Village trade and brotherhood

Kenna: I'm seeing a man cross quite a deep river, and he's holding a sword above his head and he's wading from one side of the river to the other. I feel like I'm a part of the river, watching this happen.

Helen: So I want you to look down and see the body of the being that you are in whichever form you are and just describe what you see.

Kenna: There's a face looking back at me and looking down at the water, and I can see my reflection. I'm in the water as well.

Helen: And what does your face look like?

 Kenna: (Laughs) Male. Like it’s really trippy because I heard myself replying (like, well, if it is myself), the voice said (laughs) ‘I look handsome’. And I didn't know if it was someone narrating what I was seeing or if it was me (laughs). So apparently I’m male and I’m good looking.

Helen: Well, that’s cool, let’s run with that. It's good to see that you think highly of yourself. So what colour hair do you have?

Kenna: Hmm. It's like orangey brown colour. Maybe auburn.

Helen: What colour are your eyes?

Kenna: I think they’re brown. It's hard to tell because I'm trying to see my reflection in the water and the water is moving, like it's gushing. It's like a distorted image there, but I've got reddy brown hair, I can see that much. I think they're brown eyes.

Helen: And how old?

Kenna:  42?

Helen: OK. And what are you doing at the river?

Kenna: We're wading across to get to the other side. There's land on the other side.

Helen: And what's in this land?

Kenna: Umm. It's beyond our territory. It's mostly unknown to us. We're on a mission, on a service mission.

Helen: And what's this service mission? What was the mission details?

Kenna: Ohh. Showing me there's another man who's with me. This is before we departed, showing me something on a parchment, which is the mission. It's almost like a plan with map. I can see the river on the map. Yeah, it's crudely drawn, and they're explaining that we must travel to the other side of the river to talk with our neighbours there. It's quite dense forest. It's like a forest-y terrain with the river that divides us.

Helen: Can I ask what you're wearing? What clothes you're wearing?

Kenna:  What civilised people wear, not rags. Ohh, wait a minute. There's some type of sandal which is on my feet, similar to the Roman but (tonal change in voice), not quite. We are aware of the rumours that's existing. And there is some sort of reference to a battlefield there. It's similar to the Romans, but it's coming through, like almost like a British, not British. It's the land of the Isles, the land of the Isles.

Helen: OK, so you're wading across the river, and you're going to go talk to your neighbours. What are you talking to your neighbours about?

Kenna: We're meeting with different clans, clans and tribes. To see if they can help assist us with our journey. They're showing the women who are about to give birth. Ohh. We must secure husbands for our babies.

Helen: Sorry, you must?

Kenna: We must secure husbands for our babies and wives, for our men. We're going to speak to the tribes close by to see if they can offer assistance with our tribe. It's like a brotherhood. I just saw, like a handshake, but it's a brotherhood between tribes. Yeah, for wedding occasions and things like that. It's an alliance. The forest is very dense. It's hard to get through, to travel to these places.

Helen: And so what means do you have to cut? Is it just the swords?

Kenna: I was pushing through the forest and there's a small group of people who…

It's like a small ambush party that just approached, but for the main part we pushed through the brush. There’s not much sword work, slashing and such, we just push through. These people, I don't trust them (laughs). There's five of them when they don't like that we're in their territory. They’re almost like a scout or a sentry group party.

We're trying to explain, not to hurt us or harm us. The leader of the group isn't understanding these things. He lacks the wisdom to make appropriate decisions. He does not know who we are and there is a cockiness, a pride of him. He lacks the wisdom to understand why we are in their territory. He’s not listening.

Helen:  OK, so I want you to look into the eyes of the leader. Do you recognise the soul behind those eyes?

Kenna: I'm not sure I when I look at him, I don't see anybody, but when I ask the question, I hear a response. So I'm not sure if that's actually fact or not. I'm not sure what, how this information's coming through there, Helen.

Helen: That's OK.

Kenna:  Not sure if it can be trusted.

Helen: Alright, that's ok. Well, let's go with the information we can trust. I want you to look at the person that you are on this mission with. I want you to have a good look at his face. Have a good look at his eyes. Is there any? Is that someone that you recognise within this lifetime as Kenna?

Kenna: There's someone, he reminds me of somebody. He reminds me of somebody of another life. The last one we went into, the Scottish one. It's him. It's the same person again. It's separate, different lives. But yes, if that's the case, yes, that's somebody in this life but is not a part of my life anymore.

Helen: That's ok, thank you. So you've met with the ambush group. What happens next?

Kenna:  Maybe there is truth in that. I'm getting angry. He's pissing me off. I'm getting angry with this man who thinks he knows what he's doing. That's telling me who this person is. It's actually saying that this man is S****a. But, when I look into this man's eyes, I can't see her in him. But there's a voice, which is not mine telling me that it's her. And the the anger that I'm feeling is the same as what was provoking today. Geez. That's hard to switch between now and into that vision (Laughs). Right, like I’m making the link that I can get back in there real quick. I'm still seeing it like even though I'm talking to you like this, I can actually still see him and the scene in the jungle.

Helen: Yeah. Look, you just go with what you know and go with what you feel.

Kenna: There I can easily plunge into that again. So ok, so I'm there and he's pissing me off because he lacks the wisdom. It's as simple as that. He's so sure of himself.

Helen: Ok.

Kenna: And he's there saying things as if they are gospel. To the other men that he's with and trying to be smart and trying to get a rise. If I was to fight back, he would draw his sword. That's the sort of man we're talking about. That's the sort of leader of this party of scouts or sentry. He can manipulate men, the way he talks. He's very convincing, but he lacks information and wisdom, but if he just shut up (laughs). If you just shut up and listen to me, then maybe he wouldn't make a dire mistake, because if he kills me, he not only puts his tribe in jeopardy, but he puts my clan tribe in jeopardy. That's the thing. He lacks knowledge. Why doesn't he know these things, that people come from places to come talk. He's not that chief. He's not the tribes, the clansman like the one who is leading the the tribe, he's just freaking in control of these five men. He's just in charge of the little sentry unit, but he's a real smart arse.

Helen: Can we zero in on this guy? Does he have a name? Does he say what his name is or?

Kenna: I think his name is Edmund or Edward. It's very close to that. It's something, almost like a cross between Edward and Edmund. I don't know. It might be the original sounding of Edward or Edmund that, you know, maybe has changed over the last 600 years.

Helen: Alright. Well, let's focus on Ed. Let's focus on Ed and just zero in on him and  get a feel for him, and feeling into his energy, you'll have an understanding of who he is and why he is the way he is.

Kenna:  He’s so sure himself, he has an air of confidence in his energy. They're showing me glimpses of, I don't know who's showing me, but they're showing me glimpses of him as a child, I think. I might have this capability in this life, to see visions, flashes of image. But they're showing me him at a very young age within his tribe, in a housing setting and him very sensitive to things and covering his ears, and showing me his father yelling at his mother. As a young boy, he's covering his ears. He doesn't want to hear it. He doesn't want to hear. It he doesn't want to listen. That's what's going on. He wants people to listen to him. He doesn't want to listen himself. It's almost like translated like he thinks he knows better within a circumstance that he doesn't need to listen to people. And I just heard someone else say ‘feeling hard done by,’ but I'm not sure who's actually speaking and if that has anything to do with anything. Feels like an external influence that last bit. I don't know why? But he's so sure of himself. The way he holds himself and the way his eyes gaze on you, you can tell that he is thinking what he thinks about you, and there is no changing his mind. It's like even when you talk to him, he's not listening to you. He's listening to his own inner dialogue.

Helen: So this situation with Ed, can it be resolved within that time and space that you occupy with him?

Kenna: He lets me go. He lets me pass but reluctantly. He lets me travel to his tribe, but I've gotta stick, I have to stick to my route. I already know the way, I know the way there, but it's like telling me I must abide by his ruling, even though that is the law. That is the way that it is to be. It's pompous. The resolution for this journey has been found. The resolution between me and him. I'm not taking it personally, but I can see the complications would occur with this man being in a position of charge. It's trouble. It's trouble. I feel sorry for the clan. I don't feel sorry for me or my friend who I’m travelling with. Pain in the arse, like flat out. This person is a pain in the arse.

Helen: Alright, so travelling to the clan. What happens when you get to meet the tribe?

Kenna: Speaking with they are older man, the one who governs the tribe. It's tribal, like a tribal leader or clan leader. It's kind of both. Every time I say that, I feel like I should be saying it's both, like tribe and clan at the same time, ok? Because when I say one, it doesn't feel right. When I say the other, it feels like it's made it whole, but it still doesn't feel like it's the right word. Anyway, he's an older gentleman.

Helen: I find they tend to give me both words at the same time, like they're picking through my vocabulary and they give me both words. So tribe and clan…

Kenna: Yes, that's exactly what it is. I just heard ‘it has been lost throughout the ages’. It might be that particular word or something.I always feel like there's a Welsh input, for some reason, I think Wales is fairly significant to this, but it might be a lost kind of language or term or phrase or something. I'm unfamiliar with, or unacquainted with.

The old man. Ok, so the village, the tribe there, the tribal village, I guess you call it. It’s a small one, but they are reasonably sophisticated. They've got, like, I don't know to me they look like semi temporary dwellings. Like you could live there long term if you wanted to, but you wouldn't want to get hit by completely severe weather, but it looks like they've set up in a really sheltered sort of area. When I look down at the ground, it's like muddy, so they have been there a while. You know what I mean? Like there's no grass around there, just like freaking mud. You'd get muddy just stepping on it. And the gentleman who's an older gentleman with his greying... he's greying. I don't know why that's such a shock. I think we live to an old age, but maybe not other people in different settlement. We're isolated, we're isolated, we're not like built up or anything like that. The tribes are small, small tribes. between 10 and maybe 15 people living in the village at once.

There's only like maybe four or five dwellings, small dwellings in it. That's why we have come to secure partners for our children. He is lovely, very warm and welcoming. He gives me the handshake of the brother, of our significant union between clans. He's happy to help. He's showing us the family, the families and the babies, which have been born, and the young children within their clan. It's very suitable, very proud, very happy about this arrangement, especially for my child, for my child.

I’m just leaning down to a child there and I think it's a little girl.  She's beautiful. She's a little bit shy. She doesn't know who I am. She's got a really big heart and I can tell by her sensitivity should be great for my son.

Helen: How old is the child?

Kenna: She’ a little bit smaller than the normal child, maybe short of growth. She’d be about three, maybe four. She seems quite mature for her either age or height, like she's quite intelligent. But her size is is quite small. Yes, it’s for my son. I just had to check there, whether I actually had the son.

But yes, it's my son who needs, who I've come to find a partner for, and she will serve my son well, and he we serve her well. It's to do with her sensitivity and the way that she is cautious about strangers. If they're too boisterous, there is reason for concern. There's reason for alarm. They lack the sensitivity and they lack the intelligence to use caution.

Helen: So when you say sensitivity, is this like a psychic sensitivity or a common-sense sensitivity?

Kenna: I think it’s both. It's definitely a common-sense sensitivity. She is shy of me, but I mean her no harm. I'm smiling and trying to get her to interact with me. She seems sensitive enough to be on the psychic levels. I think she's connected to trees. She's connected to the spirit of the land.

Helen: Is this a common occurrence in this era that people are connected sensitively, like there is a connection with the elements?

Kenna: Yes, some specialised in physical connection with other beings, animals and some people serve the land through trees. This one is one of the trees. She is one of the tree spirit. She has a tree sensitivity, not a hunting animal sensitivity. I'm being shown young boys being more accustomed to animal sensitivity, talking to animals like telepathically and things like that, but this is the female of the trees, the tree spirit. She would be a good hunter, but she would be good with plant medicine and things of that nature. She would talk to the tree spirit.

Helen: Do the ones that serve the land and serve the animals - what sort of training do they have? Are they taken? Do they come under an elder for learning?

Kenna:  The grandmothers help with that, especially for the young women. I'm being shown a grandmother here who is lovely. She's got a beautiful, lovely heart. Her energy is pure, who is going to take this child and teach her the ways of the wild. She'll be taught. Others, the men will be taught. The boys will be taught from various men of the tribe, as well, but those that we classify as elders.

Helen: On any occasion, do the genders teach the opposite gender? Or is it fairly same gender?

Kenna: Yes, the men can also teach the ladies. It depends on their God given ability and gift, but women have been trained by men before in ways of hunting, also in ways of gathering and using the land. Similarly, a sensitive young boy will also be taken in by grandmother to be taught the ways of the plant spirit. It makes no difference the sex of the child, though it is uncommon for many boys to be trained by females and vice versa.

Helen: So was this a common…?

Kenna:  I'm seeing like one or two. One or two. There would be one boy within a generation that would be brought up by the females. And I see one girl very strong in hunting, very strong in her animal capability, especially of deer. It's like a deer or an elk sort of looking animal. It's got antlers and I'm seeing like a bow sort of weapon, and she is being trained by the men, and happy to do so not a problem, but it's like once a generation thing.

Helen: But each tribe would there be a majority of the children that would serve the elements? Or would it just be a minority?

Kenna: They all serve in there each way, but there's a worry there. There's a worry that people are becoming rebellious to the old ways, such as that gentleman, which was on guard before. The one, the one we spoke about with that party, the sentry ambush party. That sort of behaviour concerns me. I don't see a direct link between him and working with spirit of any particular group. He's been taught these things, but it is concerning. It feels like a severance. It shouldn't, it shouldn’t be severed.

He's almost nurturing that sort of behaviour and that sort of detachment from the land and from the spirit. That is not our way, and that is not their way either. Like both tribes, our tribe, his tribe is not his way. They need to know because it will lead to disaster, but they lack the wisdom for, to know this. They only see inside of themselves. They don't see what's around them.

It's getting me defensive. Yeah, like I want to put a stop to it. I want to stand up to that sort of person. Like to me, they're almost better off dead. It's better off for me to kill them, to cull them those sorts of people than they are to continue… It's sort of poison, poison within the tribe because the self centred, you know what I mean? It would be the downfall of the tribes. It'll be the downfall of our living. Will be the downfall of our legacy.

Helen:  So, let’s skip through the timeline, has there been an alliance met between the two tribes?

Kenna:  We are already allied and the man who I spoke with the elder, the tribesman who governs tribe, the governor, he has allowed me to take the child. I'm taking her back with me across the across the river. She is to come to me and there will be a swap. There will be a young female, a daughter given to this other tribe. This man of the ambush party doesn't like it. He doesn't like our ways, but the child will be taken to their tribe as a swap, a gift, an offering, in thanks and gratitude and appreciation of helping us prolong our lineage.

Helen:  So the child that you take into your tribe. Does she stay? Let's fast forward time. What happens to her?

Kenna: She is taken to be my son's wife. They’re getting married.

Helen:  At what age?

Kenna: Not young. It's normal for our tribe to be married at the age of 14. It's a lifelong union.

Helen: So they've grown up together, and now they will marry?

Kenna:  Yes. They become friends, before they become partners as such, but at a different stage of partnership. They understand that they're here to procreate, that they have built the bond of friendship. There's a very strong bond over many years to get to this point, even at such a young age. It is a young age. It is a like a pubescent, like puberty sort of thing. But they may not choose to their children for some time to come. We leave that up to them, but we tell them, we teach them that what they can do, how they can do things, but the choice is ultimately theirs. They may wish to wait until they feel more comfortable. They're very respectful to each other. My son is very respectful to her and what she requires, he will not force her into a sexual merging. This is not allowed. There is no force. Both partners must be ready for that sexual union to occur.

Helen: Do they reside in the same house, or do they have a small dwelling near by?

Kenna:  They reside in my house until they feel like they are ready to move. This usually occurs and is encouraged around the ages of 18 through to 21. They will move out when they're ready, but it's usually between those ages.

Helen: And how old are they when they have their first child?

Kenna: I'm there. I can see her giving birth. She's 19.

Helen: Wonderful. Can I ask what happened to the daughter that went to the other tribe?

Kenna: I think about her a lot. Let's just see if I can get that information.

Helen: So you're not in contact with that tribe?

Kenna: No, we only communicate, we contact each other when we need to, for our legacy or times of trouble. They're isolated, we're isolated, and we're separated by forest and the river. There are no messages unless something is deemed necessary for a messenger to be sent. Mm-hmm. I'm not sure how she is. I'm sure they're keeping her well.

Helen: Alright, so moving through this lifetime to the next important date.

Kenna: I’m on guard. A messenger has arrived. There is war coming. I draw my sword in defiance, ready for battle, again. Battle hasn't come for a long time, but I remember when I was younger, that there was a battle which took place with our tribe. But I am, I'm tired. I can't really be bothered with it.

Helen: Does your tribe practise for battle?

Kenna: We do sword work, we know how to defend ourselves, but we are few, we don't have many people. We call upon other tribes to come support us, but we are very vulnerable. The forests protect us. Our isolation protects us. We weren’t built for fighting. We don't really fight (laughs), but we have weaponry. We have swords and things, we have some sort of shield, but they're not the best. They're really not the best. The shields are made of wood, the swords are made of iron. We wouldn't last long. We don't usually last long. We usually use ways of treaty or bargaining to peacefully live our lives. We're not built for war.

Helen: So does battle come to your village?

Kenna:  I can't see it. I can't access that information. I don't know what's happened. It's just blank.

Helen: Ok, so go back to the time when the messenger comes.

Kenna:  Yes, I'm there for the messenger. The messenger is here and I'm reading. It's on a parchment or a scroll. It's on a paper and I’m reading it, and I see what's going on. They're showing me a map and where the army or the fighting is occurring, the last known place, which is another sort of village or tribe which is quite a distance but convinced that they're aware that we're here. They may or may not come, but I’m leaning towards that they will because of the route that they could possibly take to get where they want to go. So it's like we're on their way to where they want to go. Like they could bypass us, or they could possibly destroy us, pillage us, or just rape our women, things like that.

Helen: And who are they?

Kenna: We don't know who they are.

Helen: There's no inkling of if they are from your lands or from other foreign lands?

Kenna: They're not from us, they are from a foreign place. I'd say that they'd be Roman They're showing me that sort of thing. They're very strong. They're showing me Roman soldiers, big iron shields with red and gold on them, and red bristle helmets.

Helen:  OK, so I want you to skip to the next eventful day in that lifetime.

Kenna: So, I think I'm dead, ok. But I don't know why. I don't know. Now I'm just seeing nothing like nothing's there. I can't go to the next.

Helen: All right, so I want you to go back into that lifetime, that timeline, and I want you to get to the moment of death.

Kenna: Throat slit; throat cut.

Helen: By?

Kenna: Roman. Yeah, his sandals on my chest. I can see his Roman sandal on my chest. I can see his helmet and I can see his sword slicing my throat.