Sacred Silence

From my original blog, "Elementals" July 2005:

I'm meditating again, something that I've wanted to do for a long time but haven't yet found a method that sticks to me.

Until now.

I found a book titled Awakening Spirits by Tom Brown the famous tracker that has amazing techniques and meditations in it that I'm beginning to try. The techniques were taught him over several years by his adopted Native American Grandfather, and they're very powerful. They sit well with me.

I've had enough experience with distance-healing scenarios with Reiki to know that data gleaned from meditation is a real phenomenon, and that I do, indeed perceive real world events remotely through unexplainable means. Being the doubting-Thomas that I am, I test myself time and time again before I really do believe it.

The meditation consists of several minutes of relaxation work in various ways, then a relaxation into the 'Sacred Silence' that is supposedly a closer connection with the Infinte Mind, the All-that-is energy.

It's very interesting and quite soothing and relaxing. And, I find that I can glean information about the real world while I'm meditating, which is interesting, kind of neat, and kind of scary all at the same time.

A different but related meditation has me finding my "Sacred Place", which I envision as an amalgamated beloved spot in the Rocky Mountains and also in the Blue Ridge, though the entrance is through the piney woods of panhandle Florida. Strangely powerful, familiar, comforting, and absolutely normal.

Update 2008: I was doing these meditations for several months before I went to my first shamanism course. The practice described here is, of course, shamanic journey. I just didn't know it. Thankfully, once I got to my first shamanism class, my sacred places had all become familiar to me, as had the pathways to them.
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