Through our mental abilities we humans can also attract the same healing energies and create those same revitalising archetypal patterns which can be achieved through the body in dancing. Instead of body movements the art of internal imagination is exercised. I am talking about the capacity of our consciousness to create imagery that functions as an etheric model by means of which the processes of manifes-tation can be carried along and enhanced. In this procedure three chakras (= power centres) of the human body are used in combination: First, there is the throat chakra which emanates the creative impulses, whilst the third eye chakra focuses the corresponding pattern, which serves as a blue-print for the imagined model and projects it into the space.
The balanced quality of the heart chakra is indispensable in this; it brings in the energies that are necessary for the cre-ation of imagery.
So creative imagination really has nothing to do with men-tal work, although human menmen-tal capabilities do play an important role in it. They come into play as a driving force for the generation of appropriate images. But it is the forces of all three chakras combined that lend creative power to imagination. If an image were only created mentally, it would soon become shallow and ineffective.
Now to the areas of application:
First, one can use the power of creative imagination where certain energy relationships, including their function within the totality of a space, are weakened, have become chaotic or have fallen into total oblivion. When a group builds up these structures in a space through its imaginative power, their regeneration is stimulated, directed and strengthened. It is particularly important here that the imagery is generated not by a single person but by a group, because the individual vari-ations that play into it automatically make a great contribu-tion to completing the shared imaginative creacontribu-tion. On the
other hand the process must not degenerate into a ragbag of images. To avoid this, a common image should be discussed in detail beforehand, and also how it relates to the goal. If the visualisation is to be established in several phases, a leader is needed to announce the individual stages one after the other in the form of a guided meditation so that people do them at the same time.
I would like to give a few examples of the areas in which creative imagination can be used in earth healing. The first takes us to Constance, an age-old town on Lake Constance.
In analysing the subtle problems of the town the Angel of Earth Healing pointed out to us that the city centre was no longer able on an energetic level to support the rapid expan-sion of a modern city because it was weakened by a variety of factors. After we had worked on dissipating some of these causes in our urban healing seminar on June 6th 1993 Devos suggested the following visualisation to strengthen the total-ity of the town’s organism:
We were to gather around one of the acupuncture points of the vital-energetic centre of the urban landscape situated inside the cathedral. On a subterrestrial level we were in our visualisation to disperse in all directions the energy that emerges from the centre. We were to imagine ourselves weav-ing a spider’s web of crystal clear threads beneath the urban landscape, reaching all the way to the outskirts of town. Here we were to pull the threads up into the daylight and bring them back to the centre. By creating this visualised image over and over again, the city as a whole would be wrapped in a supporting and cohesive energy net. Those who lived there could repeat such a visualisation on a daily basis in order to help their city.
A second example shows how creative imagination can be combined with the technique of colour visualisation. Here we are talking about Lendava, a border town in the most easterly corner of Slovenia which I mentioned before. Seen energetically, the town borders on an energy triangle with a
Figure 25
Blessing hands of a participant
during a group visualisation in Bohinj, 1996.
(Photo: Bohan Brecelj)
length of approximately 5 km on one side, which represents a kind of portal for the energies destined for the macro-land-scape of Slovenia. In August 1993, together with the partic-ipants of the Svetinje-Jeruzalem seminar, I was busy clearing out energetic damage at the triangle. In order to reconnect the side of the triangle between Gabrje and Trimlini, Devos suggested that we proceed with a combination of techniques in which the colour blue – as the characteristic colour of the triangle – was to be combined with a visualised image. In this visualisation the group first pulled a blue thread-like line out of the centre that is situated in one corner of the trian-gle near Gabjre and then wound it up like a ball of wool. In the second stage this ball was visualised rolling in the direc-tion of the other corner centre near Trimlini so that it left a blue line behind it that eventually connected the two corner points with each another. Thus the diminishing relationship between the two places was brought back into resonance again.
In such a case, when dealing with the revitalisation of an energy relationship in a space, the imagery procedure can be combined equally well with some physical activity. One option is stamping the feet, something the Angel of Earth Healing suggested in earlier days. By stamping – that is to say, by alternately touching the earth with the right and left feet – a strong vibration is set up. The forceful stamping of a group of people creates a powerful vibration which, by means of the group’s imagination, is sent in a previously agreed-upon direction and restores the vibrancy that has been lost. The point that is meant to be realigned is kept in one’s awareness throughout the entire stamping exercise.
The creative power of visualisation can also be used to reanimate the function of a place. In analysing a place’s prob-lems you may find that an energy source has sunk too deeply beneath the strain of the suppression it has suffered. It no longer has any effect on the surface of the earth. In such a
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Stamping on an energy line strengthens it. Hitzacker, 1994.
(Photo: Brigitta Klotz)
case, after purifying the place and ridding it of blockages, the group can continue with creative visualisation in order to revive its function. In their imagination the participants delve into the depths, lovingly holding the sunken energy in their hands and carrying it to the surface in the form of a sub-stance of light or a previously agreed-upon colour. Once there, the vibrating energy of the source is distributed throughout the space. The entire process is repeated, just as one repeats artificial respiration for a while, until it feels like the source is flowing again.
It also sometimes happens that a power centre is sup-pressed by a building to such a degree that its normal activ-ity dries up; it is as if it were paralysed and mute. As the building which is causing the damage usually cannot be demolished, other ways of helping the disturbed centre have to be found. The Angel of Earth Healing has given us sev-eral suggestions for such cases. The group can ‘dissolve’ the walls of the building in their imagination and thus render them more permeable for the energy currents. This happens by imagining that the walls – including the foundations and the entire edifice – are transformed into structures of light and colour. It is also possible to visualise penetrating the walls step by step, first with the hands and finally with the entire body, and beginning to move ever more freely through the structure until the movements become a dance that is no longer impeded in any way by the fabric of the building.
The role of leader in such guided imagery can entail a par-ticular responsibility if during the exercise unexpected diffi-culties arise. Let us assume that the place has not been suf-ficiently thoroughly cleansed beforehand. The group is already at the reanimation stage when suddenly it comes up against hidden pockets of unreleased energies. At that moment, the group leader has to interrupt the visualisation procedure and instigate a belated cleansing; only when this has been done can the guided imagery continue. Otherwise group members who did not expect to encounter any more
disturbed forces and have opened up too much may suffer some energetic or emotional damage.