The Serapeum of Saqqara – Part 5 of 5: Our Experiences

In the last blog, Part 4, of this series of five, I discussed the various theories for what was in the boxes. This week I’m going to discuss what those in my own expedition felt when they encountered the Serapeum. We were a group of shamans and psychically-aware explorers, who had no preconceptions, not having heard of the Serapeum before we descended inside…

The Serapeum of Saqqara 

Part 5 of 5: Our Experiences

Leah: The Death Warren

It is fair to say that our group were all emotionally affected as they proceeded down the Serapeum steps and into the dark tunnels. Some places give off an air of spiritual calm and some are places of considerable foreboding. For most of our group, the Serapeum was one of the latter. 

Leah was particularly affected, feeling her body become extremely stiff and painful and feeling a general sense of dis-ease, so much so that she found herself crying and hyperventilating, ultimately, doubled-over dry-heaving and unable to continue. She described the Serapeum as a ‘death warren’. Her belief was that the site had been desecrated somehow, that it was originally pure but that it had been deconsecrated by a horribly toxic masculinity. In her view, the site had been used to perform heinous physical and sexual brutalities, including burying people alive. 

Leah went on to state that we could never really know the truth of what happened there, feeling that the importance lay in our responsive feelings, rather than the stories that they had inspired within us. Leah personally resolved to focus on healing her own wounds, and to sending that personal healing back to Saqqara, which, she felt, desperately needed it. 

Louise: The Stargate

Our expedition leader, Louise, was the only person to actually climb into a box, at the encouragement of one of the ever-watchful guides, who was, no doubt, hoping for a further tip! Louise got the sense of a portal, that the box might offer the interred person a gateway to another place, or even another reality – a parallel universe, perhaps?

I am sure that she will go into more detail in her next book and I have no hesitation in recommending her first book to you – Awakening of the Western Woman.

So, could the box be an Einstein-Rosen bridge portal? Although, at least to my knowledge, no evidence of a Schwarzschild wormhole has been found within a box to date, I suppose that does not mean that one did not exist inside a box at some point. Perhaps it appears at certain dates and times, or is triggered by certain ritual actions? Perhaps the key to unlocking the portal was contained in Prince Khaemweset‘s legendary Book of Thoth?

Daniel: Isolation Tanks

My partner, Daniel, felt that the boxes were some form of isolation tank, where initiates could be sealed for a time to experience something life-changing. Perhaps, as Louise surmised, they enclosed a portal but, rather than an opening to some other place, perhaps they opened people up to another realm of consciousness?

The complete darkness, reduced oxygen and (presumably) intense fear provoked by the box in just such a sealed initiate would undoubtedly have led to hallucinations and psychic experiences.

Interestingly, since our visit, I have read that there is evidence of notches in the walls of the box niches, which some claim were to assist the lid to be rotated sideways. This would suggest the boxes may have been opened and closed many times – but for what purpose?

Perhaps Daniel was right and maybe initiates were held inside for a time? Perhaps this was part of Prince Khamweset’s discovery, in rejuvenating his father? Could lying in the sealed box for a time restore health and vitality – like the rejuvenation sarcophagus in the Stargate (1994) film?

Chacaruna: The Sorcerers

Initially, Claire & I found ourselves particularly drawn towards the abandoned lid of one of the stone boxes (see photo above). We felt a terrible sense of fear in its abandonment – a great urgency to complete a task that was not fulfilled.

Around one of the boxes itself, I sensed ancient sorcerers desperately seeking to confine what I can only describe as an immensely powerful evil entity within the box. I felt that these sorcerers’ greatest protagonist exploded through their charms and escaped, shifting all of the lids, except one. I think that when Mariette dynamited the only closed box, what he naturally presumed was empty, he might actually have released the final entity from their incarceration.

I recognise that my story is a kind of re-working of Pandora’s box, of humans seeking to confine evil and of such aims being thwarted by the gods. It also bears a resemblance to the many shamanic legends about the necessity of owning one’s shadow and the shamanic teachings that we should not repress our darkest thoughts or fears. Because the truth is that we cannot simply confine evil to a box, however heavy or perfectly constructed it is, but, who knows? Perhaps, in ancient times, a group once tried?

In conclusion

Thank you for reading this five part series – I hope that you have enjoyed what is the culmination of a couple of years of research and shamanic journeying on the topic.

We may never know what the boxes true purpose was but the very fact that, hundreds of years later, they provoke such intrigue and such strong emotions in their visitors is truly fascinating to me.

I would encourage you to visit Egypt and to have the experience of exploring the Serapeum of Saqqara for yourself – make sure that you let me know how the Serapeum speaks to you!