Entering The Silence

Entering The Silence

The practical work you will be doing in our school using:

Opening 

Posture, Rhythmic Breathing and Progressive Relaxation

The Qabalistic Cross

The Middle Pillar Exercise

Meditation / Projection / Ritual

Closing

This can lead to a lot of externalised form-making. It is important to bring all of our work into the body.

Many people try to get away from the body, and in the past, some spiritual teachers, even in the Western esoteric tradition, advocated transcending the body or ascending. 

In the spirituality we teach in the KORC, we seek to become rooted in the earth of our humanity, in our relationship with the depths of life, as well as to aspire to the stars.

As the ancient Orphic teachers said:

” I am a child of earth and of the starry heavens, but my race is of the starry heavens.”

Our planet is born of the stars, and we are, too. 

Inhabiting our bodies fully and with joy is healthful, and our physical presence is an aspect of our spiritual presence through incarnate abiding and action in the physical world (Assiah). 

In the Spiritualist tradition I work in, we use a method of prayerful meditation called Entering the Silence. I work with a particular form taught by the medium Gordon Higginson as part of my preparatory sitting as a psychic and spiritual medium.

Entering the Silence does not make sitters mediumistic but leads to expanded awareness that psychic and spiritual gifts can flourish in. 

Ultimately, it is a personal and private way of connecting to the God within.

I offer this teaching here as it augments my Qabalistic work in a gentle yet profound way.

The idea was that when you create a sacred space for working, be it a circle or opening a lodge or a temple, you are building a cosmos, a living space.

Here is a short recording that will guide you through the four phases of this practice:

Entering the Silence

Awareness of the Aura (Personal Atmosphere – Sphere of Sensation)

Presence

Oneness 

When I sit using this method I take anywhere between 20 mins and an hour to move through them in stillness and quiet.

Begin by sitting, relaxing, and paying attention to the breath.

In the future, try working with this process, which can also be called “Sitting in the Presence”, without using the recording or any background music. You can do it indoors or outdoors, try it with your eyes closed or open. 

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