Read the IN-DEPTH and Thought- Provoking Author Interview by Syl R. Martin and Wonderlance Magazine as She Reveals the Mystery and the More Aspiring and Passionate Side of Joel Ayala Ayapana.
Experience an INTRIGUING and provocative Conversation with Joel Ayapana as he shares his insights concerning the intentions of Ancient Wisdom as it relates to the Power and Significance of the Sacred and Powerful Heart.
WONDERLANCE Magazine Interview with Syl R. Martin
http://wonderlance.com/themagazine/dm_artculture_joelayapana.html
"A while ago I stumbled upon this soul within the big cauldron of Facebook. His posts helped me find my spiritual centre more than once, in a way in that it felt as if I was reading music. I could not imagine not sharing this experience with others. So, today, I'm paying it forward. Exclusive interview with JOEL AYAPANA, on his debut as a professional writer with 'The Book of Positive Light: Remembrance of the Heart'." (Syl R. Martin/ Editor of Wonderlance Magazine 11/12/13)
JOEL AYAPANA
An exclusive interview for Wonderlance
‘On the eve of another reluctantly anticipated new year to come in December 2008, I was 35 years of age, significantly overweight at 249 pounds, stagnant, bewildered, confused, and plagued with one health problem to the next. I was at a crossroads during those beleaguering times and I was living a life with such delineating faith, doubt, and uncertainty. I was poorly self-esteemed and had found myself in an utterly deepened state of depression and anguish, but in reflecting back, it brings a smile to my face in knowing that every struggle and denigrating life changing event, which had strayed me even further from the mark, were all required and truly meant to be within the process[…]’ - The Book of Positive Light: Remembrance of the Heart
Joel Ayapana, a psychiatric nurse for over ten years, found out by himself what most of his patients already knew: Darkness lies within. On the journey across the desolated landscape of his own hell, he also came to experience another Truth: Light also lies within.
These days, we find him debuting as a professional writer with the title: ‘The Book of Positive Light: Remembrance of the Heart’, which is not another New Age self-help book; It is a first-person experiential account of what Positivity really means and how it works as a bridge across our most real nightmares. It is also a literary delight, for Ayapana makes use not only of the vulnerability and raw pain felt by his own heart in this true tale of redemption and triumph but also of his obvious skill as a writer for whom words are both brushes and vehicles, as he unravels both the painting of his life scenery and the passage through which the reader becomes the painter of his own. Ayapana, loyal to his core purpose, continues to devote his life to nursing and nourishing souls, only that now he is expanding his reach beyond physical presence.
WONDERLANCE: Joel, you’re a citizen of the United States of America, but your surname hints at a very different origin. In the past few years, uncovering one’s genealogy has become a passion for many and there are even TV shows where celebrities are taken on that journey of discovering their own history roots. It seems that knowing where one comes from has a profound effect upon the perspective from which one reflects on one’s life and not long ago you commented in social media that it was something you yourself deemed important. What’s the history of the Ayapana surname and where did its origins take you?
JOEL AYAPANA: Funny that you had brought the interesting subject matter of genealogy as your very first question for this provocative interview. Exploring into the very roots of my own family lineage was far from what I had intended to encounter when it came down to writing this book, but it was an unexpected occurrence for which was almost a requirement, synchronistically discovered, within the whole process of self rediscovery. When I had “Googled” the name “Ayapana”... I realized that it was far from what I had assumed for it to be.
One may think that the name, just from the sound of it, exudes the roots of a denoted Hawaiian civilization and nomenclature. Let alone, may one have even assumed that it, indeed, holds its purest links possessed from centuries and upon centuries past leading to the olden memory of Filippino island tribal existence, but the name, leading down to its deepest of origins, traces back even further to the lands of Peruvian culture. This surprised me significantly and had also left me in awe, for the book was essentially about the many events which would later guide me, ironically enough, to the very heart of these Peruvian lands in Pilgrimage during the final stages of the book.
Not only does the Ayapana name draw an extraordinary connection to the Ayapana triplinervous, a well known herbal root within the Peruvian region, not indigenous to the Philippines, and utilized throughout by local shamans for medicinal purposes from amongst the Amazon of South America; But its origination is clearly derived from the very ancient lands and peoples of ancient Incan Peru.
In summary, the AYAPANA name is not indigenous to the Philippines (Maharlika) from what had always been assumed, but is (indeed) strongly tied to Incan and Peruvian sub-culture. Now, the question still remains: How did the AYAPANA name travel from extreme long distances far and away from the highly revered and fabled lands of Peru, within the deepest jungles of South America, by way through thousands and upon thousands of miles of Pacific Ocean to then arrive amidst the string of connecting Archipelago Philippine Islands? Could there have been a land mass for which had connected the two together before even such evidence of continental drift was ultimately made evident and true? Was there a significant amount of trade which could have existed, during the 13th and 14th centuries, along the Pacific which could have encouraged an increased interaction from amongst these differing peoples and cultures? Is there, indeed, a more profound connection (here) which persists where the two countries, perhaps, are derived and affiliated from amongst the origins of the same ancient source? The answer didn't arise anymore the clearer nor evident to me until I had returned in pilgrimage from Peru, late September last year during the Fall Equinox of 2012.
There is a theory for which Western scholars have labeled as such, but is mostly considered a widespread indigenous belief passed on from oral tradition, for which (at one point) many thousands of years ago, there was a continent, long known from amongst the many indigenous people (the Aborigines in Australia, the Ifugao of the Philippines, the Inca of Peru, the Rapa Nui of Easter Island, and the many tribes of Hawaii, Tahiti, and Samoa), which had long existed and thrived from amongst the oceans of the Pacific. This continent was the lost land of Mu, or Lemuria so-to-speak, which encompassed, thousands of years ago, the majority of all of these smaller indigenous civilizations until devastation had struck the continent through unknown calamity which destroyed the large and thriving civilization as a whole. These varying tribes found throughout the Pacific, still in existence today, are, essentially, the descendants of the long lost Golden Age of Lemuria.
The Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras is an extraordinary example of an evolved, living cultural landscape, which leads further in history, as far as two millennia ago, from the pre-colonial Philippines to traces guiding even further back to Lemuria. The terraces are located in the remote areas of the Philippine Cordillera mountain range on the northern island of the Luzon, Philippine archipelago. While the historic terraces cover an extensive area, the inscribed property consists of five clusters of the most intact and impressive terraces, located in four municipalities. They are all the product of the Ifugao ethnic group, a minority community that has occupied these mountains for thousands and upon thousands of years. Some scholars estimate that these very rice fields and terraces could feed people upon the many millions and upon millions if need be.
Now, here's another question, if it is indeed true concerning the heightened lengths for which these very terraces could have fed such greatened amounts of people by the millions, then what is the purpose and reasoning for the ancient construction of such, extraordinarily, built terraces? If the total population in the Philippines, during prehistory when these terraces were built, was less than 500, 000 people, as purported and estimated by scholars, then why was there such a strong need to produce such greatened amounts of food? The answer then lies within the possibility that maybe, perhaps, the indigenous were considerably right from all of this time. The ancient Ifugao of the Philippines (Maharlika), the Aborigines, the Rapa Nui, the Inca and amongst the many other Pacific-lying civilizations and cultures were indeed a significant part of what was known as (Pacifica) Lemuria or Mu.
Before these string of Archipelago islands were given its nationally assigned name, the Philippines have always been referred to, time and time again within the past by other Asian countries along the Pacific, as the Land of Gold or the Land of Nobility (Maharlika). Maharlika also has its ties to Ancient Indian Sanskrit which is Maharddhika, meaning a man of wealth. Further, many sources claim, from most recent geographic findings, that Lemuria consisted of eight total subcontinents where one of those sub-continents was ironically named Maharloka. You see the connection here: Maharlika and Maharloka?
How can the consistency from amongst such cultures and civilizations of the indigenous and ancient peoples, whom have thrived and existed for thousands and upon thousands of years, be readily discounted and dismissed by Western Scholars, when Western Civilization and Culture has only been present for only less than 400 years? Somewhere along these lines, there is a hidden truth, which is beginning to unravel upon itself in blossom, for now is the very season for such an awakening, of sorts, to manifest itself true within the ripening of its fruit to pasture throughout and amongst the herds of transitional sheep in people's clothing.
WONDERLANCE: Yes, as you've beautifully described along that personal journey, it seems more important than ever that we all unearth the Memory of our common roots, for it's obvious that it's been wiped out, as you've very well pointed out. 'Divide and conquer' or 'divide and rule': the dividing task is far easier when there's no recollection of unity, right?
Onto another kind of 'taboo' subject... There’s always been a discussion about whether people are genetically-predisposed to certain types of mental illness or whether all mental illness is induced by circumstance/culture. Then there's the most accepted theory, which suggests that the development of most types of mental illness takes place from a combination of both. In your primary profession as a psychiatric nurse for over a decade you probably have had the chance to identify what are the most usual mental afflictions affecting the largest number of today’s population and may have your own ideas about the aforementioned discussion. What are your thoughts about it?
JOEL AYAPANA: Yes, I would have to agree, indeed, that certain mental illnesses are most certainly influenced by biological and environmental means. Just because that there can, potentially, be a biological predisposition for any mental illness or psychological disorder to manifest itself into existence by inheritance, there are also the many unique environmental factors and elements which can act as the very triggers which can encourage the articulation for such diagnosed mental disorders to fully express itself into being. Several Twin Studies have been initiated in the past concerning the acquirement of many and variably inherited illnesses; And they have mostly concluded that the environmental makeup possesses a major significance, relevant to the fact on whether certain negative and positive signs and symptoms of genetically linked physical disorders or mental illnesses should ever be fully expressed. Why have there been many instances found where one twin, and not in the other, are inflicted with an inherited trait from any predisposing familial link? In parallel, when we are to incorporate the connection between mental illness and the DNA Molecule, the same philosophy holds, within itself, to be true. Now, how about if we were to bring it to the next level with any inherited disorder, for that matter? There are certain environmental factors for which we can truly control within our grasp. This, my friend, lies within the very means of our PERSPECTIVES, but let’s bring it to the next step of HEIGHTENED awareness when we are to attach such perspectives and intentions with the inner makings of the HEART! We, My Dear Friend, possess the capability of changing the DNA, our very make-up and blueprint of our realities, by terra-forming our emotional, vibrational, and energetic landscape through the connectivity we possess with our HEARTS.
The answers for which we had always been in search for lies within the HEART. The capacity to heal one's self and others lies within the HEART. The limitless creation and the potential mastery of a masterpiece in literature, artwork, and to any song lies within the HEART. The ultimate in Truths to the discovery and understanding of one's self and in the world lies, indeed, within the makings of the heart. All in all, it is within the heart which had always been the source for which the very flame of inspiration, to the path of the Light, had always been meant to being lit, reignited to the very spark within all of our spirits.
Deep and enduring laughter, the legitimacy of a smile, tears of joy and revelation, inspiration, and/or unconscionable love are from amongst the several pathways and portals to the heart. Once deciding upon ourselves of what is legitimately required, a choice is made on whether we shall further proceed into the entryway of such a doorway to salvation, which had never been locked nor closed from being far and away from what can be simply grasped. All that was ever required was the mere turning of the handle and in the pushing of our weight to the opening of such a door to limitless potentialities and possibilities of manifestation. This, essentially, is the awareness for which any one individual can acknowledge when we make reference to the "Fau-Toth" Phenomenon. This philosophical construct in ideology, essentially, is an acronym for which I would like to term the "Free And Universal Tract (or Truth) Of The Heart. Once we are more than capable of opening the truths of such a door, more frequently and freely from amongst our own will, then and only then, can we legitimately ask from our hearts. This is the time to ask. When we bask within the brightness and peace of such a place, we are, literally, connected to all things. Through the stimulation of the heart from the very first step to the many steps that we may take in entry into such a heartened space, a heightened level of electro-magnetivity is created from that of the heart which exudes in all directions. Such changes of energies created from the surges of such purity, honesty, and utmost sincerity is what deems itself stronger than the mind, as the heart, most indeed, has the capacity to changing the very structure of our DNA, to altering perception, in relinquishing energy levels, encouraging the healing curve, promoting the release of certain hormones for overall bodily self-sufficiency, immediately reducing stress and anxiety, and in inducing the anti-aging process. At this particular point, we then are in connection and in coherence to the Father, the Mother, the Divine, all earthly beings and things, the moon, the stars, and of the Universe, the Truth. We often neglect the Power of the Heart. We do so when we often reside and live from amongst the World of only thought, mind, and intellect, alone. Occasionally, for what is more frequently felt and acknowledged into awareness, when we should happen to stumble into the miracles of the heart from everyday life, we fall into the trap of considering such an act or thought of kindness, feeling, or peace as being a fluke or chance encounter that is shunned and overlooked, unwaveringly and overwhelmingly, with contradiction.
I have learned, from my own experiences in writing this book, that often, too many times, I had found the most difficulty in chalking up a creative writing piece when I would frequently focus upon the mere details and technicalities of writing, in itself, that I had, literally, become stumped and stomped out of m own wits while falling deeper and deeper into literary fatigue and frustrating thought. As we are to release from the attachments of the mind and of the ego, when permitted, and are to delve, rather, deeper into piece and clarity within the heart, the very act of writing a literary piece, or perhaps even within the act of doing anything , for that matter, becomes an easier task to accomplish. By no means am I an authority figure upon the dealings and sciences of the heart. I, merely, offer such wisdom and knowledge, humbly with open hands and palms, from the validity of my own experiences, of the following three-hundred-sixty-three days of that deepened and profound relationship that I had built, indeed, with the inner makings of my own heart.
WONDERLANCE: In ‘The Book of Positive Light: Remembrance of the Heart’ you start by taking the reader to the moment in which you reach the proverbial rock-bottom of your own life experience. The book, as you mention in your bio, is the result of a habit you developed when your personal world started to crumble. Would you tell our readers what this habit is all about and how it took you to ‘the Shaking’, as you call the moment of total self-awareness?
JOEL AYAPANA: Yes, I thank you, dearly, for this question. I truly feel that such a HABIT, for which you may speak of, is the feeling of redundancy to where we become so acclimated to the very world of negativity, fear, complacency, worry, stagnancy, and stunted growth, which are all, indeed, the polar opposites of EVOLUTION. According to Pythagorus, the Laws of Man are deeply linked to the stages of Evolution. When we may find ourselves within that state of dormancy to where we become unconscious, stunted, and unaware of our current state of purgatory, we are softly nudged at times, but more frequently, than not, violently shook where we are, then, knocked straight off of our feet. Such an event is what I often refer to, within the book, as “The Shaking.” When we are, at times, struck with a disheartening act or event, within our lives, we can either perceive such beleaguering turmoil as denigrating, bleak, and self-condemning; or we can take such a blow as life-changing and inspirational, more or less, as then we are more than able to viewing and perceiving such a change as a blessing within the illusion of its visual disguise. After the “Shaking” of sorts is experienced in full fashion, we then become the very essence of an enlightened and newly birthed being. “As when the enlightening of such souls have weathered through this awakening of sorts, they are, then, entrusted and equipped with the very wisdoms and resiliencies of a newly-found faith, only freely discovered from the wisdom acquired from the very events, once thought and perceived as devastating and bleak. As for me, if such a “Shaking” or an “Awakening” of sorts would have never been experienced, I would have never experienced the many miraculous blessings and vibrant initiations of wonder and magic, as outlined and chronicled within this book.
WONDERLANCE: Joel, you mention the word Synchronicity often in social media. What sparked this notion in you and how do you think others can become more aware of this notion’s role in their own lives?
JOEL AYAPANA: Surprisingly enough, the unexpected completion of this book encompasses the very essence of what you speak of, in terms of connectivity, design, sacred geometry, and in the blueprint of life. What we may often perceive as coincidence, when we live within the World of the Ego, we can often relate to, in contrast, as Synchronicity, when we thrive within the World of the Heart. The simplest way to become more conscious of such an awareness is by being more open, sincere, and non-judgemental of our very surroundings to where we then may become more aware of the very patterns and in the Divine Messages for which persistently exist from all around us.
WONDERLANCE: Quite early in the book, you mention the concept of Divine Feminine. The word divine is mostly used to suggest God’s essence and/or intervention in both spiritual and religious texts. Now, the two most widely-spread religions in the world describe God as of an exclusively male nature. Is it safe to assume that, by using the concept Divine Feminine, you’re disassociating your interpretation of the divine from the interpretation that these two religions have always presented?
JOEL AYAPANA: According to the New International Translation of Genesis 1:27, the Holy Bible states, “So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.” My interpretation of this is that God possesses the very Essence of what is Both Male and Female, Female and Male. The Creator is neither one or the other, separately, but One of the Same. As Nature experiences existence through and within the cycles of itself from amongst its variables and polar opposites, Humanity also experiences life within the blessing of its cycles through extremes. As the Universe transitions through the cycles of polar opposites, God, the Creator, can also be experienced and appreciated by the very Energies of Both Male and Female Frequencies, and in combination with the more Feminine and Masculine of Vibrations. As we, gradually, transition from the Piscean Age of what exists to this very day in strife, we are now progressively moving forward into the Age of the Aquarius, where we are evolving into a more heightened awareness of Peace, Love, Purity, Dignity, Integrity, and of a Wholeheartedness, which are all the very Elements of the Divine, but instead is now encompassing the very Energies and Vibrations of The Creator’s Sacred Feminine Nature.
WONDERLANCE: Talking about 'sacred'... What are your views on the concept of ‘sacred lands’?
JOEL AYAPANA: From a human and personal level, I truly feel that these ancient sites, such as The Great Serpent Mound, Machu Pichu and Chichen Itza, are from amongst the least understood connections to our Sacred and Divine Nature to the very memory of our greatened past from the many endearing cycles of our Human existence. They provide the required and nourishing energies for which we must frequent and become reacquainted to for the benefit of the whole within its entirety to Spirit. Such sacred sites offer a unique and distinct Calling for the awakening of potential initiates, for once that level of heightened awareness is fully understood and achieved, a portal to the evolution of our consciousness is opened. These highly revered lands allow for us to never forget and to never stray away from the importance and significance of all of our Hearts in connection to Mother Gaia.
On an earthly level and from amongst a more quantum energetic mode of understanding, the Ancients have always known of the significance of the free flowing movement of “chi” throughout the many energy points, or chakras, within and along the length of the human body. For once this specific energy is halted or slowed from amidst its naturally reoccurring circulation, illness and disease shall often become of it. The same importance of this resistant-free flow of, similarly, resounding movement of energy must also circulate along the required streams of Kundalini-like energy, uninterrupted, throughout, what is referred to as, the Earth’s own natural meridiums. These resonance chambers or Earthly Chakraas, which are patterned, accordingly, throughout the face of the Earth, are the very markers for which these ancient and most holy of sites are built.
WONDERLANCE: What have we lost from our ancient legacy, from the wisdom of the indigenous people, that, in your opinion, we must recover urgently and why?
JOEL AYAPANA: We have lost the capacity to think and feel for ourselves, but instead we are conditionally taught what we are to think and how we are to feel, whilst apologizing for what we truly are, the Well-Deserving Descendants and the Children of Our Dearest Lord, Our Creator. Additionally, we are fearful for speaking from our Minds and from the purity of our Hearts for the search and exploration of Truths. The urgency further burns deep within our hearts because we have journeyed so far into the night from amidst the Darkness, but within that Abyss, we have found the very Light for which we had always been in search of, the “Positive Light” from amidst the purity of our highest SELVES!
As a collective, we have forgotten about the power and magic of our hearts for which the Ancients have truly admired and believed in. When one should so initially speak of “love” in any fashion, our egoic minds may often, either consciously or subconsciously, shudder and automatically ridicule or judge at the fact that he or she had even mentioned the word “love.” We may question the intent of such a phrase, its context, the very mouth for which it had been derived, and upon the focus to any individual from the lengths of such vernacular. From the egoic mind, we may often question why the word “love” had even been said. We have ultimately lost what it truly means to openly speak of love, the genuine expression of love, to inspire from amongst the legitimacy of what it means to portray love, and in the faith in one’s self to, faithfully, believe that it truly exists. Ladies and Gentlemen, things within the next few years are about to CHANGE!
WONDERLANCE: We can't carry on like this, that's for sure. You created ‘The Book of Positive Light: Remembrance of the Heart’, as its title suggests, from the Heart and it is in your heart that it serves other people the way it served you. Today the un-edited version is available to the public, where can they find it?
JOEL AYAPANA: You can purchase ‘The Book of Positive Light: Remembrance of the Heart,’ the Limited Pre-Released and Unedited Hard Cover Edition of the book, on my website at www.thebookofpositivelight.com on the day of its BOOK LAUNCH on Tuesday, November 12, 2013 (11/12/13). You can CLICK on several prompted segments within the website which will connect you to “Lulu Publishing” where the book is actually sold online at www.lulu.com
The Final Editor’s Cut Edition, by Jennifer Schwartz, along with her summarizing synopsis and review of the book will also be included within this edition, available for release on Wednesday, December 11, 2013 also on my website, again, at www.thebookofpositivelight.com
Dear, Miss Syl R. Martin, I thank you, again for this opportunity and blessing to having me as a guest on your wonderful and aspiring magazine. I AM deeply honoured and humbly grateful for your encouraging words of inspiration and in such an undeniable faith within the very root of my vision in becoming the very author and writer that I AM today. May you always be blessed, Dear Friend! Sat Nam, Namaste, In Lak’ech Ala Kin
WONDERLANCE: My pleasure. If like it, I do it ALWAYS FROM THE HEART. Thank You.
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Experience an INTRIGUING and provocative Conversation with Joel Ayapana as he shares his insights concerning the intentions of Ancient Wisdom as it relates to the Power and Significance of the Sacred and Powerful Heart.
WONDERLANCE Magazine Interview with Syl R. Martin
http://wonderlance.com/themagazine/dm_artculture_joelayapana.html
"A while ago I stumbled upon this soul within the big cauldron of Facebook. His posts helped me find my spiritual centre more than once, in a way in that it felt as if I was reading music. I could not imagine not sharing this experience with others. So, today, I'm paying it forward. Exclusive interview with JOEL AYAPANA, on his debut as a professional writer with 'The Book of Positive Light: Remembrance of the Heart'." (Syl R. Martin/ Editor of Wonderlance Magazine 11/12/13)
JOEL AYAPANA
An exclusive interview for Wonderlance
‘On the eve of another reluctantly anticipated new year to come in December 2008, I was 35 years of age, significantly overweight at 249 pounds, stagnant, bewildered, confused, and plagued with one health problem to the next. I was at a crossroads during those beleaguering times and I was living a life with such delineating faith, doubt, and uncertainty. I was poorly self-esteemed and had found myself in an utterly deepened state of depression and anguish, but in reflecting back, it brings a smile to my face in knowing that every struggle and denigrating life changing event, which had strayed me even further from the mark, were all required and truly meant to be within the process[…]’ - The Book of Positive Light: Remembrance of the Heart
Joel Ayapana, a psychiatric nurse for over ten years, found out by himself what most of his patients already knew: Darkness lies within. On the journey across the desolated landscape of his own hell, he also came to experience another Truth: Light also lies within.
These days, we find him debuting as a professional writer with the title: ‘The Book of Positive Light: Remembrance of the Heart’, which is not another New Age self-help book; It is a first-person experiential account of what Positivity really means and how it works as a bridge across our most real nightmares. It is also a literary delight, for Ayapana makes use not only of the vulnerability and raw pain felt by his own heart in this true tale of redemption and triumph but also of his obvious skill as a writer for whom words are both brushes and vehicles, as he unravels both the painting of his life scenery and the passage through which the reader becomes the painter of his own. Ayapana, loyal to his core purpose, continues to devote his life to nursing and nourishing souls, only that now he is expanding his reach beyond physical presence.
WONDERLANCE: Joel, you’re a citizen of the United States of America, but your surname hints at a very different origin. In the past few years, uncovering one’s genealogy has become a passion for many and there are even TV shows where celebrities are taken on that journey of discovering their own history roots. It seems that knowing where one comes from has a profound effect upon the perspective from which one reflects on one’s life and not long ago you commented in social media that it was something you yourself deemed important. What’s the history of the Ayapana surname and where did its origins take you?
JOEL AYAPANA: Funny that you had brought the interesting subject matter of genealogy as your very first question for this provocative interview. Exploring into the very roots of my own family lineage was far from what I had intended to encounter when it came down to writing this book, but it was an unexpected occurrence for which was almost a requirement, synchronistically discovered, within the whole process of self rediscovery. When I had “Googled” the name “Ayapana”... I realized that it was far from what I had assumed for it to be.
One may think that the name, just from the sound of it, exudes the roots of a denoted Hawaiian civilization and nomenclature. Let alone, may one have even assumed that it, indeed, holds its purest links possessed from centuries and upon centuries past leading to the olden memory of Filippino island tribal existence, but the name, leading down to its deepest of origins, traces back even further to the lands of Peruvian culture. This surprised me significantly and had also left me in awe, for the book was essentially about the many events which would later guide me, ironically enough, to the very heart of these Peruvian lands in Pilgrimage during the final stages of the book.
Not only does the Ayapana name draw an extraordinary connection to the Ayapana triplinervous, a well known herbal root within the Peruvian region, not indigenous to the Philippines, and utilized throughout by local shamans for medicinal purposes from amongst the Amazon of South America; But its origination is clearly derived from the very ancient lands and peoples of ancient Incan Peru.
In summary, the AYAPANA name is not indigenous to the Philippines (Maharlika) from what had always been assumed, but is (indeed) strongly tied to Incan and Peruvian sub-culture. Now, the question still remains: How did the AYAPANA name travel from extreme long distances far and away from the highly revered and fabled lands of Peru, within the deepest jungles of South America, by way through thousands and upon thousands of miles of Pacific Ocean to then arrive amidst the string of connecting Archipelago Philippine Islands? Could there have been a land mass for which had connected the two together before even such evidence of continental drift was ultimately made evident and true? Was there a significant amount of trade which could have existed, during the 13th and 14th centuries, along the Pacific which could have encouraged an increased interaction from amongst these differing peoples and cultures? Is there, indeed, a more profound connection (here) which persists where the two countries, perhaps, are derived and affiliated from amongst the origins of the same ancient source? The answer didn't arise anymore the clearer nor evident to me until I had returned in pilgrimage from Peru, late September last year during the Fall Equinox of 2012.
There is a theory for which Western scholars have labeled as such, but is mostly considered a widespread indigenous belief passed on from oral tradition, for which (at one point) many thousands of years ago, there was a continent, long known from amongst the many indigenous people (the Aborigines in Australia, the Ifugao of the Philippines, the Inca of Peru, the Rapa Nui of Easter Island, and the many tribes of Hawaii, Tahiti, and Samoa), which had long existed and thrived from amongst the oceans of the Pacific. This continent was the lost land of Mu, or Lemuria so-to-speak, which encompassed, thousands of years ago, the majority of all of these smaller indigenous civilizations until devastation had struck the continent through unknown calamity which destroyed the large and thriving civilization as a whole. These varying tribes found throughout the Pacific, still in existence today, are, essentially, the descendants of the long lost Golden Age of Lemuria.
The Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras is an extraordinary example of an evolved, living cultural landscape, which leads further in history, as far as two millennia ago, from the pre-colonial Philippines to traces guiding even further back to Lemuria. The terraces are located in the remote areas of the Philippine Cordillera mountain range on the northern island of the Luzon, Philippine archipelago. While the historic terraces cover an extensive area, the inscribed property consists of five clusters of the most intact and impressive terraces, located in four municipalities. They are all the product of the Ifugao ethnic group, a minority community that has occupied these mountains for thousands and upon thousands of years. Some scholars estimate that these very rice fields and terraces could feed people upon the many millions and upon millions if need be.
Now, here's another question, if it is indeed true concerning the heightened lengths for which these very terraces could have fed such greatened amounts of people by the millions, then what is the purpose and reasoning for the ancient construction of such, extraordinarily, built terraces? If the total population in the Philippines, during prehistory when these terraces were built, was less than 500, 000 people, as purported and estimated by scholars, then why was there such a strong need to produce such greatened amounts of food? The answer then lies within the possibility that maybe, perhaps, the indigenous were considerably right from all of this time. The ancient Ifugao of the Philippines (Maharlika), the Aborigines, the Rapa Nui, the Inca and amongst the many other Pacific-lying civilizations and cultures were indeed a significant part of what was known as (Pacifica) Lemuria or Mu.
Before these string of Archipelago islands were given its nationally assigned name, the Philippines have always been referred to, time and time again within the past by other Asian countries along the Pacific, as the Land of Gold or the Land of Nobility (Maharlika). Maharlika also has its ties to Ancient Indian Sanskrit which is Maharddhika, meaning a man of wealth. Further, many sources claim, from most recent geographic findings, that Lemuria consisted of eight total subcontinents where one of those sub-continents was ironically named Maharloka. You see the connection here: Maharlika and Maharloka?
How can the consistency from amongst such cultures and civilizations of the indigenous and ancient peoples, whom have thrived and existed for thousands and upon thousands of years, be readily discounted and dismissed by Western Scholars, when Western Civilization and Culture has only been present for only less than 400 years? Somewhere along these lines, there is a hidden truth, which is beginning to unravel upon itself in blossom, for now is the very season for such an awakening, of sorts, to manifest itself true within the ripening of its fruit to pasture throughout and amongst the herds of transitional sheep in people's clothing.
WONDERLANCE: Yes, as you've beautifully described along that personal journey, it seems more important than ever that we all unearth the Memory of our common roots, for it's obvious that it's been wiped out, as you've very well pointed out. 'Divide and conquer' or 'divide and rule': the dividing task is far easier when there's no recollection of unity, right?
Onto another kind of 'taboo' subject... There’s always been a discussion about whether people are genetically-predisposed to certain types of mental illness or whether all mental illness is induced by circumstance/culture. Then there's the most accepted theory, which suggests that the development of most types of mental illness takes place from a combination of both. In your primary profession as a psychiatric nurse for over a decade you probably have had the chance to identify what are the most usual mental afflictions affecting the largest number of today’s population and may have your own ideas about the aforementioned discussion. What are your thoughts about it?
JOEL AYAPANA: Yes, I would have to agree, indeed, that certain mental illnesses are most certainly influenced by biological and environmental means. Just because that there can, potentially, be a biological predisposition for any mental illness or psychological disorder to manifest itself into existence by inheritance, there are also the many unique environmental factors and elements which can act as the very triggers which can encourage the articulation for such diagnosed mental disorders to fully express itself into being. Several Twin Studies have been initiated in the past concerning the acquirement of many and variably inherited illnesses; And they have mostly concluded that the environmental makeup possesses a major significance, relevant to the fact on whether certain negative and positive signs and symptoms of genetically linked physical disorders or mental illnesses should ever be fully expressed. Why have there been many instances found where one twin, and not in the other, are inflicted with an inherited trait from any predisposing familial link? In parallel, when we are to incorporate the connection between mental illness and the DNA Molecule, the same philosophy holds, within itself, to be true. Now, how about if we were to bring it to the next level with any inherited disorder, for that matter? There are certain environmental factors for which we can truly control within our grasp. This, my friend, lies within the very means of our PERSPECTIVES, but let’s bring it to the next step of HEIGHTENED awareness when we are to attach such perspectives and intentions with the inner makings of the HEART! We, My Dear Friend, possess the capability of changing the DNA, our very make-up and blueprint of our realities, by terra-forming our emotional, vibrational, and energetic landscape through the connectivity we possess with our HEARTS.
The answers for which we had always been in search for lies within the HEART. The capacity to heal one's self and others lies within the HEART. The limitless creation and the potential mastery of a masterpiece in literature, artwork, and to any song lies within the HEART. The ultimate in Truths to the discovery and understanding of one's self and in the world lies, indeed, within the makings of the heart. All in all, it is within the heart which had always been the source for which the very flame of inspiration, to the path of the Light, had always been meant to being lit, reignited to the very spark within all of our spirits.
Deep and enduring laughter, the legitimacy of a smile, tears of joy and revelation, inspiration, and/or unconscionable love are from amongst the several pathways and portals to the heart. Once deciding upon ourselves of what is legitimately required, a choice is made on whether we shall further proceed into the entryway of such a doorway to salvation, which had never been locked nor closed from being far and away from what can be simply grasped. All that was ever required was the mere turning of the handle and in the pushing of our weight to the opening of such a door to limitless potentialities and possibilities of manifestation. This, essentially, is the awareness for which any one individual can acknowledge when we make reference to the "Fau-Toth" Phenomenon. This philosophical construct in ideology, essentially, is an acronym for which I would like to term the "Free And Universal Tract (or Truth) Of The Heart. Once we are more than capable of opening the truths of such a door, more frequently and freely from amongst our own will, then and only then, can we legitimately ask from our hearts. This is the time to ask. When we bask within the brightness and peace of such a place, we are, literally, connected to all things. Through the stimulation of the heart from the very first step to the many steps that we may take in entry into such a heartened space, a heightened level of electro-magnetivity is created from that of the heart which exudes in all directions. Such changes of energies created from the surges of such purity, honesty, and utmost sincerity is what deems itself stronger than the mind, as the heart, most indeed, has the capacity to changing the very structure of our DNA, to altering perception, in relinquishing energy levels, encouraging the healing curve, promoting the release of certain hormones for overall bodily self-sufficiency, immediately reducing stress and anxiety, and in inducing the anti-aging process. At this particular point, we then are in connection and in coherence to the Father, the Mother, the Divine, all earthly beings and things, the moon, the stars, and of the Universe, the Truth. We often neglect the Power of the Heart. We do so when we often reside and live from amongst the World of only thought, mind, and intellect, alone. Occasionally, for what is more frequently felt and acknowledged into awareness, when we should happen to stumble into the miracles of the heart from everyday life, we fall into the trap of considering such an act or thought of kindness, feeling, or peace as being a fluke or chance encounter that is shunned and overlooked, unwaveringly and overwhelmingly, with contradiction.
I have learned, from my own experiences in writing this book, that often, too many times, I had found the most difficulty in chalking up a creative writing piece when I would frequently focus upon the mere details and technicalities of writing, in itself, that I had, literally, become stumped and stomped out of m own wits while falling deeper and deeper into literary fatigue and frustrating thought. As we are to release from the attachments of the mind and of the ego, when permitted, and are to delve, rather, deeper into piece and clarity within the heart, the very act of writing a literary piece, or perhaps even within the act of doing anything , for that matter, becomes an easier task to accomplish. By no means am I an authority figure upon the dealings and sciences of the heart. I, merely, offer such wisdom and knowledge, humbly with open hands and palms, from the validity of my own experiences, of the following three-hundred-sixty-three days of that deepened and profound relationship that I had built, indeed, with the inner makings of my own heart.
WONDERLANCE: In ‘The Book of Positive Light: Remembrance of the Heart’ you start by taking the reader to the moment in which you reach the proverbial rock-bottom of your own life experience. The book, as you mention in your bio, is the result of a habit you developed when your personal world started to crumble. Would you tell our readers what this habit is all about and how it took you to ‘the Shaking’, as you call the moment of total self-awareness?
JOEL AYAPANA: Yes, I thank you, dearly, for this question. I truly feel that such a HABIT, for which you may speak of, is the feeling of redundancy to where we become so acclimated to the very world of negativity, fear, complacency, worry, stagnancy, and stunted growth, which are all, indeed, the polar opposites of EVOLUTION. According to Pythagorus, the Laws of Man are deeply linked to the stages of Evolution. When we may find ourselves within that state of dormancy to where we become unconscious, stunted, and unaware of our current state of purgatory, we are softly nudged at times, but more frequently, than not, violently shook where we are, then, knocked straight off of our feet. Such an event is what I often refer to, within the book, as “The Shaking.” When we are, at times, struck with a disheartening act or event, within our lives, we can either perceive such beleaguering turmoil as denigrating, bleak, and self-condemning; or we can take such a blow as life-changing and inspirational, more or less, as then we are more than able to viewing and perceiving such a change as a blessing within the illusion of its visual disguise. After the “Shaking” of sorts is experienced in full fashion, we then become the very essence of an enlightened and newly birthed being. “As when the enlightening of such souls have weathered through this awakening of sorts, they are, then, entrusted and equipped with the very wisdoms and resiliencies of a newly-found faith, only freely discovered from the wisdom acquired from the very events, once thought and perceived as devastating and bleak. As for me, if such a “Shaking” or an “Awakening” of sorts would have never been experienced, I would have never experienced the many miraculous blessings and vibrant initiations of wonder and magic, as outlined and chronicled within this book.
WONDERLANCE: Joel, you mention the word Synchronicity often in social media. What sparked this notion in you and how do you think others can become more aware of this notion’s role in their own lives?
JOEL AYAPANA: Surprisingly enough, the unexpected completion of this book encompasses the very essence of what you speak of, in terms of connectivity, design, sacred geometry, and in the blueprint of life. What we may often perceive as coincidence, when we live within the World of the Ego, we can often relate to, in contrast, as Synchronicity, when we thrive within the World of the Heart. The simplest way to become more conscious of such an awareness is by being more open, sincere, and non-judgemental of our very surroundings to where we then may become more aware of the very patterns and in the Divine Messages for which persistently exist from all around us.
WONDERLANCE: Quite early in the book, you mention the concept of Divine Feminine. The word divine is mostly used to suggest God’s essence and/or intervention in both spiritual and religious texts. Now, the two most widely-spread religions in the world describe God as of an exclusively male nature. Is it safe to assume that, by using the concept Divine Feminine, you’re disassociating your interpretation of the divine from the interpretation that these two religions have always presented?
JOEL AYAPANA: According to the New International Translation of Genesis 1:27, the Holy Bible states, “So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.” My interpretation of this is that God possesses the very Essence of what is Both Male and Female, Female and Male. The Creator is neither one or the other, separately, but One of the Same. As Nature experiences existence through and within the cycles of itself from amongst its variables and polar opposites, Humanity also experiences life within the blessing of its cycles through extremes. As the Universe transitions through the cycles of polar opposites, God, the Creator, can also be experienced and appreciated by the very Energies of Both Male and Female Frequencies, and in combination with the more Feminine and Masculine of Vibrations. As we, gradually, transition from the Piscean Age of what exists to this very day in strife, we are now progressively moving forward into the Age of the Aquarius, where we are evolving into a more heightened awareness of Peace, Love, Purity, Dignity, Integrity, and of a Wholeheartedness, which are all the very Elements of the Divine, but instead is now encompassing the very Energies and Vibrations of The Creator’s Sacred Feminine Nature.
WONDERLANCE: Talking about 'sacred'... What are your views on the concept of ‘sacred lands’?
JOEL AYAPANA: From a human and personal level, I truly feel that these ancient sites, such as The Great Serpent Mound, Machu Pichu and Chichen Itza, are from amongst the least understood connections to our Sacred and Divine Nature to the very memory of our greatened past from the many endearing cycles of our Human existence. They provide the required and nourishing energies for which we must frequent and become reacquainted to for the benefit of the whole within its entirety to Spirit. Such sacred sites offer a unique and distinct Calling for the awakening of potential initiates, for once that level of heightened awareness is fully understood and achieved, a portal to the evolution of our consciousness is opened. These highly revered lands allow for us to never forget and to never stray away from the importance and significance of all of our Hearts in connection to Mother Gaia.
On an earthly level and from amongst a more quantum energetic mode of understanding, the Ancients have always known of the significance of the free flowing movement of “chi” throughout the many energy points, or chakras, within and along the length of the human body. For once this specific energy is halted or slowed from amidst its naturally reoccurring circulation, illness and disease shall often become of it. The same importance of this resistant-free flow of, similarly, resounding movement of energy must also circulate along the required streams of Kundalini-like energy, uninterrupted, throughout, what is referred to as, the Earth’s own natural meridiums. These resonance chambers or Earthly Chakraas, which are patterned, accordingly, throughout the face of the Earth, are the very markers for which these ancient and most holy of sites are built.
WONDERLANCE: What have we lost from our ancient legacy, from the wisdom of the indigenous people, that, in your opinion, we must recover urgently and why?
JOEL AYAPANA: We have lost the capacity to think and feel for ourselves, but instead we are conditionally taught what we are to think and how we are to feel, whilst apologizing for what we truly are, the Well-Deserving Descendants and the Children of Our Dearest Lord, Our Creator. Additionally, we are fearful for speaking from our Minds and from the purity of our Hearts for the search and exploration of Truths. The urgency further burns deep within our hearts because we have journeyed so far into the night from amidst the Darkness, but within that Abyss, we have found the very Light for which we had always been in search of, the “Positive Light” from amidst the purity of our highest SELVES!
As a collective, we have forgotten about the power and magic of our hearts for which the Ancients have truly admired and believed in. When one should so initially speak of “love” in any fashion, our egoic minds may often, either consciously or subconsciously, shudder and automatically ridicule or judge at the fact that he or she had even mentioned the word “love.” We may question the intent of such a phrase, its context, the very mouth for which it had been derived, and upon the focus to any individual from the lengths of such vernacular. From the egoic mind, we may often question why the word “love” had even been said. We have ultimately lost what it truly means to openly speak of love, the genuine expression of love, to inspire from amongst the legitimacy of what it means to portray love, and in the faith in one’s self to, faithfully, believe that it truly exists. Ladies and Gentlemen, things within the next few years are about to CHANGE!
WONDERLANCE: We can't carry on like this, that's for sure. You created ‘The Book of Positive Light: Remembrance of the Heart’, as its title suggests, from the Heart and it is in your heart that it serves other people the way it served you. Today the un-edited version is available to the public, where can they find it?
JOEL AYAPANA: You can purchase ‘The Book of Positive Light: Remembrance of the Heart,’ the Limited Pre-Released and Unedited Hard Cover Edition of the book, on my website at www.thebookofpositivelight.com on the day of its BOOK LAUNCH on Tuesday, November 12, 2013 (11/12/13). You can CLICK on several prompted segments within the website which will connect you to “Lulu Publishing” where the book is actually sold online at www.lulu.com
The Final Editor’s Cut Edition, by Jennifer Schwartz, along with her summarizing synopsis and review of the book will also be included within this edition, available for release on Wednesday, December 11, 2013 also on my website, again, at www.thebookofpositivelight.com
Dear, Miss Syl R. Martin, I thank you, again for this opportunity and blessing to having me as a guest on your wonderful and aspiring magazine. I AM deeply honoured and humbly grateful for your encouraging words of inspiration and in such an undeniable faith within the very root of my vision in becoming the very author and writer that I AM today. May you always be blessed, Dear Friend! Sat Nam, Namaste, In Lak’ech Ala Kin
WONDERLANCE: My pleasure. If like it, I do it ALWAYS FROM THE HEART. Thank You.
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