"Who heals the healers?": The Oracle within

Sophia_ · #1 07-05-2008, 11:49 AM

How can a person learn to speak with the Oracle?

For those who are interested in how I did it: It started when the Oracle spoke to me out of the blue. It started me on a wild and informative journey to mental health and happiness.

I just found a link which describes what I unknowingly did for the past 8 years.

For those who are curious-- Active Imagination -- The Oracle Within

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But over time, we learn both to recognize when we are inflated or depressed, and to dampen the extent of either. One excellent way to ground this process is simply to take the time to write the active imagination down in some sort of a journal so that you can refer back to it, just as you would a dream. I keep a combined journal of dreams and active imagination, with short biographical journal entries as well for each date. Active imagination is an incredibly powerful method for gaining access to information unavailable to consciousness. Those who try it will discover that each of us possesses an Oracle within who can be questioned in times of transition or difficulty.

Sophia_

Sophia_ · #2 07-05-2008, 01:58 PM

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Quote:

MAKE A MAN OF YOU

by Janis Ian

You've grown too tall again
Somebody better clip your wings
before you fly away
You are too bold to live
Somebody better learn to give
or learn to lose with grace
The sky knows your name now
The leaves, they fall too fast
You're dying in the grass
and I can't let this moment pass
Your breath it reeks of ocean breezes
Your eyes have turned too blue
The sky holds no challenge for you
What strange diseases
that make a man of you
Here is the sky's parole
Somebody's got to leave it whole
Go on and take it
The earth's too small to breath
and if you can't get free,
I know you can fake it
Your lips don't move the air
The sun comes tumbling down
You're fading into novas
and you leave me on the ground
Your face it reeks of ocean breezes
Your eyes have changed their hue
The skies hold no memory of you
What strange diseases
that make a man of you

c. 1999 Rude Girl Publishing, admin.. by Bug Music (BMI); all rights reserved.

Sometimes you just start writing, and let it lead you where it will. I wrote "Watercolors" like that,
not understanding what I was talking about until several years later. That's the beauty of being a
writer – in an ideal world, the work leads you, and you harness it and bend it to your needs. But
this song was "so strange" (to quote my record company at the time) that no one but me wanted
to put it out. Hah! now I finally get my way!

sundaydress · #3 07-05-2008, 02:29 PM

janis ian from mean girls?

Sophia_ · #4 07-05-2008, 03:04 PM

Thanks for not being mean.

*cherry bomb* · #5 07-05-2008, 10:14 PM

Janis Ian is gay. she's brilliant. she wrote Society's Child at age 15.