The Lavender Files, part 6
Practicing centering and alignment. Prior ages and their ending. Function of prayer. Perspectives on the God of the Old Testament.
We’re nearing the end of the transmission, which started here with part 1. As in previous installments my voice is in italics, while the words of the Q’vareen are in plain text.
There is more that could be said about emotional regulation, as we have not touched upon hatred, for one. It is again a case of releasing what can be released and heeding the somatic message. However, we will move onto a new topic today.
We wish to discuss ways for you to align yourselves for the sake of integrity and coherence. The image we suggest is of a stack of tires. When the stack is centered, it is stable and useful. But even one off-center tire compromises the stack. What are these tires? They are your physical body, your emotional body, your spiritual or causal body, and so on: grosser and subtler aspects of the self.
An example of misalignment: an environmental activist who subsists on processed food and cigarettes (misalignment between intent and action, or between subtle and physical bodies). Or a priest with a pornography addiction. These are commonplace type examples, and it is tempting for you to chalk them up to human weakness: nobody’s perfect, etc. Our point, however, is that alignment is fundamental and can be actively cultivated to avoid these kinds of compromises. And as alignment is achieved, you will be able to handle more will become a very useful person, simply by virtue of your alignment.
Those who’ve tried throwing a pot on a potter’s wheel know how elusive the centering process can be, initially. Yet once the clay is centered, it tends to stay that way, like a spinning top that continues to spin on its axis.
As it happens, spinning is a fine image for our purposes and a useful practice in itself. Spinning, as dervishes and hoopers and ice skaters do, is a kind of short-cut toward finding alignment. Spinning tends to spin off anything that’s in excess, and to help align what remains.
But today we offer another, more accessible practice that supports alignment and centering. This is best done after having released any strong emotions, i.e. when you are feeling fairly calm and neutral.
Begin seated cross-legged on the floor if able; otherwise, you may sit in a chair. Feel your sit bones and become aware of your spine. Rock gently side to side, noting as you pass through the midline. Let the rocking get smaller and subtler until it ceases over the course of about half a minute and you come to rest in the center of the left-right plane. Now rock forward and backward, again noticing as you pass through center; let the rocking diminish until you come to rest. You have just centered yourself along two different planes. We will be connecting through the vertical dimension through the central axis you have just affirmed.
As you exhale, gently lift your hands palm up in front of your torso, rotating your wrists outward as your hands pass in front of your face so that your palms face outward as your arms spread above head height. Exhaling, spread your arms fully (the elbow should still be slightly bent) and smoothly lower them, palms facing down, along your sides. As your hands descend toward your abdomen, scoop them back in, bringing the hands together so the fingers nearly touch. Start another round with an inhale as you lift once again through your midline. With a little practice this will become a smooth, flowing circular motion.
Continue for several minutes, longer if you wish. The practice should be not rushed, but neither should it be forced. Do what feel right for you in this moment.
Once you have the basic breath and movement, the next layer is to picture a tree: breathe up the trunk and out to the tips of the branches, then rain down to make contact with the furthest root tips in the earth before gathering inward again.
Some will note that this movement is similar to something seen in qigong or taiji as well as in other movement traditions. There are many variations possible. The point is not to slavishly adhere to any one form, but we offer this as a starting point.
Those who are mathematically inclined may note the toroidal flow pattern being traced, with the tree trunk growing through the “doughnut hole” in the center of the torus and the branches and roots spreading along the curved surface.
The practice may be enhanced by visualizing a very bright, concentrated point of light moving up your trunk as you inhale the hands up. Picture the point vacuuming up any debris as it moves up your torso/spine, and returning that debris to the earth as compost as you exhale your hands down to the rootlets.
You may notice some shivers, shudders or twitches as you practice. These are signs of blockages being released as you start to move towards greater alignment.
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About Atlantis—What I’ve read of Dolores Cannon’s regression material suggests they were a technologically advanced civilization that brought about their own demise through hubris and defying the gods somehow, or going too far in bending the natural order to their will.
That is broadly accurate. The parallels with your current civilization are notable. But you are wondering about our role. At that time interventions were limited to ensuring that scions of Atlantis survived to establish colonies elsewhere—in the Andes, the Nile Delta, and other regions.
Why wasn’t it appropriate to forestall the cataclysm? Surely not all who died were responsible for whatever travesties were being done—
Not all, no. Nor were the passengers on the Titanic responsible for hitting the iceberg, but they went down with the ship. We did not choose their fate and neither were we free to prevent it. There were other powers involved.
What powers?
The gods, let us call them. Beings involved in the unfolding of life on your planet.
From your perspective, then, are our gods beings with an objective existence?
It’s an involved topic that’s been subject to much obfuscation and blurring of distinctions. There are several different categories involved. For instance, there are more advanced beings who have been involved on Earth and who were regarded by the Earthlings of their day as gods. Some of these were incarnate, others not. The God of the Old Testament is of this second category.
We have touched on prayer and its function, which is partly a means of navigation: prayer sets your rudder and your intent. There is no alignment without such intent or higher purpose.
This word, purpose, doesn’t mean you must know what your ultimate aims are—usually this is asking too much of yourself. Setting intent and aligning around that intent is an ongoing, iterative process. Just as, out in the wilderness, you might set your course for a certain mountain, and once you’ve reached it you set your sights on something else. Indeed you may change course before reaching the mountain, because perhaps the ocean came into view. Navigating toward that mountain was still useful even if you determine the ocean was your real goal. Purpose and intent can be like this: provisional, lasting until something more inspired is available.
Prayer can be simple: “May I find my way out of this mess.” “Help me to help those dealing with [X] so they don’t have to suffer like I did.” “Give me the strength to confront [so-and-so].”
Prayer can be general or specific. Personal or impersonal. Silent or aloud.
Pray as you feel moved, finding your own way with it. If prayer is new to you, it may feel awkward at first. This is normal. Be gentle with yourself the way you would be gentle with a small child taking her first steps. Encouragement is what is needed, not harshness.
All prayers are heard, though some are like crickets in the night and some like a wolf’s howl. Still, all are heard and taken into account in the cosmic ledger. Not all are answered or fulfilled, but more are answered than is generally appreciated. And often an answered prayer will take an unexpected form and may not be recognized as such.
Very seldom do we see someone who over-relies on prayer. Our general counsel is to pray more. Pray from the heart, pray for your life and the lives around you, pray for your teetering world and the qualities needed to play your part in the great turning.
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Returning to this question of God. How does what you’ve shared square with religion, in particular the Judeo-Christian tradition and the God of the Old Testament?
Here we enter charged ground, a minefield of potential misunderstandings and offences. The Old Testament God, Yahweh, both is and is not who he purports to be. He is a higher-order being, to be sure, with much power at one time; the Bible contains many stories that area true in fact or in essence. That same Bible also reveals him to be a vengeful and jealous God, for he is one deity among many (else why the need for jealousy?) and not the be-all, end-all as he would have you believe.
A long-hidden gnostic text recovered from Nag Hammadi has the right of it: in this text, God is chastised severely by his spiritual higher ups for putting on airs and playing power games.
His purview has been curtailed since Biblical days: he no longer intervenes in material fashion. No one these days is turned to a salt pillar.
Like all of us, he is on a journey of growth and evolution.
It makes sense that the Biblical God is not the only deity, nor the ultimate. Yet many make no distinction and instead orient their prayers, their spiritual lives, to him…
Instinctively, many supplicants aim their prayers above his level, to the Most High.
In truth there are many layers and orders of spiritual reality, and one need not comprehend them all in order to be aligned. This knowledge we have shared about Yahweh is part of the gnostic path trodden by few; we offer it for those who seek. For the rest, no need to fret about such matters.