Aerin
The Seeker speaks: "The world is darkening about me. The feet of dancers are stilled: the voicers of singers are silent. Someone must find the sould of the land once more. I travel to restore what has been lost. Oh blackbirds, may your singing be my guide as I step upon the rainbow road of dreams!"
The Fool's Progress (my summary):
This course is based on the unfolding of your own story and its interaction with the larger story of our time - both are important. Our quest is to become empowered to be a more effective actor in the interwoven fabric of life. We will find what we seek only if we give ourselves up to the inner journey. The world sees this as foolish, if we counted the cost none of us would start our inner journey. Part of us must be like the Seeker, listen to the blackbirds if the way is unclear.
The Seekr is still the Fool, fools are wise in ways ordinary people cannot guess (e.g. the lazy youngest son in fairy tales who wins through ingenuity). Fools play games seriously and work playfully.
Going over the abyss needs courage, we have our personal abyss with monsters fears and doubts; most don't look too closely or often in case we get bitten. The choices for the Seeker are: remain in the Wasteland, fall into the abyss, leap over it and enter the unknown landscape. Explore:
1. What is the Wasteland to you?
2. What lurks in the abyss?
3.What do you hope/ think/ feel lies ahead?
Yourself as Seeker:
During the coming quests you will undergo many experiences and awakenings. Before beginning, assess yourself and clarify direction:
1. Who are you as a person?
2. What is your life's purpose? What would you like it to be, if you are unsure?
3. What are your greatest strengths?
4. What are your skills?
What kind of quest are you already on? What do you seek? What do you hope to find/ achieve?
6 What needs the most empowerment in your life right now?
7. What is your seeking style e.g. deadly earnest, plodding, adventurous, cautios, dilatory, swift playful, etc
Tasks:
1. Write an incident from life where you had choices a) wise and b) foolish. Write your story as if you chose the b) alternative, whether or not you actually did. What might the outcome have been? OR tell a stroy where you felt very foolish or disadvantaged, and when the foolishness is revealed turn it round so the foolish action becomes a wise one. Do this either in the first person or as if telling about someone else, maybe as a fairy tale.
2. Select the Seeker from the pack, shuffle and extract a series of cards to create situations which you as Seeker have encountered (use the book meanings or the face value picture as you want). Write a story where the Seeker meets with these situations/ places/ people, using the cards as story components.
3. Create an opening affirmation with which you can start each meditation session e.g. 'From this world to that world, I go to meet (title of card)'
Meditation on The Seeker:
In this lesson you begin meditating on specific cards. The following meditation should be spread over a few days rather than at once. Accept experience and record it, relate seemingly irrelevant images/ feelings to the meditation subject.
1. Without referring to the book, look at the Seeker. What is the general feeling of the card? How do you feel looking at it?
2. Close your eyes and enter the card answering: What is it like being is this landscape? What can you see from this cliff top?
3. Become the Seeker, who can be of either sex. (Or alternatively if this is too hard then question him.) Find out:
Where are you going?
What do you seek?
What are the blackbirds saying to you?
What are the uses of the things you carry: staff, knife, helmet, pendant stone.
4. The rainbow path takes you from your world into the inner worlds. As you explore, be aware of the Rainbow path forming a crossroads facing N, S, E, W. You will be taking each in turn in the next part of the course.
Phew!!! That should keep us busy!
Aerin
The Fool's Progress (my summary):
This course is based on the unfolding of your own story and its interaction with the larger story of our time - both are important. Our quest is to become empowered to be a more effective actor in the interwoven fabric of life. We will find what we seek only if we give ourselves up to the inner journey. The world sees this as foolish, if we counted the cost none of us would start our inner journey. Part of us must be like the Seeker, listen to the blackbirds if the way is unclear.
The Seekr is still the Fool, fools are wise in ways ordinary people cannot guess (e.g. the lazy youngest son in fairy tales who wins through ingenuity). Fools play games seriously and work playfully.
Going over the abyss needs courage, we have our personal abyss with monsters fears and doubts; most don't look too closely or often in case we get bitten. The choices for the Seeker are: remain in the Wasteland, fall into the abyss, leap over it and enter the unknown landscape. Explore:
1. What is the Wasteland to you?
2. What lurks in the abyss?
3.What do you hope/ think/ feel lies ahead?
Yourself as Seeker:
During the coming quests you will undergo many experiences and awakenings. Before beginning, assess yourself and clarify direction:
1. Who are you as a person?
2. What is your life's purpose? What would you like it to be, if you are unsure?
3. What are your greatest strengths?
4. What are your skills?
What kind of quest are you already on? What do you seek? What do you hope to find/ achieve?
6 What needs the most empowerment in your life right now?
7. What is your seeking style e.g. deadly earnest, plodding, adventurous, cautios, dilatory, swift playful, etc
Tasks:
1. Write an incident from life where you had choices a) wise and b) foolish. Write your story as if you chose the b) alternative, whether or not you actually did. What might the outcome have been? OR tell a stroy where you felt very foolish or disadvantaged, and when the foolishness is revealed turn it round so the foolish action becomes a wise one. Do this either in the first person or as if telling about someone else, maybe as a fairy tale.
2. Select the Seeker from the pack, shuffle and extract a series of cards to create situations which you as Seeker have encountered (use the book meanings or the face value picture as you want). Write a story where the Seeker meets with these situations/ places/ people, using the cards as story components.
3. Create an opening affirmation with which you can start each meditation session e.g. 'From this world to that world, I go to meet (title of card)'
Meditation on The Seeker:
In this lesson you begin meditating on specific cards. The following meditation should be spread over a few days rather than at once. Accept experience and record it, relate seemingly irrelevant images/ feelings to the meditation subject.
1. Without referring to the book, look at the Seeker. What is the general feeling of the card? How do you feel looking at it?
2. Close your eyes and enter the card answering: What is it like being is this landscape? What can you see from this cliff top?
3. Become the Seeker, who can be of either sex. (Or alternatively if this is too hard then question him.) Find out:
Where are you going?
What do you seek?
What are the blackbirds saying to you?
What are the uses of the things you carry: staff, knife, helmet, pendant stone.
4. The rainbow path takes you from your world into the inner worlds. As you explore, be aware of the Rainbow path forming a crossroads facing N, S, E, W. You will be taking each in turn in the next part of the course.
Phew!!! That should keep us busy!
Aerin
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