Post No. 827 - a new auric sheath visualisation

One of the things which is often forgotten about when people are working on their aura, is the state of the auric sheath. This is a permeable outermost "barrier" on the aura: it feels to me more like the meniscus of water than our physical skin, in that it is an outcome of the aura interacting with the soup of energies we live in (on ALL levels of reality, incidentally) than being made of the energy equivalent of different cells that our physical skin is (skin cells are not the same as blood cells, muscles cells, nerve cells, organ cells, etc). The auric sheath. however, does serve some of the same functions as our physical skin - e.g., protection. Part of my routine healing work is checking for a repairing tears in the auric sheath, which is a bit like a nonphysical version of stitching up a cut in physical skin, and for much the same purpose - to aid in healing, and restore the protective function of the skin.

What I have also been doing, is building up the resilience of the skin, by packing layers of colours into it when I am doing my colour energy work. I also, as part of that work, protect my chakras with pyramids of light and sigils (e.g., pentacles, Algiz, etc), and use the light of the chakra to project the sigils onto the auric sheath. It sounds complicated, and it such initially, but it gets easier with practice, and by the time you;ve been doing it for a few years, it only takes a few minutes - depending on how many colours you use.

One of the sigils I am careful about using is Thorn / Thurisaz. Now, I love and glory in the wild power of Thorn / Thurisaz, as I have posted about previously, but I am aware that it doesn't interact well with all people and forces. Thus, although I'm happy to set up Algiz and leave it there, since it is "activated", in a sense, when people grab it by trying to break through my protection, it won't do any harm to people who are, for instance, just passing by. On the other hand, if I have Thurisaz pointing off into the Universe, there is a possibility, a very small possibility, that it might interact and intensify something in a way that is not good - for instance, make a willi willi (aka dust devil / mini-tornado) a little worse - perhaps enough to affect a car (as happened to me once in outback Queensland, and as I have helped someone work on fixing once in central Australia), or perhaps make an emotional storm worse. Thus, I tend to pair the Thorn / Thurisaz runes up, so they are pointing at each other along a perimeter, balancing each other and activated only when someone crosses their line - a bit like breaking a laser line (if the person is inimical to me, they would feel the rune as a growing sense of discomfort all round - or, at the very least, on each side - as they cross that barrier). As an example of this, if I ever get to building my idea for protecting a door, it would have a row of Thorn / Thurisaz runes around it, pointing in towards the space of the door. (One thing I would probably also have is a temporary "liner" of these runes that I could set up on the inside of the door facing out, which is to clear this influence for anyone who has a heart complaint.)

Another device I have used for decades is vortices (the plural of vortex) - min-tornadoes, if you prefer. They are particularly useful when setting up a protective pyramid - bring one in through the top, and use it like a vacuum cleaner for anything nonBPM - which is a visualisation that is useful in a lot of other situations as well.

What I have done now is:

strengthen the auric sheath, and make it thicker, by visualising two layers, each comprising:
 - a series of mini-tornadoes, from the widest part of the aura alternating going up to Spirit and down to Earth (and recycling their energy at top and bottom, so I have a loop of energy and don't have to keep feeding the tornado at it's point-of-origin), created with the intention of directing incompatible and nonBPM energy away (i.e., getting sucked up in a tornado);
 - each mini-tornado is about 1 cm (half an inch, for those of you who aren't metric - and if you want to complain about how half an inch is closer to 12mm, look up "about", "approximation", "pedantry" and "hiding discomfort with change under trivia");
 - a line of Thorn / Thurisaz runes on each side of the mini-tornadoes, to position and strengthen, and increase the protective strength;
with the layers offset so the Thorn / Thurisaz runes align with the mini-tornadoes, and thus energy coming in to my aura cannot avoid going through a layer of the mini-tornadoes.

This explanation needs a diagram: I'll have a go at doing that, but it may be when we finish moving, in a month or so.

[1] BPM = Balanced Positive (spiritually) Mature. See here and here for more on this.
[2] Please see here, here, here and my post "The Death of Wikipedia" for the reasons I now recommend caution when using Wikipedia. I'm also exploring use of h2g2, although that doesn't appear to be as extensive (h2g2 is intended - rather engagingly - to be the Earth edition of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy").

[3] I apologise for the formatting: it seems Blogger is no longer as WYSIWYG as it used to be, and there are a lot of unwanted changes to layout made upon publishing, so I often have to edit it immediately after publishing to get the format as close to what I want as possible.

Love, light, hugs and blessings

Gnwmythr, Pagan Energy Worker, Wéofodthegn

(pronounced "new-MYTH-ear"; ... aka Bellatrix Lux … aka Morinehtar … would-be drýicgan or maga ... )

My "blogiography" (list of all posts and guide as to how to best use this site) is here, and my glossary/index is here.

I started this blog to cover karmic regression-rescue (see here and here), and it grew ... See here for my group mind project, here and here for my "Pagans for Peace" project (and join me for a few minutes at some time between 8 and 11 PM on Sunday, wherever you are, to meditate-clear for peace), and here for my bindrune kit-bag. I also strongly recommend learning how to flame, ground and shield, do alternate nostril breathing, work with colour, and see also here and be flexible.

The real dividing line is not between Christianity and Islam, Sunni and Shia, East and West. It is between people who believe in coexistence, and those who don’t.

Tom Fletcher, Former UK Ambassador to Lebanon

• If your “gut” (your instinct/intuition) is telling you something is wrong, but logic and the available evidence is saying otherwise, the proper conclusion to draw is that you need better, more personally credible evidence. Your “gut” could be wrong, right, or missing the nuances / “shades of grey” . So could the available evidence.
• All of the above - and this blog - could be wrong, or subject to context, perspective, or state of spiritual evolution ...

Tags: about me, aura, auric sheath, auric tears, colour, energy work, protection, visualisation,

First published: Sunnudagr, 28^th February, 2016

Last edited (excluding fixing typo's and other minor matters): Monday, 28^th February, 2016

Post No. 651 – Engagement vs. Withdrawal

Something I’ve posted about previously (see here and here) is engagement vs. withdrawal. In essence, what I’ve posted previously is along the lines of:

• my attitude, throughout most of my life, that the better form of Spirituality * is that which engages with the world, whilst recognising that there are times when one has to withdraw, partially or totally, to develop oneself and one's skills;
• I’ve more recently recognised the need to withdraw for healing as a result of things like the struggles, strains and outright damage caused by living in "the world" ** (dealing with other people's leaky auras, the combative pressures of commercial reality, and discrimination and other forms of abuse from people who, frankly, are bigots using ignorance as an excuse);
• it is possible for Spiritual people to lack any psychic ability, just as it is possible for Psychic people to be lacking in Spirituality, and Spiritual people, however, may alternate between periods of retreat and periods of activism (during which a spiritual person engaging with the world is not going to adopt a harmful, negative lifestyle), whereas a psychic may need to be more withdrawn, not out of spiritual motives, but out of simple self-preservation.

What I have realised more recently is that:

• it is possible to be engaged and working at making this world a better place while living a very withdrawn lifestyle (my meditation-clearing project demonstrates this, with people in one part of the world acting for the benefit of many other people and places in the world – as is the case with other, similar projects);
• it is possible to trapped in an “engaged” situation (for instance, by financial pressures or family commitments), and this can cause massive harm – to the point of potentially psychologically destroying a Sensitive; 
• many people hide from (actually, actively block out, is a better way of putting it) their Higher Self, Spirituality and Psychism by living noisy, highly interconnected, sensual lives *** - and I’ve come across several such in recent years in the polyamorous and Pagan communities, and some teenagers I’ve had contact with in recent years. Such people can be recognised by their proselytising for family and relationships and sex ahead of all else in life, and – to use a different perspective on the matter  are stuck at living in their base, second and solar plexus chakras. This also enables to materialistic forces that are destroying this world to control such people, as do many moves towards “improved economic efficiency” which, in the West, are really about keeping people too busy and off-balance to think about their lifestyles.

Next, some points about “interconnectedness”:

• non-physical, BPLF entities do count, if one is sufficiently Psychic;
• non-human lifeforms also count – in fact, our cats are one of the reasons I can’t do some of the psychic exercises I want to, as, even when the other humans are not present in this house, the cats are (they’re indoor cats, for environmental reasons), and are either on or beside me, or, if I shut the door, yowling outside …

Finally, the trigger for writing this post. Whilst browsing the web, I came across some pages on the Earth Spirit site referring to a series of magazines called “Fireheart”,and articles from that now defunct magazine, including five articles from a series referred to as “the Eightfold Path” – obviously a Pagan version, rather than the Buddhist Eightfold Path.

The Pagan Eightfold Path included:

• meditation, which is about “stilling the sense”:
• chanting, whether for raising energy or inducing trance (some interesting comments about biases in Pagan movements against trance – which need to be balanced by consideration of the need for grounding), and possibly used in conjunction with drumming and/or dance (why do people who like dance assume that, because they like dance and it is good for them, it will be beneficial for others, and proselytise that? Haven’t they heard of the dangers of penicillin, and drawn a few parallels/connections from that?) and is based on sensory restriction (after, say, half an hour of chanting) and rhythm;
• fasting, which has some very good comments about biases in the Pagan world against this, but needs more in the discussion of risks (which it does do) on consideration of health issues (fasting can be problematic for diabetics, for instance);
• breathing, which sets the context quite well, but does not include any specific exercises; and
• isolation.

The latter article supports the need to be isolated for some parts of one’s Spiritual / Psychic development, and I will end this post here, Dear Reader, so you can read the links and so thinking on your own :)

 * In much the same way that Pagan should be capitalised out of respect, I consider there is an argument – albeit lesser in validity – for the same respect towards those who choose to be Spiritual, but not aligned to any particular religion, and hence I am going to try out capitalising the words Spiritual and, in some usages, Psychic.

 ** This is something which is taking up much of my time and energy at the moment- doing Soul Retrievals on myself, patching up tears and other damage in my aura, and so on. It is extremely difficult to do this whilst living in the midst of four million leaky auras, and I could really do with a couple of years living either in the country, on a boat (again … sigh), or at least in an outer suburb.

 *** It is also possible to live highly interconnected, sensual lives and be at least reasonably Spiritual and/or Psychic – and I have also come across a few such people in the polyamorous and Pagan communities, along with one teenager, in recent years.

[1] BPLF = Balanced Positive (spiritual) Light Forces. See here and here for more on this.

[2] Please see here and my post "The Death of Wikipedia" for the reasons I now recommend caution when using Wikipedia. I'm also exploring use of h2g2, although that doesn't appear to be as extensive (h2g2 is intended - rather engagingly - to be the Earth edition of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy").

Love, light, hugs and blessings

Gnwmythr, Wéofodthegn

(pronounced "new-MYTH-ear"; ... aka Bellatrix Lux … aka Morinehtar … would-be drýicgan or maga ... )

My "blogiography" (list of all posts and guide as to how to best use this site) is here, and my glossary/index is here.

I started this blog to cover karmic regression-rescue (see here and here), and it grew ... See here for my group mind project, here and here for my "Pagans for Peace" project (and join me at 9 PM on Sunday, wherever you are, to meditate-clear for peace), and here for my bindrune kit-bag. I also strongly recommend learning how to flame, ground and shield, do alternate nostril breathing, work with colour, and see also here and be flexible.

I am a Walker upon the Path of Balanced Positivity, seeking Spiritual Maturity.

• neither eloquence nor inarticulateness inherently indicates correctness, but, as words can kill, the right to freedom of speech comes with a DUTY to be as well-informed, objective and balanced as you can be.
• Gnwmythr's Stropping Strap: Occam's Razor only works if  the simplest solution is actually recognised as being the simplest, rather than the one that best fits one's bigotries being labelled 'simplest'.
• I mourn the desecration of the term 'Light Worker' by commercial interests, and the warping of the word 'Light' away from 'Clear Light' by the "White Lighters".
• Our entire life experience, with all the many wondrous and varied people, places and events in it, is too small a sample for statistical reliability about Life.
• May the world of commerce and business be recognised to be a servant, not a master, of the lives of people.
• Being accustomed to interacting via certain rules makes those rules neither right nor universal.
• Like fire to the physical, emotions to the soul make a good servant, and a bad master.
• The means shape the end.
• My favourite action movie of all time is "Gandhi", although I've recently come across "Invictus" and might put that one in to that category. However, I loathe the stereotypical action movie - and, for similar reasons, I loathe many dramas, which are often emotionally violent, more so in some cases than many war films.
• All of the above - and this blog - could be wrong, or subject to context, perspective, or state of spiritual evolution ...

Human dignity is the inherently cumulative holistic combination of human rights, wellbeing and potential, and all actions or interaction which promote, realise or facilitate same. The converse also applies: whatever degrades, diminishes or robs humans of dignity, is inherently undignified.

Gnwmythr

The “purpose” of spiritual evolution is not the attainment of “spiritual perfection” - not in the sense of not having to evolve further, at any rate, since there is no such thing. We need to evolve in order to grow - but we can take rest breaks (hopefully well earned :) ) along the way. No, the “purpose” of evolution is, rather, to perfect our ability to learn, and thus grow.

Gnwmythr

Our greatest struggle with, to borrow from pop culture, the Jedi-Sith scale, is not with the Sith, whether they are hiding or not: it is with the annoying, snotty-nosed, heroine/hero-worshipping little kid who keeps intruding, stopping us from being cool enough to be with our heroines/heroes, the big kids ...

Gnwmythr

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Females, get over 'cute'. Get competent. Get trained. Get capable. Get over 'cute'. And those of you who are called Patty and Debby and Suzy, get over that. Because we use those names to infantalise females – we keep females in their 'little girl' state by the names we use for them. Get over it. If you want to be taken seriously, get serious.

Jane Elliott

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good [people] to do nothing.

(based on writing by) Edmund Burke

We didn't inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we only borrowed it from our children

Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.

John F. Kennedy

Tags: attitudes, aura, auric tears, healing, materialism, paganism, psychic damage, psychic development, relationships, society, Spiritual Maturity, spirituality, withdrawal,

First published: Manadagr, 2^nd February, 2015

Last edited (excluding fixing typo's and other minor matters): Monday, 2^nd February, 2015