The Burial Canoe Adventure

Cap Kotz
3 min readNov 10, 2024
Author and MJ

When times are a steep mountain to climb in frigid conditions, I stop at a Grief Release WayStation to lighten my load. The Platform Portal glows red and orange, and when I enter, I feel a moist warmth undoing my Button Down Fear Shirt as I'm guided to a large cedar canoe on a raised dais and helped to step into the craft and lay on the cushioned rib slats.

A pleasant, soft voice says, "Select someone who has passed on to the Other Side to stand at your head and your feet." I choose my mother to stand at my head and my father at my feet.

"Their color is purple. Visualize the trajectory of their lives like watching a fast-forward movie until they leave their human form, dissolving into purple vibration forming your centerline."

I got caught up in anger and resentment but managed flickers of purple vibration. I paired two passed-on people on either side of my neck, shoulders, heart and lungs, lower arms, pelvic bowl core, upper legs, knees, lower legs, and ankles. The colors changed from red, orange, yellow, lime, emerald, forest, sea, sky, and royal, creating vibrational cross sections.

The people pairing release proved to be fascinating. On either side of my neck, my maternal grandfather, an old man tyrant narrative, is to my right, and BK, a modern-day Holden Caufield narrative, angry and dying young, is to my left. As…

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Cap Kotz
Cap Kotz

Written by Cap Kotz

Writer and Story Mapping Guide, I follow the life path no matter how challenging.

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