Journey With Macki Ruka

Journey with Macki Ruka,

Martha Mowrer-Urban

Edited by Mariana Convery

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Copyright © 2013 Martha Mowrer-Urban

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ISBN: 1490933816

ISBN: 13:9781490933818

DEDICATION

I dedicate this book to my deceased husband, Bob Mowrer (because he always wanted me to write and made my trip possible), to my children, grandchildren, great grandchildren, and any little ones to follow.

Thank you God for making all things possible.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I send many thanks to my mentors and friends who made suggestions and corrections to my manuscript.

A special thank you to Marian Hartsfield (Grandmother Dawn Sky

Weaver), my dear friend and roommate, who was my teacher and encouraged me, did the technical reading, and helped with the computer work.

To my friend Darcia DeRaps, who undertook the tedious job of changing it from present tense to past tense.

I’d also like to thank my husband, Ed Urban, for his patience and understanding for the long hours that it took, contenting himself at his desk right across from mine.

Contents

Introduction: About Maori Elder, Macki Ruka

Chapter 1: Meeting Brother Macki

Chapter 2: The Journey

Chapter 3: Devil’s Fingers Standing Stones

Chapter 4: First Ceremony

Chapter 5: Rosslyn Chapel

Chapter 6: Clava Cairns

Chapter 7: Findhor - Minton House

Chapter 8: Rosemarkie Fairy Glen

Chapter 9: At Inveraray

Chapter 10: On the Way to Inveraray Castle

Chapter 11: Ambleside – A Day of Rest

Chapter 12: Glastonbury Abbey/Chalice Well

Chapter 13: The Tor and Camelot

Chapter 14: Merlin’s Cave

Chapter 15: Lands End

Chapter 16: High Tea at Hamish Miller’s House

Chapter 17: Meeting at Penzance

Chapter 18: Michael’s Mount

Chapter 19: Avebury Stones and Crop Circles

Chapter 20: Stonehenge

Chapter 21: Going Home

Chapter 22: My Dream

Chapter 23: The Grasshoppers

Chapter 24: Meeting at Macki’s

Bibliography

FORWARD

It is an honor to write the forward to this book by Martha Mowrer-Urban. It is Martha’s reflection on how a journey to Great Britain with Mac Wiremu Te Korako Ruka, an Elder of the Maori Tribe in New Zealand, changed her life forever. Nothing in her Baptist upbringing or her affiliation with the Unity Church could have revealed the changes this journey would make in her life and her spiritual path. I met Martha on this magic voyage. I was also honored to be invited.

People dream of traveling to places like England, Scotland, and Wales to visit sacred sites such as Stonehenge, the abbey at Iona, Merlin’s cave, and many others. A list of these places can be found in adventure magazines and travel books. However, visiting places like these rarely prompt an awareness of how we connect to these sites, their history, the people who lived and died there in ancient times, and the effect this connection has on us. Martha learned about some of these connections and their effects while traveling with Brother Macki.

Macki Ruka shared the sacred teachings of his people, the Nation of

Waitaha with many people throughout the world. In this book you will enjoy some of the songs and poems inspired by this journey. Martha not only had the opportunity to travel with him and do ceremony at the sacred sites in England, Wales, and Scotland, she had an opportunity to know him as a member of her community in Florida.

Macki Ruka came from a tribe of indigenous healers, teachers, and keepers of the Sacred Truths. His is the Maori tribe of Waitaha. Waitaha is a nation of peace of Aotearoa/New Zealand. He learned at the feet of Grandmother and Grandfather, Mother and Father, and other Matriarchs and Patriarchs of the tribe. He whole-heartily believed in the divine teaching of the Universe.

It was no accident that Martha met Brother Macki at this special time in her life nor was it an accident that he picked her to go on this sacred journey with him. She is a witness to how living a full spiritual life does not change one’s belief in God. However, it strengthens our belief in human beings, the oneness; our relationship to each other and all things that exist; and our use of compassion, love, joy, peace, and truth. Martha already was a steward to others, Macki’s teachings helped broaden her hope and dignity for all.

May Martha’s journey inspire your adventurous spirit to become the spiritual being you are destined to be.

Have a wonderful, insightful, and enchanting journey!

In The Spirit of Love, Peace, And Truth

Marian Hartsfield/

Grandmother Dawn Sky Weaver Forest Park, GA.

Martha has written The Keys to The Twelve Tribes as they relate to the Archangels, Prophecy, and Ceremony as taught by Macki.

Introduction: About Maori Elder, Macki Ruka

(Macki Ruka) Mac Wiremu Te Korako Ruka was born in 1938 (Died the eleventh day of the eleventh month of the year 2000, a sacred number). He was an international speaker and counselor. At the early age of three, he and twenty of his cousins were initiated by their grandmother into Celestial and Earthly Teachings. At a young age he became an elder and medicine man in his tribe.

Macki Ruka was a Spiritual Elder of the Maori Tribes of New Zealand.

According to his older brother, Peter (his given name was McNally

Pounamu Poutama Poutapu Macki Ruka Te Korako, the sixth child of Rangitakina and Te Oti Taukana Ruka Te Korakora), he was sent around the world on a mission of peace and prophecy by his people.

‘The elders of the Matriarchal Maori Tribe of Waitaha, New Zealand believe that Grandmothers, Mothers, and Sisters of the world are ready to step forward to utilize the Universal Power they carry as the Guardians of Fertility, Nurturers of the Next Generation, and Keepers of Light. With this reawakening of wisdom, and the freedom to do it, women can now teach and lead their families and community to live in Peace and Unity" (Author Unknown).

Macki Ruka and seven others were chosen by the United Nations to represent the indigenous people everywhere and he was invited to a large number of Peace Conferences as a representative. In this capacity, he worked with the World Bank in Atlanta, GA, whose mission is fighting poverty around the world. He was in close contact with many well-known spiritual leaders, including Nelson Mandela, Mother Teresa, Pope John Paul II, the Dalai Lama, and lesser peace-minded figures.

Spirituality is the believing and understanding the ‘I Am’ that is within one’s self, teaching people to enhance their prayers to God, not to man, but to the Almighty and the beauty of His Most Holy through the Son Jesus, not forgetting Mother Mary, Brother Macki explained in an interview with the Chronicle Newspaper (Inverness, FL. 1997). There is only one God! This is not a religion. It is a way of life, he said.

According to Brother Macki, some of his Maori’s ancestors were aborigines that came originally from Australia. Later they were intermixed with various Polynesian cultures, including Hawaiian.

He tells the story, passed orally down through the generations, of his people crossing the ocean in large canoes that had been built to withstand high seas. They were able to carry many people and their possessions over long distances. Macki’s ancestors were born navigators, using the stars, birds in flight, and colors of the water as guides. They were blown off their original course and feared they were lost when they began to see signs of land, which was later known as New Zealand. There they settled.

Until Macki collaborated on a book (Song of Waitaha, From A Grandfather’s Perspective) with his brother Peter and others, the only written history the Maoris had was carved into the walls of what he called Journey with Macki Ruka

the long house/Marae (Meeting House). Their genealogy was chronicled there also.

Today many Maoris live as we do but there are still tribes that live in commune type environments.

There have been four Maori representatives in the New Zealand Parliament since 1975. Macki was present when they regained their unjustly confiscated lands from Great Britain. In 1999, Queen Elizabeth formally returned these lands in a New Zealand ceremony. (I almost had the opportunity to witness the ceremony. Macki had invited any of our group that could go. Several of us had our tickets in hand and had our bags packed when for reason unknown to us, the trip was canceled. We gathered that it was decided by the family that it was too much responsibility to have to entertain us at the same time as the ceremony. Perhaps it was because of security for the Queen. We were so disappointed.)

Little did I know this trip was destined to shape the rest of my life; I would have a passion I did not know existed. I realize now how fortunate I was to have been included, and I’ll say a little, Thank you God! Thank you God!" every time the experience comes to mind. I had never done anything impulsive in all my days of being a good daughter, wife, mother, bookkeeper and gal Friday for my husband’s masonry business; I always felt too much responsibility or loyalty - people depending on me.

My intention in writing this manuscript was to remember every little detail of my journey, and most of all to honor Brother Macki Ruka, a Maori Elder, and my teacher. Our group of twenty-one visited the Sacred Sites of Great Britain. It is said you can walk through a sacred site and have the thought that seems to connect you to the past in that place. Indigenous people everywhere believe there are special places of Spirit and Power. I invite you to decide for yourself.

So it is with this Introduction of Macki Ruka that I invite you to journey with me from the day I met Brother Macki up, through, and following this

amazing Power Trip journey of the sacred sites of Great Britain with

Macki Ruka.

Chapter 1: Meeting Brother Macki

I met Mac Wiremu Te Korako Ruka (Macki Ruka) - as he was known - at a popular yoga center where he was conducting a workshop. Macki was an obese man with dark wavy hair and a friendly face. His skin was a pleasing creamy tan. His dimpled, heart-warming smile showed a space between his front teeth.

He wore a colorful scarf around his neck that reached his waist in honor of the Blanket Carriers, he said. The women of his ancient tribe carry the blanket of healing, sorrow, tears, knowing, and hope for the future. It is in recognition of all that has gone before and all that is to come. It is in honor of those who carried the blanket in a time long ago and in recognition of all the lives lost in the journey of sorrows. It is given in love to those who carried the blankets in the past.

He spoke about his culture, and he told us about how he was raised to be an elder. It all seemed quite distant to me.

That evening at the workshop he sought out a few people with insights. It seemed he was led by intuition to reveal something to them about their lives. I had never come in contact with the likes of him and figured him for a phony. I was not particularly drawn to him, to say the least.

There was a flashy display of crystals. I had never seen a larger or more beautiful collection. They were arranged with lights that appealingly picked up the diamond glints and colors. There was much talk that night among my acquaintances about a group going to Israel with him, leaving shortly. A few weeks later he began attending a weekly metaphysical study group meeting with David, a friend from that group. Our meetings were held at the local Unity Church but not sponsored by them. I was very new to metaphysics but felt drawn to learn more.

Macki was very polite. He would listen, and when asked to comment, he would. The more I listened to him, the more I realized that there was just something special about Macki. It seemed to me that every word he spoke was filled with wisdom. I quickly developed respect for him, and decided it would be interesting to have him do a reading for me.

David seemed to be acting as his personal relations representative. Thea, a friend from my meditation group, and I met them at David's office in town. My reading turned out to be more of counseling, but he seemed to verify that I was headed in the right direction with my life after being widowed. He said something about Blood of the Lamb.

He had a habit of saying to me every time we met, "Blood of the Lamb,

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sister. Blood of the Lamb, then he would smile and say, You figure it out. And I tried and tried to interpret what he meant, but could get no further than Lamb of God" or a vague Bible story I had heard as a child in Sunday school.

Reading January 13, 1997 (by Brother Mac Wirema Korako Ruka Spiritual Elder from Waitaha, Maori Tribe In New Zealand - Healing Facilitator)

(Note: There are errors in Brother Macki’s English grammar but changing it would lose the flavor of a very colorful figure.)

Macki: I've enjoyed meeting you - you wonderful people. (At your metaphysical group meeting.)

Martha: We've all certainly enjoyed you. It has been quite an honor.

Macki: Before we start, I always like to do a sermon. I believe in allowing flow of energy. It's like you all talked about last night and the week previously, (he explained in his English accent). So we'll begin to settle.

(He chants) …

Oh Great Spirit, Creator, Mother, the enhancer of the giver of light. Oh Great Spirit, allow me at this moment to be the emissary, to be there, the deliverer of the sacred message. Allow me to whisper the gentleness from the Celestial Concourse and there begin the enhancing and looking deeper into this great, great mother, sister, in this precious moment and this now. Here to begin to see the beauty and the work that she is about to fulfill.

Oh Great Spirit, Creator of all life, Mother, and we say peace be unto you, and witnessing this great moment. Oh Great Spirit, Creator, the divine light within, Enhance the heart of this sister, this mother. Amen. Amen. Amen. Thank you. And there to create the porcelain vessel that is needed to carry the Blood of the Lamb. I give thanks.

We thank thee for this moment and the beauty that surrounds us in this light, this pinkish light. Oh Great Spirit, as it addresses this sister, this mother. Amen. Amen. Amen. The spirit has heard our prayers.

Now, sister, the questions?

Martha: Questions?

Macki: What is your question?

Martha: Can you speak to the souls that have passed over?

Macki: Sister, let me speak… the message I have for you is from a loved one. Two days I have been seeing him. He says he loves you. He loves you very deeply. He wants you to reach deeper and surrender to your purpose.

Sister, let me talk about the spiritual world where he is very, very busy. He is trying to make things in order for the Great Coming, and ninety-nine per cent of the ones that have left have chosen now; they have chosen to assist in the great plan, the plan of salvation. And he loves you sister, and I know he is your husband.

Martha: I was wondering what he was trying to say to me when he was dying.

Macki: There are three things:

As we begin a rebirth, a rebirth from transition, transformation, transfiguration into the rebirth. And when we reach forth to explain, and then we reach a point where that superlative becomes an all-encompassing of this divine light that overcomes the spirit - leaving the body unable to explain the rapture that he is feeling - no more pain. This light comes around trying to -- but there was a greater force pulling him.

This is what he was feeling, a great sense of release, a great sense of knowing, and a great feeling deep, deep in that soul seat, the spiritual song…Absolute wonderment; and this is what he was trying to tell you… Everything is Okay. Everything is Okay. Everything is Okay. And that is the message.

There is so much to learn there. Everything is good. It is very hard, I know. It is very hard to know that expression and that feeling because of how long you've been together. And this is the time you share that experience.

It is very hard because you go to set the table with another place there; you go to call him thinking he is going to come. He is still there -