Letter from the editor

After months of anticipation, preparation, and announcements that were meant to prepare you for this, we are proud to welcome all of you to the very first edition of the all new ‘Spirit of Ma’at’. We have been so busy getting everything ready, only now, as I sit down to write my first “Letter from the Editor”, am I beginning to understand what an honor it is, or me, and for all of the people who work here, to be part of this endeavor.

What began back in the year 2000 came out of Drunvalo’s desire to create an information source that would provide its readership with articles that would loan some semblance of truth to questions about internal and external changes that at that point were just beginning to gather momentum. It was in that year, at one of the early “Earth-Sky” Workshops, that Drunvalo announced his plans to launch a webzine called the “Spirit of Ma’at”.

I happened to be present at that workshop. The night before it started, I rolled my sleeping bag out on the ground, outside a tent that was inhabited by a gal who introduced herself to me as Susan Barber. In a 3 AM encounter with a skunk, it was Susan who woke up long enough to tell me how to avoid getting sprayed by the little bugger. I will never forget it – and what comes to mind now that I think of it is; on the second or third day of the workshop, when Drunvalo asked if there was anyone in the room who knew about editing and understood computers, Susan raised her hand and in an instant, became the first editor of his new magazine.

I remember thinking how lucky she was. It never occurred to me that, five years down the road, I would get a call from Diane Cooper, asking me to pick up where Susan left off. Reflecting on the people and events that brought me here, after seven years as the Editor in Chief of “The Spirit of Ma’at” I see that in the time that it has been up and running, the magazine has yielded something that seems to have value for all of us. As we launch the first edition of the all new “Spirit of Ma’at” I am here to say that the fruit that has ripened with time, is about to honor the seed that gave birth to it.

Looking back, it was twelve years ago that Jupiter, the planet that governs the search for higher knowledge, was making its way through Gemini, the sign that governs every form of communication.

The Jupiter cycle tracks the way anything expands and grows over time. As of this writing Jupiter has come full circle and is now exactly where it was when all of this began. Somehow I am awed by the thought that “The Spirit of Ma’at” has come this far and is ready to move on to explore the next octave of higher knowledge and communication.

If I am humbled by the fact that I seem to be the steward for this, I am also jumping for joy. Unable to contain myself, I get the feeling that its time to lighten up and give that which came into being from the inside out, a chance to “Strut its Stuff”! So let’s stop being so serious. We came here to celebrate! I, and all of the wonderful people who made this possible invite you to celebrate with us by opening the pages of this beautiful new creation and taking the time to enjoy a harvest of articles and media presentations that have been expressly chosen to launch the next incarnation of “The Spirit of Ma’at”, and to open and awaken “The Illuminated Heart”.

Thank you all for being there. It is a privilege to serve you.

With Love, and Gratitude.

Cal Garrison
Editor in Chief at the “Spirit of Ma’at”