Personality, an Obstacle../or?

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Everything we do with the imagination holds the potential for

opening up the imaginal (alternate) reality. And everything we

experience in, and receive from, the imaginal realm possesses a

potency which we can translate into helpful and healing experience

in the world of everyday consensual reality.

 

This transference, which begins with primitive reverence, passionate

redefinition and serious intention, leads on to the liberation and

spiritual ennobling of the senses, the emotions and the languages

and silences of thinking. Then, from that inwardness, the same

energies can be moved toward the rehabitation of the great ordinary,

which is currently endangered by ingrained ideological

misrepresentation and pervasive misuse.

 

Roundly, this connects with that and so on; one faculty stimulates

the next, one dimension penetrates another.

 

I.Winged Serpent: Symbol for the Primal Earth Warrior

The Earth and all of her life forms are under seige, and the

elemental spirits of nature are calling out the shaman-names of

sundry people, penetrating the mythic layers of personal identity.

Empathizers, shapeshifters, protectors are needed. In the movements

of the wind, the breath of sky that hovers over and vivifies the

earth (arousing the procreative life force) the name of your

spiritual essence is sounded.

 

You have been patiently listening, longing for this lamentational

music. Now you hear the summons, the cry of despair, and you respond.

 

You are sitting cross legged in the grass, absorbing the sorrowful

communication, feeling a bonding of pain and anger. In the eyes of

your imagination, you see the primal effective cosmology of our

species: a solid rock, a living tree, a source of fresh water. You

know that these presences are foundations of planetary life, are

habitat, are teachers of the Earth's ways. And you know the danger

to even the most basic properties of physically and spiritually

sustaining.

 

Still sitting, as the primary cosmology begins to fade, you next see

a green snake coiled at the base of your spine. The snake awakens

and begins to ascend the length of your backbone. Its body is

sinuous and mysterious. It is so very green that you feel and even

smell the richness of its slender color.

 

Here, as the green snake climbs, you are conscious of a thunderstorm

generating at the top of your head. The dark clouds billow and

rumble and a powerful bolt of brilliant white lightning flashes,

striking at the base of your skull, then shooting along your spine.

The body of the lightning is amazingly exciting and mysterious.

 

Steadily, the earth snake ascends; swiftly, the sky bolt descends.

And the two living forces (procreational polarities) meet in a

swirling explosion of verdant fire in the center of your wounded

heart. There the powers dance in a bold picture of ecstasy and

fusion, generating the new, composite image of a brindled dragon, a

green and white winged serpent.

 

You see the colored body and movements of the creature, alive inside

your pumping heart. The wings beat a heart-strong rhythm, the tail

thrashes in excitation and the eyes flash with electric fire.

 

The dragon you visualize is the symbol of your response to the

summons of the elemental spirits. This winged serpent transforms the

acid of earth affliction, of sorrow, despair and mounting rage into

a fighting spirit, a protective fire.

 

Now, with the symbol of the green bellied dragon imaged in your

heart, you are empowered to become an earth warrior. An ancient and

determined courage begins to sustain you. A righteous ferocity to

protect the integral body of primal ecosophy, to guard over the

roots of the shamanic tree of life, and to watch over the source of

processional waters, is pulsing within you, as free energy, as

redefinition and as action-oriented purpose.

 

Sustained by the power of these pulsations, can you next recollect

the secret, beautiful language of the winged serpent? Sitting cross

legged, you continue to look and listen, opening to learn more of

the alchemical creature's deep wisdom. You are luminous with heroic

fervor as you understand that the green and white dragon, in sleep,

in dream, in flight and in battle, is a born creator of a natural

gestalten: a defender of vegetative and atmospheric circles.

 

Ii. Floating the Tree: A Shamanic/Kabbalistic Visualization

Lie down or sit in a comfortable position. Now, close your eyes.

Picture a tree in full leaf. The trunk is reddish brown and sepia

and the boughs are spellbindingly vivid green. The tree is large and

around it is a circle, a ring of brilliant, medium blue, like a

flowing color painted on the air.

 

As you begin envisioning the living tree, you see only tree and blue

ring. At the initial leave, the interior (enclosed) space, between

the tree and the blue circle, begins to pulsate and reveal a web,

sparkling on your inner eyes with the fluctuations and colors of a

holographic image.

 

When you have successfully established each of these elements - the

great, green tree, the bright, blue circle, with the many colored

web behind them - you may begin to engage in spontaneous, meditative

prayer, freeing your body, imagination and mind of fears, worries

and constricting habits.

 

Once you are truly unburdened of experiential pain and distractions,

allow yourself to enter the visionary mandala and float in the

luminous air above the holy tree. This is accomplished by releasing

yourself into archaic, ecstatic buoyancy and identifying with the

light, even as you concentrate on the verse of sacred intention: " I

will meditate on your wonders " (Psalm 119:27).

 

Now, as you float the tree, the web in the background is wondrously

transformed into a soft, multi-colored wind, swirling around you,

breathing colors of warmth and energy into your life. In this same

other dimensional time and space, you can feel and absorb the aroma

and vitality, the unity and mystery, of green life, and of the

aliveness of all colors, reflected here from a deep cosmic source,

which is the same as an everlasting, spiritual fire and an eye of

several, polychromatic irises.

 

Thus, as you are free to float and soar with wind and light, breath

and wonder, your eyes and your soul may open and see the multiple

forms of power inhabiting the leafy branches of the abundant tree.

These visionary forms can range from categories of angels, such as

maggidim, ofanim, cherubim or seraphim, to winged and four legged

peoples of the Earth, or to gifted representatives of different

races; to elemental spirits or holy (imaginal) creatures.

 

Having seen, return now to your normal body and consciousness,

remembering to give thanks for the journey just taken. Remain

grateful, through your behavior, that the presences you have

communed with are accessible in both our natural and alternate

realities. Know, in all ways, that the ongoing democratization and

normalization of non-ordinary experience leads toward the

restoration of creation and the reinvestment of the great ordinary

with sufficiencies for personal and planetary renewal. This is,

again, expressed in the beauty of the Psalms (77:7): " I meditate

with my heart and my spirit seeks. "

 

Seeing Gestalt Ecosophy:

Two Biocentric Meditations

David Sparenberg

Trumpeter

 

DAVID SPARENBERG is a Jewish Mystic and visionary poet who has

written several books and also edits a poetry journal . He lives in

Seattle.

 

 

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