From Ollie on the new moon

 Hi Dariusz,

I have felt your presence as of late and wanted to send you wishes of love and unity on this new moon. Thank you for the ways that you showed up in my life in the early times of my spiritual growth and exploration. Your teachings have had a long lasting and positive influence on me. 

pokój niech będzie z tobą

Love,

Ollie

This post arrived today from Scott Binder scottbinder777@gmail.com. Always nice to hear from people who loved and whose lives were touched by Dariusz.

It's hard to believe it's been a few years since Dariusz's passing. I know he is still with us, but I miss not being able to connect with him in the physical form. I miss not being able to go to lunch with him when I was back in Seattle for visits. But he is with me, and I feel his presence as strong as ever.

Last night while going on a shamanic journey here in Berlin Dariusz and his cats, Dessert and Fiona visited me on my journey. I was overcome with joy and sadness to see them, and even as I write now my eyes well up with tears. It's nice to feel...what a gift. My black panther was also with us on my journey, and the 4 of them had a message for me. It is time that I stop avoiding a big part of what I am suppose to do on this planet. Before last night, I had it in my mind that I would wait until I'm around 50 to reconvene the work I started doing for people when I was 26. But that's nonsense! The time is now.

I got sober when I was 23 and instantly felt drawn to Shamanism. It's then when I began reading about it and learning from various teachers. I feel so blessed about the knowledge that has been passed down to me over the past 13 plus years. To keep this knowledge to myself is selfish, and I won't do it any longer. At around 26, a Shaman in Minneapolis taught me how to take people on Journey's, and from the moment I conducted one, I felt at home doing this for people. But shortly after I started taking people on journey I decided to stop doing it.

 Last night rekindled my desire to get back into doing this for people, and to explore other ways I can help heal those in need...And so, there is a plan now. I do not know where it will take me, but I do know that I am now ready to be a conduit for this work. I will be back in Seattle in May, so if you would like to go on a journey, I would love to take you on one.

I am all about full self expression, freedom and being in touch with my inner animal. Having fun and being free is what it's all about. During my path, I've worked to uncover my true spirit so that I could be free to be who I truly am. And this is what I would like to pass along to you in our journey. Letting go of restrictions and embracing your power...that's what life is about. Dancing like nobody is watching in everyday life is where the magic happens.

If you are interested, feel free to email me. I haven't worked out the details of the exact dates or the space, but I know it'll be a fun journey.

Thank you Dariusz for continuing to be my teacher from the spirit world. I love you.

Scott

from David Massengill

11/11
For Dariusz

Trees stay gold and crimson despite fall’s darkening.
You suddenly return to my thoughts, and heart,
Like light keeping its promise
To enter through every window.

Thank you to Louisa Cock for sharing this beautiful portrait she painted of Dariusz.

from Scott

I met Dariusz in the spring of 2005 after a friend of mine recommended that I get a reading from him. She said that he was absolutely amazingly and that his reading would blow me away. She was right, of course. Like many of you his reading changed my life forever. Since getting a reading from Dariusz, we ended up building a close friendship that I am forever grateful for. Whenever I told people about Dariusz's work(which was a lot!) I mentioned that if one is open to change, that his work would help them transform their life.

I remember talking to Dariusz a few months before he passed. We were hanging out at his house after grabbing lunch at the diner around the corner from his place(one of his favorite spots). He said something to me that day that made me wonder if he wanted to change the direction of his life. Of course this seemed very strange, because obviously Dariusz was living his life purpose. But when he passed, it all made sense though...it turns out that he did indeed want to change the direction of what he was doing with his work. I took Dariusz's passing not as a death, but more of a rebirth and a powerfull transition into the spirit world, so that he could continue his work inside the spirit world. Now he could hang out and communicate with the spirits, instead of communicating with them from the "outside". Now he was home.

So, it's clear to me that Dariusz is continuing to bring his triple Virgo work to each and everyone of us...He is simply doing this from another space. His passing has profoundly affected thousands of people around the world, and it's clear to me that he left our world a much much better place.

Ever since he left our world, Dariusz has been in my thoughts on a regular basis, but for the past several months it seems like he's been on my mind almost everyday. I think about how he profoundly impacted me as a spiritual teacher, and a friend. I think about his quirky humor, his big heart, his intensity...And yes, his triple Virgo-ness. Lately though my thoughts have led to feelings of sadness that he is no longer with us in the flesh. I keep his business card and a couple of gifts that he gave me over the years in a shrine next to my bed. I know that it was his time to move on, I get it...but that doesn't change the fact that I really really miss him, and wish that he and I could hang out like we use to.

Dariusz, I am forever grateful that you came into my life. I miss you, and appreciate that you are still here for us. Thanks for sharing your beautiful spirit with us.

I love you

Scott

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from Ben

I met Dariusz in 2001 while backpacking across USA on my way to the UK. During my visit to Seattle I felt compelled to walk in to the bookstore, Eco-Elements, and was looking at the Four Agreements book when a slightly built and slightly odd:) Polish man came up and asked if I wanted a reading...I have to say it was the most accurate and also hilarious psychic reading I had ever had. I remember Dariusz laughing and conversing with his guides during the reading, which was extremely comical. I also remember he told me I needed to be getting more sex but it didn't mean selling my arse on the street...I mean what kind of psychic says that...hilarious! During my time in Seattle we hung out and I was also fortunate to get a soul retrieval.

Over the years that I lived in London we kept in touch and I came over to Seattle and visited. Dariusz graciously let me stay in his apartment and he stayed in his friend's river boat (such a kind and loving guy). It always struck me how little time I had actually spent with Dariusz and yet how deep the connection was. Dariusz has come in to my thoughts a few times over the last few years, and I meant to get in touch, always knowing he would be as welcoming and engaging as if little time had passed. So it was a real shock when I discovered today about his passing all that time ago. Dariusz, I feel enriched having known you and wish you all the best on your next adventure!:)

from Danny

Dariusz, thank you for all the days of good friendship and growth that we shared together. You were one of the best communicators I've ever known always speaking your mind clearly and with much love. Thank you for being you and I'm going to miss you so much. I am so lucky to have spent time with you on endless numbers of days in the early years in Seattle. Sitting and sharing smokes and coffee for hours with you was a highlight for us. It was magical to spend time with you and have a good friend like you to really share life with. Thank you for all of the healing you gave to me and thank you for going too and finding the lost little boy hiding away from the world, he is back and thanks to you living a full life. I love you for that retrieval of my missing soul. I went looking for you about a year ago. I sent you an e-mail and left a voice mail. With no answer I wasn't concerned I just knew that you were busy and we would eventually catch up again. I'l miss you my brother. I'll catch up with you again someday I'm certain of that. Thank you so much for all you gave this earth. When I see limousine I still call out Madonnas name! LOL

Danny Burns

from Gina

Dear Dariusz,

You were the best psychic / intuitive I know. I know several.

But you were spot on with one very heart-breaking event that has come to pass. Just last week (12/06/10) my father died very unexpectedly. My last two readings with you, even though they were several years ago, eluded to this, in a very gentle, loving way, per usual. My heart aches with this passing of an angelic Light in the world, just as yourself passed one year ago.

Thank you for reiterating about this, even though I could see my Papa-san (as I called him), not taking good enough care of himself.

I am forever grateful to you, Dariusz...and this, too, you already know.

Love,

Gina

from Mische

Dariusz,

Yesterday I turned to my sweetheart and said “I keep seeing today’s date and getting hung up on it.. like today is someone’s birthday”. Indeed it was. When I’ve told people about my time with you and I come to the part about your sudden departure I always tell people that you never seemed to waste time wrapping your arms around whatever came next. So I imagine that your higher self saw an incredible opportunity to grow and wasted no time in taking you to that place. Somehow you inspire me even in your passing – I try not to waste time now. I know that you’ve been joyfully reborn into a new journey of one type or another. You, beautiful man, come to mind so often. I want to tell you that I miss you and I thank you for all that you’ve done – and for all that you continue to do. If the measure of our lives is the impact we make on others, we’re going to need a much bigger stick. :)

With so much love,

Mische

from Stacey

Dear Dariusz,

It is hard for me to believe that a year has passed since you left us! Actually, you have been around quite a bit - in dreams, visitations, and even a warning when something very difficult was about to happen - and for that I am so grateful. But I still miss you, the Earthly you, so much - coming to visit you in your Belltown apartment, your orange kitties, your bawdy sense of humor, your wisdom and your vision. I can still hear your voice, and see your mischevious face. In Judaism the one year anniversary of the death of a loved one is observed by lighting a Yahrzeit candle and letting it burn for 24 hours. I will burn this candle in honor of you, whose light shown so very brightly on this earth, and still does from beyond.

With love,

Stacey

from Lucia

Thank you, Dariusz.

Czlowiek stworzony jest z milości i do milości.

(People were created because of love and to love)

Wiara jest świałem po spajacych gwidzdach.

(Faith can be seen as the light left from a falling star)

With much aloha,

~Lucia

from Dorit

To Dariusz:
On this summer day I remember how you guided us toward our own prayer, and I am so grateful.

The Summer Day

Who made the world?
Who made the swan, and the black bear?
Who made the grasshopper?This grasshopper, I mean-the one who has flung herself out of the grass,the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down-who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.
Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.
Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away.
I don't know exactly what a prayer is.I do know how to pay attention, how to fall downinto the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields, which is what I have been doing all day.
Tell me, what else should I have done?
Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to dowith your one wild and precious life?

—by Mary Oliver

from Lucia

‘Tis a fearful thing
To love
What death can touch.
To love, to hope, to dream,
And oh, to lose.
A thing for fools, this,
Love,
But a holy thing,
To love what death can touch.

For your life has lived in me;
Your laugh once lifted me;
Your word was a gift to me.

To remember this brings painful joy.

‘Tis a human thing, love,
A holy thing,
To love
What death can touch.

Judah Halevi or Emanuel of Rome – 12th Century

from Dorit

Dariusz, keeper of the Good:What a treasured gift it has been, to study the rudimental code of rightliving and the ethereal practices toward connection with shamanic spirit,opening the gates to journey, in canoe through sparkling waters, staring atwalls until the voice speaks, and holding hands creating sacred circle,animal spirit alongside. You are sorely missed Dariusz, I hoped you'd behere forever, though I know you are, I ache from the loss of your passingfrom this sweet, sorry middle earth. So full of tears, though I hear yousay: "no, don't cry. I am so spectacularly happy and so full of illuminatinglight, beyond my wildest dreams." Thank you Dariusz, for dancing finelessons with humor and fervor and passion. Thank you for soul retrievalhealing, ancestors summoned, youthful parts returned, illness coaxed toleave. You became a... leopard, a growling panther... at first frightenedand then fascinated, you filled my heart with your sacred efforts. Nowtattooed Green Man goes home to green earth. You glow verdant, you shine sobright. I am grateful everyday and blessed in your loving guidance.

xox + aho metakweasan,Dorit

from David

May You Rise
For Dariusz Rawa
by David Massengill

Your November deepens,
spiders’ webs recede,
and bear grows
into something scary.

We wait for you to wake.

You travel, though,
above blue December’s
snow-laden slopes,
past sharp peaks.

We wait for you to wake.

Free from time,
you visit moon,
white like bone
or mother’s milk.

We wait for you to wake.

A Polish spring,
we want again.
You in bloom
and forever castles.

We wait for you to wake.

A healer fallen
is an avalanche,
all foundation gone,
ice replacing life.
Yet you point
to owls’ nests,
soft feathers intact,
and tell us:

You wait for me to wake
because you are the ones who sleep.

from Victor, via Sally

This email is from Victor of the Tsimshian Nation. Victor is an elder and the artist who created Dariusz's soul catcher, which Dariusz used during soul retrievals.

Brothers and Sisters,

This is Whe La Ha, AKA Victor of the Tsimshian Nation. Amoxin - Listen -Gwiden - howl ya - here is what I have to say-

I give thanks for the life of Dariusz who now walks in the night land with his kin. May Dariusz's spirit be at one with the Universe. May our hearts heal from the loss of such a big spirit who devoted himself to helping others. Dariusz held a vision for healing and unity in the world and he spent his time on Mother Earth to create a circle where people could come and transform their energy and begin a new journey here on earth!! They say we all have this potential but few dare to walk this path.

Dariusz has transformed into spirit. Remember the only thing separating ourselves from our spirits is our bodies. We CANnot fall out of the Universe when we die! I was honoured to create a soul catcher for Dariusz so he could cleanse the wounds of loneliness, pain and loss for people. I know the soul catcher walked with a good spirit. Art and creativity are gifts from the creator so we can transform and Dariusz lived this creed. From the very bottom of my being I extend my deepest sympathies to those of you who were close to Dariusz. Loss is very painful.

Dariusz appeared to my wife Wapse Panashi Equay and I the day before his passing. We both came across things in our household that reminded us of Dariusz. My wife says she felt like she had a visit and feast with Dariusz the day before he journeyed and I too, had a clear image of him enter into my consciousness. We both wondered "why" we had these thoughts but went on with our day. The next day we heard about Dariusz passing. To us, this is proof of our spiritual powers as humans. We didn't realize at the time but Dariusz was paying us a visit.

So to you, his people, pay attention to unusual sounds. Let yourself sit and remember if the thoughts come. This is Dariusz's spirit reaching out to you and it is all perfectly natural.They say the spirit stays close for 13 moons after a person journeys to the other shore. In our tradition we feast a year after the passing to finally let go. My wife's people say the stars are the campfires of our ancestors. Go now Dariusz. Light your fire in the sky.

May the moon shine on thee in thy solitary walk and may the misty mountain winds be free to blow against thee!!

T’oyaxsut ‘nÜÜn(thank-you) I have spoken. Whe La Ha (Big Sky)

from Jessica and Evan

Hello – Dariusz married my husband Evan I on October 15, 2007. Funny story actually. When I had first asked him to marry us he refused and said he doesn’t do that. I said ok and let it rest trying not to take it personally. My fiancé and I at the time tried to find someone else but we of course did not want anyone else. We both kept saying that he is the only person in our lives that would work. I asked several more times over a few months and he got a little more irritated with me each time because I was guilting him into it by telling him we don’t have anyone to marry us. After the 3rd or 4th time he said he would pray about it. I asked him again several weeks later and he said he didn’t have an answer yet. Long story short he finally agreed and what cracked me up was what he said to my husband “Evan – I will marry you and Jessica under one condition….you have to get those eyebrows under control.” My husband has Frida Khalo eyebrows to the extreme. Anyways, I am very grateful he agreed to marry us in the end because still to this day we both said that none could have done it better. He also helped me with house blessings and soul retrievals that have helped me through some pretty rough roads. Thank you Dariusz…u will be missed.

Jessica & Evan

P.S. I guess Evan and I were the only couple that Dariusz ever married which makes it just that much more special.

from Kelly

Sweet Teacher, Dariusz,

How I will never forget the integrity that you embodied, the wisdom you held so reverent, and the joy emanating from your heart into all your endeavors. One of my favorite teachings from the Falcon Circle Class was about having a full, strong, clear, and open heart. You helped me to understand the essential tool of self protection during Spirit work and I am so grateful. I will also never forget the Dog Warrior teaching and this too is one that I find myself using often. How blessed to have known you in your most recent physical form and lifetime. I will forever be grateful. And you will be missed dearly by so many, but also your life held in celebration and your teachings will forever transmit into the world through your students. We love you. I love you. Carry on in Peace and Love. Below is a poem that I want to share, one that was written for my father when he passed on. I shared a copy with Kaya, whom I send boundless love and compassion to at this time. She too emanates with the wisdom of her father, it was quite amazing to see. Aho.

REQUIEM OF REBIRTH by Kelly Sehring

I would imagine that
death must be like giving birth to oneself,
a divinely elegant delivery of
form into formlessness,
golden embers of the
sun warming your
surrender into this new Light,
emerging with grace
into the soft sigh of veneration,
a delicate renewal of stream into ocean
whose channels encircle
the source of compassion
in a boundless opening.

I would imagine that
death must be like giving birth to oneself,
waking to the illuminate
knowledge of instantaneous flight,
effortlessly able to articulate the
sacred verse of wings
interwoven with ephemeral devotion,
awakened to sanctified astonishment
of the caterpillar as it remembers itself a butterfly,
ascending in rejoice and proclamation
of the unfettered truth of Love,
hovering in heaven as a hummingbird
painting colors upon infinity.

I would imagine that
death must be like giving birth to oneself,
equally ageless in reverence and ancestry,
bearing the quality of simultaneous insight,
as when moonlight splinters water
into a scroll of sparkling wisdom,
this re-birth an angelic demonstration of
body becoming phoenix, becoming earth, becoming Love,
heart becoming ruby, becoming mirror, becoming Love,
self becoming memory, becoming dream, becoming Love, becoming Love,
becoming Love.

From Lucia

dariusz ~
aloha `oe, until we meet again.
~lucia kealiipoohinaoleau

"he dances the moon with power and grace
amidst the hills and trees, in his sacred space
a dancer moving swiftly between the realms
there in the leaves ... what do you see?
if your honor the old ways ~ it may be he"

from Gina

Dariusz has assisted me so much on my journey this lifetime. All that he spoke to me has come to pass...I am honored to have sat in his presence on several occasions. His readings / healings always uplifted me. I was infinitely honored to assist him during a soul retrieval. He lives on...in me and my experiences with him. I'd give up much to be able to be in Seattle today (am in Florida) to attend his memorial, but I'll keep talking to him as I have since I first learned of his death.

I love you, Dariusz.