Sunset Over Ice

This is Soap Lake today. Notice the darker area of the lake is ice. The white spot mid-screen is the full moon.

Soap Lake's Winter Wonderland

People come from all over the world to enjoy my healing mud. The best mud is smooth as butter. Be prepared for a strong mineral smell but it goes away when the mud dries. You won't believe how good you feel afterwards. Wonderful for skin disorders too.

Solstice Inauguration

"Solstice Inauguration"

$350,000 sculpture/sundial nears completion

The Soap Lake Garden Club and Soap Lake Chamber of Commerce are hosting the “Solstice Inauguration” celebrating the final journey of the “Calling the Healing Waters” sculpture/sundial.

At high noon a marker will be placed in the ground indicating where to set the 12:00 PM hour marker on the Promontory Plaza showcasing the sculpture. This is so the shadow from the topmost feather on the sundial falls on that hour marker. The Summer Solstice is the only day of the year to accurately set a sundial. Sort of like Stonehenge.

Astronomer James Hamm from Big Bend Community College will explain the significance of the solstice. We hope you can join in this community celebration to observe this important step before beginning construction.


Date: June 21
Time: 11:30 AM
Location: Beeks Amphitheater,
East Beach Park,
Soap Lake, WA

Directions: Hwy 17 to Soap Lake;
turns into Daisy; park is on west
side of street. Plenty of parking

Contact: Dorothy Downing, 246-1685



Artist site rendering of Promontory Plaza (to scale).
http://www.soaplakehealingsculpture.com/
© 2008 Soap Lake Garden Club

Global Consciousness and the GaiaField Project

Projects like these will continue to transform the planet and its inhabitants in wonderfully positive ways. Somehow my healing waters will play a part in this grand scheme.

Thank you Michel Bauwens for posting the following on your site.

The vision of the GaiaField Project is to support the emergence of a large, resilient, multi-hub network of spiritual leaders and their constituencies who will regularly participate in and co-create large-scale global meditation and prayer vigils.

David Nicol, What is the GaiaField Project? :

“Many people intuitively recognize the power of uniting millions of people from diverse spiritual traditions around the globe in meditation and prayer for peace.
Several well-organized global meditation and prayer events, such as the Harmonic Convergence of 1987, the GaiaMind meditation of 1997, James Twyman’s “Great Experiments” and the annual International Day of Peace Vigil have involved hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people. Numerous research studies have documented consistent, significant correlations between the presence of large groups of meditators and improvements in social indicators such as crime rates, war deaths, and terrorist activity. Many spiritual leaders and visionary thinkers have hypothesized that these global rituals for peace may accelerate the emergence of a unified global consciousness.
The vision of the GaiaField Project is to support the emergence of a large, resilient, multi-hub network of spiritual leaders and their constituencies who will regularly participate in and co-create large-scale global meditation and prayer vigils. Our aim is not so much to set up another new global meditation network, but to facilitate the sharing of information and resources between the many existing networks which share the goal of bringing together hundreds of thousands of people in meditation or prayer for world peace. Our strategy involves upgrading this website (www.gaiafield.net) to incorporate state-of-the-art web broadcasting, mapping, and social networking technology to more easily organize events, connect peacemakers with each other, and enhance participants’ sense of interconnection during events. (This current website is a placeholder for the interactive website still in development.) Our strategy also includes convening face-to-face meetings with relevant spiritual leaders and organizing annual live or online gatherings for leaders.
The GaiaField Project is currently a joint project of the California Institute of Integral Studies and Wisdom Mountain, both of which are non-profit organizations based in Northern California.”

"Calling the Healing Waters" sculpture/sundial

The Native American lore surrounding my healing waters is the stuff of legends. Now, this heritage is brought to manifestation with a magnificant sculpture soon to adorn my shores.

Two artists have created the "Calling the Healing Waters" sculpture/sundial. The community of Soap Lake will be building a Promontory Plaza on my shores featuring this one and a half lifesize bronze sculpture. The highest feather on the sculpture acts as a sundial. The Plaza will be surrounded by basalt stones acting as hour markers. This sculpture/sundial embodies the essense of my being. More shall be revealed.

Last lake to freeze

Even in winters white many birds visit my shores. Geese land in my waters hundreds at a time because Soap Lake is the last of the lakes below Banks Lake to freeze. The high mineral content makes it the last place the birds can float in water.

Wonder my shoreline and find downy and hairy woodpeckers, northern flicker, red breasted and white breasted nuthatches, Steller's jays, dark eyed juncos or bushtits. Increasing numbers of tundra swans, Canadia geese, diving ducks, dabbling ducks, and a few bald eagles reported in the Sun Lakes chain (Soap Lake to Banks Lake), if you’re looking for a nice drive.