The Inner guide as a technique has many parallels to development in psychology. In particular Jungian psychology uses a less structured formed of exercise know as 'active imagination'
The method of contacting your guide is outlined below and takes the form of a free form visualisation.
-Create a cave, enter the cave engage all of you sense in exploring the cave.
-Proceed into the cave and locate a door/exit in the left hand wall again explore you environment with all your sense sight, touch, smell etc.
-Step through your exit into a landscape again ensure you remain firmly within your own body not viewing yourself from a distance.
-Call for a spirit animal to come and lead you to your guide. The animal when it approaches you will lead you off to the right.
-When you meet your guide you need to test him to ensure that you have not created a false guide. You can do this in a number of ways. Firstly ask you guide to point to the inner sun of your inner world, a false guide will not do so. Secondly take the guides hand a feeling of universal love and comfort should flow from the guide.
-Once in contact with your true inner guide ask him to call down the Sun and ask the sun what it require from you to be in balance with you. In return the Sun will give you a gift, the significance of which may not be apparent, that you can absorb into your body.
To recap the connection progress is forward, left then right. Below is an example of someone who has worked with the inner guide.
- list of keywords to help remember steps effortlessly
- cave, sensory exploration, exit left, landscape, spirit animal, right, test guide, inner sun, call down sun, balance with sun (stay inside body).
In connection to the the validity of the experience all I can say is that you should allow what happens to unfold at its own pace over rationalisation results in self doubt inaction and ego triumph! However this doesn't mean you should passively follow the guide around and do exactly as told you should continue to question and test the various forces ect that you encounter as you would within skrying or evocation.
It is important to follow a specific directional route as you travel forward through a cave and then out onto a landscape. The cave represents the entrance to your subconscious mind, and the landscape represents your inner subconscious structure. Using an animal, which represents your instinctual nature, also seems to help most people find their guide.
It is necessary to keep your sensory awareness in your body as you visualize so that you experience the scene directly, and not as if you are watching someone. It is important to establish if the being you meet is actually your true guide. In the presence of your true guide you will feel overwhelming love, protection and total acceptance. After you meet your guide, every time you venture into your inner world it is absolutely necessary to have your guide with you for protection and guidance.
The difference between eastern meditation and Inner Guide Meditation is that eastern style requires a quiet mind or at least the patience to sit still and practice quieting the mind. Most of us from western cultures find that sitting still and tuning out our thoughts is extremely difficult, if not impossible.
Inner Guide Meditation is perfect for westerners as it gives our active minds something to do, and from there we can learn to still the noise and have greater inner peace. Another benefit of Inner Guide Meditation is that as you work with your guide and archetypes on the inside, your outer world changes. Habits you had that were not in your best interest begin to taper off. Life opens up in many ways.
Change happens where change is needed. You get to know parts of yourself that you have long neglected. You meet your life in full, and you begin to really take care of yourself.
Doing this type of meditation seems like it takes a good imagination or at least the ability to visualise clearly, but it really doesn't.