I'm looking over the CGD druid grade pathworking lecture. In the initial description of the ascent from Naf to Ner to Muner, it states that previous work has prepared the reader to make the ascent without a description of the path above Ner or the grove of Spirit. I know I have some meditation in my future, but was wondering whether the expectation is for the reader to meditate and build up an image of how such a path is "supposed" to look or whether the reader should instead focus meditation on the underlying concepts, colors, symbols, etc of Muner and allow the path and grove of Spirit to be stumbled across as they turn up in the pathworking itself without prior explicit expectation?
Is there something I should be looking for experientially when I finally get to the grove of Spirit? I'm realizing I picked up the bad habit towards the end of the Bardic grade of following the path until something like "It's been awhile, I feel like finding the grove now" popped up in the back of my head and near instantly there would be the gate into the grove. I'm afraid I'm going to dutifully wander about on the path a bit the first time and then second time decide it's time to check the box and get to Spirit without knowing whether or not I made the connection to Spirit which the book says is the point of the pathworking.
For that matter, should I have noticed something connecting during the bardic pathworkings? I did all of them as assigned, but I can't point to anything in particular clicking. Not sure if I'm focusing too much on checking the boxes, or if I just have the magical senses of a brick.
Also, if one is interested in exploring pathworking further, how does the CGD handle pathworkings on concepts other than the Tree of Life or Elements? Should that involve the groves or would it be more prudent to just imagine a trilithon above my physical altar with a drape of appropriate color and symbol call/test a guide and step through? Is the calling of an element integral to CGD pathworking in general or only done to relate to the groves? Just trying to figure out where the wires are and which not to cross.
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CGD Druid Pathworkings
Date: 2021-05-31 08:42 am (UTC)Is there something I should be looking for experientially when I finally get to the grove of Spirit? I'm realizing I picked up the bad habit towards the end of the Bardic grade of following the path until something like "It's been awhile, I feel like finding the grove now" popped up in the back of my head and near instantly there would be the gate into the grove. I'm afraid I'm going to dutifully wander about on the path a bit the first time and then second time decide it's time to check the box and get to Spirit without knowing whether or not I made the connection to Spirit which the book says is the point of the pathworking.
For that matter, should I have noticed something connecting during the bardic pathworkings? I did all of them as assigned, but I can't point to anything in particular clicking. Not sure if I'm focusing too much on checking the boxes, or if I just have the magical senses of a brick.
Also, if one is interested in exploring pathworking further, how does the CGD handle pathworkings on concepts other than the Tree of Life or Elements? Should that involve the groves or would it be more prudent to just imagine a trilithon above my physical altar with a drape of appropriate color and symbol call/test a guide and step through? Is the calling of an element integral to CGD pathworking in general or only done to relate to the groves? Just trying to figure out where the wires are and which not to cross.