The Cave Meditation

Become relaxed in your current surroundings.

Settle down in a comfortable chair. Sit in an upright position.

Play some quiet background music and begin to relax. Permit all those thoughts of the day to flow freely in your mind. Listen to them only; do not react to them. Do not feed them with any additional thoughts.

Gradually become aware as they fade from your mind. Breathe deeper and deeper. Let your lungs fill with oxygen and become aware of a change coming over your body. Gradually the stresses of the day begin to fade.

Close your eyes and make yourself aware of the surroundings around you. Familiarise yourself with their feeling. Then as you do permit those surroundings to fade. Permit your mind to paint you a picture which forms like a veneer over your surroundings. Become aware of the sensation as another awareness begins to build.

Now become aware of some pressure across the palm of your left hand. Feel that something has just been placed there. Something smooth and light like a screwed up sheet of paper.

Still with your eyes closed, watch as you can see your own hand … and see now the screwed up piece of paper. Open it up and see now what is written there. There will be a strange glyph or sigil design drawn in charcoal in the centre of the paper. Focus your attention on this symbol for a moment then close the paper once more; and let it fall to the floor. Watch as it becomes absorbed into the floor … gradually disappearing from view.

Focus once more on the surroundings around you.

Become aware that the feeling has now changed.

Notice you are now within a large cave. There is no sound from any direction. You are not in total darkness as there is a light source from somewhere to your right hand side. Relax at this point and take a few more deep breaths.

There is no reason feel alarmed at this point.

Imagine yourself now slowly standing up; begin to walk to your right becoming aware that you are bare footed and there is warm sand underfoot. Walk slowly taking deep breathes, notice the sense of salt in the air. Close by there is the entrance to the cave; there is also the anticipation of being close to the sea.

Feel now the passage heading slightly downward. The warm sand is becoming slightly deeper. With every step feel the anticipation and the excitement of making your way out of this cave and into an unknown land …

This is the basic cave meditation which is ideal to prepare for pathworkings ... each and every subsequent meditation will involve visualising up to this point of wandering towards the entrance of the cave ...