Many years ago the sun and the water were great friends, and both lived on the earth together. The sun very often used to visit the water, but the water never returned his visits. At last the sun asked the water why it was that he never came to see him in his house. The water replied that the sun’s house was not big enough, and that if he came with his people he would drive the sun out.
The water then said, “If you wish me to visit you, you must build a very large compound; but I warn you that it will have to be a tremendous place, as my people are very numerous and take up a lot of room.”
The sun promised to build a very big compound, and soon afterward he returned home to his wife, the moon, who greeted him with a broad smile when he opened the door. The sun told the moon what he had promised the water, and the next day he commenced building a huge compound in which to entertain his friend.
When it was completed, he asked the water to come and visit him the next day.
When the water arrived, he called out to the sun and asked him whether it would be safe for him to enter, and the sun answered, “Yes, come in, my friend.”
The water then began to flow in, accompanied by the fish and all the water animals.
Very soon the water was knee-deep, so he asked the sun if it was still safe, and the sun again said, “Yes,” so more water came in.
When the water was level with the top of a man’s head, the water said to the sun, “Do you want more of my people to come?” The sun and the moon both answered, “yes,” not knowing any better, so the water flowed in, until the sun and moon had to perch themselves on the top of the roof.
Again the water addressed the sun, but, receiving the same answer, and more of his people rushing in, the water very soon overflowed the top of the roof, and the sun and the moon were forced to go up into the sky, where they have remained ever since.
The second part of this exercise entails going over your barriers and putting them in The Box. We spoke of this deceptively simple yet powerful exercise in a earlier Blog. You have already created your Box and suspended it around your neck. Now figuratively put the negative assessments and barriers, as you understand them, in The Box. As you go about your waking reality, figuratively put all negative material in The Box, material that holds you back from getting what you want. This material could be thoughts, images, emotions, people, places of things, you see. The Box neutralizes the negatives and allows your consciousness to put a positive spin on them.
The next step is to Wonder how these constructs will change so that when you open up The Box to see what has happened, it is filled with positives. This is Wondering in a gentle way, without judgement. It creates a neutral Feeling-Tone. The Wondering allows consciousness to make the appropriate changes to this content to suit you individually according to your Issues and Lessons.
Afterwards, you then Embodying these positives. Physicalize them by walking, talking, thinking, imagining them into existence. Please see the Blog on Resonance Dynamics for more information on Wondering. Document what your have learned.
By reading the Emotional Body – another of our theoretical constructs – you may test the Resonance of thoughts, images, emotions, people, places and things, to see what “comes up” for you, as in Issues and Lessons. What you may discover are reason, rationalizations, barriers that keep you from getting what you want. They possibly resonate with what you DON’T want and so assist in the creation of what you don’t want.
As before, simply relax. Achieve your light Trance state. You will be voyaging to the Inner Self with a purpose. The purpose is to discover the specifics of what is holding you back from creating what you want. You will have an assumption, then, that your subconscious does know the specifics about these barriers. As you relax into this state of consciousness, prepare to experience and perceive this data. It may come to you in various ways. Please think in terms of using your counterparts to the outer senses – the Inner Senses – to experience the Emotional Body. You may see it as an image projected onto your “inner eye,” so to speak. You may hear, smell and feel something. You will remember this material when you come back to surface awareness. Document what you have learned.
We have also described this process as first Embodying the Best Case Scenario probable future, and then back-engineering that felt sense, the Feeling-Tone, as best you can. Expectation and positive anticipation charge the whole endeavor. This charge we also call the Empowered Will.
As you continue this practice, you will begin to receive guidance from the Best Case Scenario of your future probable self. These impulses will tell you what to do to reach this advanced stage of development. This is the Technique we teach to our clients that enables them to do their own research.
Your faithful expectation that the Best Case Scenario will manifest CREATES it. You simply visit this probable future and interview your self as to the particulars of this advanced state of creation.
The expression of the BCS in physical reality will be governed by how we deal with Issues and Lessons. Thus, we are always approaching the BCS. The relative distance between the mundane and exalted is the creative edge for us, what we are use to improve our current Reality Creation.
In this way, as our current reality improves, our consideration of the BCS is altered. We may alter this conception in any way we choose. As Resonance alters our current manifestation, the BCS is changed precisely to that degree. Do you see this important point here? We are the creators. We bring together our world in a collaborative effort with ALL THAT IS. The Essential Metaphor we are calling Resonance accounts for the energetic transfers of Consciousness Units in the moment, from the current Point of Power to the proposed Best Case Scenario Realty. The Best Case Scenario Probable Future is therefore not a state. It is always mutating, changing frequency and form according to the inputs of Consciousness Units from our Essential Identity.
There once was a certain woman who bore eleven children. Every day when she got up and cooked food the children ate it all and the mother did not get any of it. She pondered long about the matter, and went off to the plantation and spoke to the silk-cotton tree, saying, “I shall send my eleven children to come beneath you here to pluck pumpkins; and when they come, pluck off eleven of your branches and kill those children of mine.”
The silk-cotton tree said, “I have heard, and I shall do it for you.”
The mother then went home and said to her children, “You must go to the plantation beneath the silk-cotton tree; there are pumpkins there. Go pick them and come back.”
The children set off. They went and reached the silk-cotton tree. Number Eleven said, “Number One, stand still; Number Two, stand still; Number Three, stand still; Number Four, stand still; Number Five, stand still; Number Six, stand still; Number Seven, stand still; Number Eight, stand still; Number Nine, stand still; Number Ten, Stand still; and I Number Eleven, I have stood still.”
Number Eleven then addressed them saying, “Do you not know the sole reason why Mother said we must go and pick pumpkins?”
His brother’s answered, “No.”
Thereupon he said, “She has told this silk-cotton tree that, when we go there, he must pluck off branches and beat us. Therefore all of you cut sticks and throw them against this silk-cotton tree.”
They cut the sticks and threw them against the silk-cotton tree. Pim! pen! pim! pen! was the sound they made. The silk-cotton supposed that the children had come. He took off eleven of his branches and let them fall to the ground. Little Number Eleven said, “You have seen – had we gone on there, the silk-cotton tree would have killed us.”
They picked up the pumpkins and took them to their mother. She cooked them. And at once the children had eaten all! Their mother said, “Ah! as for this matter, I cannot bear it! I shall take these children and give them to the sky-god.”
The next morning, when things became visible, she went and told the sky-god all about it, saying, “The children to whom I have given birth eat so fast and so much that when I wish to eat, I can’t get anything. Hunger is killing me. Therefore, I implore you, let the children be brought and killed, so that I may get something to eat.”
The sky-god said, “Is that really the case?”
The woman said, “I am speaking with a head, the inside of which is white.”
So the sky-god picked out messengers, and they went and dug a large pit in which they placed broken bottles. The sky-god himself went and fetched a snake and a leopard, put them in the pit, and covered it over. And now the messenger went to call the children.
No sooner did they reach the place where the pit lay, than Number Eleven said, “Number One, stand still; Number Two, stand still; Number Three, stand still; Number Four, stand still; Number Five, stand still; Number Six, stand still; Number Seven, stand still; Number Eight, stand still; Number Nine, stand still; Number Ten, stand still; and I myself Number Eleven, I have stood still. You must pass here, but you must not pass there.”
His brothers said, “Why, when a wide path lies there, must we pass through the bush?”
Now, as they were going along, they all carried clubs. Number Eleven said, “Throw one of these clubs upon this path.” They threw a club upon the path, and it fell through into the pit. Yiridi was the sound of its fall. Number Eleven said, “There you are! You see! Had we passed there, we should all of us have died.”
So they took a bypath and went off to meet the sky-god. The sky-god had caused holes to be dug, covered over, and stools placed upon them, so that when the children came to sit on them, they would fall into the holes. Soon the arrived before the face of the sky-god. Hep spoke to them: “Stools are set there. You may go and be seated upon them.”
Then Number Eleven siad, “Who are we that we should be able to sit upon such very beautiful stools? So, sire, we are going to sit aside here.”
Thereupon the sky-god gazed at the children and he said to himself, “I shall send the children to Death’s village.”
The next morning, when things became visible, he called the children and said, “You must go to Death who lives yonder and receive from her a golden pipe, a golden chewing-stick, a golden snuff box, a golden whetstone, and a golden fly-switch.”
Number Eleven said, “You are our master, wherever you will send us, we shall go.”
The sky-god said, “Be off!”
So the children set out for Death’s village. When they arrived there, Death said, “Why, when no one must ever come here, have. you come here?”
They replied, “We were roaming. about and came here quite by chance.” Death said, “Oh, all right then.”
Now Death had ten children. With herself, they made eleven. When things began to disappear – that is, when it became dark – Death divided up the children one by one and gave one to each of her children, while she herself and Number Eleven went to rest. When it was dark, Death then lit up her teeth until they shone red so that she might seize Number Eleven with them.
Number Eleven said, “Death, I must not yet asleep.”
Death said, “When will you be asleep?”
Number Eleven said, “If you were to give me a golden pipe to smoke for a while, then I might fall asleep.”
And Death fetched it for him.
A little while later, Death again lit up her teeth in order to go and seize Number Eleven with them.
Number Eleven said, “Death, I am not yet asleep.’
Death said, “When will you be asleep?”
Number eleven said, “If you were to bring me a golden snuff box, I might go to sleep.”
And Death brought it to him.
Again, soon afterward, Death was going to seize Number Eleven.
Number Eleven said, “I am not asleep.”
Death said, “When will you asleep?”
Number Eleven said, If you were to go and fetch golden chewing-stick for me so that I might chew it for a while, then I might fall asleep.”
Death fetched it for him, A short time passed, and Death was about to seize him.
Number Eleven said, “Grandmother, I am not yet asleep.”
And Death said, “Then when will you be asleep?”
Number Eleven said, “Grandmother, if you were to go and bring me a golden whetstone, then I might sleep.”
And Death went brought it. Again, soon afterward, Death rose up once more.
Number Eleven said, “Oh, Grandmother, I said I was not yet asleep.”
Death said, “And what will be the day when you will be asleep?”
Number Eleven said, “If you were to go and take a calabash full of holes and go and splash water in it and boil some food for me to eat, then I might sleep.”
Death lifted up a strainer and went off to the stream. When she slashed the water into it, the holes in the strainer let it pass through. Now Number Eleven said to his brothers, “Rise up and flee away.” Then they rose up and fled, and Number Eleven went and cut a plantain stems and placed them where his brothers had lain and took cloths and covered them over.
Now Death was at the stream splashing water. And Male Death called to Female Death, saying, “Ho thee, Death!”
She replied, “Adwo.“
He said, “What are you doing?”
She replied, “Alas, is it not some small child whom I have got! When I am about to catch him, he says, ‘I am not yet asleep.’ He has taken all my things, and now he says, I must take a strainer and splash water.”
Male Death said, “Ah, are you a small child? If you pluck leaves and line the inside of the strainer and then splash water, would it not be all right?”
Female Death said, “Oh, how true!”
She plucked leaves, placed them inside, and splashed the water and went off. Number Eleven said, “Death, you have come already? Boil the food.” Death cooked the food; she lit up her teeth in order to kill Number Eleven’s brothers and cook them for food. When she went, she did not examine them carefully, and she herself killed all her own children.
The next day, very, very early, when things became visible, Death rose up and sat there by the fired. Number Eleven said, “Grandmother, a tsetse fly is sitting on your breast.”
Death said, “Fetch the fly-switch which is lying there and kill it for me.”
Number Eleven saaid, “Good gracious me! A person of your consequence – when a tsetse fly settles on you and a golden fly-switch lies there – you would use this only thing! Let me fetch the golden fly-switch and come and kill it.”
Death said, “Go and fetch it from the room.”
Number Eleven went and brought it. He purposely drove the fly away; he didn’t kill it. Number Eleven said, “Oh, today, where this tsetse fly will rest, there I shall rest with him.”
The number Eleven went to the room and took his bag in which lay the golden pipe and all the things. He said, “Grandmother Death, nothing will suffice save that I get the tsetse fly, put it in this bag, and bring it to you.”
Number Eleven set off – yiridi! yiridi! yiridi! He reached the end of the town and siad, “Ho, there, Grandmother Death! Pardon my saying so but if you were not a perfect fool, could I have found a way to escape, and could I have made you also kill all your children? As for me, I am going off.”
Death said, “You, a child like this! Wherever you rest, there I shall rest!”
Number Eleven leaped off – yiridi! yiridi! yiridi! and death, too, went to chase him.
As Number Eleven was going, he overtook his brothers who were sitting on the path. They were making a bird-trap. Number Eleven said, “Have you not gone yet? Death is coming, so let us find some way to escape.”
Now Death came upon them. Number Eleven took medicine and poured it on his brothers, and they went on top of a silk-cotton tree. And Death stood at the foot of the silk-tree. She said, “Just now I saw those children, and where have they gone?
Number Eleven was sitting above. He said to his brothers, I am going to make water upon her.”
His brothers said, “E! she is seeking us to catch us, and we have fled and come and sit here and yet you say, ‘I am going to make water on her.'”
Number Eleven would not listen, and he made water over Death.
Death said, “Ah, there you are! Today you have seen trouble.” Death said, “You, child, who are sitting up there, Kyere–he-ne, Kyere-he-ne!” Thereupon one of the children fell down. “Kyere-he-ne!” a second one fell down. Soon there remained only Number Eleven.
Death said, “Child, Kyere-he-ne!” and Number Eleven leaped and descended on the ground, kirim! And Death then went on top of the silk-cotton tree.
Number Elven said, “You, great big woman, you too, Kyere-he-ne!”
And death, also, came down, tum! She was dead.
Number Elven went and plucked medicine, rolled it between his palms, and sprinkle it on his brothers, and they rose up. Number eleven was going to throw the medicine awaye, when some of it dropped on Death, and Death awoke. She said, “You have killed me, and you have also awakened me. Today you and I will have a chase.”
They they all started to run off at once, kiri! kiri! kiri! Now Death was chasing them. As they were going, there lay before them a big river in flood. When Number Eleven and his brothers reached it, the brothers knew how to swim and they swam across. Number Eleven alone did not know how to swim. The children stood on the other side; they cried and cried and cried; their mouths became swollen up. As for Number Eleven, he turned into a stone.
Death reached the river. She said, “Oh, these children! You stand there! Let me get a stone and hit your swollen mouths.” Death, when she looked down, saw a stone lying there. She picked it up and threw it. As the stone was travelling, it said, “Winds take me and set me on the other side.” It alighted on the other side. Number Eleven said, “Here I am!”
Death said, “Ah, that child! I have no further matter to talk to you about. All I have to say to you is this: Go and remain at home and change into one of the lesser gods, and, if anyone whom I wish to take comes to where you are, do you inform me. If I so desire, I will leave him and make you a present of him; but what I wish in exchange you must receive it for me.”
That is how the Komba, the lesser gods, came into the world. They are descended from the small child Number Eleven.
Now the Ritual Practice I offer you is perfected over time, through practice, practice, practice… With mastery of these Techniques the student begins to awaken more fully. The Three Assessments, Filling in the Blanks, the Resonance Dynamics and the Regimens in the following Blogs are offered for your assistance in taking the next step by applying these principles in a very personal way. These may be considered self-improvement projects with an important difference: your reliance on the Ancient Wisdom technologies.
1- Assessing Your current Feeling-Tone
This is the first step in a four step process. In this Technique, you consider the Feeling-Tone that reflects your current state of Reality Creation. Remember that the Feeling-Tone has thought, imagery, emotions, and other sensory inputs. It is the energetic signature of a state of consciousness, an event, or even a lifetime. Here we are assessing your current Reality Creation to set a benchmark to compare against future improved realities. How do you feel now?
This is a perspective you might call Honest Assessment, Objective Discernment, or any other descriptive term that connotes prejudice-free sensing of the Personal Reality. You do this from an Observer’s Perspective that we have described. You project your consciousness into this aspect which sees You-The-Blog-Reader in your totality, in your environment, within your niche, as it were, of Third-Dimensional Reality. The information you receive in this assessment is expressed in your favorite medium.
You simply relax, again, as you have done in previous exercises, and go within briefly. The idea is to ask yourself for this information to be made available to your conscious mind. The sensory data that does come up is remembered upon coming out of Trance and is documented for analysis later. This is the Status Quo Reality Feeling-Tone.
2- Assessing the Best Case Scenario
In its most basic form, this entails delineating in detail your Ideal Objective, what we term the Best Case Scenario. This is done though writing down the specifies of what you want to create, without consideration, for now, of what you are currently creating. Your imagination is allowed full reign over your expressive powers. If you wish to paint or draw a picture to express this Best Case Scenario, do so. If you are a dancer and you wish to create a spontaneous dance to express this, do so. Express your Ideal Objective in whatever medium you wish.
To manifest the heart’s desire or any improvement, you may first consider what a successful creation looks like, sounds like, feels like, and so on.
Again, in the Trance State you visit a probable future in which you are experiencing this Best Case Scenario. This would be the visualized result of your manifestation activities. Some might call this image the perfected state. Others would assess it as merely moderately improved. You are the one who determined the specifics of this Best Case Scenario. Just as you have done before, you come up to surface awareness from your Trance State and document this idealized vision.
3- Assessing the Felt Difference
The third step in this analysis concerns going into the meditative state with this information you have gathered from the Status Quo Assessment and from the Best Case Scenario Assessment. You then ask yourself, “What is the difference here between these two states? What is missing in my current reality that is evident in the Best Case Scenario?” This Feeling-Tone of the Felt Difference will have multi-sensory effects within your consciousness, just as in the other two assessments. You will remember this Felt Difference when you come out of the Trance. You then document this as best you can.
4- Filling In the Blanks
This is another of our clever metaphors, one that has Good Humor attached to it. It is a manner of speaking, “at the other end” of Best Case Scenario. This step is one of getting together your Findings from experimentation. These Findings would be the Status Quo, the Best Case Scenario, and the Felt Difference Assessments. All of the assessments are documented and now is the time to make sure that you are truthful and sure in your documentation. If you find that all is well in these documents, you complete the final step of Filling In the Blanks. This exercise is first done in the waking state, after you examine the Findings. The Felt Difference will contain the elements that are missing from your Best Case Scenario. In other words, these are the elements that need to be Ritually added to the manifestation to make it more like the Best Case Scenario. First you do this on paper. Then you do it ritually in the Trance State through Guided Visualization.
This is, briefly what one does in this four step process. Eventually the Practitioner will be adept at this Ritual manifestation to the degree that they would easily do the assessments and Filling in The Blanks exercises throughout the day, wherever it occurred to them to intentionally create their Personal Reality, you see.
These additions to your Practice are also Essential Metaphors. They are visualized devices and important tools you may use to explore and work within the Unknown Reality. For example, you may use your creativity to create, in the Trance State, various modes of transportation to use in your experiments in consciousness. Or you may summon up a diagnostic tool of your own device, that you may use to test, to validate, to sharpen the manifestation.
As with the Trance State, I am assuming you are already a user of the Metaphorical Tools. You may not refer to them as such, but it does seem that most explorers have a strategy, a Technique, a way of going about preparing for and indeed, entering and studying the individual and collective consciousness.
In a related matter, I am quite able to act as a go-between you, Dear Blog Reader, and your Energy Personality and other Guides. This I offer as a service to my Blog Readers, to help you get connected. Therefore, use my Techniques, use this material, use my felt-presence as a bridge between your Earthly perceptions and your Guidance. You simply ask for the connections to be made in self-reflective states and when you are in nature. Because you are connecting with the entity through your Practice, you will receive this support.
