A weekend in heaven on earth.

There were six of us. Five came from Singapore and the beauty of the setting of Maycliff bungalow was a welcome relief from the city. I live on Tioman so have that beauty everyday yet what made the setting magickal was one essential (an essence) ingredient, entirely missing from Tioman and most of the world, and that is unconditional love. It occurred to me at the end of the workshop that I had never, ever, in this life-time, been in a place of unconditional, accepting, freely flowing, ever-laughing love before. If that was the case then it ought to have felt strange or different or special. It didn't. It felt the most natural thing in the world. It is natural.

When the five from Singapore exploded from Antares' van that had brought them the last leg of the journey, there were hugs of meeting all round. I hugged with the holding back hugs that were hugs for me, not easy. I want to jump from those first moments to being already back in the world of my everyday life....

The gift they bestow is so real, so universally acceptable, that once you've received it, it is yours for ever and nothing and no-one and the whole lost and hurting fake reality we accept as true cannot touch it. This was my first spiritual retreat.... The weekend work shop was my first paddle in the waters of a reality that has surrounded me but I have not dared to dip my toe in. It ought to have felt strange, or a little frightening. It didn't. I felt like an amphibious creature that had dried out on the land too long and found only joy to be in the water. There were two parts to the wetting I received; there was the water itself, the unconditional, over-flowing acceptance and love from Selina and Heiko that set up a resonation in all of us and then there was the process of releasing itself which is an encouragement to open one's mouth and drink of the healing medicine of love.

The process of releasing Heiko likens to a bit of computer maintenance. We all clean up our computers from time to time. We use the disc clean-up program, we de-fragment the hard disc, we scan for viruses, we even dump old programs we don't use any more or install a new program or upgrade. How do you know what maintenance is required. It's easy. Problems in your life lead naturally to the false programming creating them. Identify a hurt, an anger or any other upsetting feeling, and we already have the basic keys, a print out of the program. This is the stage where Heiko and Selina, with their experience of releasing but especially with their trust in and familiarity with the voice of the Universal Intelligence, the Spirit of all life, can facilitate the cleaning process. They are cleaning-deleting-updating wizards.

For some participants the releasing work can lead to instant transformations when old hurts that have paralyzed a life are instantly healed. For some, problems that are layers and layers deep may take more time and perhaps require years of slowly peeling back the layers (Universal Love knows how much we can work with at one time) but which ever is the case there is a beautiful feeling of peace with oneself at the end of a session. Another image that Heiko uses is that of the iceberg. Only a little is visible on the surface. It's a brilliant metaphor as ice is only frozen water. As you expose the tip to the sun, to the warmth of love, it melts and the iceberg rises a few degrees in the water. If you know how to part the clouds and let in the sun the process of returning the iceberg to the ocean it came from can be speeded up. Selina and Heiko not only know how to steer you to the gaps in the clouds, they are channels for the sun itself and they are dedicating their lives to iceberg work and global heart-warming. No need to fear the effects of their global warming, their raising of consciousness to Love! When their work, and others doing this same work in many different ways, is complete, there will be no more icebergs to sink the Titanics we each are captains of, in the vast oceans of life.