Earth Surrender Rites
Earth Surrender Rites
This grounding technique can be an effective prepatory rite for ceremonies evoking great charge, light and/or psychic energy and also for releasing excess this same type of excess charge. The purpose of this techniques is with stabilization of individual and collective energy fields. This can be done alone or in groups. Groups of three, sit in a triangle; four, a square; five, a pentagram; six, a hexagon (6-pointed star). Any more, form a circle and any less, sit across from one another. Without physically touching anyone, close your eyes and settle your awareness in the base of the spine; let gravity gather there like an anchor.
Imagaine or feel the base of your spine opening. If your feet are flat on the ground, feel your arches opening. Let your body be as a hollow shell with these openings. Watch your breathing and let it be natural; don't force or hold your breath. On the inhale, breathe in EARTH ENERGY up through the spine's base and/or the arches and on the exhale, circulate this EARTH ENERGY throughout your entire body. Repeat this cycle of connected energetic breathing and fill yourself with EARTH ENERGY.
Let this earth energy continue circulating in your body. The earth energy you take in and circulate, the more "dense" it will tend to feel. How much density can you permit ? To increase the flow, breathe deeper while dialating the openings where you are drawing it up from. To decrease the flow, breathe more shallow. You are looking for your point of maximum density without losing consciousness.
Become aware of yourself as a bump on the planet. Get a sense of yourself as a protuberance of the planet itself; no difference between yourself and the planet. Be receptive to its vast support and strength. Begin resonating sounds that match the frequency of the EARTH ENERGY. No need to control the sound or create melody. Let the EARTH ENERGY determine tone, pitch, key, and sonic direction. Simply resonate a sound to match the energy itself. While maintaining this cycle of connected breath, exhale EARTH ENERGY through your arms and out your palms and fingertips. Keep cycling EARTH ENERGY through your own body and out your hands. Continue until you personally feel done and and then send the excess Earth Energy to the core of the planet.
excerpted from
TOWARDS AN ARCHEOLOGY OF THE SOUL
by Antero Alli (Vertical Pool, 2003)
ANTERO
ALLI -- PARATHEATRE BIO
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