(META-BREATHWORK FOR SPECIFIC SHAMANIC JOURNEYS, HEALING AND SOUL TRACKING)
Through the inner journeys one can learn to heal loved ones’, family members’, friends and self. You can learn to divine information and communicate with the spirit world. Learn of your totem or power animal and spirit guides/ helpers; these include plant and animal spirits, ancestors, gods and goddesses of an archetypal nature.
- Learn how to track and retrieve souls. (missing parts of Self).
- Experience the luminous energy fields, (auras etc).
- How to Shapeshift (fully associate and align with an animal or entire collective spirit of the species i.e. eagle).
- Creating a sacred space.
- Learn to travel safely through the inner worlds.
The Shamanic experience draws on a vast body of ancient and indigenous knowledge more than 5000 years old and has an inter-connected and organic worldview where everything has a spirit and an intelligence.
True Shamanic healing comes about when our souls are restored and intact and our vision is awakened to the experience of infinity and eternity in place of the human constructs of space and time.
A one on one lesson or a group workshop
that will shift perception and open the doorway
to extraordinary experiences.
SHAMANICS
My
shamanics
grew out of my combined studies of Martial Arts,
breathing techniques, personal visions and dreams
and the many wonderful and varied experiences
of my friends, clients and students who did journeys
with me.
I
realized something very special was happening
early on when people, me included, began to get
what I call
‘second order information':
that which isn't generally available
to us in our waking, conscious state but becomes
easily accessible in extra-ordinary states of
consciousness. This is also known as 2 nd attention:
the deepest, intuitive part of our mind. True
Wisdom, no less. This deep, inner wisdom which
we all possess is a prerequisite to the blossoming
of personal genius within us all. Shamanic states
provide access to this genius.
Shamanism
is animism –
everything has a spirit, every
blade of grass, every grain of sand, the wind,
the trees, the earth, a grasshopper… By accessing
shamanic states we fully participate in this wonderful
child-like frame of mind where we attribute to
the world an animacy that is generally missing
from modern adult consciousness.
Our
present scientific worldview is seriously challenged
when we embark on shamanic journeys. When our
consciousness expands beyond the boundaries of
time and space we experience a limitless universe;
a dazzling journey through inner space. We learn
that our brain chemistry allows us access to other
realms of existence, identification with our ancestors,
animals, plants, encounters with intelligent non-human
presences, faeries, spirits, elementals, angels,
mythical beasts… The
possibilities are endless and always fantastic.
The experiences are profound and enlightening.
My
sessions are drug-free, that is to say we don't
ingest any substance that produces psychedelic
effects but rely purely on the bodies wisdom to
release its own highly psycho-active chemicals
that aid our shamanic journeys. This is achieved
through using techniques discovered whilst journeying
in altered states and not from any text-book.
I
use the term ‘Shamanic'
to denote an ancient, primal, potent way of entering
into parallel worlds and alternate universes utilizing
techniques used by Shaman for millennia, a timeless
knowledge regardless of what year we live in or
what culture we belong to.
It
is my belief, based on the evidence of many personal
experiences and that of clients/ friends/ students,
that we have never lost our innate wisdom, our
deep sense of connectedness to our planet and
all its inhabitants, animal, vegetable, mineral,
spirit e.t.c. It's there to be accessed, lying
just a breath away beneath the surface of our
social and cultural conditioning.
Shamanic
work brings us face to face with our true self.
That core part of us that is deeply and profoundly
connected to the ancestors. We find our sense
of spiritual belonging. It is like coming home.
We've searched and searched and finally our journeys
bring us back to the beginning, back to our bodies
and back into inner space. We discover we are
the One experiencing Itself through Its multiple
and varied expressions of life as we know it.
We discover we can experience any one of these
expressions for ourselves…
THE
PINEAL GLAND: ITS PHYSIOLOGY AND INFLUENCE ON
SHAMANIC STATES
The
pineal gland is a cone-shaped pea that sits on
the roof of the 3 rd ventricle of the brain, directly
behind the root of the nose (3 rd eye chakra)
floating in a small lake of cerebrospinal fluid.
It is our body's biological clock and has been
called a window of the brain because, as with
all mid-line structures bordering the 3 rd and
4 th ventricles of the brain, it doesn't have
a blood-brain barrier. Instead it relies on a
constant supply of blood via, considering its
miniscule size, a particularly rich vascular network.
It was considered for many years to be as redundant
as our appendix but this theory is brought sharply
into question because, in our body's infinite
wisdom, the pineal gland has been supplied with
the best blood, oxygen and nutrient mix available
other than that received by our kidneys! It acts
as a receiving mechanism capable of monitoring
electro-magnetic fields and helping align bodies
in space. With its central hormone, MELATONIN,
the pineal not only regulates sleep/ wake cycles
and the aging process, but also appears to act
as the Mistress Gland (sofia)* orchestrating the
body's entire endocrine system and thus, energetically
speaking, the chakra system. I believe it is also
responsible for shamanic states, visions, kundalini
e.t.c.
The
pineal gland is unique in that it sits alone in
the brain whose other parts are paired. It is
the first gland to be formed in the foetus and
is distinguishable at 3 weeks. When our individual
life force enters our foetal body at 7 weeks,
the moment in which we become truly human, it
passes through the pineal and triggers the first
primordial flood of DMT ( N-dimethyltryptamine).
Later, at birth, the pineal releases more DMT.
DMT is also capable of mediating pivotal experiences
of deep meditation, shamanic states of consciousness,
psychoses, spiritual emergence and near death
experiences.
The
pineal gland begins to harden with calcified tissue
starting at adolescence. These strange calcified
deposits between 3-5 mm are called “brain sand”.
There
are asymmetrical crystals in the pineal gland
that are ‘piezo-electric' - that is, they send
out electronic voltage creating EM waves. Whenever
a person is exposed to an EMF (electro-magnetic
field) such as that of the earth the gland vibrates,
sending out EM signals to the rest of the body.
When the pineal gland is stimulated geomagnetically
it produces alkaloids similar to plant psychedelics.
Any strong change in the earth's EMF will produce
a rush of psychedelics in our bodies enabling
us to be more psychically active in shamanic states
(earth/ land receptive). The pineal gland is effected
by coherent EM fields and it changes its
hormone production when exposed to EM at low levels.
As the earth has the greatest effect of any force
on our physiology it makes sense that the cells
of our body and brain align with it. All
life within the envelope of earth's vibrational
influence attempts to match base-frequencies (entrainment)
with that of the earth. To this end, each of our
cells is constantly shifting patterns of energy
to achieve harmonic resonance with the reference
signals of our earth. Our bodies are truly amazing
and they are intimately co-dependent with the
earth and all its inhabitants. Our bodies are
miraculous organs of phenomenal complexity and
awesome ability. We are made up of multiple trillions
of molecules, each vibrating with its own intelligence,
all interlinked just as our universe is interlinked
and interconnected. We reflect the whole. A picture
may be beginning to emerge as to how we reach
shamanic states through the wisdom of our body
in tune with the earth.
When
we experience a shamanic journey our pulse rate
increases at the same time that our blood pressure
drops. This is also what happens as the body is
preparing to die. As the life-force leaves our
body through the pineal gland, another flood of
DMT is released. I believe that the initial stages
of a shamanic journey replicate this near death
experience and so triggers DMT release in the
brain.
NOTE:
Yagé or ayahuasca, a brew made from so
called ‘death vine' which is used as a ‘plant
teacher' by shaman to induce shamanic states,
is virtually the chemical equivalent of DMT in
humans.
I
believe that shamanic work combined with breathwork
brings large volumes of oxygen and life-force
into the bloodstream and, because of its excellent
blood-supply, the pineal gland receives much stimulation
from the oxygen/ prana drenched blood causing
it to resonate/ vibrate thereby stimulating the
release of DMT, our body's own powerful psychedelic.
Lore has it that the pineal gland is the gateway
into the soul. An energy vortex; a meeting place
between psyche and soma, soul and body.
Ancient
people knew of the importance of the pineal gland.
Magician, Delores Ashcroft-Nowicki says that to
the priests of Heliopolis, the embalmers of ancient
Egypt (who were the forerunners of today's pathologists),
the Star Chamber of Isis (the Holy of Holies)
and the Halls of Anubis and Thoth were not just
fanciful terms given to mythical locations but
were actually places within the living brain
where the priests and priestesses travelled
to be taught by the gods.
The
following is a description of The Star Chamber
of Isis given by a priest of Isis undergoing the
Rite of the Meeting of Mind with Mind:
“
The corridor is long and narrow and gleams like
the inside of a shell drawn from the depths of
the sea. The curtains that guard the entrance
are of the softest gossamer, so fine that they
seem like mist on a lake at dawn. As I pass through
them I come into the presence of the Gods. The
walls are of silver and give off a faint silver
light that illuminates this holy place. Beneath
my feet is the sandy silt of the sacred Nile,
and all about me I hear the heartbeat of Isis
. Behold, I dwell in the Star Chamber of the Goddess.”
The
above sounds remarkably like the physical description
of the pineal gland, which lies deep within the
head, an important link to our deepest selves.
Tantric
techniques attempt to produce enlightenment through
sexual ecstasy. Pineal DMT release can mediate
sexual ecstasy resulting from the strenuous exertion,
intense emotions and pneumocatharthis (intense
dynamic breathing). It is known that psychedelic
features do emerge during orgasm. The link
between conscious waking state and deep Shamanic
consciousness is BLISS/RAPTURE, feelings associated
with intense sexual pleasure.
NOTE:
The secret sex techniques of the Shamanka (female
shaman) still in practice in certain rural areas
of Brazil , Mexico and South America all, generally,
involve breathing techniques.
*
Early medieval documents and alchemical texts
refer to the ‘fallen' or lost Sofia – the allegorical
term for the lost wisdom and innocence of mankind.
Sofia is also represented by the fairytale “The
Sleeping Beauty” where a prince has to toil through
a hazardous ancient haunted forest to reach the
sleeping princess. She has been sleeping for 100
years in a tower and can only be awakened by a
kiss (the breath).
SCHUMANN
RESONANCE
Schumann
Resonance, or the earth's heartbeat, is not generated
by the earth itself but by the 400 or so lightening
storms that occur around the globe at any one
moment. These storms emit the electricity that
causes the Schumann Resonance.
Schumann
Resonance helped evolve our brain-waves. Alpha
brain-waves, those associated with a relaxed,
awake yet meditative/ reflective in-the-now state
are set in motion by the earth's heartbeat. Our
alpha rhythms (7-12hz) are related to extremely
low frequency EM signals circulating around the
earth and our central nervous system is tuning
in and listening to them.
During
a shamanic session I induce my brainwaves to slow
to a range of between 7-12hz (alpha). My brainwaves
entrain those of my subject and we synchronize.
We are both resonating at the same frequency (sympathetic
resonance) which is very close to that of the
EMF's of Beloved Earth. My brainwaves and those
of my subject are then in sympathetic resonance
with the earth, allowing us to draw from a universal
energy outside of myself (or alternatively, inside
myself as world is self) and the
pulsed biomagnetic signal produced by me penetrates
my subject's body/mind with ease.
“The
mind is a part of nature; the world is a divine
dream, behind nature, throughout nature, Spirit
is present.” – Emerson.
BLISSING:
WALKING IN SHAMANIC CONSCIOUSNESS
Walking
the earth in shamanic consciousness – open, wide-awake
awareness is something that creates a state of
BLISS; That liminal state that acts as a bridge
between this world and the Otherworld. Fully engaging
the body and its sensory systems allows you to
be fully present whilst at the same time
sensing the parallel realms. These realms exist
as a planetary consciousness, and the beings that
dwell there reside within the land. They are known
to us as Faery, people of the light.
By
tuning in to the earths rhythms we also make contact
with our ancestors who once walked the earth.
When
we truly engage in embodiment, through our senses,
we begin to experience another level of reality,
allowing us to realize we are much more than the
sum of our parts. We re-enchant ourselves and
have peak experiences. We become aware at an intuitive
level of a non-local reality. This is a doorway
into the secrets of nature. Earth-walking or blissing
is a way for us to recognize the sacred in nature
and to begin to re-envision the planet. Einstein
said: “matter is nothing more than energy
vibrating at frequencies low enough that we can
perceive it with our senses” .
When
our own frequencies tune in to the earth's resonance
we begin to perceive that which is normally invisible
to us: the life force around plants and trees
which shimmers around every living thing. Movements
in the air become noticeable to the eye and you
can physically and energetically feel the life
force emanating from the earth and trees.
The
purpose of blissing is to totally immerse yourself
in nature, with your senses wide-open, body grounded
and centred, walking in dynamic poise (posture
is all important, see KINETIKA for martial arts
connection) .
Walking
in shamanic consciousness is the important flipside
of shamanic journeying where we go inside into
an altered state of consciousness to experience/
learn/ heal in the Otherworld. Blissing counterbalances
the ‘internal' shamanic states by bringing us
mindfully into full conscious awareness where
we use an alpha brainwave rhythm to help us fully
connect to the present moment. This brings about
a shift in perception known as Primary Process:
childlike, archetypal daemonic mind. This is a
psychophysical way of being that fully interacts
with the physiological, emotional and mental aspects
of our entire being.
Blissing,
then, can be known as a super-normal state of
consciousness into which we can enter temporarily
in everyday life. It is a highly specialized state
that requires moment to moment attention and intention.
Before
you begin your walk you must prepare with an intention:
To walk in a state of reverence. Every breath,
every footfall is to be undertaken as a sacred
act. The affirmation or mantra I use as I earthwalk
is “Love and Gratitude Beloved Earth” but you
can devise one suits your own purpose. I also
use “Blessings upon my Ancestors”, “Blessed are
the Fey”, “Blessings upon my global family” e.t.c.
The very act of walking is a testament to your
expression of love and gratitude.
Before
embarking do an exercise called “Hook-ups”
or
a few cross lateral movements such as; right elbow
to left knee, left elbow to right knee. This balances
the brain and helps bring the heart into a coherent
rhythm.
THE
BLISSFUL HEART
The
heart has its own sensitivity to the earth and
exhibits that with intelligence. The heart constantly
monitors our entire environment, both inner and
outer. It sets up a Heart Rate Variability pattern
that is either coherent or incoherent
. This HRV is relayed from heart to brain
via the vagus nerve to the medulla oblongata,
the thalamus and the amygdala. Our goal is a blissful
coherent heart.
“The
heart is the source of our intuition which
is eventually perceived at the brain/ mind level”
– Rollin McCraty.
Our
hearts are made up of multifunctional sensory
nervous tissue which is receptive to hormones,
information peptides, changes in pressure and
nervous stimulation originating from within the
heart. The heart is a highly complex, self-organized
system (sensory organ) with its own fully functioning
“little brain” that communicates with and influences
via the nervous system, hormonal system and other
pathways. ( All information chemicals;
the neurotransmitters, are also found in the heart)
The
brain energetically revolves around the heart
and not the other way round . The heart
is like a constellation unto itself in the body.
The heart operates by itself, the beat of the
heart resides in each of its cells and is controlled
within the heart by a pacemaker.
Our
hearts are powerful transmitters sending out EMF
waves (it has the largest EMF in the body extending
to at least 8–16 feet, over 5 metres
from the body). Other people, animals, plants,
trees, rocks e.t.c. pick up these transmissions
of the heart through the physical antennae – the
elaborate sensory apparatus of the whole body
– and in particular the pineal gland.
When
the heart is Blissed (coherent, happy, peaceful,
connected, e.t.c.) in other words, tuned in, we
influence people and other life forms in a positive
way. When it's incoherent, the heart's influence
is negative.
Earthwalking,
Blissing, walking in shamanic consciousness brings
the heart into an optimum, blissful, coherent
state that resonates through our whole being.
Walking in shamanic consciousness relieves and
eradicates chronic stress. When stress is chronic
it brings the heart into incoherence which then
becomes the usual state for the person suffering
the stress. The stress/ incoherent state becomes
homeostatic for that person and they may feel
uncomfortable around you expressing your coherent
homeostasis. Stand close within their heart EMF
and do “hook-ups” for one minute to restore balance
and to entrain their heart to yours.
ONE
HOUR BLISSING
- Set your intention
(to connect reverently to nature).
- Have an affirmation.
- Adopt a posture
of dynamic poise/ alignment (see Kinetika
).
- Do one minute
of hook ups/ one minute cross lateral exercise.
- Walk in full
sensory awareness, imagine breathing bliss into
the heart and bliss out into the environment.
- Walk in nature
wherever possible but remember wherever you
are, the unseen world reverberates all around
you and the earth is below your feet.
FAERY
Faery
is to me the first and last enchantment. It is
everywhere and nowhere, betwixt and between in
the gap between this rock and that tree… There
exists a luminous land, not quite memory, not
quite imaginary, just shimmering and glimmering
on the edge of reason that beckons seductively
to our wild heart. That un-named, untamed part
of us that runs with the wild things. It is in
this part of our heart that the two worlds meet,
ours and theirs. Interwoven inextricably with
the world of form that we know and understand,
is the world of the shadow, the numinous, the
land of the dazzling fair ones. It is the realm
of the ancestors, our connection to the sacred
land. We connect to faery and all its beings through
shamanic journeying, through blissing and lucid
dreaming, and by practicing keeping an open coherent(blissful)
heart.
It
is said in faery lore that only those who are
pure in heart may enter the realms of faery. I
understand this to mean child-like innocence (Primary
Process) and deep unbounded reverence for their
earth.
My
song swells
From
a wildness
Feral,
unbound rapture
As
one with the woods
Golden
mosaic of fallen leaves
This
is me.
Musk
earth in my nose
Stirring
passion, lust grows
Topaz
shimmers through emerald
Sun
god sparkles on pond
Deep
mythic green breathes me
Bewitching
my eye, I see thee
Spellbound
by society, you see me not
I
merge with dragonfly
In
the wink of an eye.
I
am the wilderness
I
inhabit the twilight
Dusk
is my dress
The
reeds, my hair.
Darkness
falls like the wolf
I
blend with the night
I
cast nightshade
On
my wild place
By
standing stone
And
twisted tree
By
ancient mound
And
faery rath
I
dance the ring
With
the wind in my hair
And
the earth in my veins
I
wear the stars as jewellery
And
melt into the gloom
I
feel my inner sense aflame
I
walk like poetry
Frail
as bloom
My
magic uncoils
Like
the serpent of eden
And
my earth desire, taboo, forbidden
Burns
like the white hot moon
Moonstruck
am I , the hidden
And
made of thunderstorm
I
am the forest
I
am the stag
I
am the owl
I
am the hare
I
am the night
I
am the dark stream
I
am the mystery
I
am fey
GYP
ROMAY 2005©
SHAMANIC
BREATHWORK SESSION
TRANSCRIPT
FROM A META-BREATHWORK/ SHAMANIC JOURNEY
COURTESY
OF DAN 2005
From
the seemingly unnatural darkness, and seemingly
forced breathing arises a calm. It is a deep calm
that could be associated with absolute familiarity.
Performing this action that I had never had any
cause to undertake before, as if it were the most
natural thing in the world. Sensation begins at
the temples. A release, an unscrewing. I felt
my forehead expanding outwards and my ears gently
pulling towards my spine. Each time the breath
is repeated the pleasant sensation of light electricity
and minute temperature change spreads around the
head, into the neck, and across the shoulders.
Very aware of the eyes, which feel turgid and
excited, beneath the eyelids. Coming into tune
with different rhythms. The rise and fall of the
breath, the subtle monotonous drone of the music,
which seems to be emanating through the entire
body becoming a natural rhythm in itself; and
the heart-beat which can be felt pounding in the
chest, resonating around the blood vessels.
The
first overt physical feelings began in my hands.
As the breathing continued they seemed to fill
with an energy not dissimilar in feeling to pins
and needles, but far more intense and without
any discomfort. As I felt them growing in size
and strength and changing their shape I held the
out in front of me to test out the way these new
appendages felt. Opening and clenching of the
fingers became a very pleasant experience; on
clenching a slight outward resistance, like squeezing
snow into a ball. On stretching out again the
feeling of having strong metallic rods lying alongside
the bones of my fingers, sliding into place and
taking any work out of the movement. My hands,
which were held out in front of me, became visually
manifested in front of me as two golden white
lights. Unlike the physical feelings, which came
on gradually, the visual experience began abstractly,
but quickly became very intense and crystal clear.
Around the lights that were my hands I noticed
the movement of a black mass, which shimmered
into deep greens as it moved. I knew at once the
feeling of a presence surrounding and permeating
me, as the feeling I had encountered on a previous
shamanic journey when I came into contact with
my spirit counterpart, a dragon whose name I still
haven't a clue how to spell. Instant recognition
and rapport, coupled with both a physical and
a mental closeness. I began to feel myself in
close contact with this being, my body pressed
against its vast hulking back. Then I saw my hands
clenched tightly in front of me holding fistfuls
of hair, and I knew we were flying, but I could
only look down, towards the floor. Knowing that
my hands were capable of hanging on for me, without
my concentration I began to take notice of the
water below. Black water, glimmering with silver,
rushing past at high speeds as we flew over it.
I became entranced by the patterns and beauty
of this silver against the cold black, and noticed
that the silver was also reflecting on the scales
of my dragon. Throughout this flight I felt an
irrepressible smile spreading throughout my body,
manifesting itself in an enormous grin I could
feel my face straining under the size of. Sheer
beauty and the simple enjoyment of this beauty
caused in me a bliss that took the grin to its
next natural stage of laughter; which rippled
through my entire body, just before I got the
urge to take a deep breath and hold it. Within
this held breath, the silver patterns were intensified
ten fold. I saw other beings dancing in the silver…and
could only gawp in awe and wonder. My body began
to convulse, and although aware of this going
on, it didn't feel like I suppose it must have
looked. To me it felt like a powerful ball of
energy at the very core of me, somewhere in my
torso or lower back was simply dissipating outwards;
but I also knew that my limbs were displaying
a more forceful reaction. After the shaking came
a calm. An enjoyment of winding down from the
heights; a return to a more natural breathing
pattern, and to more familiar thought patterns.
But then something in the music, or something
done around my body-a touch, or the introduction
of incense, or a breath would catch me again,
and a thought would begin urging me to resume
the breathing pattern, without stopping.
This
cycle played through a total of five times, including
the first; starting with a gradual increase in
bodily sensation, followed by the introduction
of a visual element. This then transcending into
clarity and bliss, before returning, slowly to
a more normal state, at which point, apart from
the last the urge to begin again was roused by
an inner voice.
The
first cycle was very visual, the second and third
were far more physical. In the second the feeling
of a gathering energy that had begun in my hands
the first time around, began this time in my chest.
My torso began to feel huge; As If I would struggle
to touch my fingers together across it. This time
when the flight began I could look up and straight
ahead. Instead of holding onto the dragon, it
and I were one…one chest at least. I saw us coming
up fast on a mountain range, which the flight
over was the cause of my second held breath. The
purples and blues of ice-caps on mountains in
absolute detail had me twitching with delight.
The second and third cycles ran into each other
quite a lot, so it is difficult to separate them,
but, on my way down from the awe of the mountain
tops, I realised that we had travelled deep inside
one of them, into a warm, dark place surrounded
by gold. Absolute contentment is the only description
worthy. I knew what it was like to stay in one
place, in one position for hundreds of years;
just content to be in this cave, in the presence
of this gold. The return of the physical feeling
this time came strongly from my legs, particularly
my thighs. This is where the contentment seemed
to emanate from; as it did, my back arching, increasing
the pleasure sending twinges right down to the
bottom of my spine and out into my buttocks. At
this point everything became wonderful. Moving
my head a few millimetres to the left then to
the right caused sheer delight. Whilst raising
my knees up to my chest bordered on the orgasmic.
At
the end of this third cycle I thought I was through.
My body felt like it had been charged to the point
where it could be charged no more. It was then
that thought came into the equation where until
now it had been absent. I feel that this, the
fourth cycle was the most intense of all. My emotions
became involved, at a very highly charged level.
Feelings of inadequacy turned inward to form self
hate, and anger. I was being challenged, at my
most basic level. Are you worthy? Of what, I can't
pin-point…worthy of existence? Worthy of the kind
of knowledge that an inward journey may reveal?
All I knew was that I had to respond to the challenge,
in the only way that I could; by intensifying
the breathing, by proving that I could take what
ever this journey had to offer me. It was not
easy; I began to feel pain in my chest and across
my forehead. I had been forewarned about pain,
and told to use it as a tool, and so directing
my guide to these points of pain, I began to steer
into it. Through clenched teeth each breath became
an ordeal. My feet clawed at the blanket, as did
my hands; and as I continued my rage grew, and
as it grew my strength and ability to go on increased.
This was the crossover point. There was a place
where I was in so much pain, but so ready too
go on, that the silent challenge relented, and
became congratulatory. In the time that followed
I was shown all the secrets of the universe. Eternity,
humanity, acceptance and love, love, love. Joy
incarnate was I; stripped of everything and shown
what exists underneath it all, and instilled with
the knowledge that no-matter how bad things look,
or unlikely it may begin to seem, that what we
believe and hold dear is not a false hope. I wept
with joy, I kissed the hands of my guide, grateful
with every grain of my being. Then the blinding
light that had been switched on began to dim down.
But I wasn't upset, as my new knowledge told me
not be, as such things cannot be perpetual; but
we can find joy in the knowledge that we have
known them, and know that we may return, whenever
we wish. I was left with a beautiful purple sphere
floating in front of me, reminding me to take
heed of what I had seen, and never to forget.
As I returned to my more normal state, this purple
orb came towards me, and fused itself into my
chest, leaving a bright aura all around me.
This
was the end of the visual journey for me. At the
end of the fourth cycle I became aware of my surroundings.
Much more so than before; I became aware that
I had been sweating, and that the blanket was
damp. When I felt the urge to continue with the
breath work rising in me, I wondered if I should
follow it or not. I did follow it, but the cycle
did not follow the course of the preceding four.
There was no build of physical or mental stimulus;
it was more like a prolonged plateau of pleasure,
which came from the mind as an echo of the bliss
from the fourth cycle, combined with the bodily
pleasure of the first three. The sprinkles on
the frosting on the icing on the cake was the
big wonderful hug I received from my guide as
I opened my eyes.
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