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Feeding Your Demons
An article in Tricycle by Tsultrim Allione. Here are the 5 steps given to feeding rather than fighting our "demons."
1. Find the Demon. Think about the issue or demon you've decided to work with and let your awareness scan your body. Locate where you are holding this energy. Once you find the feeling, intensify it, exaggerate it. Investigate it in fine discriminating detail.
2. Personify the Demon. And ask it what it needs. Let whatever shows up, just show up without editing or judging. Ask 3 questions: What do you want from me? What do you need from me? How will you feel if you get what you need?
3. Become the Demon. Try to answer the questions from the demon's point of view.
4. Feed the Demon. And meet the Ally. Imagine your body melting into a nectar of whatever it was that the demon requested and feed it to the demon. When it is fully satisfied, the demon may disappear or be transformed into an Ally. Invite the Ally to appear and ask it: How will you serve me? What pledge will you make to me? How will you protect me? How can I gain access to you?
5. Rest in Awareness. Once the demon is feed and the ally integrated, just rest. Try not to fill up this space, just let it be.
1. Find the Demon. Think about the issue or demon you've decided to work with and let your awareness scan your body. Locate where you are holding this energy. Once you find the feeling, intensify it, exaggerate it. Investigate it in fine discriminating detail.
2. Personify the Demon. And ask it what it needs. Let whatever shows up, just show up without editing or judging. Ask 3 questions: What do you want from me? What do you need from me? How will you feel if you get what you need?
3. Become the Demon. Try to answer the questions from the demon's point of view.
4. Feed the Demon. And meet the Ally. Imagine your body melting into a nectar of whatever it was that the demon requested and feed it to the demon. When it is fully satisfied, the demon may disappear or be transformed into an Ally. Invite the Ally to appear and ask it: How will you serve me? What pledge will you make to me? How will you protect me? How can I gain access to you?
5. Rest in Awareness. Once the demon is feed and the ally integrated, just rest. Try not to fill up this space, just let it be.
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Palzang
I am not sure that I was a human in my previous life. It seems to me quite likely that I was a hungry ghost.
You may find some amusement in the fact that Roberto Assagioli, who founded/created Psychosynthesis, was part of Alice Bailey's wide circle of correspondents. Alice Bailey was a "channeller" of a vast body of work on esoteric subjects, allegedly dictated to her by "Tibetan Masters" (a quite common 'delusion' among channellers pre-War). To her, Assagioli was a high initiate.
I have to say that I have more than a little scepticism about channelling and have found Alice Bailey almost unreadable. I did read a lot of it at a time when I had an esotericist client. Assagioli and his pupil Ferrucci had a great effect on me at a time when I was beginning to find my training in T.A. and Gestalt too mechanistic. Piero Ferrucci wrote a wondeful book called What We May Be.
Yes, we all cycle through all realms of existence constantly (which is why they call it cyclic existence). We are not guaranteed rebirth as a human, in fact, far from it. If you are in a crowd of people, a good rule of thumb is that about 90% will take a lower rebirth (i.e. in the animal, hell or hungry ghost realms). That's a very sobering contemplation. Try it the next time you're at a crowded mall!
Palzang
Rainer Maria Rilke
(Quote from Hillman and Ventura – ‘We’ve Had 100 Years of Psychotherapy and The World’s Getting Worse’)