11/23/09 06:10 pm - Not much new
Interesting synchronicities, by the way: I reread the Woman of Wyrrd by Lynn Andrews. In it, she relieves parts of a past life where she is a girl who ends up meeting and being trained by a wise woman in England. Then I saw Hank Wesselman's books, not knowing what they were about, just seeing they had to do with Hawaiian mysticism. So I checked out the three books of his trilogy. In them, Hank slips into an ecstatic state in which he "prelives"? a future life or the life of his descendant many thousands of years in the future. In the middle of reading these, I happened upon the Secret, which I figured I might as well watch, since so many people were going on about it. Fred Alan Wolf is in it. While looking for Hank Wesselman's other books, I came across a book on shamanic experiences Fred Alan Wolf wrote, which is what I'm currently reading (The Eagle's Quest). In it, Fred Alan Wolf recalls his experiences with South American shamans (much ayahuasca involved) as well as his time with a pair of English shamans who speak about the web of Wyrd.
There are so many things in these books related to many elements in my stories that it's a little ridiculous. The Seer in my stories can thought travel by navigating a crystalline web underlying the normally experienced physical reality. He can sense people though it and connect with their minds as well. He can also look to the future or the past through it. In the Hawaiian practice, there is what is referred to as the aka web, which is basically identical. It's the informational matrix Ingo Swann described to teach people remote viewing.
It's all the same thing. I've experienced this all before. And I'm still not caught up to where I've been before. I found a CD at Goodwill about a week ago that I still haven't bothered to listen to. It's by Brian Weiss, who I've heard of but know nothing about. Of course as soon as I got it his name kept popping up in various books. Spiritual progression through regression. I'll give it a try tonight, probably, if I can keep awake enough to do so.
On a potentially unrelated note: the other day I began in a unreasonably foul mood. It persisted at work, and I really felt like kicking things or screaming although I was unaware of the instigator. I was also extremely tired. The ninja and I have been considering the possibility of entities who might be less than beneficent playing with us, so I, for some reason, remembered Algiz, a protective rune, and Dagez, a rune used for invisibility, and used them in a design I wrote on my arm in the restroom at work. Perhaps it was the placebo effect, but who cares, really, because as soon as it was on my arm the room visibly brightened around me and my body felt immediately brighter. I definitely wasn't expecting that outcome. I think I'm much more of a skeptic than I think I am. I felt much better either way, and reminded myself to keep focused on the inner reality, the light of which we all are.

