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(I wrote this for a friend, and it came out well enough for me to send to the usual suspects — among them, you. Do try it, and by all means let me know how it works for you. Experiment. If you find useful additions or changes, I’d be very interested to hear about them. To your health!)

The biggest problem with this powerful technique seems to be to get people to take it seriously enough to really try it. It sounds too simple to be effective. Well, it is simple. It is also effective. Give it one long open-minded try, and if it doesn’t work for you, what have you lost? A little time. If you find it useful, feel free to pass it on to others.

1) The meditation on the waters of life and health

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When I didn’t know what else I intended to see in Oregon, I knew Crater Lake and Mount Hood. Volcanoes are power spots – sacred spots, I now call them – and the offer opportunities not available elsewhere. Matching consciousness to the “vibration” of such an energy is something like grounding an electrical wire so that the current may flow.

Some years earlier, my friends Jim and Michael and I had climbed onto snow-covered Mount Shasta and had spent a couple of magical hours there. We had known to connect with it – or, said more carefully, we had known to connect with the psychic energy that underlies it – and we had created a brief ceremony expressing who we were and what we hoped for. That mid-summer day’s tourists and skiers had been no distraction; we had enjoyed the day on many levels and I had not forgotten.

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My friend Michael and I arrived at Crater Lake at mid-morning, after three hours on the road. We came in from the north, so came down the Rim Road that skirts the western edge of the crater. I pulled in to the first turnout, anxious to connect with the energy of what I knew had to be a sacred spot – one of the sacred places of the earth. The earth has no shortage of power spots, but you don’t everyday come across a place, like this drowned volcano crater, so intimately connected with fire and water both.

A couple of months before, in a workshop on connecting with non-physical beings, I had interacted with a non-human life-form which, I cam to realize, was the energy behind a sacred spot. It was a sort of transparent doorway connecting our physical realm with a portion of the non-physical realm. Until then, it had never occurred to me that sacred-spot energy might be intelligent and conscious; I suppose I had thought of it as a sort of automatic by-product of geographical and other forces. But it became clear that this “energy” was in fact a conscious non-human, non-material, being.

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