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The image? That's the thirtieth card in The Sacred Geometry Oracle. Card 31, the Sphere, when upright tells you that the possibilities before you are much bigger than you realize; when reversed, it tells you that you're completely missing what's going on. The sun in the upper left corner of the image tells you that this card belongs to the final third of the oracle, which corresponds to Nwyfre, the principle of spirit and meaning. We've completed our passage through the first two of the basic root functions of sacred geometry -- √3, the principle of the vesica piscis and the equilateral triangle, and √2, the principle of the square and its diagonal -- and now we're working with the √5, the seed from which the Golden Section unfolds and resolves all back into unity.

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I just got around to reading the post on Levi Chp 14 tonight, talking about astral projection, and I finally have a question for MM. Not to get too personal, but due to childhood experiences I have an uncanny ability to disassociate. I can tune people out while they're talking to me, while engaged in physical (cough)) activity, etc. But it's just a blank, and not spritual experience any way, like people say they go to a happy place? I seem to just disappear. It's like my spiritual or right brain is just gone. No feelings, often no memory. Sometimes I can be "on the edge" of "leaving" and I seem like nothing but an observer, really, quite left brain, over analytical, nitpicking even. Gevurah all the way, no chesed. You'd think that being able to disassociate would make things like astral projection and mystical experiences easy - but for me it has been just the opposite. I seem to have a deep chasm that separates me from connecting. I do have one weird strong feeling about something mystical, though: An absolute terror of mirrors for scrying or as portals, all my life since I was a teen. Even regular mirrors, I put the letter shin (like a mezuzzah) on the back at all 4 corners. I recently had to abandon a mental meditation map/world that I spent years building up b/c in one meditation a mirror broke and scary black fuzzy things came out and went everywhere. Maybe I did something stupid in a past life? But now I'm 54 and I'm tired of this and I want to figure out how to keep my spirit from being AWOL, running away to the deep or wherever, when I'm trying to connect with the Divine or have an astral experience? Any ideas? (anybody)

The traditional advice in the occult literature I've studied, if you've got something like a dissociative condition due to childhood trauma, is to encourage you to see a good Freudian or Jungian psychotherapist. I have no idea if that's an option for you, but the books I know of seem to think that a dissociative condition is nothing to mess with.

Thank you. Not sure I have insurance for that, but I'll look into it.

Not magical/spiritual directly, but Tim Ferriss talks about his childhood abuse, dealing with depression and dissociation through much of his life, and what worked for him to get to a better place in this interview. The same page also includes a list of a lot of different resources for folks dealing with similar challenges, maybe something on there can help: https://tim.blog/2020/09/14/how-to-heal-trauma/

Best wishes,
Jeff

I think we should give you a round of applause for this—almost everybody has something really bad to deal with. Thank you! 👏. I present you with the prestigious Order of the Cutekitten.

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