What do you know about the spirits of loa or non-sovereign beings in your essence?
Is it the case that you have indwelling spirits or entities with you, such as ancestral or gods/goddesses/deities? Do the spirits of place, such as Lares and Thought Forms move through you? Nature spirits may also be part of us as we are what we eat. Do you have impressions or thoughts around this?
2. What are your influences on self-integration?
Instruments: Are you a body with a mind, a mind with a body, or some other configuration of self? Do you access your higher self and move through these constructs into the manifest world, or are you whole as one unit of being?
Magi powers: The self-knowledge that stems from the sphinx (to know, to will, to dare, to keep silence) somehow helps us to analyze and observe our lives from a distanced yet embodied place. We are who we are, and yet, we are more than that and the more obvious it gets, the struggle to stay solid in one's being is escalated.
Tarot trumps: The major Arcana are deeply ingrained in the Western paradigm as unavoidable parts of the human experience that flow with us at any and all times, sometimes interacting in conflict or collaboration with each other, and elsewise just coexisting on a stream of manifestation of what it is to be alive in the context of originating here at this time on Earth.
Archetypal beings:
The deity forms and legends are among some of the Forms and powers that we acknowledge as archetypes. How do they play in to your life when you see them as shared experience, or when you access your higher wisdom and insight from that place of being greater than a human person on a limited life cycle?
What else could there be at play?
3. Mutiny of the spirit:
Integrated personalities have spotlights to step into. I read about this in a book called the Minds of Billy Milligan. It was a look at multiple personality disorder, which is now likely more often called dissociative identity disorder. When you acknowledge, name, or give a voice to these other aspects and facets of self, do you feel more whole, less integrated, or at peace at all? We all have them, many of us just sense them as moods, phases, or other pathways into self-ignorance. Can you make sense of your different social masks and professional hats, for example, using the model of "who am I, today?" or "I am not myself, right now, something is different"?
We come back from our journeys and visions, how? When life is immersive in one of it's aspects, rather than a view of all windows on self and the world, how do we navigate back to a place of stability and seeing clearly? In terms of integration work, what pieces of soul get left behind or come back to us through these shamanic or visionary works?
We walk each cycle of planks to dive deeply up. Where do you ascend to in your personal enlightenment?
4: parlays in the imax
Voice hearing and giving puppets training: Sometimes, I have been taught, we must give a physical, external body to the voices that we might hear in life: That one that calls your name but isn't behind you, the one that nags at you in your head about criticisms on how you live life, causing doubt. And so on. Making a doll or puppet for their airtime can be crucial to discussing with them as equals and not letting them run the show.
Immersion in the experience of conversationship with spirit entails that sometimes we can get to a point in our evolution as spiritual people, where mentors and other important connections from the past or present can either thwart our forward movement or come to a place of collaborating well with us on our goals by letting us just be, do, and have what we need to accomplish, provide, or sit with in space-holding. If we encourage and reward the positive and good behaviours that move with us, the effective and worthy aspects of these psychic interactions can be what we hold on to, represent, take responsibility for more often, and contribute on a wider scale than navigating basic skills of daily living. On days where we are hijacked, these skills go by the wayside or remain our only focus. How can we be the bosses of ourselves without dialogue with what holds us back or ceases to move us into a better place, or even throws us off balance too hard, too far or too often?
Muses that inspire us often bring good art to the table. Sometimes the muse sends a block, or sends a stream of fictional consciousness, something we don't agree to or agree with, something that gives too many worn out suggestions, or makes an effort to put words in our mouths, make us stutter or stumble, or generally just asserts itself way too often and too much, or for an extended period of hurdling through just trying to get a point across in an image or text. Muses should be creatively flowing us forward, but can also be usurped by whatever demons they carry themselves. Making room for word-dumps and unsavoury artforms gives us the breathing space to clear out those cobwebs of undesirable interference.
Let me know your spiritual experience or psychological ones with performing or presenting as multiple conflicting beings. I'd love to help you figure it out, and I have some questions of my own about which tools work for different individuals.
♥ Jacki Moss