For those of us who have been given the Seer's gift one of the most painful
discoveries of our gift is accepting the Seer's Burden. We move into the
realm of mystical experience, epiphanies of pure understanding and complex
experiences, while the struggles of our mundane life become increasingly
more difficult the further we advance. We openly invite chaos into our
lives, in order to stand in this place where all brilliant dreams are born
and be a periscope for the soul. Your gift may overwhelm you and drive you
crazy, you may disregard it completely as a mass hallucination, you may
become fascinated with interpreting and analyzing all aspects of your gift,
seeking more and more knowledge, and never use it as a means to take right
actions or you may embrace the pure moral obligation of the divine
experience and find your true measure of happiness in creativity, family and
reverence. This gift is given to us but is not for us. We must be careful
not to share it with anyone who would misuse or abuse it or us.
Most seer's have had a profound experience in their life,
be it good or bad, and we will spend the rest of our lives seeking to
understand the meaning of that experience. We need to find the light in or
we cannot navigate the darkness which we will encounter in our lives and
others. Seer's have to remember that we possess magnetic and charismatic
qualities and wisdom based upon our experiences, that people will try to
internalize and dissect. Seer's generate enormous energy - the temperature
goes up in the room - and many seers perspire heavily during a vision or a
reading. We must practice our mental and physical wellbeing, be careful of
outside influences and outsiders, avoid bad habits, practice moderation in
all of our habits of necessity, exercise, develop self-discipline, practice
cleanliness and have faith.
Before you move fully into the realm of mystical
experience you have had to make a conscious decision to heal the wounds of
your embodied soul; seize discernment; balance your intellect and your
emotion; trust your ability to know without knowing; respect yourself as a
person; take back your personal power; assimilate the lessons from your past
relationships and experiences; integrate your emotions; trust your
intuition, yourself and the Divine; know your strengths, limitations and
weaknesses; become comfortable in your solitude; develop your divination
skills with proper information, education, tools and practice; avert bad
bargains by not being drawn to people for what they need or to those who
mirror your pain, by establishing and enforcing boundaries; and walk in the
light of Eternal Truth. The Light of God, however you conceive God to be, is
Eternal Truth. This is an incomprehensible truth that can only be understood
through myth, legend, folklore, fairy tale, dreams, poetry and song. Always
a lie but always the truth, they are the refractions - The Prism or the
Rainbow - of the Divine Light flowing through us, around us and to us.
In the Beginning, when God, in His desire to Be, called
the world into existence, he created Adam to be the interpreter of His
emanations. Adam didn't name the animals, he translated the emanation from
God which called the animal into being. Poets and composers transmute ideas
into sensations and turn observations into a state of mind. Mathematicians
and physicists attempt to stabilize chance with calculation and probability
by fusing pure understanding with intuition. By using institutional
empiricism they try to achieve quantitative certainty. The Seer transmutes
emanations and sensations, "The Word", into constructive ideas using
appropriate "words" and transforming a state of mind into an insightful
observation. We are trying to stabilize uncertainty with divination, omens,
dreams, augury, magic, prayer, and meditation, By fusing pure understanding
and sacred thought, we achieve spiritual unity with the Divine experience. A
limited vocabulary is of little use to a Seer. We must learn to say negative
things in a constructive manner and know when to be silent and listen. You
cannot see something that someone isn't ready to know consciously.
One of the most important lessons is discerning between
pain and suffering. If I break your arm it is really going to hurt, but the
arm will heal and the pain can be managed. The suffering, "Why did she break
my arm? I just don't understand. Why did she do that to me?", is a different
matter. I did it because I could. "Why?" is the singularly most useless
question in the Universe - it keeps you stuck in your suffering. Why do
people do the things they do, good or bad? Because they can. Why does God
allow good and bad things to happen? Because He can. If you stay stuck on
"Why?" you will never uproot old pain.
We must clear the burdens of the past from our memory, be
clear and in the present in order to be free in the future. We sharpen the
acuity of our perceptions, noticing that which is subtle and seeing that
which is hidden. We are the Ugly Duckling becoming the Divine Swan and are
no longer on the outside looking in. Once we have quit trying to spit in the
same part of the river twice when it is a flowing stream and stopped trying
to push the river, we begin to dance the dance of life on the living water
like a feather on the breath of God. We find the cadence of the ebbing and
flowing of the tides and sense the essence of the drops becoming the ocean.
We cannot perceive it as stepping into a void or an abyss but as an awe of
the vastness of the All.
Will has three manifestations and I will use an analogy to
explain them. We all respond to pressures of life's complexities and
vagaries in three different ways. Take three pots of water and set them on
the stove to boil. In one pot you put carrots, the second, eggs in a shell
and into the third, coffee beans. Let them boil for 20 minutes. The carrots
went into the hot water hard, solid and withstood being cut, chopped and
broken, but once you add the heat, you can mash them with a fork. The eggs
look basically the same on the outside as when they went into the pot. Eggs
have a fragile shell and a vulnerable interior but a 20 minute hard boiled
egg is hard, dry, bitter and black on the inside but on the outside, looks
the same as it did before you cooked it. While you are contemplating these
two, get your cup, because the coffee beans have changed the water. How are
you manifesting will in your life? Do you go the hard way of the will? Do
you act like life hasn't affected you on the outside, but inside you have
gone hard, dry and bitter? Or, do you like your coffee black?
Surrounding ourselves with bright colour and listening to
the sound of running water is particularly beneficial. A table top waterfall
to watch and listen to would be most calming to the mind, like the water,
our mind would flow to the path of least resistance. Orange attracts good
energy and awakens our intuitive senses while yellow will enhance our gifts
and clear our dreams. Dreaming is still the best way to tap into your gifts
and is the purest channel for sacred thought. Most of us forget our dreams
before morning and some theorize that this can be remedied by filling a
glass of water at bedtime, focussing on the problem or question at hand and
drinking half of the water. As soon as you awake in the morning, finish the
water and this will help you to wake up with the answer you seek and aid in
remembering your dreams. Keep a journal and commit your experiences to paper
not just words and thought forms.
There are days where it will be literally necessary and
highly desirable to clean your house and lock your door. Eat properly, don't
sleep in, walk regularly and talk to yourself and the Divine, learn to enjoy
spending time alone - silence is a luxury for the seer and necessary for the
gift to integrate with your personality properly. Time spent staring out a
window is never wasted time. You need time to clear, cleanse and release
your thoughts, especially those originating from our lower emotions or our
mundane fears, anxiety and doubt. Strive for patience and, as our
understanding grows, we find humility. Remember who you are by repeating
your name over and over to yourself - your name is your mantra to God,
however, you conceive God to be, and to the Universe.
Charles Renouvier, the French philosopher, defines free
will as "the sustaining of a thought because I choose to when I might have
other thoughts." You see it, you are not creating it and we can change our
reality with a conscious act of will. Our will is in our feet, so keep your
feet happy and dance. You may feel sorry for yourself because you have no
shoes until you meet someone who has no feet.
