SEVEN MEDITATIONS TO STRENGTHEN PEACE WITHIN ONESELF AND TO SUPPORT THE PEACE PROCESS IN THE NEAR EAST

MEDITATION dedicated to the re-connection of Israel/Palestine

On November 9th 2005 there will take place a meditation on the both sides of the wall newly separating Israel and Palestine. The theologian and author Sabine Lichtenfels from Tamera, Portugal made a pilgrimage by feet to Israel/Palestine to anchor this meditation at the wall. Together with many other Israeli and Palestinian peace activists they will be doing this meditation while being present on the both sides of the wall. We all are invited to take part in this meditation on November 9th .
It is decided to take as basis for the meditation the corresponding cosmogramme that you can find lower on this page. It is the last in the line of 8 cosmogrammes that I have designed to support the peace process. During the meditation the cosmogramme should be in one's imagination projected against the wall. Do it few times during the proposed day and be present with all your light.

 

 

Many of us believe that the Peace Process in Israel/Palestine can not be revived in a lasting way, if we would not all together work on transmuting the old disruptive patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving that govern the Near East as well as our human psyche. To stimulate this kind of work on the Peace Process, I have conceived a series of seven meditations/imaginations, that one should do one after the other in the course of a week. One is of course free to repeat the given meditation during the corresponding day, or even to repeat the whole cycle few times. You are also free to spread the cycle to interested persons world-wide as far as it feels appropriate. Let us together create a peace-stimulating field of love and healing.
The seven meditations are part of the book that Ana Pogacnik Meier and myself have written on "The Roots of Peace in Israel and Palestine" which appears in September 2004 in German under the title "Das Herz so weit" (Atmosphären Verlag, München)
Each of the seven meditations is based upon a "task of the day" and a "key imagination". The drawings serve as a reminder of the key imagination. Yet one should not feel obliged to lead the given meditation exactly as it is proposed. Instead you can take the key imagination or the task of the day as a guide-line and create the work in your own way. For instance, one could draw a picture each day or simply stay quiet reflecting the given theme.
Important is to start the work by concentrating on the changes within oneself and then see, how you can create resonance with the country of the Near East that the western people call "the Holy Land".
I suggest that before starting to meditate, one should surround oneself with a subtle coat of protection, in order to prevent inflow of its destructive energies while being in resonance with the Near East. Imagine "the coat" as a rounded up transparent bubble of crystal clear light.

Greetings from Sempas, Slovenia, August 21st 2004, Marko Pogacnik

SUNDAY
The task of the day: to reconnect the female power within the modern human being and within the cultures of the Near East to the source of its true strength

The suppression of the female principle in Israel/Palestine has gone so far that the female qualities, negating themselves, have become supporters of violence. There is no proper war going on there: places that should mirror the fullness of life have become places of death (bombing urban environments), young people have been seduced to carry out the conflicts of the adults. The powers of life with its female qualities are misused to create permanent conflict.

The key imagination:
· Enter peace within you
· Centre yourself in the back part of your head and connect from there to the width of the universe.
· Than you start to build a rainbow bridge backwards, starting from the back of your head. The bridge bends downwards in a curve through your back space.
· Anchor the other end of the bridge at the base of your spine. There is a gate. Go through that gate to find yourself within the rounded space of your belly.
· Standing at the centre of that space you should root yourself deep down at the centre of the Earth.
· Draw from there an impulse that is able to create a feeling of paradise there down between your heaps.
· Let the quality of that paradise rise vertically upwards till it reaches your heart centre.
· In that moment your heart starts to pour out love to all dimensions. Be aware that this is the true message of the Holy Land.

MONDAY
The task of the day: To free oneself and the cultures of the Near East from thedominating influence of the past

The second reason for the continual reoccurrence of the conflicts in the Near East has to do with a pattern of behaviour that one can best describe as "the absence of the present moment" Stuck in the idea that the frame of the reality has been fixed in the past times of the divine revelation, the cultures and people of the Near East become victims of their own conceptions.
The meditation of the day leads one to identify with the present moment through meeting ones inner child. The impulse of being rooted in the present should then be transferred to the Holy Land.

The key imagination:
· Sit comfortably, fold hands in your lap and enjoy peace
· Imagine that you yourself as a small child are standing on those folded hands. Let the imagination be more feeling- than picture-like.
· In the right moment you should imagine, that the child start to turn around in front of you, so that it rises with its feet upwards towards your Third Eye centre.
· The Third Eye is the gate through which your Inner Child enters the inner space of your being in order to land inside you on its feet. In the moment of its landing you can feel yourself connected to the divine NOW.
· Now you should spread that quality to all directions of the world, whereby you imagine that Jerusalem is the main focus point of that spreading.

TUESDAY
The task of the day: to fill up again the terrible emptiness between in- and outbreath with the power of life

At present the Holy Land is caught in a dramatic situation: it is imprisoned in the empty space between in- and outbreath. On one hand the wave of revelation through which humanity received new inspirations for connecting with the Heavens and the Earth is over since a long time. On the other hand the Near East lacks the capacity to let this inspiration pour into society and between people and by doing so to breath out. Due to rigid religious dogmas, warlike conflicts and forced poverty this ability was torn to bits and suffocated.
The aim of the meditation is to remind the Holy Land of its true role within the organism of the Earth. The inspiration of the marriage between Earth and Heavens should be exhaled through the heart region of Israel/Palestine into the horizontal network of life.

 

The key imagination:
· Connect to the chalice of the Earth beneath you and the cupola of the Heavens above you. Imagine how the forces of the Earth spiral upwards through you to the cosmos, and the powers of the Heavens enter into the depth of the Earth in the form of a pillar of light through you.
· Then imagine that the flow of these forces is captured by the crystal at the centre of your heart. Due to that the centre of your heart chakra starts to glow and to shine. Its rays reach far into surroundings to bless the forces and beings of the Earth space.
· Connect the powers and beings of the Earth space through light threads among themselves and focus the network in the point behind your navel. Enjoy your position at the centre of a network that connects everybody to everybody.
· Transfer the centre of the network from your navel to the landscape between the See of Galilee and the Dead See which seen geomanticly is the navel of the world
· Breath for a while together with the landscape there to strengthen the navel of the world. While you breathe in, you should pull together the life-web of the Earth. When you breathe out, love should be poured out world wide.

WENSDAY
The task of the day: to invite spiritual world to become active in the Near East

Here the spiritual world refers to the world of the deceased, who at present live on the other side of the veil. They are human beings just like us, only that they belong to another dimension of being. It only refers to those souls who have developed so far that they as to be free to help the living people in their needs. On one hand they have an access to the storehouse of the universal knowledge. On the other hand they have a lot of experience as to how the human world works and how to avoid traps on the path of development. Their advice could help solve the problems of the present. Doesn't Israel/Palestine need the help of the Wise, those who have appeared as prophets in the course of history more than ever today?

The key imagination:
· Decide on a particular individuality from Jewish, Christian or Moslem sacred tradition, with whose words you are familiar from the scriptures. Ask him or her to help in the Near East now.
· Feel his/her presence behind your back and with this the qualities that the chosen individuality embodies.
· Lead this qualities forward through your whole body and spread them throughout the Near East.
· Then step carefully out of the relationship between the chosen individuality and the Near East. Ask that the relationship remains and even gets stronger.

THURSDAY
The task of the day: to pay attention to the dance of life and to the bonds of love.

In order to bring about healing process in the Near East, the attention of the publics, which nowadays mainly focuses on the political catastrophe, has to be shifted to the living reality of the country. The gaze which has been magically captured by the bloody knot of conflicts should be freed from its suicidal focus. The counter-force to the paralysed political situation, the freeing power is stored in the shining presence of life itself. It is the power that human beings are able to express as love, forgiveness and hope.

The key imagination:
· Place your hands in front of your face in such a way as to form a pyramid, whereby its top is on the level of your third eye.
· The thumbs lie near your mouth and they touch the lips very finely. There is a thin crevice between the thumbs so that the breath can pass through.
· Now you can silently whisper a message to that aspect of life in the Near East that feels important to you. Maybe you would like to talk to the soul of somebody who drives the conflict in Israel/Palestine forward, or give hope to a victim of the conflict. Due to the drumming of your lips on the base of your thumbs even those who have no physical ears can hear your declaration.
· Finally put your hands down in your lap and sink into the quality of space which was just created.

FRIDAY
The task of the day: to transform the rule of fixed thought patterns into a loving network of relationships

An important part of the healing process in the Holy Land has to do with the dissolution of fixed ideas, thought patterns and dogmas. It has to do with certain archetypes, emotional and mental powers that were perverted in the past due to certain historical or religious development. Caught in their negative form they have settled in the soul of the nations that take part in the conflict. Nearly unnoticed they influence the present dramatically torn apart relationships between people and states in the Near East and do not allow that a peaceful solution be found.
As we are dealing with divinely inspired archetypes that were later twisted, thex can be returned to their original purity at any time.

The key imagination:
· You feel safe in your coat of protection, well grounded and quiet.
· Decide which of the twisted archetypes that sow death in the Near East you would like to lead into the process of transmutation.
· Now you should drench the vibration of your whole body with the power of love out of the centre of your heart. By this you will be able to transform any mean feeling or thought form without being harmed yourself.
· Through corresponding images, experiences or memories you should manifest the power or non-power of that twisted archetype behind your back.
· After the pressure of the alienated powers has built itself up behind your back, let it pass forward through your love-transformed body.
· Watch carefully how the transformation process takes place. create even more love power in your heart centre if necessary.
· Feel the quality of the transmuted archetype that in meanwhile expanded throughout your personal space. Let it flow or radiate into the wide world and see that the Near East receives a lot of it.

SATURDAY
The task of the day: to be aware of the progressing Earth transformation and the hope it brings to the Holy Land
It only appears so, as if the life on Earth would continue to roll on along its usual course. The appearance lies since the changes are taking place on the invisible energetic and emotional levels, that human beings are hardly aware of. Due to the intensive inner changes during the last few years a new life-bearing space is being built up upon the planet. When it will become strong enough, then the old one will begin to burst. Before we would be drawn into its dissolution, we human beings should learn to attune to the new living space. By this we can become part of its vital fullness and experience its all pervading peace.

The key imagination:
· Sit down and be quiet for a while. Centre yourself at the core of your heart.
· Then go with your loving attention as far as you can into the space in front of you. Making a curve, you should then return to your heart centre. Repeat it a few times.
· Afterwards go in your imagination into the space behind your back as far as you can. Also here return to you heart centre making a curve. Repeat it a few times.
· Now push the space that you walked through behind your back forward in the direction of the incarnated life. The space in front of your chest you should push backwards in the direction of eternity.
· Watch what kind of power or quality is being born at the centre of your heart Keep it inwardly for a while. Then let it shine out into the world which yearns for healing and peace.
· Do not forget Israel/Palestine, the mythologically acclaimed navel of the world. If you imagine that you are standing in the middle of the Holy Land and spread your love out from there, then the waves will spread out concentrically to all sides and become part of the whole of the Earth's magnetic field and all the beings that bathe in it.

COSMOGRAMMES TO SUPPORT PLACES THAT CAN BRING HEALING TO THE NEAR EAST
In order to support some of the main vital-energetic centres of the Near East in their self-cleansing and opening process, I have created eight cosmogrammes.
Cosmogrammes are complex symbols that are capable to transport multidimensional information including its energy structure. They are self-sufficient concerning their ability to work. Yet they need the attention of your consciousness to spread their regenerative or healing influence.
One possibility to make the proposed cosmogrammes to work is to print them and fix them on places in your environment, where they could be best seen. Their effect is dynamised by the attention they receive.
Another possibility is to recreate them in an artistic way. On can think of different forms of artistic creativity such as painting, dance, performance...Important is that the original message of the given cosmogramme does not get lost. This is the reason why cosmogrammes have a short text added.
The cosmogrammes are created in such a way that they do not only support the healing centres in the Near East but also the corresponding aspects within the human being.

 

The cosmogramme dedicated to the cosmic aspect of the heart centre helps in the development of the cosmic width of the human heart. At the same time it supports one of the most important heart centres in the Near East, the one behind the breast of the Sphinx in Gizeh. Just as the plateau of Gizeh with the Sphinx and the pyramids is anchoring relationships to different dimensions of the universe, so the cosmic aspect of the heart centre is connecting the human being with the space of eternity. Concerning human beings, the cosmic aspect of the heart is located behind the heart chakra in our back space.

The cosmogramme dedicated to the elemental aspect of the heart centre
Since human beings are also part of nature, a fractal of the heart of nature is embedded in our heart centre. By this we take part in her love vibration, as all beings of nature do. The cosmogramme helps to anchor oneself in the roots of the heart centre which are located deep down in the sexual area. There the source of archetypal power is buried, that is capable to imbue our love with power to be creative in the daily life. cosmogramme shows a doorway to the depth of the earth that has been opened to the right side.
At the same time the cosmogramme is supporting the opening process of the heart centre of Sinai which is located close to the monastery of St.Catherine at the foot of Mount Sinai.

The cosmogramme dedicated to the abundance of life and the landscape of Elat
It shows the joyful dance of the four elements, that makes the celestial fullness of life possible. The elements Water and Air (left and right sides) are balanced by Fire above (yang) and Earth (yin) below. In the case of Israel/Palestine the impulse of vital abundance is embodied by the landscape of Elat at the Read sea.

 

The cosmogramme to support grounding
It helps if personal grounding is weak. It needs to be stressed that the overall lack of grounding concerning human beings and places has not to do only with the loss of connection to the Earth essence. We need to learn to free ourselves (to detach) from the old space of illusion and to ground ourselves in the reality of the renewing Earth cosmos. The cosmogramme is created to support the grounding in the new Earth. Simultaneously it supports the renewal of the grounding chakra of the planet Earth which is located in the Dead Sea.

The cosmogramme revealing the navel of Israel/Palestine which is located on the mount Masada above the Dead Sea
Because Masada is mainly know as the show place of the mass suicide of Jews during the Roman occupation of Palestine, it is important to emphasise its sacred nature. One has to do here with "omphalos" (Greek for the Navel of the World), the holy centre of the country, "the golden ball" that connects all with all to protect the source of existence. In the case of a landscape as well as a human being the navel has the task to centre and balance the whole organism on the vital, emotional and spiritual level.

The cosmogramme to support the See of Gallilee as the speech organ of the Holy Land
To be able to function as the organ of revelation, the Sea of Gallilee has to be imbued with the rhythm of in- and outbreath. It comes into being by the in- and outflow of the river Jordan. (The centre of the cosmogramme) The second element is the female-male polarisation of the banks of the Sea. The west bank (at the left side of the sign) brings Yin powers into the creative play, the east bank yet the powers of Yang. Composition corresponds to the throat chakra of the human beings. The task of the cosmogramme would be to help in the regeneration of the faculty of Israel/Palestine to reveal world-wide the art of balance between the opposites and the resulting quality of peace.

Cosmogramme dedicated to Jerusalem and to the heart channel
The heart channel is a horizontal light channel that connects three aspects of the heart chakra of the human being: the cosmic aspect at the back, the heart centre and the chakra of outpouring of heart powers in front of the chest. The cosmogramme supports concentration and outpouring of the powers of love, which is the
blessed task of the heart channel. It supports also the heart centre of Jerusalem which is located within the rock of Golgatha. One can associate this complex heart centre with the image of the Tree of Life that stands at the centre of the New Jerusalem - the renewed and peace-blessed Earth cosmos. The cosmogramme shows its shape.

 

Cosmogramme to initiate the reconnection of Israel and Palestine
It is not related to a specific place but to the country as a whole. In relation to our blessed planet, Israel/Palestine represents only a dot on its surface. To divide this country, this rounded up unit, this vital organ of the Earth through a wall is an expression of the inner division of the contemporary human being: the feminine aspect being divided from the masculine, the ratio from intuition and the heart from the wholeness. The above cosmogramme sings the song of reunion.

EXERCISES FOR GROUNDING ONESELF, ENVIRONMENTAL HEALING AND WIDENED PERCEPTION

Do not rely on what others are telling you about the invisible worlds. You need to get your own experience of what is becoming reality of the everyday life on Earth.


Joint WINTER MEDITATION 2003/04
Life Web - Geomancy and Transformation

The earth has become tired because of human ego centricity. It has become necessary to create an honest and happy community of people which is able to support the earth in its process of transformation. In order to become such a community, we would need a better attunement among ourselves. Let us meditate together for 3 months in order to become a mature community. Let us create a circle of warmth in the heart where also the different beings of the earth cosmos, - of nature, can take their place. Through this, an actual LIFE WEB would come about.

"Rules of the Game"

The meditations will change between 21th December and 21 March in a weekly rhythm. You can practise the "meditation of the week" on a daily basis, and you are free to choose the time. But the last day of the given week is important: the Sunday where we all will meditate together at 9 pm. (Each at their 9 pm, regardless of time zones. Trust that the cosmic consciousness is flexible.)

There will be an attunement which we will do at the beginning to connect with the soul of the meditating community. After that, each week there will be a different focus meditation which will present the focus of each week. This should be done after the attunement. Each week, the author / authoress of the focus meditation will also suggest an exercise of perception which can be done any time during the day, in order to include the beings of nature into the circle of the common meditation, and to deepen the sensitivity of the Life Web.

You will find the instructions at the website address http://geniusloci.info
There will be a marker at each focus meditation and exercise to indicate for which week it is intended. It will be posted a week in advance to the above address, for it to be translated into other languages and to be mailed out in time. The meditations will be prepared by invited members of the Life Web but they can also be suggested to Deert Jacob's e-mail address: geniusloci@surfeu.de

Please, organise this yourself! Distribute the meditation via e-mail to those who you want to invite to it, and send it through the post to those where you know that they do not have access to the internet. Include each time the rules of the game" and the attunement. Allow the Life Web to vibrate throughout the world.

Attunement
Concentrate yourself in your heart centre and become conscious of the whole community through your feelings, as it gathers around you to take part in the joint meditation. Slowly bring together the essence of the meditating community in your heart centre , concentrate the community in your centre.
Simultaneously you will send out the essence of your heart centre - your love - and distribute it to the beings and dimensions of the surrounding earth-cosmos.

Loving greetings from Marko Pogacnik, Wolfgang Schneider, Deert Jacobs, Karin Werner

Joint Winter Meditation 2003/04

FOCUS MEDITATION 21 - 28 December 2003

The aim of the meditation is to share an experience of what is happening to the earth at this time.
This is a suggestion by Marko Pogacnik, Slovenia.

Imagine, the area of your hips like a dish in which the earth is solemnly rotating.
Become conscious of the cosmic space which surrounds you and the earth, its spiritual power, its light.
Now let the earth ascend into the direction of your heart centre. During this ascension, the soul of the earth expands and distributes its love into the cosmic space.
Simultaneously you should concentrate the light of cosmic space in your heart centre, so that a light kernel can manifest within you.
Become conscious of the fact that such a light kernel is pulsating in the heart of each human being.

EXERCISE OF PERCEPTION 21 - 28 December 2003

Choose either a plant, a tree, a stone, a crystal etc.
Move towards the plant, tree, stone or crystal with your loving attention from your heart centre.
Simultaneously you should bring the plant, tree, stone or crystal to yourself into your heart centre.
Be aware of the plant, tree, stone or crystal and enjoy your communion.

EXERCISE WITH THE INNER CHILD

The inner child represents our true self, the essence of who we are, beyond the domination of the mental self (the "ego"). Learn to be rooted in the inner self, even if functioning on the basis of ego.

1. Hold yourself as a baby in your lap. Feel the quality of presence that you truly are.
2. Than imagine, that the child wants to touch something on the ground. It bends down, till its crown chakra is showing directly to the centre of the earth.
3. In that moment it collapses and turns swiftly around, to rise through your sexual area up into the centre of your being (a process that runs opposite to the birth process).
4. Now the child stands at the centre of your being as your true self. Try to feel the quality of its presence. Integrate this quality into each cell of your body. Become, who you are.

GROUNDING OF THE HEART CENTRE

The inherited division between the power of sexual and spiritual love is making our presence and creativity weak.

1. Be centred in your heart centre, be fully present there.
2. Imagine that the flower of your heart centre is extending its roots vertically down, to become firmly rooted in your sexual area.
3. Then let the pure qualities stored there ascend along the roots upwards, till they merge with the spiritual qualities of your heart, to become one.
4. Let the united power of your love again and again descend down to its roots, to be regenerated. At the same time let it shine into the world like a sun.

THE TEAR OF MERCY

The exercise comes from my book "The daughter of Gaia". It can be used in each situation, where there is pain, suffering or catastrophe of any kind. The exercise was shown to me by the black Virgin of Altoetting, Germany.

1. Start by deciding where you would like to direct the Tear of Mercy. Is it towards a person in distress, nature beings in a place suffering from ecological destruction, or perhaps the political situation of a country in turmoil.
2. Hold your hands in front of your chest in the position of prayer. Also hold your goal in your mind and feelings.
3. Open your hands as a book opens. By doing this, a channel has been formed, and now ask the universal Virgin, the feminine aspect of Divinity, to shed a tear into this channel.
4. Feel the Tear bounce for a while in the channel of your hands. Twitch the channel a bit, so that in your imagination you direct the tear to glide to its preconceived goal. Keep a firm heart connection with the chosen person or place to accompany the gift of grace on its way there. Continue for a while to be present there through the vibration of your opened heart.
5. Choose another goal for your service to life and the Virgin and do the whole procedure again.
6. Give thanks

GROUNDING EXERCISES:

1. Imagine you are a tree with roots going deep into the Earth
and branches connecting with the stars

2. Breath from the Earth in and breathe into the cosmos out.
Then breath from the cosmos in and breath into the Earth out...etc

3 .Immagine the earth beneath your feet being grinded in little crumbs.
Let them three times rise slowly through your whole body up and down again.

 

EXERCISES IN WIDENED PERCEPTION:

A. EXERCISES TO AVOID MIND CONTROL

1. Turn your back to the place that you wish to explore
and try to look-feel it through your back.

2. While walking, listen-feel very carefully the whole environment around you (360 degrees look)

3. Try to feel what you see and to listen to what you feel.

4. Go with your hands close to the tree and try to touch, kneet...its energies
without physically touching the tree.

B. EXERCISES TO PERCIVE THE SUBTLE REALITY OF A PLACE OR AN ELEMENTAL BEING

1. Be for a while aware of the divine presence in your heart.
Then start to aknowledge the unknown presence in your vicinity.
Be loving and simply allow the inner touch or dialogue to happen.

2. Hold the very end of a branch of a chosen tree lovingly between your hands
and listen-feel towars it (to the spirit of the tree.

3. In your immagination go a step deeper into the earth and look-feel from there.

4. Visualise a green point on your chest. Enter through it into the realm of the heart chakra.
Be for a while there and attune to the place. Then go even a bit deeper towards your back
and "look" from the back of your heart at what you wish to perceive.
(More about this method in my book ĎHealing the Heart of the Earth”)

5. Observe a flower for a while.
Then enter through the flower (like a bee!) into the inside space of the plant and try to feel it.

EXECISES TO STAY IN TOUCH WITH THE CHANGING EARTH

1. Concentrate in the centre of your heart,
stay there and simultaneously and lovingly be aware of the fact that the Earth is all around you

2. Seat down close to a tree or a shrub and ask the faun (spirit of the plant)
to show on your body what kind of adjustment/attunement it needs.
Watch carefully inside your body what kind of feeling comes and where it is located.

3. Put your left hand with its back side on your buttocks and the right on your belly (solar plexus).
Concentrate on the point that exists in the middle between the two (called Hara),
the seat of your elemental (earthly) self. Listen inside and attune to it.