Whit Griffin

from Silsila (Book Two of the Cywanu Trilogy)

Reading The Astral H.D., I see

         the parallels between H.D.'s theurgic practice and my own

How this relates to the Queen of Swords,

                  this month's card, and the timing of

the Mendo Breath sessions

                                    H.D. had psychic / "anomalous" experiences

         and sought out texts / systems that would help her

"make sense" of those experiences

                                             She was relying on texts that came

         out of a certain esoteric tradition

The material I use says a lot of the same things,

                                    but does away with the rote memorization

                  and hierarchical structures

Marrying / synthesizing

Gerber's Vibrational Medicine,

the work of Gurudas, the

Bartholomew & Seth materials

         with my own entheogenic theurgy -

                  the activation of the Hugging Man with

the Healing Temple work and

                           the reclamation of the Culdee incarnation

The Healing Temple

         in the grove in the opening in the mountains

                                    You follow a stream into a cave

and after a dark procession you emerge into

                  this grove, with high rock walls all around

         The stream is the chakras

A waterfall spills over one of the high rock walls and feeds

                           the stream, which also feeds a fountain /

         pool in the temple

The waterfall corresponds to the top of the head /

                                    the crown chakra

                  The temple is round       I see the dome differently

                                             in different sessions       This upper

balcony / mezzanine      An interior circular staircase,

                           sandwiched between two walls, that winds up

to this balcony space where a choir /

                  musicians gather to sing / chant,

                                    The floor of this mezzanine has a tiled

mosaic labyrinth pattern

         This is not a somber place       Much laughter      Conviviality

No one is a stranger       A mutual love permeates this community

                  The validity of the Healing Temple /

                                    its "mission"         It exists without having to

                                             explain or defend or justify its existence

         It is allowed to simply be

It is inherently accepted as a place of retreat /

                           of sanctuary

                                    The Healing Temple is also a thoughtform

         in the life-between-lives dimension  

                                             In my sessions I "become" /

merge with a priest /

         priestess /

                  custodian of the slumber chambers

I and my students /

         colleagues - my soul group -

                           we gather in this space to direct the pulse -

healing / creative / psychic energy

                  From the temple we direct the energy

                                    that incarnated beings receive in the form

of inspiration and intuition

When I'm here I help transmit the pulse

         When I'm not here I help direct the pulse

                                    Everything you do has the potential

                  to strengthen the pulse

4:05AM, the hoot of an owl               The elbow is taboo

         One of the shyer trees

                  The Consciousness of the One Spirit

                                             Gravity is weak in this part of the toy store

The soul is androgynous

                           Some say higher dimensional beings projected

         themselves into physical matter and initiated the process

of evolution

                           We are water-based creatures

                           We came from out of the water

A hostel by the River

                           Dodder       Back when the Nile entered the Atlantic

Astra's garden

eden ahbez

         Mousterian songs and dances

                                    Making iron axes to float

Edgar Cayce tells us that

                  Jesus had 29 other lives

and was usually incarnated as a major

         figure with religious movements in other parts of the world

                           Learning to attune / to tune in to

Tuning into the 9PM healing

                                             coming out of Baltimore

                  Balloon mail during the Siege of Paris

Gordon Bennett balloon races

                                             Stranded balloonists on an island

         in the White Sea            Scottie Wilson visiting France

in the 1950s, at the behest of Jean

                  Dubuffet and Pablo

Picasso

                           Drem the Seer      Gabalgline, the blind seer

         The impact of color does not depend on being able to see

The air over a red surface

                  feels denser than the air

next to blue                   Each color suggests its own shape

         You personify the energy, you give it form

                                             The Rainbow Book

This vision of an edition of my work

                  in which all the different sources /

         threads have been identified and color-coded      Once that has

been done, a book with no words

                           at all, just different colored lines

that correspond to the Rainbow Book

                                                               How that could be translated

         into fabric / a tapestry                     How the Rainbow Book - all

         the sources I bring into the process

of creating a manuscript -

         represents the web /

                                             constellation /

                           filaments of connected consciousnesses

How my books "here"

         correspond to books in the life-between-lives

                                    lodge library,

                  and to the version of me in my Culdee incarnation -

working in a scriptorium or Tech Screpta -

         a life that exists simultaneously,

                                             in parallel to this one

Each life /

                  each incarnation creates a glyph -

         there is a psychic signature /

shape to each life

                           These "psychic life glyphs" are collected

         into books that are housed in the library

in the life-between-lives dimension

                  These are the books you consult /

study between incarnations -

                           that period when you are not focused

                                    into any single cell of the honeycomb -

and have access to all your accumulated experiences

         Your own books of glyphs - multidimensional,

holographic glyphs containing /

                                             conveying multiple levels of meaning

         simultaneously

Heraclitus offered his papyri to the gods

                  at the Asclepeion at Epidaurus

                  At the Asclepeion at Kos,

                                    six thousand medicinal herbs

         were recognized and used

                           Vis medicatrix naturae / Archeus / Animal

         magnetism / The Odic force / The vital force / Orgone energy /

                           The Innate / Qi / Prana / Mana / Huna / Orenda

This old notion that death is simply

         the shedding of one set of senses

                           and the adoption / expansion into a new set

of senses              We think of smell, taste, touch, sight and hearing

         as the means by which we perceive / construct reality,

                                    and that reality is limited to things we can know

through those five senses                 But "in reality," we have available

                  to us a whole host of other senses,

                                    operating in other dimensions

                  At least eight dimensions in this solar system

         alone          The n-dimensional space of psychic energy

where healing power originates

                  Heal - Old English haelen - to make whole

An energy of order and compassion

                  A heightened conatus, the flow state

Invisible realities beget visible ones

                                    Consume, see and be

         In the being is the Logos and the Logos is the Tao

Climb the hill in your own way

                                    The firming is footer       Go be among the people

                                             and come back

         A school of prophets on Mt. Carmel, studying

                                                      astrology, numerology,

the return of individuals

                  Resurrection means reincarnation

The whole message of Jesus -

         an Essene-initiated magician - was,

"I am God and so are you /

                  heaven is found within (you go in to get out) /

when you die you live again"

                  Instead of passing through the gate,

                                             the gate itself became the object

         of worship            And the concept of reincarnation -

the very core of the Jesus message - was itself

                  declared a heresy by the Second Council of

Constantinople in 553CE

                  Sleeping Ute Mountain            Sleep and we may help you

Among the Senoi people of Malaysia, dream interpretation

is a regular aspect of childhood education

                  According to the Senoi, all dream images

         are fragments of the personality and consist of

psychic forces disguised in external forms

                           Surrender to the falling dream

                                    that it may turn into a flying dream

Rational knowledge is not an adequate

                           foundation for creative living

You will be welcomed back with loving arms

                                                      There is no way you cannot learn

         Anyone who tells you to be afraid /

who preaches a message of doom and fear,

                           is not a mirror of the Divine

                                    The coercion of the public life

         becomes the curse of our individual existence

                                             The life between lives

dimension is one without coercion

         I work with psychic / creative energy in my life

between lives,

         and in each incarnation I manifest that energy -

                  I transmit that pulse

I serve as a conduit / channel for the energy

                           that I and my group "tend"

in that other dimension

                                                      Itten's Wheel

                  The colors of today                 A fish made out of a

rainbow      A fish of April       The glinting hook

         Releasing the moth from the red plastic bag

                           Reich's red thread

A red bat, double happiness

                  A receptivity that manifests as tenderness

A symbol in the guise of now            The sympathetic bridge

                           The bridge is love

                                    The secret to being eternal is love

King Raai calls together a meeting

                  of forty-four priests, seers and astrologers

         to discuss methods for hastening

humanity's development and the

                           awareness of its own divinity

A gathering of proclaimers

                           A gorsedd, a gathering of bards

         Those who watch upon the mount

                                    for signs in the sky forecasted

by the court astrologers

                                             Hazels growing in groups of three

         Hamilton in Waikato      The healing temple on Coconut Island

A chain of orchids binding the trees together

                  Between the crevices of a rock called Ahtola

                                             grew a rowan tree and four alder bushes

Between the Sphinx and the river

                  From Seneca Falls to the moon

                           What is the significance of the empty sarcophagus? 

         The Arders of Brooel

         The tenrecs of Madagascar

                                             Hy-Brasil, southwest of Ireland

Breakfast from the tree

                  Flathead Lake cherries

                                    When the Sahara was lush and green

         A leaf does not need to believe in photosynthesis

                                                                        to turn green

Colour Story Reading              Initial

                                             Teaching Alphabet

         Gortigern, mythic first language

                                    Gaulish, the language of Continental Celts,

was spoken from what is now Belgium and France,

         through Switzerland and Northern Europe,

Austria, Hungary, the Czech Republic, and parts of the Balkans,

                           to the Celtic State of Galatia in central Turkey

A set of records that still exist

         in a sunken portion of Atlantis in the Bimini region

The trove of healing texts I found

                  at the thrift store in Crestone

                                    Book as trolley, a soft carrier

         Books are valuable tools, but a times comes

                                                      when you have to put the book

down and have a direct experience

During the 4th century CE, St Jerome

                  spent time in Ancyra (Ankara),

         capital of the Celtic Trocmi, and reported that

                           the Galatians still spoke Gaulish

It is thought that the Gaulish language vanished

                                    from Europe and Asia Minor sometime

         between the 5th and 8th centuries

                           Cisalpine Gaul, a part of Italy inhabited by Celts

         Virgil was born in Cisalpine Gaul

         Livy was raised in Cisalpine Gaul

         Catullus was born into an equestrian family in Cisalpine Gaul

Paracelsus at Salzburg's

         White Horse Inn

Paraelectric energy

                  A dragon rider      A blue dash charger

         Gilla Stagshank could leap across any distance

Edithia, daughter of the innkeeper,

                  was Mary's midwife

                                    Gold, frankincense and myrrh -

         body, mind and soul

                           The Infinite Soul perceives the Tao

The revelation of unity

                                    An intelligent ocean of energy

         The Cosmic Energy Mother

                                                      The throbbing green

                  and purple orb     In the theta range of eight

cycles per second,

                  solid objects start to look transparent

                                                               This is knowing

                  the inner teaching