TRAINING FOR THE OSC (Ordinary State of Consciousness)

The moon has just passed first quarter.  Having to wait three days for the Crescent, in order to perform my ceremonies, makes the waxing moon an abbreviated phase.  Diana rules the waxing moon.  I am only just now learning to discern her vibes.  Hecate has been so powerful with me over the years –she is the only one to have had sex with me, for instance.  And she always helps me clean house.

It took me a few days to regain my energies after the Kooti Despacho, but today I’m feeling much more energy.  Jesus entered my RDSE sequence this morning, exclaiming in the rush of energies, “I DIE!”.  I’m not happy to have him back with me, but maybe there’s something I can learn from this phase of the experience.  New Moon is several weeks away, and I won’t be able to execute another Kooti Despacho until then.  I did make a start on a Mojo Box to hold his spirit, just this afternoon.

With Diana, I’m energized to make some gains in the outer world.  My experiences are so far out of line with anyone else’s, it’s hard to find a way to present them.  As the energies move and change, I seem to have discovered a point of entry, and a way to organize my material, so that I can “turn the heads” of my audience.  I really don’t present what they’re looking for.  The glut of Shamanic Practitioners and other new age healing modalities has warped the noosphere.  It should be interesting to observe the fallout from this twist.  New things are always bred from bad beginnings.

I inadvertently referred to Michael Harner’s phrase, the OSC, or Ordinary State of Consciousness, in another article.  It seems to me that this phrase is sufficiently ‘psyche-neutral’ to slip past the spell-check on the Ordinary State of Consciousness which holds my readers.

The Shamanic State of Consciousness (SSC) is so much vaster, and so much more in touch with Reality, and has so many ‘risky’ doorways, that it’s no wonder so few really venture into it.

The ‘paranormal’ craze has many people trapped in a sort of pseudo-Shamanic state –a state paralyzed by birth defects of the psyche.  Any time you see the words paranormal, or occult, run like crazy!  These are dead-ends of the psyche.

Harner hit on such a beautiful entryway into the SSC, with the simple drum-induced state of the Shamanic Journey!  I’ve always regretted that I was taken away from this mode, but the experience of psychic union with the Gods has been stupendous.  No one really wants to go through what I’ve had to go through, to get there, though!

It always amuses me that people with spend thousands of dollars to travel thousands of miles in a cramped airplane, being groped by TSA agents, to a jungle hut, a Shaman they don’t know, and twenty other strangers all puking and shitting in the jungle to get high on ayahuasca, when all they have to do is get a pendulum, a pair of divining rods, and do several years of work with crystals and vortexes, and they can take their own OSC into the realm of the Gods.  Where’s the glamour in that?

And they end up trapped in the awareness of the ayahuasca or peyote deva, instead of flying on the wings of their own consciousness, --their own Medicine Energies.

II

Just what is the OSC?  The Ordinary State of Consciousness; you could call it the Ego, but that would be misleading.  We are so far wrong in our bad attitude toward the ego!  More on that later….

The OSC is the monster-child of the Second Natural Enemy of the Spiritual Warrior –Sociology.  The OSC is a paraplegic amputee.  It can’t see upward, it can’t see downward, to the right or the left, and it’s nearsighted.  With such a limited focus, it’s a miracle we’ve achieved anything at all!  But very predictable that what we have achieved is on the verge of destroying our wonderful planet.

The OSC is the step-child of the Christian paradigm divorced from the pagan/indigenous universe and remarried to the Industrial Revolution.  The OSC is a prisoner locked in the skull.

The beauty of yoga is that it provides a way to form an energetic bridge between the mind-trapped-in-the-skull, and the energetic aspects of the physical human body.

The beauty of Shamanic Practice is that it provides a way to form an energetic bridge between the mind-trapped-in-the-body and the mindspace intelligence of the physical universe.

The beauty of observing the phases of the moon is that they form a bridge from “being (trapped) in the moment”, to an extension of visceral time as the energetic psyche transports itself through time and space in the physical/psychic body.  Linked with the phases of the moon through the time-space-psyche of the human body, the human awareness (OSC) becomes a multidimensional extension into the infinite doorways of infinity.

MORNING MOONGLOW THROUGH CLOUDS

Sometimes the moon drags on like a bad movie.  Any time after Full Moon can be called the Dark Moon phase, depending on how you feel.  Knowing what part of the cycle you're in can be a big help if times are difficult.  You can usually count on some kind of change as the cycle progresses.  If nothing else, following the lunar changes gives you something else to think about.

In Yakima (Yakistan, as I like to call it), we're sheltered from the rain of the Puget Sound area by the Cascade Mountains.  We're in the rain shadow.  More than that, we're in the 'donut hole'.  The weather hits the Pacific Northwest from the Bering Sea, coming over Vancouver Island and Puget Sound before hitting the mountains, which catch most of the moisture.  The mountains run all the way down the Pacific Coast, but are broken near Portland, where the Columbia River enters the Pacific.  The winds come through the Columbia Gorge, some distance south of Yakima, and circle up the backside of the Cascades, bringing us an unusual South Wind, called the Chinook, after the salmon of the Columbia River.  It's usually a warm wind, bringing air from the desert southwest.

Yakima is tucked in behind Mt. Rainier, at the tail end of this northward Chinook flow, which mostly travels to the east of us, so that satellite photos show an area of zero clouds right over Yakima, even in stormy weather.

This summer has been long, hot, and very dry.  Hundreds of wildfires have plagued the Eastern Washington forests, as dry lightning has hit us several times during the summer.  Smoke has been a constant factor in the atmosphere.  Temperatures have been unusually high, and it's still warmer than usual for this time of Autumn.

This morning, Friday, as I went out for my daily pre-dawn check-up on the premises, I noticed a faint moonglow in the east, blurred by a thin layer of cloud cover.  As predicted, the weather is changing, a few days before the New Moon on Monday.  The clouds are very welcome at my house!  I'm more suited to the moisture of the Seattle area.  Even though the UV index is much lower this time of year, my aging energy field is very sensitive to the intensity of the sun under the lack of moisture in the skies.

This waning moon time has been very busy for me, after suffering from the intensity of the summer.  Lots of projects getting ready for winter, which can hit very abruptly, any time now.  And I've been learning the art of the Despacho Ceremony.

Practicing this ceremony is a very good way to bring together the many strands of energies which run through the tattwas of your life-path.  The practice of lunar observation and the culmination of the moon phase in ceremony of this type calls for bringing exact definition to aspects of the journey which need to be changed in some way, or celebrated.

The Medicine Energies are strong in my apartment and in the yard I've created.  It's time to corral these energies and bring some concrete benefits to my life and practice.  I missed the moment at the last moon phase, due to incomplete preparation and interference from Marilyn Monroe.  So I'm giving it another try this time.

I've been able to invent some techniques and develop some equipment which will help to gather and hold the specific energies I intend to work with.  Now I have a few days to bring it all together and perform the Kooti Ceremony to cut the cords binding me to The Monroe.  This time, I have the Ayni Ceremony tools which I lacked before.

Now, I just have to manage to control the energies of my life-path with enough discipline to be able to bring off the ceremony at an appropriate time.  Hopefully, the change of weather accompanying this change of the moon will enable the authorities to lift the ban on outdoor burning which has been in effect most of the summer.  I realized that my last burning would have been a violation of the practice of Ayni, or 'right relationship', because of the burn ban in effect at the time.

There are so many factors which shape the tattwas!  I enjoy developing the discipline to recognize all the relevant forces which affect the ceremony, and learning ways to work with them to achieve a harmonious outcome.

MORNING-AFTER MOON

It's a relief to have the Full Moon gone!  This moon was a rotten one at Shamaland.  It's hard to tell if my Despacho Ceremony from the last New Moon is responsible.  I did a ceremony to complete the riddance of Marilyn Monroe and Jesus from my energy field and life-path, a 'Kooti' Despacho.  But I forgot to follow it immediately with an 'Ayni' Despacho, to seal out the negatives which had been banished.  I received various 'touches' from Marilyn Monroe during the two weeks, and resolved to bring about a way to deal with that issue.

By last night (Sunday), I was certain that the moon had changed, and installed the Hecate altar.  I had failed to bring about the Harvest Despacho.  There was simply too much tamas in the atmosphere from the weeks of smoke, and from the presence of Marilyn Monroe.  I'm just not that strong yet!  (I discovered that was the meaning of the dream message that 'it's the gonads, not the chakras, which brings about the ceremony.')  Got to strengthen my gonads!

And several things about the Despacho seemed inappropriate.  I'm still learning what materials to use.  There are many factors to consider, once you get deeper into the process.

This morning it was a pleasure to be with Hecate.  The air seemed clear.  The energies were good.  Several places got cleaned as I moved about in the morning.  And then I glanced out the bedroom window, as the light grew strong enough to illuminate the vacant lot next door.  Flashes of white and gray showed through the green slats inserted in the cyclone fence between the lots.  I went outside while the breakfast cooked, and discovered that during the night, someone had dumped a huge grey couch in the lot, with its large rectangular chunks of foam rubber cushions scattered about.  This little slum neighborhood catches a lot of refuse, in the alleys and vacant lots!

So now to get ready for Ceremony at the New Moon, just after my 70th birthday.  After many, many years of working with these moon cycles, it just gets deeper and deeper, like a river which never empties.  The moon pulls you along.  It's a marvelous teacher and companion.

As a part of the Medicine Energies, the moon teaches the Energy Body (energy field awareness) to realize its own awareness.  The Energy Body picks up the intelligence of the Vortexes in the house and yard, as they change and mature from the attentions of the Shaman.  It's been six years in this location, and quite an education from these vortexes, with still more and more to come, as the season changes into autumn, and very quickly into winter.  The vortexes are planning their surprises for me!