THE MAGICAL POWER OF NATURE # 10

THE PRINCIPLES OF MANIFESTATION

(USING THE ELEMENTS,

THE CHAKRAS AND THE FOUR BEINGS

AS CATALYSTS)

THE 'ETHER ELEMENT'

GOD

JESUS

SPIRIT

'FIELD'

ANCESTORS & GUIDES

For simplicity one can also use the word 'Field.'

"Whatever being comes to be, be it motionless or moving,

derives its being from Field and Knower of the Field. Know this!" Bhagavad Gita

The 'Field', Spirit, our guides respond more powerfully to passion,

will, and strong intention. The more the attention to detail the better !

Ritual involves effort. Effort signifies strong intention.

The Field will reward us for a strong effort.

We are not just influences but also recipients

of influences from distant places and distant times.

We all have guides and ancestors who want to help. However, being bound by the law of Free will, we need to ask to receive, as well as develop a relationship with them built on gratitude, love and forgiveness.

In Kabbalah the Creation was described as occuring in Four Stages

or the Four Worlds of Reality or Manifestation through the Tree of Life.

Emanation

Creation

Formation

Actualization

EMANATION 

arises from Source 

 from the Infinite One. 

"In the beginning was the word." Gospel of John

The Intention.

CREATION 

Requires - undifferentiated thought or Wisdom through imagination.

As well as;

 Understanding - differentiated or cognitive thought to supplement Wisdom.

Wisdom includes fantasy and imagination. 

Einstein wanted to understand the mind of God and acknowledged that his powers of imagination and fantasy meant more to him than his cognitive abilities.

We need both.

 

To think like God is to think with imagination.

 

What cannot be imagined, cannot be fulfilled.

 

As you think it, so it can be, as you imagine and believe it, so it will be.

Wisdom's imagination, requires cognitive Understanding to help it take form.

 

FORMATION 

The elements and the mystery of the unexplainable power of the Creator to make something out of nothing. This began with the Big Bang (Tzimtzum in Kabbalah) when (?...) the elements of the periodic table were infused into the void (Nothingness) to eventually become "Somethingness" and then slowly evolved into order through the world of Formation. This could have occured in seven periods of time (maybe billions of years) - the "seven days" (or epochs) in Genesis. There is no time on the other side of the veil in the Field, so that the number seven in the idea of "days" is arbitrary. Evolution took eons.

ACTUALIZATION

All of us in physical bodies (and the other Beings as well) living here on planet Earth where we manifest our sentient existence - as well as the planets, galaxies and cosmos.

Any process of Actualization whether from God or from us should correspond to these 

Fours Worlds 

- a template that can help us elevate our sacred intentions into manifestation.

If we acknowledge the importance of all these Four Stages and put it out into the "Field," to the Creator, Jesus, our guides in a sensory driven, active imagination we will have greater success in our ventures. 

 

Our own actualizing process for the spiritual and the material 

should follow the same Four Stages. 

Emanation 

Our Intent

Creation 

The plan or blueprint using

Imagination.

Formation 

With whatever is materially required.

  Actualization 

Making it happen. 

For instance constructing a building .

First the INTENTION (Emanation)

 ATTENTION to Detail (Creation)

The context of what one wants using Imagination 

 How it should look.

The architect. 

ACTION (Formation)

The contractor, workers, materials etc.

ACTUALIZATION (Affirmation)

The building is complete 

Staying the course - the longest part. 

Affirmation

 Assuring and Maintaining what one has Actualized

This ties in with the Three Deities in Yoga; 

The Creator, Destroyer, Maintainer.

Everything is in the process of being destroyed and dissipating. 

The Maintainer has the biggest job.

 Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's advice can help us too.

 

"Know what you want,

 decide when you want it, 

figure your plan of action, 

follow through on it, and never doubt. 
Unless an action is rightly thought out and its steps rightly planned, every stage of its performance will probably remain vague and therefore unsatisfactory for the doer and all those concerned;" 

(as well as our guides, the Creator and Field.)

Ask and you will receive !

"Ask and it will be given to you, seek and you will find, knock and it will be opened to you." Matthew

 

To simplify and expand on the Maharishi and Kabbalah

INTENTION

ATTENTION 

ACTION 

AFFIRMATION

 

INTENTION

What one wants. 

ATTENTION 

USING IMAGINATION

Attend to the context of what one wants. The 'Field' will handle the details on behalf of your and others' greater good. 

Because of the cosmic law of free will you have to give the Field permission. 

Since you are working in and with the 'Light' they will only open doors that are in line with the Light. Hence, things may not turn out exactly as you imagined but probably better for the planet and one's karma as a whole. Because there is no time in the Field, results may take time. 

 ACTION.

Do your part. You cannot sit back and expect it to happen.

"Trust in God but tie your camel." Sufi saying

AFFIRMATION

Stay the course, maintain, sustain. Our guides are living in a non-space-time reality. They live in the present moment. Free will is in the present moment. They want to know how committed we are - do we still want it a month or longer. 

Persistence is essential in spite of the fact you may feel nothing is happening. Sometimes one has to look far back to find out how and where you eventually arrived. One might be surprised.

IN ADDITION

 NON-ATTACHMENT TO OUTCOME

Attachment has a stickiness that repels and can imply a lack of trust.

 Hence have Faith, Believe, Trust, Surrender, Hope. 

Subordinate any doubt or disbelief.

PASSION - STRONG WILL !

FEEL IT !

(use the senses in any way possible.)

"Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Ruach Hakodesh (the spirit/breath/wind of the Holy One) who is in you, whom you have received from God? Talmud

The way to God is through the senses. From my flesh shall I behold the Creator.

"You are not your own, you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies." Corinthians

 

Many of these principles are being used by self-help “gurus” for the sake  actualization of the material which may or may not be successful. I suspect the stumbling blocks to success may be: 

No attempt to invoke help from the Field. 

The intention should be for the greater good - getting one's small self out of the way.

 To truly believe - and harder still have complete faith - in what will transpire is easier if we do it on behalf of others. Its difficult for most of us to believe that we deserve a Maserati or  our own private island.

"We are here on earth to help others,

what on earth others are here for, I do not know." W. H. Auden

These principles will have greater traction in the spirit world if it is about one’s needs on behalf of helping another or others rather than ones small self's wants. It can be for oneself if it will help others.

It should be for the purpose of soul work and not an ego-based attachment to a want rather than a need.

“The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings by changing the inner attitude of their minds, can change the outer aspect of their lives.” William James

The ideal place to do this would be to do the imagining in a sacred bath supported by plants of power, music, incense or anything else of a sensory nature.

You could also do it anywhere else in a meditative state in nature or siting on a rock on the beach tuning in to the Soft Fascinations.

For Maintaining and Sustaining, a mantra may suffice some of the time.

 

THE MAGICAL POWER OF NATURE # 9

An increased awareness of our natural connection with rocks, trees, plants,

animals, all the still beings, the growing beings and the wild beings,

not just the talking beings is transformative.
It will help us feel the spiritual kinship we have with all creation. 

THE EARTH ELEMENT

EARTH IS IN THE WEST

STILL BEINGS

GABRIEL 

Strength, Courage, Blending, Balance

 The First Chakra of the Earth element has to do with survival.

Mastery of it, is how we ground and protect ourselves.

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All Four Beings have their own vibration and unique form of consciousness,

even the Still Beings.

 

The Still Beings comprise the earth, the mountains, the rocks, the sand as well

as; crystals, semiprecious and precious, stones and metals.

Crystals can enhance the ambient vibration and protect.Precious and semiprecious stones and metals can also be used for sacred purpose

because of their high vibration (for instance gold in Buddhist temples.)

Now they are usually prized for their financial as well

as their aesthetic value which enhance one's persona

but not necessarily the soul.

They can be used as talismans and amulets and as lockets

especially if enhanced with sacred plants, prayers, symbols...

The Law of Contagion

states that when things are in contact with one another they can affect the other.

In shamanic context 'Containers' hold spiritual power

when used to create sacred intention. Anything can be a Container;

a talisman, an amulet a crystal, a stone, sacred plant/s...

An altar to one's guides and ancestors is a powerful container to make requests

and give gratitude.

A dream journal or recording device is a container to record their messages.

An altar can help us communicate, make requests and give them gratitude.

Place objects of meaningful connection on your altar; their ring, a cup,

photos of your ancestors or if you don't have one then write down their names.Also, anyone who loved you (teacher, friend, ex lover) who has passed on

has the potential to be a guide. You can represent and honor them with a crystal or similar.Love is the catalyst that enables them to cross the veil between the worlds

and script our dreams or download intuitive messages during awake time.

Churches and temples have sacred objects that hold spiritual power.

A Tibetan gong awakens, clears and repels dark forces prior to meditating.

Think also of a dog who is given an article of clothing to find someone or

a psychic using the same to connect better with a lost child.

Sacred plants as well as the Still Beings used in ritual are powerful containers

for us, to ask to receive.

Prayers and healing, mysteriously, are enhanced through containers.

Unfortunately hexes are too.

Witches can create harm though the Law of Contagion -

a locket of someones hair, a nail clipping, an article of clothing, an effigy...

SUMMARY

Each Chakra has its own primal sound, element, spiritual vibration and attribute

as per the prior blogs. With the help of spiritual practice 

we can ascend up the Chakra hierarchy to the Crown, the place of Unity Consciousness or

the Oneness Experience. The Oneness Experience is  similar to Maslow's Peak experience where, for instance, we 'become' the dance, or the music, or ...  and for a brief, ecstatic moment duality disappears. 

It is that dynamic where the Knower, the Known and the Process of knowing fuse into One thing.  It can happen when 

the Knower (you) the Known (maybe a rainbow) and the Process of you viewing it, 

all fuse into the rainbow.

This can occur when we are in Nature for dedicated periods of time - usually five days or more. The closer we are and the less 'stuff' we have to impede the process the more likely it is to occur. It comes when least expected, usually by grace. 

Being cognizant of the elements, the Beings of Nature, the breath and sound can assist us.

The shamanic principles described in the last blogs can help us connect more deeply in Nature and to the Chakras. Nature is a 'room' with many doors and windows to spirit.

The Four Beings of Nature described by the Ancestors which have been added are 

not a part of the Yoga model.

The Earth element of the 'Still Beings' can help protect us through the Law of Contagion.

The First Chakra is our survival - flight of fight energy center where we can defend and ground ourselves with sacred objects, talismans, amulets and an altar to invoke spirit help. 

The Second Chakra of the Water element and the Growing Beings enables us to use sacred plants for an intention especially when used in water or with steam.

Our power and ego centered Third Chakra supports the fire element which can create cleansing steam and heated water for our sacred baths using plants of power and anything else to enhance the process.

The Fourth Chakra of love can be opened with spiritual practice as well asusing our  breath animated by the Supreme Being - Pranayama, - Yoga's science of breath. 

"What is God, the breath within the breath." Rumi

The Fifth Chakra, also of the Air Element, is empowered by chanting, song, gongs, musical instruments, music...

The Sixth Chakra is a more refined version of Air or even Ether - our intuitive Third Eye which can see what seeing eyes cannot see.

Just below the Third Eye are the nostrils where the Sun (Pingala) and Moon (Ida) channels unite after spiraling around the central Channel.

The Sun is the hot, red, more masculine, cognitive path.

The Moon is the cool, blue, more feminine intuitive channel.

The two can be balanced by Alternative Nostril Pranayama 

(or any breathing technique.)

The Crown or Thousand Petalled Lotus is the place of the Oneness Experience where Shiva and Shakti unite. This is mediated through the Kundalini, feminine serpent power that normally rests coiled at the base of the spine until it is mobilized up the Central Channel by our spiritual endeavors. The Zulus call this the Umbilini, the San Bushmen, Num. This energy is universal. Kabbalists might say its the Shechina, 

the feminine aspect of the Creator.

Nature, wilderness and wild places and the Magic of the Ordinary or Extraordinary for those so inclined can help us attain higher states of consciousness and Wilderness rapture when we are intimate with all these energies and polarities.

In the next blog we will talk about the steps needed for the

Manifestation of our Intentions.

THE MAGICAL POWER OF NATURE # 8

THE WATER ELEMENT AND THE GROWING BEINGS

Growing Beings are of the Water Element -

to experience them you must listen to them.

If you would know the mystery of the plants, listen for My voice in

every twig and leaf.
The barren and the weeds have their purpose and their beauty too,

for they are of My breath.

 

Plants breath in carbon dioxide through the use of chlorophyll and sunlight

during the day and expel oxygen. In the process they change water

and carbon dioxide into sugar that they use for food. We inhale oxygen and exhale carbon dioxide through the use of iron and hemoglobin

while plants, with the help of magnesium, inhale carbon dioxide

and exhale oxygen. 

Green to plant red to blood you color us with life and health.

They don't only have nutrient, esthetic and spiritual value

but existential value too. We on this planet need their oxygen. 

When we lack iron we get anemic, when plants lack magnesium

they get chlorosis – a yellowing of the leaf. Divine intelligence

and consciousness can be seen permeating everywhere in nature.

Knowing a little about how things work increases our sense of wonder

and awe. The deeper we go, however, the less we know.

"There are two ways to live your life; one that nothing is a miracle,

the other that everything is a miracle." A. Einstein

We should be in awe of what Nature presents to us.

 

Knowing more about something does not make it any less mysterious.

 

From the beginning of time all Nature’s Beings

have conversed with one another

and with all living things.

Animal 'Whisperers' know and practice this.

“Beloved gaze into your own heart –

the Holy Tree is blooming there.” W.B. Yeats

The Druids, who were nature bound, and the Celts, had their own Tree of Life.

The Tree of Life is seminal to Kabbalistic mysticism. There were two trees

in the Garden of Eden; the Tree of knowledge that got us kicked out.

But there was also the Tree of Life, and by engaging in the challenging

climb up it, we can regain Eden - as we can with the Chakra hierarchy.

In many cultures the archetype of the tree is the link between heaven and earth. 

Plants that have a lot of spiritual power usually also have aroma.

If when burnt they have incense they are even more powerful (sage, cedar...)

Plants of power can repel dark forces both within and without.

Placing a sage leaf in a water bottle or in a ritual bath

can favorably change water’s vibration especially if used with loving

intention or prayer.

Be careful of what you taste and where you immerse.

Aromatic seasoning can be used in cooking and if done with healing intent

or eaten as an active meditation, can also protect and create balance.

There are many paths to the mystery wisdom exuding from the growing things that surround us, from the color of the sky, and from all the still beings.

It is impossible for the world to existwithout fragrance, for our souls to survive without aroma.One must breathe deeply into the spirit flow. Only through the spirit Selfcan we access the mystery which is itself spirit. The soul's senses must be fed.

The way to God is through the senses. From my flesh shall I behold the Creator.  

If we pick or use a plant especially for sacred use, we should ask permission,

give gratitude or even make a small offering …

Being of the breath of God, all creation is responsive to

love, gratitude and petition.

Each as it is acknowledged becomes receptive to giving and receiving.

That is how we experience the other.   

The law of Similars (or Signatures)

“By similar things a disease is produced and through the application

of the like is cured.” Hippocrates 

Hippocrates predated this essential principle in Homeopathy

which Western medicine has not found to be evidential.

Many indigenous medicine healersembrace the idea that like can affect like - if things resemble one another

they can affect the other.

Aposematism is a warning and advertising signal from an animal

or plant and has been adopted by us as well.

An Amazonian red frog is warning predators that eating it could be lethal.

We know in California and elsewhere that if we touch poison oak which is red

we will get a nasty rash. A red traffic light means stop! Some

traditions wear a red bracelet for protection.

Plants that are red can be protective. In shamanic understanding

the Law of Similars makes sense for two reasons.

Through the placebo affect but also

through 'distant healing.'

There are numerous double blind trials - where placebo is discounted -

that show distant healing and prayer work through the 'Field' .

It is also true that some plants may

have beneficial pharmacalogical properties

but these are probably minor compared to those used in Western medicine.

Sangomas in Southern Africa use this principle but call the Field

the Ancestors. One can regard the request given in ritual with a plant of power

being a password to the spirit world for a positive outcome.

Free will is the cosmic law so that when we make requests to God, Jesus,

our guides, the ancestors or the Field we are also giving 'Them'

permission to act on our behalf for a specific request.

In a sense the Law of Similars is a prescription

or one's informed consent to 'Spirit.' The more powerful the connection

and trust in 'Spirit' the more powerful the effect