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Chapter 17 Life Meditation Part Two- Opening the Portal of the Solar Plexus

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  The practice of life meditation centered on the solar plexus has been a deeply absorbing journey for me, extending over many years. Now, reflecting on this process some forty years after the original channeling from the fellowship of the River which I have written about before, I find myself drawn again to the River’s foundational instructions. This renewed focus continues to inspire me, inviting a return to the solar plexus as a core point of meditation. The solar plexus, as the River described, a place of a vast vortex inwards, but also outwards into connection with others. Through this meditation, I am transported into a state of peace—my mind becomes open, acutely aware, and attuned to a higher vibrational level of existence. I experience a profound sense of power rooted in this center. It is not a power exercised over the environment, objects, resources, or other people, but rather a profound connection to Source. This connection manifests as vitality and a sense of emptines...
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Chapter 16 Life Meditations Part One

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  Following two weeks of practicing the Death meditation, and our discussion of its benefits, the River suggested I move on to a Life meditation. This meditation is the opposite of the Death Meditation but also the balancer and completion of the integration of life and death.  They suggested I start the life meditation by focusing on my knees. There are several reasons why they chose the knees. First of all, when I was six years old I was hit by a truck in my right knee which left me with a permanent limp. This injury affected me throughout my life, resulting in  flare ups into my hips and back and up into my shoulders and neck. Without my conscious knowledge, I have favoured the right side of my body all my life, and that lead to painful flare ups in my neck and shoulders. This injury caused many long years of agonizing migraines and flare ups. Awareness changes everything. Conscious aliveness is the first step to positive change. I have come to understand that knees rep...
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Death of a parent

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 The next week when I met again with the River, a channeled fellowship whom I had been studying with as a student of spiritual self growth, to discuss my experiences with the death meditation which they had assigned the previous week. They had told me that I should start the Death Meditation by imagining the death of all my loved ones. (See previous post on the Death Meditation on my blog site https://longboatcounselling.blogspot.com/ ) Julia: Have I integrated the concept of death as you predicted I might do before my birthday? I only have a few days to go. River: Having come from the All into the Water Way soul path, already you are the child archetype, the child has very little difficulty integrating life and death. But what the child finds difficult is the thought of the parent dying. The parent within, or the adult within. In your case, it has never been a problem integrating death of the adult, but you have some balancing inner work to do with the parent guide within yo...
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Chapter 15 Death Meditations- A practice to dissolve conflicts and resistance

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  I have written about death mediations over the years for many different publications and lead numerous workshops taking participants through this powerful practice.   I highly recommend this practice for any adult over the age of twenty-eight. Last fall and early winter are the best times of do the death meditation. Recently I’ve been persuading medical care givers who are attending to end of life patients to do this mediation themselves and also offer if for their patients if they are still cognizant enough to benefit from this preparation for the events at the end of our lives. We plan for everything else- birth, marriages, retirement-all events that mark new beginnings. But we do not celebrate endings-divorces and death. Although attitudes towards death have improved greatly over the past few years, there is still a mindset of death defiance in our culture. This meditation is also an excellent preparation for any psychedelic assisted therapy session. If individually...
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Chapter 14 Rituals of Integration-Honouring the Three Worlds of Gaia

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  Humanity has developed an egregious quality of imagining we are separated from our environment. I often offer this suggestion to climate change deniers and other disrespectful consumers of the world’s resources: take a deep breath and hold it, hold it some more, hold it some more. When you can’t hold it any longer, let it go. Now you know the benefits of the environment. You simply can’t live for more than a few minutes without air, which is a direct and intimate expression of the environment. Humanity has come to believe that we are the alpha predators and therefore we have an innate right to consume all the resources of our planet without respect or consideration for consequences of our actions towards the multitude of beings which make our lives possible. This attitude has led to a vast destruction of the environment, to the point where we are at risk of destroying our home, for ourselves and for future generations. It is also causing violence and suffering in many parts of th...
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Integrating The Doer, the Lover and the Knower

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  Simple rituals honours and integrates these elements of ourselves, within and without, which are hidden and therefore unconsciously directing our lives in ways we don’t realise. During the 1980’s, a channeled fellowship called The River explained a philosophy called " The Three Great Ways ". This meta structure explains three main soul paths— Earth, Aire and Water Way. We can understand these inner soul paths as The Doer, the Lover and the Knower. To become whole and grow as individuals, we need to integrate the other two paths into our lives. This means learning from and balancing the qualities we are less familiar with, both within ourselves and in our relationships with others. The River describes how rituals can help us with this integration. Rituals are not just old-fashioned or superstitious acts; instead, they are meaningful practices that help us connect with parts of ourselves and with the world around us. For example, creating a small shrine or having a daily prac...
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Harnessing the Resonance of the Inanimate World

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Chapter Twelve The River Books-Book Two : All Knowledge is Within, All Knowledge is Without    Several years after this session with the channeled fellowship of the River, I returned to a site where in ancient Mayan times, I had been sacrificed as a child.  My journey took me to Chichen Itza, which initially seemed too visible and popular to be the place of such a hidden ritual. Nevertheless, I climbed to the top of the main temple, the Castello, and gazed over the jungle, observing newly discovered pyramids rising from the bird-filled canopy. As I closed my eyes, I tried to envision the courtyard at the peak of its use, filled with colourfully painted temples and people dressed in vibrant woven clothes, all moving in an atmosphere of gaiety among the awe-inspiring structures.   Upon descending and exploring the ruins further, I approached the Temple of the Columns. Overwhelmed by sudden nausea, I had to pause and catch my breath, gripped by a sense of dread. De...
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