Melora through
Joanna Neff (Jyoti Alla-An)
Shamanic
Symbolism
S: In one of our last sessions, we were working
with the wheel of my different spirit helpers. I remember there
was the dolphin and other members within that wheel. And this
is what I'm getting down to: The disembodiment of me and the
putting me back together again. When I completed the wheel--which
meant there were 12 animal spirits--at 11 o'clock there was a
cougar. Everybody attacked me and tore me apart (and a cobra
was part of the wheel). Two cobras came in, and as I observed,
they spun back around like DNA, in a double-helix, and put me
back together again.
While I was working with
a shaman earlier this year. In his book he talks about the disembodiment
and the observing that goes on. I wanted to ask you about that
and thank you for setting me on that path, as I recall, to get
the 12 and to see what would happen. The shaman I worked with
also said that it is possible to have more than one of these
disembodiments.
MELORA: Something we observed with a friend of our Jyoti's
will explain how we view shamanic processes. When this friend
received higher-level Reiki attunements from Jyoti and another
mutual friend, the initiate's experience was that the Hindu goddess
Durga came in and tore her to shreds, chopped her head off, and
all this sort of thing. People who do not do shamanic work do
not experience these translations of energetic processes in the
same way.
In shamanic work, as we have
said, there's a lot of symbology. But shamanic work also works
with archetypes. These archetypes would be of all human experiences,
all possible roles--like specific villain/good guy, predator/victim--all
the possible roles that you could choose on earth to be and that
you are throughout history in your many lives. We're receiving
that your interpretations, your experiences, your visions are
translations of the energies into symbolgies that represent archetypal
experience.
We believe we told you before
that these are not to be taken literally. There is a danger in
taking these literally, and that is that you confuse the translation
with the actual processes that are going on. There can be distortion.
This creates fear, because if you take the symbols of being torn
apart literally, and that creates fear, then the processes remain
incomplete, and you can't move forward into the integration of
what happened. Such confusion between symbology and actual energetic
processes are the basis of supersitions! And supersitions are
almost always fear based.
S: Okay. I thought it as more of a rebirth or a
restructuring--that the witness part of me stepped out of that
and didn't find it humorous but at the time it was a sort of
shock because they all just sort of attacked me.
MELORA: Because shamanic work generally goes no higher
than 4th dimension, or the astral plane--
S: Oh . . . I didn't know that.
MELORA: . . . the work that is done is primarily physical
and psychological. So the restructuring is really going on in
your psychological consciousness--that is, personality consciousness--not
at the Soul level. This is why we find that, for example, people
come to us for higher-dimensional soul retrieval after shamans
have done soul retrieval because the people are rife with negative
entities. It's not that the work itself created that; it is that
the result of incomplete processing of psychological changes
and structures leaves the personal vulnerable from the astral
plane. This is where the negative entities "hang out":
in the lower octave of the astral plane. If the person is not
strong enough in their mastery or in their wisdom, then they
are not really able to participate out of that wisdom, or out
of a higher consciousness, in the work that is being done by
the shaman.
S: Now,
can you check me to see how I fit in to the scenario that you
just went through?
MELORA: Give us a moment. Yes. What we're hearing is
that the abilities that you have, not only from past lives but
from this life and the interest that you have in shamanic work,
is like a trap in a way. You can keep using the skills that you
already have, or you can learn some new skills. What they're
saying is "spiritual skills." Can you transcend your
intense personality interest at these levels, and move to manifesting
at higher levels and move to processing at higher-dimensional
levels?
S: I'd like to be able to do that, but I think I
might need some help or guidance.
MELORA: All right. We will do this in the way of a parable
to help you use some more multi-dimensional understanding of
this. One of last temptations of Buddha was having a demon come
to him and try to engage him in an intellectual debate. In other
words, "Let's talk and we'll find out who's more brilliant."
At the personality level, what the mind affixes on that is interesting
to it can actually be a great temptation that keeps you from
coming to higher spiritual consciousness.
S: It's also a very beautiful trap.
MELORA: They are very beautiful traps, because the mental
gymnastics appease and entertain the mind. The problem is that
you keep having to do more of it, because if that is what your
mind is used to being fed, then it's like an addiction. It has
to keep going on and on; it has to keep being fed. If you're
going to come out of the personality mind's need to have information
for its own sake to entertain it, then you can transcend the
personality level of consciousness that is into confusing symbology
with reality.
Confusing symbology with
reality is the trap for you. You can take the same information
and process it in the same way we have described--the intense
emotions of grief and loss that you're going through now--and
ask for that to be distributed among all your bodies and processed
so that you get the real experiential values that those represent.
Make the request of your guides, your Higher Self and your Overbeing
to make that clear of you. Then you will come to a center of
wisdom in which fear will go away, and you will have great clarity
and understanding that symbols do not exist at higher levels.
They exist only in 3rd and 4th dimension.
S: How interesting, because a lot of the teachers
that I've been with in this embodiment have stressed the importance
of the symbol.
MELORA: But why is it important? Is it important to you
spiritually or to you as a being in 3rd-dimensional existence?
S: I think a lot of the reason is that it's a power
source--a power over instead of power itself.
MELORA: Yes. Exactly.
S: I know that for some people the information became
power over and not power itself, and I was trying to keep away
from that, even at that time. That goes back probably ten years.
Thank you. It's kind of nice to hear that come back to me. It's
almost like a confirmation of something hidden very deep inside.
MELORA: Power over others is always of the dark, and
this can be a matter of degree. There can be "relative"
darkness, if you will. We're not saying that all shamans who
do that, or all white Wiccans who do that, are of the dark. What
we're saying is that you're missing the point spiritually in
your existence on Earth if you don't realize that power over
others is always about fear. And since fear is the opposite of
love, it's going to take you in the opposite direction of your
path to the light, which is the path of Love. It can take you
away from your Self, as you so perceptively put it.
S: I had felt that to be true and have not been
fighting against it but have not quite understood why so many
people are so interested in the power-over aspects, which again
represents fear.
MELORA: Everything that comes forth in a session is always
aimed at your initial, question, central motif, if you will,
that compelled you to have a session. So it's not just a conversation;
it is about the deep question you had in coming to work with
us today. Every single thing that is brought forth is about that
central question.
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