From the base of the Tree of Life in Gan Eden, eternal paradise, flows water from the sacred fount. There is a Jewish legend from old Italy that tells the story of how Alexander the Great went on a quest to find these waters of immortality. He had the knowledge from an oracle that he would conquer the world but die young. So he sought a remedy for this early fate. He finally got to the waters in Gan Eden but before he took a swig a voice warned him. He would become immortal but he would have to stay forever in this upper paradise. He chose to not taste the waters of eternal life and instead go back out to the world to seek adventure. Ancient Jewish teachings from Luriannic Kabbalah show us this river of life although many scholars believe this was only a past event, depicted in this wheel diagram, that happened before our present manifested world.(see image).This however actually depicts a place that is always available and at the root of what keeps the world alive and developing. Native indigenous elders call this one of the great medicine wheels of our origin time. Various religions that carry prayerforms developed from wisdom lineages help us weave garments with rhythmic prayer and ceremony for our soul bodies so as to access the mighty and beautiful flow from these wheels of holiness. Our sages tell us that the world is built upon three columns or migdalim that are also vast wheels-gilgulim or circuits. The Sepher Yetzirah calls these Olam/world, Shanah/year and Lev/heart. These corresponding to our view here as the Space/Time/Soul continuum. The turtle carapace shows us these three "columns" in the very center top and then we may see the great wheel of the ten omakim(sephirot) surrounding the three in the center. The Earth interfaces these columns through her three ways of turning and the wheel of ten depths flow into our world. In the first words of Bereishis/Genesis these ten depths(sephirot)are set in five pairs: Skies/Earth-Tohu/Bohu-light/darkness-day/night-evening/morning. May the great chesed/loving-kindness and healing flow into our world with mighty strength and beauty
so as to awaken us into what we have here in these times on our temple Earth. Thanks to Howard Schwartz for his translation of the legend "Waters of Eternal Life" from his book, "Miriam's Tambourine".
From the base of the Tree of Life in Gan Eden, eternal paradise, flows water from the sacred fount. There is a Jewish legend from old Italy that tells the story of how Alexander the Great went on a quest to find these waters of immortality. He had the knowledge from an oracle that he would conquer the world but die young. So he sought a remedy for this early fate. He finally got to the waters in Gan Eden but before he took a swig a voice warned him. He would become immortal but he would have to stay forever in this upper paradise. He chose to not taste the waters of eternal life and instead go back out to the world to seek adventure. Ancient Jewish teachings from Luriannic Kabbalah show us this river of life although many scholars believe this was only a past event, depicted in this wheel diagram, that happened before our present manifested world.(see image).This however actually depicts a place that is always available and at the root of what keeps the world alive and developing. Native indigenous elders call this one of the great medicine wheels of our origin time. Various religions that carry prayerforms developed from wisdom lineages help us weave garments with rhythmic prayer and ceremony for our soul bodies so as to access the mighty and beautiful flow from these wheels of holiness. Our sages tell us that the world is built upon three columns or migdalim that are also vast wheels-gilgulim or circuits. The Sepher Yetzirah calls these Olam/world, Shanah/year and Lev/heart. These corresponding to our view here as the Space/Time/Soul continuum. The turtle carapace shows us these three "columns" in the very center top and then we may see the great wheel of the ten omakim(sephirot) surrounding the three in the center. The Earth interfaces these columns through her three ways of turning and the wheel of ten depths flow into our world. In the first words of Bereishis/Genesis these ten depths(sephirot)are set in five pairs: Skies/Earth-Tohu/Bohu-light/darkness-day/night-evening/morning. May the great chesed/loving-kindness and healing flow into our world with mighty strength and beauty 
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