Healing the Wounded God: Finding your Personal Guide on your Way to Individuation and Beyond by Jeffrey Raff & Linda Bonnington Vocatura

Healing the Wounded God: Finding your Personal Guide on your Way to Individuation and Beyond by Jeffrey Raff & Linda Bonnington Vocatura

Author:Jeffrey Raff & Linda Bonnington Vocatura
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Nicolas-Hays, INC.


PART THREE

A Guide for the Process of Healing

Chapter 6

WORKING WITH THE ALLY

WE HAVE DISCUSSED the ally from a mostly theoretical position; now I wish to bring our discussion down to a more practical level. Ally meditation is a series of practices, processes, and experiences that carry you along the path and lead you to the culmination of ally work. In discussing the nature of ally meditation, I will probably create some erroneous impressions. For example, I will talk about the beginning and the end of ally work, though it has no firm beginning or end. Different people stop and start at different stages along the way. Hardly anyone starts at the very beginning and travels to the very end, especially since there is no known end to ally meditation. It continues for as long as you wish. Nor is the work linear in any real sense, for you can have an experience that belongs at the end of the map near the beginning of your work. You can have a deep, psychoidal experience that ushers in the work with the ally, and then spend years in active imagination without any further transpsychic encounters. However, keeping this in mind, it is still true that there are definite stages in ally work. You cannot truly move into the second stage without having achieved the first. In the process of working on the first stage, you may have experiences that belong to the second stage. But these act as enticements that give the ego some idea of where it is headed. They do not last for long, and soon the ego finds itself doing the work appropriate to the stage that it is in. Although the map that I shall discuss must not be used as a rule or strictly applied formula, it is accurate in the depiction of the major stages of the work.

It is also often dangerous to discuss maps, for people tend to use them either for self-criticism or self-aggrandizement. Whenever I have lectured on the journey of ally work, people invariably approach me after the lecture to ask where they are on the map. Usually they are disconcerted to learn that they are at the very beginning of the work, although they believe themselves to be quite advanced. Those who tend to self-criticism use such information to prove to themselves how “worthless” they are at a “hopeless” task. Those given to inflation are insulted that I would “grade” them so low and are quite sure I am wrong. Despite these handicaps, it is quite necessary to delineate a map.

This is especially so because work with the ally, exploration of the psychoid, formation of a union between human and Divine, and transformation within the Divine itself, are topics rarely discussed. For the most part, books and lectures that deal with the union between the human and Divine realms speak in a language suited to older ways of understanding and do not take into account our contemporary situation. Most undervalue the



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