Bamboo Forest

1 In the place where you are now, imagine shoots of bamboo growing up through the floor. Watch them grow until they entirely fill up your surroundings immersing you in a lush forest. If you are inside, the floor beneath you becomes dirt and the ceiling opens up to sky, but otherwise everything else is still there.

2 Now get up and walk into the forest. Continue walking until eventually you leave behind all vestiges of your first environment until it is just the bamboo forest around you. Take in the atmosphere of this forest.

3 Being in this place makes you think of someone who is gone now, who you will never see again. All you have left of them is what they gave you; their vibrational impact on you.

4 As you walk you come upon a ray of light shining through the treetops. Stand in this light and access what it is offering you. This light bears the same energy, the same vibrational qualities, of the person who is now gone. Standing in this light makes you feel the way they made you feel only in a more potent and concentrated form; the clarity of absence.

5 Next you discover a magnifying glass. In what context do you find it? What do you do with it? This is not a normal magnifying glass. Looking through it allows you to scrutinize the world with their eyes. You are seeing the world as they would see it, with their beliefs and their inclinations. It causes you to think thoughts that they would think about this environment.

6 The next thing you find is a scale. Take your desire to be with that person again and transform it into some kind of physical object. Create several of these objects, each one representing a different aspect of the relationship you had with them that you desire to experience again. Place each one on the scale. What happens to each one when it comes into contact with the scale?

7 As you continue on, you come upon a cairn. How big is it? How many rocks are there and what kind?

Dismantle the cairn stone by stone. Between each stone is a slip of paper or something thin enough to be hidden between the rocks. Each slip is an artifact from a different culture and or time period. Furthermore, each slip represents an important relationship the person you are remembering has had. Describe each one. Keep these slips of paper and move on.

8 Now you come upon a group of people. Who are they and how do you respond to them? After this initial encounter what you will ultimately end up discussing is the concept of love languages, that is, what do others have to do in order for you to feel loved? What actions do you associate with love versus what others associate with love? Together you make symbols to represent your different ways of expressing love.  Draw these symbols on the slips of paper from the cairn. Describe this scene as it plays out.

9 When this is concluded a tiger suddenly wanders into the area. Describe the tiger. This encounter with the tiger ends in death for you, and perhaps for the others as well, but how these deaths occur is open to interpretation. What happens? Imagine the experience of death as detailed as possible.

10 Your death is immediately followed by a kind of lucid dream. Within this lucid dream you steadily awaken to yourself wading in a river in the middle of a bamboo forest. The water is a soothing mineral mixture of a warmish temperature. A light layer of steam hangs over the surface. The water is knee deep to waist deep in places, and may be much deeper in other places. You cannot see much below the surface and your footing is uneven. The swiftly rushing water gives a potential for instability, so you work your way forward carefully. How do feel about this? What draws you to push forward down the river?

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Up ahead the stream ends in an impressive waterfall. Mist from the waterfall drifts over the scene.

Around you are people meditating on rocks that stick up out of the water. They face the waterfall. Something is illuminating the curtain of water from the other side. It is a conscious light that lights up the waterfall and it is beaming telepathic messages to the people who are meditating. Attempt to tune in and receive what is being broadcast. What is the message?

1 An invisible gathering

2 The freedom to just be

3 An invisible path

4 Accessing your blocked intentions

5 True friendship

6 The weight of connection. How much does it “matter”?

7 An intersection of invisible paths

8 Understanding perfect timing

9 Clarity out of contrast

10 Embracing the mystery

11 The distance to possibility