Trail of the Hawk
Cornelius van Dorp
144 pages
NZ$21.95 incl. postage
US$24.95 incl. postage overseas
A sequel to Crystal Mission, Trail of the Hawk is a fascinating 8,000-mile trip undertaken by four New Zealanders and a Choctaw Indian guide around the American Indian nations.
On a deeper level it is an exploration into the history of Aotearoa, and a sacred journey of initiation into the shamanic realms where the hawks by the roadside become messengers on the currents and tides of Tawhirimatea, the god of the wind.
This is not a book for the sceptic. In fact, anyone reading this book has to have a very, very open mind.
Northern Advocate
It is the wonderful story of a fascinating trip taken by four New Zealanders (Barry Brailsford, Cornelius van Dorp, Wendy Brown and Manu Stirling) and a Choctaw Indian guide around a number of American Indian native reservations – delivering greenstone from New Zealand.
Rainbow News
Van Dorp ranges off into a discussion of the peaceful Waitaha tribe who, it is claimed, peopled New Zealand many centuries before the later waves of the Maori fleet arrived. The theory continues that the original founders of Polynesia were Egyptian/Libyan explorers Maui and Rata in 232BC. Maori lineage is also variously suggested to link with Tibet, Central and South America, Asia and the Hopi Indians. Trail of the Hawk is also a study of synchronicity, which Carl Jung described as the meaningful coincidences which surround us and which hint at the underlying magic which connects all elements of the universe
Napier Daily Telegraph
Excerpt...
Here I encounter some of the ancient knowledge of the Maori people of Aotearoa (New Zealand) largely lost but held tenaciously by a few wise ones through the dark ages of warrior immigrations and invasions. The knowledge is not really held secret by these people. It is more a case of the knowledge being there for everybody, but completely invisible to people who are not open to the other planes of existence.
By continuing to follow the signs and synchronicities – what I came to regard as dreaming my sacred dream –the path led onto a plane where it became apparent that some of these things, which I had previously thought to be inanimate, or just “dumb animals”, are in fact all part of the intelligent web of life on this Earth. Tawhirimatea, the god of the wind, suddenly came into focus as a huge, powerful spirit form, and the hawks by the roadside, instead of being just birds, became messengers from these higher realms.
But the knowledge did not come all at once; it was a gradual process of enlightenment as I travelled the trail. Then, as I wrote the story, more and more understanding came. The writing was an adventure of discovery itself as more information came magically on the wings of spirit to flesh in the basic text. And the greatest understanding of all was that this process never stops.
The theme that emerged strongly in the final pages of the book concerns the prophecies of the Hopi Indians, and other indigenous people; of the purification of the planet by fire at the end of this age. This prophecy is reflected from a number of different sources – in particular the recent deciphering of the secret at Rennes le Chateau, which tells the creation myth of the ancient Egyptians – but appears to end with a warning of the coming of a destructive comet or asteroid.
As the Hopi Fire Clan elders point out, the purification can go either way. There can be the purification and refinement of the human spirit, the fire within, or there can be the purification and cleansing by the Earth itself of the uncleanness on its surface. Either way, it seems we may not have long to wait.
