Voluntary Hibernation - A Vital Spiritual Process

 Sometimes it is necessary to take ourselves out of circulation; to take a step back; to withdraw from usual routines. This is necessary in these moments to absorb all that has taken place in our lives since the last time we took a voluntary hibernation. For so many of us, alas, these voluntary step backs don't take place, and it is often only due to enforced withdrawals, like serious illness, that we can have a hibernation period.

It cannot be stressed enough how real, and how necessary a hibernation period is. Our consciousness is all seeing, and on total record, taking on board everything that is sees, filling our sub-conscious with debris. This debris in turn can mix up the communication wiring to our conscious mind, and confuse us with the decisions we find ourselves making.

During a voluntary withdrawal, we can actually slow the absorption process down, and begin a casual review of our thoughts, our feelings and our memories. This enables us to understand more the appearance of the world around us, a world shaped by our thinking. We can then learn to recognise once more who we are, and begin a self healing process, if required.

The withdrawal is especially helpful during the process known as 'the long dark night of the soul' which is a process associated with spiritual growth and the 'burn' of the spiritual muscles after a work out in the college of life gym. Experienced spiritual explorers will recognise immediately the signs of this process, and not hesitate to put themselves out of circulation. Clearing out the debris in the sub-conscious is a vital process to ensure that a true spiritual awakening can be sustained and the purity of energy flow between the levels of consciousness is maintained.

The magician will often use this voluntary hibernation to review life experiences, and his/her reaction to circumstances and stimuli in their life. Through this process it is possible to determine the life lessons required to be repeated, thus keeping those memories afloat in the mental library. It is also a good time to begin the assimilation process of those memories no longer necessary to the life journey; especially those memories linked to life lessons not to be repeated.

To the outside world, the actions of the magician, going through this hibernation process, will be deemed as odd, and out of character. The outside world will fail to understand the needs of the magician or the pathway in his/her life. It is thus another reason why the withdrawal process takes place as this quantum leap process is a personal and private thing for the magician - Matthew James