Guided Meditations/Pathworking

Although I am calling this a guided meditation, the fact is some people know this as Astral Travel or Path working.  It matters little which interpretation you choose, the fact remains that this will be happening within your own head and is a way to access your subconscious mind as often happens in dreams.

Traditionally clear or purple gemstones are best for this exercise, but do not let this put you off as any colour will be fine.  The gemstone and crystalline energies work by interacting with your higher self to strengthen its psychic connections and bonds with your conscious mind.  The gemstones and crystals act as a gateway or portal leading to the royal road of the subconscious mind and therefore a way to access the inner you.

Take hold of or wear during the gemstone or crystal before beginning this technique. Then relax, lie or sit down, remove any distractions and close you eyes. Then working from your feet to your head relax each part of your body letting it feel heavier (take at least five minutes to do this). Say the words heavy, heavy, down, down as you work from your toes to your fingers and to the crown of your head.

When you have relaxed your whole body, with your eyes closed picture a large tree in your mind, this is the oak tree or Axis Mundi, a special gateway to enter the subconscious realms. Now as you look at the tree, see all of its detail, the colour, the bark, the smell, savour this, don't rush, just let your mind drift over the image and then move over to the tree and touch its bark with your hand and feel the texture. See this tree as huge and see a door begin to slowly emerge in the trees surface, see the tree bark part slightly into this door and see a small golden/brass handle appear.

Now take the handle and open the door, slowly walk or glide through and you will enter an imaginary world, just paint it as you instinctively feel it should be. At this point everything is only in the imagination so do not try to force a picture of this world into your mind, just let it come naturally. After scanning this world, look to the horizon, do you see mountains or gleaming spires of a far away city, or do you see desert or ruins. Or do you just see field upon field of grass, or even a swap or alien landscape. Take in the picture, listen for sounds, smell the air, it is warm, damp, cold, engage all your senses, bend down a take a handful of soil or sand or grass. This is your world, the world of the imagination, the world of your subconscious mind.  It is a strange world because you, like all human beings are a very strange merging of mind, body and spirit.  This world could contain anything, often it will hold people from your past, people who have died and often other beings or animals that seem to have personalities based upon people and animals you have known.

Now that you stand at the entrance to this world, it is up to you how far you travel within it.  Some people may want to literally build a small camp or town and let it become populated with whatever your mind wishes, others may decide to go on one large journey around the whole world and travel its roads and landscapes to meet whatever beings walk this strange landscape of your imagination.

WARNING - Now, there are some theories that pertain to there being a collective consciousness that all humans have access to and if this is actually true then it is not beyond the impossible for you to actually meet another mind-traveller on your route as you may cross into their imagination or they cross into your imagination.  Because of this and because of the fact that this dream landscape will contain all manner of beings, it is always best to have a way to quickly and safely leave the imaginary landscape.  The obvious way is to just open your eyes, but if you fall so deep into this imaginary landscape then that may not be easy. So instead you need a word or picture (preferably both) that signals an exit from this landscape.  So before going on your mind-travels, always visualise a door and when you say (open) it appears, opens and you can quickly go through back into the real world. If you ever feel afraid and want to get out fast then say “banish, banish, banish, take me home”.
 

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