My drumming is better than yours

Kevin Richardson
Jun 19, 2016
3 min read

Me and Sylvia had a great afternoon on Saturday 19th June going to a festival and meeting our wonderful friends. The venue was the Pentacle drummers summer solstice 2016.

we watched the entertainment , had some food and was feeling pretty relaxed.

we noticed a grove of trees that were part of the camping section and decided to take our drums and be in the presence of these beautiful trees. it was calming and refreshing to be there. I had spoken to 2 ladies and their little girl and they had helped me to light my Californian sage smudge stick as i forgot to bring matches , and a little later i gifted them with some sage also. They mentioned that the really liked the sound of the drumming . Sylvia was also in her own mind space and was singing to the trees, the ancestors, neither one of us were harmoniously together but those that listened like it .

on the second round of honouring that time and space, Sylvia was singing to whoever wanted to listen whether on this plain or another, i started to drum slowly and then faster to start a journeying drum beat.

i remember getting to a point where Sylvia,s singing was becoming muted and the drum starting to sing, voices of others were coming through, it was becoming strong, i was feeling euphoric. unfortunately i could feel another presence step into my aura field and i opened my eyes, my big mistake as the person said" i am a shaman and your drumming all wrong why are you calling the warriors, its a warriors call". I stopped drumming.

Firstly , i could not believe another person was interrupting another when they are drumming and clearly knew that person was in their own created time and space, and also to moan about the fact i disturbed her because she thought she was being called to fight.

The person in question said your drumming wrong , and the fact the angels and warriors are being called to fight and when they arrive they will see their is nothing to do. I was thinking if they did arrive they could have danced and sung with me , we are in times of peace and they would realise and honour that, they would have seen i am a gentle warrior myself. nether-less she then said let me show you how to do it, foolish me said heres my drum show me. she then put out a beat which was the same and said Sylvia go to the trees to sing , she said this is how you harmonise with your wife, the fact that intentionally we did not want to do that. i was bemused but somewhat angry at her overall actions and deeds. being the gentle warrior i said thank you but by that time my energy changed and we decided to leave the venue.

I hope that in the future she shows others respect when they in sacred time and doesn't say" Im A Shaman" and insinuating "My Drumming is better than yours".

I am a healer myself on a reiki and shamanic pathway i do not apart from now say this is who i am , and i do not believe i am more special in my healing than others we all have a part to play in these difficult times. It is always good to share knowledge but there is also a time and place to do so.

my apologies are to the ancestors and spiritual visitors .I also