Factores internos

For the earth time runs much slower than for us humans. If we look at the expansion of a town around us over a period of some decades, we will see how yet another piece of land is built upon, how another urban district comes into being, how a new route expands the traffic network, etc. Like a mosaic spreading out in space the town’s body grows in a more or less systematic manner.

In terms of the earth’s and nature’s idea of time, though, even the expansion of modern cities that takes place over several decades seems to occur like an explosion. Within ‘a few seconds’ the living earth is torn open, as it were, its ener-gy systems uprooted and thrown into chaos, the elemental

beings ruthlessly chased out, and rigid structures erected that hardly allow the breath of life to enter. This wave of destruction which puts the landscape into suspended ani-mation spreads like a whirlwind in all directions. What is left behind after this wave of destruction has passed is a dense urban landscape which it is extremely hard for nature to keep alive and which is in permanent danger of becoming a desert.

The explosive expansion of cities may well take place with-in the guidelwith-ines of city plannwith-ing, which seems to be carried out in a reasonable, ‘orderly’ way. There is a shadow side to it, though, that is unfortunately the opposite of orderliness – that is, all-destroying chaos. What is worse is that we are not consciously aware of the essentially destructive nature of this process, at least in the cities of the wealthy nations, because an almost pedantic orderliness on the functional level obscures it. On its shadow side, this emphatically rational-istic order displays a lack of love in relating to the earth’s life systems.

Once again I must stress here that I am not at all hostile towards civilisation, but I assert the need to progress towards a balanced multidimensionality. The power of the heart – compassion towards the visible and invisible entities of the earth’s systems – should be creatively incorporated into the development of civilisation on a par with the powers of rea-son. Essentially we are talking not only about making it equal in value but about setting different priorities. Relating and communicating lovingly with the life systems of the earth should unquestionably take priority over any rational plan-ning and decision-making, because only this can ensure holis-tic development that includes all aspects of life.

If this does not happen, the development of civilisation will continue to generate tremendous amounts of negative-ly charged energy which hangs over urban structures like huge clouds, invisible to the physical eye. Uprooted forces that once belonged to different, now destroyed, energy systems of

the urban landscape, are mixed with the obscured emotion-al energies of the suffering elementemotion-al beings who have been driven from their focal points and their tasks. Also attached to it is the ‘emotional waste’ of the town’s inhabitants who are incapable of handling their emotions in a more harmo-nious or creative manner and therefore expel them into the astral atmosphere (the emotional plane) of the place. The Angel of Earth Healing had pointed out to us accumulations of this kind of energy for the first time in June 1994 after we – together with our earth-healing group – had spent quite some time getting to the bottom of the problems in the town of Murska Sobota in the east of Slovenia. Sixty years previ-ously this town had barely existed. There was only a castle with very lovely, spacious grounds and a small village. When the socialist regime came to power, the place was declared a regional capital and accordingly within a few decades became industrialised and grew much bigger.

After my wife Marika and I had worked for two years at the lithopuncture of the park and between times had worked with groups on cleansing and revitalising the vital-energetic organs of the urban landscape, Devos praised our efforts: the level of energy was mounting, he said, and the town was in the process of opening up. Nonetheless it was still burdened by weights that were pulling it into a quagmire. To show us one such ‘nightmare point’ he had me go to the furthest cor-ner of a school sports field and sense a focal point of nega-tively charged urban forces. He had warned me beforehand to protect myself well on a personal energetic level, so that I would not be harmed: ‘These are, in the true sense of the word, energies gone berserk, aggressive forces that come into existence with every urban development, although ordinar-ily they are more spread out over the entire town area and are therefore not quite so murderously dangerous. They are a phenomenon that goes along with city growth. It will be clear to you that this is a profound interference with nature and therefore with the natural energy systems and the world

of all the entities that used to live in the area. We are deal-ing here with an aggressive stance on the part of humankind, inflicted by painful methods. To all of us it is evident that civilisation as it is cannot proceed in any other way. But it depends on how growth is driven on. It would be possible to perform any of these procedures in a much more moder-ate and grounded way. Instead, you allow ‘poisonous’ focal points and accumulations of this kind to develop which rep-resent an opposite pole to the city’s development and embody an incredible power that can even unleash catastrophes. One could call these kinds of points focal points for urban sui-cide.’

Last, when we were setting out to do our release-work under his guidance, Devos warned us to protect ourselves personally as well as a group. He emphatically advised us against doing anything aggressively, as this could trigger even more profound chaos in the already strongly negatively polarised vibrational mass. Moreover, we should not endeav-our to solve the entire problem in one go, because the amor-phous mass had a lot of branches and points to which it clung. As a fourth point, he encouraged us to approach the problem lovingly, even if our feelings of love and compas-sion were rejected by the negatively polarised energies. At least we could gain the help of positive energies from the environment. Fifth, Devos advised any group members who at this instant felt unstable or anxious, to leave the group for the duration of this particular task. As he explained it, here we were dealing predominantly with emotional energies that had been negatively charged by pain, unhappiness, grief, despair, etc.

First, we purified the place by chanting. Second, an en-ergy shaft was created by means of colour visualisation, which was to serve as a ‘cleansing apparatus’. Through a specific dance pattern taught to us by the Angel of Earth Healing we kept pulling the negatively charged forces into the shaft from below, so as to guide them to the top via a transformation

Figure 10

Group singing to cleanse the castle courtyard at Murska Sobota, Slovenia, 1993

process. The cleansed forces we were then to scatter throughout the urban area with the help of the colours blue and purple.

Since then I have had to perform this kind of task in var-ious European towns and have been taught to use a variety of methods for purification. As a rule we work at different points in the cities, most of the time in the emotional cen-tres, so that we can access the main astral accumulations, which are spread throughout a city’s emotional atmosphere like amoebae.

Some dramatic events have occurred at times, for exam-ple when we found out during a cleansing process that inside the astral accumulations entire ‘pockets’ of demonised ele-mental beings were mixed in with the psychic remnants of people who had died in distress. In this case a cleansing is not sufficient. It is necessary also to work on the level of con-sciousness, that is to say to help the ‘trapped’ entities to become consciously aware of their situation, to guide them through a transformation process and finally to help them attain their preordained position within the universal order (see also Part Five/5 ‘Trapped soul remnants’).

The dissolution of a city’s negatively polarised astral ener-gies is an impossible task unless civilisation changes its destructive attitude towards the invisible dimensions of the urban landscape.