much older than anybody has ever thought that it was because that’s when there was rain in that part of Egypt And that it’s that beauty and that mystery, the what that is what matters because it’s not about having it all figured out. It’s the mystery that brings the joy, and it’s the mystery that brings the love, the know me like a lover. It’s the mystery that brings you that much joy. And I also had one of those experiences when I was done with her, when I was done with the Sphinx, when I had that realization where I was like, and I’m done. And we walked away and I just wanted to admire her from afar.
Lora Cheadle [00:45:21]:
And I spent a lot of time watching the sun go down, watching the sun set behind the Sphinx, behind the pyramids, and just seeing that whole landscape that in so many ways doesn’t make sense. The pyramids, this none none of it really makes sense. And just being able to marvel in that beauty and to marvel in the mysteries. So from there, we went back to the hotel and rested and meditated and allowed ourselves to process, which was so needed. Because our last day, we were going to go back to the pyramids. But this time, instead of seeing the pyramids from afar, we were going to go into the Giza pyramid, the big one, the biggest one. And we were going to sit for 2 hours in the king’s chamber. And it was really a powerful experience because we went at night because we went after everything had closed.
Lora Cheadle [00:46:39]:
And, you know, there was a part of me there there was I was always having this tension where I was like, I wanna go be a tourist, and I wanna spend all day checking out the pyramids. And I wanna walk all around the pyramids, and I wanna go in every single one. And then there was a part of me that was like, no. No. No. No. No. Just be with the reverence.
Lora Cheadle [00:46:57]:
Spend your 2 hours sitting there and being instead of tromping all around the pyramids and seeing all of them, see the one in-depth. You don’t need to see them all. See the one in-depth. I was like, okay. That’s your lesson, Lora. And yet still, there was so much that I wanted to see. So we go to the pyramid, and I’m still a little bit in that anxious state because I wanna get it all in. Right? I’m in Egypt.
Lora Cheadle [00:47:25]:
I wanna see it. So I start walking, and I’m, like, seeing the pyramid and climbing up on the pyramid, talking to the people, and going this way and going that way, and seeing if I can take pictures where the sun is about to go behind the pyramid. And I I’m doing all this stuff. And then all of a sudden, they’re like, okay. It’s time to go in. And I was first. I was first. I was first at the entrance.
Lora Cheadle [00:47:47]:
So I stepped in, and I paused for a moment because I didn’t know what I was doing. And then the guide said, okay. You’re really fast, Laurie. You should go up first. Wow. I am so glad I did. First of all, the path from the outside of the pyramid into the king’s chamber looks modern. The the stones are huge, and they are put together perfectly symmetrically.
Lora Cheadle [00:48:15]:
And this is a tall upright, like, shaft with the like, it’s not really steps, but the it’s the incline, and then they’ve put the, like, the little metal, you know, bars that go across it so you won’t slide down. So you go all the way up in into the pyramid. There’s, you know, there’s the rope and there’s handles and there’s there’s things, those safety measures. But it’s hot. Oh my gosh. It’s hot. Like, you have not done hot. And, yeah, it’s a little claustrophobic.
Lora Cheadle [00:48:47]:
And then you don’t just walk in the door. You go in like a crawl space. So you have to crawl. There’s areas that you crawl to get through, and then you crawl up and you crawl around. It’s tight. It’s all tight. I walk into this chamber and it’s again, it it almost feels like a modern chamber because it’s square and it’s perfectly symmetrical and the walls are smooth, huge stone. And at the back end is the sarcophagus, just again, a granite square.
Lora Cheadle [00:49:19]:
And they have these lights lighting it around the side, but it’s still dim. And the acoustics are amazing. The feeling in there is like almost like pressure in a way. You know, when you’re standing there and there’s like this throbbing kind of like not throbbing in a bad way, but, like, just in an intensity of pressure. And, oh, boy, is it hot? Because it’s the end of the day, and it’s always over a 100, and it is hot. And I have a video. I should post this video where I come in, and I’m like, holy cow. I’m the first one in here.
Lora Cheadle [00:50:01]:
And I did move fast, so I had some time in there on my own just to feel. And then everybody else came in, and we filled this space up and we started doing our own ceremonies. We started making sound. We took off our shoes. We sang. We prayed. We hummed. I felt like taking off my shoes and laying on the floor.
Lora Cheadle [00:50:28]:
I laid on my back on the floor of the king’s chamber for probably 40 minutes, and we all just resonated and meditated. And can you imagine 40 voices just all doing all of our things in a place with those perfect acoustics where they’re bouncing off the walls? It just flows through you. It fills you up. It connects you to, like, time immemorial. It’s phenomenal. And then for the last period of time, they said they were going to turn off all the lights, and we were going to sit literally in pitch blackness. So to get comfortable, which we did, again, it’s hot. It’s almost like being in a sweat lodge where you have to play some games with your mind a little bit.
Lora Cheadle [00:51:32]:
You’re like, I’m okay. Am I okay? I think I’m okay. Am I okay? I feel like I’m okay. And you’re fanning yourself. But what was so phenomenal about turning off the lights was even though there was still sound, even though you know you’re safe, even though all of those things, it gives you an opportunity to get comfortable in the dark. And, you know, I had talked about the Dendera temple. And when you have that inner light, it makes things better. The temple before that, I’m forgetting the name of the temple before that, the Abydos temple where I was playing in the tubes of light.
Lora Cheadle [00:52:17]:
Yay. That’s all about light and lighting, you know, lighting yourself. The when I was at Karnak and I saw Sekhmet and she said, you need the dark in order to see the light. Like all of these metaphors about dark and light kept coming in and that we have such a push for the light. And here we are sitting in the dark intentionally. And it was such an opportunity to just be comfortable in the dark, to know that I can’t be witnessed by others when I’m in the dark. I can’t even really witness my external self myself. I can only witness my internal state in the dark.
Lora Cheadle [00:52:58]:
And I know ultimately that I’m safe, but I’m hot and I’m not comfortable, and I’m lying on a stone floor. And yet I can be in such peace, and I can be in such acceptance, and I can have this experience for, like, an hour. And, yes, you go through those cycles of like, well, maybe I should go outside and walk around. Or this is kinda weird. What am I and then it just those thoughts start falling away, and you just become comfortable in the dark. And you can make sounds or you cannot make sounds and you can listen to other people’s sounds. And when your sounds are off pitch, it doesn’t matter. And you can just try and you can just be because it really is about getting comfortable in the dark, about being able to manage your inner state in the dark.
Lora Cheadle [00:54:02]:
And then that’s when I started having the experience truly of oneness. I couldn’t see my body. I couldn’t experience other people’s bodies and see them. We were all just one in the dark. There were no lines. There was no delineation between where I stopped and somebody else began. We truly were 1, and we would ebb and we would flow and we would be and we would breathe and we would just all have the same yet very different but completely connected experiences. And to know that we were safe and ensconced in this pyramid, in this place where energetically we were being nourished, we were being held was pretty incredible because what they say is at this place in this pyramid that, like, if you if you were to store food there, it wouldn’t go bad.
Lora Cheadle [00:55:09]:
The molecules don’t age and rot and go bad because it’s this perfect place in this pyramid. And to me, it was so much about the eternal soul that through our time in Egypt, you know, you hear about mummification and the journey into the afterlife, but we’re still an eternal soul. We talk about infidelity and betrayal and pain and suffering and death and destruction. And yet we are still this eternal soul. And from this center point, from the center of the triangle, when we are the eternal soul and we are connected with other eternal souls, whether they are good or bad, whether they are our betrayer, whether they are a rescuer, whether they too have been betrayed, whether they have both betrayed and been a betrayer, it all becomes irrelevant because we are all truly one in that center place of ultimate unity of ultimate connection and also of timelessness and of eternity. And that was such a perfect wrap to this entire trip, this entire exploration of our planet, exploration of myself, exploration on all of these different levels to wrap it all back down to the realization that whether the ancient Egyptian civilization of 30000 years ago or 300000 years ago or 3000 years ago or 300 years ago or what happened yesterday. And, oh, my partner cheated on me then. And it doesn’t matter in so many ways.
Lora Cheadle [00:57:14]:
Explore them all, but come home to your eternal soul. Come home to your eternal soul safely ensconced in this king’s chamber with everybody else’s beautiful, safe, and eternal soul because that’s where love is. That’s where unity is. That’s where connection is, and that’s truly all that matters. So thank you for moving through these shows with me on Egypt where I could share the wisdom that I gained. I really feel like it was life changing for me, and I also hope that it can be life changing for you. Like I said at the beginning of the show, my greatest, greatest pleasure is connecting with you. So reach out, set an appointment and let’s just talk human to human, soul to soul, person to person, heart to heart, Lora at Lora Cheadle dot com.
Lora Cheadle [00:58:23]:
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Lora Cheadle [00:58:53]:
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