It was then that I recognized the old signs that always meant “Take a big step back.”
An early researcher’s advice echoed in my ears: “Zoom out, way past the earth, and from that vast vantage point, write your assessment.”
I had read in Research Volume 7:
Forgetting the details, forgetting even the overview, the old ways of time’s lines of fate came into my view. Here in the centre line is my own present and above that line is the future. Below that line of my present is the line representing the past. These all travel together, ride together simultaneously. At times there is a line that intersects all three at once. That is the instant nanosecond of all at onceness.
It is not a bleed-through from present into a kind of clairvoyant future. Nor is it a powerful memory or even past life memory. Neither is it’s expansion an expansion of the past of humanity. It is an intersection, a crossroads, where we are all and nothing in one swooping blow, one stroke. In this Inca time there is a new opening for expression that can affect the future and redraw the past. Objects in the best WonderCabinets are keys to this opening.
Many of the magicians who created, discovered or charged these objects of power, were unaware of the time flow that they were playing in. It wasn’t really their concern. What they were after was more to do with their world in the present, and the power to manifest the future. But the future manifests with or without such action. Often contorted or unbalanced by manipulation, events may need to draw on unsuspecting circumstances in order to complete the magician’s dream and make it come true. It steals from the present when it appears in the present. It steals from people and events in order to manifest as the magician orders.
The shaman understands the earth and draws from earth, sea, sky, and fire, as well as animals and beings, in order to make ceremony and ritual. Living already outside of time’s constraint there is a natural power exchange mitigated by other forces that are not all incarnated. These forces can become active beings who can help the work.
Just what is the work of the shaman and the magician? Transformation and transposition of matter to spirit is the work of the magician. Unlocking the spirit in matter and releasing it as uncreated light energy. When magicians of pure imagination releases light into the divine source, they take nothing for themselves. They are only servants. Those who take in the energy for themselves are working at a lower level and risk the dangers of these realms that are still engaged in give and take, good and bad, right and wrong.
Order of Ceremony in Scent and Sound
When the air carries the sharp, metallic scent of ozone, mingle this with the earthy aroma of crushed sage leaves.
Hear now in the distance, the soft rhythmic beating of a ceremonial drum pulsing steadily.
In the first direction: Fill the air with the sweet, resinous scent of copal incense, bringing with it the faint tinkling of small bells and the whisper of feathers brushing against each other.
In the second direction: Hear the sound of crackling fire mixed with the distant call of a night bird. Now the heavy scent of wet earth after rain permeates the space.
In the third direction: The rhythmic shaking of a rattle accompanies the briny scent of seawater and the smoky fragrance of cedar wood burning.
In the fourth direction: Feel the sound of deep, resonant chanting almost subsonic in its depth. Crush juniper berries between your fingers to release their sharp scent.
Mix all with the subtle sweetness of honey and beeswax. Sing words that vibrate with a low hum, like the resonance of crystal bowls being played at different frequencies.